Guardian Editorial Staff--Please Resign

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Friday May 07, 2010 · 12:17 PM PDT

2010/05/07 · 12:17

Throwing your endorsement behind the Lib-Dems may have cost Labour a number of seats to the Tory party, any benefit accrued to the progressive wing of the Lib-Dem Party was more or less wiped out by Tory gains which ultimately leads to the strengthening of the "Orange Book" faction-- AKA Closeted Conservatives. The comments section below your online election 2010 coverage is chock-a-block of calls for your resignations. These should follow in the wake of a Lib-Con pact.

It's absolutely disgraceful to see the leftiest paper in the UK abandon it's natural political home as you did. That betrayal will have long lasting consequences as the Tory and Lib-Dems conspire to cut public spending to the bone triggering scenes that may make the Greek riots look like a cricket match.

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Monday May 03, 2010 · 4:30 PM PDT

2010/05/03 · 16:30

This will be short. It occured to me that the technology needed to fix an oil leak thousands of feet below water is beyond our ability as a civilization. Sadly the Gulf ecosystem will bear the catatrophic cost of this yawning gap between our ability to exploit fossil fuels and our inability to fix errors at the extreme range of our machinery. It's clear that this gap is completely unbridgable and the results of error are so sickening that they cannot be tolerated. I'm looking at a windfarm in Illinois right now and I feel like Sancho Panza ( a peon) watching Don Quixote ( the government) break his Lance on a sail.

Salo

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Wednesday April 21, 2010 · 9:14 PM PDT

2010/04/21 · 21:14

In their domestic agenda.

They intend to scrap the national minimum wage replacing it with a regionally variable wage.

They intend a super size income tax cut on the wealthy.

Means testing for benefits.

For all the personal charm of generations of their leaders, David Steel and Dr David Owen , Paddy Ashdown and that Ginger headed Scot (what was his name?) they have always been Tories in Drag. Most of the LibDems liberalism is the old fashioned free trade John Stuart Mill liberalism of the Victorian era. I tend to scoff at theIr oppostion to "Going along" with American foreign policy(ultimately that's what Iraq was for the Uk) . If they ever acheived formal power in a government Ming Campbell et al would begin to parrot whatever the Whitehouse wanted them to parrot. Buyer Beware with the Libdems.

I blame the stinking press corpse

Salo

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Thursday March 25, 2010 · 3:48 PM PDT

2010/03/25 · 15:48

These people are rioting, vandalizing, death threating,Talcum powdering and pipe cutting because of years of media reports that gave credence to the idea that reforming health insurance rules is Marxism. Empty headed hacks who were prepared to sit there and pout about how reforming healthcare is bad for you... Years and years and years of it. They let Reagan get away with his phonograph recordings paid for by the AMA and who now allow Rush Limbaugh to make ludicrous claims about moving to Costa Rica with out ridiculing him off the airwaves. Brian fucking Williams is the latest incarnation of this hackery. He asked this evening "why are they threatening and vandalizing?" as if he'd never personally appeared on limbaugh's radio show and been a participant in the bullshit the right have shovelled into these citizens' heads. Who's doing it and why? Gimmi a fucking break.

Salo

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Saturday March 13, 2010 · 6:34 PM PST

2010/03/13 · 18:34

Definifitive that fatalities are doubling from last year which was the bloodiest year in Afghanistan to date. I'll not analyze these figures. But please not the month by month year by year chart.

http://www.icasualties.org/...

The war is escalating quite dramatically and this isnt even the campaign season in Afghanistan. Look for the casualties to peak around July and August. It seems that the Taliban or whoever is not melting away into the hills as I thought they might. Instead they are taking a steady deadly toll on the US and the UK. This probably doesn't even account for Kabul based Karzai loyalists. Nd can only hope that they are intensively seeking out the Zawahiri and Bin Laden and find them both soon.

Does Canadian healthcare system...

Salo

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Sunday February 28, 2010 · 9:54 AM PST

2010/02/28 · 09:54

... Produce better winter Olympians? Congrats to Canada on the medal haul. It's fun to see Bob Costas sneer a bit aboot Canuck gold. Hard to argue with the Snowback golden mojo. It's been a wonderful olympics. The female figure skating was great, the mens result a bit odd. Biathlon was fun to see and I've warmed to some of the new events. They have become quite inventive. The boarding is becoming a more mature sport with real competition. Hail the olympics. And congrats to the British Skeleton. Phwew! That was almost a repeat of Turin.

Share Olympic memories here. If you like.

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Tea Company

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Monday February 08, 2010 · 10:23 AM PST

2010/02/08 · 10:23

This is a short one.

I think Tea Party is too dignified as a title to refer to the GOP Frankenastroturf organization that harps on Patriotic movements of yesteryear while pushing a radical form of corporate greed. However I think that "Teabagger" thing has lost it's overall usefulness as a double entendre. It's not working politically. See Massachusetts.

I propose that they are here after known as the "Tea Company", or as one respondent suggested the "Tea Corporation". I think this effectively points to their roots as an astroturf organization--thought up by Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch. They are a Fox Affiliate. Indeed Democrats ought to be pointing out that Tea Company founders are in some cases the direct desendents of East India Company men.

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Thursday January 28, 2010 · 7:39 PM PST

2010/01/28 · 19:39

"there's no evidence that we can't just rebut the well-funded bad stuff with good of our own, just as we've been able to beat down the Michael Huffingtons, Mitt Romneys and Katherine Harrises of the world at the ballot box. Be patient, keep supporting the good guys, and trust the free market of ideas."

hmmm... A quick look around the world, especially in nations with a functioning social democracy, corporations and personally wealthy candidates are expressly prohibited from flooding the elections with cash. This quote was the most intellectually dishonest part of the FPers diary and if it serves as the foundation of a political philosophy claiming to deliver the policy goods to the poor, the working classes and put upon middle class- it simply won't work. It's never worked anywhere else. These sorts of campaign finance rules essentially preclude most of the policies that lefties want.

Norquist /Trotsky Separated at Birther?

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Wednesday December 30, 2009 · 8:55 AM PST

2009/12/30 · 08:55

I'm thinking about goatee's here and the officious looking rimmed spectacles so popular among early Twentieth Century radicals. The resemblance is spectacular. First we have Trotsky:

http://api.ning.com/...

Look he's sitting there next to a Bust of Vlanold Reaglin.

And now we have Norquist:

http://www.fbuch.com/...

Note the face fuzz it's all very very sinister.

So Kossacks we obviously are beset on all sides by radicals and their "beardy wierdiness".

Now for the internationale!

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... four eyed gits

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As Expected: A Cunning Plan!

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Wednesday December 23, 2009 · 10:15 AM PST

2009/12/23 · 10:15

We went from being told to "stfu whiners, wait to see what the bill will contain!" to "stfu losers, it's over!"

So my overall advice is to buy major stock in the following companies:
Aetna, United Healthcare, BCBS etc.

Also consider these following stock options:
Boeing, Dupont, Glaxosmithkleinwellcome, Xe, AmerenUE... anything to do with Coal.

Finance reform coming up:

Goldman Sachs, BofA etc etc...Also look out for the company working with Obama for his audacious book deal! You'd be a fool to spend time doing anything else. Time to make money.

Salo

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Monday December 21, 2009 · 2:01 PM PST

2009/12/21 · 14:01

Way back when the GOP wanted to get rid of the Fillibuster. http://www.nytimes.com/...

I think we should have let them. They would have paid a heavier political cost and been blamed for changing extra constitutional rules. Imagine how different the healthcare debate may have been if we only needed 51 votes for a reform bill? We would only have needed a simple majority.

It's interesting how that threat would have eventually turned out to favour the left in a great way... It's a huge what if?

No point in removing it now though.

Salo

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Sunday December 20, 2009 · 9:21 AM PST

2009/12/20 · 09:21

Rahm, obama, Biden, Lieberman...some posters on here have something in common. They Punch Hippies:

http://www.dailykos.com/...

It probably suits Rahm and Obama's political purposes to have "nutty" "leftwingers" like Dean, Moulitsas and Greenwald attack the bill as useless. You see, ever since the 1968 elections Democrats-sensible ordinary Democrats- have always had to find political distance from dirty smelly hippies. Usually this distance happens to be found at the length of an arm and a clenched fist. This is called "Punching a Hippie".

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