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kidcharles commented on the blog post Everybody Is A Critic These Days Yet Nobody Goes To The Movies Anymore
So TBogg is attacking people for judging the movie based on other peoples’ descriptions without having seen the movie themselves, by using other peoples’ description of the movie without seeing it himself. The mind reels at the hypocrisy.
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kidcharles commented on the blog post Occupy: Facing Off With the Stormtroopers of Wall Street & the 1%
Here’s some photos I took of the march on Saturday. The last one is of a physical confrontation that happened as it was going through Chinatown:
http://judgejuryexhibitioner.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/occupy-wall-street-police-brutality-march/
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kidcharles commented on the blog post Fixating on the Cost of Policing Occupy Protests
The argument that the financial cost of repressing free speech means that the speech must end is absolutely contrary to the founding principles of our country.
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kidcharles commented on the blog post Two Days After Promising Constituents on the Safety Net, Durbin Says Democrats Must “Talk About Entitlement Reform”
Congratulations Dick! You’re our Rotating Villain of the week!
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kidcharles commented on the blog post Herman Cain: shameless tap dancing for conservative white voters
I saw someone with a “Herman Cain/Uncle Ruckus 2012″ sign in the Occupy Wall St. Labor Solidarity March:
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kidcharles commented on the blog post Late Night: Storybook Fail
Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie.
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kidcharles commented on the diary post Closing Your CitiBank Account Can Get You Arrested by spocko.
So, we have a bunch of customers who want to get their money out of the bank and were prevented from doing so by the bank who called the cops on them. Their money is still in the bank, and the bank is collecting interest and fees from them against their will. I look forward [...]
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kidcharles commented on the diary post UPDATE: Order to Clear the Park Rescinded! — #OccupyWallStreet LiveStreams from Zuccotti Park by Elliott.
Not I coincidence I think. They want to suppress turnout for tomorrow’s Oct. 15 events.
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kidcharles commented on the blog post Young People Back Labor Unions by 2-to-1 Margin
I believe there is the potential for a powerful young-progressive-labor alliance in the simple message: The future doesn’t need to get suckier for the middle class.
Seems to me there is a powerful potential here to turn a youth-progressive-labor alliance into a labor-progressive-labor alliance.
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kidcharles commented on the diary post Quagmires R Us: Now Adding Libya to Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq by Jim White.
“For the military, that means crafting a narrow set of choices, because there is general agreement that reduction numbers need to originate in the field, not be imposed by the White House.” Imposed by the White House? Is the elected president the commander-in-chief of the armed forces or did we turn into a military dictatorship [...]
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kidcharles commented on the blog post House GOP Budget Cuts Tsunami Monitoring Funding
And, uh, Katrina? Oh yeah, ancient history I guess…
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kidcharles commented on the blog post They Won’t Even Create Jobs in the Military-Industrial Complex Anymore
I’m glad we are in good company; the Nazi’s used slave labor for their missile manufacturing too:
(Looks like I’m not the first to Godwin this thread.)
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kidcharles commented on the blog post The Incredible Ecosystem of the Wisconsin State Capitol
Private unions wouldn’t be able to go out because of Taft-Hartley
That’s like saying “the black activists can’t sit at the lunch counter because of Jim Crow.” They could do it, even if they were breaking the (unjust) law.
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kidcharles commented on the blog post Security Council Convenes on Libyan Crisis
Perhaps Gadhafi’s rule by fear will end. Perhaps the international community will impose a no-fly zone. But it’s just as likely that his vicious assault on his own people will eventually win out.
I actually think this last result is highly unlikely. If reports are accurate about sections of the military defecting and high-ranking Libyan foreign diplomats standing with the protesters against the regime, it is only a matter of time (and unfortunately, of blood) before he is out of power. When you lose the military, you lose the state, as evidenced throughout history, most recently in Egypt. He will not be able to sustain this kind of repression and expect the armed forces to carry out massacre after massacre without defying his orders. If he uses mercenaries to do it, the defected military will take action against them.
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kidcharles commented on the blog post US Sending Envoys to Egypt, “Sizing Up” ElBaradei for Post-Mubarak Role
The hubris in thinking at this point the U.S. will get to dictate who is or is not acceptable for the Egyptian government is almost pathetic. The Egyptian people know full well that the U.S. supported Mubarak and it is he they want out. Any meddling by the U.S. will be identified and rejected strongly by the Egyptian people, who after today’s events are fully in power now. The U.S. must understand that unless it plans on using military force (which is clearly not going to happen and would be disastrous on every level if it did) it will have no influence at all in Egypt in the near future. The best thing to do is to support self-determination for the Egyptian people unconditionally; in the long term this will lead to a peaceful relationship between Egypt and the U.S.
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kidcharles commented on the blog post Stuxnet: A Way to Nuke Iran without Using a Bomb?
To get technical for a second, there is no way this virus could lead to a nuclear explosion. It is very difficult to initiate a nuclear explosion, it requires a sophisticated triggering mechanism and the right nuclear materials, i.e. a bomb. At worst, Stuxnet could lead to a meltdown (ala Chernobyl) which is an entirely different thing, more like a slow release of radiation. Still very bad for any nearby people, but hardly comparable to an actual nuclear detonation.
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kidcharles commented on the diary post Holding Our Breath: Sunday Morning in Egypt Brings Rumors, Departures by Rayne.
Had a great rally in NYC yesterday near the UN. Some pictures here: http://judgejuryexhibitioner.blogspot.com/2011/01/egyptian-democracy-solidarity-rally-at.html
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kidcharles commented on the blog post Debate Continues Over High-Capacity Magazine Clips
I’m not necessarily against regulating magazine size, but he could just as easily showed up with 4 glocks with standard size magazines and just quickly swapped guns as they ran out of ammo. He could have started chucking pipe bombs around too.
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kidcharles commented on the blog post Ron Paul Introduces American Traveler Dignity Act, Encourages TSA Opt Out Day
The radiation used by the scanners is x-ray radiation (electromagnetic waves of high frequency/energy) and do not cause materials to become radioactive from exposure. They do cause DNA damage though which is where the cancer risk comes from. Neutron radiation, which is different, is what causes materials at nuclear plants to become radioactive themselves.
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kidcharles commented on the blog post The Boys of War
So we have a child soldier on trial for the “war crime” of attacking a uniformed soldier of an invading army. We bring out the soldier’s widow and children to perform in the theater of guilt. All the while, the torturers and liars who waged aggressive war go unpunished. This is the psychological madness of an imperial nation.
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