tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post2431538600925047787..comments2024-01-02T22:01:12.976+00:00Comments on Avedon's Sideshow: From me to youAvedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702100335744054401noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-84951820088904135752013-11-18T20:06:24.672+00:002013-11-18T20:06:24.672+00:00We dropped the ball, my generation did... we stopp...<a href="http://homelessonthehighdesert.wordpress.com/2013/11/14/we-could-have-changed-the-world/" rel="nofollow">We dropped the ball, my generation did</a>... we stopped The War!<br /><br />Our War.<br /><br />Viet Nam.<br /><br />But we didn't stop War.<br /><br />We forced Nixon to accountability. Whoopee! Nixon quit, The War is Over! Let's finish our law degrees, cut our hair, and buy beemers and half-million dollar houses on the High Desert!<br /><br />We stopped The War. Our War. Viet Nam. But we didn't stop War. We finished our law degrees and bought overpriced McMansions, and left the machinations* in place, notably Bush/Carlyle, Cheney/Haliburton and Rumsfield/etal, that led to the Authoritarian State - Fascist State - we are about to, if not have, become.<br /><br />We dropped the ball.<br /><br />[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lKwXwU5iWs&w=640&h=360]<br /><br />* "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together." - Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961Ten Bearshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06594307610015584119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-25055929372837846862013-11-18T04:03:01.349+00:002013-11-18T04:03:01.349+00:00I just started to read Lindy West's bold admon...I just started to read Lindy West's bold admonishment to her fellow atheists to stop being dicks. Just as I was about to doze off, I noticed a sidebar to the right, linking to an article entitled "Fuck the Pope." And sure enough, it was by Lindy West, setting an example that will never be topped.Duncan Mitchelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14404037779521807223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-1938502611461959832013-11-17T20:12:54.868+00:002013-11-17T20:12:54.868+00:00Sam Seder did a great interview with Columbia Univ...<i>Sam Seder did a great interview with Columbia University neuroscientist Carl Hart, author of the new book High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society, who explained "how we demonize people on welfare, his life experience and academic work, why not all users of Crack Cocaine are addicted, the Rat Park study, the variety of reasons people fall into drug addiction, who benefits from the War on Drugs and who pays the highest price and how we use drugs to avoid addressing poverty and unemployment," on The Majority Report.</i><br /><br />Just to put <a href="http://www.tubechop.com/watch/1657280" rel="nofollow">a face to a name...</a> (All that said, I wouldn't recommend crack or crank to anyone.)<br /><br />CMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13481861530761114492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-53634708013966570562013-11-17T18:10:53.847+00:002013-11-17T18:10:53.847+00:00...a story we refer to all the time as the illustr...<i>...a story we refer to all the time as the illustration of how some piece of elite flim-flam is occurring and no one has the nerve to say so</i>.<br /><br />That Tiny Revolution post reveals how our press keeps the flim-flam going.<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-64195528451014860322013-11-17T17:27:33.446+00:002013-11-17T17:27:33.446+00:00For example, I'm curious about the breadth of ...For example, I'm curious about the breadth of this part of the article on the Minimum Income: <br /><br />"But a minimum income would also allow us to eliminate every government benefit as well. Get rid of SNAP, TANF, housing vouchers, the Earned Income tax credit and many others. Get rid of them all."<br /><br />I'm not at all sure that a Minimum Income could allow Congress & the states to eliminate every other government benefit. For example would they also eliminate the PPACA Subsidies and Medicaid? If so then that would/could pretty much eliminate the benefit to the poor and even the middle class. I think that even with a minimum income, there are many benefits citizens should demand from their government.katiebirdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17262129879015590898noreply@blogger.com