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johndeconker commented on the diary post David Brooks on Debt: Can Someone Buy the Man an Intro Textbook? by Dean Baker.
Brooks:
“Every generation has an incentive to borrow money from the future to spend on itself. But, until ours, no generation of Americans has done it to the same extent.”
The USA borrowed to a greater extent during WWII in order to fight the war. Then, the Post-War boom took care of this debt with a [...]
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johndeconker commented on the diary post The Real Walker Scandal: Meet John Doe by Phoenix Woman.
From your Madison Isthmus link above, this part is good:
With the recall election less than two days away, federal prosecutors are closing in on Governor Scott Walker, according to veteran political reporter David Shuster, former Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager, and former district attorney Bob Jambois.
If David Shuster has the story, it probably is solid. [...]
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johndeconker commented on the diary post WHCD: A Salute to the Centurions by Cenk Uygur.
A red or reddish Army dress uniform? No way.
Sounds to me like it was some sort of costume.
BTW, how did you get a ticket to the WHCD?
I’m guessing you found it among Keith O.’s abandoned belongings.
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johndeconker commented on the diary post Saturday Art: Cameron, Art and Magick by Lisa Derrick.
director Curtis Harrington filmed Cameron’s artwork and rituals for The Wormwood Star
Cameron played an unforgettable role in the 1961 Dennis Hopper film Night Tide (also directed by Curtis Harrington).
Night Tide is available for free download or screening at the Internet Archive.
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johndeconker commented on the diary post 21 reasons why I will never again vote for Obama by Barefoot Accountant.
In light of point #21, it would be good for everyone to remember that if you wouldn’t sit on a jury and vote to imprison a medical marijuana patient, then you have no business voting for Barack Obama. Because it is the exact same thing.
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johndeconker commented on the diary post 30-40 y.o. Long-term-unemployed At Risk. by TomThumb.
Shorter life expectancy among the disadvantaged is not a bug, its a feature.
The PTB wants people to die before they arrive at the age at which they can collect Social Security.
That’s why cigarettes are legal. They harvest their victims at precisely the right age.
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johndeconker commented on the diary post Former ALEC Supporters Now Find Connection Toxic by Rebekah Wilce.
Nice series of posts on ALEC, Rebekah.
The front page of today’s New York Times has a piece on ALEC based on hundreds of pages of internal ALEC documents obtained by Common Cause.
Common Cause is currently trying to get ALEC’s tax-exempt status revoked.
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johndeconker commented on the diary post Something Fishy: CRS Report Downplays Fukushima’s Effect on US Marine Environment by Gregg Levine.
Link for my Tokyo evacuation quote above.
In the darkest moments of last year’s nuclear accident, Japanese leaders did not know the actual extent of damage at the plant and secretly considered the possibility of evacuating Tokyo, even as they tried to play down the risks in public, an independent investigation into the accident disclosed on Monday. [...]
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johndeconker commented on the diary post Something Fishy: CRS Report Downplays Fukushima’s Effect on US Marine Environment by Gregg Levine.
The US government has been helping their Japanese counterparts keep the world calm about the extent of the catastrophe from the beginning of the crisis. UN Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization radiation monitoring equipment was detecting radiation over the entire US within a week or so of the Tsunami. USG kept it quiet, and it took [...]
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johndeconker commented on the diary post Oaksterdam Update: Richard Lee Calling it Quits? by Brian Sonenstein.
Barack Obama has defrauded all progressive voters with his bait and switch tactics on this issue. If you wouldn’t sit on a jury and vote to imprison a medical marijuana patient, then you have no business voting for Barack Obama. Because it is the exact same thing. We should all keep this in mind when [...]
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johndeconker commented on the blog post DEA and IRS Raid Oaksterdam University, Medical Marijuana Institution
Question: Does Obama approve? Hopey-changey young people deserve to know.
These are not rogue agencies. The raids are being conducted with the full knowledge and approval of the president.
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johndeconker commented on the blog post DEA and IRS Raid Oaksterdam University, Medical Marijuana Institution
Agree.
Today’s outrage again proves the operative truism.
If you wouldn’t sit on a jury and vote to imprison a medical marijuana patient, then you have no business voting for Barack Obama. Because it is the exact same thing.
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johndeconker commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Tim Weiner, Enemies: A History of the FBI
the FBI had a very small handful of agents who were willing and able to grow beards and pose as dope-smoking, gun-running revolutionaries to get inside the revolutionary cells
After a handful of FBI agents who were assigned to infiltrate the anti-war movement turned on and joined the movement for real, the bureau must have had a few counterintelligence worries going forward.
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johndeconker commented on the blog post Olbermann Fired From Current TV
Current TV is probably toast, and Keith O. – holding equity – might have been smelling it before everyone else could.
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johndeconker commented on the diary post Oh Yes, He Did. Santorum Half-Drops N* Word – VIDEO by Lisa Derrick.
To be fair, Obama would probably rather be called that than be called “Santorum”.
Wouldn’t you?
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johndeconker commented on the blog post Mandate Has little Impact on What Exchange Users Would Pay for Insurance
Where’s the money for these “tax credits” going to come from?
And even more apropos:
“It doesn’t matter whether the premiums are $5,000, $15,000 or $50,000 a year; if you make less than 400% of the Federal Poverty Line (FPL), what it costs you to buy a “silver plan” is set at a percentage of your income.”
What happens to the unemployed? Or the folks who are too sick to work?
To have an entire health care system based upon private insurance coverage is a carefully engineered scheme to defraud the citizens and the taxpayers to line the corporate coffers of the insurance companies.
Also, keeping health care tied to one’s employer gives the corporations way too much leverage over workers. That’s why it is set up that way, i.e. no public option, no single payer. Compelling crappy employment, and the loss of much job mobility is a feature, not a bug.
The politicians have sold you down the river, folks.
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johndeconker commented on the diary post As Goes Obamacare, So Goes Romneycare … and State Laws Requiring Auto Insurance? by Beverly Mann.
You may be interested to learn that a few years ago the health care industry successfully lobbied Congress to allow them to convert medical debt (which had limitations on the amount of interest they could charge on the unpaid balances) to consumer debt (which has no prohibition on usurious interest rates and terms). This is [...]
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johndeconker commented on the diary post As Goes Obamacare, So Goes Romneycare … and State Laws Requiring Auto Insurance? by Beverly Mann.
I call bullshit.
Unless you live in ass-backwardsville, the non-insured get charged a higher rate than the insured at hospitals.
This is not exactly a secret.
Insurance companies have pre-negotiated “discount” prices for their insured.
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johndeconker commented on the blog post Majority in Massachusetts Would Vote to Legalize Medical Marijuana
Thank you.
Your comment @10 is pretty strong too.
Injustice cannot last forever.
Kinda like gravity, karma is ignored only by the ignorant.
So says High John de Conkeroo.
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johndeconker commented on the blog post Majority in Massachusetts Would Vote to Legalize Medical Marijuana
Exactly.
With limited resources, the feds must rely on the power of intimidation to achieve their anti-legalization of marijuana/anti-medical marijuana agenda.
Quite pathetic that former toker Obama is aggressively pushing this shit. Perfect illustration of his corruption. He has joined forces with the worst people in this country.
If you wouldn’t sit on a jury and vote to imprison a medical marijuana patient, then you have no business voting for Barack Obama. Because it is the exact same thing.
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