Posting History for Ray Pensador
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| Deconstructing American Fascism Have you ever watched one of the those excellent BBC documentaries about Nazi Germany? You will notice many scenes where people are going about their daily lives, at picnics, multitudes of people ... |
Ray Pensador | 02/14/2013 | 97 | 48 | 1 | - |
| Deconstructing The International Neoliberal Kleptocracy I'll ask you to put into perspective the circumstances which brought about the 2008 Great Recession. Think about the role the Wall Street criminal racketeering cartel played. To get a glimpse of ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/09/2013 | 18 | 24 | 2 | - |
| Democracy in America: Outspent And Outgunned by The Koch Brothers and The NRA ProPublica released an article today about how "dark money" was used to "control redistricting in many states."
In the November election, a million more Americans voted for Democrats seeking ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/21/2012 | 4 | 9 | - | - |
| Devastating Portrayal of "Occupy Wall Street" By The New York Times As the initial day of the "Occupy Wall Street" protest approached, I was waiting with anticipation, hoping that this time, because of several weeks of planning before the September 17th start of the ... |
Ray Pensador | 09/24/2011 | 29 | 14 | - | 374 |
| Direct Action: On Civil Disobedience And The Projection of Power By now more and more people are realizing that in the face of government paralysis and dysfunction as the result of influence peddling corruption by an increasingly ruthless corporatist elite , ... |
Ray Pensador | 05/22/2013 | 49 | 16 | - | - |
| Distracted and divided we... This will be a short diary since I'm working on another one where I try to address these issues in a more substantive manner... Think about trends on a few areas concerning the well-being of the ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/11/2014 | 96 | 23 | - | - |
| Diversionary tactics used to dilute your POWER If you knew how powerful you really are you'll be shocked! That's the main issue. "They" know how much (potential) power you have and that's why they have put in place the most sophisticated ... |
Ray Pensador | 06/10/2011 | 43 | 6 | - | 167 |
| Do You Hear the People Sing... The Song of Angry Men I think that one of the things that creates more stress, anger, and disappointment in people is when their trust is betrayed. When they wholeheartedly believe in something or somebody, and then it ... |
Ray Pensador | 07/07/2011 | 7 | 7 | - | 98 |
| Do You Really Want to Help The Democratic Party? Here's How I'm a registered Democrat. I've been voting for over 25 years, and I have never missed a national, state, or local election, and I always vote for Democrats. I always encourage people to exercise ... |
Ray Pensador | 03/15/2013 | 39 | 36 | 2 | - |
| Do You Want to Win? Here's What it Takes... If you want to win you have to embrace these concepts: boldness, commitment, responsibility, unity and solidarity, principles and conviction, and cohesiveness.
Let me give you an example...
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Ray Pensador | 09/25/2013 | 44 | 24 | - | - |
| Don't Be a Sitting Duck - Unite And Prepare For Upcoming Economic Collapse In previous diaries I've written about my theory that there is an impending economic collapse that will take place before the 2012 election. |
Ray Pensador | 06/27/2011 | 34 | 11 | - | 347 |
| Don't Get Mad, Get Even - Thoughts on Organized Resistance The operative word is "organized". I'm aware that many individuals, groups and organizations are engaging in activities to resist the corporatist takeover of the country, but sometimes I wonder if ... |
Ray Pensador | 06/11/2011 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 107 |
| Drones of Another Kind Regarding the current state of affairs in this country, what should be the number one priority of the citizenry? Ending the the control over our government by a tiny group of billionaires and ... |
Ray Pensador | 04/24/2013 | 11 | 15 | - | - |
| Echoes of 2008 - Obama's Shock Doctrine Approach to Cutting SS and Medicare I watched president Obama's press conference this morning (in its entirety). By the end, I started thinking... "This is weird. I have a funny feeling that I've felt exactly like I'm feeling right ... |
Ray Pensador | 07/15/2011 | 9 | 14 | 1 | 133 |
| Elizabeth Warren's Potential Run: A Nightmare For Hillary Clinton And Her Wall Street Backers
I think I heard that Hillary Clinton has been collecting payments from Wall Street bankers for speeches. Meanwhile, some are asking if we are "Ready for Hillary?" Given the mood of the ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/12/2013 | 816 | 219 | 3 | - |
| Embarrassment: Skeet Shooting Photo There is nothing more I want than to believe that somehow decent people of good will will triumph over those who embrace vulgarity, dishonesty, opportunism, greed and deception, as integral parts of ... |
Ray Pensador | 02/02/2013 | 145 | 19 | 1 | - |
| Empathy Yesterday I was driving and noticed that a young man made a lane change a little too short from another car, and he had to step on the breaks hard as he stopped right behind me. I noticed this ... |
Ray Pensador | 09/19/2013 | 58 | 42 | 1 | - |
| Employee-Owned Business Incubator: Share Your Ideas/Dreams The motivation behind my interest in developing this concept is the alarming rate at which income inequality continues to accelerate as a result of a concerted effort by corporatist business cartels ... |
Ray Pensador | 03/18/2013 | 51 | 13 | 4 | - |
| Enough! The Time For Action is Now! What does it take to inspire people? To reach deep down into their hearts to help spark the strongest emotions born out of every person's desire to be free and to live in dignity? Of course, that'... |
Ray Pensador | 02/21/2013 | 4 | 14 | - | - |
| Everybody, relax: Now that you know what's going, you can take action Like Don Quixote tilting at windmills, I've been trying to get the message across to people that we live in a one-party corporatist system. This one-party system has two wings: The Democratic party ... |
Ray Pensador | 03/04/2013 | 25 | 27 | - | - |
| Explain to me why it can't be done... It seems that on the so-called Left there is an obsession with following every dastardly act committed by the truly lunatic and extreme right wing. You can't escape it. Daily Kos, Salon Magazine, ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/23/2012 | 27 | 21 | 2 | - |
| Fascism is Here: Private Jails, SEC Coverups, Wall Street Thievery It's amazing how these things happen in history. Many people wonder how entire societies in the past allowed for the establishment of horrid fascist and tyrannical systems. Were they complicit? ... |
Ray Pensador | 08/18/2011 | 20 | 20 | - | 166 |
| Fiction Is Now Reality: George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" Wasn't a Novel; It Was a Prophesy Earlier today I was reviewing some stuff I wrote back over half a decade ago, and I was amazed at the accuracy of the predictions I made. Actually, they weren't predictions as in "mysticism," but ... |
Ray Pensador | 06/09/2013 | 49 | 30 | 1 | - |
| Fictitious Organization: A Powerful And Effective Anti-Corruption And Social Justice Movement One of the first things I would do is I would contact people like OPOL, Words in Action, LaFeminista, MOT (among many other great minds here at Daily Kos) and hire them full-time with a minimum ... |
Ray Pensador | 07/29/2013 | 23 | 9 | - | - |
| Figurehead: The American Presidency I've been thinking about this issue for quite some time, but what prompted me to write about today is a nagging thought I've been having after witnessing what happened in Egypt.
Before the coup d'é... |
Ray Pensador | 08/23/2013 | 30 | 19 | 1 | - |
| Finally! Wall Street Meets Pissed-Off Main Street Here's the thing about the rule of law: Once those responsible for enforcing it fail to do ... |
Ray Pensador | 09/16/2011 | 47 | 32 | 3 | 304 |
| Financial Times' Martin Wolf: "The Extreme Conservative Position Has Won" I recently wrote a diary describing what I would do if I had the wherewithal to mount an all-encompassing, relentless/sustained campaign promoting a progressive agenda. In my eyes, I see the steps ... |
Ray Pensador | 10/19/2013 | 109 | 218 | 9 | - |
| Five Goals By Which To Measure Occupy Wall Street's Success A very small group of (easily-identifiable) financial industry criminals committed fraud of unprecedented proportions in human history, plunging millions of people into unimaginable suffering, ... |
Ray Pensador | 10/16/2011 | 20 | 9 | - | 126 |
| Five Necessary Conditions I'm not going to spend too much time here presenting proof to this truism: Our system of government has turned into a plutocratic corporatocracy headed by a ruling elite composed of moneyed ... |
Ray Pensador | 04/06/2013 | 16 | 21 | - | - |
| Flailing And Squirming: How The "Conservatives" Odious World View Will Be Finally Defeated You have to be clear about these things. It's not about different opinions, or philosophies; it's about the difference between true moral values and ignorance, debauchery, dogma, and fundamentalism. |
Ray Pensador | 01/04/2012 | 21 | 21 | 2 | 219 |
| Flash Mob Rallies in Support of Snowden - #murmurationflashmob What Edward Snowden revealed is the inner-workings of a proto-fascist system currently engaging in the implementation of the final stages of a total-information-awareness surveillance system which ... |
Ray Pensador | 06/10/2013 | 31 | 26 | 1 | - |
| For-Profit Nursing Homes: Torturing Seniors In The Name Of Greed There have been multiple reports about insurance companies and for-profit hospital chains committing massive fraud all across the country. The fraud is massive, endemic, and widespread.
On ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/01/2013 | 34 | 24 | - | - |
| Forget About 2012 - Get Ready For The Next Shock At this point I find most of the debates about the 2012 elections to be quaint. I also feel sorry to see how many people want to believe that things are normal and that even though we are going ... |
Ray Pensador | 06/23/2011 | 62 | 10 | 1 | 405 |
| Free to Speak One's Mind Let me acknowledge right off the bat that the attitude and world view I'm about to share with the readers are not things every person is able to embrace, for many (obvious) reasons, the main one ... |
Ray Pensador | 03/12/2014 | 85 | 25 | 1 | - |
| Freeing Your Mind by Reaching a Higher Consciousness Stop. Calm yourself down. Take a deep breath. Now think only about one thing: feeling at ease, in peace, happy. During your day, on average, how often do you feel like that?
I guess that ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/27/2012 | 16 | 22 | - | - |
| Full-Spectrum Political Activism One thing you can be sure of is the trajectory we're on; a trajectory that because of its very nature is bringing about constant change. But not the type of change we would want or need.
The ... |
Ray Pensador | 02/18/2014 | 37 | 14 | - | - |
| Gartner (Top Research Firm) Predicts Big Occupy Wall Street Resurgence in 2014 Sometimes I try different types of meditation. I have quite a few books about it, including one by the Dalai Lama himself, "How to Practice - The Way to a Meaningful Life." Those who practice ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/30/2013 | 354 | 123 | 4 | - |
| Gen. Wesley Clark On The Foreign Policy Coup Folks, I've been trying to get this point across: The illegal war of aggression we are about to engage in has very little to do with humanitarian reasons related to the chemical weapons attack in ... |
Ray Pensador | 08/28/2013 | 323 | 28 | - | - |
| George Soros: Financial Markets Driving The World Towards a Great Depression I've written about this issue several times before, and my perspective about it comes from a cursory observation of the current state of affairs as it relates to the international financial markets. |
Ray Pensador | 09/30/2011 | 12 | 11 | - | 152 |
| Get Ready For an Imminent Cataclysmic Financial Collapse - The Revenge of The 1 Percent There is a new power paradigm. It did not come about overnight, of course, but it is here now. The international (Western) ruling elite has been developing this new economic paradigm for decades. ... |
Ray Pensador | 10/08/2011 | 53 | 29 | 3 | 417 |
| Global Uprising: A Selection of Images & Photos Some people argue that there is no such a thing as an ongoing global uprising. I guess it must be truth because the media is not reporting such a thing.
Maybe people can come up with a proper ... |
Ray Pensador | 06/24/2013 | 7 | 10 | - | - |
| God told me to write this... There is so much potential for good in the world, for brotherly love, for peace and harmony. All the elements are there, here, with us, now, at this very moment.
In order to realize that potential ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/28/2012 | 11 | 14 | 2 | - |
| Government Malfeasance & Corruption Database As part of my social justice and anti-corruption activism, I often use bold language in many of my diaries, stating that our government institutions are corrupt to the core, which to me is a self-... |
Ray Pensador | 03/14/2013 | 14 | 9 | 1 | - |
| Grave Danger I'm starting to get a little concerned... I understand that in the real world, when it comes to realpolitik, no country is perfect, and especially that applies to powerful countries with powerful ... |
Ray Pensador | 09/12/2013 | 50 | 22 | - | - |
| Greece, Italy - Int'l Criminal Bankster Cartel Takes Over The World, One Country At a Time The other day I listened to a program on NPR where Terry Gross was interviewing someone who has written extensively about the Greek economy. From what he reported, the main points hat stuck with me ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/12/2011 | 37 | 23 | 1 | 169 |
| Green Bay Packers, Employee-Owned Companies, And Sustainable Economics Are you sick and tired of government corruption, and of corporations cheating, stealing, and committing all manner of crimes with total impunity? There is a solution! The corruption is fueled by ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/29/2013 | 10 | 11 | 2 | - |
| Have The American People Accepted Corporate State Fascism? I ask this question in all honesty: Have the American people accepted the imposition of a fascist Corporate State?
This morning someone sent me a message asking this question, so I decided to go ... |
Ray Pensador | 04/18/2013 | 42 | 29 | 2 | - |
| He Said He Thought About Committing Suicide When I was working today in my home office, someone rang my doorbell. I wasn't expecting anybody, so I was a little surprised. When I opened the door, it was a very good friend of mine (we've done ... |
Ray Pensador | 02/05/2013 | 23 | 24 | - | - |
| Headlines: Decoding And Counteracting Mainstream Media Corporate Propaganda I've been observing, analyzing and studying corporate media propaganda in the U.S. for years now. If one were to summarize its workings, one could say that because of a confluence of interests ... |
Ray Pensador | 05/18/2013 | 28 | 25 | - | - |
| Hedge Funds Buy 200,000 Houses on The Cheap - Who Said Market Crashes Are Bad? Market crashes have always been good for the oligarchs, without fail. Thank God they don't have the incentive nor the mechanisms to orchestrate them ! Back in 06', 07', and 08' I was a small ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/22/2013 | 45 | 22 | 2 | - |
| Help Me Answer This Question: Are We Herds or Are We Intelligent Human Beings This is going to be quite short, since I've been hammering away at this topic in several previous diaries . I've been doing a lot of reading and studying about how right wing thinkers, ... |
Ray Pensador | 03/21/2013 | 37 | 17 | 1 | - |
| Herding Cats: Marshalling The Power of Social Justice Activists The odious right wing is marching in lockstep, displaying an incredible high degree of discipline, focus, unity of purpose, vision, and strategy, just like former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. ... |
Ray Pensador | 04/26/2013 | 14 | 12 | 1 | - |
| Here's How Michele Bachmann Wins The Presidency in 2012 Remember George W. Bush? A mediocre buffoon who plunged the country into illegal wars, presided over the dismantling of U.S. constitutional protections, and the use of torture, and the day-light ... |
Ray Pensador | 06/28/2011 | 80 | 23 | 3 | 465 |
| Here's how to deal with the Republican party... You don't. The Republican party and its ancillary minions, including the teabaggers, the neo-nazis, |
Ray Pensador | 09/20/2011 | 18 | 10 | - | 110 |
| Here's What a True Progressive Movement Would Look Like I often criticize some elements of the left and the progressives for obsessing about anything Republican. What animates that criticism is that I see the phenomena as the result of the effects of ... |
Ray Pensador | 04/10/2012 | 24 | 20 | - | 184 |
| Here's What Happens if The Debt Ceiling Isn't Raised And We Default As you watch the current situation unfold, regarding the continuing resolution to fund the government and the upcoming debt ceiling debate, I'd ask you to think about this possible scenario based in ... |
Ray Pensador | 10/04/2013 | 47 | 21 | - | - |
| Here's What I Would Do If I Was A Billionaire, Like The Koch Brothers
The New York Times recently published an exposé about the role Koch brothers are playing in the dismantling of our democracy: " A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning ." They have ... |
Ray Pensador | 10/08/2013 | 16 | 14 | 2 | - |
| Here's Why I Have Little Interest in What Republicans Do... This argument is highly (some may say, extremely) simplified, but I'm going to use it to make a point I think needs to be made...
We have a ruling class (I guess the .05 or .01 percent at the top). |
Ray Pensador | 06/02/2013 | 281 | 232 | 4 | - |
| Here's Why The NSA Illegal And Unconstitutional Spying Should Worry You
THE DAY WE FIGHT BACK
Let's stipulate that one important function of the massive military industrial complex and national security apparatus (security state) in the United States is the ... |
Ray Pensador | 02/07/2014 | 70 | 38 | 1 | - |
| Hippies Can't Lead A Revolution Alone - Thoughts On The Occupy Wall Street Protest I've been monitoring the "Occupy Wall Street" protest since it started last Saturday. I also stopped by the protest in San Francisco a couple of days ago. And just like at many other protests I've ... |
Ray Pensador | 09/23/2011 | 48 | 30 | - | 293 |
| History Will Judge Complicit Enablers Harshly I just read an impassioned (angry, filled with righteous outrage) comment posted in a recent diary which prompted me to write this commentary. The comment was precipitated by the effects of ... |
Ray Pensador | 02/27/2014 | 286 | 52 | - | - |
| History's Actors vs. Passive Observers Let me set the stage for this essay by revealing my worldview when it comes to dealing with bad-faith actors: The exercise of power with the intent of total annihilation of the antagonist in a ... |
Ray Pensador | 10/08/2013 | 210 | 11 | - | - |
| Hitting Back: Launching PsyOps Against Regulatory Agencies on The Take We all continue to get outraged about the increasingly bold examples of influence-peddling corruption that have infected every single federal regulatory agency in the country. Now they don't even ... |
Ray Pensador | 03/12/2013 | 11 | 25 | - | - |
| Hitting Wall Street's "Bulls-eye" - My Demands If I were to play "comandante" of the revolution, here's how I would roll... I would make four demands fully expecting for them to be met--or else. I would command the members of the nationwide ... |
Ray Pensador | 10/04/2011 | 13 | 13 | 1 | 111 |
| Hook, Line, And Sinker - Selling The Bogus War on Syria Sometimes some people get upset with me when I point out that the U.S. corporate media is a massive (and eerily effective) propaganda machine. The main objection to this observation is that I'm ... |
Ray Pensador | 09/02/2013 | 622 | 214 | 6 | - |
| How About a T-shirt? Email from Obama Campaign - Here's My Response I received an email from Juliana Smoot from the Obama for America 2012 campaign this morning. The email starts like this: "We just launched our full 2012 campaign online store, where you can pick ... |
Ray Pensador | 06/22/2011 | 31 | 18 | 2 | 221 |
| How Billionaires-Funded Propaganda is Unraveling The Country I don't know if it's because of my many years of sales, advertising and marketing (both at corporate and small-business levels), but when I try to get the concept across to liberals that even the ... |
Ray Pensador | 02/25/2013 | 179 | 298 | 13 | - |
| How Come Some People Understand What's Happening And Others Don't Earlier today I read a diary that inspired me to write about this topic. I thought it was a perfect case study as it related to a topic I've been focusing on for many years now: Exactly how is it ... |
Ray Pensador | 07/02/2013 | 647 | 414 | 27 | - |
| How Dishonesty, Opportunism, And Lack of Ethics Perpetuates Political Dysfunction I had what may be considered by some an unusual upbringing. In my formative years, before I reached the age of 18, I was exposed to two very different environments: In one, poverty, violence, and ... |
Ray Pensador | 09/28/2013 | 32 | 30 | - | - |
| How I Got Rid Of Trolls! Well, let me acknowledge that because of the nature of online blogging, one can't get rid of trolls one hundred percent of the time, but there is definitely a fireproof way to ameliorate their ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/10/2013 | 632 | 34 | - | - |
| How JPMorgan, ALEC & The Koch Brothers Are Helping Turn Police Forces Into Corporate Goons On May 20th, The Center for Media and Democracy released a report containing the results of a year-long investigation about how national security agencies and corporate America have set up a public-... |
Ray Pensador | 05/21/2013 | 13 | 21 | - | - |
| How The Corporate-Controlled For Profit NSA Endangers The American People Don't get me wrong, I'm fully aware that when it comes down to national security, any government would be remiss if highly secret and clandestine operations were not part of the mix when it comes to ... |
Ray Pensador | 06/24/2013 | 12 | 22 | - | - |
| How The Middle Class Enables Police Brutality And The Rise of Fascism It's impossible for a fascistic police state to consolidate power without the approval and acquiescence of a ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/17/2011 | 60 | 29 | 1 | 267 |
| How The News Media is Preventing You From Taking Meaningful ACTION You are being jerked around. Your energy and attention are being purposely diverted to meaningless issues to keep you from realizing what's really going on. If you watch TV news on a daily basis, ... |
Ray Pensador | 03/01/2013 | 17 | 21 | - | - |
| How The U.S. Corporatist Junta Will Use The NSA-Collected Phone Records In this meta argument, I'm going to leapfrog to what I believe is the final application of the scandalous and unconstitutional NSA phone records collection program. I'm not exactly sure why all of ... |
Ray Pensador | 06/06/2013 | 28 | 23 | - | - |
| How The U.S. Media Distorts Reality: The Effect it Has on YOU Years ago I made a resolution not to let the latest headlines of the day distract my attention from the real important issues in society. I realized that the incestuous relationship between ... |
Ray Pensador | 02/23/2013 | 27 | 24 | 2 | - |
| How The Upcoming Catastrophic Financial Collapse Will Benefit The Rich Let me start by acknowledging that the theory I'm about to present is very ambitious, and thus I recognize that many readers may not agree with it. However, I'll start with the proposition that ... |
Ray Pensador | 07/12/2011 | 63 | 17 | - | 235 |
| How The Wall Street Global Racketeering Cartel Conned The World I'm not a religious person, but I think Jesus was on to something when he took on the money changers at the Temple. He accused them of "turning the Temple into a den of thieves through their ... |
Ray Pensador | 06/18/2013 | 35 | 27 | 2 | - |
| How To Break Free Of U.S. Media Mental Shackles It gives me the creeps! The control the corporate-owned media has over the vast majorities of Americans almost falls into the domain of science fiction. I'm not going to venture into speculating ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/20/2012 | 20 | 15 | - | - |
| How To Deal With a Rigged System: Create Your Own We all know that the system is rigged. Because of corruption caused by cartels made up of moneyed individuals (Koch brothers, etc.), corporatist organizations (ALEC, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, NRA, ... |
Ray Pensador | 05/08/2013 | 7 | 22 | 2 | - |
| How To Prepare For When The Right Wing Fascists Come After You Fascism is creeping in. Slowly, but surely, as it typically does in every country and in every era when it has taken hold. And in very similar fashion. This time it's being driven by the ... |
Ray Pensador | 08/31/2011 | 71 | 14 | - | 335 |
| How To Shut Down a City Without Going to Jail Dissent is in the air. Many, many groups around the country are gearing up to engage in constitutionally protected protests against the criminal oligarchy that has taken over the levers of power.
... |
Ray Pensador | 05/22/2013 | 109 | 22 | 1 | - |
| How to win every argument with a so-called conservative One of my favorite pastimes for many years now is engaging in debate or argumentation with so-called conservatives. Usually, the most bat-shit crazy and extreme they are, the more I enjoy it. I've ... |
Ray Pensador | 01/08/2012 | 229 | 277 | 24 | 2778 |
| How Wall Street And The IMF Manipulate The World Economy The current international financial sector ... |
Ray Pensador | 09/22/2011 | 36 | 8 | 1 | 242 |
| Humanism: Reclaiming The Commons It's about 11:05 A.M. here in the San Francisco Bay Area as I write this. It's a beautiful day, with blue skies, and a cool 55° F. My wife and I just came back from one of our favorite places we ... |
Ray Pensador | 03/09/2013 | 12 | 28 | 2 | - |
| I Am Thankful To Every Member of The Occupy Movement The truly patriotic, selfless, and brave actions of every member of the Occupy Movement, whether he ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/24/2011 | 33 | 97 | 1 | 267 |
| I Figured It Out! Creeping Fascism In The U.S., And How It Happens Ignorance. Fear. Greed. Selfishness. In that order, those are the reasons that explain the phenomena of creeping fascism. And this of course applies to the nascent fascism in the United States ... |
Ray Pensador | 08/26/2011 | 23 | 10 | - | 163 |
| I Figured it Out! Why Americans Haven't Revolted Yet This morning I was having a little breakfast with my wife at home. Some coffee, some fruit (strawberries, oranges, water melon), toast, and orange juice. Nothing fancy. As I do every morning, I ... |
Ray Pensador | 06/29/2011 | 52 | 37 | 5 | 482 |
| I Just Published My First Diary at REDSTATE I'm not sure how things work over there, but I'm looking forward to the comments of typical redstate visitors.
Here it is: |
Ray Pensador | 01/23/2012 | 114 | 27 | 1 | 677 |
| I Knew This Day Would Come: The Corporate State Audacious Putsch Tonight I read a very good article in The New York Times about how a myriad of Koch brothers-funded front groups and think tanks have been planning on forcing a so-called budget crisis for months: " ... |
Ray Pensador | 10/07/2013 | 44 | 35 | - | - |
| I Take MY Hat Off To The NRA, ALEC, And The Right Wing Machine I'm a "Les Misérables" fan. I've seen the play live quite a few times, and watched the 25th Anniversary Special countless times... Yesterday, Christmas day, I went to see the movie. Despite some ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/26/2012 | 25 | 18 | 1 | - |
| I Told You So: Now, Can We Finally Rise Up? People, they don't give a shit! We are not dealing with decent, normal actors here. When one says that the government has been taken over by Wall Street and corporatists cartels, that's not some ... |
Ray Pensador | 04/10/2013 | 71 | 19 | - | - |
| I Went to McDonald's Yesterday - What I Wanted Wasn't in The Menu Yet
What I really want to see in McDonald's menu is a super-size wage increase for the woefully underpaid hardworking people it employees. I stopped by yesterday at the McDonald's in downtown ... |
Ray Pensador | 12/06/2013 | 30 | 23 | - | - |
| I'm "Afraid" We May Be Heading Into A REAL Revolution - I Don't See Any Other Outcome Many of us have been warning about this day for years. We knew that the "system" was becoming increasingly corrupt and oppressive, and that by giving the State unprecedented powers to curtail ... |
Ray Pensador | 10/12/2011 | 251 | 40 | - | 1140 |
| I'm looking for Che Guevara... I'm looking for Che Guevara. I'm also looking for Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Gandhi, Frederick Douglass, Malcom X, Mario Savio, Genevieve Clark, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and William Lloyd ... |
Ray Pensador | 03/03/2013 | 41 | 12 | - | - |
| I'm Spending The Biggest Shopping Day of The Year at Walmart!
I'm really looking forward to Black Friday! You see, this year I feel that both, Thanksgiving Thursday, and what has come to be known as "Black Friday," are going to be days of sharing, of ... |
Ray Pensador | 11/20/2013 | 96 | 139 | 3 | - |
| If The OccupyTheNation Movement Spreads Expect a Crackdown There is a movement afoot. It's a rapidly-spreading resistance movement against an international criminal oligarchy that's hell-bent on subjugating and exploiting the citizens of the Western world ... |
Ray Pensador | 09/29/2011 | 36 | 26 | 3 | 335 |
| Ignore the Rec List to Get The Most Value Out of Daily Kos Don't get me wrong; I think we can all agree that as diarists or writers or bloggers, the main reason we ... |
Ray Pensador | 08/15/2011 | 79 | 49 | 1 | 367 |
| Induced Alienation A large segment of the population is stressed as a direct result of creeping economic insecurity caused by policies specifically designed to extract the maximum level of productivity from the labor ... |
Ray Pensador | 03/12/2013 | 29 | 18 | 1 | - |
| Invitation To Respectful And Honest Discussion Between Party Loyalists And Progressives There are a lot of passionate writers here at Daily Kos. Sometimes, depending on the topic on any given discussion, those passions may run very high. I'm aware that lately, because of the ... |
Ray Pensador | 06/11/2013 | 58 | 25 | 1 | - |