Open Thread
It is with great sadness that we extend our condolences to the family and friends of Lynn Allen, who lost her battle with ovarian cancer. Lynn was a member of the North West Progressive Advocates and a giant in the Northwest blogging community.
Words that come to mind when I think of Lynn include considerate, compassionate, caring, helpful, hospitable, unselfish, and trustworthy.
Lynn represented the best of us. She was passionate about improving the human condition, as we all are. Particularly late in her life, she chose to focus on outreach to rural communities, and spent many long hours on the road driving between farms and gathering places in Eastern Washington.
She was deeply interested in helping netroots activists learn offline organizing techniques, and helping veteran grassroots activists master new technologies. Building stronger ties between the grassroots and the netroots was a favorite topic that we touched on in our many conversations.
So we dedicate this open thread to the memory and spirit of Lynn Allen and we ask that in her honor, you make some small gesture towards improving the human condition. To that end, may we suggest standing up for American workers at one of the solidarity events held this weekend in all 50 states through MoveOn or USuncut?
For Libya
"Use your modem to dial +31205350535
username: xs4all
password: xs4all"
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(I would say, send black faxes to Gaddafi but i do not know his number and i'm sure that Pizzas do not arrive.)
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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"Bless me father for i have sinned. Those crimes that i committed, well, i did 'em again. Empty my soul to empower yours. Lead me blind down the path to salvation's doors."
Weird isn't it that i do not even remember how to use dial up. And i'm an old school BBS user. Wait, you have to put a number....where? er.....
:)
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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"Bless me father for i have sinned. Those crimes that i committed, well, i did 'em again. Empty my soul to empower yours. Lead me blind down the path to salvation's doors."
see my Facebook page, but I tried. :P
I've never seen change without a fire
Cool, thanks. It's about spreading the info. Maybe someone reads it and share it with others. You never know. It's something i care a lot about.
:D
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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"Bless me father for i have sinned. Those crimes that i committed, well, i did 'em again. Empty my soul to empower yours. Lead me blind down the path to salvation's doors."
phone bill charged $12 bucks.
I can come up with a couple numbers.
have been getting phone calls from Egypt. I cried, and my eyes are getting misty now just thinking of it!
I've never seen change without a fire
Planned Parenthood story and who called women who have unplanned pregnancies weak-minded:
Ugh. Absolutely disgusting and despicable. People like you do everything in their power to STOP women from preventing their pregnancies, and then people like you turn around and call these poor women "weak minded" and blame them for YOUR treachery. I mean hello, what the fuck, Planned Parenthood gives women access to contraception so that they never get pregnant to begin with! And your asshats in Congress want to defund Planned Parenthood so that women will have even less chance of not getting pregnant and the likely probability that they will have many more abortions!
Seriously, the sanctimony is nauseating, enough already. No one here believes you give a shit about living, breathing babies at all. The misogyny though is breathtaking.
I've never seen change without a fire
He was a late eighteenth century English economist and his theory was that poor people deserve to be poor. After all, they have no self-control, having all those babies.
"Courtesy is owed. Respect is earned. Love is given." --Unknown author, found in Guide to Texas Etiquette by Kinky Friedman
Stand Up For Democracy - We ARE The FrontLine!
Vermonters Supporting Wisconsin Workers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLGrGtRtqgE
Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
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How's things everyone? I'm back. (Thailand was lovely, thank you).
It looks like same old, same old? Everyone OK? Has Obama turned you socialist yet? Communist? Fascist? Or is it still good old American-style capitalism? I haven't followed any news. None.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
Lucky you, but you've missed a lot of stuff in the Middle East, and things are threatening to get crazy in Wisconsin, etc.
I've never seen change without a fire
Welcome home (from thousands of miles away)
Corruption favors the wealthy.
Thanks. Back to school next Wednesday-- egad! ;^)
I saw some stuff about Egypt and I see Libya is in turmoil now. Wisconsin? I don't know about there, but I see the name in the news.
I had a ticket to Siem Reap, Cambodia (Angkor Wat) and had to change it to Laos because the Thais and Cambodians were fighting. I still don't know about what. (There's no TV, or news, at the beach I go to.) I just didn't want to go anywhere they are shooting bullets. (Laos was divine, thank you!)
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
and the Libyans want to get rid of Gaddafi too so they're protesting, but he is literally threatening the slaughter of his people so he can stay in power. The Thais and Cambodians are fighting over a sacred temple, I think, and ironically they've destroyed parts of the temple with the shooting. The Wisconsin folks are protesting their governor's attempt to abolish their rights to collective bargaining with their unions.
I've never seen change without a fire
Same shit, new players?
"Can't we all just get along?" (Peggy Noonan 1950~___ ).
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
Poor guy :P We got about fifty feet of snow in Chicago a few weeks back.
For a good catch-up on things, try reading the C&L posts of February 23 which begin on this page about 2/3 the way down. It's not necessarily a summary, but it's one of the best full day's of posting I've ever read at this site.
Of course, as you know, you can always click on Tequila's handle, go to his user page, and read a few of his nightly round-ups. It's what I do when I've been out of it for a while (Thanks, Tequila).
Corruption favors the wealthy.
Not much going on here. Losing/lost a couple of dictators in the ME, ours are still doing book tours and shaping policy...
Hope all is well there.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Glad you enjoyed your vacation. How's things? Fraught would be the word I'd choose to describe the world just now.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
Yup.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
Here's the best recounting I've seen of the "social network revolution" that is sweeping the Middle East. Careful planning on Facebook and Twitter brought out the crowds, coordinated events. And when the governments of Tunisia and then Egypt shut down cellular service and the internet for the people, international hack-tivists named Anonymous shut down the websites of the governments of Tunisia and Egypt, which then relented and re-opened the net and cell phone service. There were endless heroics on the streets of course but without the social networking tools of Facebook and Twitter, and the hack-tivist work of Anonymous, none of the uprisings would have happened.
Empire - The Network Revolution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QNNbCBFUik
Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
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I must be psychic.....
I was reading all the comments and I thought, "Gee....I haven't seen anything from Edwin for a while. Hope he's okay..."
And then there you were!!!
As to what Obama's up to, here's something that made me snap my neck around like Linda Blair in "The Exorcist". Apparently he's batting around the idea that making the Iranian terrorist organization MEK (the one certain Republicans just LOVE!!) legit would help speed up "the revolution" in that bad ol' Iran:
http://blogs.reuters.com/bernddebusmann/2011/...
And here's the skivvy on "MEK":
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/03/leading...
What is with that wascally Obama??!! Now he wants Hillary cavorting with Republicans and their terrorist buddies??!!
Oh well. I guess if he's willing to put up with the United States being behind the literal SCOURGE of millions of little children being orphans in Iraq, who cares about the U.S. hobnobbing with terrorists?!:
http://www.uruknet.info/?new=75324
I don't know if Lynn Allen was aware of the news that the U.S., Rumsfeld (who is out doing the talk show circuit with his book and eating steak at posh restaurants), both Bush ex-presidents, who are responsible for the immense suffering of all these MILLIONS of children in Iraq, but I am quite certain that she would have wanted all of us to be screaming off the rooftops that we find this situation deplorable, unconscionable and CRIMINAL.
Welcome back to C&L Edwin!!!
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
Kidding. I'm hate reading and typing at the same time and appreciate the thought.
But a summary would be cool - or even better, a link to your new space.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
man and couldn't find much time. But I'm going to get that typed up right now while I listen to the Professional Left podcast. :P
And wish me luck that I don't wind up deliberately blinding myself, the newspaper's spelling and grammar is awful. I've even considered going to the office and seeing if they will hire me as a copy editor because the typos make me bonkers.
I've never seen change without a fire
It was in answer to a question, but the STS vs. STO discussion at the end really explains a lot. Be informed that Dragon was involved in UFO studies and groups nearly fifty years ago.
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Iluminati. The only mention I know of in history traces it back to Adam Weishaupt and the story line is that it was disbanded.
The general consensus of opinion is that it is still alive and is THE ruling power over the world. So whatever evil is going on, plots against the people, things like that, it is blamed on the Illuminati. It is a handy handle that everyone uses. And it is sufficient for today's work.
It is difficult for me to believe that suddenly out of nowhere up pops this small group of German plotters who somehow manage to obtain enormous, even controlling, power over the world. After being discovered and disbanded.
I think that this Illuminati is a manifestation of a hidden, darker, power. This is the self-identity they use now. The name changes to fit the zeitgeist, I suppose. The force, the Dark Force that created the group of plotters, was already in existence for decades, perhaps millenia, before those days in Germany.
I have been convinced for a number of years that the top of the Illuminati pyramid is off world. In other writings at other times I have made what I think is a good case for that. An historical overview that covers all of recorded history reveals that there has always been a struggle for power, and the struggle is basically between the good guys and the bad guys. Good guys have been losing.
Earth is contested territory. The off-worlders desire to have total control of this planet and its resources. Its people are part of its resources. World control is described as a New World Order and we all know who are the major players in that game; CFR, Bilderbergers, etc. They are not the top of the pyramid, though. They are the ones who are tasked with the job of executing orders from higher up.
Peel away all the distractions of factions and politics and race and other things that unite and divide and define people and you will see that the drama being played out here is Star Wars, writ large.
It is a struggle between the Forces of Light and the Forces of Darkness.
Expressed another way, it is a struggle between STO vs. STS. Service to Others as opposed to Service to Self.
STS would be guys like Cheney and Bush, and organizations such as the CFR and Bilderbergers, to name only two.
The STS group would love to have us all self-identify with distracting labels of race, region, ethnicity, political ideologies, religion and other organizations or belief systems that compete for our allegiance.
The way to sort them out is to determine which side of that equation does this or that group belong? Ask yourself whether a political or social or religious group is STS or STO? That should not be difficult. Once you know that a person or a group or an idea is STS, then the thing to do is walk away from it and look for the STO person or group or idea.
We are living in a Star Wars drama. If you feel that you have a bit of Luke Skywalker in you and want to do something for the cause, write to me and I'll get you started. Or think of some way on your own.
Dragon
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We do this work. Interested? --MaryK
"Courtesy is owed. Respect is earned. Love is given." --Unknown author, found in Guide to Texas Etiquette by Kinky Friedman
Scientology.
like David Icke.
Oh, and welcome back, Edwin.
If a drone kills a child in Kandahar, do the crying parents make a sound?
My sister lives in eastern Washington and tells me it's pretty much a dumping ground of white power asshats. Hopefully she reached those who needed assistance and found fulfillment in doing so. Such a long, long time to be gone and a short time to be there. Peace.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
investigate Police brutality at the G20. One guy, in his 50s with a prosthetic leg got dragged all over hell for not getting up off the ground at a moment's notice, and one of the asshole cops pulled his leg off and he got arrested. He ended up being in a wheelchair because his leg went missing. A paralysed guy got arrested for just going from point A to point B in his motorised wheelchair.
They injured people badly and made no move to get them medical help.
They arrested about 200 who were just out, not demonstrating and got corralled in a gauntlet.
People got the shit beat out of them for just being there. The cops big problem--they lied like rugs about it and there's so much video on it from cell phones and flipcams, their being shown as big fucking overreacting liars.
me-oww!
Time for molotov cocktails. The c*nts are asking for it. No more mr nice guy.
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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"Bless me father for i have sinned. Those crimes that i committed, well, i did 'em again. Empty my soul to empower yours. Lead me blind down the path to salvation's doors."
:)
Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
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Maybe Canada is every bit as Nazi as 'Merka. (I doubt it, but... )
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
and it just gets worse. The cops went around certain parts of Toronto, and lines of them would go down streets, nowhere near the G20, pushing people into groups. What would happen, is they would meet up w/ other lines of cops that had done the same on other streets that met in their intersection, and arrest all people.
They were arresting people on a breach of peace, which allows them to hold people they think will cause a problem for 24 hours whether charges are laid or not. They strip searched the women, didn't feed people or give them water, used tear gas and rubber bullets on people who protested the detentions.
Officers removed their identity tags. Overcrowded cells. Told them they had no rights, they were under marshal law.
One guy, whose arm they broke and shoulder they dislocated and had cuffed behind his back for hours had charges laid (he was just walking by) obstructing a police officer and resisting arrest. The one legged guy got only his leg and driver's license back. He was told to take a bus home. "Where's my wallet? Where's my glasses. Where's my walking sticks?" "The driver should let you on the bus for free" "Where's my glasses? I can't see the bus." The dick relented and got him a cruiser to take him home. This was after over 24 hours detention.
Asshole police force said We didn't do anything wrong. They have "Free Speech Zones" in Canada now
me-oww!
http://abolishthecops.wordpress.com/2011/02/1...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Toronto's chief of police backpedaling ferociously. Much embarrassing material regarding certain police officers has come out. Particularly with regard to Mr. Nobody. It's been very interesting.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
these people are damaged forever. The guy with the broken arm will only get about 80% range back. He WAS a waiter. The one-legged guy is still unable to work. One cop has been charged with a crime, more are under investigation. One guy, caught in one of those 'kettles' (where the lines force people into the intersection) is suing. He can't see a cop without getting sick to his stomach, wondering if it's one of the creeps that laid a beating on him.
And I have been watching that guy back pedal, after the big denials.
One guy was told by friends "you should have stayed at home."
me-oww!
that the Official Mountie Handbook on crowd control says that "kettling" is never done. It's right there in black and white. Too bad literacy is not a prime requisite for their recruits. Still I'm grateful nobody got killed. I'm quite pleased that this is getting a public airing. Bless the CBC.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
a minimum of a Bachelors Degree in Sociology/Psychology.
That way they would all be "discussing" things with criminals, protesters, people high out of their minds on glue etc. instead of banging their heads in with batons, killing them and other Neanderthal-ish type ("what's a GED?!") behaviors.
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
And, a How Not To Be Assholes course.
(It's probably more cost efficient, and macho, to split open skulls than talk to someone.)
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
I was afraid there wasn't one. I gotta say though: You had me hanging on your every word.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
Wow my IP is being allowed to watch it.
me-oww!
And this is infuriating.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
wearing black clothes. Because the property damagers wore black.
me-oww!
There's cops a 1/2 block away watching the "vandals" and doing nothing. They show up later and attack people they don't see doing anything.
It smells of agents provocateur. If it were in Chicago, I'd say there was little doubt.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
the vandals were 3 blocks away. Reporters were telling the cops and showing them playbacks of what was going on, but the Seattle cops wanted to shoot fish in a barrel. They blew off the reporters who were reporting crimes in progress and they tear gassed and pepper sprayed the peaceful sit down protesters. They instigated the riots in Seattle, and G20 looks the same to me. Same tactics. You have your fake free speech zones, your fake anarchists, your jacked up cops all pumped up because they're in riot drag and the pep talks they've been getting for month leading up to the event, and the peaceful protesters, residents, workers and lookie loos are the scapegoats and targets for the cops, for the big arrest numbers.
me-oww!
I might of missed it going back and forth between tabs. Were they dreaming violently?
Corruption favors the wealthy.
but they never said. They were charged with 'conspiracy' for 4 months until charges were dropped due to no warrant.
me-oww!
I also heard the Chief thug call the whole matter "unfortunate." Eight months later and they're still "investigating." With all that video, they're still investigating?
I'm wondering why they don't just grab cops at random and arrest them. Or do they think that would be unfair?
Aaaargh!. Infuriating.
At the bottom of her links page at nakedcapitalism, Yves Smith always posts a picture she calls her "Antidote Du Jour." I could use one now and thought I'd share. This one is my recent favorite.
Thanks again for the link miss_kitty.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
a baby and a mama wolf. That is an antidote!
me-oww!
G20 officer admitted targeting Quebecers: student
me-oww!
Thanks again.
"Street type weaponry"? In their pajamas?
Corruption favors the wealthy.
after the fact. Like the whole idea of strip searching is to prevent stuff from getting in. If you wait 20 hours, it's no longer procedure. It's unquestionably perverse and meant only to humiliate.
And if you're roused from your sleep, were you expecting jail and crammed a bunch of necessities up inside you just in case?
Nearly 100 Toronto officers to be disciplined over G20 summit conduct
and
me-oww!
I just sent the Toronto Chief of Police an e-mail. I told him I am ashamed to be Canadian and as he failed to serve and protect (their motto) citizens, he ought to resign.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
You poo-pooed all our outcries over the behavior of the police at the time. I posted RealNews interviews with victims, and you refused to take them seriously.
They were way brutal, as you are now apparently admitting yourself. And not just brutal, brutal by design, by command. The cops were told what they were doing was legal by persons who knew better. This was all documented at the time.
Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
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The vast majority of the officers did behave responsibly. Some did not. That could easily have be said of the protesters as well. Should the police have just left those who wished to engage in vandalism and riot free reign? Obviously not. The officers who stepped over the line are being called to account by public pressure and that is as it should be. The main problems were the result of poor command decisions and individual officers. The biggest problems were because they failed to follow their own guidelines. If you think it appropriate to damn the entire force go to it. If you think all police officers are stormtroopers go tell it to the police officers in Wisconsin who are supporting the union movement there. Maybe you think they're like coal miners, noble hard working men when they die underground and evil reactionaries when outsiders want to shut down their coal mine and they object. What's the memo say this week? Everything is so simple for you isn't it?
Hasa Diga Eebowai
Did you see the vast majority? Or is that just an assumption that we are required to make of police officers?
I'm thinking that a "responsible" police officer has an obligation to arrest those he sees assaulting people. Did any of these "responsible" police officers arrest any of the thugs?
Corruption favors the wealthy.
Not to mention it's very apparent the orders for their behaviour came from ABOVE.
"If you think it appropriate to damn the entire force go to it." I'll happily condemn Toronto cops. Ezpz. This didn't happen because of a few bad cops and it didn't happen on it's own, in isolation. The good cops are as guilty as the bad cops and also deserve to be punished: they can't just turn a blind eye to other cops breaking the law. Their job is to uphold the law, not make it up as they go along. The police violence was probably planned out for weeks in advance!! To sum up-- fuck Toronto cops.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
. . . in the portion of the piece I just watched?
There are lines of cops approaching a group of people. One line driving the people toward the others. Each line of cops is ordering people to go the other way knowing there is no where for the people to go but into the other line of thugs. There is no way out, and every cop there knows it. The people are all peaceful and every cop knows it.
Fuck Toronto cops.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
they're pretty disgusted with the Toronto police, with the exception of one or two troll that think the CBC should be shut down for showing such a one sided POS and the people who think the complainers should go live in Libya, and the suburban trolls who aren't aware of people living downtown.
me-oww!
Ha ha ha, suburban trolls. I hate the suburbs. Yech!
**(I'd rather live in Libya than the suburbs.)
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
Many many police misbehaved. GROUPS of police, mobs, gangs of cops terrorised people that were doing nothing. They beat them, told them they had no rights and made concentration camp jokes at them. Strip searched women 20 hours after their arrest. They went after peaceful protesters because some vandals had caused a ruck. Same thing happened in Seattle's WTO. The fake anarchists were kicking it over on 2nd and 3rd avenues, so the cops went up to 6th avenue and started beating on the sitting down people. In both places, downtown residents and people who worked in town were arrested for being there. In both places cops covered up their identities.
me-oww!
I've seen/met enough bad cops in my life (worldwide) to know that I don't trust any of them. I have never been arrested, or charged with anything, but I have been harassed (plenty of times). Stick a badge on someone... (they change)
Stick a badge on someone, basically grant them immunity from the law, give them their toys (guns, tasers, pepper spray, batons, cuffs, etc.), juice them up with pep talks and, behold, you get a stew of thugs and miscreants with he-man power hard-ons.
"If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
Assange offered chance to appear as well, even if just via Skype.
It's always gotta be about you, don't it, georgie...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
And they say Americans have no appreciation for irony.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
Assange has done nothing to the USA compared with the bu$h
crime familyRobber Barons."If the US government enforced its banking laws like it did its park regulations, we wouldn't be
in this damn park in the first place." OCCUPY.!!
George W. Bush willfully and repeatedly did great harm to the interests of the United States.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
There is something strange about this Bush News. The AP story is being picked up in a lot of places,
but the reporter, Sheila Kumar doesn't seem to have much of a history and the organization Bush was to address. There was almost no mention of the event in advance in Denver or Bush's plans to come.
TFR
Unfortunately I won't be able to attend any of the rallies because I'm rarely able to travel. I only get to my nearest city every few months, and I only get to the major California cities once every few years. I haven't been to Los Angeles (and I have family there and wish I could be there more often) since 2004, for example.
I do have money, and even though I hate the idea of just throwing around money, so since travelling to a rally is out of the question for me, I will happily donate a little something to whatever would be a good organization or charity to do so.
I've never seen change without a fire
synopsis tomorrow, maybe.
"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master." - Hunter S. Thompson
what ever happens, don't Breitbart me. Fuck repugs, and the crowd goes wild,, I'm laughing.
Down load it now. http://professionalleft.blogspot.com/
Had I know this podcast was going to take a turn of terror, I must acquiesce.
"No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master." - Hunter S. Thompson
Great scott, Libians. And the fucking flux capacitor is broken.
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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Pakistan arrests [another] US security contractor as rift with CIA deepens
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/25/p...
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that what's going on in Wisconsin is going to give the labor movement a real boost. They need one right now.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
You probably already know the story, but what's especially significant about this telling is that it comes from AP, not normally known for a pro-progressive agenda. Well done too.
Wisconsin Protesters Get Pizza Donations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mBJgV7wdLc
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Ovarian cancer is such a dreadful affliction because it is usually not diagnosed until it's later stages, but there is NEW hope. Dogs are now being trained to identify "Stage One" ovaian cancer specimens that could make it just as treatable as other early stage cancers. Someday, these tragedies may be far less common.
From The Guardian UK. Chock full of useful links!
UK Uncut inspires US groups to attack cuts and tax avoidance
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/feb/25/uk-u...
Workers get pay cuts.
Disabled get benefit cuts.
The rich get tax cuts.
It's time to Un-Cut their tax cuts.
:)
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Strange Little Progressive: Delano Record: Obama still wants fair immigration, Salazar says
I've never seen change without a fire
updates on the Wisconsin union protests.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc...
There's something very wonky abut that Walker character. The rest of the Wisconsin republicans are no better.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Via @mmflint , Fuck Newton thinks Obama should be impeached for respecting gay rights. Also, Walker likes trouble. And Gates thinks it's a bad idea to be doing what we're currently doing. Via @animeresearch, Scott Walker told his kind not wanted at a local WI restaurant. Via @AsianFilmFestLA , proposed NEA and NEH budget cuts. If anyone was gonna pay that kind of money for a living space, I'm sure it'd be in a city where they could actually get around on public transportation. Those who don't learn from history?
Dick Nukem. All I could think of for this story is this. Safety last. Via @tomtomorrow, I hear the Smurfs are commies, too. No shit. WI schools threaten teachers with layoffs. The amazing Crespo. And? Newt's "bi-partisan" pick for a running mate. Rage from the machine. Sign of the times: A CO beauty pageant winner gets evicted.
Meanwhile, back at the Cairo...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/25/prot...
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
You're not alone.
aww man. So now i gotta give up corn flakes too?
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Saving the world One song at a time
With friends like these...Palindrone cries over spilled milk jab. Christie thinks we need to be more "bi-partisan" about trade.
We need to give the power back to the people but first educate us because we have been dumbed down by pop culture and mainstream media
Resurrection muzak
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFtyt2MJUDE
Saving the world One song at a time
Bombing attempt forces Iraqi refinery to be shut down. I wish Rockefeller would demand the same transparency from banks he expects from NFL owners.
I never read her. And I'm sorry that I never did.
The loss of ANY Progressive or Liberal hurts us all. The crazies seem to be breeding like rabbits.
Nicole; our loss, too, it seems.
"considerate, compassionate, caring, helpful, hospitable, unselfish, and trustworthy."
These are the words you used to describe your friend and fellow progressive blogger.
Would that we could find and elect political leaders in our country who would also embody these qualities. Guess I'm just a dreamer.....
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
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