Cops Have Fewer On the Job Fatalities than Cab Drivers.

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Sunday April 17, 2016 · 2:56 PM PDT

2016/04/17 · 14:56

Cops are fraidy cats. The their is too large a portion of our police force who feels that they have the right to start blasting at the slightest sight of real or imagined danger because “Blue Lives Matter” and no one else’s do. They say they have to be able to shoot to kill whenever they want because their jobs are so hazardous and a bullet could be waiting for them behind every corner. B*llSh*t. Check out this Bloomberg link on the professions with the highest rates of on the job fatalities — www.bloomberg.com/… Police come in at 14 with lower on the job fatality rates than Fisherman, Loggers, Aircraft pilots, Misc. Extraction workers, Iron and steel workers, roofers, garbage collectors, farmers and ranchers, truck drivers, agricultural workers, construction workers and TAXI DRIVERS.

For GOP There is No "Too Far", "Too Dumb", "Too Cruel" or "Too Racist"

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Friday November 11, 2011 · 5:28 AM PST

2011/11/11 · 05:28

I keep reading headliness like "Cain Blows It", "Perry Makes Fatal Gaffe", "Michelle Bachman Runs Off Rails". The implication, in fact the whole point, of many of these diaries, seems to be that some GOP nutbag has just said something that is so clearly a deliberate lie, so clearly rascist, so clearly stupid, so clearly evil that they've just torpedoed their candidacy.

What we have to remember is that we live forever now in the shadow of Sarah Palin. She set the bar so low that no matter HOW far one of the current crop of GOP Presidential hopefuls, pundits and elected officials go -- the base just doesn't seem to desert them. If anything, it cheers them on. These guys seem so crazy and so clearly dangerous that we keep expecting the base to wake up and smell the coffee. But they're not going to.

I know it's hard to acknowledge that we live in a country where this is true but we better face up to it because it's not going away again any time soon and we have to strategize and act accordingly.

How many headlines have we seen saying that Cain, or Perry or one of the others has done something to blow all credibility and blow their candidacy out of the water? And yet, like evil energizer bunnies, they just keep going and going and going.

Look, we all know Michelle Bachmann will suffer no consequences from her latest low where she one-upped Marie Antoinette's "Let the Eat Cake" with (speaking of the unemployed) "Let them Starve". What more is there to say?

Alright there is one more thing ... forget these guys and follow the lead of the Occupiers. Speak truth to power clearly, repeatedly and with one voice, and just don't stop until we are heard.

Who Is Scrooge?

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Friday October 07, 2011 · 12:21 PM PDT

2011/10/07 · 12:21

I think we should just force the 1% to read Dickens "A Christmas Carol" a billion times until they finally get it through their titanium skull plates that THEY are Scrooge and WE (or at least too many of us) are Tiny Tim. And maybe the part in the bibble where JC says "Even as you do unto the least of my brethren .. .. .."

Dickens and JC .. damned socialists. Don't worry, the Tea Party will take care of them. After all they have their second amendment rights to use.

To the 1% - Read, Rinse, Repeat.

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Bah Humbug

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Let Them Eat Cake

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The Poor Will Always Be Among Us

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Tiny Tim, Tiny Tim, Tiny Tim

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The 1% Should be Exempt from All Rules of Human Decency

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Facebook 1984 and You - Boycott Time

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Friday April 23, 2010 · 8:33 AM PDT

2010/04/23 · 08:33

Facebook takes invasion of privacy to a whole new level.

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Friday November 20, 2009 · 1:51 PM PST

2009/11/20 · 13:51

Just an exercise in entertainment and as a way to come up with colloquial expressions to use on the reality challenged when explaining triggers. I'll start.

Putting a trigger on the Public Option is like locking the barn door after the horses have been stolen. And stolen again, and again, and again, and again, and again .... And then, just to make SURE, putting a five year hold on locking the door just in case the thieves decide to return the horses after all. Face it friends, the health care horses are long gone and the insurance companies are laughing all the way to the bank.

More ...

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I didn't want any darn horses in the first place.

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Icebergs are cool and refreshing.

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I like being kicked. It helps my sciatica & insurance don't pay for it.

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I'm a vegetarian and foxes don't steal tofu.

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I like large explosions and I've always wanted to be a decorator.

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I love to get hit in the face with nice PIE.

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If Health Reform Looks Like Credit Reform, We're Screwed

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Sunday October 18, 2009 · 9:29 AM PDT

2009/10/18 · 09:29

We heard a lot of hype about Credit Card reform earlier this year when it passed. I should have been paying more attention (and perhaps some of you should have been too). Others here will say I should have seen this coming.

In the last two months both of our credit cards jumped in interest rates from something semi-reasonable to 30%. For no reason whatsoever other than because they can. We're lucky. We don't carry a balance on our cards and so far have been able to pay them off every month.

(What does this have to do with Health Care? I promise I’ll get there soon.)

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Wednesday September 30, 2009 · 1:54 PM PDT

2009/09/30 · 13:54

So you all know the title of Pailin's new book by now -- "Going Rogue". Who the heck knew that Palin would go for truth in advertising in the title of her new book?

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Thursday September 03, 2009 · 8:56 AM PDT

2009/09/03 · 08:56

Since the Republicans are so good at giving us scarey images, let's give them one maybe even they can understand. It's not as cute as "death panels" not as cuddly as "socialism" but it has the advantage of being factual.

I know the headline might be considered hyperbole or exaggeration. Alas it is fact.

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Monday August 24, 2009 · 8:37 AM PDT

2009/08/24 · 08:37

I just got off the phone on Friday with the office of the Senate Finance Committee. I've had many frustrating conversations with the offices of many, many members of congress, but this one laid me out flat. I was informed by the Finance Committee's office that the NUMBER ONE priority of the Finance Committee for Health Reform is "bipartisanship". Period. End of quote. End of Story. Okay, I admit it, there is more ahead ...

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Cops Have Fewer On the Job Fatalities than Cab Drivers.

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Who Is Scrooge?

Facebook 1984 and You - Boycott Time

Locking The Barn Door .....

If Health Reform Looks Like Credit Reform, We're Screwed

Goin' Rogue -- Unprincipled, Deceitful, Wicked

Lack of Insurance Kills 6 Times as Many as 9/11

Finance Commitee - Bipartisanship is #1 - Not Reform