he’s the buggest biggest feature that the 1% have ever managed to install at the white house.

given that we get beat up for protesting in public, i’ve been thinking more and more that hitting them in the cash register might be a really good way to go. boycotts, creating local coops and farmer’s markets, local currencies, freecycling, etc. might be a great way to express dissent.

yep ofa is already in the business of mounting primary challenges to progressive caucus members. see: Silicon Valley Congressional battle takes shape: Ro Khanna to challenge Mike Honda, using Obama campaign operatives. i would be entirely unsurprised if more attacks on progressive legislators by obama operatives ensue.

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ignorance of the law is no excuse, but here in our demockery we have secret laws that citizens are not allowed to know the content or details of. we are allowed to know that we have broken the law when we are notified by being incinerated by a hellfire missile.

heh. i refer to them as the “obama/peterson plan to impoverish the old and infirm.”

the trust fund was vaporized by the greenspan commission back in 1983. greenspan’s plan was to set the contribution rate up to a point that even in the worst of times, benefits could be paid mostly out of current revenues and the trust fund was meant to be a buffer for a really bad year, [...]

you know, there have been a lot of things that have ticked me off about the whole process of obama selling us out. but nothing has pissed me off more than listening to the guy turn on the bamboozletron 5000, spouting bs rhetoric about “strengthening social security.” i hope that a lot of politicians find [...]

yep, as anybody who has shaved regularly can tell you, it’s the hair that’s cut down to the nub most often that is the strongest. so, i guess we might be working out another way to claim american exceptionalism. we have will have the strongest old and infirm people on earth after the 1% gets [...]

excellent video and excellent diary! thanks for all of the pictures of occupy; it’s good to see the solution after a cogent description of the problem.

it’s a bigger problem than just changing consumer behaviors. for example, most people don’t have a choice about where their electricity comes from and can’t decline to accept coal generated electricity (if they even know the source). for that matter, most folks really are in no position to decline food that is delivered by a [...]

the arctic appears to be the next oil rush, just as soon as the earth warms up enough, that is. this article demonstrates that obama is hot to get in on arctic oil:

Shortly before Thanksgiving in 2010, the leaders of the commission President Obama had appointed to investigate the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf [...]

marilyn – it appears to me that the environment has never been one of obama’s issues. to be fair, i think that for most presidents, the environment is seen as “the environmental movement” – just another special interest group that must be appeased and whose interests must be balanced against other interests. i don’t think [...]

i hope that the nation, moveon and a lot of the blogosphere feel a lot of heat. i am so disgusted with some of those groups and websites that i hope they just fold in shame as obama destroys the social safety net and he and his loyal toadies take the heat for it. i [...]

that’s an excellent question. i and some of my grumpy friends wondered the same thing as lefty websites and lefty icons all sucked it up and supported “the lesser evil” and refused to hold obama’s feet of clay to the fire. i expected folks like the nation mag to catapult the propaganda for obama and [...]

yes, there will be lots of that multiplication stuff going on (at least for those that are math enabled) as time marches forward. i would imagine that the spread of droughts will make for a major hit as food production suffers and food prices rise – that will be a hit on everybody, not just [...]