THANKS MICHELLE! It is so refreshing to read an article in "In These Times" so well informed, with information AND a perspective, that isn't such common knowledge that it is like reading one's own diary. You obviously work hard and think hard. THANKS
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marge
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Correction, many think they ARE the law, no distinction. If there is a difference, they don't want to know what it is. Legislatures are bending over backwards to give law enforcement anything they want, in an anti-crime, anti-terror, pro- crackdown fervor and won't wake up for years to what they are doing to their own rights, their kids rights, the rights of ALL.
Posted to The Battle for Fred Hampton Way
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the 1996 act was not a success. The baby bells fought competition, interconnection agreements, tooth and nail and have tried to carve out the internet. How many residential customers have much choice for local phone service, for example. Until recently, when cable started to offer it, most had none, and now have maybe just the cable company as an alternative. Even more recently, internet phone has emerged, but as a primary phone service, can be problematic. Cable necessitates bundling with cable TV. How many realize that the 1996 bill was supposed to create competition and healthy choices for local phone service, …
Posted to Untangling the Next Telecom Act
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Nice little article. I enjoyed it. Short and narrow in focus, but captured the essence of the Yale dilemma. Alito is smart, smarter than Scalia. His relationship with Yale is square, not Clarence's. When I say Alito is smart, my smart friends answer, but he has no heart and they are right.
Posted to The Three Alitos
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Frankly, I don't know how you find the energy to live Mr. V. I am 41 and can barely take it anymore. I'm drowning. What's your secret? --- P&P, Marge
Posted to Your Guess Is as Good as Mine
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I guess free market automatic justice has indicted us both, or convicted us Vikibabu. Don't count on this site to save us though. Everyone here is tenured and not getting off their asses soon for us. even if George Soros pays them to. Best wishes Viki. You too Mr. V. -- P&P Marge
Posted to Your Guess Is as Good as Mine
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Wiley, what on earth are you talking about? Contrary to be contrary is precisely all you have presented us in your post. Give me a break. Pure nonsense. Absolutely pure nonsense. You are a superstar in Plato's cave, no doubt, which gave you the nerve and confidence to parade out here with that gut hanging out. the only thing I am hanging onto kiddo, is myself. You didn't get it kiddo, you didn't get the shadows of it either
Posted to Your Guess Is as Good as Mine
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A postscript about getting off one's a--ses. We have been complaining about the tenured press here and on moveon.org and just about everywhere, and apparently, you can't take hearing those complaints except from, hey, the tenured press? Really, you owe a retraction.
Posted to Your Guess Is as Good as Mine
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They are waiting for all of you at Bellevue. And I am not a troll. I had an idea. And you all did with it what ignorant beings always do to ideas. as for the deck chairs rabbit referred to. That activity is wiley's instead of writing novels of nonsense on this board, referring to Mr. Vonnegut in the third person, as if he is not even here, you might talk to him. As is, if I were him, I wouldn't read past the first few posts. Too depressing. I would make a martini and jump out onto 2nd avenue. Marge, …
Posted to Your Guess Is as Good as Mine
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Admarshall -- How can you dump all this linux whatever garbage on the board? There is only so much space for comments and you are beyond the pale. At least Wiley thinks she/he is communicating
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admarshall, at least you have a reason. Please pardon me and post away.
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Wiley, what is wrong with you? you are making us all reach for the Rolaids.
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my god, i am the least understood person I have ever observed on this board. Wiley picked on me out of the blue, like she/he does to many posters. She is shrill, too intense, sophmoric. I simply defended my ethereal self from her opacity and density she totally misunderstood my post and insulted my intelligence. you have all conjured up all sorts of inaccurate images of me that are far more revealing of you. I apparently provided the void that suddenly gave weightlessness to your minds and out it flowed. i don't wish for attention from KV, sleep with his underwear …
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found page two of posts. All I can say, is thank you Rocco for socking it to the sophmores. Logorrhea!
Posted to Your Guess Is as Good as Mine
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"I don’t think the black imprisonment rates can be resolved without specifically addressing racism and how it is manifested in the legal system." Wileywatch, your statement caught my eye. The article's author, Muwakkil, is studying that question, according to his bio. He is studying gang members and former inmates who have become community leaders. Because such a high percentage of the prison population is black, they are a more important political voice among blacks than excons are or would be in the general population. Black politicians can't and don't ignore them. Because of this, the seeds of reform of the criminal …
Posted to Torture in the Homeland
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PS to Muwakkil -- feel free to use my ideas. I am too dangerous to ungag, and dead anyway, so have at it.
Posted to Torture in the Homeland
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Thank you Thank you Thank you. You left nothing out. This is exactly what I and others have been grousing about at the Times for years now. This is precisely it. "Times seems to take perverse delight in goading women about the alleged bankruptcy of feminism." Goading. that is exactly how it has seemed to me and others. And let's not forget the "hers" section of the magazine. My god.
Posted to The Times Disses Women
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Johnny, Don't believe for a second the Times is facing a dearth of talent and stories. The Times definitely has people at the helm deciding this is the tack to take. Don't be so clever about it. The fact is, the Times has a definite slant and this has been going on for years. They are accountable. It is unmistakable. Also, give an insider like Douglas a little credit for having a better idea than you or even I about what goes on at the Times.
Posted to The Times Disses Women
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C'mon! When did journalism equal politeness? 1. Farrakhan's church is STILL listed as hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center and I agree with that. It ain't because they just haven't happened to update that list in a while. "Traces" of racism? 2. Black leadership for the most part is incredibly sexist towards black women and no white woman is going to give up hard earned rights, regard, deference to "join" that. They can't be a part of spomething that gives them shoes smaller than the ones they are walking in now. I will stand by Black feminists to help …
Posted to Jump-Starting a Movement
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I just finished reading your bio blurb at the end of your article. You also are a fellow of Soro's Open Society groups. Well heck, that organization's journalism fellowships are all about sponsoring journalism that makes a real difference and if you think your polite stroll through political minefields is some substitute for indepth, objective hard hitting journalism, you are a sorry example. Luckily Soros has a ton of cash and can afford dozens, hundreds of misses. Keep looking Gerogie.
Posted to Jump-Starting a Movement
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I voted to filibuster. I think he is smarter than Scalia though and otherwise nothing like him, so the Scalito rhetoric really gets on my nerves.
Posted to What do you think of Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito?
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I miss the new deal. Don't look for a PBS special on Zinn's work ala the "Civil War," and similar productions. With Bush's handpicked PBS board, they cut back on NOW with Bill Moyers and accuse the network of liberal bias. Brack. Even Frontline is a tiny bit tamer. Anybody else notice that in past couple years? Sad but I hope temporary. Anyway, I miss the new deal and the notion of peace and plenty. I miss my privacy and sense of well being. I miss knowing that the courts would be more or less a solid bulwork against any serious …
Posted to The Secret History
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My other post has dissappeared. It talked about the progressive movement which was capped off by the New Deal. I suggested we read "how the other half lives," by Jacob Riis, in the 1890s. Well Scorp. The Progressive movement and the new deal expressed certain social values that Reagan and bush policies never did. Those new deal values carried on for decades. Duh, we keep talking about Bush trying to dismantle the rest of it, so you can't say it hasn't lingered. When SS goes, so goes the presence of the values of the society that created it. That's what I …
Posted to The Secret History
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Scorp, can you expound upon the issue of poverty, the disparity between rich and poor, and the middle class?
Posted to The History of a Bad Idea
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Clinton helped create the telecommunications bubble. Research telecommunications deregulation act of 1996. That act in many ways failed under clinton and continues to fail and now is partly gutted by the FCC under Bush, but it benefited some libararies, shools and business owners. Most of all, it, along with the Internet, helped trigger a huge teleom rollout that lasted years but was the first to pop, a few months before the dotcom pop.
Posted to Will History Repeat Itself?
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there are a few gaping holes you should examine Scorp. I would suggest a few things: 1. Visit Chiapas, 2. research the effects of neo-liberal economic policies (especially comparing South Korea with Haiti)and 3. think long and hard about the national security implications of outsourcing everything from manuacturing to computer communications. The globalization that is rolling out now is run by shortsighted corporate interests. It is not run by a free and autonomous US Congress, but one bought and sold thanks to campaign finances. If the corporate dominence of this trend weren't so great, I would be less wary of globilization. …
Posted to Will History Repeat Itself?
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Along with "Nickle and Dimed" suggested by whatheheck, and since we have come full circle and are talking about the New Deal: "How the Other Half Lives," by Jacob Riis. Published in 1890. The book that helped spark the Progessive movement, which was capped off with the New Deal. Maybe this is a good time to examine the head waters of the New Deal, and read both books to gain perspective.
Posted to Will History Repeat Itself?
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I think we so glibly accept the government's response that Homeland Security has been focused on terrorism response. C'mon. If they had become any good at that, don'tn you think they would have been better at the flood? Let's hold their feet to the fire on all of it. Next time they say they were focused too much on terrorism preparation, let's so, oh yeah? share the components of a response to terrrorism with us, the components you have put in place. I bet a lot of it would be the same thing you would have to mobilize in a natural …
Posted to Katrinas Racial Wake
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dear whatthakhek, what did you expect? House and Garden spread on Trent Lott's house?
Posted to Katrinas Racial Wake
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It is Sept 16 now. Brown is gone and 15 or so incompetents remain. We all know fema stunk, was inexcusable. As time passes however, I am finding it m o re and m o r e .... impossible ... to accept that when you stop a wal-mart truck full of water you don't K N O W you are doing wrong. Ditto on the deisel fuel delivery blocked. and those were only two examples the ER county guy gave on ted koppel before he broke down in tears. I am t i r e d of being asked over and …
Posted to Unnatural Disaster
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Martha, take the kids and go to your mother's house!
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James Witt was founding board member or partner of IEM.
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I think that is my point. I think there are subtle strands of evidence that suggest that it can't just be attributed to incompetence. First, many of the same abilities are needed to respond to a terrorist attack and a natural disaster. One of Homeland Security's excuses for failing to deal well with this disaster is that they have been focused on terrorism. But the reponse would virtually be the same - logistics, rescue etc. So they haven't prepared for anything over the past few years. Next, Homeland Security has been repeatedly criticized for surveilling peaceful organizations such as the Ouakers. …
Posted to Unnatural Disaster
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PS, in other words, we can confidently say what Homeland Security is NOT, or in other words, make a list of what is has NOT been doing. It is simple.
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Sorry, one more quick post. So, I think therefore, that that is where journalists should start digging. Let's have real evidence of their activities, philosophies and real examples. Let's make an exhaustive investigation of Homeland Securiy. Let's get off their press relase web page. Official answers never used to be enough for the press. The press used to test everything more. I tbink we all need to brush up on basic logic too. We are rediculiously confident we are being hoodwinked, we are so sure of it we say we know it, yet are afraid to collect the evidence that would …
Posted to Unnatural Disaster
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Rabbit, I don't know what you are saying. I am saying the press is too shy to check its scariest hunches. In case you haven't noticed, there aren't a lot of really excellent, and I mean competent, muckrackers around. Hunches aren't news. I want journalists who dig through the center of the earth. As far as being recently awakened, your hunch is wrong there.
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I miss Kay Graham. Two great papers we count on to keep watch on washington: the wash post and the NYT. Both have dissapointed in recent years. A Woodward quote a few years ago bothered me. It was something to the effect of young journalists going gaga for investigatory journalism after watergate and not understanding that his investigations grew out of solid beat reporting. What he said was OK except for a few things. First, it sounded kind of like the richie who buys a piece of land in a nice place and wants to slam the door behind him. It …
Posted to Downing Street: A Dead-End In American Media
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Here is an excerpt from something I wrote in an online journalism forum: The press right now in the US is in a disgraceful state. I don't think there is any informed party who feels that needs to be debated. Antitrust, one word, is responsible for all of it. Antitrust is weak, consolidation has mounted. There are many reasons the Bush administration favors it. I am sure a disintegration in the quality of information is one of them, as it is a fact that follows as sure as any other from it. The very credibility of the top, heavily consolidated outlets …
Posted to Downing Street: A Dead-End In American Media
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I too am thinking of moving. I am looking into a law that might allow me dual citizenship with a country my family came from, on one side, two generations ago. Why? Not just because of the neo-con big picture, but because of what neo-con policies have done to my quality of life and experience of daily like here in america. There is a brutal quality to my daily life now. I think the police are nastier, the costs are higher and I am scared for the first time about voicing my opinions. I am scared of my government for the …
Posted to Do you think the eventual new Supreme Court justice will tip the balance on abortion rights?
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To answer your question though, yes, I think Roberts could tip the balance. He also could be another stealth justice who grabbed the opportunity to work for the justice dept during a conservative administration but won't rule anything like republicans think he might. He has his ciruit court record though too. I hope he is not confirmed. I like to remind people how long Blackman labored over the abortion decision. He took about a year (Or more?) to write it. It was a huge challenge to write that opinion. The final opinion was beyond my brightest hopes. He got it so …
Posted to Do you think the eventual new Supreme Court justice will tip the balance on abortion rights?
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Speaking of rape, there are arill emergency rooms that are not offering the morning-after pill to rape victims.
Posted to Do you think the eventual new Supreme Court justice will tip the balance on abortion rights?
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