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Tuesday December 13, 2011 · 6:42 PM PST

2011/12/13 · 18:42

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NY Times: More to a Smile Than Lips and Teeth

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Thursday January 27, 2011 · 11:48 AM PST

2011/01/27 · 11:48

This article reminded me of something I have felt strongly about for years. Dental insurance for all. How much would this cost? About $0.26 an hour or about $42 a month for all workers from the age of 22 until the age of 67. Throw in another $0.75 an hour for medical health and you have health care for all, about $120 a month. Way less than the Social Security deduction of 7.5 % We've beaten the wage horse to death, it seems the most creative and common way corporations improve the bottom line is to cut wages and jobs. In actuality all it accomplishes is obscene wealth at the top and takes wayyyyyyyyyy too much money out of circulation. Wal-Mart employs 1.8 million people, the largest employer in the world. The cost of funding the entire Wal-Mart work force would be about $3.6 billion, about 25% of their yearly profit of $11.2 billion on revenues of almost $316 billion.

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Sunday January 02, 2011 · 6:11 PM PST

2011/01/02 · 18:11

.....sue Congress

Mondale:

"Article I, Section 5 of the Constitution states: "Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings." The document is very explicit about the few instances where a supermajority vote is needed — and changing the Senate’s procedural rules is not among them. In all other instances it must be assumed that the Constitution requires only a majority vote."Resolved: Fix The Filibuster

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Saturday August 14, 2010 · 9:59 AM PDT

2010/08/14 · 09:59

To those who feel betrayed or for those that rebuke me for my angst against Michael Bennet. Read on. I have stated many times and in many ways the absolute corruption of both the Dems and Republicans. For what reason should I make a deal with the devil, hold my nose or turn a blind eye to a system that has but two parties with marginal differences. By that I mean that Republicans speak to their base with a message of hate, intolerance and paranoia. On the other hand the Democrats speak to their base with a message that motivates liberals without much thought of carrying through.

For both parties the main goal is to GET ELECTED, cater to their cronies, promote a continuous state of war, paranoia about boogey man du jour and drive home the message that one party is incapable of keeping you safe.

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Thursday August 12, 2010 · 11:39 AM PDT

2010/08/12 · 11:39

First off, I was warned not to write this and send it out to my list. Note the time, precisely as the clock strikes 12 noon and the Colorado Democratic Party stages a unity rally.

I am concerned about the eminent chaos this country is headed for. Mike L., another engineer, told me that we are bound to run out of water before we run out of gasoline and sooner than later. Either way, there will be plenty of blame on both sides of the aisle for not paying attention to the health, education, water, energy, sewage problems and rail transit of the country. BTW, who would have thought that a man as eloquent as Obama would have so little to say about real problems, what to do about them and would select a staff of toadies and the dregs of the Bush and Clinton eras.

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Tuesday June 15, 2010 · 9:23 AM PDT

2010/06/15 · 09:23

The Bob Herbert op/ed set me off this morning and yesterday it was the preposterous article about the "vast" wealth of minerals, etc. "discovered" in Afghanistan. NY Times The GDP of Australia is $1 trillion with the population of both countries being about equal. A trillion dollars ain't what it used to be. The vast mineral riches article was obviously a paid advertisement by the Pentagon. How do I know? They mentioned lithium, laptops and Blackberries in the same sentence and everyone knows that acquiring resources by any means to "support our way of life" is a slam dunk, because, "they hate us for our freedoms." LOL Consider for a second the Vietnam War:

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Tuesday May 18, 2010 · 11:52 AM PDT

2010/05/18 · 11:52

You know what chaps my ass, other than the fact that this guy is a Democrat running for the US Senate? The guy has no clue regarding the long lasting scars inflicted by war nor the humiliation of not being able to get ANY job because we were Vietnam veterans with a thousand yard stare. On my discharge papers, it has a box that states the related civilian occupation and DOT Number. The box on my papers is the word, "NONE"

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Tuesday March 23, 2010 · 1:56 PM PDT

2010/03/23 · 13:56

"The AGs in the lawsuit, who are all Republicans, argue that the bill violates the 10th Amendment of the Constitution, which says, "powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.""

Too bad you can't disbar an AG for horribly misinterpreting the Constitution. The following powers are delegated by the Constitution. MC

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Saturday March 13, 2010 · 1:18 PM PST

2010/03/13 · 13:18

Issues defined, put together by my campaign staff in 2006 (Great job, btw). If your candidate is not saying these things, ask them why. If they don't know where the money is going to come from (Defense Budget), then think twice about supporting them. There are wayyyyyyyyyy too many defense hawks on both sides of the aisle. Everything we do in the way of military action, alienates us from the third world and our once trusted allies and partners. We spent over $800 billion in this fiscal year on defense. That money represents over 16 million jobs paying $48,000 a year. That works out to over 333 thousand jobs per state. You want context for how many jobs the defense industry really provides? Lockheed Martin employs a total of 140,000 in the entire US, they are number one pig at the trough. Wouldn't you rather have 333 thousand more consumers/tax payers/home buyers in Colorado? Don't believe me, see the table at the end of this email. Most interesting is the amount of negative job growth for tax cuts. The columns do not exactly line up, so find the link at the end of the post if you can't reconcile the table or you want more eye popping info that our priorities are insanity defined. MC

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Friday January 29, 2010 · 3:43 PM PST

2010/01/29 · 15:43

All errors, miscalculations and poor research are products of old age. Spending 93 percent more on defense than China is obscene. MC

Green Power, Logic, Morality and Defense Spending

For the $663 Billion we are spending this year on defense, we could build 2,652- 64 MW solar concentrators and produce a total of 169 GigaWatts of electricity. For $663 Billion you could install 82 million roof top photovoltaic panels @ $8000 each. There are 129 million housing units in the US. For $663 Billion you could erect 236,785 wind turbines with a capacity of 473 giga watts. The US annual consumption of electricity is 3.35 TW, wind turbines and solar concentrators would represent 20 percent of the 3.35 TW needed. With other drastic and moderate conservation methods, the 3.35 TW could be substantially reduced.

For $663 Billion could pay a four year college tuition @ $16,000 for 41 million students.

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Wednesday December 16, 2009 · 12:49 PM PST

2009/12/16 · 12:49

"The CRS study says contractors made up 69 percent of the Pentagon's personnel in Afghanistan last December, a proportion that "apparently represented the highest recorded percentage of contractors used by the Defense Department in any conflict in the history of the United States.""

From the WP article below.

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Saturday December 12, 2009 · 9:31 AM PST

2009/12/12 · 09:31

Just watched the movie "Invictus" produced and directed by Clint Eastwood, starring Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela and Matt Damon as Francois Pienaar, the South African rugby team captain. I thoroughly enjoyed the film. I also wanted to read the entire poem, "Invictus" and find out more about Nelson Mandela, his 27 years in prison and what he did to deserve such a severe sentence. The CIA had a hand in his arrest in 1962 and by my summation of the CIA, the FBI, the US Senate, corporate, industrial and banking interests and our own proclivity for racism. (Welcome to America, now clean our toilets) I was pretty sure the US was definitely on the wrong side of apartheid. We have yet to ratify sanctions against apartheid and the reason the US Ambassador gave at the time are as pathetic as our rationalizations regarding torture. Are we really the good guys?

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