Flirtin' With Disaster: "You're going the WRONG WAY!," Barack.

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Wednesday December 02, 2009 · 10:45 AM PST

2009/12/02 · 10:45

I don't know who nailed it better for ya, Mr Prez, Molly Hatchet, or John Candy and Steve Martin. I guess the audience can decide best. Might as well amuse 'em a bit as they watch you piss away our country's future.

Are metaphors supposed to scream so loudly?

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I'm travelin' down the road and I'm flirtin' with disaster
I've got the pedal to the floor and my life is running faster
I'm outta money outta hope it looks like self destruction
Well how much more can we take with all of this corruption

We're flirtin' with disaster, ya'll know what I mean
And the way we run our lives it makes no sense to me
I don't know about yourself or what you wanna to be, yeah
When we gamble with our time we choose our destiny

I'm travelin' down that lonesome road.
Feel like I'm draggin a heavy load.
Yet I've tried to turn my head away,
Feel about the same most every day
You know what I'm talkin about man

HenryDavid

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Tuesday June 23, 2009 · 12:44 PM PDT

2009/06/23 · 12:44

Please forgive my lack of research. I've been away from my favorite political resource community, dKos, in order to catch up on the realities of my own life.

Consider me perhaps representative of the thousands who now check in here occasionally and cannot follow the wonderful in-depth discussions that so many pour their hearts into.

The initial Obama "disappointment" is morphing into mobilization, as it always needed to be. Politicians cannot be "rescuers" unless the people are willing to "do it themselves", as I think Lao Tzu once prescribed that the wise ruler allow them to do.

The mobilization so many of us have awaited is now appearing around the possibility of Single Payer.

As much as I/we detest the bribery that is organized as campaign contributions, we know that for now, that is what moves Washington.

HenryDavid

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Tuesday March 24, 2009 · 5:27 AM PDT

2009/03/24 · 05:27

I remember hearing about Obama's poker-playing way back early in the campaign; not so much lately.

Wall Street has pretty much run the country since, oh, since about Hamilton's time, with a few time-outs for Jackson and Jefferson. Or didn't they even make a dent in our Republic's control by bankers?

Matt Taibbi states our predicament forcefully, without really identifying Obama's ultimate role or possible strategy in it all:

http://www.rollingstone.com/...

In this country and age, you don't get elected President without Wall Street's at least tacit acceptance.

You don't signal a threat to their control; you take their henchmen into your Cabinet.

If you are a game-changer, Step One, you get in -- then you look for your power base for change.

But you can't yell for it out loud, you have to just make P.O.W.-type eye-blinking signals to let them -- us -- know you're still one of us.

I'm having trouble seeing much in the way of signals; could be my fault, dunno. Help me out here.

HenryDavid

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Monday March 23, 2009 · 11:35 AM PDT

2009/03/23 · 11:35

I don't think your diary yesterday

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

needs a whole lot more exposition. Only action, yet to be determined.

Hopefully, Obama is on a personal, perhaps hidden, "long game" trajectory to make Revolution unnecessary.

My earliest memory of politics or political news was while sitting at breakfast each morning at age 9 hearing the news from Cuba after Fidel's revolution had thrown out Batista's dictatorship.

HenryDavid

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Tuesday November 25, 2008 · 4:21 PM PST

2008/11/25 · 16:21

Ever since the Supreme Court decision of December 11, 2000, many of us have regarded the present regime as the beneficiaries of a coup aided by the cynical political wing of the Supreme Court.

"Irreparable harm," my ass! We are now seeing just who has been harmed, and the damage is likely to fall very close to home, and for decades to come, The bills to pay will fall upon us in our retirement, and in the impoverishment of our children and grandchildren.

We are now watching the spectacle of the incoming President taking over the actual functions of national leadership, within weeks of his election.

January 20th seems a long way off.

Indeed, by whatever medications or threat-obtained silences George W. Bush has been maintained -- like one of those aging Stalin-era Politburo members at May Day appearances -- as the figurehead ruler of this greatly abused land of ours, the facade has now entirely worn away. The wizard stands there exposed, mumbling, and so the movie must be nearly over, isn't it?

HenryDavid

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Sunday August 31, 2008 · 2:19 PM PDT

2008/08/31 · 14:19

[I hate to post and run, without reading the board thoroughly to see prior discussion, but it's that kind of weekend...]

Aside from the delectable Youtube video of "McCain's Brain", zooming in on Johhny boy staring at her ass ELEVEN times in 1:45, Palin gives us the opening we lacked in the Quayle-Bentsen debate.

Jack Kennedy was not around to pop up and speak about Quayle's qualifications to lead, but Hillary Clinton is about Palin's, and when Palin invokes her name, she ought to be ready for the blowback. She isn't. (So, be gentle with her, Senator ;) )

In a sense, this is Hillary's opportunity to become the VP "attack dog" she might have been...

HenryDavid

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Friday March 14, 2008 · 9:51 PM PDT

2008/03/14 · 21:51

Stunned at assassination of President. Broken heart, awakening of political self.

Inspired by new Dem Pres taking leadership, promising a "Great" Society.

Inspired by Dem Pres promising economic development to halt starvation and disease killing millions of children around the world.

Aware of war on daily TV and radio news.

Sudden realization that "progressive" Dem Pres has blown it on war. All of it. Broken heart for LBJ's betrayal.

Seymour Hersh and CBS break news of My Lai massacre. State of shock.

With a million others, occupy Washington D.C. for 3 days, surround government buildings, candlelight "March Against Death". Back from demo, mail 2-S student deferment card back to draft board, and, later, the ashes of the 1-A card...

http://www.youtube.com/...

Murders, unapologized, uncompensated, unavenged. Forty years later, Learning unlearned. Nations learn nothing, at least at a level that changes anything.

HenryDavid

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Friday July 20, 2007 · 6:40 AM PDT

2007/07/20 · 06:40

I think it grows on me, as we go through the seventh year of this dictatorship, how courageous they were, to resist what we now consider the greatest political monstrosity in history.

Imagine yourself as von Stauffenberg, walking into that conference room, sitting at the table with so many murderers.

Wonder if you might have decided to "sit this one through," by staying in the room, to be sure of the detonation!

And we quibble over the politics of impeachment. (I know -- it's worth discussing strategy, tactics, possible outcomes, and being sure rather than impulsive about timing. Be better planners than your opponents.)

But -- think of it...

Spend some time reflecting, while enjoying the excellent Wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/...

Conspiratorial groups planning a coup of some kind had existed in the German Army and the military intelligence organization (the Abwehr) since 1938. ... Plans to stage a coup and prevent Hitler from launching a new world war were developed in 1938 and 1939...

HenryDavid

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Sunday April 08, 2007 · 4:08 PM PDT

2007/04/08 · 16:08

HEADLIGHTS ON! Bush-Cheney RESIGN.

Please send this action idea to the top and keep it there with your recommendation. Please help develop, cross-post and promote this idea, and others similar to it. It is simple, and only a simple idea is likely to be spread widely.

In the end, if we do save our Republic, which began in the time of the Boston Tea Party with other simple actions, this will be accomplished again by simple, comprehensible actions that any citizen may join in.

On the curve of possible actions and impacts in the present time, this stands out as having the greatest potential benefit for its ease of participation.

HEADLIGHTS ON. Bush-Cheney GONE.

They should have been gone long, long ago. Their wars, their corruption, their anti-America and world-destroying agenda. This coup by a business faction against our Republic and Constitution.

We are the majority, and we are right.

The majority wants them gone, by resignation or impeachment.

They intend to continue as if we didn’t exist.

(The rest of the story...)

HenryDavid

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Sunday January 14, 2007 · 1:22 PM PST

2007/01/14 · 13:22

You know that the voice of Dr. King deserves to be heard today, and deserves your recommendation.

Audio Link:

http://www.africanbynature.com/...

and Text:

http://www.husseini.org/...

April 30, 1967: The Ebenezer Baptist Church heard America's foremost moral voice stray "off the reservation" of Civil Rights, and weigh in against the other moral crisis of his time.

At this celebration of his birth, hear him sign his own death warrant, as he stands firmly against the ruling White Racist Empire that "America" had become, and continues to be. It is clear: They could not permit him to continue, and still rule.

Spend the entire 44 minutes steeping in this unequaled voice, and ponder just how much ground we have lost in the past 40 years of ignoring his warnings about our impending "spiritual death."

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

More...

HenryDavid

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Friday June 30, 2006 · 9:24 PM PDT

2006/06/30 · 21:24

We blog on hour after hour discussing the sources and directions of Power in our divided country.

But it is indisputable that the current Regime rules only by the Power that WE provide it.

In the absence of our support, it dries up and blows away.

Aren't YOU ashamed today to have paid for some U.S. soldiers to go to Iraq, rape a girl, murder her family, and burn the bodies in a cover-up attempt?

How much more? How much more?

We have allowed this MADNESS to continue long enough.

From the point of the Schiavo insanity onward, there has been no shred of legitimacy to this government from any major political viewpoint, and it has merited only that we each turn our backs to it, until it resigns.

Of course, we will make our best efforts in the coming elections.

But, in parallel to that, and especially following another stolen election, or a continued weak Democratic opposition to Bushism, we must prepare our Plan B. Read More

Your AFFIRMATIVE Obligation to RESIST Constitutional Overthrow

HenryDavid

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Saturday May 20, 2006 · 10:55 AM PDT

2006/05/20 · 10:55

(FIRST DRAFT -- I have to get to work today... ;-)

Briefly,
I am neither a Lawyer, nor a Legal Scholar.

Merely a snowball rolling down a long hill, collecting this and that, some of which you may find useful to add to your own snowball.

This essay is presented, in development, for your consideration and contribution. Its intent is to contribute to, not to monopolize, something which belongs to us all.

It is intended not to end in the swamp of some intellectual archive, but to lead to, and indeed, to invoke, Action. It intends to lead irretrievably to a conclusion that no other course but Action is warranted. And it intends to imply what that Action may be.

The Body of Law by which we live -- and mediate our disputes -- contains injunctions both affirmative and passive. Some of these distinctions take place along the dividing lines between Civil Law and Criminal Law.

For example, if a drunken driver kills my sister, ... Read More

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