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Captain Beefheart
From:Open Thread - Rants, Muses, Books & Music (and Some Cooking Too). 		duckpin Tue, 01/24/2017 - 09:06am 0
Hello MarkfromQueens - thanks for the OT. I wish
From:Open Thread - Rants, Muses, Books & Music (and Some Cooking Too). 		duckpin Tue, 01/24/2017 - 06:03am 1 Tue, 01/24/2017 - 08:48am
@#4 I think the 8 years of
From:Trump formally stops the TPP, and announces NATFA renegotiation 		duckpin Mon, 01/23/2017 - 04:48pm 1 Tue, 01/24/2017 - 05:43pm
Reply to solublefish
From:OMG! The world has ended. Trumpka? Supporting? 		duckpin Mon, 01/23/2017 - 04:45pm 0
@#3 My guess Trump will tip
From:Trump formally stops the TPP, and announces NATFA renegotiation 		duckpin Mon, 01/23/2017 - 02:54pm 1 Mon, 01/23/2017 - 03:17pm
So far it's Trump with one promise kept.
From:Trump formally stops the TPP, and announces NATFA renegotiation 		duckpin Mon, 01/23/2017 - 02:01pm 2 Mon, 01/23/2017 - 08:24pm
The AFL-CIO is about jobs for Americans. Obama & the
From:OMG! The world has ended. Trumpka? Supporting? 		duckpin Mon, 01/23/2017 - 01:58pm 1 Mon, 01/23/2017 - 04:03pm
Reply to Hillybillydem
From:January 23, 2017 Open Thread; Happy Bounty Day. 		duckpin Mon, 01/23/2017 - 11:43am 0
Django Reinhardt recorded a lot and most is on CD now.
From:January 23, 2017 Open Thread; Happy Bounty Day. 		duckpin Mon, 01/23/2017 - 07:43am 1 Mon, 01/23/2017 - 10:27am
@#1.2 I certainly agree with
From:Moving On. 		duckpin Sun, 01/22/2017 - 12:14pm 0
@#5.1 The Washington Generals
From:Moving On. 		duckpin Sun, 01/22/2017 - 11:42am 0
@#1.1 Agree entirely: The
From:Moving On. 		duckpin Sun, 01/22/2017 - 06:59am 0
"Rights are merely privilege extended, unless enjoyed by one
From:Moving On. 		duckpin Sun, 01/22/2017 - 06:32am 2 Sun, 01/22/2017 - 12:02pm
Tribal government
From:Standing Rock and DC: Violence and More Violence from Cops 		duckpin Sat, 01/21/2017 - 05:40pm 0
Democrats: If AIPAC opposes, it's not going to happen.
From:DNC = Democrats Never Change; the sad story of Keith Ellison 		duckpin Sat, 01/21/2017 - 01:37pm 1 Sat, 01/21/2017 - 05:48pm
@#10 What you have written is
From:Much more than a "squabble" 		duckpin Sat, 01/21/2017 - 05:43am 0
@#2.2 Occupy forced most
From:What got ignored today 		duckpin Sat, 01/21/2017 - 05:29am 0
@#1.1 @#1.1 If the stock goes
From:What got ignored today 		duckpin Fri, 01/20/2017 - 06:26pm 0
Both sensible suggestions. Surely there must be some way
From:What got ignored today 		duckpin Fri, 01/20/2017 - 04:55pm 0
Stock buybacks: It's a form of insider trading that was illegal
From:What got ignored today 		duckpin Fri, 01/20/2017 - 04:33pm 1 Fri, 01/20/2017 - 05:53pm
I would say that Nobel prizes are almost a big of a joke as
From:How many bombs must a Nobel Laureate drop? 		duckpin Thu, 01/19/2017 - 02:19pm 0
Columbia Journalism Review: Trump can't stop us from doing
From:The Evening Blues - 1-18-17 		duckpin Wed, 01/18/2017 - 04:11pm 1 Wed, 01/18/2017 - 07:09pm
Reply to: joe shikspack
From:The Evening Blues - 1-18-17 		duckpin Wed, 01/18/2017 - 04:07pm 0
NATO
From:The Evening Blues - 1-18-17 		duckpin Wed, 01/18/2017 - 03:31pm 1 Wed, 01/18/2017 - 03:45pm
This is a general comment & not a hijack: The Federal
From:Standing Rock: Army Corps Files “Notice of Intent” for Environmental Impact Statement 		duckpin Wed, 01/18/2017 - 11:36am 0
Obama cements his legacy by taking the US to the brink of war
From:"Russian Collaborators" and the MIC 		duckpin Tue, 01/17/2017 - 04:07pm 0
Reply to: Lookout
From:Water Protector Run Over by a Snowmobile 		duckpin Tue, 01/17/2017 - 11:35am 0
Among the enemies of the I.W.W. was the AFL under Samuel Gompers
From:Wobblie Free Speech Fights 		duckpin Mon, 01/16/2017 - 02:22pm 0
Reply to: enhydra lutris
From: January 16, 2017 Open Thread; Martin Luther King Day 		duckpin Mon, 01/16/2017 - 11:29am 0
Reply to: Lookout
From: January 16, 2017 Open Thread; Martin Luther King Day 		duckpin Mon, 01/16/2017 - 11:23am 0
The country wanted change and was ready for it. Bernie
From: January 16, 2017 Open Thread; Martin Luther King Day 		duckpin Mon, 01/16/2017 - 08:00am 1 Mon, 01/16/2017 - 10:28am
Many thanks eyo. I really like what Bragg has done and
From: January 16, 2017 Open Thread; Martin Luther King Day 		duckpin Mon, 01/16/2017 - 06:58am 1 Mon, 01/16/2017 - 08:44am
The Internationale
From: January 16, 2017 Open Thread; Martin Luther King Day 		duckpin Mon, 01/16/2017 - 06:24am 2 Mon, 01/16/2017 - 10:19am
Good one. You only forgot to add that Standard&Poor's
From:The Democrats are right about Trump! 		duckpin Sun, 01/15/2017 - 02:31pm 1 Sun, 01/15/2017 - 03:17pm
Now will people realize it's the MIFC - the military/industrial/
From:The Democrats are right about Trump! 		duckpin Sun, 01/15/2017 - 01:31pm 0
Why isn't AIPAC required to register as an agent of a
From:Why is the inauguration still going ahead? 		duckpin Sat, 01/14/2017 - 09:17am 1 Sat, 01/14/2017 - 09:42am
Yes I saw that too how the Israeli embassey named actual
From:Why is the inauguration still going ahead? 		duckpin Sat, 01/14/2017 - 09:00am 1 Sat, 01/14/2017 - 09:03am
Big money prefers Pence to Trump.
From:Why is the inauguration still going ahead? 		duckpin Sat, 01/14/2017 - 08:38am 1 Sat, 01/14/2017 - 08:58am
Why now? The owners of society can't control one who can't
From:Why is the inauguration still going ahead? 		duckpin Sat, 01/14/2017 - 07:17am 2 Sat, 01/14/2017 - 08:48am
You're welcome. We'll never see or hear this in the corporate
From:Obama's cements his shameful civil rights legacy 		duckpin Fri, 01/13/2017 - 03:52pm 0
That's about as good a one sentence summary as exists!
From:Obama's cements his shameful civil rights legacy 		duckpin Fri, 01/13/2017 - 02:54pm 1 Fri, 01/13/2017 - 03:09pm
If the USA spent $7.6Billion to eradicate opium why
From:Just because you aren't paying attention to Afghanistan, doesn't mean it went away 		duckpin Fri, 01/13/2017 - 02:26pm 2 Fri, 01/13/2017 - 05:51pm
That's one part of it, certainly. Another is by shoe-horning
From:Obama's cements his shameful civil rights legacy 		duckpin Fri, 01/13/2017 - 01:56pm 1 Tue, 01/17/2017 - 07:41am
How's that Identity Politics working out for us? Maybe Cory
From:Obama's cements his shameful civil rights legacy 		duckpin Fri, 01/13/2017 - 12:37pm 2 Sun, 01/15/2017 - 07:58am
I recall some posters saying Sanders could never be an
From:Now that's interesting 		duckpin Thu, 01/12/2017 - 11:23am 1 Thu, 01/12/2017 - 12:51pm
I think those that were longer than my 10 months would
From:Now that's interesting 		duckpin Wed, 01/11/2017 - 05:35pm 1 Wed, 01/11/2017 - 09:33pm
Good one! Academic and business economists today ignore
From:Environmental Melancholia 		duckpin Tue, 01/10/2017 - 06:48pm 0
When I got my rabies shots, after my dog & I were attacked
From:The Evening Blues - 1-10-17 		duckpin Tue, 01/10/2017 - 06:43pm 1 Tue, 01/10/2017 - 07:04pm
Yes he was - I really liked most of what he did.
From:The Evening Blues - 1-10-17 		duckpin Tue, 01/10/2017 - 06:39pm 1 Tue, 01/10/2017 - 06:59pm
Robert Pete Williams would often turn the blues into a
From:The Evening Blues - 1-10-17 		duckpin Tue, 01/10/2017 - 04:30pm 1 Tue, 01/10/2017 - 06:35pm
It's bizarre how smart people can go about their business
From:Environmental Melancholia 		duckpin Tue, 01/10/2017 - 04:05pm 0
No more palm trees in Cork, Ireland
From:Environmental Melancholia 		duckpin Tue, 01/10/2017 - 03:13pm 0
I think you did well to recognize the impossibility of
From:Environmental Melancholia 		duckpin Tue, 01/10/2017 - 03:07pm 2 Tue, 01/10/2017 - 07:36pm
In 1994, the radical economist John Bellamy Foster wrote:
From:Environmental Melancholia 		duckpin Tue, 01/10/2017 - 02:43pm 1 Tue, 01/10/2017 - 02:53pm
As an individual, there is nothing meaningful one can do.
From:Environmental Melancholia 		duckpin Tue, 01/10/2017 - 01:37pm 1 Tue, 01/10/2017 - 01:55pm
Thanks for this. It is important to realize that there a many
From:Donate to Tulsi without Markos getting his cut 		duckpin Tue, 01/10/2017 - 05:54am 0
Yes. We. Can. (if Wall Street says it's OK)
From:The Evening Blues - 1-9-17 		duckpin Mon, 01/09/2017 - 07:54pm 0
The BLM kowtows to western Senators and can't be trusted.
From:The Evening Blues - 1-9-17 		duckpin Mon, 01/09/2017 - 07:52pm 0
Great essay Steven D!
From:US Intelligence Community's History of Wrongly Blaming Other Countries for Cyber-attacks 		duckpin Mon, 01/09/2017 - 07:46pm 0
0bama allowed some of his cabinet to be selected by WS
From:Let's make a List. Fun. Fun. Fun? 		duckpin Mon, 01/09/2017 - 07:43pm 0
The public lands managed by the BLM, USFS, NPS, and
From:The Evening Blues - 1-9-17 		duckpin Mon, 01/09/2017 - 04:26pm 1 Mon, 01/09/2017 - 06:43pm
A couple of thoughts: I think the official start of the Cold War
From:Done like dinner 		duckpin Mon, 01/09/2017 - 03:58pm 0
Radical economists beginning in the 1960's predicted that
From:Done like dinner 		duckpin Mon, 01/09/2017 - 03:51pm 0
I think you've made a convincing argument to go a route
From:Time to re-fight the most recent battle. Ready to Rumble? 		duckpin Mon, 01/09/2017 - 01:50pm 1 Mon, 01/09/2017 - 03:34pm
This is a very well written & thought provoking essay - thanks
From:Time to re-fight the most recent battle. Ready to Rumble? 		duckpin Mon, 01/09/2017 - 01:09pm 1 Mon, 01/09/2017 - 01:26pm
Krugman and his neoliberal ilk seem to have come to the
From:Inconvenient Observations 		duckpin Mon, 01/09/2017 - 09:00am 1 Mon, 01/09/2017 - 05:45pm
Your post is the basis of why most of the world considers
From:The FBI railroaded Leonard Peltier--Will Obama pardon him? 		duckpin Sun, 01/08/2017 - 04:26pm 1 Sun, 01/08/2017 - 04:50pm
Two judges have taken notice of FBI misconduct during parts
From:The FBI railroaded Leonard Peltier--Will Obama pardon him? 		duckpin Sun, 01/08/2017 - 03:25pm 0
Paper ballots should be the rule.
From:It Happened - The End Game of the Russia Hacking Narrative 		duckpin Sun, 01/08/2017 - 12:44pm 2 Sun, 01/08/2017 - 11:11pm
I think that this is an important essay. From the evidence, it
From:It Happened - The End Game of the Russia Hacking Narrative 		duckpin Sun, 01/08/2017 - 12:34pm 3 Sun, 01/08/2017 - 03:13pm
He's a political prisoner and has had his life stolen from him
From:We Must Free Peltier, a US Political Prisoner for 40 Years 		duckpin Sat, 01/07/2017 - 02:50pm 0
Clinton was not kidding when she posed with Kissinger.
From:Even in Defeat, Hillary Wins 		duckpin Sat, 01/07/2017 - 08:05am 3 Sat, 01/07/2017 - 07:15pm
Yes you certainly have done so, and it's appreciated, but it
From: Democrats still proving they are incapable of reform 		duckpin Thu, 01/05/2017 - 05:22pm 2 Fri, 01/06/2017 - 08:09am
Thanks for the history of this important era.
From:La Commune: The Rise Of The Proletariat 		duckpin Mon, 01/02/2017 - 05:11pm 0
I agree that he is more like Don King than M.L.King; but in
From:It's not about Putin; It's just Dirty, Machiavellian Politics 		duckpin Mon, 01/02/2017 - 03:24pm 1 Mon, 01/02/2017 - 04:17pm
No, respectfully "no:" Obama self identifies as African-American
From:It's not about Putin; It's just Dirty, Machiavellian Politics 		duckpin Mon, 01/02/2017 - 02:24pm 1 Mon, 01/02/2017 - 03:07pm
Wonderful tactic to raise awareness! Thanks for pics.
From:NoDAPL Live at the Rose Parade 		duckpin Mon, 01/02/2017 - 11:58am 0
I like the point that you've made. Obama has taken hostile
From:Obama's sanctions on Russia for "hacking" have frightening implications 		duckpin Sat, 12/31/2016 - 10:41am 3 Sat, 12/31/2016 - 12:19pm
Here's hoping for a wonderful & productive 2017 for
From:Open Thread - Saturday December 31 		duckpin Sat, 12/31/2016 - 05:56am 0
I'd pay to watch BBB explain things in Boone County, WV!
From:Introducing the Precariat — Are You and I Members? 		duckpin Fri, 12/30/2016 - 05:43pm 0
I agree that there are many positives with the judge's order.
From:The Evening Blues - 12-30-16 		duckpin Fri, 12/30/2016 - 05:39pm 0
Federal District judge, Royce Lamberth, is in my view, an
From:The Evening Blues - 12-30-16 		duckpin Fri, 12/30/2016 - 04:07pm 1 Fri, 12/30/2016 - 05:01pm
Thanks very much edg for correcting me.
From:Introducing the Precariat — Are You and I Members? 		duckpin Fri, 12/30/2016 - 02:53pm 1 Sat, 12/31/2016 - 11:00am
Let's give credit to Uncle Whiskers & Engels for using the
From:Introducing the Precariat — Are You and I Members? 		duckpin Fri, 12/30/2016 - 02:13pm 1 Fri, 12/30/2016 - 02:40pm
Well said Crazy Horse - wish we would have listened
From:The Blessings of a Winter's Solstice 		duckpin Fri, 12/30/2016 - 07:43am 0
Pascal as quoted as saying: "There are two kinds of people in
From:The Blessings of a Winter's Solstice 		duckpin Thu, 12/29/2016 - 06:29am 3 Fri, 12/30/2016 - 04:35am
The term hillbilly was linked to mountain music by a Galax, VA,
From:The Evening Blues - 12-28-16 		duckpin Wed, 12/28/2016 - 07:42pm 0
Sure Ralph Peer - recorded the Carters & Jimmy Rodgers
From:The Evening Blues - 12-28-16 		duckpin Wed, 12/28/2016 - 07:27pm 0
And what loathsome thing did McCarthy say to elicit from Welch
From:Neo-McCarthyism threatens to spin out of control 		duckpin Wed, 12/28/2016 - 07:09pm 0
Hi Joe - the Carter Family was the big influence on me from
From:The Evening Blues - 12-28-16 		duckpin Wed, 12/28/2016 - 06:59pm 1 Wed, 12/28/2016 - 07:22pm
Charles Lindbergh was only one prominent member of the
From:Neo-McCarthyism threatens to spin out of control 		duckpin Wed, 12/28/2016 - 05:33pm 0
The Anthology of American Folk Music, Ed. by Harry Smith was
From:The Evening Blues - 12-28-16 		duckpin Wed, 12/28/2016 - 05:25pm 1 Wed, 12/28/2016 - 06:22pm
I think a main goal of McCarthyism, or Americanism, was to
From:Neo-McCarthyism threatens to spin out of control 		duckpin Wed, 12/28/2016 - 03:34pm 1 Wed, 12/28/2016 - 04:32pm
I don't know how to assess the situation either but I am
From:Standing Rock Legal Update: Only 2 Days Left to Write to ND Supreme Court 		duckpin Wed, 12/28/2016 - 12:35pm 0
I am hoping the social media will lessen the impact of Big Media
From:America, get a grip and take a breath! 		duckpin Wed, 12/28/2016 - 12:19pm 2 Thu, 12/29/2016 - 10:01am
Your wording reminded me what the poet Gregory Corso
From:America, get a grip and take a breath! 		duckpin Wed, 12/28/2016 - 11:43am 2 Wed, 12/28/2016 - 12:04pm
As an aside, I've always considered Kagan to be the silent 5th
From:America, get a grip and take a breath! 		duckpin Wed, 12/28/2016 - 11:20am 1 Wed, 12/28/2016 - 11:39am
Trump acting the buffoon on the international stage could
From:America, get a grip and take a breath! 		duckpin Wed, 12/28/2016 - 11:16am 0
I agree with you that Standing Rock is #1 right now and giving
From:open thread - ding dong the dems are dead 		duckpin Wed, 12/28/2016 - 10:30am 1 Wed, 12/28/2016 - 07:51pm
Keeping the populace stirred up, ignorant, and scared has been
From:America, get a grip and take a breath! 		duckpin Wed, 12/28/2016 - 08:39am 1 Wed, 12/28/2016 - 10:49am

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