Frist! (Do they do this on this site?!?!?) Anyway: I was just going to say, it seems a bit self-defeating to lobby for the right to rebuild your own homes in sub-par materials - though I agree that a ban on wooden houses must have seemed a bit harsh! Tar-paper roofs should be definitely a no-no, however. Oh yes! Shouldn't they have lobbied rather for a bit of assistance to help them build brick houses with proper roofs?? And the same goes for New Orleans today. Instead of pork for the big businesses, there should be generous grants to home-owners and …
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That's an interesting idea, wileywitch!
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Gosh, Christopher Hayes! (Love the new board format, BTW. Much clearer!) The poting board is stll a bit "teeny", though! But I mean to say... you "progressive" New Left types just LOVE your linguistics, don't you? Must be a post-modern thing. Yes, I liked the article. But... ... couldn't we have just a bit more... well maybe in another article... you don't seem to have done much on this vital issue, of strikes... something about the actual ISSUES of the strikes, linking it to OTHER labour disputes, nationwide... ideas on how workers could actually WIN these things.. and a wider background, …
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Hey, wileywitch! Maybe you maean "house-elves"... like Dobby in Harry Potter, eh?? Maybe if we lived in a supernatural society we wouldn't have an underclass - not a human one, anyway! (Just a joke!)
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Cabdriverinchicago... you make some good points, but are too pessimistic, overall, I feel. One must not mistake pessimism for realism! People have to direct their anger, in today's society, in the right direction!! That is the important thing! Ie - upwards - and I don't mean towards God! >< Yes, I think you're right!! People in other CULTURES, not the American one, are (currently) certainworld more into mutual co-operation than the Americans are. I'm not talking about rainforest tribes either. How about the Japanese - they have MUCH more of an ethos of "co-operation". This is shown in their very pop …
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Hmm... my internet isn't working properly, otherwise it wouldn't be posting all that spelling error garbage! Never mind, I'm sure you get the gist.
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How is a cabdriver a lumpen? (Is it calculated by how regular your salary is?)
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Oh, a little conspiracy theorizing, here and there, is a good thing, cabbie! (Just as long as it doesn't go in the direction of Masons, or Lizards!)
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Garrett - no pain, no gain!! And I'm sure if they decided to cut your salary in half, you wouldn't feel just the same way. Or to take away your medical benefits. Pity disabled people (as a group) can't go on strike! A really organised left, though, maybe could organise carpools and a sort of cheap "taxi" service for the elderly, needy and disabled, in the event of a strike. THAT might be a good kind of solidarity! (And wouldn't it worry the New York Mayor types if they did!) The Wobblies would probably do it. If they had as many …
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Er - Kuya. "Bad Girls" is actually made by ITV (Independent Television) in the UK, rather than by any branch of the BBC! (I'm British, I know!) ITV shows generally have to be more commercial than those made on the BBC... or Channel 4, I think. ITV is therefore probably a little bit more like the "network" TV stations you are used to. (Still finds the time to fund interesting dramas and documentaries, though.) The ratings of "Bad Girls" isn't bad in the UK, not bad at all, it's a very popular show, as our magazines attest. (Looked for precise viewing …
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Oh, and PS. What YOU call "ratings", we call "viewing figures". Ofcom is supposed to count them but their site is crap.
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We do use those little Nielsen-type boxes though... well... apparently a ridiculously small number of households in the UK - like about 1,000? use them!
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ladydiver, I sympathize with you and your friend. And wolf is just a useless "moralizing" twerp... and he is male, as we all know!! (All we lefties and rabbitfriends on here that is!!) Wolf, go and howl somewhere else. Take your moralizings to President Bush and ask him why HE advocates the killings of innocent civilians, let ALONE terrorists... whether it is a "them or us" situation or not. Funny - how "them or us" is always seen to apply to a whole society... but rarely to its "lesser-status" individual members - such as non-elite women.
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Yeah. It has a VERY militaristic title, for such a show, though: "Commander-In-Chief"... not POTUS or... something. No wonder Condi Rice "fans" want to watch it! I don't think that an America "led" by a black, female President along the lines of Rice, though (or,maybe, by such a woman as portrayed by the above actress) would change the "show" very much. The American national show, I mean. It'd still be imperialistic, and these days, that means in a very predatory and brutal way. Still. I can see why some women are tantalized. I wish we could all ignore men! Still, if …
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You mean Gary Webb, Anarcho-Sozi. http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,938336, ,00.html#article_continue
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Hmm, how did that get there?? I meant: http://www.csun.edu/CommunicationStudies/ben/news/cia/ That's better!
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You're right there, druid!
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Wolf - we SHOULD BE THE ONES MAKING POLICY!
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Look at this bloody thing!!! (It's about another topic, the Supreme Court nomination - don't think there is a thread on that here yet!!) http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/nov2005/alit-n01.shtml Hey WOLF - why do you think the CHRISTIAN RIGHT wackos should be making policy, then, and appointing who they like to judge on policy - and not us?!
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Without right-wing "trolls", what would there be to make me giggle?
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This is a great article. Just seen it. Cheers, Lakshmi.
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-In effect, the logic of the raunch culture is eerily similar to that Christian ideal of femininity, the Surrendered Wife. Both preach empowerment through acquiescence, promising greater happiness through the fulfillment of archetypal female roles. Bush World offers women only two choices: repression or commodification.- Best paragraph! That is the crunch!!
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Hey DAVID... just as a matter of interest... with your talk about the dog forecasting walks 'n' all... have you heard of the work of the British biologist Rupert Sheldrake?!! On psychic dogs, parrots, and other subjects?? Have you visited his website - great website!! http://www.sheldrake.org/ Everybody go along there now!!
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Charming, AIN'T IT??? And what's the chances that the AMERICAN government may do this, one day - when they have a) formed a dictatorial enough government, and are able to control all our internet access, like they do in China and b) when the US government's CURRENT anti-abortion policies have been so rigorously enforced, that they result in VIRULENT over-population, and when the govt. has to do a violent about-face because of it! As they would have to. They might kill people/foetuses selectively, according to ethnic/income group. Some of their "thinktanks" already want to abort black babies. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/oct2005/benn-o03.shtml Know what I …
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Yeah, but Jay Cline is right, a bit... never thought I'd find myself agreeing with him!! We've got to do something "about" China - but what?? Of course, if China resorts to undermining all Western currency... then we would have to have military or economic retaliation against them. I just wonder how that's going to be possible, seeing as both countries have nukes?? Though? World War III... or the second Cold War?? How are we going to stop all this??? International socialist revolution, I should think. (Now here is where I DON'T agree with Jay!) The ordinary Chinese people don't make …
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Hmm, rather a reactionary song, David in Canada. And there aren't any Russians coming to get us - we bankrupted them years ago,and let their mob take over what was left.
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Jay Cline - your points on page one are particularly nonsensical, considering who the "oil-rich Muslim country" is friends with... your very own POTUS!
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Hi, Anarcho-Sozi! Meet the other worthwhile perosn on his board - me - your very own original Liz - contributor!! EmitFlesti is just trying to smash anarchists and socialists and all the Left apart, because he well knows we have several schools of thought. He'd rather lump the anarchists in with the libertarians. and stupid Randists. I tell you what *I* think. The left should have patched up its differences years ago. Let's do so NOW and then go and smash the Right!! The REAL task of today! Liz - the other socialist on this board with a twist of anarchism! …
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oops, sorry Rabbit, didn't read that - didn't know you too were one of the band!
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Brill link to home.att.net. Thanks, Rabbit!!
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JFK was rather sweet, though, wasn't he, Ghost Rabbit? He and Robert were at least dishy. As for comparisons - well it all DOES go by degree! A thing which keeps going round and round my head like mad (before you ask, I'm not a Trotskyist: I can't really be, because I believe in the supernatural!) is a little excerpt from an article published quite a while ago on the World Socialist Web site, comparing J F K's speeches, which were said to be eloquent and idealistic compared to today's "political pig grunts" (how I loved that phrase!) from George W. …
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UK, mein lieber Ossi! (I mean Anarcho-Sozi) Aus welcher Stadt stammen Sie? Darf ich bitte fragen?
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I like Gwynne Dyer's articles, Rabbit. I've bookmarked his page. Liked his one on the development of the "major" religions. Don't agree with him that Pope Ratzinger is harmless, though!!
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Good article! I love Ehrenreich's stuff. Very original thinker.
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Wolf, are YOU crazy???? What are you TALKING about - "lite" torture in Gitmo (and Abu Ghraib)!! Haven't you seen any of the pictures?? Have you seen any of the WORSE pictures? This wasn't just naked men standing on boxes (though I'd like to see how you'd like to maintain "stress positions" and to be afraid of falling with a blindfold on... AND TO HAVE ELECTRODES ATTACHED TO VARIOUS PARTS OF YOUR BODY, INCLUDING YOUR PENIS - AND TO HAVE THOSE ELECTRODES TURNED ON. They weren't kidding around with those dogs, either. They didn't just "menace" prisoners, they REALLY attacked them …
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My link didn't come out: so here it is again: http://www.antiwar.com/news/?articleid=2444 NOTE IT WELL!!
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I actually quite like the term "Moon Bat" - it seems very "poetic", to me, and my cartoonist's mind (alas, I have no cartoonist's fingers to go with it) is busy drawing happy humorous pictures (rather greeting-card style) of smiling blue-furred bats illuminated by moonlight, flying up against a pretty-looking moon... Etc. It sounds better than "moon calf", anyway, which I understand was originally a German expression, for a mad person. Where Repugs get "moon bat" from, I really don't know! (Perhaps they have a secret Illuminati spaceship which has discovered bats on the moon - in underground, atmosphere-filled caves?? Along …
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Rabbit. Isn't he sweet? He's quite grown on me. Are you a fan of Watership Down... which rabbit are you??
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No slogans! Nobody would die for a country or a flag or an idea, people die in wars thinking they are helping protect those they love. The politicians say they dies for their country. Those who survive may kid themselevs those others died for their country. Bullshit. They died believing they were defending those ideals of Rabbit’s or they died dissillusioned realising the truth. Hmm Rabbit. That reminds me of something in the Frank McCourt memoir "Angela's Ashes"... trying to remember it now... it's when the drunken patriot father "drills" his 3 boys, just as he is about to go out …
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Oh gosh! You sound like a very nice Rabbit and I hope you and your doe (I always liked the name Hyzenthlay - if I've got it right! out of the Richard Adams masterpiece....) have a very nice walk and lots of kittens. (this being the correct technical term.)
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Are you an Australian Rabbit then, or a New Zealand one.... but you talk also as if you were right in the thick of North American events... I'm not. Thankfully.
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Good point, Rabbit. (Boy this thread has GROWN since last I posted.. it's enormous!) I expect we're all "in the thick" of things now. I never used to want to say, Rab, where I came from, except that I wasn't American, because there used to be some awful, quite sinister trolls on this site... But the worst seem to have gone now - along with some of my old friends on here! OK then: I hail from the British Isles... but have no British ancestry!
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Doesn't Pat Robertson look evil, by the way? I'm gonna post that pic on a Christian blog...
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Rabbit, you're getting too excited on this thread - and don't bite people's limbs off!! Otherwise, the only rabbit you're going to end up being like is General Woundwort - a case of our becoming what we hate the most.
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Hi, Rabbit, how's yourself?? Liz is on the line again!! I don't know anything really about the controversy, 'cept I hate Pat Robertson!! And all his ilk.... Somebody's been nasty to me on another site, and I've gone off Christians anyway, even those (pretending) to be (semi)liberal; they're all hypocritical and if it's their blog or whatever, they delete your posts if they don['t like them and make out it's "spam"! And this is if they're pretending to be "liberal"! I feel sad, Rabbit. I detect you have had similar experiences... but it was even worse, family members 'n all, wasn't …
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I believe that the World Trade Center wasn't crushed to confetti "by accident" or by natural forces, either......
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And actually, this is the angriest I've ever seen the Rabbit on this forum (sorry I've been elsewhere for the past few weeks). But the World Trade Center conspiracy makes me angry too, when I read about it....
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Thanks David and Rabbit for your HTML tips. Much appreciated. Rabbit, the View - Source code particularly clever; never thought yet to try that!! You know, guys, I have sent off and read those books (usually by the non-Bushite Christians, is the only way I can think of describing them - you know, all those kind who are into conspiracies)... and the DVD... I think it might be the one advertised on conspiracyplanet.com.... it's got a free DVD about child abuse rings with it - ick! Anyway, it's very good value for money, glossy too, only cost me a few dollars …
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Hmm, I checked out that erichufschmid.net link you provided a couple of posts above, Rabbit - and I must say I was a bit over-boggled by this one! Don't know who he is but he sounds like a Neo-Nazi... for some reason, some people who hate Bush are - you'd think they'd be the best of pals! Yes - all this about "White Trash, Black Trash and Brown Trash"... what right has he got to call any group of people, or part of a nation, trash?? Nobody is trash: they are just people with fewer economic opportunities, is all. If Hufschmid …
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I wonder about the passengers, too. Maybe some of them have ended up on a sort of Witness Protection program... And they've been told they'll be assassinated if they "split".
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I used to LOVE Jim Marrs' UFO stuff, by the way, ljwhit. (And his name!) I have/had no IDEA what his politics actually are - but I always found his stuff coolly and reasonably, yet rigorously, reasoned... and informative!! Good stuff it was!! Loved his "Alien Agenda"!
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"Has Liz seen the interesting paasenger list from the Flight 77?" No - haven't got a good link - but I do know from memory that all the planes were about half-full... and that many of the people were quite important... ie were "government" people who could be resettled under new names and passports, you know?? " Very high percntage of people who would have had to have known about a lot of what was done to pull off the big day. Surprising number of people who researchers would like to talk to are on that list, if rabbit recalls correctly. …
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Ah! I didn't know "Nat the Bat" was a Dr Seuss character! I love Dr Seuss!!
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Aw - one of my comments didn't come out! I tried to post the Jones BYU link!! Try again!! http://www.911truth.org/index.php?topic=media http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/11/328670.shtml It's always good to WATCH a video clip!!
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Rabbit is Steve Pallister?? Not Hazel or Fiver?? Or the rabbit in the Japanese folk tale... the one who taught the badger a lesson?? Or the friend of Uncle Remus and nemesis of Brer Fox? Or....
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Marge - are you the same as Margaret? I miss Margaret on here.
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Scorp - SO - a second cousin of yours dying as the result of an assault gives you the justification to be a right-wing Bush apologist and general ahole?? OK - HAVE I GOT A STORY FOR YOU!! It's about my cousin - MY FIRST COUSIN, this time, in MY case! About a woman who I knew reasonably well, though only on the strength of having spent a few brief parts of holidays with her. And she died before her time as well. And I really liked her. She wasn't that much older than me - about 10, 12 years. Out …
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cont.... So, Cousin Connie - who is actually the FOCUS of my personal history lesson in amongst the historic stuff - she stayed with her job at the hospital in Weimar. To start with, everything was OK. MORE than OK; promising. She kept her job, the hospital was fine... this was all in 1990/91. She even took advantage of the opportunity to travel; the hospital sent several of their staff on short sabbaticals - and guess where she got to go! Yes, AMERICA, and Walt Disney World in Florida... to an East German that must have seemed like a dream come …
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cont.... I didn't find this out until 1992, because when I asked my mother originally, what was happening with her sister's daughter, my mother said something like: "I was afraid you'd ask - I'm sorry, she's no longer with us, she had a car crash in her old Trabant.... you know these East German cars aren't very reliable..." (I knew that "old Trabant" quite well - I had traveled in it.) Well, to start with, my mother lied to me - as was often her wont, to soften a blow. (The Trabant was innocent!) Then, when I brought the subject up …
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Scorp - Economy doing well under Republicans?? Democrats "malfeasance"? Maybe you'd just better check the respective records of Gee Dub (and his dad) and Bill Clinton. (And I'm not even a FAN of the latter!) OH, and Ronald Reagan didn't do too well either, at least not in his second term. The only thing that pulled the money out of the pockets of the stingy and greedy elite in the Depression was a World War (plenty of pork there!!) All this Republican/Libertarian talk about "free trade" is a NONSENSE nowadays in the days of globalization; and since America's manufacturing base has …
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Scorp, you really are priceless. They should put you in a zoo - (the insect house??) NO, make that a museum, for when progressives and lefties take over.... WELFARE HURTS YOUNG BLACK MOTHERS??? And I suppose being forced off it, to the tune of no money (what then? Drugs? Prostitution? Looks like it to me!!) Or this "welfare-to-work" shenanigan... EVERYBODY knows that's just a way to drive down the price of labor - and to push proper, qualified workers out of their jobs - as it did with Giuliani and the New York parks department and transport department, to name but …
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Oh, and Scorp - I've got something for you!! The only "reason" why welfare MIGHT be said to "keep people in poverty", is because it provides a TINY vestige of security, which, as rational beings (as all economists seem to believe we are!), we humans who are on it (those who are, I mean!) are loath to give up. BECAUSE... they don't know who will pay that medical bill or those food stamps if they take on the "entry-level" (turn, cough), minimum-wage crap job. ANSWER - HAVE A MINIMUM INCOME GUARANTEE - a "dole" to every family, made up out of …
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Scorp talks rubbish - I have just finished all his long and boring posts and he says that "Chairman Greenspan" (sounds like Chairman Mao!) and George Dubya "masterfully" managed the economy. 1) No they didn't; they left it with the most massive deficit in history. 2) Gee Dub can't "masterfully" manage anything; he needs Karl Rove to be his brain and stage managers to move him around, every step of the way - like in those faked "aid" posts he was filmed with during Katrina. He needs to ask Condi for permission to go to the little boys' room!! He has …
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g-love; class and race in America are inextricably linked; only in the case of a few "freaks" like Sleeza and Powell and Thomas is this not so. g-love: DIDN'T YOU SEE all those POOR OLD WHITE LADIES who were waiting, dehydrated and out of medication, in the Superdome?? Or did that pass you by, dearie? I noticed that most of the white people who were affected, including those stuck in their houses, seemed to be old. And what about the cases where nursing homes weren't evacuated and dozens were drowned - bet a lot of those were white as well. If …
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Hey, wwoods, nice to see you again! I'm missing my old friends Margaret, Lefty, Richard... (sigh). Wonder what's happened to Jack Barnes/Michael Hardesty? Yeah - and WHY are these recent threads quite FULL of Repug trolls/defenders, and a few liberals beating them back... when they SHOULD be full of EXULTANT liberals plotting the downfall of Bush on the grounds that Katrina exposed neo-conservatism and economic neo-liberalism FOR WHAT IT IS!!! Junk! Every cloud has a silver lining and Katrina should mean we get rid of Bush. Like Nero burning down Rome got rid of Nero - eventually! Well, there's no-one to …
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Yay Rabbit... (I'm going to make up a story about a Ghost Rabbit one of these days!) Emperor Bush IS a stinking sack of shit!!
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Eh, Rabbit!! I've just jumped into this thread, sorry I didn't join the conversation before... Tell us, oh lapine cousin of the divine Bugs and perhaps even the Japanese Hare in the Moon.... How can you chuck out the government in Australia?? Dig under the rabbit proof fence?? What then?? Tell us, please!!!!
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Ideal of a yeast single-cell: Infect bush with candida!
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The Rabbits/Hobbits creed... for the little people eh... sounds like grassroots (anarcho) socialism to THIS socialist!!
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I don't know wwoods, what "happened" in july... all I know is that - no actually, when I wanted to get back in at the end of the month, I found my self logged out - though I was on permanent login (though had no permanent identity) - and it was asking for one - though it hadn't been, a few days before... Anyway, I couldn't log in under my eternal identity, just "Liz", so I e-mailed the webmaster and he kindly let me have it back.... he said that yup I was the "original" liz and that someone else had …
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Oh, right, Rabbit... or should that be centre-left?? (I've just read your two end threads above mine. I checked back previously only there was no reply! Glad you liked my candida fancy!) DU... is that Democratic Underground or Depleted Uranium?? (On ITT?) Your ideals, while moderately confusing, because I don't know what One Nation is, you see... oh yes, I vaguely do, only it was headed by some dreadful silly woman who hates Abos... I'm not Australian you see, though I am "internationalist". I like the idea of the simple shiny booklet to explain our "gang's" ideals to The People. The …
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To All Libertarians, Neo-Cons, and Similarly Minded Selfish People:- Hurricane KATRINA is a lesson in point why "private initiative" and "faith-based charities" and all that nonsense DO NOT WORK and ARE NOT ADEQUATE... not in anything but the smallest of local emergencies, they're not! Bush keeps yabbering on about how people should donate to the Red Cross and Catholic Charities. THAT's not going to cover it!! It will take ages for the donations to be processed, for a start! Meanwhile, people are still starving, thirsting, dying without medicine and waiting to be rescued from the tops of homes in many areas. …
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The above two posts by rocco and sri oracle are pretty good! I wonder what will happen when the Bushie and other con-nuts find this article and board? But, you know, sri: I know a bit about HAARP and am VERY unhappy about it! But - seriously - unlike the Twin Towers thing... *would* the US spooks REALLY want to cause a hurricane in New Orleans and the lower reaches of the Mississippi? Floods always cost MILLIONS if not BILLIONS to clean up after - they had this problem writ a bit smaller when the Mississippi flooded in its higher reaches …
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Oh, and at LEAST it hit the south. Alabama and Mississippi as well as Louisiana! THAT will teach them to vote for Bush!! Or, for that matter, to trust in God.
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Ergh! Who ARE all these nutty posters on this very important thread anyway? Where are my old friends Margaret, Richard and Lefty? sri oracle - I'll willingly discuss HAARP with you and certain conspiracy theories, such as "New Orleans is sitting on oil and that's why they wanted to drive the people away", etc. Mind you, SO, according to paranormal.about.com, is California - are "they" going to depopulate that!! I REALLY don't think that this current moment is the one to propagate something as impractical as Hinduism or guruism or something... Everyone is entitled to their own religious beliefs, Gaia knows …
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Yeah, spooky shadeRabbit, I know about Haarp and chemtrails.... not really very interested in them IN THIS CONTEXT, OF THIS ARTICLE - they don't cause hurricanes and tens of thousands of deaths!! I know most every conspiracy theory going. In the 90s especially I was a paranormal nut. You can only really go crazy over chemtrails if you are a dedicated Jeff Rense nut or you go for the theories of Lyndon LaRouche or something like that.... most people who ARE like that have far-right sympathies/connections, unfortunately!! I actually DO believe that the US government had a lot to do with …
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PS. The article at the top of the board is called "Unnatural Disaster", NOT because the author thinks it had anything to do with something weird, but because the author is blaming POOR POLITICAL POLICY DECISIONS - no funding for levees, poor evacuation/disaster strategies, lack of planning, etc!! CAN someone start discussing the political issues properly?
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Oh yeah, and I must say, when I put my ORIGINAL post on here (3 posts down) I expected to be slugging it out with one or two Libertarians - not necessarily Bush-lovin' Repugs like scorp. People like the loony Michael Hardesty. Oh well, I suppose he's gone to ground. Originally, I just wanted to make the POINT that Hurricane Katrina is A CASE IN POINT, why libertarian, individualist, neo-liberal, arch-capitalist doctrines - such as those of Ayn Rand for example - DO NOT WORK. They are not adequate for the needs of a society. When it comes to everyday economic …
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WHY does this board now keep cutting out spaces between paragraphs? I'll leave two... and see!!
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Scorp, I'm not a Liberal, I'm a socialist. I don't know who on this board has an empty attic... you maybe? GhostRabbit/Rabbit - did you learn to talk from Yoda, or something?!!! COME ON, ALL SENSIBLE BLOGGERS AND BOARDERS!!! I don't want to discuss the paranormal here! I WANT TO DISCUSS THE DOWNFALL OF BUSH AND BUSHISM!
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Kaw Valley Kid - I have had this problem and notice it too... some of the "bestest" post-homes, namely the ones linked to the Industrial Injuries article, are not available...
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Ibyland - thanks for the virtual hug, reciprocated!! ;-)
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Neah, Rab, some of the pages of threads HAVE been deleted, honest.... None of the "topic" articles have been deleted, but I believe some of the pages were, when the moderator decided to make changes in August...
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Ha ha ha!! Major Major (no relation to John are you?) Never mind Fags, ex-trotskyists, OR flags - I know what will bring down BUSH!! The hand of Mother Nature herself, as expressed by KATRINA. That - and rising oil prices US-wide! BUSH HAS HAD HIS CHIPS!!! Hello Lefty, long time no see, how's tricks?? Are you SURE about Chopper? I had a talk with the webmaster at the end of July. He's changed the posting system; you have to log in properly, with e-mail and details and all... HOW possible is it for Michael Hardesty to continue as before... UNLESS …
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To Susan J Douglas - Yes, it IS, isn't it... I compared Bush's "predicament" to the Labour "winter of discontent" in Britain in 1978-9! (On another blog.) It brought down the Callaghan government and ensured that that party didn't get elected for almost another twenty years! Katrina + Cindy... Here's hoping!!
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"There are only 2 kinds of conservatives: 1) idiots, and 2) crooks" I ADORE this phrase of yours, Lefty! (It's me, Liz, I'm back, BTW.) Is it copyrighted? Can I use it too? Do hope so! I saw "Sin City", one of the main topics of the above article, and hated it. I have renamed it "Bin City" - you can use that, if you like, anyone, I haven't TMed it!! I wasn't EXPECTING to like "Sin City", because it is based on the works of a by and large extremely reactionary comic book/graphic novel writer, namely Frank Miller, as he …
Posted to Torture Fatigue
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BTW - Frank Zit - how can a piece of garbage like "Bin City" be "entertaining", I ask you? UNLESS the only sort of entertainment you are looking for is what is technically termed, I now have learned, "porno-sadism", with the emphasis on the sadism with the porn as a secondary though essential element. Isn't that JUST what they were looking for at Abu Ghraib - and enjoying every moment of it, according to the stupid grins on their asinine faces? The great representatives of a great democracy?
Posted to Torture Fatigue
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Hey guys! What do you all think about the idea of a "universal wage"... such as they were actually DISCUSSING for the whole of the U.S. in the early 70s, such as they are NOW proposing in Ireland... and such as they actually HAVE in the state of Alaska... you'd never know it if you didn't run across it because of political web-browsing, like me!! In Alaska, it's funded by the oil industry. The idea would be to tax "common resources" of a country or area - and instead of just throwing all that back in the general tax pot, or …
Posted to Class Consciousness Matters
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And Brazil's just about to do it too, and it's being suggested for Iraq.
Posted to Class Consciousness Matters
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Martin - I just noticed one of your phraselets, "Marxist comics". I wish there WERE - I'd be the one to write them! In fact, I'd LOVE to have my own comic book/CGI company. Berthold Brecht all the way - to begin with!! Much better than the neoliberal variety. Or the right-wing porno-sadism variety, which is currently what is being peddled to "fanboys", and the rest of us through certain movies...
Posted to Class Consciousness Matters
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Yay Steve! What do YOU think about the BIG, "Basic Income Guarantee", or the Alaska Permanent Fund?
Posted to Class Consciousness Matters
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Yeah, a Living Wage would be really great too, calculated according to your formula, cabdriverinchicago (that's not Steve, is it?) I know about the "working poor" in America and their need to use food pantries, which in this day and age are often drying up. It's disgraceful. Canadians and EU leading the way... I wish; it seems that the World Bank leads the way... But for combatting base-line poverty, surely this Basic Income Guarantee would be a good idea? What about starting it, by letting people on benefits earn what they can, up to a minimum income (the B.I.G. of course) …
Posted to Class Consciousness Matters
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Er, yes, Geoff... no relation to Jack or UScareMe are you? Thanks for the abebooks tip! One of the only reasons I would like to live in (urban) America for a while is that they are reputed to have a vibrant "coffeehouse culture" and lots of trendy little (individually-owned) stores and second-hand bookstores in cities such as San Francisco... otherwise known as the blue-voting archipelago I believe! "Away with the fairies", yes, hmm... As you may have seen I believe in magic and that must include fairies, but I've never seen any. Not the ethereal variety anyway!
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Is that so, wwoods? I asked you that question - and "where has all the old gang gone" on another post, one of the Katrina articles. I'm sure I've seen a Michael Hardesty post somewhere fairly recently though...
Posted to Injuries to All
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WHAT has happened to all the other pages of posting on this site, as WELL, BTW? It was at LEAST 4 pages long!!! What's going on??
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That's funny, wwoods!! I love your formatting - never in my life did I surmise there could be such a thing as satirical formatting! Thanks for the info. Wonder why lefty decided to change to leftist? I'm sure I saw a Hardesty post on something around here with an August date. He is still active on the web though - I got some sort of a link from another site, quite randomly, onto a right-wing "paleo-con" website the other day, run by Dr something or another.. the name was on the tip of my tongue but refuses to pop out!! Pretty …
Posted to Injuries to All
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I'M the only real, authorized Liz on this board - and you lot of imposters can now "put a sock in it for me" as a fairport convention song says. Specially since the webmaster has just changed the system! That should stymie you, you blaggers.
Posted to The Battle for PBS
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Thanks for the Randy Newman lyrics site recommendation, Tim! He's right you know!
Posted to The Battle for PBS
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You said it right, Margaret! Will he be able to come back and post again, under "Jack Barnes" or any of his other multiples... now that the webmaster has changed the requirements for posting, ie you have to sign on properly? Less opportunity for hundreds of multiples. Sysadmin might have banned "Jack" for that already... he sounded upset about something like that in one of his e-mails to me. I wonder if we have seen the last of "Jack"??
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John Francis Lee: With regard to your May 5 post,which I have just viewed now: I certainly DO hear what you are saying... I am not American yet I feel your problems so strongly... it's as if I were living over there now! I too am VERY interested in the direction to be taken by the Broad American Left. I do not wish it to be "2008 and Hillary" either. I believe that Americans have to work for a third party, one that most CLOSELY represents the majority - even if most of the bottom 50% of the country currently DO …
Posted to How to End the War
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You didn't but Lin obviously did... "Feminine hygiene", huh?? Another of your porn fantasies??
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How does one give anyone his address privately on these blogs?
Posted to Christian Restorationists
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Oh, *I* never got banned, "Martin", aka Michael, aka Jack.... I just left the blog for a while. I have PLENTY of Internet fora to go to and sites to attend! But as for *you*... I would await an e-mail from the webmaster. anyway, they've just changed the system. To stop dorks posting on it with multiple aliases. FYI, *I* am now the only Liz enabled to use that username on the board; the webmaster arranged it for me.
Posted to Fear, Loathing and the GOP
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It's not difficult to make judgements on Rand's work, "Lin" and "Martin", when they are so well known - as you make out - and there are so many websites concerning these works and indeed "abstracts" of them on the web. I've seen "The Fountainhead", or was it "Atlas Shrugged" acted out with little robot dolls!! On the web. Go figure!! She obviously has some very odd fans - and counter-fans. I've discovered that some of the people who profess to LIKE her are rather strange and ambivalent about her... even YOU, Michael, aren't consistenly in favour of her on the …
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