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by: Laura

Tue Mar 09, 2010 at 01:22:28 AM EST


   
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Mozart called Clementi a 'mechanicus' and... (4.00 / 2)
"Clementi is a charlatan, like all Italians."

Fuck haters!

Oh. Should I be talking about The Hurt Locker or something?


elephants are mad as hell and not going to take it anymore (5.00 / 2)
LUANDA (Reuters) - Wild elephants rampaged through a southern village in Angola last weekend, destroying farms and dozens of houses and prompting most of its 4,000 residents to flee to neighboring Namibia, a local official said Tuesday. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/201...



The defectors have started an underground railroad to smuggle other rebels out of hostile territory
Nice Helen Keller quote. (4.67 / 3)
Helen Keller, writing in 1911 to a suffragist in England:

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.. . .

You ask for votes for women. What good can votes do when ten-elevenths of the land of Great Britain belongs to 200,000 and only one-eleventh to the rest of the 40,000,000? Have your men with their millions of votes freed themselves from this injustice?

This quote comes from chapter 13 of A Peoples' History .... where Zinn goes over how much a vote is worth compared to direct action and fails to go over how much feminism was worth compared to socialism, though he touches on it without answering it:

When Susan Anthony, at eighty, went to hear Eugene Debs speak (twenty-five years before, he had gone to hear her speak, and they had not met since then), they clasped hands warmly, then had a brief exchange. She said, laughing: "Give us suffrage, and we'll give you socialism," Debs replied: "Give us socialism and we'll give you suffrage."

She was, of course, proven entirely wrong when within 20 years, women did get the vote and nothing changed in the slightest.

it's also the chapter on the progressive era:

The Progressive movement, whether led by honest reformers like Senator Robert La Follette of Wisconsin or disguised conservatives like Roosevelt (who was the Progressive party candidate for President in 1912), seemed to understand it was fending off socialism. The Milwaukee Journal, a Progressive organ, said the conservatives "fight socialism blindly . .. while the Progressives fight it intelligently and seek to remedy the abuses and conditions upon which it thrives."

It seems quite clear that much of this intense activity for Progressive reform was intended to head off socialism. Easley talked of "the menace of Socialism as evidenced by its growth in the colleges, churches, newspapers." In 1910, Victor Berger became the first member of the Socialist party elected to Congress; in 1911, seventy-three Socialist mayors were elected, and twelve hundred lesser officials in 340 cities and towns. The press spoke of "The Rising Tide of Socialism."



"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it", Helen Keller, communist.
this is great! hehehe (0.00 / 0)
kucinich is "reprehensible" according to markos. plus markos is going to get him a primary challenger!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

The defectors have started an underground railroad to smuggle other rebels out of hostile territory
What a little shitweasel (0.00 / 0)

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i looked up what he was going on about (4.00 / 1)
here it is, dennis starts at 3:50.
this is what is considered reprehensible:


The defectors have started an underground railroad to smuggle other rebels out of hostile territory
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Talking about his piss-taking on the health insurance co. bailout (4.00 / 1)
is a nice distraction from his Afghanistan resolution... talking about Afghanistan is now verboten at DKos. And Kucinich has been on the floor all day talking about Afghanistan, not healthcare.

They could drag out this healthcare skit to cover god knows what other global atrocity is in the works.


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I heard he actually suggested (0.00 / 0)
Kucinich should be primaried from the left.

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it", Helen Keller, communist.
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Markos vs. the real progressive (4.00 / 1)
Good to see Markos honestly marking out his territory as the anti-progressive.

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness, For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people, For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. -- A-Hep
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Raw Story: Markos a phony progressive turd (4.00 / 1)
Good to see, there is a lot of left out there in the disappeared zone:

kucinich2012 4 hours ago  

Another phony progressive turd.

bettyd643 5 hours ago  

I watched the interview with the Daily KOS founder on Countdown and frankly this guy really pissed me off.

Obama is dead wrong in omitting a public option and Kucinich is the only person standing up to him on this. Omitting the public option is just what the health Insurance Companies want and they shouldn't get it.

The Daily KOS is off my bookmark list.

crankshaft 5 hours ago  

Markos is a CIA operative, plain and simple. His job is to perpetuate the myth that there is any significant difference between the Dems and the Repugs. Aside from some relatively minor (apologies to my gay friends) social issues they are two sides of the same coin. KOS censors discussion of the real issues facing our country. The fact he's a fixture on GE's MSNBC tells you all you need to know about this fraud. Kucinich is a threat to the elite as he actually cares about the American people. FU Markos and all your myopic sycophants.

Markos is dead wrong 5 hours ago  

I stopped reading Markos' blog because of stuff like this. It didn't take long to see where he's coming from. The fact he's going after one of the only true progressives in the house shows what the daily kos is all about.

http://rawstory.com/2010/03/mo...

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness, For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people, For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. -- A-Hep

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yeah (0.00 / 0)
they're here too, in the comments
http://www.salon.com/news/heal...

The defectors have started an underground railroad to smuggle other rebels out of hostile territory
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Kucinich doesn't want the public option (4.00 / 2)
Or rather he knows any PO we'd get would be utter bullshit.  He is angling for states to get their own single payer health care and wants his amendment back in that said the insurance jackals can't sue states that go that way.

So all the talk of him standing on principle is BS; he's being very pragmatic.

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it", Helen Keller, communist.

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ack! ew. (4.00 / 1)
"Tom lived on upper bunk," Clarke say. "When you're on ship, you're almost exhausted 24-7. So a lot of times you sleep with your uniform on. Tom and Massa shared a stateroom together. Massa climbed up on the top of his bunk, which is hard to do--you never crawl up on somebody else's bunk. He wakes up to Massa undoing his pants trying to snorkel him."
http://www.theatlantic.com/pol...

The defectors have started an underground railroad to smuggle other rebels out of hostile territory
The Navy should be exclusively homosexual, then you wouldn't (0.00 / 0)
have these kinds of misunderstandings and 'problems'. Boys, join the Navy! One big slumber party! Or at least institute a reverse "don't ask don't tell" policy immediately.

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness, For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people, For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. -- A-Hep
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Laura sweetheart babe (0.00 / 0)
How about a h/t to MyDick for inspiring your word jumble, your anagramic naming of this diary, obviously drawn from the uber cleaver, classic original, "O Pen The Rad"?

Women are the real victims of war (0.00 / 0)
That's what we're always told anyway,
http://www.correntewire.com/tr...

I was told that a basic principle taught by our government to Latin American governments is that the way you stop a revolution is by killing all of the young men who you cannot identify as being with you because you eliminate the critical mass.


"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it", Helen Keller, communist.
What outfit should I wear to get out of jury duty? (0.00 / 0)

A slip and a jumper. (3.00 / 1)
Depending on locale, a "Hope" t-shirt with a picture of our president. Maybe accessorized with your favorite Fred Phelps protest sign... Just to keep 'em guessing, y'know.
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Would you believe the defense atty slimeface (3.00 / 1)
made an Obama joke during voir dire? Yeah.
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He also made each black person (4.00 / 2)
promise not to convict his client just to appease the white jurors; conversely asking white jurors to confess any past bigotry. I was laughing and rolling my eyes the whole time. Hmmm maybe that's why I didn't get picked.

In the judge's opening greeting he asked people to come to the bench if they would have any reason to be prejudiced against the defendant(before the charges were read). Four people walked right up and said god knows what. 'Black guys scare me'?  


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Wear aggressive/assertive lawyer type gear (0.00 / 0)
Defense and prosecution both dislike jurors they think they can't lead around by the nose, imho.

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness, For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people, For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. -- A-Hep
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I did. My best square outfit. Everyone elsein jeans. (4.50 / 2)
And also used the word 'elicit' in one of my answers to the gold-chained defense dude. He was shocked, and then a few phrases later freudian slipped it in what he thought was its correct use. Lulz. Shouldn't that be a word loyers unnerstand?

So after a full 9 hours of total bullshit and scripted bureaucratik camaraderie making, I wasn't picked. Yay. There were 50 people in the room for a 6 person jury, which had to be racially mixed due to the defendent...some black kid who allegedly stole a Glock from someone's car - of course one of his 4 or 5 charges ends up being conveyance of a weapon along with trespassing, 'armed robbery'...initially unarmed, etc etc.

The defense lawyer hinted at the defense in his questioning...it was all a misunderstood deal/trade between acquaintances. Shit it probably wuz.

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A comment I left at the "Movement Vision Lab" (0.00 / 0)
Seems like a nice girl; wonder how she ended up posting at Huffington Post?  I replied to her diary at her own site of course.
http://movementvision.org/rant...

So Zinn says the progressive movement was essentially anti-socialist and acted, often consciously, as an attack on the left and a way to safely divert the power of the people. This was especially needed in as much as the communists were looking powerful.

Since the fall of communism in the late 80s the American elites seem to have decided they don't need that fake left progressive movement any more as a shield against real leftism and populism so the Democrats became the Republicans. Nevertheless it seems like progressives continue to do their job of attacking the left even more now that they are getting no payoff in terms of mild reforms.

So is that the real difference between FDR and Obama? No communist threat to the elites means no need to play nice with the fake left progressives?

I'm not quite clear what movement is referred to in the blog title, but more and more I see progressives with their insistence on mild center right-wing support for Democrats as a big part of the problem not the solution. Like a vaccine that is intended to prevent the people catching the disease of revolution. Of course the Tea Baggers perform much the same function on the right, although the symmetry breaks down as the right have no actual values, just the feeling that things are badly wrong.

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it", Helen Keller, communist.

Her whole 'hoped in Obama and now a rude awakening' schtick (0.00 / 0)
Just makes me more hopeless. Are people NEVER gonna look at who's contributing to a candidate's campaign and draw the obvious conclusion? How the fuck many 'rude awakenings' do we have to go through before this apparently huge (or at least hugely self-important and gate-keeping) slice of the population that she 'represents' gets what's going on? They work for who pays the bills. D-u-h-oy-i-i-h.

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness, For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people, For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. -- A-Hep
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More from Zinn on how communism gave Americans all their rights (0.00 / 0)
In the chapter on civil rights he seems to credit the soviets with the Civil Rights Movement.  Without the fear of international communism and its far greater appeal to peasants the world over, would US elites have started to dismantle their elaborately crafted systematic racism that had helped them control their own peasants at home for so long?

Truman's Committee was blunt about its motivation in making these recommendations. Yes, it said, there was "moral reason": a matter of conscience. But there was also an "economic reason"- discrimination was costly to the country, wasteful of its talent. And, perhaps most important, there was an international reason:

Our position in the post-war world is so vital to the future that our smallest actions have tar- reaching effects. .. . We cannot escape the fact that our civil rights record has been an issue in world politics. The world's press and radio are full of it. . ., Those with competing philosophies have stressed-and are shamelessly distorting-our shortcomings. . . . They have tried to prove our democracy an empty fraud, and our nation a consistent oppressor of underprivileged people. This may seem ludicrous to Americans, but it is sufficiently important to worry our friends. The United States is not so strong, the final triumph of the democratic ideal is not so inevitable that we can ignore what the world thinks of us or our record.

The United States was out in the world now in a way it had never been. The stakes were large-world supremacy. And, as Truman's Committee said: "...our smallest actions have far-reaching effects."



"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it", Helen Keller, communist.
Looks like the police deliberately buried the Tiger Woods domestic violence investigation (3.50 / 2)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Cue howls of protest from feminists who are all very serious about domestic violence of course.

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it", Helen Keller, communist.

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