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Calvin Ross commented on the diary post The Case for Irrational Voting by David Swanson.
My feelings about the source of irrational voting:
http://www.theamericanhuman.com/2012/10/the-civil-war-isnt-over.html
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Calvin Ross commented on the blog post Romney to Donors: All Obama Voters “Dependent Upon Government”
Holy crap. In Romney’s presser, Romney says that Obama’s people are government people and his people are “free people.” Sheesh:
http://www.theamericanhuman.com/2012/09/mitt-romneys-word-salad-explanation-for.html
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Calvin Ross commented on the diary post Two Demographic Changes that Might Mean a Lot by Calvin Ross.
Yeah, but the big new news for me was the plummeting birth rates in Latin America, which is so Catholic. Birth control is a sin, so why is it so widespread south of the border? Of course, one guess, people are smarter now and know there are economic advantages, so they ditch the Church on [...]
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Calvin Ross commented on the diary post Two Demographic Changes that Might Mean a Lot by Calvin Ross.
There are two kinds of IRAs, traditional and Roth. With a Roth IRA, you pay the tax on the income before you put the money in and thus no tax to pay in retirement. But if you put money in a trad IRA, you have to pay it when you take it out. You can [...]
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Calvin Ross wrote a new diary post: Two Demographic Changes that Might Mean a Lot
Two big questions on love and money. Money first. Okay, the first one is an open question that I am longing to have answered: What is the effect of baby boomers retiring and accessing their IRAs in terms of enhancing government revenue? Ordinarily, when something obvious is going to happen — or has started to [...]
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Calvin Ross commented on the diary post I Was Hired to Turn a Gay Bar Redneck by Calvin Ross.
Thanks, Nathan for telling me that. A great deal of the learning I’ve done in my life came from people who convinced me of the error of my ways. Many if not all of us don’t get it right the first time. Persuasion is one of the outcomes of discussion. Insulting one’s potential convert might [...]
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Calvin Ross commented on the diary post I Was Hired to Turn a Gay Bar Redneck by Calvin Ross.
See you, everybody. That was a shorter stay than I ever imagined. This is my last diary for a while. I’ll still come by to read the good work here because I care about the Occupy Movement, Bradley Manning, etc. I noticed that Daily Kos and even Eschaton are no longer on the blogroll. I [...]
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Calvin Ross commented on the diary post I Was Hired to Turn a Gay Bar Redneck by Calvin Ross.
Good for you.
Thanks.
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Calvin Ross wrote a new diary post: I Was Hired to Turn a Gay Bar Redneck
For a minute, I might be turning apolitical, or not. Back in the seventies — this was years before AIDS devastated the San Francisco community — my band, a bluegrass novelty act that broke Yiddish and classical before slamming a cajun fiddle tune full-force or channeling Jerry Jeff all on a constantly changing array of [...]
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Calvin Ross commented on the diary post Crashing the Gate Versus Milling Around the Gate by Calvin Ross.
Yes, Kurt, we don’t know which way will bear fruit. But we will be watching and choosing. A lot of the thread here is about forcing us to choose. True believers often act that way. (Boy, I could get flamed for that remark!) I understand where they are coming from. It’s just that there isn’t [...]
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Calvin Ross commented on the diary post Crashing the Gate Versus Milling Around the Gate by Calvin Ross.
I completely get you.
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Calvin Ross commented on the diary post Crashing the Gate Versus Milling Around the Gate by Calvin Ross.
Thanks. I’ll keep it to the occasional link around here.
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Calvin Ross commented on the diary post Crashing the Gate Versus Milling Around the Gate by Calvin Ross.
I want to thank everyone for a most enjoyable thread. I appreciated those who shared their ideas, whether critical or not, without attacks. Alt-ID, the thing about gay metaphors wasn’t aimed at you but at the immediate prior commenter, who had in two separate posts used gay metaphors. I think such language is demeaning to [...]
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Calvin Ross commented on the diary post Crashing the Gate Versus Milling Around the Gate by Calvin Ross.
I get it, Robert. You really don’t like Obama and the Democratic Party. http://www.theamericanhuman.com/2011/10/occupy-all-streets.html http://www.theamericanhuman.com/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-good-organize.html http://www.theamericanhuman.com/2011/10/are-we-too-occupied-with-wall-street.html http://www.theamericanhuman.com/2011/11/occupy-oakland-heads-for-flame-out.html As I told Alt-ID ,Even I don’t agree with everything in my posts because I’m actively examining stuff, not always just signing on. But consider me one who hopes OWS comes back with a vengeance in the spring [...]
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Calvin Ross commented on the diary post Crashing the Gate Versus Milling Around the Gate by Calvin Ross.
Point well taken. Alt-ID. I asked for it. I can take it. Still, can we rise above gay metaphors in the attacks?
I’m only saying.
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Calvin Ross commented on the diary post Crashing the Gate Versus Milling Around the Gate by Calvin Ross.
Fine, Alt-ID. Let’s stipulate for this sub-thread that I’ve moved beyond the discussion about the Democratic Party. So my remarks here are about OWS. I don’t disagree that the OWS has had a positive impact, so I agree that it’s already working. But I’ve seen more than one of these fizzle out, so when I [...]
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Calvin Ross commented on the diary post Crashing the Gate Versus Milling Around the Gate by Calvin Ross.
I might add that what I meant by milling around the gate was milling around Zucotti Park or the port of Oakland. That doesn’t mean I don’t respect the OWS movement or support its principles. It just means come on people, next steps, next steps. Boycott the big banks. Unionize Walmart. Take specific steps that [...]
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Calvin Ross commented on the diary post Crashing the Gate Versus Milling Around the Gate by Calvin Ross.
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Calvin Ross commented on the diary post Crashing the Gate Versus Milling Around the Gate by Calvin Ross.
Fair enough.
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Calvin Ross commented on the diary post Crashing the Gate Versus Milling Around the Gate by Calvin Ross.
What you say is valid. I think the divergence of opinion here is based on time frames. A college buddy of mine was born in 1946. He contracted polio six months before Jonas Salk discovered the polio vaccine. I was born in 1948. For whatever reason, I never suffered from polio. To me, Jonas Salk [...]
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