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kspopulist commented on the blog post Senate Hearing on ‘Drone Wars’—Live Updates
thank you Kevin!
I followed this and you and marcy’s tweets all afternoon -
kspopulist commented on the diary post Why Stress the Tsarnaev Brothers’ Ethnicity and/or Religion? by E. F. Beall.
thx I read it and had to go away for awhile.
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kspopulist commented on the diary post Why Stress the Tsarnaev Brothers’ Ethnicity and/or Religion? by E. F. Beall.
because ‘domestic terrorism’ already has crazies like Peter King saying irresponsible crap like, ‘The battlefield is the US’ etc.
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kspopulist commented on the diary post Why Stress the Tsarnaev Brothers’ Ethnicity and/or Religion? by E. F. Beall.
agreed, it gets me thinking abt the motives for such an … attribution. I mean, since we’ve already accepted the label of terrorist for this guy, nationally, and then if it does get widespread cache in the press that “this is how anti-war people act”, then we are already in an Orwellian nightmare of catch [...]
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kspopulist commented on the diary post Why Stress the Tsarnaev Brothers’ Ethnicity and/or Religion? by E. F. Beall.
Indeed, WaPo reports that a US Intel officer has told them that the remaining suspect has admitted the attack was a reaction to the
US wars in Iraq/Afganistan:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/boston-bombing-suspect-cites-us-wars-as-motivation-officials-say/2013/04/23/324b9cea-ac29-11e2-b6fd-ba6f5f26d70e_story_1.html -
kspopulist commented on the diary post Some thoughts on Race, Privilege, Class…and the Banks by cmaukonen.
and yet, context is everything!
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kspopulist commented on the diary post Some thoughts on Race, Privilege, Class…and the Banks by cmaukonen.
this is a hugely important bunch of issues that need to be at the forefront of our nat’l dialogue but is at best only nibbled at along the edges. Like all the talk we should be having abt information, about the failures of finance, etc. and is only vaguely seen, macroscopically when, in fact, it [...]
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kspopulist commented on the blog post Late Late Night FDL: The Edge of Glory
you got it Dearie!
g’nite -
kspopulist commented on the blog post Late Late Night FDL: The Edge of Glory
since dirty gas is the ‘new untested field’, they talk lots about nat’l gas futures lots
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kspopulist commented on the blog post Late Late Night FDL: The Edge of Glory
I was reading at the motherjones today abt the scientist trying to talk the petroleum seismologists in Houston and OKC and they don’t want to see a connection
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kspopulist commented on the blog post Late Late Night FDL: The Edge of Glory
of course we needed gobs of wet and got some and not enough, but even so, the old folks are more relaxed which makes everybody feel better, too
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kspopulist commented on the blog post Late Late Night FDL: The Edge of Glory
it felt like winter for the first time in some time and we got moisture in the region, both good things, for now
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kspopulist commented on the blog post Late Late Night FDL: The Edge of Glory
so very warm and spring today
the kids were walkin around in short sleeves
but this followed about 5 inches of snow abt a week ago that covered daffodil heads and then was gone a day or two ago
rubber band balloon for the thermometer -
kspopulist commented on the blog post Late Late Night FDL: The Edge of Glory
I’m ok, thx
and you? -
kspopulist commented on the blog post Late Late Night FDL: The Edge of Glory
hi all,
I think gaga is a-go-go, … but I like her style statements – as a cultural phenom more than her music.
have you all seen this of the 9 yr old kid talking about big things…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=-Gw8gVl6R08
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kspopulist commented on the blog post Late Night FDL: MYOB
Most places there are other stores. So people will go there if necessary and until Wal-Mart tries something else. What I think about are the produce supply lines like Costco etc. National, regional-based endeavors that will cater more to cities rather than outlying areas, say, when/as gas prices continue going up.
When earthquakes become more prevalent with the increase in fracking etc and weird things happening with the roads, bridges etc. things will break down in other ways.
;)
Maybe in 10- 15 yrs solar transport planes will bring us veggies and rice… -
kspopulist commented on the blog post Late Night FDL: MYOB
I ask as many as I can thru the day, at the check-out when I get something, to old friends and co-workers I run into, etc.,
“Have you noticed how prices have gone up?”
If they have or not,
I then get to mention about the sales tax increase of last year that KS Gov Brownback wants this week to extend…
then let them sit with that for a sec, then,
“You know that the reason for the sales tax was to offset the tax cut the top brackets got at the same time?”
And if they still seem interested, then
“Why should we pay for their refund check?”and a reminder,
“The Captains of Industry haven’t exactly been hiring lately. They’ve really been doing the opposite.” -
kspopulist commented on the diary post We’ve Been Providing Wall Street’s Next Bailout Fund by E.L. Beck.
I thought capital lending ratios, i.e. the ratio between what a bank held and what they lent, was at historic lows and this is part of the reason they were so terrified back in ’08-’09 and why they have been reticent til recently to lend. That all thru at least the last decade the banks [...]
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kspopulist commented on the blog post Dorner Revisited
I heartily agree with this.
One thing I’ve noticed in thirty years working in this country is how easy it is to discount the work, hardships and environments of others.People who complain about others on welfare have not usually had to live like that. People who have never taught often have no idea what it’s like. The same goes for armed service members, cops, doctors, nurses, wait-staff, construction workers, journalists etc. etc.
I worked in a plastics factory for a number of years and we had several shifts competing for production numbers. In every case, one shift would complain that another didn’t actually work, didn’t know their job and made shoddy products. The truth was there were ‘bad apples’ on every shift. There were stars and slackers on every shift and everybody really did the same work and generally had the same quality output and stresses. Just different times.
Perceiving differences of treatment from the boss or the bureaucracy on different workers is something management wants to contain and when they don’t/can’t, then THEY’RE perceived as not doing their job which further extends the negative feedback loop etc.
‘Justice’ in the workplace has been deteriorating in my worklife and I’ve found the best places to work are the one’s where people respect each other and agree on how to reach goals. Where that respect degrades, the work, the environment inevitably suffers in all ways. Workers start looking for reasons to lose respect for their co-workers and once they start that road, they will find them.
Government sux, health care sux, cops get called dumb or tyrannical, nurses/doctors/teachers seem incompetent etc.
It’s the attitude that ‘I work hard, nobody knows how hard and I don’t see others that work as hard as me’ that gets people riled and more and more willing to lash out.
Working a number of different kinds of jobs has enabled me to see that there are hard workers in any field.
But my inclination is to say finance, for example, is one where they don’t seem to work very hard but they do go to a lot of meetings… but I don’t know anybody in finance or have 1st hand experience. So by my own theory it’s only natural I would think so. -
kspopulist commented on the diary post Is Bill Maher Coming Around on the Israel Lobby’s Influence? by EdwardTeller.
pineapple juice? that’s crazy! in Alaska, for sourdough!
I wanna know how that tastes, some of the pictures over there are pretty loaves - Load More
