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Sunday January 13, 2008 · 7:50 PM PST

2008/01/13 · 19:50

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Neocons au naturel

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Thursday December 27, 2007 · 1:21 AM PST

2007/12/27 · 01:21

It was natural for neocons to strive for power after the cold war because of Lord Acton's old axiom, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

After the Cold War, many people naively thought the U.S. would enter a period of peace and partial demilitarization, including lower defense spending. In a world without temptation and greed this would have indeed been natural.

But this ignored the position of post-cold-war America: ostensible undisputed military supremacy. The crumbling of the USSR -- America's main military, foreign policy and ideological opponent -- thrust the U.S. before the extremely dire temptation that Lord Acton noted has historically absolutely corrupted the tempted.

Neocons were the inevitable outcome.

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Friday December 21, 2007 · 1:39 AM PST

2007/12/21 · 01:39

If the FBI doesn't investigate and properly help prosecute the egregious widespread voting fraud in Ohio in the 2004 presidential election, would citizens be justified by natural law or something else to take matters into their own hands to punish and prevent such fraud?

Put succinctly, should citizens seek out every low-, mid- and high-level Ohio fraud participant, e.g., programmers, managers, company presidents, field workers, government employees et al., and physically punish them with tar and feathers, branding, water boarding (as practiced by the Spanish Inquisition, Japanese WWII soldiers and the Bush admin) or even death?

If not, what if the orchestrated mass fraud happens again?

Since current laws are ignored and no power is actively and successfully applying the law to correct the egregious and numerous violations, it seems the only possible responses are

(1) ignore it and let the fraudulent winners burn themselves out through abject failure to manage and govern competently or

(2) actively stop the fraud with force – either the FBI’s or citizens’.

Personally, I like ice cream and chocolate, and these may be the best way to get through this dark period.

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In response to widespread egregious fraud in Ohio in 2004, I think citizens should

Physically punish the criminal fraudsters in 2004 Ohio since no one else will.

Wait until widespread fraud repeats itself, thus further proving the impotence of government justice, then punish the participants with force.

Let the fraudulent winners burn themselves out through abject failure to manage and govern competently.

Pressure FBI personnel to serve justice or resign as ineffective bad citizen servants.

Ignore it and instead buy mass quantities of ice cream and chocolate then bloat and blog while Rome burns.

Are you kidding me!? You think Iâ€<sup>TM</sup>m going to answer how I really feel and have my account name and IP address logged into the governmentâ€<sup>TM</sup>s big book of uncooperative victims?! (But how does one, though not

14 votes Vote Now!

In response to widespread egregious fraud in Ohio in 2004, I think citizens should

Physically punish the criminal fraudsters in 2004 Ohio since no one else will.

1 vote

Wait until widespread fraud repeats itself, thus further proving the impotence of government justice, then punish the participants with force.

0 votes

Let the fraudulent winners burn themselves out through abject failure to manage and govern competently.

0 votes

Pressure FBI personnel to serve justice or resign as ineffective bad citizen servants.

8 votes

Ignore it and instead buy mass quantities of ice cream and chocolate then bloat and blog while Rome burns.

2 votes

"Abu Ghraib in Virginia"

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Wednesday December 19, 2007 · 6:09 AM PST

2007/12/19 · 06:09

Somewhat stale news to some people, but fresh and shocking to most:

When Albuquerque, N.M., lawyer Paul Livingston first saw the now-infamous photos of the naked Iraqi prisoner being menaced by American soldiers with dogs in Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib Prison, he immediately thought of Virginia.

Livingston represents 66 of 108 New Mexico inmates shipped to Virginia’s Wallens Ridge prison in 1999. The cases, he says, involve inmates who were non-violent offenders and have since been released. Nevertheless, Virginia prison guards beat them, shot them with stun guns and rubber bullets, slammed them against floors and walls, chained them to their beds for days at a time, subjected them to racist verbal abuse, and threatened them with sodomy and vicious dogs. This was done as a matter of policy, Livingston says, "just to show them who was boss and how terrified they should be."

From Abu Ghraib in Virginia
Abuse of Iraqi inmates follows a pattern established in Southern prisons
By Laura LaFay

Southern Exposure 32 (Winter 2005)
Southern Exposure / Southern Studies
www.southernstudies.org/reports/LaFay3-WEB.htm

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Saturday November 10, 2007 · 1:22 AM PST

2007/11/10 · 01:22

Since my last post I've had the great pleasure of "unsubscribing" from a surprisingly large number of Democrat party, politician and other liberal email lists. For days, as email arrived asking for money, I immediately scrolled to their bottoms and spanked "unsubscribe."

Only one Democrat organization's email had a dead "unsubscribe" link, but it didn't upset me. If they keep sending emails with an ineffectual list-removal option, I'll simply add them to my spam filter.

Once the dust settles after the primaries I'll consider giving money again. Or if they impeach Cheney.

By the way, it amazes me how many liberals in the last 12 months have changed their minds about the NRA and now support it. I met a guy today who told me this and I agreed. He knows a few other liberals who also feel this way, too. And these aren't rock-throwing kids. I think they're in their 50s but I really don't know, except they're all white collar professionals. The NRA probably has local meetings and training in safety, but hell, what do I know? I actually run a gun-control website! But the NRA is looking better all the time. It seems like a good place to learn responsible gun handling plus receive member discounts: www.nra.org/affiliates.aspx

But I digress.

Confessions of a fool, since 2002 (and my "politics of hope")

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Monday October 29, 2007 · 2:20 AM PDT

2007/10/29 · 02:20

$ donations

25 DNC
100 DNC
250 dem party
250 dem national party
100 DNC for door to door campaign
100 DNC
25 democrats.org

350 moveonpac $50 to 7 democrats in tight races nationwide
100 moveonpac for ron kirk dem in texas
100 moveonpac stickland in colorado
50 moveon iraq daisy ad in superbowl
50 moveonorg
200 moveon.org
55 moveon.org
50 moveon
25 moveon
37.51 caroline production fund through moveon

66 actblue donation to dems

250 dean
250 dean
100 dean
175 dean

100 john kerry
250 john kerry
250 john kerry
250 john kerry

250 richard morrison dem running against delay in tx
75 richard morrison dem against delay
100 richard morrison dem against delay

500 wellstone
50 wellstone annual
50 vote to impeach
30 public campaign action fund

100 Obama
50 Edwards
50 Dodd
50 Kucinich

That's what my accounting program reports.

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Monday October 15, 2007 · 4:18 AM PDT

2007/10/15 · 04:18

From my favorite soldier, the late Colonel David H. Hackworth, to the active soldiers in the 1960s who started the Vietnam anti-war movement on bases before civilians protested (DVD documentary, "Yes, Sir, No Sir!") to today’s volunteer soldiers who speak and act against the Iraq war, our nation has had soldiers who know and do what’s right, even if it hurts their military careers. Unfortunately, they are the minority.

- Are other soldiers automatons who "just follow orders" or brown-nose in order to help their careers? Are such soldiers good for America?

- Are Generals who exaggerate foreign threats in order to get more funding for new weapons and foreign bases hurting America more than helping?

- Are Generals who strive to greedily expand the "military industrial complex" at the expense of the rest of America actually unwitting enemies of the United States?

- Is a soldier who blindly believes everything he or she is told by superiors a loyal citizen?

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Wednesday October 10, 2007 · 4:02 PM PDT

2007/10/10 · 16:02

And I’m not alluding to their sexual orientation and Walmart-sized sexual closet. (The DailyKos list of Republican sex scandals covers this just fine at www.dkosopedia.com/wiki/Republican_Sex_Scandals.)

I’m referring to Republicans liking violence both ways.

They love it when big media emphasizes violent crime in the U.S. and parrots concocted military threats about weak foreign oil targets. This hardens them. Yet at no point in the last 25 years did Republicans even murmur about big media continually ignoring the very real 30-year steady decline of violent crime in the U.S. Instead, Republicans profited from that perversely unbalanced reporting and encouraged it (e.g., Willie Horton* in 1988 and numerous other belches of fear mongering).

Republicans now whine and throw hissy fits about media reports of mass violence in Iraq and plead with the media to show the happy times there. Many formerly hardened Republicans now realize their mojo is flaccid, and some of them will no doubt take drastic measures to revive it, perhaps tapping big media’s foot under the table or bathroom stall.

Maybe one day Republicans will realize the danger and cruelty of living double lives, married to the specter of violence at home while trying to hide it abroad.

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Tuesday October 09, 2007 · 12:27 AM PDT

2007/10/09 · 00:27

from London Times Online article about Matt Drudge:
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/...
(paragraph 32)

"At times Drudge has served Hillary. In April he posted the exclusive that Hillary won the first-quarter fundraising battle in a 'blowout with $36m'. Insiders say the Clinton campaign leaked the figure to spin perceptions, because most of Hillary’s contributions couldn’t be spent until the general election. 'The Hillary campaign leaks their numbers on Drudge because there is no follow-up question,' says one former Democratic operative."

(emphasis added)

Clinton & Parallel Campaigning

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Monday October 01, 2007 · 1:08 AM PDT

2007/10/01 · 01:08

Most U.S. politicians run parallel campaigns: one public for non-corporate voters concerned with non-corporate litmus tests (abortion rights, church and state, minority rights, gun control, immigration, environment, etc.) and one private for corporations dependent on the government for work, approval or property (defense contracts, financial regulation, foreign aid contracts, transportation infrastructure contracts, energy regulation, import/export approval and tariffs, farm subsidies, media use of public-owned airwaves, healthcare regulation, etc.).

Like most Republicans, some national Democrat politicians mainly represent corporate interests and count on cynically manipulating constituents’ reliance on non-corporate litmus tests. In this sense, blue-state voters not weighing corporate cronyism are like red-state voters since both blindly support corporate-crony politicians who pass a few non-corporate litmus tests.

Though I value "litmus issues" and donated money to some groups promoting and defending litmus views I share, these issues increasingly seem less important as corporations tighten their grip on our government.

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Monday September 24, 2007 · 1:34 AM PDT

2007/09/24 · 01:34

Two weeks ago I visited a friend in Washington D.C. for some R & R.

Staying just a 5-10 minute walk from the big white obelisk was a real trip. My friend used to work for Congress and the Senate but now works for a think tank and is a T.V. talking head, book author and Op-Ed writer on defense with a heavy anti-war slant. "Nothing fattens big government like war," he likes to point out. He says even some big right-wing-hated New Deal agencies were simply converted fat WWI agencies renamed and led by the same blokes retitled.

But enough of that prattle. I was on vacation.

Walking around D.C. made me think of the eye of a hurricane. It's so calm there. Everyone is 100% about the business of politics. Consultants, politicians, staff, lobbyists and bureaucrats all shuffle along in nearly identical suits calculating spin. In D.C., master’s degrees and PhDs are a dime a dozen and mostly in suspect soft fields unworthy of an ounce of extra political power, as Ivy-Leagued PhD neocons and others so thoroughly proved. Having an advanced degree has no bearing on having one's head stuck up one's ass. If you're head-ass stuck before earning an advanced degree, you'll likely be after.

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Monday September 03, 2007 · 12:39 AM PDT

2007/09/03 · 00:39

It's ironic and moronic the way hardcore right-wing Iraq war supporters, including some soldiers, simultaneously express concern and hatred for Iraqis.

They claim there will be massive sectarian bloodshed if the United States pulls out of Iraq, so we must stay to prevent it.

Many of this ilk turn right around and claim all Iraqis should be considered insurgents or supporters of insurgents. Some even say we should flatten the entire Middle East. (They typically say "kill them all" or "make it glass," meaning nuke the Middle East, melting the sand and turning it into glass.)

Some of my right-wing clients told me this face-to-face and in all-capital-lettered email replies to my anti-war emails over the last 4 years (we parted ways after these exchanges). I even had two clients tell me that if the U.S. is only in Iraq for oil, all the better: "take their oil!" they said. All of these clients are wealthy business owners or executives, including, amazingly, two graduates of U.C. Berkeley, that so-called bastion of liberal thought.

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