Out of the 99% - Albert Einstein

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Tuesday November 29, 2011 · 5:40 PM PST

2011/11/29 · 17:40

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Friday October 14, 2011 · 6:56 PM PDT

2011/10/14 · 18:56

I've been quite active in my conversation, sharing, and communication about the Occupy Wall Street movement and its counterparts around the world. As yet, I haven't really given attention to them here, although I've wanted to. It was a difficult task to think of the appropriate, succinct, commentary, but it occurred to me that Lewis Mumford would be the best choice. Mumford is often called a technological determinist, but I believe that label is too restrictive and fails to do his position justice. Mumford believed that technology, or rather technics, play an important role in pushing human behavior in one particular direction or another.

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Saturday March 27, 2010 · 10:54 PM PDT

2010/03/27 · 22:54

We have to keep our Democratic house clean. If we intend to take the higher moral ground on issues of race and international diplomacy, areas on which Democrats have every right to stand proudly, we must rebuke our own fellow Democrats when they cross the line.

Have you ever heard of New Hampshire State Representative Nick Levasseur? No, you haven't. (Apologies to our NH friends in the community.) Well, you should know his name today and you should let him know how you feel about these remarks from his Facebook page:

"Anime is a prime example of why two nukes just wasn't enough."

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Wednesday February 03, 2010 · 4:39 PM PST

2010/02/03 · 16:39

Apologies for digging up a diary I posted on January 23rd, but I think it's become relevant again in light of "Queen of All Wingnuts" Michelle Bachmann's recent comments on Japanese healthcare. Here's how I started back then...

UPDATE: I should note that I'm writing this as an ex-pat in Japan and my experiences with public health described here are with the Japanese public health system.

Posted this to my Facebook account a few minutes ago:

I went to an orthopedist today to check a nagging shoulder pain. Thought it might be a stress fracture. Consultation, x-rays, anti-inflammatory injection, one-week prescription of pain killers - about $25. Sushi lunch for 2 just after the doctor - about $25. I love Japan. Stupid American healthcare.

More after the break.

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Friday January 22, 2010 · 10:04 PM PST

2010/01/22 · 22:04

Posted this to my Facebook account a few minutes ago:

I went to an orthopedist today to check a nagging shoulder pain. Thought it might be a stress fracture. Consultation, x-rays, anti-inflammatory injection, one-week prescription of pain killers - about $25. Sushi lunch for 2 just after the doctor - about $25. I love Japan. Stupid American healthcare.

More after the break.

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Thursday January 21, 2010 · 5:32 PM PST

2010/01/21 · 17:32

There's a lot of hand wringing and second guessing and GOTV 20-20 hindsight going on in these parts. There's a lot of "get off you asses", "get more enthusiastic" talk. It's all important. The thing is...this isn't about us.

The DKos community, and progressive activism in general, is plenty active and plenty enthusiastic. The apathy is among the "independent" voters and those generally inclined to sit on the sidelines until the big show comes to town.

More after the jump...

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Saturday September 05, 2009 · 11:17 PM PDT

2009/09/05 · 23:17

Although I don't know where the saying originates, I do know that it can be heard in locker rooms across America with reference to closing out games and finishing opponents. "Step on their necks." It would be poetic if it had come from someone like Vince Lombardi, but it hardly matters. The sentiment is enough. "Step on their necks."

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Monday August 10, 2009 · 11:49 PM PDT

2009/08/10 · 23:49

There's a very nice diary at the top of the rec list right now that attempts to remind us of why we're so lucky to have Obama. It reminds us that we worked hard to get him elected and that we must never forget the accomplishments he's made in the face of great trouble. I won't refute that diary, but I also think it's off the mark in critiquing the sour mood here at DKos. Let's talk about why...

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Monday May 04, 2009 · 6:53 PM PDT

2009/05/04 · 18:53

Cross posted at Communicative Action

Here's a perfect example of how the public falls in love with novelty, especially when it comes to our politics. Ironically, the same Republican Party who likes to paint Obama as all talk...an empty suit...is in love with this 14-year old conservative.

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Friday March 13, 2009 · 12:57 AM PDT

2009/03/13 · 00:57

There's an excellent documentary called "The Corporation" which was produced in 2003 in Canada by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott, and Joel Bakan. Being the plugged in Kossacks I know you all to be, you probably have the film on a constant loop in your living rooms except when President Obama is speaking on CSPAN. In fact, I'm guessing that some of you have the homepage for the film on "speed dial" in your favorites section of Firefox.

In case you missed it, you can download the film from the homepage, or you can just watch it via the YouTube playlist embedded in this diary...

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Thursday November 06, 2008 · 3:44 AM PST

2008/11/06 · 03:44

This diary may be short but it should be sweet. There's one more election that will aid our efforts toward a more progressive America. This election will help to tip the balance in favor of a Democratic agenda on the path to a fairer society. It helps to put just one more nail in the failed conservative ideology and creeps our impact into the lion's den of the marginalized Southern Republican Party.

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Wednesday October 08, 2008 · 7:59 PM PDT

2008/10/08 · 19:59

I know this is an odd topic for a day less than a month out from our presidential election, especially a month that promises to be as contentious and ugly as any in recent memory. As a devoted and true-believing progressive, my heart is firmly with the same values that bring many of you here. However, like virtually every one of you here, I also love our country and our potential for tremendous good far too much to blind myself in a fit of pure partisanship. One of our greatest strengths as a people, if not our greatest, is our ability to span a diverse geography, cultural divide, and philosophical worldview to remain a United States.

The progressive, or left if you prefer, dysfunction has always been the lack of clarity of vision that has splintered special interests who would otherwise work together for a greater, common good. Additionally, a lack of consideration for the more libertarian leaning views of the Western states, in particular those in the Rocky Mountain and Big Sky regions has made it impossible to make inroads into those communities. As those unfavorable aspects of progressivism have reversed themselves in recent years, in some measure thanks to Kos and Jerome for spelling them out in "Crashing the Gates," our fortunes as a political philosophical movement have also improved.

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