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stratocruiser commented on the blog post Dems Start Negotiating Against Themselves on Bush Tax Cuts
“Is this bitch up for reelection this time around.”
You see, she was the Speaker of the House, which means she was in the House of Representatives. They serve for a two year term, so, yes, she is up for re-election this time around.
It’s a pretty safe thing to say about any representative in the House, that they are up for re-election this time around. It’s just the way they roll.She will never get my vote for a lot of different reasons, chiefest among which is that I live in Texas.
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stratocruiser commented on the diary post Learning from Facebook by Robert Weissman.
Greywolf, someday soon you will receive a letter from the former minister of Nigerian Office of Disbursement. You should assist him in his endeavors.
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stratocruiser commented on the diary post The Fiscal Summit Counter-Narrative: Part Three, Are There Spending Constraints On Governments Sovereign in Their Currencies? by letsgetitdone.
Thank you. I am following this topic with great interest.
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stratocruiser commented on the diary post John Edwards Mock Trial by firebagger.
Edwards-Spitzer would have a good chance at my vote
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stratocruiser commented on the diary post Hellman and Kramer: How Much Does Washington Spend on “Defense”? by Tom Engelhardt.
Just as a comparison, one trillion dollars would build about 300 gigawatts of wind turbines. Our total generating capacity in the US is about a thousand gigawatts. How about we melt down most of the tanks and ships and become energy independent. As a jobs program, it would take a lot of people to install [...]
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stratocruiser commented on the blog post Late, Late Night FDL: Tragedy
A different Tragedy, by Argent
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stratocruiser commented on the diary post Research: Observations Decisively Indicate External Forcing Cause of Arctic Sea Ice Loss by WeatherDem.
Population is the bomb. Carbon is one piece of shrapnel, along with fresh water, energy, arable land and a host of other sub-problems. I did some googling a few weeks ago. Population-7 billion or so and climbing Arable land in world 8-billion acres and diminishing Arable land to feed one person – just over one [...]
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stratocruiser commented on the diary post Research: Observations Decisively Indicate External Forcing Cause of Arctic Sea Ice Loss by WeatherDem.
Population is the bomb. Carbon is one piece of shrapnel, along with fresh water, energy, arable land and a host of other sub-problems. I did some googling a few weeks ago. Population-7 billion or so Arable land in world 8-billion acres Arable land to feed one person – just over one acre the remainder of [...]
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stratocruiser commented on the blog post Late Night: FIRESTORMS of Controversy
More or less on topic. Dangers of bilingual
Saw a sign out by the street one day.
LABORDA Y SALE
“Sale” is Spanish for “leave” so it’s do something and leave, but what is laborda.Then i realized
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stratocruiser commented on the blog post Late Night: FIRESTORMS of Controversy
And there’s the beautiful precision of “soon”
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stratocruiser commented on the blog post Late Night: FIRESTORMS of Controversy
To avoid the dangling participle, My mom used to say “This is something up with which I will not put.”
OTOH
words we should useert – active, not inert
heveled – neatly groomed
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stratocruiser commented on the blog post Late Night: FIRESTORMS of Controversy
Incomplete statistics – e.g. “prices were up four tenths of a percent.” (from when to when)
“In the middle of a twenty game hitting streak”. It’s impossible to know at game ten how long the streak will continue.
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stratocruiser commented on the diary post What’s next for Occupy? by Jackie Wilson.
The most valuable target, the one that Occupy should aim at, is direct public financing of all political campaigns. Strike at the center of the enemy’s power It’s the one that makes any other goals possible. Focused power can win. Diffuse power will be broken up or ignored. Start writing model legislation. Start lining up [...]
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stratocruiser commented on the blog post Video: NC pastor calls for death of ‘Queers & Homosexuals’ in sermon
I sent a link to my pastor, who’s views seem to be evolving. Hopefully it may serve as a reducio ad absurdum for him to see the logical endpoint.
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stratocruiser commented on the blog post $10 Million Could Be Spent on Rev. Wright Attacks
Direct public financing of political campaigns. The only target Occupy should aim at. The highest leverage target.
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stratocruiser commented on the diary post Clausewitz on War and Occupy Wall Street by stratocruiser.
Unfortunately, I think that the metaphor breaks down here. How can one mount an indirect attack on campaign finance. Incrementalism? Maybe by attacking the patriotism of the corporate miscreants? Or their bought-and-paid-for congressminions? or by challenging non=profit status? Sooner or later, you have to go for the jugular, and that can’t be kept secret. Per [...]
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stratocruiser commented on the blog post Late Late Night FDL: Cry Me A River
Utterly shameless blog-pimping.
I just wrote a MYFDL on the direction the Occupy movement needs to take. I’m not a prolific writer, but it’s important enough to me to get the thought out there that I spent three hours to write the damn thing.
http://my.firedoglake.com/stratocruiser/2012/05/11/clausewitz-on-war-and-occupy-wall-street/ -
stratocruiser wrote a new diary post: Clausewitz on War and Occupy Wall Street
If we are being blamed for waging a class war, then let’s do it properly. The definitive book on War was written after the Napoleanic wars by a Prussian theorist named Carl Von Clausewitz.He proposed several simple principles of war, listed as 9 items by the US Army Objective – Direct every military operation toward a [...]
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stratocruiser commented on the diary post Confidential Memo Outlines Right-Wing Coordinated Propaganda Campaign To Crush Wind Power Energy by TheCallUp.
I have to ask where is the wind power industry plan to counter this.
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stratocruiser commented on the diary post In Four Minutes Thom Hartmann Explains What’s Wrong With War and Violence by David Swanson.
I’m sorry, but I have to disagree with the whole tenor of the topic. Non-violence cannot defeat violence, Its purpose it to motivate violence or the threat of violence.
Hitler might have been stretched thin had England and Russia laid down. It still would have taken war to eliminate the Third Reich. - Load More
