tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post5751059455975010813..comments2024-01-02T22:01:12.976+00:00Comments on Avedon's Sideshow: To everything there is a seasonAvedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702100335744054401noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-52433175788822305562014-03-22T04:30:11.021+00:002014-03-22T04:30:11.021+00:00Ten Bears said:
347,000 people giving up the sear...<b>Ten Bears said:</b><br /><br /><i>347,000 people giving up the search for work entirely and dropping out of the labor force.</i><br /><br />That's buying into the Fascist's bullshit. It's also a great example of Pavlovian conditioning, even on the so-called left, or progressive middle, or what the frack ever. Everyone accepts these people are just gone. Out of it. No questions about it, a statement of fact. I wasn't one of them. Just because the Retards whacked my meager unemployment benefits doesn't mean I'm not looking for work, not picking up whatever comes my way. A day or two here, a week or two there. It's actually kind of like the sixties. Not much to do but just to hang around. Talk about revolution. I haven't been disappeared. Yet.<br /><br /><i>No fear.</i>Reposthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05999585125847347993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-51438750863373622292014-03-22T04:25:44.920+00:002014-03-22T04:25:44.920+00:00LarryE said:
My own RIP for Pete Seeger, from my ...<b>LarryE said:</b><br /><br />My own RIP for Pete Seeger, from my cable-access TV show, can be found <a href="http://whoviating.blogspot.com/2014/01/1442-rip-pete-seeger.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> if anybody is of a mind to check it out.Reposthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05999585125847347993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-34610583749160879922014-03-22T04:23:00.428+00:002014-03-22T04:23:00.428+00:00LarryE said:
It turns out that Vera Scroggins is ...<b>LarryE said:</b><br /><br />It turns out that Vera Scroggins is a bit of a flake - which is irrelevant to the human rights, legal, and Constitutional issues presented by her case but is relevant to the point I wanted to raise: That's part of the reason she was targeted for such an extreme measure. They went after her <i>precisely because</i> she is a bit of a flake.<br /><br />She clearly is not the only fracking opponent in the area and while she certainly appears to be the most active and persistent, I wouldn't be surprised if in the long run she turned out not to be the most effective. But that doesn't matter. The corporation went after her because she was the one they figured (correctly, based on comments on her case in the local paper) was likely to produce a reaction of "Oh, that one? Her? Who cares?" or better yet "Her? She got what she deserved."<br /><br />She was the one they figured they could cut away, single out, someone who wouldn't get a lot of sympathy or support from the local community and therefore the one though who <i>they could establish the precedent for this sort of extreme restriction,</i> that could be applied to others later, <i>without generating significant opposition.</i> It was a tactical strike not just against her but against any other existing or potential opponents of the fracking operation.<br /><br />They went after her, that is, partly because she was a pest that they wanted to get rid of - but also partly because she presented them with an opportunity to create a threat to hold over the heads of other, less stubborn, less persistent opponents to their crimes against the environment and, they would hope, thereby shut down all opposition.<br /><br />Scroggins' case reminds me of one some years ago in New Jersey, involving someone seeking a permanent injunction against someone protesting and engaging in simple trespass. This man had been arrested literally scores of times and, well, the target was tired of it. Unhappily I don't recall the details, but if memory serves the target was the Picatinny Arsenal and it was the Army seeking the injunction.<br /><br />What I do recall clearly is that the NJ Supreme Court rejected the request for the injunction in a decision that included one of the all-time great lines about free speech in the face of government (or corporate) opposition: "Reform," the Court ruled, "is not for the short-winded."Reposthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05999585125847347993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-79856709396713126752014-03-22T04:06:24.499+00:002014-03-22T04:06:24.499+00:00ksix said:
I hadn't seen it. I stopped readin...<b>ksix said:</b><br /><br />I hadn't seen it. I stopped reading Slate after Weisberg took over and, except for a series of articles on missle defense (vaguely remembered), haven't read much by Kaplan. That interview was the first time I'd seen him and I found him so annoying I left it open in a tab and watched it in small doses. Worth getting to the end, though! It seems to be impossible to embarrass him into being more careful in his assertions, so why trust anything he says?Reposthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05999585125847347993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-68036202905199148142014-03-22T04:04:08.269+00:002014-03-22T04:04:08.269+00:00ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said:
I suggest that J...<b>ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said:</b><br /><br />I suggest that James Clapper should be held in contempt of Congress.<br /><br />We all know that Obama's corrupt DOJ will not do anything.Reposthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05999585125847347993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-79218352285380850732014-03-22T04:01:52.719+00:002014-03-22T04:01:52.719+00:00CMike said:
The only apology owed is to Vice, we ...<b>CMike said:</b><br /><br />The only apology owed is to Vice, we both should have linked to their site <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/the-vice-podcast-whats-next-in-the-snowden-saga" rel="nofollow">[LINK]</a> even if we still were going to use that YouTube link in case the source link wasn't visible in the UK. I, myself, just recently have started checking in on the Vice homepage <a href="http://www.vice.com/en_us" rel="nofollow">[LINK]</a> aware, though, that Murdoch has a stake in the operation <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_magazine#History" rel="nofollow">[LINK]</a>. I'm finding a lot that's interesting there.<br /><br />(In the matter of the "know-it-all pontificator" did you see the correction at the end of his Jan. 3 Snowden article? <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2014/01/edward_snowden_doesn_t_deserve_clemency_the_nsa_leaker_hasn_t_proved_he.2.html#correction" rel="nofollow">[LINK]</a> That was kind of a sloppy error to make if you're writing a particular month's semi-official gatekeeper response to such a well publicized controversy.)Reposthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05999585125847347993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-80201321891440959592014-03-22T03:53:36.068+00:002014-03-22T03:53:36.068+00:00ksix said:
My apologies, CMike. I'd either mi...<b>ksix said:</b><br /><br />My apologies, CMike. I'd either missed your link to Kaplan or forgotten where I'd found it. Whatever, it was illuminating.Reposthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05999585125847347993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-60804031971748274042014-03-22T03:52:35.971+00:002014-03-22T03:52:35.971+00:00markkernes said:
Most people don't know this,...<b>markkernes said:</b><br /><br />Most people don't know this, but Seeger once proposed that the "rumble strips" that can be found on some highways (like when approaching a toll booth) could be made of such varying heights and spaced certain distances apart so that a car driving over them would hear a tune being played.Reposthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05999585125847347993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-76507758279942831822014-03-22T03:51:04.534+00:002014-03-22T03:51:04.534+00:00The Promiscuous Reader:
"...defies left and ...<b>The Promiscuous Reader:</b><br /><br /><i>"...defies left and right orthodoxy by arguing that worsening inequality is an inevitable outcome of free market capitalism"?</i> <br /><br />Orly? I thought that "left orthodoxy" knew that very well.Reposthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05999585125847347993noreply@blogger.com