Open Thread, Friday, November 20, 2015
RGA Press Release:
Give me your tired, but not too tired to work for $7.25/hr. with no benefits or sick time,
your poor, as long as they have an advanced degree and will undercut college educated American's wages,
Your huddled masses, as long as they are Christian masses
yearning to breath free, as long as there is not a cop on top of you.
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, so send more oil
Send these, the homeless, tempest tost to me, for economic exploitation
I lift my lamp beside the golden door, but no warning shots because castle doctrine.
The esteemed Governor McCrory, North Carolina, joined the chorus. He will not allow Syrian refugees, because his duty is to keep North Carolinians safe.
I wonder what he was thinking when he signed the ALEC guns anywhere bill. House Bill 937, which became effective on October 1, 2013, expanded North Carolina’s concealed handgun law into restaurants where alcohol is sold and consumed, assemblies of people for which admission is charged, parades and funerals, state and municipal parks, and educational properties.
Maybe it was the good guy with a gun meme.
Pro-gun group in Texas re-enacts Charlie Hebdo attacks with paintball rounds
A pro-gun rights group in Texas re-enacted the Charlie Hebdo attacks with paintball rounds, in an attempt to see whether an “armed civilian” could have stopped the two gunmen who attacked the Paris office of the satirical magazine, killing 12. The civilian “died” in almost every scenario except immediate flight from the scene.
I wonder what McCrory was thinking while he ran interference for Duke Energy. Wouldn't the people of NC be safer with clean water?
Is Chris Christie a big mouth blowhard and pearl clutching chicken or what?
Sometimes I feel like hopping in the car, driving to one of these governor's and smack some sense into them. What the f'k is wrong with Chris Christie?
Oh and Mike Pence, what can I say? It is difficult to articulate without resorting to coarseness.
Nobody could convince me that the government spying did not know about the Koch spying. Which in turn leads to, we live in a fascist country, otherwise Koch operatives would be going to trial and jail.
The political network helmed by Charles and David Koch has quietly built a secretive operation that conducts surveillance and intelligence gathering on its liberal opponents, viewing it as a key strategic tool in its efforts to reshape American public life.
The operation, which is little-known even within the Koch network, gathers what Koch insiders refer to as “competitive intelligence” that is used to try to thwart liberal groups and activists, and to identify potential threats to the expansive network.
The competitive intelligence team has a staff of 25, including one former CIA analyst, and operates from one of the non-descript Koch network offices clustered near the Courthouse metro stop in suburban Arlington, Va. It has provided network officials with documents detailing confidential voter-mobilization plans by major Democrat-aligned groups. It also sends regular “intelligence briefing” emails tracking the canvassing, phone-banking and voter-registration efforts of labor unions, environmental groups and their allies, according to documents reviewed by POLITICO and interviews with a half-dozen sources with knowledge of the group.
Just what the country needs.
Like His Dad, Charles Koch Was a Bircher
Today, as announced on Amy Goodman's DemocracyNow!, the Progressive Inc. and the Center for Media and Democracy are publishing new information and analysis documenting that billionaire oil industrialist Charles Koch was an active member of the controversial right-wing John Birch Society during its active campaigns against the civil rights movement.
Many commentators have noted that the father of the controversial Koch Brothers, Fred Koch, was a leader of the John Birch Society from its founding in 1958 until his death in 1967. But, in fact, Charles Koch followed his father's footsteps into the John Birch Society for years in Wichita, Kansas, a hub city for the organization in that decade of tremendous societal unrest as civil rights activists challenged racial segregation.
Charles Koch was not simply a rank and file member of the John Birch Society in name only who paid nominal dues. He purchased and held a "lifetime membership" until he resigned in 1968. He also lent his name and his wealth to the operations of the John Birch Society in Wichita, aiding its "American Opinion" bookstore -- which was stocked with attacks on the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King, and Earl Warren as elements of the communist conspiracy. He funded the John Birch Society's promotional campaigns, bought advertising in its magazine, and supported its distribution of right-wing radio shows.
A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF KOCH INDUSTRIES: HOW STALIN FUNDED THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT
Everyone knows that Tea Party revolutionaries fear and hate socialism about as much as the Antichrist. Which is funny, because the Tea Party movement’s dirty little secret is that it owes its existence to the grandaddy of all Antichrists: the godless empire of the USSR.
What few realize is that the secretive oil billionaires of the Koch family, the main supporters of the right-wing groups that orchestrated the Tea Party movement, would not have the means to bankroll their favorite causes had it not been for the pile of money the family made working for the Bolsheviks in the late 1920s and early 1930s, building refineries, training Communist engineers and laying down the foundation of Soviet oil infrastructure.
The comrades were good to the Kochs. Today Koch Industries has grown into the second-largest private company in America. With an annual revenue of $100 billion, the company was just $6.3 billion shy of first place in 2008. Ownership is kept strictly in the family, with the company being split roughly between right-wing brothers Charles and David Koch, who are worth about $20 billion apiece and are infamous as the largest sponsors of right-wing causes. They bankroll scores of free-market and libertarian think tanks, institutes and advocacy groups. Reason magazine, Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute are just a few of Koch-backed free-market operations. Greenpeace estimates that the Koch family shelled out $25 million from 2005 to 2008 funding the “climate denial machine,” which means they outspent Exxon Mobile three to one.
No worries, they won't burn in hell. We will all fry in place.
What a funked up world we live in.
Stay strong brothers and sisters.
Over and out.
Comments
Good Morning, Tim and 99%'ers!
The sharp rise in Xenophobia and racism in the United States is very disturbing. I had been hoping that this country would finally grow up, but we seem to be regressing and doing so very rapidly.
On a positive note, I had something unique happen to me yesterday. I was out shopping and as I got out of my car, a monarch butterfly landed on my hand and it just stayed there. A lady who was walking by said it was good luck. A friend of mine said it was a sign from someone I loved, probably my recently deceased father. Whatever it was, it was a small symbol of beauty in what has become an ever increasingly ugly world that we have allowed ourselves to become.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
The exploitation of division and fear of others
... has become idiotic. We can than the zombie Reagan southern strategy.
Mexico hopes to see 3-4 times more monarch butterflies
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Last night
I did a little research on monarch butterflies and found something very interesting. Each year, three generations hatch from the pupae and become monarch butterflies, only to live for a few weeks. In September and October, the fourth generation hatches and that is the one that flies to Mexico and Central America.
I still thought it highly unusual to see one here in the lower mountains of western NC so late in the year, especially since we have had at least two night of freezing temps recently. I am happy to see that researchers think their numbers are rebounding. We should closer pay attention to all of life's creatures as they are harbingers of what is to come, especially with climate change upon us.
There is a great amount of arrogance among peoples of the western world and Americans in particular that we can somehow "engineer" our way out of climate change without making major adjustments in our consumptive lifestyle.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Good morning everyone....
At the debate, she lied to diminish Bernie’s position
OCTOBER 13, 2015: Clinton At The Democrat Primary Debate: CLINTON: "Well, I recall very well being on a debate stage, I think, about 25 times with then Senator Obama, debating this very issue. After the election, he asked me to become Secretary of State. He valued my judgment, and I spent a lot of time with him in the Situation Room, going over some very difficult issues. You know, I - I agree completely. We don't want American troops on the ground in Syria. I never said that. What I said was we had to put together a coalition - in fact, something that I worked on before I left the State Department - to do, and yes, that it should include Arabs, people in the region." (Hillary Clinton, Democrat Primary Debate, Las Vegas, NV, 10/13/15)
Triangulating, triangulating………….
OCTOBER 30, 2015: Clinton through a spokesman. "Hillary Rodham Clinton supports the decision by President Barack Obama to deploy a small number of special operations forces to northern Syria to work with local ground forces in the fight against Islamic State militants. Campaign spokesman Nick Merrill said in a statement that Clinton "sees merit in the targeted use of special operations personnel.' He added that Clinton also strongly 'supports ongoing diplomatic efforts to end the conflict.'" (Lisa Lerer, "Clinton Backs Decision To Send US Commandos Into Syria," The Associated Press, 10/30/15)
Flip - flop.
NOVEMBER 19, 2015: Council on Foreign Relations “A more effective air campaign is necessary, but not sufficient,” Clinton said. “We should be honest that to be successful, airstrikes will have to be combined with ground forces” to take back the territory that Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, has conquered in Syria and Iraq. Clinton's speech laid out a significantly more active approach toward combating Islamic State than President Obama has been willing to accept, a view she shied away from last weekend during the latest Democratic candidates' debate. LA Times, November 20, 2015
To be honest, lmao – she can’t even spell the word.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
File this one under "sweet"....
So BBB publishes a troll diary first thing in the AM to shit all over the day.
Sanders Campaign fumbles again
Along comes salamanderanagram and drops this on him
lol, BBB must have a problem with object permanence.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
If they have to tell you they are a bad boy or tough
They aren't.
Ref: Christy, Walker, Cruz, Trump, Carson, HRC, ...
It appears BBB talks too much.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
well, it's good to be reunited with you kindred spirits...
Thanks again dkmich for the heads up about the good souls here I've been missing, in Tasini's diary about the SIEU fiasco going on.
My opinion is that BBB is the one of the worst of the worst. He's exhibit A of the hijacking of the place by neoliberal corporate jackbooters/slavish defenders of the status quo. I feel it's incumbent to go at his ilk, but especially him whenever possible. His moniker is completely laughable too, and told him so. That he wouldn't last a a few minutes on a street corner deep in Bklyn spouting his neoliberal gibberish in the presence of folks who live under the chronic oppression of the vampire squid's omnipresent control of their lives. He's the embodiment of everything wrong with the place.
I'm researching the Freedom Budget for All Americans, a plan by Martin Luther King and his mostly socialist team to call attention to economic inequality in the fight for racial justice.
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
Welcome thirty three and a third...
Sorry i took so long to activate your account. I review all registrations before approval to keep out spammers and I didn't see yours until this morning. Make yourself at home and if you have any questions just ask.
P.S.
there's a memberlist at the bottom of every page, below the 99% Buddha.
I saw you logged in and
checked your profile. I was thrilled to see your moniker from dkos and that you are now here with us at caucus99. Hopefully, you will contribute regularly as we continue to expand and build this site. The formatting here is about as user friendly as you can get. Even a technolgical dinosaur like me can use it.
Again, it is great to have you here, Mark!!!!!!!!
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Greetings, welcome aboard
Just in time for Funk Friday.
BTW, have I ever told you how svelte, handsome and what a lady killer I am?
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
I like to leave a trail of bread crumbs for the good guys.
I am so glad you followed them here. Your view on BBB lasting on a street corner in Brooklyn is funny and true. salamanderanagram's post was priceless.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
welcome mark...
it's good to see you here!
Oh, holy shit.
Ugly, stupid, and seemingly without reason. And that's once I get past the migraine intensifying site itself. Although you are correct, the comments are a gas.
I shave my legs with Occam's Razor~
Morning Tim...
I resized your two images, they were blowing out the right margin. How goes it, my friend?
Thanks
How does one resize?
How goes it? Good and meh. I've got my hands full taking care of Sweetie. Not being able to talk is really tough. We went to an ALS conference and a neurologist gave a presentation with a bunch of graphs charting medications, symptoms, a classification method and life expectancy. All the graphs were basically 'S' curves where things start out slowly, degenerate rapidly and then slowing down until the patient's demise. The best I could tell Sweetie is approaching the lower curve and would be classified as "Late Stages". We have an appointment schedule for a feeding tube consult.
Friends and neighbors have been great. The other day, I went out to get the newspaper and someone had mowed my grass. Thing2's coworkers, from the YMCA summer camp, came by and all the kids had done a scrapbook with pictures of them and Thing2. Each kids page included a gift card to a restaurant or grocery store. The kids are alright.
The wrist is still gimpy, but I have managed to work out at least twice a week. I am down from 200# to 180# which is a good thing. I started having a dream where I am crossing a busy street, but I can't make my feet go. I daydream about a post caregiver road trip.
Believe it or not, we listen to music all day.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
To resize...
edit ("Edit" link at the top of your essay) your essay and look at the img code and you'll see what I did, you can change the width and height parameters to whatever your preference.
Hang in there, Tim. I'm glad folks are showing what they are made of, maybe there is hope for our species, well, some of it anyways.
Is the wrist stopping you from twanging the axe?
Not much twanging
I am holding out on selling guitars, and amps. I think it is injury, not carpal tunnel. Plus the debt load has been manageable. I may need to slowly sell off guitars to avoid going back to the corporate world. There are some sweet items in the closet.
It's an illness.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
that's a lot of guitars
but they're all backwards
Signed,
Lefty
???
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
ha! Or Hendrix
Or Dick Dale.
But if you switch the strings around, the most important alteration is the nut. That needs to be replaced so the strings fit properly and so strings don't rattle around or come flying out of their groove.
Notice Otis Rush just plays upside down
Wound strings are on the bottom. Just changing gauges requires adjustments to the nut, bridge and truss rod.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
It's hard.
My husband has not performed in public for years, but no matter how bad our finances get, I won't let him sell his gear. I can't. He says he's old, he says he's done, but he still writes, he still plays almost every night. I don't know what tomorrow will bring, but those things will be the very last to go.
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I shave my legs with Occam's Razor~
That's the spirit!
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
I quit for 10 years
I hardly played from 1986 until late 1995. I had no intention of performing again. In 1995 I started writing again but not doing anything with it, just entertaining myself. Then I found myself playing with some people on our block, then accidentally found myself in a trio, etc.
So Cecil will probably get back onstage, much to his surprise. That's why he needs to keep his gear!
That is my belief.
He was in a band with my sister long before we hooked up, first time I ever met him I was married to someone else and so was he--in fact, I thought he was a complete and total asshole, didn't know he was an aspie, but even then I thought--wow, that dude is good. So, I support him. Still tell him to go into the studio to record, keep going, I don't care if he's 90.
I shave my legs with Occam's Razor~
Ooooooo...
and Ahhhhhhhh!! I'm glad my Lee Oskar harps only cost $35.00 each! But, you'll have to pry them from my cold dead hands too.
So what do you think?
I posted this comment in BBBs diary. It has 20+ recs and 2 HRs. It says, "I’ll be the first to admit that Bernie isn’t a polished candidate, but at least he isn’t a liar. I’ll take someone I can trust over someone I can’t trust any day. I love that you went into BBBs history and pulled that out. I am going to copy and paste it into every BBB diary and Clinton diary on this b;og. The same people who are hailing Hillary as Joan of Arc are the same people who ripped her to shreds in 08. They must think what they put on the internet disappears….rof… "
If you check my comments, I have one flag here, one there. At first, I paid no attention. Now, I am starting to feel stalked and a little creeped out. Not knowing who is doing this is like having a peeping Tom that you know is there, but you can't see them. As a woman, I feel exposed, vulnerable, and violated. I really could have a stalker, and how would I know? In the old system, you knew who and why. I reported my unease with the hidden flags to the help desk, like that's going to do any good. I asked them if they are monitoring the people who are throwing up the flags. This is creeping me out.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Getting flags is like merit badges
There is a faction that wants to tear down all things Bernie, or anti-HRC. At least Bernie articulates what the others are too timid to say. Comparatively, that makes him a bad ass. DK is on its way to being HuffPo Lite.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Really creepy when you can't see them. eom
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
I guess that is where we diverge
I have gone honey badger. They could figure out who I am, but they are cowards.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Not creepy, but cowardly
IMO, if dkos is going to allow HR's under the re-badging of flags, we should at least get to see who the perps are. It is completely unfair to allow this kind of HR'ing under the cover of secrecy.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
You just got a tip and supporting comment from me.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
I saw. Thank you...
Johnny and gulfgal came to the rescue too. It is now up to 3. In a perverse way that's better. At least it isn't just one pervert.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
My pleasure, madame....
[throws coat over the mud puddle].
that was a half hour wasted
I gave you a rec but boy, what a cesspool!
According to the reasoning there from the Hillary supporters, she might have been morally unfit and a potential psychopathic killer of political opponents in 2007/2008 but the person they're voting for is the brand new Hillary who's existed only since 2009. A shiny newcomer!
This is similar to the idea of not prosecuting Bush or members of his administration because we have to look forward and not backward. Do not think about what you just heard or saw. It's over, in the past.
I loved that
nasty Chicago Minx who kept saying forget about the past or just look ahead and don't look back at what anyone including the pols have done in the past. They really are outdoing themselves with politics that are irrational and delusional and totally based on persona and party lockstep loyalty. Not to mention the immorality and vicious cruelty exhibited to humans globally and here in der Homeland. What you win means nothing it all, it's only about beating the RW even if what the Democrat's offer is the same damn thing. Oh yeah I forgot the Dems. won't give you a vagina probe along with your austerity.
However when push comes to shove they will compromise away your reproductive rights as well as the rest of your civil and human rights and then they tell you it's a 'victory for compromise'. Just because the Democrat's call horrible corporate policy healthcare reform, immigration reform or humanitarian intervention, it doesn't mean it is. It's double speak on a par with the best dystopian fiction writers. Dkos is a hotbed of double thinkers. They have come full circle and now support what they used to fight against. A cesspool is right.
Words mean nothing to some except as a way to manipulate emotion
For that type of person, it's all about whether words trigger the desired reaction in people hearing or reading them.
To them it's unimportant whether what they say is true, as long as it has the desired effect in the moment.
They think it is hard-headed and realistic to focus solely on appearances, manipulation, and mass psychology / group dynamics.
Worrying about truth is, for them, something only suckers do.
I saw....
I'm feeling pretty privileged to have my own rescue rangers at c99p. The more HRs that piled up, the less personal it felt. A big thank you to all of my of rescuers.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
If it happens again
to you or anyone else here, let us know with a link.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Yeah, I saw that and didn't quite understand what had gone down.
Did you rectify it?
Thanks for going at these cheap punks.
I came late to the fracas, so I think my comment got a little lost in the shuffle. I have a funny feeling it'll get a little more appreciation here.
"He’s a complete fraud.
His pathetic posturing as interference-runner for the Economic Terrorists of Wall St (where he was formerly employed as I understand it) is exhibit A in how Daily Kos has been hijacked by little neoliberal defenders of status quo politics.
The progressive nature of this place has been white-washed away by corporate, free market drivel like his, and exactly the reason why the Dems get their asses kicked in all midterms and local races (and for sure in the presidential if they trot out a highly polarizing, career insider). The Dem party and Daily Kos, with lackeys like BBB, has firmly laid claim to the “look how bad they suck, vote for us” strategy. It’s a dead end.
It’s literally staggering to see how deaf, dumb and blind so much of this place has become, to not see we have a legitimate chance to not do politics as usual. It’s obvious the American people have reached a tipping point in their disgust with insider politicians. And what’s our strategy? “C’mon, we suck less; don’t we?”
Progressivism, liberalism, economic equality and egalitarianism have been jettisoned from the core of the Democratic party. We’ve allowed snickering bankster protectorates to be the face of the place.
And the message is: it’s all about “playing the game” and raising money; activists, organizers, unions, protest movements, are only to be pacified during election campaigns; the wealthy and powerful elite are “job creators” and to be worshipped; we’ll pay lip service to racial equality and police brutality but do nothing because to get elected we’ll still have to be seen as “tough on crime” (see the Clintons on the 3 Strikes Law and stripping welfare assistance), we won’t dare talk of holding accountable and prosecuting if necessary our Wall St campaign donors whose exponential damaging of the economy has resulted in a too numerous to mention avalanche of privations visited upon the vast majority of the middle class, including artificially inflated housing bubble of skyrocketing rents and home prices, increased corporate profits while wages plummet, healthcare costs spiraling out of control, depletion of resources by monopoly energy companies, etc etc etc.
We’ve completely abandoned our principles, with the hope of getting rich quick."
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
Bernie & Abbie Hoffman and David Dellinger in 1988
a video of their discussion of the media
this was true left wing discussions at that time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aXF-b9gKs4
reading book mentioned a couple of days ago in a comment here about CIA program to drug cultural figures with LSD and other drugs to get people away from politics "Drugs as a weapon against us" and lots about 60's 70's etc and a reminder to the hippies and music culture that the CIA hijacked
so when saw Bernie video realize how he was in the middle of anti war and integration efforts
found some other videos on the web where he was pushing back on our Nicaragua overthrow orchestrated during Reagan administration. He was pressuring a reporter to say that only given negative coverage and called a communist (the leader)That was fairly far out when he did it.
Then I looked up Nicaragua v. The United States of America
Bernie has been involved with foreign relations for years so he will be able to hold his own
Really hard to stand up to MIC
I had a good friend
who was an illustrator in the late 70-80's who went to Nicaragua for 4 months a year and taught art in a Sandinista school. She did this for about 4 years. It was very enlightening to hear her first hand version of what the US and their Contra's were up to. The murky propaganda story's that people in the US believe amaze me. I find it interesting that the France was branded a traitor country in the Bushies regime. French Fries! Didn't France under Sarközy loom large in the destruction of Libya? I don't believe a damn thing any of the Ministry of Fear and the global and local pols of mass deception spout anywhere. At least in Viet Nam there were actual reporters, writers, artists and photographers that bravely told another story. We even had 'candidates' and leaders like MLK who stood up and spoke some truths. The most prominent were assassinated but a lot of people did not march to the tune of the mad killers. Nowadays their is no resistance anywhere to the genocidal call to arms. Corbyn who is somewhat sane is ridiculed and the establishment media tells a dubious tale that does not pass the smell test. CT has been stood on it's head, and flipped to be the truth. So what happened to Bernie did they put a horses head in his bed? He really does march along with the MIC and the bloody spooks.
"It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing."
Oh man, great video of Bernie & Abbie, thanks Don!
Watching Bernie here in 1988 is pure validation of why is so worth fighting for. And so eerily prescient about himself, when he's speaking about "the extraordinarily courageous campaign of Jesse Jackson...taking on the whole world...with no money." Goosebumps.
Just feel in love again with this sharp and impassioned, and fierce, socialist. His insights on the media are so clear-headed and fearless. I'm reminded of those two instructive Newsroom clips that went viral, one in which the news editor is on a college panel and reels off all the reasons America is not the greatest country in the world and the other, which is a editorial board meeting in which they discuss CNBC's tactics to get a viewer to think something by manipulating angels and selecting certain video/photos to fly in during an interview. Bernie by his lonesome self is doing just as much in this speech here.
Pretty incredible.
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
Mornin', Tim. I'd say something snarky about the news, but it
simply can't be done. Thanks for the OT.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
I appreciate a good snark
Even some creative name calling. I have some profane nicknames for several people in the news.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Me too
and not just the people in the news but the so called 'news' tellers, personalities themselves. It's a well known democratic tradition to give the authority raspberry's and profanity. It disturbs me a lot that so called Democrat's insist on respect for the corrupt and rotten pols and the party. You must respect the office, gender and race of those in authority who are Democratic. A good dose or ridicule, disrespect and scorn for this farce of democracy is healthy. The demands for party loyalty bs. is really insane, my god it's as crazy as the fundies and as blindly authoritarian. So fuck'em if they can't take a joke. As you can see I've had enough of this supporting and respecting the madness these evil fucks are unleashing on the world and my country.
Ridicule and derision...
sprinkled with a fair amount of profanity--works for me~
I shave my legs with Occam's Razor~
So it's OK
To call Christy, lard ass blowhard doughboy? Or Walker, shit weasel? Or Cruz, lying fucking idiot slimeball?
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Well, Tim, shitweasel is a term I apply to a lot
of folks. Christy? Fat bag of shit blowhard, so we're on the same page there. With Cruz I just let it fly, in much the same manner as my father did in traffic, and believe me, I was trained by the best in that respect. My only regret is that we no longer have tube teevees to punctuate my string of profanity with by lobbing a flip-flop at. A crumpled napkin flung at a flatscreen just doesn't produce that same satisfying "thunk" sound.
I shave my legs with Occam's Razor~
You and Peter O'toole
He was in the habit of imploding his TV screen by throwing his empty glasses at it while watching the news.
Your dad is alright
My oldest was ~3.5. He, my wife and I were sitting at a stop light. When the light turned green, the lead car just sat there. I yelled, "Let's go!", and a little voice from the back seat said, "Asshole!". We laughed and I asked my wife, "What have you been teaching the baby?".
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
OMG is that funny...
Reminds me of my little girl. She was 2.5 or 3 We were sitting at a big family dinner at my mom's. She looked at my aunt and said, please pass me the fucking potatoes. I immediately started watching my mouth.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Rat bastards is one of my favorites
It's fine
it's even okay to call Hillary, Killery or Hillary the Hun, a lying psycho killer and an insane cackling bad ass crooked thief who works for the oligarchy. I can't really get as profane as I would like to but it rhymes with itch. Shahryar once got HR'ed for this little ditty which did not actually contain the b word.
'Nice job Obama, I call it bait and switch
If I wanted Hillary, I'd a voted for the b*#*h'
I have a love of limericks--naughty or otherwise
they just come to me. I claim it's because I'm mostly Irish, but I don't really care why--I consider it a gift.
won't you pity poor pearl if you can
for she's gone all her life with no man
then heinz took her in
and it was to her chagrin
when she spotted no dick in that can
I shave my legs with Occam's Razor~
as I recal, when I posted that at dKos
I got to the end "I'd a voted for the"...and said "here's where I'm stuck. I can't think of a good rhyme with 'switch'". And I got HRs! Can you imagine that?
at the tangerine dream?
yeah, sadly. in real life? pffft. come on.
I shave my legs with Occam's Razor~
How about bitch? Too much?
I am tempted, but I know I would never come out of dk5 alive.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
You'd be a
Sexist,Unpatriotic Dr Commie Rat. No bitch allowed! I have gotten HRed for saying she cackled crazily regarding her 'We came we say we killed.' Sexist! as I was witch hunting and it's a RW talking point. Nobody is supposed to notice she's scary insane and gives witch's and bitch's a bad name.
That kind of French city-slicker Charlie Hebdo style irreverence
ain't real welcome over in them there Orange Parts.
Lol. The self righteous sisters
would flip right out and getcha. Then their queen D would come around and finish your sexist far lefty white privileged or black traitorous ass. If you want to tweak them just quote Cornell West. whew! Why I must be a Hillary hater, or maybe I just think she's a psychotic power mad woman who should not have any power at all and deserves to be tried for crimes against humanity like her mentor Madelin Albright.
Agree about the propaganda spreaders with microphones
They need to get real and report it straight. Things like, "Why is Santorum running the same grift? He is unelectable and most of the electorate would rather have a sharp stick in the eye than vote for him." "Huckabee is a pandering putz, whose elevator doesn't go to the top." "What the fuck Texas? Ted Cruz, I mean really, you people are idiots." "Wisconsin, you people are stupidier than Texas. That Walker guy is a punk and a criminal." "Here we go again New Jersey." "WTF, North Carolina."
OBTW, North Carolina:
The Dark Money of Dallas Woodhouse
Crossroads GPS funded Carolina Rising
North Carolina's dark money trail goes national
Political nonprofit spent nearly 100 percent of funds to elect Tillis in ’14
A New Low in Campaign Finance
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Sheldon Adelson started a paper in Israel just to hype Netanyahu
The paper, Israel Hayom, is given away free and has become the widest circulation paper in Israel.
For Adelson, the tremendous global political leverage this gives him is well worth the money he pours into the project.
Another subject: Democrats make fun of Trump, but short-sightedly act as if the "1% of the 1% of the 1%" pyramid stops at Trump or Adelson or the Koch brothers. In reality the peak of the mountain continues up into the international realm, encompassing ruling and banking clans in a system whose roots reach back to the Middle Ages.
People need to understand that the Saudi king and other Gulf potentates are every bit as witless as Trump and other GOP candidates. Each is a blend of Mafia don and clown who, propped up by the West, gets to run a slice of Arabia as his personal fief.
Free people everywhere ought to be mocking these tyrants, denouncing their depraved policies, and standing up for democracy in the areas they control.
Instead we allow our political leaders and opinion makers to bow down to them and abet their crimes.
Sheldon Adelson is a liver spot on humanity
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Good Morning, c99ers, Bluesters, Friendly Souls,
(Testing again, if the videos show up, as my preview screen never shows them) I was bowing in respect this morning listening to these brave people:
[video:
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[video:http://www.democracynow.org/2015/11/20/exclusive_air_force_whistleblower...
https://www.euronews.com/live
sigh ... I guess my Windows7 Pro is too old to
function well... Sorry for that. I wait til later.
https://www.euronews.com/live
mimi...
how are you trying to insert the videos. They definitely should preview. Windows 7 Pro is definitely not too old.
No doo doo
I am running Vista.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Do your...
video embeds preview before you post? They should.
No, and I'm running windows 10... eom
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
I don't want to bother you with this, but then ....
This is the web page I am at:
Exclusive: Air Force Whistleblowers Risk Prosecution to Warn Drone War Kills Civilians, Fuels Terror
I click on the "share icon" on the video.
Next screen gives me two options, the embed code and the video link code.
I select one of them, then do the Ctrl. C keys, I click on the "insert video" button on the top of my comment box here, then enter the "video link" code in that box with Ctrl V. I click OK and the code appears here in my comment box. I am doing it now for the video link code:
[video:http://www.democracynow.org/2015/11/20/exclusive_air_force_whistleblower...
I preview my comment and nothing shows up.
Now I do the same with the "Embed Code":
[video:
]
Nothing shows up in the preview screen.
Now I post it nevertheless. What do you see?
https://www.euronews.com/live
this does not happen if I do the same thing with the youtube
version of those Democracy NOW videos there.
https://www.euronews.com/live
You have a visable working link
I can embed some things directly but not Democracy Now and other media news sites. What I do is go to you tube and find the video I'm trying to embed and then use their embed which works. I have tried in vain to use the embedding functions on Democracy Now or Comedy Central or even Rolling Stone but they do not work. Try directly embedding with cut and pasting the http// unit? in the text body instead of the insert video box. Cut and paste a link is about all I can do on some videos that are not via You Tube. As you can see I'm kind of technically impaired, so I always look for the easiest run around. Love your sig line mimi.
yes that's what I do too and I have the problem
only with videos directly from the Democracy NOW site. I guess then these media sites do something on purpose, so that you just can't embed the videos directly from their sites, but force you to actually go their website and watch the videos from there or wait til they become available on youtube. Thx. for the kind words ...
https://www.euronews.com/live
I mean't 'copy and paste'
See I am computer impaired no wonder I have such a hard time doing my job. No wonder I get so many bounces on my monthly email lists.
Hang on for a little while mimi...
we've got a huge snow storm expected to hit about 7:00 this evening and I've got to do some stuff before it hits. I'll investigate your video problem later this afternoon.
Beer run
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Brake rotor...
then cover the boat. Possible 10-12 inches, depending on how it tracks.
Wet snow?
That's a bunch. Stuff collapses, wires and trees fall. Of course you know that.
Stay off the brakes, power slide steering. :-O
I always like running out to get something for the grill. Grilling in the snow!
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
Yep...
wet snow and then down to 8 degrees tomorrow night. And the god damn bolts on the caliper bracket wont budge!!! Soaking the shit out of them with penetrating oil (Blaster), may not get it off today. Shit, just might make that beer run after all.
Liquid wrench
From the rode hard put away wet days.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -
oh, oh, so my son is quasi right to be afraid
of lots of cold and lots of snow, heh?
https://www.euronews.com/live
Snow?? I thought he was in Hawaii!
Is he an astronomer who spends all his time high atop Mauna Kea?
oh forgettaboutit - there are ways around it and
if you can see a video embedded here three hours earlier or not isn't going to change to help the achieve world peace...
Prost!
https://www.euronews.com/live
I watched that
and I was in tears afterwards knowing what a heavy burden all these men carry.
Mimi, I cannot embed a video from Democracy Now! unless it is from YouTube.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Is this the video mimi?
I don't understand why it doesn't work for you. I do the exact same procedure that you cite above and the video previews and plays just fine.
Do you run a script blocking extension in your browser, like Noscript, because I have to allow Democracy Now.com and jwpcdn.com in NoScript or the video doesn't display.
The videos display just fine here so if you can't embed them then the problem is in your end. Something in your browser settings is blocking one or both of the two sites I mention, that would be my educated guess.
OK mimi...
after re-reading your original comment above here's what you are doing wrong. You are doing everything right except DO NOT click the "Insert video" icon above the editor box. Paste the embed code directly into the editor (the comment box) and then it will preview and post just like it's supposed to.
aha ...
didn't show in preview
did it show after posting?
https://www.euronews.com/live
Thanks JtC, it still doesn't show in the preview,
but it shows after posting that way. Just have to remember not to use the "insert video" icon.
How is the snow going "chez toi" ?
https://www.euronews.com/live
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