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rmwarnick commented on the blog post Review: ‘Star Trek: Into Darkness’ Mirrors Present Where US Has Transformed World into Battlefield
On the old “Star Trek” series, I used to think they called it the Prime Directive because it was the rule Captain Kirk broke most often. Rules are made to be broken – IF your cause is just!
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rmwarnick commented on the blog post Late Night: The Last Throes: Way Underrated
For years, I believed that Republicans were dragging the Democratic Party farther and farther right. Now I wonder if the Dems are actually pushing the GOP into fringe territory, to make themselves the top corporatist party.
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rmwarnick commented on the blog post How could anything go wrong?
I think most Americans don’t realize the USA is a net exporter of petroleum products.
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rmwarnick commented on the blog post Boston Bombing Intelligence Failure Possibly Due To Overly Expansive Terrorist Database
I can’t remember who, but years ago I read a quote from an intelligence expert who said, “If you want to find a needle in a haystack, do not start by making the haystack BIGGER.” Good advice.
And the point can’t be made often enough – if there were half a million terrorists, we’d all be wearing helmets and body armor to work each day.
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rmwarnick commented on the blog post Why the Sequester Strategy Is Doomed to Fail
I shudder whenever I read about the so-called Grand Bargain, because when you translate it from DC-speak to English, it means cuts to Social Security and Medicare. The rich used our payroll taxes as cover for massive tax breaks for themselves, and the only way to keep their tax holiday going is to reduce our earned benefits.
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rmwarnick commented on the diary post Bush’s Legacy Ought to Be on Trial – Instead, It’s Put on Display by codepink.
OK, I’m game. I what way is the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history considered a feather in Bush’s cap? He ignored four months of repeated warnings such as “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.”
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rmwarnick commented on the blog post Climate Justice Activist Tim DeChristopher on Going to Prison for Disrupting Land Auction
As far as I know, no one else has ever gone to prison for the crime of “bid-walking,” as it is know in the oil & gas industry (it’s common enough that they have a name for it). Judge Benson actually stated that he sentenced Tim DeChristopher based on his exercise of free speech, not for breaking the law.
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rmwarnick commented on the blog post Still No Suspects Or Known Motive For Boston Marathon Bombing
Might have to wait for the FBI to re-assemble the bombs. The media will go nuts in the meantime.
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rmwarnick commented on the blog post President Obama Makes Ronald Reagan Proud
Now that the Democratic Party is officially the party of cutting Social Security benefits, are the Dems still the lesser evil? And can the Republicans keep winning elections by posing as the defenders of Social Security and Medicare? I guess we’ll find out next year.
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rmwarnick commented on the diary post Google’s Privacy Chief Is Stepping Down by Consumer Watchdog.
Whatever happened to “Don’t be evil”?
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rmwarnick commented on the blog post The Washington Post Editorial Board’s Sociopathic Lesson from Iraq War: US Should Intervene in Syria
IMHO there’s still TOO MUCH “political comity” in Washington when it comes to schemes for illegal military intervention overseas.
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rmwarnick commented on the blog post GOP Still Demanding Full Repeal of Obamacare
I’m just amazed that Democrats could enact a REPUBLICAN policy like so-called health care “reform” without a single GOP vote, and let the Republicans sit back and complain about their own bad policy as if they never had anything to do with it.
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rmwarnick commented on the diary post A baby murdered, but it’s all about the guns by pfiore8.
Americans are more likely to die from a dog bite than a terrorist attack. In 10 states there are more deaths from firearms than traffic accidents. Guns are involved in more suicides than homicides.
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rmwarnick commented on the diary post We’ve Been Providing Wall Street’s Next Bailout Fund by E.L. Beck.
I don’t have a link, but I read an article recently that said crowdfunding sites on the Web like Kickstarter have taken off because of the banks’ refusal to lend. And soon these sites will be able to offer equity in exchange for investments.
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rmwarnick commented on the diary post Which Members of Congress Are Standing Up for Economic Decency – And Which “Progressives” Aren’t by Norman Solomon.
Rep. Huffman could say, “I won’t sign the letter, but you have my word of honor I won’t vote for any reductions in Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security benefits>’
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rmwarnick commented on the blog post Drones, Permanent War, Rand Paul’s Filibuster & John Brennan as New CIA Director
Next question: How can you justify killing an American not engaged in combat when NOT on American soil?
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rmwarnick commented on the diary post Kramer and Hellman: The Washington Creation That Ate Your Lunch by Tom Engelhardt.
I seem to recall that the Bush administration initially resisted creating yet another government department with Homeland Security. Of course, that reluctance soon gave way to pressure to do something, and probably fear that the Bushies’ incompetence in the months leading up to the 9/11 attacks might get exposed.
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rmwarnick commented on the blog post Obama Refuses to Believe That Republicans Really Hate Taxes
The best thing would have been the repeal of the Bush Tax Cuts For The Rich in 2009 (don’t give that 60 vote nonsense, because Bush never got 60 votes to pass his tax cuts in the first place).
OK, the next best thing would have been the “automatic” expiration of the Bush Tax Cuts For The Rich at the end of 2010, which required Congress and the President to do exactly nothing. Instead somehow the rich got another tax cut, now renamed the Bush-Obama Tax Cuts For The Rich.
Then at the end of last year, AGAIN Congress and the President had to do exactly nothing to solve the deficit problem by letting the tax cuts expire. Instead they enacted a PERMANENT tax cut for the rich that applies to the first $400,000 of income.
It’s almost as if nobody in Washington is on the side of ordinary Americans. Which can’t be true because they keep telling us how much they love the middle class.
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rmwarnick commented on the blog post Obama’s Name Instantly Polarizes Issues
Good news – President Obama has the ability to make right-wing Republicans abandon their own policies.
Bad news – He also makes Democrats and progressives abandon their own policies and embrace right-wing Republican policies.
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rmwarnick commented on the diary post Old Hands Ready for More Blood, 10 Years After Colin Powell’s U.N. Speech by Norman Solomon.
Even at the time, it’s hard to see how Powell’s presentation could be considered a success. Powell made George Tenet sit right behind him there at the UN, in tacit recognition that the CIA info was unreliable – Powell wasn’t going to take all the blame himself. Also, the Security Council never passed a resolution [...]
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