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Friday December 22, 2006 · 2:16 PM PST

2006/12/22 · 14:16

Greetings good citizen, this will be my last post on Dkos.

Apparently I’ve worn out my welcome and it’s time to move on. Yes good citizen, this is a GBCW diary. That said, I am not giving up the fight but embarking on a search for a better venue.

I think the tune, ‘Subdivisions’ by Rush best describes my predicament.

Gegner

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Wednesday December 20, 2006 · 2:09 PM PST

2006/12/20 · 14:09

Greetings good citizen, although common sense dictates against these exercises in futility, the situation is such that I must persist in doing that which flies in the face of what passes for ‘conventional wisdom’.

So, if reading me in ‘Don Quixote’ mode stresses you out, you may want to bail right now.

Before I go off the reservation let’s examine the facts of the matter:

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Anti-exploitation

2 votes Vote Now!

Anti-exploitation

Who are you calling 'exploited'?

0 votes

What's wrong with the game we already have?

1 vote

Good idea but it will never work (fly)

0 votes

I agree with Gegner it should be the law!

1 vote

Tis the Season

Gegner

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Sunday December 17, 2006 · 8:51 PM PST

2006/12/17 · 20:51

Greetings good citizen, not only has the calendar dwindled to just one page but a week from tonight the Christian world will celebrate Christ’s birth.

Regardless of your individual upbringing (or perhaps because of it) year’s end brings with it a period of reflection, a mental regrouping if you will, as we ponder not only the year just past but the year yet to come.

Front and center in our musings, a topic we feel comfortable discussing openly here, is the ongoing occupation of Iraq.

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The fabric of society

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The fabric of society

is as sound as the dolar!

0 votes

is getting a bit tattered but that's the price of progress

1 vote

has holes in it big enough to sail an oil tanker through it!

7 votes

Is shot, I'm thinking about getting a gun...

6 votes

Fact or Fiction?

Gegner

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Saturday December 16, 2006 · 5:25 PM PST

2006/12/16 · 17:25

Latest Consumer Price Data Ease Fears of Inflation
By JEREMY W. PETERS Published: December 16, 2006

The latest report on consumer prices showed that inflation was following an arc that must give some relief to the Federal Reserve.

Prices fell last month on everything from a gallon of gasoline to fresh vegetables and children’s clothing, helping to contain the overall rate of inflation at zero, the Labor Department reported yesterday.

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What say you?

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What say you?

'Financially well off'

1 vote

'Materially Secure'

7 votes

same difference...

5 votes

First things first

Gegner

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Thursday December 14, 2006 · 12:10 PM PST

2006/12/14 · 12:10

Greetings good citizen, welcome as we embark on yet another journey into the recesses of your mind.

Presented here for your consideration are not topics any of you actually dwell upon so much as items that have likely given you pause as you flip through the dairies.

It has been said that organizing liberals is a task akin to herding cats.

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Our current vehicle is...

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Our current vehicle is...

a brush chipper, chews up problems and spits out solutions!

3 votes

is a bulldozer...crushes all dissent

0 votes

is a teeny tiny tricycle riden by teeny tiny representatives...don't you just love teeny tiny things?

1 vote

the Bismark, blown to bits and sitting at the bottom of the Atlantic!

2 votes

Other...explain in comments!

0 votes

What to do?

Gegner

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Wednesday December 13, 2006 · 11:45 AM PST

2006/12/13 · 11:45

I finally finished reading the 428 page historical report by Mr. Kevin Phillips and my initial reaction is to wonder how different the outcome of the 2004 election might have been if this work had received the recognition it deserved! [Wealth and Democracy was published in 2003.]

For those of you who missed my first diary regarding this work, a diary that only touched on one of the book’s central themes, let me bring you up to speed.

Wealth and Democracy is a sweeping work that examines historical events from the discovery (and subsequent rape) of the New World to present day with an eye towards finance and the role it played in shaping not one but four distinct ‘empires’.

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Global 'government'

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Global 'government'

will never happen.

1 vote

is in the making.

1 vote

already exists.

5 votes

Wealth and Democracy

Gegner

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Sunday December 10, 2006 · 12:27 PM PST

2006/12/10 · 12:27

For those of you who missed my first diary regarding this work, a diary that only touched on one of the book’s central themes, let me bring you up to speed.

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Democracy

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Democracy

is alive and well

1 vote

is restricted to those who can 'pay to play'

2 votes

What is this strange word? Me no hear of this before....

0 votes

Red Flags

Gegner

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Thursday December 07, 2006 · 1:34 PM PST

2006/12/07 · 13:34

For all the economic happy talk coming out of the main stream media these days, I offer three ‘red flags’ from today’s NY Times:

Report Says Oil Royalties Go Unpaid
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS Published: December 7, 2006
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 — An eight-month investigation by the Interior Department’s chief watchdog has found pervasive problems in the government’s program for ensuring that companies pay the royalties they owe on billions of dollars of oil and gas pumped on federal land and in coastal waters.

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Red Flags

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Red Flags

Red Herring is more like it!

0 votes

We shall overcome...

0 votes

Danger Will Robinson!!!

6 votes

What’s troubling you?

Gegner

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Tuesday December 05, 2006 · 11:30 AM PST

2006/12/05 · 11:30

What’s troubling you?

I have a pretty good idea but you can’t solve a problem if you are unwilling to look at it realistically.

On one hand we have people who work very hard (definitely you!) but nothing much seems to come from it...worse, it seems like the harder you work the worse things get.

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Direct democracy

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Direct democracy

Naw, too many cooks, wouldn't get nothing done.

4 votes

maybe, if the proper filters were in place...

3 votes

Hell yeah, I'm sick of not having my say on the issues!

5 votes

Deja vu

Gegner

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Sunday December 03, 2006 · 3:29 PM PST

2006/12/03 · 15:29

Do you understand the significance of ‘3 years’? 3 years could mean anything so I need to provide some context.

3 years is how long it took the stock market to ‘unwind’ after the 1929 October crash.

Yes good citizen, while many of us have a mental image created by reports of stockbrokers leaping to their deaths on 'Black Friday' that the stock market had somehow ‘crashed’ in a single day...but this was not, in fact, the case.

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Is it happening again?

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Is it happening again?

Naw! Couldn't happen here, the stock market will rise forever!

0 votes

How bad could it be? Those other countries are doing okay now...

2 votes

Yes, and this time it's going to be ugly!

13 votes

Loansharking

Gegner

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Friday December 01, 2006 · 11:04 AM PST

2006/12/01 · 11:04

Can anyone tell me why This shit isn’t illegal?

Efforts renewed to control excessive cost of payday loans

Posted 11/30/2006 8:40 PM ET

By Sue Kirchhoff, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — One of the nation's top banking regulators Thursday announced new efforts to develop alternatives to payday loans and other high-cost products, citing an "astonishing" gap in the cost of credit that is penalizing disadvantaged borrowers.

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Loansharking

34 votes Vote Now!

Loansharking

it's not my fault people are stupid

1 vote

hey, just pay the juice and we're cool...

1 vote

don't call it loansharking, we're just trying to do 'business' here.

0 votes

This shit used to be illegal...as it should be!

32 votes

On the border

Gegner

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Tuesday November 28, 2006 · 1:42 PM PST

2006/11/28 · 13:42

From behind the NY Times firewall the new guy gives us all something to chew on. [Don’t click the link unless you subscribe to NYT select]

Speed Bump at the Border
By THOMAS B. EDSALL
Washington

Democrats preparing to take over Congress appear to have a perfect issue for the party of the left: the rich are getting richer, but sizable productivity gains and rising corporate profits are not paying off for the working and middle classes. All boats are not rising with the tide.

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Globalization

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Globalization

irresistable force

2 votes

immovable object

0 votes

world's biggest scam!

21 votes

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