Warren’s gonna be good for the citizenry. While she might spend her first months getting acclimated to Senate procedures and being a rookie, let’s not forget: this woman has a gift. She takes the highly and intentionally complex obfuscations of our ruling elite’s financial games and puts it into language all of us can understand. There aren’t many people in the nation like that who also have any visibility (you, your favorite blogger or uncle Frank don’t count).

She has a high profile precisely because of this talent and because of the merciless targeting/defamation of her when setting up CFPB and researching TARP. Now she’s a lawmaker and on the same level as the asshats who tried to tear her down because they were so threatened by her. Let her make her way through this before shooting out her tires at the starting line or filling her plate with unfulfillable expectations.

It’s about friggin’ time we had an anti-corporate, long-haired progressive teacher/healer/mystic running for president. I wish he had declared before I sent in my early vote. The fundies’ heads would explode if they found out he was really a left-wing community organizer, ha.

We can also take back the language/terminology. After all, the monkey-wrenching manual of the enviro movement in the 1980′s was called “EcoDefense”. It was banned by its third printing at the end of that decade. Every time we converse, post, write, etc., just use the term “eco-terrorist” when referring to polluters, frackers, clear-cutters, earth-rapers, etc. and refer to the environmentalists as “eco-defenders”. I guess we could also start to use “econo-terrorists” for the financial sector buggers.

Ted and Greg, thanks for your time, good luck with the book.

I’m guessing he (Gore) was threatened with more than W’s “personal grievous harm” or whatever wording he used in his SC case, lol.

That was mind-numbing, wasn’t it? 2 elections stolen right in front of us. Kerry even said on Election Tuesday night that he was going to fight, then we all awoke Weds a.m. to him conceding in Boston. Unreal.

Jaw-dropping, sinister and brazen. Thanks for the divulge; -it sounds like a 10th for the next edition!

Can I rephrase the Q to: what is the newest or most curious method we may be unaware of? That way, I’ll still have to buy the book to get the other eight, haha.

And if my eyes are open, a large chunk of that is your last 3 books and being lucky enough to also have heard you speak 3x in the DC area over the last 6 years, most recently in Silver Spring for Vultures book tour.

In 2000, the theft was mainly due to the 60k(?) Fla. dems of color that were caged/purged by Jeb Bush and which only Greg Palast reported on before the election. In 2004, the election machines were routed to a Chatanooga, TN, basement where BushCo manipulated the total by millions to steal another. Right after a key witness (name escapes me now) came to DC to start testifying, his small plane crashed before landing back in Ohio. In 2008, I thought their theft plans were simply overwhelmed by the huge turnout for Obama. But everyone went to sleep re: electronic voting/tabulating simply because a third election in a row wasn’t stolen.

As if the $$$ and multi-state efforts at restrictive voter ID by the GOP aren’t enough this year, it seems not a thing has been done about the electronic voting machines and scanning tabulators. Are all those equipment/software companies still headed by Republican owners? And more importantly, what are some of the new tricks in their arsenals this year that we may not be aware of?

Also from the meeting: Crossroads Chief Executive Officer Steven Law introduced some of the super PAC’s staff, referring to general counsel Tom Josefiak as “the guy who keeps us from ever having to wear orange jumpsuits.”

Sick puppies that need to be in Gitmo.

Maybe I’ve watched too many modern-day spy movies, but I was kind of hoping JA had slipped out of there Sunday night during the citywide fireworks and hubbub of the closing of the 2012 Olympics and made his way to a ship. Party of four, including a white woman JA’s height wearing a bonnet, pulls up to embassy in a diplomat’s car. Fifteen minutes later, they leave with JA decked out in her clothes and bonnet. Lol, I know, too many movies…

Good news. And it looks like Sweden would NOT agree to no extradition.

@ggreenwald KEY FACT HERE: Ecuador FM: we tried to get Sweden to agree to no extradition to US in exchange for Assange going to Sweden – they said NO

So what were those first 25+% of precincts that reported who chose Walker 60-40? If I remember, the vote gap was around 180k then, which it still is. So the next 75% of all WI voters vote almost exactly 50-50?

If I have a product or service, -say selling candy bars, and I discount/rebate the retail from its regular $1.49 to .99 for one or even 10 years, when the price RETURNS to its regular SRP of $1.49, that’s not a friggin’ price increase! It’s about time these jesters were reminded, along with both a younger generation of adults who perhaps aren’t aware and a middling generation who may have forgotten, upper marginal tax rates were 70-90% from WW2 to Reagan. There still were rich people in those 40 years.

We the public aren’t even asking for the rate to return to the 70-90% range (although 50% upper bracket might be reasonable); we are simply watching a temporary discount (the Bush tax cuts) expire and are being told by both sides and the lapdog press that it’s somehow an increase, a tax hike, godforbid! It’s not the Bush new-tax-rate-forever that is expiring, it’s a temporal tax cut that’s expiring. It’s a disaster that we’ve let them run away with the language like this for so long. The beneficiaries of these cuts have gotten a discount/sale price for ten damn years (on top of a giant ‘rebate’ from the 1944-1980 rate) and have shown very plainly that they aren’t ‘job creating’ or stimulating the economy with their newfound bonus take-home pay as we were told they would.

So as a practice, don’t let any conversation, even among friends, refer to the ending of this discount/sale/reduction as somehow being an increase/hike/etc.; it’s just not! I tend to use the word “return” or “end of a rebate” when talking about this issue; what are some of the terminologies other pups use to correct the phrase ‘tax hike/increase’ in this instance? Because we need to start hammering home those phrases now.

There are so many angles that might be successfully pushed now that we’re over the 50% hump. Economic, medicinal, non-criminalization of responsible adults, moral (God made it!), 3-4 new industries, taking away one of the avenues of profit and $ laundering by druglords and shady banks, etc. Although I would strongly oppose it being only “sold in pharmacies” for a myriad of reasons, I would have no problem with medicinal patients purchasing theirs there.

I think our strongest argument has to be economic; regulated and taxed to adults over 21, retailers, growers, paraphernalia makers and stores, cafes/smoke clubs, etc. would provide Billions of dollars of income and tax revenue and jobs. And that’s before we even mention the real economic kicker; allowing the textile/clothing/paper industries to finally be allowed to grow and research hemp (another casualty by way of association) to make the USA the world leader of cutting edge use and development of hemp, the plant with the longest fibers.

Continuing to deconstruct the distortions and moralistic alarmism of the naysayers should be another top priority. We’ve had 60 years of lies and ‘sin’ and ‘gateway drug’ etc thrown at cannabis and hemp that will take a little longer to undo. When the moralists and faux constitutional conservatives are forced to recall what the actual constitution and warship rigging and Victory Gardens etc. consisted of, it’ll be a double bonus.