50 Years Ago

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Saturday October 26, 2013 · 8:09 AM PDT

2013/10/26 · 08:09

http://www.jfklibrary.org/... If you have the time, I found listening to these remarks this morning inspirational and a bit humbling. Humbling when you realize that as he is talking about the future he is talking about us. And I can't help feeling that we have fallen rather spectacularly short of the progressive goals he so eloquently describes. Perhaps the tide has turned and it is finally time to go back on the offensive.

Conservative Historical Revisionism

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Saturday April 23, 2011 · 2:06 PM PDT

2011/04/23 · 14:06

Every once in awhile I like to republish the first diary I ever published here at "The Great Orange Satan" It is hard to believe that this was first written on Halloween of 2003. Time flies when the country is going to hell.

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Saturday April 03, 2010 · 8:18 AM PDT

2010/04/03 · 08:18

Well, at least there is one adult looking at energy policy in the government.

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Wednesday March 24, 2010 · 8:28 PM PDT

2010/03/24 · 20:28

I would like to call for a congressional investigation into the behavior of the major media corporations in the recent debate of the over-haul of the nation's health care system. The focus of this investigation should be the inherent massive conflict of interest at the heart of this debate and their involvement in it, an involvement that was never revealed to their audiences.

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Friday December 18, 2009 · 4:12 PM PST

2009/12/18 · 16:12

The problem with supporting the current HCR bill is that there is a sizable fraction of the population who feel passionately that their needs to be an alternative to the private health insurance industry. Now these folks recognize that we are not going to replace the current system with a single payer system. But they would settle for some competition for the private industry to keep it honest. The industry is obviously terrified of competition. A large fraction of the population would say that this is because they are thieves. This is why they support some sort of public competition some public alternative to private insurance.

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Thursday May 28, 2009 · 10:33 AM PDT

2009/05/28 · 10:33

I was looking back at the first diary I wrote in the fall of 2003. It only received one comment back then. I guess it wasn't very topical. Somehow it seems a little more relevant today. Just for grins I thought I would republish it today.

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Wednesday May 27, 2009 · 6:35 AM PDT

2009/05/27 · 06:35

I was driving through rural Oklahoma yesterday and stopped for gas in the little panhandle town of Guymond. It used to be a ranching community. In recent years it has been dying. The population dwindling as the younger generation moved away. Now there is an industrial hog farm there and it has produced a strange dynamic. Where formerly, the hispanic population was relegated to menial jobs like building fence and seasonal labor, the now have relatively well paying jobs at the pig shit factory. This is because by and large the white kids won't do that work. So times are changing. But the business owners are still by and large white and conservative.

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Sunday March 01, 2009 · 8:15 AM PST

2009/03/01 · 08:15

After listening to an informative episode of an NPR program explaining the banking crisis this morning, they concluded by noting that our debt obligation is now right about equal to GDP ($13 Trillion or so). The last time it was that high was 1929, The implication being that we are all guilty of creating this crisis. In fact, it wasn't just implied, it was flatly stated. I am of a different view. I think it is much more insidious than that. People behaved rationally in an irrational system. It isn't about morality. They made the rational choice. The blame lies on those who created a system that made these levels of debt a rational choice for the average worker. I thought there was a need to repost these two previous posts explaining why I agree that credit is the problem, but it won't wash to blame the population as a whole for the phenomena.

Why is it that credit ate the economy?

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Sunday February 08, 2009 · 3:30 PM PST

2009/02/08 · 15:30

As the economy teeters on the edge of complete collapse (and judging by the content of the 'stimulus package' is about to slip away), we should ask ourselves what went wrong.

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Monday November 17, 2008 · 4:13 PM PST

2008/11/17 · 16:13

You boys can do what you want. You always do anyway. But I don't think it is a good idea to leave a coward in charge of Homeland Security. Joe Lieberman is a coward. There has been a lot of talk about how he is liberal on social issue but a hawk on security issues. This isn't true. Joe is a liberal. He is just a coward. Just like a number of other liberals, Ron Silver, Scott Simon, Christopher Hitchens, you probably know a few yourself. People who have basically been liberal or progressive all of their lives but who, after 9/11 when feeling personally threatened perhaps for the first time in their lives, decided that all that civil liberty and international law stuff was a bunch of gooey abstraction when weighed against the prospect of flaming Islomofascist death.

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Sunday September 09, 2007 · 12:20 PM PDT

2007/09/09 · 12:20

We have all experienced the mind numbing futility of trying to get a "conservative" to change his opinion by looking at the facts. Here, finally, is experimental evidence that there is something about the way a "conservative" is constituted that makes them less likely to be influenced by reality. A simple experiment really, but it says a lot about our current state of affairs.

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Friday December 01, 2006 · 7:05 PM PST

2006/12/01 · 19:05

Glenn Greenwald has a nice piece up on this, thought I'd add my two cents. You see boys and girls, the reason that the pundit class and official Washington can't allow themselves to let go of the idea that Iraq could have worked if it had only been done right is that the real lesson of this clusterfuck shakes their entire world view down to its very foundation.

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