With the particulars, I agree. But while gathering signatures at a Pacific NW street fair to get support for the public option, I met a PA AFL-CIO rep and got a rude awakening when I asked if they'd support Sestak. Nope, he said, because Spectre is their "friend", they have "agreements". Everyone, including the upper echelon of the unions, thinks that it's about having "chits" for favors. Everyone plays the Senators' game, as if - They had as much incumbent-safety as a senator. You know, those 6-yr terms, longer than any other breed of politician, with only a statewide election to …
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Inaru
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The comments by the pro-coup lobbyists, compliments of the Clintons, read like cut-and-paste rationalizations. Simple facts: a facade of democratic process is not an actual democratic process. Witness our own system. If the people actually made laws, the bankers would have been thrown in prisons, the Bushes and Clintons would have been kept as far from our govt as possible, after all their hand-holding for Bill's foundation and all the crimes in the Iran-Contra schemes. Bill also gave Blackwater their first contract. It's in Scahill's book. The lobbyists ignore, of course, that Iran-Contra connection in current machinations in Honduras. They conveniently …
Posted to The Honduran Connection
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Is it a coincidence, or is the Rick Maifield an alias for this urban dictionary Mayfield? "Rick Mayfield: A sick, old bald man who gives erroneous secret military briefings with the red tennis ball hanging out." Not only does Maifield [sic] ignore that Honduras' constitution was written and approved under his [no doubt hero] Reagan of Iran-Contra fame. He apparently never heard of a poll, which is what was released prior to the planned election, and which triggered the marched-out-in-PJs ouster of Zelaya to our other utterly subordinated Latin American "partner", Costa Rica. Oh, and of course, the School of the …
Posted to The Honduran Connection
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omg Natalie, get a life! You lost, end of story, thank God. If it were up to you, we'd still have black people and non-property-owning white people counted as 2/3 of a human being. Women would still not be able to vote. Constitutions get amended in democracies, Natalie, you poor FOX-fed thing. Supreme Courts can overstep their constitutional authority. Legislators can be bought - or are you telling me that doesn't happen here? The Honduran constitution was written to keep the president weak and the military strong, in the "good ole days" of the coups. The constitution Zelaya and a vast …
Posted to The Honduran Connection
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Thank you, I'm printing this and hanging it up where I can see it every time I'm reading about MSM Obama smears and Bush's and McCain's outrageousness. It's been really hard to change my communication patterns - generally intimidating and judgmental. I've been so, so much more effective when I curb those tendencies and actually try to understand where opponents are coming from, ideologically or information-wise. My best technique so far for chillin' the rhetoric: I have both of Obama's books on audio book on my iTunes. I listen to his quiet, reasoned and reasonable determination to make change take root …
Posted to Dogmatic Rhetoric is Self-Defeating
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The death penalty case was not simply rape - the child was torn apart by a 250 lb man, left to bleed to death, and her ongoing-as-she-grows reconstruction won't be painless or invisible - she was his second victim, and these criminals grow more violent, not less. Ever fight for real rehab for the victims of these crimes? Gun case finally laid to rest NRA's claim that government has no right to make legal demands of gun owners, that's why Barack favors it. It would take one helluva Supreme Court to rule all gun ownership illegal except in the hands of …
Posted to Holding Barack Accountable
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It's easy to get seduced by the rhetoric: If you ethnographers tell us military folks all there is to know, we'll kill less of them. Hey, we hunky uniform types are just the grunts, sympathetic characters, risking our lives for a bunch of corrupt politicians and CEOs. You geeks have your hearts in the right place, let's work together, so less of us romantic-uniformed grunts/heroes die and less exotic civilians get bombed, mined, and given cluster bombs for the holidays. It's win-win, they say; you get info, which makes you academically and financially comfy. We get info which makes us the …
Posted to Anthropologists At War
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The laundry list of injustices against black men is endless, and well-known to readers here. What's also endless, apparently, is demands for change "now". It's exactly why we always take two steps forward, one back. At the point where we should be smart and tactical, we explode with demands for immediate relief. When it's a black leader that finally takes over, our demands can quickly become the focus of domestic politics, which is exactly what makes many white voters hesitate to elect him. All groups oppressed by the system make this mistake, it's not unique to black Americans or any other …
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