Just show up at the airport naked? Save all involved a bunch of time fussing with belts and shoes and what not? I think I will stick to my vow to not fly again. Ever.

You’re not allowed to strip naked unless you’re radiated. In addition, you’re not allowed to strip naked during the freedom grope/assault because it offends the sensibilities of the “average airline traveler” who would rather see blue shirt strangers assault a fellow passenger than see a naked passenger not being assaulted. We love our violence in Amerika, but whoa Nelly – no sex!

I was assaulted by a TSA agent two days ago because I had the gall to not want to be radiated – probable cause that I was a terrorist.

I will never fly domestic again and only international to get the hell out of this country.

The basic flaw with the argument here is the assumption that the 5-man conservative junta on the Court are engaged in a good faith, if wrong-headed, attempt to change legal principles. We may not agree wth the principles they want to throut, and the ones they will substitute, but the thinking here is that whatever they do will be logically consistent.

It is not just the conservative “junta” that is not logically or legally consistent – it’s all the justices on the Supreme Court. In my past life I reviewed, analyzed, and wrote synopses of court decisions for a legal publication. I can tell you that most court decisions (and especially Supreme Court decisions) are not logically consistent at all.

You watch, when this decision comes out it will be 200+ pages long with 5 or 6 dissents and 6 or 8 concurrences, each referring to “objecting or concurring with to section XXI, paragraph 67, footnote 1009, blah, blah, blah.” Read through and see the tortured logic of ALL the justices to get their political and social engineering across. The decision will have absolutely nothing to do with logic or legal consistency.

The problem with this society is we think complication is meaningful. That is why the clusterfck that is the “health care law” is 2700 pages long when all you needed to do is change twos word in the current Medicare law (take out “age 65″ and replace with “all citizens”).

That’s it, so simple. But no. What would us human beings do if we lived simple lives not filled with forms, forms, forms, regulations, regulations, regulations, laws, laws, laws? There would be no meaning right?

Sigh.

My SO and I have no health insurance coverage since the SO’s layoff after the Globalists bought out the company. Oh well. We can’t afford a grand a month, bottom line, pure and simple.

Get on government plans you say? Nope. Too many assets, plus we plan on using those assets to start a business, since there are no jobs out there. Once the business is up and running we have no plans for obtaining health insurance – still too expensive. The choice between food, shelter or health insurance? It’ll be food and shelter every time.

Once the mandate starts, I’m not worried about the penalty because we have no income to tax (at least the first few years of the business). So we slip through the cracks. The advantage of being poor, but not quite poor enough in Amerika. The disadvantage is if we get sick we die.

Oh well. Life is trade-offs. To start a business in Amerika you must make sacrifices, but the politicians won’t make sacrifices in spending OUR tax money on a single payer system. Our tax money must be spent on the imperialist wars to appease the global financial overlords. Yup.

This entire election cycle is a mockery of America and democracy.

Especially since the Democrats don’t even have the balls to put up a primary contender (or two or three) against the “Peace Prize Winner.” Yup, the Republicans may have a stuffed clown car, but the democrats don’t even have a car, just one clown.

Both parties oversee these meaningless circus shows. They are designed to be a high school like pageants, a mock democracy for the peasants.

As are endless wars. Both parties love war, torture, blood and death – AKA video games for the masses. Bread, blood and circuses. Ancient Rome anyone?

“It mandates-forces every American to buy a product from corrupt corporations. These health insurance corporations dont give one wit about health care… all they care about is MONEY.”

That is fascism – government working hand in hand/regulating/legislating for private corporate benefit. People call Obamacare socialism, that is so wrong. It’s fascism, pure and simple. There’s only on socialist item allowed in America: public schools, there will never be another: universal health care.

For some reason, as a society we once cared about the children and the benefit of education, yet we can’t care about every single citizen and the benefit of health.

Screwed up.

“Confusing to me. You’d think with all the griping Big Business emits about health care costs, the idea that they could outsource all their health administration to the government would be very attractive.”

Exactly. I don’t get it either. I believe corporations bitch about health insurance costs, but would rather pay those costs than have to raise the worker bee’s salary, since those costs must be tax-deductible in some manner.

I also believe corporations like to control the worker bee by holding the “benefits” carrot over the bee’s head. Imagine if the worker bee could move to a better company with a better salary and not worry about health insurance. Then corporations would have to pay a decent wage since the playing field would be leveled based on salary only (I’m a big believer in getting rid of all work-based non-salary benefits and paying a much higher salary).

The US will never have single-payer. It makes too much sense and would save too much money, and more importantly – lives. Amerika doesn’t like to save lives and live in peace, the Empire likes to kill and live in death, destruction and turmoil.

She doesn’t care. Occupiers don’t vote/bribe her campaign. Young people don’t vote/bribe her campaign. Unemployed people don’t vote/bribe her campaign. Homeless people don’t vote/bribe her campaign. Students don’t vote/bribe her campaign.

What do you think matters in politics? The will of the people? Maybe, if the definition of “people” means “those who bribe my campaign, give me lots of money and keep me in power.”

Democrat or Republican, it doesn’t matter a whit. They are all the same.

Exactomondo!

“I asked for more specific information (who issued this warning, what time period given to comply, etc.). The staffer told me that she would transfer me to Lindsey Speicher, Dir. of Constituent Services for the mayor.”

Bwah, ha, ha! I used to live in Syracuse and called Lindsey to schedule a meeting to talk to the major about an absentee landlord issue (an issue I resolved myself by moving out of the city). She told me I was not allowed to schedule a meeting to talk to the mayor in person and that I needed to go to town hall meetings.

See, the mayor is a god, just like all our “representatives” and do not like to be among the unwashed. You will never hear back from Lindsey – you’re not a constituent.

As for Occupy Syracuse, they should have moved into the slum house next door to me – the city would have done nothing.

“Best comment I’ve heard on this: If it’s OK to waterboard live people, why is it not OK to urinate on dead people.”

Because killing and torturing is okey dokey smokey, but god forbid you should disrespect those you just killed or tortured.

“The GOP will not become Libertarian any more than the Democratic Party will become progressive. Both will remain tools of the Oligarchy.”

Exactly. The only reason Ron Paul runs Republican is to have any shot at winning any sort of election in this country. Try running on the Libertarian or Progressive ticket, and see if your views are known to any voter. Good luck. I credit Ron Paul for crashing the Republican Party, and that’s why the Oligarchy is so very frightened about this “kook, wingnut and loon.”

I believe young people have learned from the Democrats and decided to “Not let the Perfect be the Enemy of The Good.” Ron Paul isn’t perfect, but he’s good enough (just like Obamacare).

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“We are losing our freedom around those latter issues, just like watching a re-run of Nazi germany in the 1930′s. We grew up with people saying, “How could that have happened?” Now, it’s happening here, and we see how it can happen, people are oblivious to what really matters.”

Yes they are. The left-right paradigm is so, so much more important. I’m presently reading “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” – it’s chilling how things are going the same way here as Germany in the 30′s. Oh well, I suppose all us malcontents can leave the country permanently, as many, many Germans did in the 30′s.

Actually the dictionary definition of fascism is as follows:

“a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.”

Fascism requires government control of corporations and everyone else. Unless you believe the government is one big corporation (which it may be), it is the government that controls under fascism, not private corporations.

Corporations without government rules is the complete opposite of fascism.

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“Hang on, I am not suggesting anywhere here that Occupy align or affiliate itself with Ron Paul.”

When the Occupy movement was at its heydey, before they got kicked out of their parks and shut down, I suggested that they align themselves with Ron Paul.

Of course I was skewered by everyone as a kook, loon and wingnut. I was told that Occupy didn’t need to align themselves with ANY politician.

I responded that sitting around holding General Assemblies everyday would end up doing nothing if they didn’t get their views in the MSM and politic landscape via SOME CANDIDATE, and at this point the only candidate supporting many of their views was Ron Paul.

Now, none of the candidates need talk about Occupy. Occupy is irrelevant to the presidential candidates.

“Except for abortion and perhaps gay marriage, I don’t know what rights or civil liberties Ron Paul physically threatens.”

Is the presidency now a dictator? What happened to Congress and the Courts? How can Ron Paul or any President take away your rights without the consent of Congress?

Oh….wait….the NDAA was just passed, the President is a dictator and can kill, torture and disappear any citizen upon his/her order. Well, well, then I suppose we should be terrified of a Ron Paul presidency since he would inherit dictatorial powers from the previous “progressive” Peace Prize Winner.

Ron Paul believes in the Constitution, which outlines a three-branch government, and checks and balances. Unless you believe we have a dictator in the executive which has neutered and made irrelevant the other two branches of government, Ron Paul couldn’t take away your rights without the consent of Congress and review by the Courts.

Oh, BTW, great article and analysis. Spot on.

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“is it just me, or could we have had a real national conversation about real issues, if we would have fielded a progessive primary challenger to Obama ?”

What? Huh? Hey!

sarcasm on/ Obama is the progressive. He is the God of peace and love. He is not racist or homophobic – and that’s all you need to be. Obama is not a wingnut, kook or loon. He’s a perfect, liberal, progressive, war-mongering, fascist – just what the “normal” Amerikan is looking for in a President. /sarcasm off

For those liberal/progressives who hate Ron Paul because he is not the perfect candidate – primary Obama with your perfect candidate, or better yet vote third-party or write in.

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Without Ron Paul as a presidential candidate, there will be NO debate on anything of importance.

Torture, disappearing, wars, wars, wars, bomb Iran, TSA, DHS, NDAA, “the gdamn piece of paper AKA Constitution,” legalizing drugs, etc…

All candidates R and D (excepting Paul) have total and complete agreement on the above topics. I guess the “Peace Prize Winner” and the wanna-be “Peace Prize Winners” can debate how soon they will bomb Iran and how many Iranian citizens they expect to kill. They can also debate the nuances of torture, and how it keeps us safe.

I so look forward to real “hope and change” among the mainstream and non-kooky, loony, wingnut candidates.

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