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• • 26 Sep 09
  • 1:08 pm

  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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• • 16 Oct 09
  • 4:44 am

  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 …

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• • 16 Oct 09
  • 4:53 am

  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 …

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• • 31 Oct 09
  • 1:05 am

  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 …

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• • 14 Jul 08
  • 6:12 am

  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