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human commented on the diary post Rant 2: The Loss Of Meaning by rosalind.
The People struggled with “why”. The public, as opposed to those of us who actively search for answers, has yet to struggle with the “why.” Mass media has avoided the discussion like the plague. I see it regularly on bumber stickers, talking heads, and any number of acquaintances and offhand remarks, “they hate us for [...]
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human commented on the diary post Deficit Delusions: Putting to Rest the Clinton Legacy by Dean Baker.
“This downturn was the main cultprit (sic),” for 9/11.
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human commented on the blog post Don’t Blame the Video Games
How about a culture that supports and respects all life? Capitalism eats its’ young.
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human commented on the blog post Don’t Blame the Video Games
Granted, that violent video games are not in and of themselves “the cause,” it is the very normalization of violence as an acceptable means. Violent video games are just part and parcel of this normalization
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human commented on the blog post The fruits of bipartisanship
Yeah, like the Haymarket riot or the Triangle Shirtwaist fire or the right to any seat in a bus. Indeed, the very right to vote. A naive comment if I ever saw one. This country was founded on violence…and the same system continues.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. ~ John F. Kennedy
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human commented on the diary post Worship of the Financial Sector Reaches New Heights by masaccio.
Once more…The system in NOT broken. The regulatory apparatus is NOT incompetent.
It all works as designed.
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human commented on the blog post Dissenting Torture Memo Bush Administration Tried to Destroy Released
Zelikow is a self-proclaimed myth-maker. His adult career has been spent writing (and with his management of the 9/11 Commission, making) revisionist history, to wit:
http://www.theatlantic.com/past/issues/2000/05/stern.htm
I don’t trust anything he says at face value.
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human commented on the diary post In praise of the universal surveillance state. No shame in our game. by Rex.
Any number of utopian visionaries have been derided and marginalized as “dreamers” and “kooks”. Buckminster Fuller foresaw a world when it would not be necessary for everyone to labor. He did the research and worked out procedures and methods that would benefit everyone. For one who was active more than 50 years ago, he was [...]
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human commented on the blog post Trayvon Martin gunned down for ‘carrying Skittles while black’
It’s by definition a “conspiracy” because he was knowingly allowed by others to continue in his uncivilized manner, in your own words.
Trayvon Martin, your picture is on my wall. You will forever be remembered by me.
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human commented on the diary post Pull Up a Chair: St. Patrick’s Day Version by eCAHNomics.
If you’d like something local to sip with your meal, try some “Mother’s Milk” stout from Keegan ales in Kingston. Highly recommended.
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human commented on the blog post Why Liberals Support Indefinite Detention at Guantanamo & Drone Warfare (VIDEO)
Bingo…and, yes.
This hypocritical framing is all a very important part of the Grand Illusion to, once again, make voters believe that they have two, and only two, viable and distinct choices.
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human commented on the blog post Why Liberals Support Indefinite Detention at Guantanamo & Drone Warfare (VIDEO)
The poll data clearly does not indicate anything of the sort. These results could only be interpreted from extrapolation and removal of the data set from “(ASKED OF LEANED REPUBLICANS)”.
This headline, and those of the MSM, appear to be deliberately misleading. If you Follow the Money ™ it benefits those who wish self-identified liberals to feel better about themselves, ie the Democratic Party.
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human commented on the blog post Why Liberals Support Indefinite Detention at Guantanamo & Drone Warfare (VIDEO)
A couple of points, Kevin:
1) “This Washington Post-ABC News poll was conducted by telephone February 1 to 4, 2012, among a random national sample of 1,000 adults, including landline and cell phone-only respondents. The results from the full survey have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus four percentage points. Sampling, data collection and tabulation by Abt-SRBI of New York.” Am I missing where it is stated that this is a poll of registered Liberals?
2) I do not have any confidence in any polling presented by the MSM.
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human commented on the blog post Occupy Wall Street & What Liberals Now Aim to Do with the Movement’s Energy
The system is not broken…yet.
This is the whole point. We 99% are not part of the system.
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human commented on the blog post The Coming Social Anarchy
“When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Democracies elect representatives. Tyranies elect leaders.
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human commented on the blog post The Coming Social Anarchy
Social Security IS NOT an ENTITLEMENT.
This framing/misunderstanding/misdirection/deceit really burns me no end.
These DEPOSITED monies are held in TRUST. That’s the big “T” word there. The lack of which contibutes to the very core of our current problems.
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human commented on the blog post There’s A Hole In Daddy’s Head Where All The Money Goes
ROTFLMAO
I was going to call him a Socialist, but, you have the right idea.
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human commented on the blog post BofA MBS Settlement Questioned by Federal Home Loan Banks
A little flowery this morning, David?
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
William Shakespeare
An astute observation of a commenter over at HuffPo regarding this new “Super Congress” calls it, nothing more or less than a, “Central Committee.”
We are far down the rabbit hole.
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human commented on the blog post Come Saturday Morning: He’s Not a Terrorist — He’s a Freedom Fighter!
Well said.
It is time that we recognize that it is the very application of these labels that is divisive.
If we would only come together in our diversity to improve the lot of the collective.
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human commented on the blog post Investors Petition to Intervene in BofA Whitewash Mortgage Bond Settlement
The genie is almost out of the bottle on this:
If the too-big-too-fails can’t cap it, it will be a generation ’till things are sorted out.
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