C99, Happy New Year

Submitted by Big Al on Sat, 12/31/2016 - 11:03pm

Happy New Year to all those on Caucus99Percent. It's been a pleasure and privilege to interact with so many great people. People with good hearts who care about what's happening in their country and the world. Real people, truthseekers, some I've met, some I consider friends, some for many years now. Special HNY to JtC. You're a good man, brother. I greatly appreciate what you've done here and the opportunity to post my propaganda. It's been almost two years hasn't it?

So Happy New Year to all, I hope the best for everyone. Let's get something going in 2017, let's do a mass resolution that the Caucus99Percent blog is going to make a difference in 2017. Most of us have been at this long enough and the situation couldn't be more urgent. We have a strong voice here.

FREEDOM!!

I had this lined up for just a Friday night blog but never posted it. So since I'm too lazy to select another more appropo selection for New Year's Eve, I'll just run with it.

I used to love watching the Midnight Special, a musical variety show that aired late night on Fridays during the seventies. Come on, face it, there's nothing like that now. I liked the variety. Here's a sample of some of the memorable performances, except the first one which is just CCR singing the Midnight Special.

[video:https://youtu.be/M6NmHEFB2n8]

[video:https://youtu.be/jSC8aOexjyM]

[video:https://youtu.be/oESQHfog24g]

[video:https://youtu.be/NBHeCbWHf8Y]

[video:https://youtu.be/gg1w_WHZdiM]

[video:https://youtu.be/AgRcmF6QWgs]

[video:https://youtu.be/Kqb4-txQ708]

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Submitted by Pricknick on Sat, 12/31/2016 - 11:12pm

Here,

that would be called premature jubilation.
It's 11:58 here.
Best to all and theirs.

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Submitted by elenacarlena on Sat, 12/31/2016 - 11:25pm

Happy New Year, Big Al and All!

Thanks for the tunes! I struggled to stay up to watch the ball drop. I am "up," but have been asleep in my chair for the past couple hours or so, thus missed the magic changeover. Wow, 2017!! Well, it's OK so far. And now time to go to bed. I am only partly awake, no profound coherent thoughts. Good night, All!

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Submitted by JtC on Sat, 12/31/2016 - 11:54pm

Happy New Year Al...

and all the great c99 denizens!! Thanks also for the kind words Al!

I have some big plans for this site in the very near future, I plan on posting something about it tomorrow.

Rock on Al and all my Brothers and Sisters, you are all the best!

Submitted by LapsedLawyer on Sun, 01/01/2017 - 12:06am

Feliz Ano Nuevo a Todos, mis Amigos!

Sorry I haven't been around much these last several months, but I been busy moving. I'm downsizing in living space, so I had to sort through nearly a lifetime of accumulated and assorted junk, which takes a lot of effort when most of it contains some sort of sentimental value. But then, I guess a lot of you have been through this, so I won't bore you further with the details.

Meanwhile, I've been helping my parents do the same, so not a lot of time for the intertubes and lengthy comment. Hopefully I'll get back in the habit this year. I do kinda miss you guys, y'know?

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-- John Lennon

Submitted by snoopydawg on Sun, 01/01/2017 - 12:20am

Absolutely! Thanks JtC and the others who created this site!

My wish for all members here is for peace and prosperity in 2017.
Happy New Years!
snoopydawg, Charlie and Abby

Submitted by mimi on Sun, 01/01/2017 - 1:50am

aww, that's my doggie picture of the year 2017 !

Thanks Snoopydawg. Happy New Year to you.

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Sun, 01/01/2017 - 2:32am

You are welcome, mimi

Back atcha

Submitted by CS in AZ on Sun, 01/01/2017 - 12:40am

Perfect post for tonight - thanks Big Al

And thank you to JtC and everyone here at C99p. Best wishes for the new year!

Submitted by Alligator Ed on Sun, 01/01/2017 - 12:46am

Al, you said it perfectly.

Happier New Year to you, JtC, and so many others it would be difficult to list. My biggest joy of this year has been joining this wonderful c99 community. Thank you all for stretching my mind and collectively strengthening us all.

Submitted by MsGrin on Sun, 01/01/2017 - 1:12am

Happy New Year, all!

Whoo-hoo! 2016 is history!

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Submitted by Pluto's Republic on Sun, 01/01/2017 - 1:17am

It can be a wonderful New Year.

But no matter what comes, I'm grateful to the awesome people who have joined the conversation at c99. We have talked about everything under the sun, politically, and held it together. That's Johnny and Joe right there. True captains of this ship.

Happy New year, Al, and everyone. It's been the longest year and so much has happened. It's been a real game-changer.

Submitted by mimi on Sun, 01/01/2017 - 1:39am

Happy New Year, C99ers

it's a good place to call a virtual home and considering how often I return here, it has become my livingroom. Many thanks to the many writers here and to JtC and Joe for keeping the ship afloat and manoeuvring it through treacherous water. And a special shout out to Al: It's FREEDOM, but then there has to be
JUSTICE !! (So how do the two things work together I need to find out. My New Year's resolution is to have an answer to that by the end of 2017 ...

All the best for everybody here in 2017.

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Submitted by riverlover on Sun, 01/01/2017 - 2:39am

3 hours into 2017! So far, so good.

A great group here at c99! I have found many tube friends here. Wishing us all the best, if SHF we can get through it together. Solidarity, with discussions, too! Onward and upward!

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Submitted by gulfgal98 on Sun, 01/01/2017 - 6:41am

Happy New Year!!!

Thank you for the perfect post to ring in the New Year., Al. I am not a night person, so I was tucked in bed by the time the clock struck midnight. Actually the last time I was up late enough to ring in the New Year was in 2000. So I am ringing it in with this wonderful group of people here at C99 this morning.

A big thank you to CSTS who had the original idea for this site and to JtC who actually made it happen and makes it happen every day. JtC, you are the best!!! Thank you to Joe who helps keep a steady hand on the helm and to all the good folks who share their writing talents here.

Finally, I want to thank everyone who visits here and supports this site with your donations and comments. You have challenged me to think outside the box and to search for ways to try to improve my own contributions both here and in real life. Best wishes and many blessings to each of you in the coming year.

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“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy

Submitted by Hillbilly Dem on Sun, 01/01/2017 - 7:19am

Happy New Year, Big Al...

....and to all of the wonderful people at c99.

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Submitted by on the cusp on Sun, 01/01/2017 - 9:02am

Happy New Year Everybody!

Cheers!
We survived 2016!

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Submitted by eyo on Sun, 01/01/2017 - 11:02am

Dread like 1981

HNY from Northern California
For me 2017 and transient are synonymous, it feels familiar like I already lived through it too. Keep telling myself "just try to hold steady" and lol upon the sinking ship. Breath in, breath out. Peace.

Blow Magic Dick blow! Love that guy. "seems like everybody's shakin' 'cause the big one's 'bout to fall ". Mm, change.

oom

edit: Remembering who was governor in 1981. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Brown

Low-paying work is a problem faced by Brown's grandniece, the young relative who makes $30,000 a year and lives at home. Asked last week what he would tell her about her predicament, he responded:

"I'd say, we're not going to adopt the socialist system with Leninism and all the rest of it.... The modern economy is based on individual reward, with most of the money moving toward the top. That's the system."

To be fair he did end that with this air,

He added, "We try to mitigate that."

His lordship will retire to a 2500 acre spread whilst California's homeless are quite totally fucked, because 35 years of "That's the system." Why Sonoma County Workers Can’t Afford the Rent

The state also has drastically cut back funding for affordable housing. In 2011 Governor Jerry Brown eliminated local redevelopment agencies that were the state’s main source for affordable housing funding, generating $1 billion annually for moderate and low-income affordable housing. Subsequently the state has created no new sources to fund affordable housing.

Last year, the Governor effectively killed legislation that would have created a dedicated source of funding for affordable housing by increasing taxes on real estate-related documents at the point of sale. Brown also vetoed another bill that would have expanded the state’s low-income tax credits, enabling affordable housing developers to procure more than $1 billion in federal funds.

Submitted by Alligator Ed on Sun, 01/01/2017 - 12:04pm

Ah yes! Let's not forget lapsed liberal (or pseudo liberal) gov

Jerky Brown who continues endorsing fracking. Yes, he is a progressive--progressively getting worse.

Submitted by UntimelyRippd on Sun, 01/01/2017 - 12:23pm

man, that's depressing.

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Submitted by eyo on Sun, 01/01/2017 - 1:14pm

81 die like true blue rebels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_mourn,_organize!
"man, that's depressing". What's the capitol of California? Sacramento.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article121763488.html

With the temperatures falling toward freezing for a second night, about 150 people gathered Monday inside Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in midtown Sacramento to remember 81 homeless people who died on the streets this year.

The numbers of homeless men and women dying in Sacramento County have risen sharply in recent years, a report released Monday said.
...

Sorry but that is the Democratic truth. Plutocracy rule book, "That's the system."

Submitted by UntimelyRippd on Sun, 01/01/2017 - 3:31pm

i voted for brown in the '92 primary.

ugh.

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Submitted by eyo on Sun, 01/01/2017 - 4:29pm

1-800-426-1112

Jerry Brown’s 1-800 presidential hotline still works! (2013)

... from his upstart 1992 campaign against Bill Clinton for the democratic presidential nomination. I remember Brown’s almost comical dedication to the then-state of the art campaigning technique. He would drop the number in every speech, every interview. He even wore a sweatshirt with the number ironed on the front.

1992 Presidential Democratic Primary Election Results - California

William J. Clinton Arkansas Democratic 1,359,112 47.46% Edmund G. Brown California Democratic 1,150,460 40.18% Paul E. Tsongas Massachusetts Democratic 212,522 7.42% Eugene J. McCarthy Virginia Democratic 60,635 2.12% Robert Kerrey Nebraska Democratic 33,935 1.19% Larry Agran California Democratic 24,784 0.87% Lyndon H. La Rouche, Jr. Virginia Democratic 21,971 0.77%

Oh yeah Lyndon La Rouche, feh. I voted Clinton, my brother was delegate to the '92 convention, appointed by D.A. Arlo Smith to SF Democratic Central Committee, and a founding member of the Clinton Gore Democratic Club. It is how I came to meet Donna Brazile, meh. Also how I came to meet Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, truly great.
Solidarity

Submitted by EyeRound on Sun, 01/01/2017 - 5:15pm

"Mitigate"?? How Clinton-y!

OK, so the "modern economy" (aka "the system") is working perfectly well and there's no reason to undertake any fundamental changes. Or to even think about it very long, or analyze it, or develop critical insights, etc.

We just need to "mitigate" it?!?

So anybody can figure out a bottom line, right? Brown's legislative decisions, cited above, show that he knows how to KEEP the system working perfectly well.

How about "mitigating" our way into a whole new system. . . .

Submitted by Raggedy Ann on Sun, 01/01/2017 - 9:11am

Happy New Year, everyone!

I'm grateful to be kart if thus fantastic collection of truth seekers! Let's make 2017 a positive one!

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Submitted by gjohnsit on Sun, 01/01/2017 - 11:36am

A year at c99

Submitted by gjohnsit on Sun, 01/01/2017 - 11:41am

In comparison to TOP

Submitted by Dallasdoc on Sun, 01/01/2017 - 11:55am

Whadda ya know?

All those Brock shills got laid off, and TOP slides down toward complete irrelevance. Long past time to stop giving it any thought, and start building the future here.

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Submitted by gjohnsit on Sun, 01/01/2017 - 12:03pm

It's gonna get worse at TOP

They drove out many of their best writer.
Those writers kept the site going during non-election years.
Quality turns into quantity, not the other way around.

Submitted by gulfgal98 on Sun, 01/01/2017 - 1:33pm

gjohnsit, I want to thank you

for being one of the very first writers to come on board in our earliest days when we were a fledgling website.

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Submitted by Alligator Ed on Sun, 01/01/2017 - 12:09pm

Member list 2362 as of end of 2016

Slow and steady wins the race.

Submitted by gjohnsit on Sun, 01/01/2017 - 12:26pm

10X the number of members

In one year.

Submitted by Dallasdoc on Sun, 01/01/2017 - 11:51am

Happy New Year, Al!

Let me add my gratitude to the inimitable JtC and Joe for creating this wonderful place, filled with so many smart people. I'm particularly thankful to Big Al and Cassiodorus and the others who always make me question my assumptions and beliefs, and to the outstanding writers and thinkers who have assembled here.

I've been in and out since joining in March, but hope to be here more consistently in 2017. I need this community to help me cope with the upcoming changes in this country and the world, and look to the good folks here to help me make sense of the big changes we're going to see. I also hope we can give JtC and Joe the support they need to maintain and build our online home.

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Submitted by divineorder on Sun, 01/01/2017 - 12:10pm

Heh. TY. Over the course 2016 Dd your fundraising pitches

have inspired jakkalbessie and I to reach for our pocketbooks at least 3 times not only for candidates and campaigns, but also for C99 .

More power to us all in 2017 !

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Submitted by Dallasdoc on Sun, 01/01/2017 - 4:11pm

Many thanks back to you and jakkalbessie

Save your money. There are more fundraising efforts to come in 2017.

I hope one day we'll get a chance to get together and finally meet one another!

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Submitted by polkageist on Sun, 01/01/2017 - 3:50pm

Happy New Year Everyone.

I just want to add my word of appreciation for everyone on C99. We certainly need each other. Thanks to everyone who runs the site, who writes essays or comments, and who lurks and enjoys it all.

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-Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy, In a speech at the White House, 1962

Submitted by Linda Wood on Sun, 01/01/2017 - 7:37pm