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native kentuckian commented on the blog post It’s Going to Be A Long Seven Months Until the General Election
I could not agree more. Already I find myself slipping and referring to the “candidates” as “Obamney” since there is no real difference of substance between them.
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native kentuckian commented on the diary post The Conscience of a Progressive Moderate (Why I can no Longer Support Obama) by nolesfan2011.
Agreed. Better late than never. I do respectfully disagree with the diarist about Obama’s weakness. It assumes that Obama wants to do something that he can’t for whatever reason. What I’m seeing is the opposite which is Obama getting exactly what he wants. It’s not caving if it’s what you really want. As far as [...]
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native kentuckian commented on the diary post Another smokescreen from the elite–NPR is “shocked” about Freddie Mac.. by Liz Berry.
Well said. The most I can muster when National Pentagon Radio is “shocked” by anything is a weary eyeroll. If someone ever gets around to defunding them, I for one, will not miss them. On the other hand, with all of the corporate sponsors they have now, they probably won’t miss a beat. How can [...]
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native kentuckian commented on the diary post Amid ‘Turnaround Agenda,’ Teachers, Communities Overshadowed by Corporate Reforms by Michelle Chen.
And it’s that corporate mindset actively ruining schools like it does pretty much everything else it touches.My fiancee is a middle school teacher with literally 208 students a day with no classroom of her own run by principals who did not work their way up the ranks as teachers first but instead getting “principal’s degrees” [...]
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native kentuckian commented on the blog post The Artist and Creative Destruction
I think your take on this is very spot on. I’d extend it also to things like public libraries where they are largely under attack from without and worse, from within having drank the corporate model of libraries kool-aid and run a civic institution as though it were Wall Street under the guise of some misguided attempt at staying relevant. My link is from a place I’d never expect to find this but follow their links and you’ll see what I mean. Instead of being the guardians of and passers on of our culture from one generation to the next, libraries are fast becoming dumbed down infotainment centers in which the pursuit of library “customers” who want the latest potboiler downloaded to their e-books is engaged at the expense traditional library patrons who for many reasons may not have/or even want let alone can afford the new technology. The question then becomes–why does change require such a binary response? Why must it be all electronic or nothing. If the shelves have the space, why must the books be trashed?
As bad as that is, it doesn’t get at management practices that chew up library workers and spit them out, reduced hours, reduced services, closing branches, etc. etc.
My link didn’t appear in preview. Pasting it in a different way just in case.
http://www.cracked.com/article_19453_6-reasons-were-in-another-book-burning-period-in-history.html
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native kentuckian commented on the blog post President Will Not Veto Defense Authorization Bill, Despite Detention Provisions
And yet, in spite of the glaring obviousness of what is happening, there will still be people out there saying that Obama is the great progressive defender of our civil rights. My sense of wonder at how anyone can defend O with a straight face died a long time ago.
I’m sure that when citizens awaken to the sounds of their front doors rammed open in the wee hours of the night or just plain yanked off the street seemingly at random, people like Joan Walsh, Rachel Maddow and others will still find a way to defend Obama. I’m reminded of that old National Lampoon piece called IIRC, “Deteriorata” in which a solemn voice intones among other things “Two wrongs do not make a right, but three do.” In fact, I’d recommend it as Obama’s new campaign song.
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native kentuckian commented on the diary post The Punch Felt Around the World by robertarend.
Agreed. It was a great way to get taken out to the shed by the male relatives of the woman beaten and have the crap beat out of the beater for being cowardly enough to hit a woman. Period. That said, I wonder how many more members of the stenographer’s association have to get beaten [...]
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native kentuckian commented on the blog post Occupy Movements Focused on Occupations Out of Necessity, to Show Determination
I could not agree more with that last paragraph. Well said!
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native kentuckian commented on the blog post Banks Realize People Don’t Like Being Charged to Use Their Own Money
Exactly. I found the banks in the 80′s to have been plenty crappy enough with stupid charges like the one where I would get charged a fee if my account went below a certain level. I left there and joined a credit union in 1988 and never looked back.
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native kentuckian commented on the diary post The Root of All Evil by wbgonne.
Unfortunately, this is not the first time in US history we have gotten to this point of capitalism gone mad. Imagine what the Robber Barons could have done had they access to the technology we have now. Actually, I don’t have to imagine it because their great grandchildren went ahead and did it and we [...]
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native kentuckian commented on the diary post An Open Letter to Partisan Democrats by wbgonne.
I’m inclined to agree. I was also one of the people fooled by Obama the first time. I got disavowed of those notions before the end of 2009. If I can thank Obama for anything at all, it’s that I can no longer be intimidated by the Lesser of Two Evils(tm) when I am in [...]
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native kentuckian commented on the diary post Unable to Get Simeone Fired, NPR Drops “World of Opera” by David Swanson.
I reply there occasionally. I’ve been reading it for about a year or so. Many of the commenters read like firepups here.
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native kentuckian commented on the diary post Hillary continues to threaten and coerce Afghanistan, Pakistan and now Iran by Liz Berry.
That is when there is any life in her eyes at all. That incredible video of the contrast of Obama’s and Hillary’s Arab Spring hypocrisy with what is being done to our own citizens really drove home to me the deadness in Hillary’s eyes. She may well be a True Believer, but she’s also by [...]
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native kentuckian commented on the diary post NO OWS, don’t even think ‘Primary Obama’ by fairleft.
Agreed. Voting for Obama in both the primary and the general election is something in terms of civic duty something I will always regret. Count me among the fooled, but fooled no more. I’ve been watching to see on the local level who might my alternatives to voting D or R are and it’s fairly [...]
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native kentuckian commented on the diary post Unable to Get Simeone Fired, NPR Drops “World of Opera” by David Swanson.
NPR is for liberals who are not paying attention. I would extend that to people who are not as high up the financial food chain but otherwise fall into similar cliches about what constitutes the “typical” NPR listener. Sometimes I wonder in Congress if the people who want to defund NPR really want to do [...]
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native kentuckian commented on the diary post NPR Gets Radio Host Fired for Occupying by David Swanson.
I was thinking more of the commments than the actual phone calls so I would agree with you. Making these guys uncomfortable courtesy of the telephone shouldn’t be abandoned even if the end result is probably still the same overall. At least make someone earn their pledge dollars.
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native kentuckian commented on the diary post NPR Gets Radio Host Fired for Occupying by David Swanson.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way. They’re not live. I called them a few years ago with a problem with a car I used to have and got a recording. You tell him on their machine what the problem is and if they like your question they arrange a time to call you back.
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native kentuckian commented on the diary post NPR Gets Radio Host Fired for Occupying by David Swanson.
Telling NPR what you think of them won’t matter to them in the slightest. They’ll either delete the comment or ignore it. If a person actually manages to something through that gets read on the air, the comment/letter will be read on air in a mocking tone. An acquaintance of mine who is a die [...]
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native kentuckian commented on the diary post NPR Gets Radio Host Fired for Occupying by David Swanson.
Getting people to see what National Propaganda Radio has become is a lot like trying to get people to see that Obama and the Democrats are not the people they thought they voted for. They don’t want that bubble burst that NPR is not a liberal source for news, or that NPR is the mouthpiece [...]
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native kentuckian commented on the diary post NPR: They are the 1%? by LoveScientist.
As they say, long time reader first time poster. To cut to the chase, yes, NPR has been part of the 1% for a long time. It isn’t hard to see, just look at their sponsors over the years, it’s been a rogue’s gallery of the worst of corporate America. Fact.org and NPR Check have [...]
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