This Is Not A Hostage Situation, It Is A Revolution

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Sunday October 02, 2011 · 9:09 AM PDT

2011/10/02 · 09:09

I keep hearing how the demonstrators in what is being variously called OccupyWallStreet, OccupyTogether, the 99% Movement as well as other names need to be more clear of their DEMANDS. The critics seem to be extremely uncomfortable with the “leaderless” aspect of the movement and they keep asking for spokespeople to step up. It looks as though that the majority of the people making this criticism tend to be older than the majority of the people actually demonstrating. This is not a slam on Baby Boomers or other generations, but there does seem to be a generational element to these criticisms.

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Friday December 31, 2010 · 1:11 PM PST

2010/12/31 · 13:11

Now that we can move past the "Yes We Can" cultism of the iObama phenomenon, it's time to turn our attention to solutions. We've seen that the elites of both parties are more similar than they are different. They are both loyal acolytes of Washington Consensus that has hollowed out our economy and arguably destabilized the global economy. As Noam Chomsky has said, the Obama Administration either the third term for Bill Clinton or George W. Bush depending on your level of pessimism. If you have any ideas out there on how to fix this mess, feel free to outline them for me. I already have a few...

The coming 6-3 court (Updated - Headline too much)

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Wednesday April 14, 2010 · 2:18 PM PDT

2010/04/14 · 14:18

UPDATE after the break

At what point do Progressives get anything we've been fighting for from this White House or the Democratic Leadership. We watched as Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize after announcing an escalation of the war in Afghanistan. We sat by while Sen. Bauccus, at the behest of the White House, had advocates for single-payer arrested instead of heard. We fought for the much less effective and watered down public option and watched this bill calling itself health care reform get rammed down our throats despite our objections.

Now Obama has an opportunity to replace Justice John Paul Stevens. Like some now familiar slow motion nightmare, it appears that the WH and the leadership of the Democratic Party are going to again totally ignore the Progressives in this decision.

The argument that we need to "fall in line" or doom the Obama Presidency isn't going to fly this time.

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Saturday November 07, 2009 · 10:33 AM PST

2009/11/07 · 10:33

Sorry, but this is likely to be a short diary. I'm really asking for some answers here.

Is it me, or does this bill up for a vote in the House suck. A lot has been made about the fact that Democrats threw away their best negotiating position when they refused even to talk about single payer. They were forced into a situation where "The Public Option" became the left side of the argument. Meaning that the center would be a really really weak public option with individual MANDATES which appears to be what this bill has. Almost nothing has been said in the press and blogs about the individual MANDATES. It's as if they were never up for debate just like single payer was never on the table.

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Mandates / No Mandates

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Mandates / No Mandates

Gee, I think Mandates are just great.

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Go ahead and mandate me, I still don't have the money to pay.

48 votes

Why my friend Mac is Going to the Pittsburgh G20 Summit -- Live Blog w/ UPDATES

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Wednesday September 23, 2009 · 11:50 PM PDT

2009/09/23 · 23:50

UPDATE: 3:30pm 9_24:

With the G20, the 19 largest economies in the world and the EU, meeting in the ultimate Rust Belt City - PITTSBURGH, I find myself wishing I was there with my friend Mac. The G20 will be meeting to discuss how to hide the fact that their entire economic system and theory has failed utterly. They will not be seeking ways to help average people and to seek justice, economic or social. Instead they will be attempting to maintain the failed status quo of globalism and to protect the power of transnational corporations. To that end the United States and President Obama will be violating, if not directly certainly in spirit, the Posse Comitatus Act which "prohibits most members of the federal uniformed services (today the Army, Air Force, and State National Guard forces when such are called into federal service) from exercising nominally state law enforcement, police, or peace officer powers that maintain "law and order" on non-federal property (states and their counties and municipal divisions) within the United States." - Wikipedia.

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Tuesday September 02, 2008 · 10:05 AM PDT

2008/09/02 · 10:05

McCain's choice of Palin is deeply cynical and it is a Rovian tactic. We are all agreed on this point, but there is zero profit for our side in fixating on this woman--ZERO. In fact, it will only strengthen the types of narratives that the Republicans have been using continuously to beat us. Perhaps it's because I'm currently reading George Lakoff's The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century Politics with an 18th-Century Brain, but I'm deeply paranoid about this Palin thing.

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Thursday February 07, 2008 · 5:12 PM PST

2008/02/07 · 17:12

Just lightening things up here a little. No real tin foil hat, but I have noticed something intriguing. Other political junkies might be familiar with CNN's Political Market. It's a stock market game where you start with imaginary sum of money, $5,000 in this case, and you can buy shares of stocks in predictions for the primary races. It's geeky, but it's a decent pass time.

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Wednesday July 18, 2007 · 2:34 PM PDT

2007/07/18 · 14:34

The White House has just posted a press release for a new executive order by Bush. It looks like the administration can simply start taking people's assets if they "hinder" political or econoomic reconstruction in Iraq.

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Sunday January 15, 2006 · 11:51 PM PST

2006/01/15 · 23:51

Lately some people on DKos have been whining about the "whining" going on regarding the Alito confirmation. Some have even gone so far as to suggest that people on the left, who are dissatisfied with the Democratic Party should cease letting their opinion be known on Dailykos. We on the left do not need to leave this forum or this party, the centrists do. It is precisely because of these clowns that this country is in the predicament it is now. One can't blame the GOP; you can't get angry at a snake for biting you. Read More

Mainstream Journalism Found Dead in Mine Shaft

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Wednesday January 04, 2006 · 9:17 PM PST

2006/01/04 · 21:17

What has become of the Fourth Estate? From the repeated failures of the New York Times (Judith "Miss Run Amok" Miller's cheerleading for the war, Editors holding ILLEGAL wiretapping story during the election) to the amazing discovery of poor people in New Orleans and the reports of violence being perpetrated by those same poor people to yesterdays astounding blunder in West Virginia. Apparently the only thing it takes to have a career in journalism is a willingness to look the other way when corporations decide the story is bad for the bottom line. It's all just so sad. Now this from the AP:

Supreme Court Says U.S. Can Move Padilla
Jan 04 5:01 PM US/Eastern
By GINA HOLLAND
Associated Press Writer

The Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to let the military transfer accused "enemy combatant" Jose Padilla to Miami to face criminal charges in at least a temporary victory for the Bush administration.

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Wednesday July 06, 2005 · 10:17 AM PDT

2005/07/06 · 10:17

In Ojai, Ca we were tired of our town's, right-leaning Fourth of July parade. So we dicided to build the U.S.S. Constitution.
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Our parade marshall leading our Float at the beginning of the parade

We are a guerilla theater group founded just before the Iraq war operating under the rubric that the only way to reach the American public is through entertainment. We were frustrated with traditional protest because it had become too easily neutralized by the media. We were tired of our towns right leaning Fourth of July parade which we felt really didn't represent the majority of people in Ojai. Ojai is know as a fairly "Arty" place, yet on the Fourth we were bombarded with support the troops, gung-ho, Under God propaganda. And it wasn't even well thought out, well done propaganda. We got into the parade by forming a group called the Ojai Patriot's Club. The OPC's Colonial ReEnactment Players, or C.R.E.E.P., were in charge of the parade performance. Read More

Majorty of Democrats are dispicable cowards

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Friday January 07, 2005 · 4:43 PM PST

2005/01/07 · 16:43

I am totally disgusted with the Democratic Party's continuing disintegration. There is only one way for Democrats to slavage the party and that is to behave like liberals and progressives. We don't need "Republican-Lite". Following are three letters I sent to three Senators. Read More

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