They'll all go to the court in the Hague...what is done from there remains to be seen. But the evidence for war crimes is too public to ignore
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minerva_jones
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Vote No for whatever crazy notion your healthcare union has negotiated...what a bunch of tools they've turned out to be. Unions need to insist on immigration entitlements in an economy where factory work is diverted to the cheapest labour pools ( remember your father's last shanty town, Americans?) And a service economy? I can do my own laundry, thank you. We are so fucked, and so few know it. I will encourage all the credit slaves and indentured servants of the educated class ( how's paying off that student loan going these days anyway?) in North America to take whatever tax …
Posted to Dissent in the Ranks
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PS.... I would continue to ask your doctor if Viagara is right for you up until the bitter end, wankers
Posted to Dissent in the Ranks
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Here's a useful non sequitar. Miltary suicides are on the increase...could there be a connection? This past week a number of civilian psychiatric patients were displaced in this area at local hospitals by a number of miltary personnel who were described as "suicidal". I initially wondered why the GI's weren't sent to a VA. Then I remembered this story, heard earlier this week on NPR http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17929487 Why is the military seeking civilian psychiatric assistance at this time? Especially as we wonder how far our current fascism has brought us closer to the court in the Hague?
Posted to The Fog of War Crimes
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It is an unprecedented occurrence for a civilian hospital to suddenly have to accept GI patients, particularly of the psychiatric variety, in the middle of a war, and I think this is a story worth pursuing
Posted to The Fog of War Crimes
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Wow...here's my own spurious factoid and irrelevant historical issue. 1006 marks the year of the "Norman Invasion" WE all know nothing good came from that eh? Whattheheck... you are the voice over for the "Global Contagion" Charlton Heston like, you will narrate the variety of recourses these folks working for $6.50 cents an hour have had in the last 2 to 9 years to "legitimize' themselves... these irreverent workers... these bastards sons of the IRS and Homeland Security. How dare they stand up and speak their minds! How dare they! Only you can legitimize them, and you hate their job stealing, …
Posted to On Strike Without a Union
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The only union history worth it's own name is that taught around the kitchen table. The rest is bullshit and paternalism by those who seek to intellectualize experiences they never had or that are too painful to address on an individual level. There's not a union left today worth anything... they don't protect the workers who pay the dues by ensuring they aren't opposed into extra hours and overtime, and they don't protest the global enslavement of workers by inserting workers rights and immigration entitlements in the new "Free Trade Agreements". The plantation is global now, and our union reps are …
Posted to Labor Takes a Seat in the Classroom
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I am now the head of PEF via the good advice of djmagaro... ( if I think hard enough, and wish it, it can only happen!!!!) Can I introduce you to EST? The Wizard of Oz.? Or any new fangled variation thereof? People like me, with a hapless union that can't pizza lunch anyone out of a bag ( not even themselves) hear that old strident admonition anytime we ask what the hell we pay a union for when everything is still so fucked in spite of our constant cry against the vacuum sucking noise of credit card spending and nothingness …
Posted to Labor Takes a Seat in the Classroom
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I wasn't necessarily saddened by Mr Vonnegut's death, since he was quite elderly and none of us live forever. I only became more grateful for his life on learning of his passing. I collected extra paperback books I had around the house that had been written by Kurt Vonnegut and brought them to work to share with other people, because I felt the only way to honour his life was to share what he had written with other people who may not have been exposed to his writing. I had 2 or more copies of many of his books, and several …
Posted to Thank You Mr. Vonnegut
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The TIME thing was an absolute facade. You? You're a piece of dirt, or will be one day...me too. We're not that shiny. The Internet is only another way to send " mustard gas and roses"... thanks again Mr Vonnegut
Posted to In You More Than Yourself
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"Socialism is a flawed idea that works poorly in a democratic society, and terribly in a totalitarian society." Wow, thanks for the update Scorp. I'll get on the phone and call friends and family in Canada and Norway about that 'failure of socialism in a democratic society"thing As a total aside ( yikes!) I thought this was an interesting and astute article with a witty title...It almost makes me want to spin off on a million tangents about Pinochet, and Allende and the historical plight of Native Americans, and the price of oranges in Russia , eh? ...but not quite. It …
Posted to The Spychopath Who Loved Me
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I think you captured the moment when you asked "Do we enjoy making ourselves mentally ill?" I think we do and thanks for encapsulating the current mind set.
Posted to We Are All Waiters Now
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Re:The pink ribbon campaign: Breast Cancer is safe because we'd all miss tits if they were gone, eh? ( I realize this is not a PC comment...but it's the elephant in the room, eh?) I had a neighbour die of breast cancer in the last 5 years..she didn't want the support of the many groups, or the intrusion of the many treatments...she had become exhausted by the power of her breasts, and by hoisting the world on their potential...she decided to die of breast cancer. Because she had to die from something, and she chose to die of cancer in her …
Posted to Seeing Red about Thinking Pink
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The idea of "hunger artists amoung us" is interesting... but the documentary you describe was clearly exploitive, and I am appaled at the mental health facilties who condone this sort of intrusion into their milieu. I'm guessing, in a world where the wealth is shared in some fashion that makes sense, the freaking filmmakers who sold this tripe to HBO ,and the treatment facility, would've continued to treat some of the girls without charge...simply because they were EXPLOITING their story. None of these uneaten lunches are free... All this stuff is paid for, in advance....you just need to examine who's paying …
Posted to The Skinny on Thin
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My goodness... in the midst of the shift of American power, and the global prognostications, and Reichter scale type media silliness, and the anxious miasma that surrounds much of our day to day dealings... I still want to thank Mr Vonnegut for his struggles with defining sanity, and his writings, and ongoing efforts to remind people about our potential for peace. What a beautiful writer, such a humane philosopher. Happy Birthday Mr Vonnegut
Posted to What Did the Voters Say?
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Hi Maria... I agree...this site should be called "Blowing Smoke", just like any other news media we see these days. I'll give it another 10 years, and then I'll open my 'Industrial Smoked Meat Sandwich' chain... Beautiful 19 year old girls will sell old meat sandwiches to guys with too much money and a yearning for a community.. it will be sad and exciting and familiar, in it's own strange way, my chain restaurant of old meat sandwiches and beautiful girl waitressess. It'll only take them 25 years or so to realize that the tender , smoked meat is a part …
Posted to What Did the Voters Say?
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PS: If you're going to live on the side of the road, send your kids on the bus to the school down the street, call the cops every time someone pisses you off too much, and bring all your health problems to the local witch doctors temple, then the 25% + you pay in taxes is worth it. Not to mention the cost of armaments and cannon fodder embroiled in the international intrigues you pay for and are too busy to pay attention to. (where do you get this 10% figure? Most people pay 25 to 40% in taxes of one …
Posted to What Did the Voters Say?
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I find it scary that you think that most wouldn't get the irony. I don't know what I find to be a weirder conceit.... That the American media is considered to be so clever, or that the American public is considered to be so stupid? In the mean time, Ali G/Borat/Cohen is one of the funniest and most provocative comedians I've seen in a long time
Posted to The Crazy Kazakh Correspondent
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"I think that there are areas in which the feminist movement is a victim of its own success. " Interesting. I believe, with all my heart, that those of us on the fringes for the past 30 years or so, those of us NOT writing op eds for the New Yorker,have brought the fight to the next generation. By raising children on our own as despised, errant solo procreators, prone to welfare and STD's in our various sluttish ways. Lol The. non-middle class single mothers of the last generation , the divorcees and the widowed, have actually raised fine young people, …
Posted to Virginity or Death!: A Conversation With Katha Pollitt
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Let's do the time warp again.... Remember when Reagan was stupid and then senile, and people pretended they believed he was "sane" and "smart"? You guys were kidding, right? You didn't really believe in 'Supply side Economics' or 'Trickle Down Theory" or in a crazy space shield that would ward off nuclear war heads? Remember when Vietnam was futile, and politicians were scrambling like rats on a sinking ship to distance themselves from Nixon's "nervous breakdown? Remember? Remember when there was a Korean war, and we pretended it wasn't happening until 'MASH" made it funny and rational? In the way that …
Posted to George W. Bush v. The U.S. Constitution
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"Some where under the apple tree, I sold you and you sold me" Saddest song ever written. Better than that old chestnut tree, eh?
Posted to Abandon Hope, All Who Enter Here
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Thoughts from a barefoot woman: Again, this is an interesting dichotomy...we laud the warrior support of a presumed underclass in other countries, where our tax dollars fund the killings, murders, assassinations and unnecessary deathes of people we have little contact with (outside of our own political and economic incursions) , while despising our own forced "underclass". How come we can never pull overselves up by our own boot straps? Could it be that not all of us have boots? And why is that?
Posted to Katrina and the Politics of Disposability
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Bill Cosby? Come on, Natalie...get out of that Jello tree, lol
Posted to Katrina and the Politics of Disposability
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It's a rate loosely tied to a 'let them eat cake' equation.... How low can you keep the minimum wage while simultaneously increasing all other costs ( and consequent profits to all other industries)? At what point does equilibrium get lost, and people turn to theft or welfare in order to achieve survival ? How fat can the cat on one side of the teeter totter get before the mass of scrawny subsistence workers overwhelm the imbalance ? And at what point does it make 'good economic sense' to share a tiny portion of the wealth? Hey, those factory workers in …
Posted to What range do you think the federal minimum wage should be?
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No Fear! Interesting... the CIA and McGill got it wrong. LSD did not make the ultimate psychotic fighting machine because people became too paranoid and disorganized, but Valium could just do the trick...too impaired to question or run away... just cogent enough to be commanded. Just take away the fear of danger, and people will lose their sense of reality. Now what's the excuse for those of us not on psychotropics, eh?
Posted to The Iraq War--On Drugs
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Thanks for all the books...thank you for the laughs. Thank you for the absurdist affirmation, the voice that tells you that "You all shouldn't go crazy in the privacy of your own homes...this is a cultural madness, and can be fixed...keep trying....) I hope you know that this is what you mean to me. Happy Birthday next month, Mr Vonnegut. And I'll keep working on that 'People's Choice' award for the Nobel Peace Prize thing, eh? You deserve it. Cheers
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