California water wars bypass democracy

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Monday October 05, 2009 · 2:15 AM PDT

2009/10/05 · 02:15

As if things weren't bad enough in California already. Now Governor Schwarzenegger is deciding to play despot in a new kind of "TERMINATOR" role: Terminating life for the natural inhabitants of northern California's waterways and coast. And the water profiteering is intended to be done at the expense of not only the environment, but democracy, too.

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Saturday September 05, 2009 · 2:48 AM PDT

2009/09/05 · 02:48

Actually, isn't there a side of U.S. public schools as envisioned in the 1800s and early 1900s that is ripe for questioning and even rejection or repair? The social Darwinists or reform Darwinists, or whatever these social engineers are called, were trying to figure out a way to rapidly change a population, even applying the manufacturing assemblyline method to human beings in order to create a homogeneous consumer market for propaganda of all kinds.

The idea AT ITS WORST really did smack of a grand plan to separate children from the circle of family and family influence and family participation and family continuity (few if any hours left in the day for a child to help with, learn from the family's business/work/farm, etc.). The result is a child molded to have more connection to the institutions of the state and business world than to the family institution. Afterall, the school substitute for family is only a temporary 'community' for the child.

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When you were in public school, were taught the history of the public school system?

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When you were in public school, were taught the history of the public school system?

yes

6 votes

17 votes

can't recall

2 votes

Bush pardons himself via Military Comm. Act?

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Friday January 16, 2009 · 10:27 PM PST

2009/01/16 · 22:27

There's no need to wait till Monday to find out about Bush's pardon list. That is, if Bush relies on the Military Commissions Act to protect himself and his torturing ghouls. That's because the Act contains two provisions for protecting them.

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Sunday January 11, 2009 · 6:54 PM PST

2009/01/11 · 18:54

One county alone in California has donated $291,000 to pay for inauguration parties. And yet it still isn't enough and the fundraising continues. I don't want to rain on anybody's parade, but when folks wake up with their hang-overs on January 21st, and see the homeless on the streets still without winter shelter, is the party memory really going to be worth deferring this much cash to non-humanitarian priorities? Even now...

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Inauguration spending -- How much is too much?

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Inauguration spending -- How much is too much?

zero spending

5 votes

under $1 million

2 votes

under $5 million

3 votes

$50 million like the current Obama goal

9 votes

all the money the corporations' desire to funnel through the inauguration events

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Eschew the word 'extremist'

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Sunday January 04, 2009 · 3:15 AM PST

2009/01/04 · 03:15

All of the sudden the media and blogs seem flooded with the word 'extremist'. Who'd ever heard much of it until Bush changed the wording of some of his key documents and replaced the word 'terrorist' with the word 'extremist'? And soon even Dems were working the word into their legislation. But this is a word with little meaning if first one does not define in relation to what the extremist is extreme! And yet, who is clarifying context in this flood of new appearances of the word? And beware! If unthinking, illogical people continue to use the word 'extremist' with such abandon like this, there will be only one safe place to be on the political spectrum, and that will be the 'centrist' position (whatever THAT means). Ick! Do you smell that? It's the stench of Totalitarianism.

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Sunday August 03, 2008 · 1:44 PM PDT

2008/08/03 · 13:44

An arrow-straight and arrow-sharp critique of Barack Obama's political speaking style has been given by Willie Brown, Democrat, former Mayor of San Francisco and very longtime California State Speaker of the House. I would say that Willie Brown proved himself to be the most powerful black politician in America, that is until Barack Obama arrived on the scene, attracting crowds, raising money, and getting closer to the White House all the time.

Willie Brown, now after his long public service career, runs a political consulting business among other interests, and writes a column, "Willie's World" in the San Francisco Chronicle.

Through his column he gives presidential HOPE-full Obama some sage (and free) advice. The critique of Obama is short but VERY to the point...

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Saturday June 07, 2008 · 9:13 PM PDT

2008/06/07 · 21:13

It's payback time for the Oil Industry. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is looking out for his friends and backers by making sure Californians are forced to stay in their cars and pay huge gas gouging prices ($4.37 per gallon today) instead of switching to public mass transit.

Already transit ridership is soaring in California. But Schwarzenegger is unmoved and now chooses to make a second round of MASSIVE cuts in transit funding in the California State budget.

Schwarzenegger is transparent; he shows he cares primarily for the profits of Big Oil -- or he would embrace the soaring transit ridership as a precursor of other state savings including:

o fewer cars on the roads mean reduced road wear and tear (oops! but that would mean less oil industry profit from road resurfacing using an Oil Industry product -- asphalt -- at millions of dollars per mile)...

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Friday June 06, 2008 · 11:30 PM PDT

2008/06/06 · 23:30

Over a year ago reporter/columnist Peter Byrne wrote a series of investigative columns about how Diane Feinstein's husband benefitted financially (think billion$) from knowledge Senator Feinstein was privy to in her role on the Senate Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee. The articles, which appeared in the northern California alternative newspaper, The Bohemian, are available at bohemian.com -- titled Senator Warbucks (Jan. 24, 2007), Daddy Kleinbucks (Jan. 31, 2007), Blum Rap (Feb. 28, 2007), Feinstein Resigns (March 14, 2007), DiFi Backlash (Aug. 8-14, 2007).

After reading these articles, I couldn't help brooding over questions about Feinstein's can of worms. (Especially after learning that The Nation reneged on its agreement to pick up Byrne's article.) The questions won't go away:

o Why was Senator Feinstein never under review for unethical behavior by her Senate peers?

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Wednesday May 28, 2008 · 12:07 AM PDT

2008/05/28 · 00:07

I WANT GIs to get a college education as a benefit for serving. But there is a problem with this GI Bill as it is coming forward at this time. I hope I can make clear the concerns.

It does not seem fair at all that the GI Bill college benefits go strictly to Iraq and Afghanistan veterans only. It is preferable to deal fairly with all vets and make the GI Bill apply to ALL veterans (not just those GIs who've fought in Bush's illegal "wars" in the Middle East).

Senator Webb indicates that the GI Bill is intended to serve as an INDUCEMENT for recruitment to build the numbers of GIs in the military.

The number of GIs in the military has dwindled AND RIGHTLY SO because the citizens of the U.S. have issues/concerns with the Bush "Wars", and both how GIs are being treated in the theater of military action...

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Saturday May 24, 2008 · 1:04 PM PDT

2008/05/24 · 13:04

The word 'assassination' derives from the murdering perpetrated by a Middle Eastern sect called The Assassins.

The very root of the word's meaning indicates the murders committed were a result of conspiring and plotting by a group.

I think that is part of why using the word "assassination" is such a TABOO in our country. The Power Elite/Oligarchy in charge do not want us Citizens to think too deeply on this national problem we experience each time we lose another of our leaders.

It would be a revelation for this nation to get rid of this TABOO. That said, I seek to make a positive result from Hillary's "assassination" word mistake, and suggest we not cave-in to pressure to keep the word 'assasination' as part of the Lexicon of the TABOO.

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Tuesday May 06, 2008 · 3:35 PM PDT

2008/05/06 · 15:35

If the folks in Indiana are impressed by the Hillary Gas Tax so-called Holiday, it's because the Hoosiers there are already dumb enough to PRIVATIZE their roads! If Clinton backers can witness the total privatization of Iraq and not recognize the signs of being privatized here in the so-called "homeland", then we're going to have to get used to Bushistas calling us "have nots"!

Look, if the Hillary/McCain gas tax repeal gets to Congress it WILL go through because it goes along perfectly with the Republican/Neocon Bush New World Order total fascist interface. And what is lost in state pork barrel roadworks projects will be gained in direct corporate donations and thank-you-boardroom-jobs, etc. -- and we citizens will pay for it all by giving away our transportation infrastructure.

This is not just a gimmick Hillary and McCain have come up with; it is a Privatization sure thing, and Bush will NOT veto it. Bush won't be able to sign it fast enough!

After they repeal the gas tax and there'e no gas tax funding for road repair, the states and municipalities will panic as infrastructure decays rapidly and road/infrastructure workers go unemployed.

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Saturday May 03, 2008 · 11:36 AM PDT

2008/05/03 · 11:36

Obama has Wright.
McCain has Hagee, Parsely, et al.
HILLARY HAS DOUG COE.

Obama's Rev. Wright is a total Progressive clergyman, doing the charitable work and supporting social justice through clear thinking and awareness of historical context.

McCain's pastors Hagee and Parsely and the rest of his group of Christianists with reactionary ideology and profiteering tactics, are total opportunists and succeed in their ambitions by manipulating their "flocks" (read that as $HEEP), and obviously act as petty crooks fingering their marks.

Hillary's Doug Coe of The Fellowship (aka The Family) is THE FASCISTS' PASTOR. Doug Coe works to fashion the death of Democratic Freedoms and insert THEOCRACY instead. And he admittedly, by choice, uses the methods of Hitler (see his written instructions to his devotees, below)! Doug Coe's goals are the goals of an anti-Constitution degenerate who desires to mold a new world religious order based on a twisted "morality" of solidarity and obedience to Authority in a fascist context!

HILLARY MUST BE THOROUGHLY VETTED! SHE MUST!

HILLARY'S CONNECTION TO DOUG COE AND THE FELLOWSHIP MUST BE MADE CLEAR AND KNOWN! It's an anti-Constitution connection.

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