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poligirl's Tour de Force at DK

Submitted by Alligator Ed on Mon, 04/25/2016 - 3:41am

I have just spent hours, yes hours, going through the comment thread at DK to poligirl's terrific Spiking the Football diary. Even now at this hour (1:34 A.M. PT) comments are still being added. I had to come up for air. Good points were made on both sides but it seemed to me that the Hillaryites, paid and unpaid Trolls, and DINOs more often used ridiculous arguments to bolster Her Majesty's case than did some of Bernie's supporters there.

Dialing for Dollars -- a Major way in which Congress is Broken

Submitted by jamess on Sun, 04/24/2016 - 10:02pm

A Congress critter's real job ...

No wonder only 14% of the people think Congress is doing a good job.

Because as Sixty Minutes reports, they spend most of their time on the Hill, NOT actually doing their jobs -- of representing us. They’ve got other responsibilities that are first on the To-Do List ...

Anti-Capitalist MeetUp: reclaiming the possibility of democracy or creating libertarian warlordism

Submitted by annieli on Sun, 04/24/2016 - 6:59pm
Sophie’s Hobson Choice on Maggies Bullet Farm: George Miller’s nearly aboriginal-free post-apocalypse vision or JJ Abrams’ non-LGBTQ utopian dystopia -— What a lovely day for Star Trek/War’s POC clone diversity already signalled
 

What remains certain is that Reconstruction failed, and that for blacks its failure was a disaster whose magnitude cannot be obscured by the genuine accomplishments that did endure.

- Eric Foner

The libertarian warlordism nationally rampant in the 1870s may yet return in the 21st Century, given its revival in the Second Reconstruction of the 1960s Civil Rights movement and its apparent reemergence in the post-9/11 period.

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