Another example of Naomi’s prescient doctrice of Disaster Capitalism coming true. Her amazing treatise, THE SCHOCK DOCTRINE exposed the predatory practices of the 1%, and here we see it in action. It is a conspiracy. It has been planned. Now it is being executed. It’s the Ownership Society if you are in the 1%, but for the rest, it’s “This is my boot. Lick it.”

Chris Hedges, Robert Scheer, Andrew Bacevich, and Glenn Greenwald are other journalists who have condemned Obama’s militarism and his use of drones. I would have to check, but I believe that several journalists from THE NATION magazine have also condemned Obama the Warrior Prez as have a number of bloggers. Many bloggers have done a much more honest job of addressing Obama’s aggressive militarism than any of the MSM. However, NO members of Congress, to my knowledge, have done so. Sad and tragic. Bill Maher, who is pretty liberal on a number of topics, thinks drones are great.

More J. Edgar Holder and the Obushama fascist machine. Dems can do it too, and they should not get a pass for it!

It’s not just the internet and bloggers who “chew up” the news of daily events. The WSJ editorial page,FOX news, the Washington Times, Krauthammer, Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter, Savage, Beck, Malkin, etc. are just as capable of doing so and they are radio hosts and columnists. The internet is more of a reaction to the blandness of MSM than it is a cause of MSM decline. Before newspapers were corporate, profit worshipping whores, they were serious overseers of government and corporate misdeeds. Now, since they are corporate, they have become mostly capitalism’s best defenders. Without the internet today, there would be even less unlawful conduct exposed.

We tend to think of this as a male to male issue. OK, if that’s the case, consider just what the viewer can actually “see” when looking at those “spread cheeks” — an anus. No surprise there, but can the viewer actually see INSIDE the anus? What does the viewer do to actually verify that there is nothing inside that anus? How close does the viewer have to be? Can the viewer use a “device” to get a better view? Can the viewer as the detainee for manual assistance to get a better view? Would anyone ever suspect our public safety officers of going just a little too far, to “push the limits” of such legal searches? Are such searches part of interrogations? Can interrogations be videotaped? Shudder.

Now think of that same issue with a woman. In ADDITION to the anus, a woman has a vagina. What exactly can a viewer DEMAND in order to see inside that orifice? What must a woman do to comply? Shudder again. Does strip search mean palpation? probing? When is a strip search considered complete?

Clarence Thomas had to LOVE the thought of all this. Kennedy, we are discovering, no longer thinks. He just goes along. It makes the ACA ruling tame by comparison. This is the police state + humiliation + invasion of privacy all in one. Watch out protestors, Occupy, minorities, and women.

Read RULE AND RUIN by Geoffrey Kabaservice. It is a history of the Republican party since1950. In a surprisingly compelling narrative on a subject many would consider pretty dry, Kabaservice details the events, legislation, and politicians cited above. It concludes with what we all know as the polarization of the Repubs into the Rethugs. Yes, folks, racism and religious fundamentalism were very big influences, but it’s helpful to see just how and who was responsible.

Just so you know, I think the ACA is awful. Obama, with bipartisan support, has not done us a big favor with this law, but it is the law at this point. I cannot envisions a second 18 month of wasted Congressional time trying to pass a new one. It seems prudent at this point to think of it as a starting point for adding amendments and making changes to transform it into something truly helpful. SS went through such changes. Of course, the opposite can also occur, but maybe some who benefit from the changes will become converts and see the value of universal coverage as well as all the very good arguments for joining the developed world in a sane, workable, cost saving universal system. First, however, we have to vote into office legislators who see the wisdom of such a course of action. That’s the hard part.

I never can seem to get an answer to this question: What is the difference between a mandate by govt or a mandate by a private or corporate employer? Both are compulsory. Is one obligation better or qualitatively different that the other? Am I not interpreting the law correctly? I realize that a mandate means that people who do not want coverage or do not have a corporate employer may be have to pay, but there are also govt subsidies for low income people in the bill. The polls suggest that there are objections by a much larger population that only those with low incomes. Maybe the ACA will level the playing field for small employers and private citizens by extending the tax deduction for premiums to them. Currently employers who pay for health care insurance can write it off, but private citizens cannot. The cost difference between after tax payments and pre-tax payments is HUGE.

This is only going to get uglier, and HR 347 will transform police into the Stasi legally. Every aspect of civil liberties will be violated in the next 6 months leading to the political conventions. Anyone who carries a sign, raises his/her voice, or gets too close will be in the crosshairs. Demonstrators and those who support them should employ the high tech, telephoto, video, hidden camera and social network avenues to protect protestors and demonstrations because the MSM will NOT report the real abuses unless they are shamed into doing so.

At last, Democrats with BALLS! Will the Dems actually follow through on their threats? I would LOVE to see it, but why am I not optimistic?

Let’s see, who were Obama’s principal advisors during those first two years? Did they advise him to avoid Reconciliation? Why? They were supposedly experienced “insiders”. Intelligence without insight; conviction without passion.

I’m with Hippie Joe. Someone needs to explain to me why only Americans can be murdered. Foreigners can also be killed by drones or special ops or CIA. It is wrong anywhere. Too many people are easily persuaded to give up the Constitution they have sworn to protect in order to protect it.

TEXAS NEXT! Texans enacted a virtually identical bill to the one Virginia altered. It actually mandates a vaginal probe. We have to make that MUCH more public and put Perry and woman hating Texans on the hot spot.

So, are his defenders saying that it’s OK for a racist judge, who admits to sending a racist email, to sit on a federal bench which could make determinations about ethic and racial disputes — and be impartial? With the judgment we see displayed in his reply, I don’t think so — not on a federal bench or any bench. This is not what I would call “blind” justice. It is insulting, prejudicial “justice”.

He’s a robot. or he’s plastic. Rarely do we see anyone who aspires to be in public life who appears so fake. He should be running for president of the Carlyle Group. He probably has cocktails with them. How on earth did such a clueless guy get to be governor of Massachusetts? Was he more convincing as a moderate? I hope so, because he is simply out of his league as one of the 99%.

It’s not just the cars, it the asphalt, plastics, fertilizers, and a host of other products made with oil. The list is long. If we want to perpetuate the life of some of those pretty valuable oil products, we need to have another source of fuel for homes and automobiles.