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stealthisbook commented on the diary post The Advantages of Absentee Ballots by inoljt.
When I was canvassing mail-in voters just before the deadline, I found a number of households where the person who answered the door would say they already voted– “My husband already filled ours out” Overall, I find mail-in ballots to be great and a big advantage for increasing turnout. Personally, I can never remember to [...]
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stealthisbook commented on the blog post Late Night: FIRESTORMS of Controversy
I rather like firestorm simply because the verb the writer associates with it can be so interesting. One can ignite (or reignite) a firestorm. It can be sparked, set off, and fueled. I’m looking forward to thesaurus-happy writers to describe a firestorm as engorged, enlivened, or encouraged. One day, I hope to see the entire journalistic enterprise implode when some bright bulb creates the ultimate meaningless political buzzword with firestormgate.
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stealthisbook commented on the diary post Capitalists: Venture vs. Vulture by dakine01.
To begin with, LBO artists target relatively healthy small to mid-sized companies with good credit ratings that could potentially keep chugging along forever. When these companies go down after acquisition it’s not because they were a failing company to begin with. The LBO exploits a company’s advantages in order to take on vast amounts of [...]
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stealthisbook commented on the diary post The Occupy Sites The National Media Won’t Tell You About by Phoenix Woman.
Occupy Greeley, Colorado has had tents established since mid-October without problems with the police- the police station is across the street. Boulder, Fort Collins, and Colorado Springs have also been without problems as far as I know. This is in stark contrast to Denver PD’s militaristic crackdown.
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stealthisbook commented on the blog post Where Is the Money for These Raids on Occupations Coming From?
The Denver Post (a conservative mouthpiece) is already pushing the message that Occupiers are bankrupting city budgets- href=”http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_19353325″>
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stealthisbook commented on the diary post Occupy Wall Street’s Misconconceptions According to Obama’s Job Czar by freeman.
Germany–> unionized workforce and social safety net that includes national healthcare Japan–> ditto, plus a culturally reinforced respect between workers and management USA–> corporations actively oppose unionization, off-shore jobs with impunity, and actively support the erosion of the social safety net We shouldn’t cheer on those that are actively harming workers as a whole simply [...]
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stealthisbook commented on the blog post Occupy Wall Street & What Liberals Now Aim to Do with the Movement’s Energy
I just got an email with the subject “Occupy Ault” from SEIU. Ault is my tiny home town and while it does have a bank, I strongly doubt that Fred (the director) has a great deal of influence on Wall Street. It’s this sort of impersonal form-letter activism that has pretty much turned off my involvement with the big national campaigns.
It’s a call to check out their database of actions and potentially join up. Thankfully, there wasn’t a fundraising pitch, but this sort of centrally directed, top-down nationwide spontaneous demonstration seems pretty worn out these days. MoveOn pretty much drained my desire to go to message-controlled rallies that are meant more to highlight their organizing power than actually do some good.
Organizations that are trying to harness this movement and turn it into the same old thing just don’t seem to understand what’s going on.
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stealthisbook commented on the blog post Vermont Will Become Seventh State to Adopt National Popular Vote
Oddly enough, several years ago Colorado changed voter registration reporting so that every minor party showed up as “independent.” There are still several parties that qualify for ballot access, and they’re all listed on the registration form but voter reg data only has the D, R, and I.
If our Republican gubernatorial debacle in the last election had lost the GOP major party status, that law would’ve changed really fast.
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stealthisbook commented on the blog post Vermont Will Become Seventh State to Adopt National Popular Vote
It’s hard to tell whether state legislatures are swayed more by how progressive they are, or by how pissed off they are at being ignored. Since a lot of the original momentum of the movement came from disgust over Bush v. Gore, this has been a progressive issue but I could certainly see Texas or California signing on just to get some Presidential face-time.
