Paul Ryan, Zombie Eyed Pension Starver

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Friday August 24, 2012 · 12:41 PM PDT

2012/08/24 · 12:41

Paul Ryan's zombie-eyed love affair is really with the failed economic policies of Milton Friedman. Eventhough Friedman died a while ago, his discredited ideas still eat the brains of Serious People on a regular basis. Paul Ryan recently praised Chile's pension system and most likely has it in mind as a model for your pension, here in the US. If you follow me over the fold, you'll get to read Paul Ryan's praise for the Chilean way in a wikileaked cable and find out which Chicago gangsters Ryan really loves.

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Saturday July 24, 2010 · 11:01 AM PDT

2010/07/24 · 11:01

I sincerely wish that this diary would put the "Chavez shut down the free press" fake debate to rest. There is a difference between free over-the-air broadcast stations and private media paid for by a subscriber. On my CABLE stations I can watch Glenn "everything Obama does is just like Hitler told him to" Beck on Fox, per Rupert Murdoch's wishes. More power to him, literally. But on broadcast TV my local Fox station DOES NOT play that crap and (hopefully) would get its license pulled by the FCC. Let me make it simplier for those still confused. I can watch boobies on cable but not on broadcast TV. There are legitimate reasons for that. So imagine if Beck, Limbaugh and O'Really were on FCC regulated "digital bunny ears" TV, on three out of the four broadcast stations. You think someone would start a letter writing campaign here on Kos asking them to take those programs off the air and only allow them on CABLE? I would friggin hope so. Here's the reality about that "press blackout" in Venezuela. The "Chavez is a dictator that stopped the freedom of the press" crowd really needs to follow me below ...

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Thursday May 20, 2010 · 5:01 PM PDT

2010/05/20 · 17:01

First get rid of "big guvmint" that allows all of these free-loading "lucky duckies" to take a free ride on things like the government indoctrination centers (public schools), socialist transportation (buses, Amtrak, etc), and inefficient utilities. Now that we've placed all of those socialist-fascist things in private hands, the companies are free (because that's what real freedom from the government means to these guys) to ~~discriminate against any~~ find more efficient ways to ~~deny~~ serve customers. Like Rand Paul said, if you happen to walk into a Woolworths and they think you're just a little too blond (there's no racism to see here, remember?) to sit at their lunch counter, then you are free to walk out. Don't you see the marvelous Freedom agenda on display here? Imagine the Paulite-Freedom of being able to choose the bus system that only allows "refined riders" and doesn't let the "urban element" on. Accuse that freedom agenda and liberty system of racism? How dare you. More below the fold...

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Wednesday February 03, 2010 · 5:37 PM PST

2010/02/03 · 17:37

We need to keep Austin real. Alex Jones is Glenn Beck on crack. I seriously believe that Beck and Bachmann refine Alex Jones' wacked out "hippies with machine guns are going to put us 'real American patriots' in socialist FEMA camps, Obama is training eco-SS troops like Hitler" message and then they take it to the TV and the onto the house floor. He is supposedly #1 on shoutcast and internet radio, plays for several hours a day, several days a week including Sundays. Austinites, we're smarter and better than this and I have a real grassroots action planned that could expose him for the tea-baggin right-wing fascist fraud that he is. This clown has a large cult-like following, this will make a huge dent in his credibility. Locally, I need to get a group together for the plan to work, but later I have enough material for a product to be made, similiar to his "Obama Deception" DVD that could be organized nationally. Check my past entries here and you'll see that I'm a real on-the-ground activist, with numerous other things that I haven't posted here...but this ain't about me, this ain't no email campaign and this ain't my first rodeo. Follow me over the fold to keep Austin weird, keep it real and prove that it's a not a safe haven for right-wing tea-bag radio.

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Thursday January 28, 2010 · 4:54 PM PST

2010/01/28 · 16:54

Back in 2006, when Camp Democracy was being created, I drove out to help make the stage that Howard Zinn was going to be speaking at. I pulled up to the driveway and it was just Neil Swanson (David Swanson's father) out there cutting and assembling stairs for the stage and no one else. I had expected more people, but it was just Neil and I. I had started to form doubts as to whether Camp Democracy would matter. But honestly, it was what I had learned from The People's History of the United States that kept me going. We have to keep struggling for this country to progress, and sometimes it's tedious, thankless and feels hopeless. That's ok, that's nothing new, it's how it always goes. I've seen too many people leave this site over small things. I'm not leaving and I catch hell from this crowd over many of my positions. Follow me over the fold for a little hope and a lot of love for Howard Zinn.

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Monday November 09, 2009 · 5:23 PM PST

2009/11/09 · 17:23

Here in Austin we have a local radio-nut, Alex Jones, that promotes various conspiracy theories such as FEMA concentration camps and that socialist eugenicists are planning to kill us (specifically the gun-loving free-market Christians that don't like abortion). So he was telling his followers to check out the "Camp FEMA" screening at an alternative book store near the UT campus. So I decided to go, realizing that a movie titled "Camp FEMA" may require a tin-foil hat to view, much like the new "A Christmas Carol" requires 3-D glasses to fully appreciate. Little did I know that I was actually stepping into an Alex Jones/Ron Paul Libertarian Persecution Cult. Follow below for a very entertaining, disturbing and enlightening true story.

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Saturday August 08, 2009 · 3:35 PM PDT

2009/08/08 · 15:35

The reason why people could hear Doggett, and other speakers talk about single payer and debunk the "kill the elderly" b.s. is because I out-bullied the bullys with a megaphone. They started to chant and drown out the weak PA system that was being used, but I immediately turned on the megaphone, walked to their section and demanded (at level mid vol) "We will have civil discourse, you will be polite while our representatives talk!!" - they were still chanting "NO, NO, NO" and I turned the megaphone up to 10 and said "what to toddlers yell then they don't want to go to bed?" (nononono from one section) "What do toddlers say when they don't like thier vegetables? (nononono from one section) "What do kids say when they don't know about anything?" - get it?
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Monday January 12, 2009 · 6:19 PM PST

2009/01/12 · 18:19

There are many hypothetical legal procedures that Obama could be talking about when he says - "We are going to close Guantanamo and we are going to make sure that the procedures we set up are ones that abide by our Constitution". But there should be no doubt that a parallel system of justice is being crafted to deal with the "unique problem" of Gitmo. I have yet to hear the simple truthful answer that "our Constitution can handle it". So if you’re looking for some good news on what’s in the works, then you should click on a different diary, seriously. Follow me below the fold for an outline of the probable new legal system, with details provided by other "Western Democracies" that serve as our model for how to handle these "tough terrorism" cases.

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Monday June 30, 2008 · 6:45 PM PDT

2008/06/30 · 18:45

I almost want to change it- it's the voter focus group. I think we're in trouble with how little the voters have educated themselves over these last few years, seriously. more below

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Wednesday January 23, 2008 · 4:57 PM PST

2008/01/23 · 16:57

Yes, I know, we are not allowed to talk about the issue that is the true epicenter of the "war on terror". As you may know, Palestine has been cut off from the proper amount of food, water and electricity because some unspecified amount of rockets have landed and killed and injured Israeli citizens, so therefore the entire population of Gaza must be collectively punished. Very progressive.

Here's Obama

"All of us are concerned about the impact of closed border crossings on Palestinian families. However, we have to understand why Israel is forced to do this... Israel has the right to respond while seeking to minimize any impact on civilians."

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Monday January 21, 2008 · 9:54 PM PST

2008/01/21 · 21:54

America has once again successfully wiped away the anti-imperialist efforts of Dr. King, even during the height of an imperialist war. Every year, they don’t play the beautifully spoken audio tape of MLK’s "Beyond Vietnam" (Democracy Now played a clip today) or talk about it’s very real and very deep message even though through it’s understanding lies a path to winning the real war on "terror". After reading and hearing so much about MLK on this day, I feel obligated to shine more light on what I consider to be his best speech. Unlike his "I have a dream" speech, "Beyond Vietnam" may hold the key to liberating many billions of people across the globe. It is exactly because of its very candid assessment of America’s perverse role in the world, that you will not hear the MSM or our candidates discuss it.

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Thursday January 17, 2008 · 8:04 PM PST

2008/01/17 · 20:04

Ronald Reagan began his Presidential bid by speaking about "states rights" in the town of Philadelphia, Mississippi. The town is famous for the civil rights workers slain there in 1964.

The use of that town and those terms are morally repugnant to me. I'm shocked that Obama does not know this. Here's the wikipedia site's listing of the city, which includes, of course, everything I've mentioned here.

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