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To disprove an adage, and to show a matter of amount, of degree, and nothing else.
Ultimate aim would be to show enough money can buy happiness, at least for malefactors of great wealth, and just lie to the peasantry. That is today's Republican Experiment. Honor it. Believe. Moreover, Dickens erred. Scrooge was not elderly, he was a middle-aged Wisconsin man with Munster hair and charmless. Koch ghosts haunted his younger thoughts until he got his mind right.
Would you buy a used car from this man?
Would it influence your response if he said he might be able to get you a good Bank loan for it, they know him there?
Chomsky.
If Paul Ryan's agenda sickens you -
TomJoe - Joe, arm around his most beloved SUPERDELEGATE
An abiding insult to progressives happened in 2016 when the two most unpopular candidates of all time were offered the public by the two stranglehold parties. NEVER FORGET. END MONEY RUNNING POLITICS. END SUPERDELEGATES. REFORM THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY BY MAKING IT, OF ALL THINGS, DEMOCRATIC. Try clicking the image, to see double-speak from an "unpledged delegate" claiming neutrality. If the double-speak and the image (and Davos) fail to remind you of the George Carlin "big club" online video, it should. And yet, fight it anyway, because you are alive and upset, (if you are either).
American Gothic.
Whose Party is it; and when was it purchased?
click the image, read it, then read the Variety story (and follow the link in it to the moneybags suck-up letter). Then - Weep for the people. They lack great wealth and cannot buy suck-up politician-attention from those making lifetime earnings selling it.
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to fight stupidity in all its forms
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Lest we forget. A lingering problem.
Take comfort. Everybody owns a share.
As Guv of Indiana, an electorate had lost its tolerance. A quite dead political career, but then . . .
Bernie at the People's Summit. Click the image to watch the video.
Democracy Now! posted to YouTube. If you've not an hour to watch this you have the spirit of a brick. Or you're a Republican. But I repeat myself.
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery
click the image - clear your mind
Tulsi Gabbard - Veteran of two Iraq tours.
Congresswoman Gabbard expresses rational doubt over not the military she served, but about continuation of the policy of Islamic regime change warfare and the consequences. Click the image, to watch the interview with The Young Turks alternate media outlet.
Tomorrow Belongs To Me. Perhaps?
image from: The Atlantic - click image to read
Jeremy Corbyn.
You know them, you've lived next to them, they have their worldview.
TITANIC hubris. PREMATURE prancing.
End forever the "superdelegate" insult. They have had a big-time learning experience, but have they learned??? So -
Man with two teleprompters, comfortable cliches, Davos flavored.
YOUTUBE - Davos 2017 - Special Address by Joe Biden - after intro Biden starts at three minute mark. Globalism espoused. Empty words, empty suit, or careful craftmanship to speak at length enunciating a paucity of CHANGE or HOPE?
Rename the "Democratic Party" the "Superdelegate Party," unless and until ...
If Tom Perez's DC beltway bunch stay anti-Democratic, then rename "the DNC" to "the SNC" (the Superdelegate National Committee") in honor of the big thumb on the scale. Above is a grassroots-friendly Ramsey ward 2 precinct 2 caucus resolution, unanimously passed (click it to read). May it not fall through the cracks between precinct caucus and moving up the caucus and convention totem pole. It is sad, indeed dreadful how things now are.
Ossoff LOST in Georgia, despite trainloads of beltway/Hollywood money.
Bernie did not wholly turn his back; but unlike as with Quist, Bernie was not invited, nor a focus. It was the beltway Dems' chance to flex their muscles. Bernie did have a pro-Ossoff message. Tepid? Yes. Comparable to beltway DCCC late money spent in Montana - in limited amounts.
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Selfie from hell.
Sell 'em Prosperity Gospel and feed 'em beans. Some never catch on.
What is Prosperity Gospel? It is: Channeling the mind of a brick into GOP and related dogma. Read this Minnesota story. Click the image to read its fine print. (image source: Bluestem Prairie) The image shows a part of the "mind" of a 30 yr. and still-going Prosperity Gospel faithful attendee. A Dev Crabgrass post fleshes things out. Islamaphobia is but one dimension of a larger "GOP base" stupidity. Stupidity you can bank on. HINT: Follow links in items linked here. Questions will get answered. And --- There's more -
But wait. There's more -
DNC solidarity, yes, but continuity means more. To HappyJoe, if not to real people with real needs and hopes. Click the image, read the HuffPo proportionality suggestion.
Click the image; read all about it
Tweet if you IQ is 90 or lower; 55 being best. YES I'M TALKING TO YOU!
Click the image to see what's behind that AP lead image. An EXCLUSIVE, nobody else to touch it. It was Cambridge Analytica and Conway personal polling that settled on that IQ55 optimum. Don't want too much that way for occupying the Trumperville heart of the city. Dumbing it down from Sean Spicer may be a challenge, however, . . . rest assured.
tt's the din that counts.
DON'T GIVE UP THE FIGHT.
click the image, read the story, fund those better than this
The NHS survived the close vote. The Corbyn Manifesto has state-side merit.
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Who are they? What are they up to?
Official site: What. Who. Best site name; with coverage. A surprise; neither Don Quixote nor his Sancho Panza as part of the Who. Will they be there incognito? Other prominent MIAs: here, here, here and for a bonus, here.
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Are we to see a reenactment swearing contest; what did he know and when did he know it?
click the image to read Politico coverage. Out of the loop, integral part of the loop, what will we learn?
Roundup the grassroots?
Not an entrenched beltway bunny? Then click the image and in about one minute, understand your place in the pre-Trump Democratic Party. What next, folks?
DINO NEWS: Democrats in Name Only; they exist as a problem.
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“There are a lot of Minnesotans who are Franken-Trump voters. You have to go and talk to them, and you have to listen. That’s what we need to do. We need to listen.”
Al knows the score better. Al knows Sanders-Franken voter numbers dwarf that Trump-Franken segment, as to where Al needs to pay most attention, "to listen."
Al, in no uncertain terms, should be telling Tom Perez and the beltway money-bunnies of a new fresh smell in the air. Recognizing (in kind wording) one DINO foundation-family's drift, now, into irrelevancy is far from admitting what's relevant and moving full speed to the Bernie side of the force.
Dinosaurs, DINO ways and means, must and will be extinct (can you say "Primary Joe Manchin and Clair McCaskill"). As Al in the item says; listen. Hear Bernie sounding like a giant asteroid strike upon a DINO status quo. Indeed, primary the poster DINO-bunny of artful misdirection and status quo actions, Cory Booker. Gain attention from that, successful or not. Ideally, send Cory to work with Eric Cantor on Wall Street, where his heart is.
Just an old sweet song.
Rob Quist tried. He and his family, gaining public attention, have shown well. May they prosper.
Montana seems a good state that voted wrongly. From outside of Montana Quist's virtues include being an artist, rebel, populist progressive, and free spirit. Naming their son Guthrie is fine, and at a guess a sense of western history touched daughter Halliday's naming - the Halliday windmill - but perhaps not and the name is based on a kinship genealogy. Roots in Montana with promise for a nation, money pumped from outside did in the candidacy despite grassroots money to make it a fight. We must fight forward from this battle toward winning an anti-plutocrat modern New Deal war.
What has a meandering digression got to do with the job of legislating good law?
Of interest. My favorite Odyssey film is Oh Brother Where Art Thou.
California's S.B. 562 - With an economy and population equaling Canada's, would doctors rebel?
Be skeptical of glib bullshit fed out absent a sense of history.
Remembering Bubba's 1990's ham-handed short-sighted tampering in Russian politics on behalf of an oligarchic corrupt and painfully mediocre buffoon might lend a "deja vu" role-reversal focus upon blowback felt today. Wikileaks? Panama papers Putin.
PRESCIENCE
CLICK IMAGE - watch, think, learn.
Twisted seconds of evil?
click image, watch, judge for the sake of our nation's children and their offspring. UPDATE: ZeroHedge. Ditto.
Alma mater commencement speaker
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Speech transcript online. An opportunity among a friendly Wellsley crowd, without mentioning names, to dump on Trump via an analogy to Nixon "impeachment."
Two questions: First what was the speaker fee? (Goldman level, or adjusted?) Second, given how Ms. Clinton reacted to election results the day after, why in the world is she not forming an, "I Won The Popular Vote he Had More Electors So Let's Amend the Constitution Together," PAC instead of some such "Still Relevant Together" thing in cahoots with Howard Dean? (Such and amendment would be relevant.)
Slick website. Real slick. GMO progressive, perhaps?
Click the image - view the webpage. Too slick? Consider the highlighted word "Bernie" in the context that:"Many of us," and "Some of the people [...] include" begs a question big time. Not a penny from me, until out of the weeds on useful truth; i.e., disclose "most of us" and "Bosses, with 2016 candidate affiliations, are ..." to get helpfully specific. Would you buy an auto without knowing something of the engine?
THE ONLY SANE HEALTHCARE REFORM. credit: MN Progressive Project - MPP's Moyers on Marty Plan post.
Click the image for the complete MPP post. Click here for the Bill Moyers post. Click here to Download the free e-book authored by MN Sen. John Marty. Click here for journal article, "Single-Payer Reform: The Only Way to Fulfill the President's Pledge of More Coverage, Better Benefits, and Lower Costs." Click here for pnhp.org - Physicians for a National Health Program.
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If one party can be made responsive to the people, its one more than the status quo. Learn or be sidetracked makes sense, but propaganda can be "wrong ox" our established Dem ox does not deserve to be gored. Our ox is the good ox, pulling your pitiful little wagon, really. Yours; trust me. Take the time to ponder.
Take the hour to watch. Is it for you? If the Tea Party insurgency brand is not for you . . .
Click the image for the video. Also, Wikipedia, and follow links as you choose. "Primary" the superdelegates since they decline stepping aside? Perhaps they adapt and join for justice. Do your own websearch, find out more.
Glen Taylor's Strib. Feel good news?
Bernie discusses a speech he'd heard. A speech with a pair of potted plants behind the speaker.
Click the image to watch a critique.
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Cause for skepticism. And worry.
Click image, read Salon item.
All you need is love?
Imagine: Imagine there's no money ... to hugging on a flag ... ...................................................
dictionary definition -
A long-standing definition. You can tell by how the paper's aged.
Fool me once . . .
Socialism, suitably defined, is great.
Click the image, see a definition. Agree or not but it's free of fearmongering.
Non-socialists, having a good laugh.
image credit: New York Times "And shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock."
Non-socialists, having a good laugh.
Brothers in spirit. Holding kindred dynastic yearnings, which got trumped. Should we anticipate better times as we await Trump's competence? Don't laugh for too long. The bar is set by precedent.
Bubba and Blankfein do lunch at the Boca Raton Resort And Country Club.
Jill Stein on CSPAN - questions and answers
click the image, view the video
Cornel West interviewed on Democracy Now! by Amy Goodman. The reasons why West endorses JILL STEIN.
Having been a stong Sanders supporter and having a minority DNC convention platform voice, West now has shifted enthusiastically to Green Party support of Stein. Click the image to watch the video.
ALEC and its class war aimed to hamstring local initiative.
Click the image to read the report of coordinated nationwide effort in state legislatures to curb wage and work condition relief by local ordinance. .....................................
The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
Click the WaPo image. Imagine Mickey, Fantasia, the mischief, the flooding bucket, the dancing mop. After Iowa, gone. Fired as Apprentice "Loser."
Earth will not get mad.
click image -- Then, imagine the time frame on which Earth will get even. "Not in my lifetime" is a cop-out. As is "Maybe not ...". Unconditional denial is either fraud or vast unrecognized ignorance.
liberty -
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Emancipate yourself from mental slavery
Historical Roots of liberty -
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About Me
- eric zaetsch
- Favorite MN Statute: MS Ch. 554, "Free Speech; Participation in Government." Favorite MN case: Moore v Hoff, 821 N.W.2d 591 (Minn. App. 2012) (alt. online link). Litigated by Paul Godfread. Attorney John Borger wrote as amicus in Moore v. Hoff, and won Hunter v. Hartman, 545 N.W.2d 699 (Minn.App. 1996). Apart from that: Why settle for Obama's or Hillary's lame policies, with Wellstone and Elizabeth Warren as paradigms? Forget letting right wingers define and argue a narrow band of politics remote from Wellstone. Move the debate leftward for a saner, more humane and more decent state, nation and world.
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MONEY allowed THEM to do THIS to US.
So, replace and fix the process. But beware. There are a multitude of THEM. Fungible and waiting. Fungible in retrospect.
Little trainees. Caution advised.
A video pair. Who could ask for more?
Here. Here.
Talking to Mammon is a big-time part of things. Don't doubt.
Without Mammon being paid and providing the technology, it's sticks and stones. Mammon has no music. Coin of the realm does fine.
Tell them stories. The Armor? It's the Bullshit that's deadly. If it's indoctrinate and not educate, make it on your dime, no vouchers for dogma. Just say no. To vouchers.
Here. Here.
Talking to Mammon is a big-time part of things. Don't doubt.
Without Mammon being paid and providing the technology, it's sticks and stones. Mammon has no music. Coin of the realm does fine.
Tell them stories. The Armor? It's the Bullshit that's deadly. If it's indoctrinate and not educate, make it on your dime, no vouchers for dogma. Just say no. To vouchers.
What Evil Empire, huh? You're delusional.
three stooges
No, not dressed for roles in a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta.
Actual sartorial decision making by Cambridge Analytica after doing a full micro personality assessment of each. One as if having a Gilbert and Sullivan role, the other as if a mid-level Russian Cold War commissar from midway along the Trans Siberian Railway, but with ambition toward a Kremlin posting. Brecht died before he could write a role for Yeltsin. Nevermind; Bannon Tune Time.
Bipartisanship
... and I agree with my friends. My friends agree with their friends, while the friend of my friend is the enemy of my enemies and their friends, and the friend of an enemy of the friends of my enemy is -- wait, I lost the thread ... Well, okay, how about this one, this Shia walks into a Sunni bar and sez, ...
We know, we know, so off askance we go?
Worth two thousand words
Why in the world not?
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Rights and Resources
Wisdom of the ages?
source, here; click image, and have a nice suppertime, whenever ................................................
Make CHANGE more than a slogan.
But wait. There's more ...
-- AND -- There is wisdom to candidate-direct contributing, vs. the generic party collected/distributed variety -- with the former you know what you are buying and, by specificity, you can cull out funding any of the dregs --
Blog Archive
Marley tune time.
click image to open tune.
Marley tune time - 2
click the Justice Democrats image for a possible "fight-song tune"
DC POLITICS in our US Capital --
-- crooked as a ram's horn --
and what we need to do
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DENTON COUNTY, TEXAS, ROTARY CLUB -
Dumb-ass bureaucrats can be a bother.
NOTICE. NOTICE. NOTICE.
ACTUNG. ACTUNG. ACTUNG.
Today [29.July.2015] while authoring a blog post I noticed Google added this:
"European Union laws require you to give European Union visitors information about cookies used on your blog. In many cases, these laws also require you to obtain consent.
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Following the link Google gave, there is this follow-up verbiage, to make EU bureaus satisfied, hopefully, and since it's all Google stuff and since I am a person working alone and in obscurity putting stuff online w/o compensation or resources, any/all inquiries, hence, should be directed after suitable user websearch, to Google.
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Back to the blog author's text: Bureaucrats are Crabgrass. So, God bless the EU, Google, and their respective bureaus and lawyers.
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