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lechero commented on the diary post The FBI Had a File on Him When He Was 14 by Alan Grayson.
Agreed. I find it difficult to take anything he says seriously.
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lechero commented on the diary post DHS Releases More Docs on Coordinated Efforts to Quash Occupy by wendydavis.
Didn’t O’bummer say it’s up to the cities to take care of Occupy ( a pity I can’t find anymore articles about it besides a NJ radio station )? That quote alone was horrible IMO because it excused the brutality that went on against Occupy, especially keeping NYC and Oakland in mind, but it seems the feds [...]
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lechero commented on the blog post Glass-Steagall or Bank Size? Why Not Both, And More?
I second “The Equalizer”. He and Mickey would have their hands full.
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My concern is this morning I saw a petition that said we need “a new Glass-Steagall”. The word “new” makes me wary. “New” means a former vice president of one of the “too big to fail” banks writes in 2000 extra pages to it filled with loopholes making it useless, and a bunch of rank-and-file democrats trolling the internet uttering the “don’t let perfect be the enemy of the good” cliche to anyone on the left criticizing it.
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lechero commented on the blog post Late Late Night FDL: The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God
I met Tony Randall once. He was a class act.
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lechero commented on the diary post Spices as Medicines: Protectors of Health and Well-Being by wendydavis.
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lechero commented on the diary post Just Released! Lord of the Shears by marymccurnin.
Also, Mitt Scissorhands!
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lechero commented on the diary post Just Released! Lord of the Shears by marymccurnin.
So, he went to preparatory school, and then hew anted to be a hairstylist?
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lechero commented on the diary post The Making of an Evolution: Obama “Comes Out” for Marriage Equality by Gregg Levine.
Seeing as how those with the two-party blinders on are going to decide between the guy who forced all his constituents to buy health insurance and the guy who forced all his constituents to buy health insurance, there has to be some contrast. So what can Obama do? (a) regulate big business (b) create jobs [...]
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lechero commented on the blog post “Do What We Say or the Women Will Die”
When a hoodlum utters those words, he’s thrown in jail for decades.
When politicians make essentially the same threat, the worst that will happen is they leave office with full benefits and get a sweet job/business consulting, making speeches, and lobbying. And it’s almost never so bad so they can stay anyway.
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lechero commented on the diary post The Nuclear Industry Has Melted in Japan and France by solartopia.
Godspeed. I hope these anti-nuclear movements continue to be successful, and that Fukushima does not get any worse.
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lechero commented on the diary post Occupy Lei Day by CTuttle.
Grats, CTuttle, and thank you for your hard work, I am very glad that Occupy Hilo is still going strong.
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lechero commented on the diary post Stop Wasting Time: Support Jill Stein Now by wbgonne.
And like it has been said, it is best to get the candidates to cooperate.
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lechero commented on the diary post Stop Wasting Time: Support Jill Stein Now by wbgonne.
Thanks for this article. Not only do we need to vote third party, we indeed need to get the liberal left together to vote for one candidate. I voted for one of the two major parties for president (Obama) in 2008. That was my first and last time to vote for one of the two [...]
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lechero commented on the diary post Romney’s new housing policy: Offering the Grim Reaper a big helping hand by Jane Stillwater.
Bloomberg already did it. Now the conservatives want to take it national.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Romney lost and then Obama ended up signing off on something like this.
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lechero commented on the diary post How Many Supreme Court Justices Can Dance on the Head of a Pin? by Janet Rhodes.
That, and Dennis Kucinich’s support of the same, despite the lame reluctance a lot of “progressives” claimed to see from him. That along with his support for the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011 made it painfully obvious that nobody is minding the store, nobody is in our corner, except for each [...]
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lechero commented on the blog post Congress Slightly Less Unpopular
The American people are beaten down by the corporatocracy and have much lowered expectations. That also explains why the democrats are still relatively popular.
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lechero commented on the blog post Supreme Court Makes It Even More Impossible for Torture Victims to Win Lawsuits
It reminds me of when democratic senators only supported the public option before they lost Ted Kennedy’s seat.
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lechero commented on the blog post This Election Is a Referendum on Obama
Of course we have a choice! We can either vote for the guy who forced all his constituents to purchase health insurance, or the guy who forced all his constituents to purchase health insurance.
I think calling Romney a 1%er with the implication that Obama is not, is a bit disingenuous, since Obama will very likely be a 1%er himself within a year or two out of office, like Clinton and Gore in 2001. Maybe Obama empathized with most people at some point in his life, but I think that time had long passed by his first year as president.
The past four years have been a real wake up call. Americans supported the most “liberal” president that the mainstream media would allow them to, and he ended up being to the right of Reagan. I believe now is the time to seriously advocate liberal third party candidates. Fearing the repercussions only keeps us all in an ever darkening grey twilight.
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lechero commented on the diary post On the need for Democratic Ecosystem: The analogy between dealing with the mis-named “Bold Progressives” (PCCC) and OWS’s aversion to electoral politics by metamars.
Thanks for your well written reply, I’m just sorry my timing was off that I couldn’t acknowledge it in my other post.
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lechero commented on the diary post On the need for Democratic Ecosystem: The analogy between dealing with the mis-named “Bold Progressives” (PCCC) and OWS’s aversion to electoral politics by metamars.
In a similar vein, I have many times argued against considering the PCCC, the so-called “bold progressives”, as completely without value. Yes, they’re misnamed, and generally quite wimpy, when it comes to exerting real political pressure on the Democrats. However, some people don’t really have the stomach for pressuring the Democrats, aggressively. Where are they supposed [...]
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