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Kurt Sperry commented on the blog post Occupy Journalists Stopped, Searched, Handcuffed & Interrogated at Gunpoint
ter·ror·ism/ˈterəˌrizəm/
Noun:
The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims.There isn’t even any ambiguity about this. Rahm Emmanuel and his goons are domestic terrorists, plain and simple. If we’re serious about fighting terror and it isn’t just a euphemism for hate crimes against Muslims and legal political dissent, then Rahm and any other mayor, Democrat or otherwise, who allows their police to be used as instruments of terror should be doing hard time.
Enough. Fuck these evil sons of bitches. They’re actually worse than AQ because they do it under color of the law and the Constitution. -
Kurt Sperry commented on the diary post TarheelDem Arrested in Chicago in Early Morning Police Raid by yellowsnapdragon.
We have a hero. And villains.
If only cop shows reflected the moral calculus of reality we might make some headway.
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Kurt Sperry commented on the diary post TED Talk: Nick Hanauer on income inequality. The rich are NOT job creators. by cmaukonen.
wT2, well said.
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Kurt Sperry commented on the blog post TED Censors Presentation on Inequality and Jobs They Solicited
Here’s what I wrote them:
Kurt
MAY 17, 2012 | 11:54AM EDT
Original message
The decision to not make Nick Hanauer’s talk available based not on any substantive objection to its content of any useful specificity but simply dismissing it as too political was obviously and ironically a exquisitely political act on your behalf. Censorship for ideological reasons is inherently more political than policy discussion. The only criteria for inclusion or exclusion should be objective truth and compelling content, both of which Hanauer’s talk easily meets. Is simple truth when it has the potential to offend to be categorically avoided?The fallacious reasoning Hanauer describes is no less fallacious because accurately describing it makes a certain demographic uncomfortable. Try being *less* political by using objective reality based criteria rather than subjective political ones to decide what meets your standards for inclusion. Reality has no political bias, alas you appear to.
Kurt Sperry
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Kurt Sperry commented on the diary post Zimmerman Medical Report Released by Masoninblue.
Interesting that the shooter was apparently under the influence of amphetamines at the time of the shooting.
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Kurt Sperry commented on the diary post Why vote for Obama? Let me count the whys – 1 by David Seaton.
Do we want the president who essentially shat on the Bill of Rights by signing the NDAA, who has fitted a turbocharger to the security state, who thinks massive bank fraud is legal, who prosecutes ethical whistleblowers with unprecedented vigor while prioritizing medical marijuana prosecutions… appointing the next SCOTUS justice? Is that really how low [...]
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Kurt Sperry commented on the blog post Power And Perspective
“it’s really funny, the real conservatives are the liberals, trying to conserve the envirnment, the democracy, the future for our kids”
This is true. Liberals are generally far more conservative than modern American “conservatives”, who are in fact misnamed radicals.
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Kurt Sperry commented on the diary post Science Friday: Why Are You So Damn Smart? by Masoninblue.
If we had the technology to significantly increase human intelligence through directed mutation in a similar mechanism to natural random mutation/selections that confer an adaptive advantage would it be ethical to do so? Because that day will come.
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Kurt Sperry commented on the diary post In Four Minutes Thom Hartmann Explains What’s Wrong With War and Violence by David Swanson.
I think non-violence is roundly under-rated as an effective tool of change. It cannot be the only tool in the toolbox but it should be the go-to one. Violence is what people who aren’t very imaginative do because they can’t ideate alternatives. Ii could barely listen to the exchange, the caller was clearly not dealing [...]
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Kurt Sperry commented on the diary post Confidential Memo Outlines Right-Wing Coordinated Propaganda Campaign To Crush Wind Power Energy by TheCallUp.
I’m not clearly seeing the motivation here. Wind farms don’t really directly threaten conventional hydrocarbon’s market share. There are, and are likely to always be, demand and markets for conventional fuels and even as feed stocks for industrial processes if not as combustible thermal fuel after a transition to sustainable energy sources. I guess once [...]
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Kurt Sperry commented on the diary post FDA Considers Permitting Popular Prescriptions To Be Sold Over-The-Counter by TheCallUp.
OTC NSAIDs load the liver as badly as almost any prescription drug.
I’m not sure I like having classes of drugs that cannot be sold and purchased without going through for-profit gatekeepers who have essentially no incentives not to game the system for maximum profit.
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Kurt Sperry commented on the diary post Rocky Anderson Responds by Michael Cavlan RN.
Good post- and ignore the IP nags. There isn’t a chance in Provo the author, Rocky, will sue FDL for spreading his message.
I like Anderson. He is to the center of me so we will have our disagreements but I see him as more viable and polished than Stein by a mile.
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Kurt Sperry commented on the diary post Virgin Post by buzzer.
Welcome. Now get a good rant together and breathe some fire!
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Kurt Sperry commented on the diary post Stop Wasting Time: Support Jill Stein Now by wbgonne.
I prefer Anderson but obviously either is far more representative of a rational and moral policy direction than the duopolists. It doesn’t really matter which you vote for; just that you register your discontent with the extreme right status quo. I’m another here that would like to see FDL disassociate itself from the Democratic Party [...]
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Kurt Sperry commented on the diary post Pinkertons Tracking Occupy ‘Wolves’ for Wall Street Plus Other Coordinated Efforts by wendydavis.
I like that they’re scared. A lot.
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Kurt Sperry commented on the diary post 21 reasons why I will not vote for Obama in 2012 by Barefoot Accountant.
No, he’s right here. Single payer and public option are separate concepts.
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Kurt Sperry commented on the diary post One Ring to Rule Them All: The Total Information Awareness Ring Is Being Forged by wendydavis.
This surveillance state data collection is little more than hoarding writ (very) large. “I have to keep those newspapers, I might want to read them someday.” It works when the foci are few enough and the data considered actionable are low enough in numbers to do anything about but there is no technological countermeasure to [...]
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Kurt Sperry commented on the diary post Is Neoliberalism Fascism? by athena1.
Well said.
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Kurt Sperry commented on the blog post Stakes in the French Election Raised, as Hollande Promises to Strike Down Debilitating EU Fiscal Pact
Philippe Poutou is a breath of fresh air. See here,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yURPrIKOWs
and here,
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Kurt Sperry commented on the diary post Paul Gilding: The Earth Is full by cmaukonen.
The system will self-correct. The present population and technology boom is an anomaly enabled by the rapid draw down of geologic hydrocarbon reserves, a classic bubble. It was never sustainable. That said the future for the surviving humans post boom will probably be somewhat better overall than it was for our antecedents of centuries ago [...]
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