A Good Day To Die

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Friday August 31, 2007 · 8:55 PM PDT

2007/08/31 · 20:55

What do you fear?

In the end...

Do you really live?

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Is Today a Good Day to Die?

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Is Today a Good Day to Die?

Yes. We all die and dying for a reason, if necessary, makes me more alive

9 votes

No. I want to live, regardless of fwhat this world brings

4 votes

To Aim True

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Monday April 02, 2007 · 9:26 PM PDT

2007/04/02 · 21:26

I like to spar with the wingnuts. I go to sites where both my and their points of view are tolerated and I debate, mano a mano.

I've found a strategic point of argument that really works.

I know us liberals are loathe to talk absolutes or engage in what seems to be calling names. But never avoid the truth in that process.

This works because, used correctly, it's absolutely true and there is no defense.

It's simple:

On topics of torture, sexual abuse, obstruction of justice... oh all the big issues...

Make the point that evil only needs an excuse and is always looking for an excuse to exist. Too evil for the laws on our shores? The evil can live in Guantanamo.

Long-time Bush apologists have been finding excuses for evil until they do it reflexively.

Just call them on it at every juncture where they are arguing for it. When you see someone justifying evil...

Finding excuses for evil again?

They get panted with the truth. It sticks. It really does.

The Crux of This Moment

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Thursday August 31, 2006 · 5:47 PM PDT

2006/08/31 · 17:47

Be Olbermann; speak unvarnished truth:
What is the Crux?

I personally believe the crux right now is the fact that Bush is stalling for time with Iraq; he's going to run out the clock so that we have full troop strength in the quagmire that is Iraq when a Dem enters office in '08. The Dem will do the only humane thing and pull our troops out.

The GOP will pounce. They Will blame it on the Dems. They will take Bush's miserable loss and blame it on the Dems.
Why isn't the Dem leadership predicting this ? Inoculation is real.

I ask you- What do you see as the Crux? We're at a major juncture right now. A couple of months before a critical election, there must be clarity. What to you is the substantiative issue of the moment?

A Modest Proposal to the Press

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Tuesday August 15, 2006 · 6:13 PM PDT

2006/08/15 · 18:13

As only most recently highlighted by Chuck Roberts' slimy "...some people say..." smear on Ned Lamont, mainstream media journalism has become just a reeking ethical cesspool over the past 15 years. It's just sickening how many have come to belive what they are getting from their media outlet is Shine-ola. While it's gratifying to see Arianna Huffington call CNN on it, that's just not enough. Not even close if the press is going to live up to it's first Amendment responsibilities.

So who does one complain to when a reporter purposefully distorts, slants and harms others for political and personal gain? Is the only option out there to boo the offender off the journalistic stage? And what about Ann Coulter? I don't think she's likely to take a hint.

Doctors have Medical Societies and Medical Boards that routinely hand out serious discipliary action to the bad-boys of medicine. Attorneys have their State Bars. Journalism of all types, however is an essentially unregulated profession in the U.S. because of First Amendment protections. This is exactly how it should be- But it cuts both ways. Read More

We need our own protest song!

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Monday April 24, 2006 · 7:14 PM PDT

2006/04/24 · 19:14

Given that all politicians are, in the end, followers, not leaders- we need to lead the way; it's that simple for Liberals.

First comes culture, then a movement- then the politicians will do our bidding.

Remember, between the Christian Rock Stations and Clear Channel pumping out pablum, our rivals have coopted and shut down any commercial creativity in music since the 1990's. Our culture is in decline...

Unless we take it upon ourselves to change that.

I feel The Blues Coming on!

The Red State Blues

see where others have come up with the phrase but not the song. Folks,I need some help here. I got a great first line...

I woke up this morning...

OK. I'm not so original- But the Kossacks are.

All you creative people can chime in... This will be great.

Thoughts on the Peace Movement

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Saturday April 22, 2006 · 2:02 PM PDT

2006/04/22 · 14:02

Surfing "This Modern World," I looked into two of Tom Tomorrow's links, and it dawned on me just how things are starting to come together in a way that can only be detected by the low rumbling sensation under our feet...

First, there's link to A Tiny Revolution, which discusses Scott Ritter's critique of the peace movement. The poster invited commentary and ideas. What struck me was the significant number of comments that reflected cynicism and nihilism. Those who wrote so pessimistically had not seen the "entertainment" based CNN interview with Neil Young.
Wow! Now that's leadership.

If you haven't seen it or followed from This Modern World Check out the Tiny Revolution, post and please comment. I can't think of any more critical single issue.
The comments I left there are below the fold... Read More

The GOP and the Madonna Morality

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Sunday January 22, 2006 · 8:54 AM PST

2006/01/22 · 08:54

I still remember the days I cringed when I first heard the songs Like A Virgin and Material Girl from a woman who took her Catholic upbringing and subverted the symbolism of the Madonna to stand for amorality.

The conservatives in this country decried the decadence of this new pop icon, Madonna (full name Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone). And I did too. I considered the underlying messge hideous.... Read More

The Democratic Message

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Sunday January 15, 2006 · 3:52 PM PST

2006/01/15 · 15:52

We need to remember what James Carville did for Clinton:

He developed a message- one that was:
Simple
Clear
Repeated, repeated, repeated!

It's the Economy, stupid!"

We need a message like that NOW.
And we need to repeat it until 1998. We should develop one.

I like:
No Free Lunch,
Just Good Government

Other Ideas?

Regarding Paranoia and Spliting in American Politics

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Sunday August 21, 2005 · 12:01 PM PDT

2005/08/21 · 12:01

Armando posed an excellent and subtle analysis of American politics based on points made by Eco and Hofsteadter. http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/8/20/232228/849

He used the term "Paranoid" to describe the processes we are seeing going on in the halls of power.

At the risk of being more concrete than Armando ever intended, I think that there is another psychological concept that's extremely germaine to the topic. It's that of a relative of the Paranoid Personality, the Borderline Personality. The following is largely taken from a comment I made on the Armando piece.

The Borderline Personality

http://www.bpdcentral.com/resources/basics/main.shtml

The Hallmark of the Borderline it the tendency towards emotional 'all-or-nothing' stances. A given person will be seen as all good or all bad, and which one it is today is subject to capricious change. Read More

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