"Problem Solver" (No Labels).

Later, I've got an interesting screenshot and video of this Republican, turned Democrat in 2011, in order to run for his Florida seat in 2012!

Bottom Line: He's on board with "modernizing" Social Security, etc. (read cutting benefits)

IOW, he is a fiscal austerian like all the "No Labelers."

Mollie

pretty damning.

I hate the whole thing. So self-destructive. Heh, I want to read something "nicer". Or listen to some nice music and forget this shit. Very depressing.

Thanks for your efforts to provide me the links. The problem is, I am sick and tired to read that stuff. I got the picture a long time ago, and the picture is of a kind that I don't want to look into the details anymore.

I understand the mechanism of silencing. Well, as my sig says, you can't stop a brain from thinking, you can only stop the tongue from talking about what you think. Threaten to do so, is a "canary in the coal-mine" signal to me.

What a sad thing to witness.

and refresh my memory. Be aware that readers like me don't even know what LIHOP and MIHOP was. When 9/11 happened and much of all the fuss discussions about CT around it later I was not aware of. I just happened to run many, many years later (by accident actually) in videos discussing the way the towers fell down and all of that. Apparently that were all "known knowna" to the all knowing writers and journalists on DK and "old stuff". To me it was not and I posted an innocent question about this. ... and got my first warning on DK. That was also the first time I became aware of how the site was surveilled for comments on issues and then "warned" as appropriate issue to talk about with the intention to exclude you from further commenting on DK.

So, basically, the DK site could only survive excluding any comments that included 9/11, I/P and Nazi/Hitler Germany. I accepted that for a long time as being reasonable considering the way people incite feelings and hate and bash each other online very badly.

It's only in the last two years or so I started to feel that this kind of excluding issues was not working in a way it probably was meant to work.

So, it's only last week I for the first time questioned the "rules" that are behind the exclusion of issues that can be talked about.

Whereas I can understand the fear of constant fights over I/P issues to be justified, and I can understand the futility to even try to find out the truth about the 9/11 attacks (given up that we will ever know - a fact I hate about most of the US traumatic events - they never are beyond a reasonable doubt clarified and give endless food for fictional pseudo-fact-finding writings), I find the Goodwin Law really a bit stupid.

But whatever, I don't have a dog in this fight. One can certainly read and write about Third Reich and Hitler and trying to limit it, is beyond my understanding.

Later someone told me that every diary and every comment is read by someone to check if they are appropriate. That is may be a year ago or so and I started to wonder about it all. I like the work of the diary rescue workers on DK, considering that it is such a hard thing to do. But then I hate the predator comment searchers, who use their surveillance of the site, to incite hate among readers and writers.

That's what makes the site so difficult to handle. I always find it more interesting, what is not written and talked about, and who does not comment on issues than the other way around. And I found that those people who would have the most knowledge and probably the most insightful comments to make, don't make them. With that in mind the site becomes a "noise machine". That again is really sad, because so many hard working writers give us a lot of detailed info and it's unfair and disrespectful to those, who get drowned in the "shouting out and against each other fights".

I regret those fights and wished people would be less personal in their attacks. You won't hear me saying "Obama is a war criminal", considering that there are so many people in the US, who really hate the guy just because he is black and not because they don't agree with what he implemented as his policies. It makes the whole personalized criticism of Obama a thing like a shot in your own feet.

Just yesterday three persons of different generations, who have certainly thought and read about racial, ethnic and religious discriminated, really told me one can not neglect that personal racist hate of people. It's something for me hard to imagine. The hate among people in the US is of a sort, I can't understand. I was asked, if Germans hate Obama, because he is black, and I was stunned about the question. We liked the guy over there, he was received with enthusiasm. So, no personalized hate and certainly not for his race. But that doesn't mean one can't be criticial of US foreign policies and feel "pressured" or disappointed of what is happening.

That's why I get annoyed if people mix up "racist emotions" with "being critical of policies, rerpesented by a black US president".

It's a very disappointing realization that this issue is used to divide and to incite the very hate one would like to avoid getting drawn into. Basically, it has me turned off completely by now. I don't want to be reminded of it, neither there, nor here.

in business or being in it again. Just read a couple of articles over there and was surprised. I have forgotten if Billmon's identity is known or not. In any case, good to know it's still there and they are still writing. Can't forget the site, because Brecht's play, the "Dreigroschenoper" and the songs in there were my favorite record I listened to in the early sixties as a teenager. Brecht was read by German kids in highschool during the fifties and sixties and the songs of the Dreigroschenoper quite well known. My father's favorite was "Meckie Messer" (here sang by Brecht himself) and mine was "Surabaya Johnny', sang by Lotte Lenya.

Sorry just was drawn into old memories. So many things lost in my memory. That's how I became fond of the Moon of Alabama site some day back in the earlier days of DK.