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Wake up and smell the coffee
tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2010-03-29:1991841:Topic:894222
2010-03-29T04:51:01.220Z
ZenDog
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Here's a gem for all you <i>nitwits</i> and <i>NimRods</i> who unapologetically <i>tune in</i>:<br />
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<div style="margin:50px"><b>Stephen Tyrone Johns - June 10, 2009 - slain outside the Holocaust Museum Dr. George Tiller - May 31, 2009 - slain in church
Bill Gwatney - August 13, 2008 - a super delegate slain in his own office<br />
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Officer Paul Sciullo II, - April 4, 2009 - Pittburgh - slain in the line of duty<br />
Officer Eric G. Kelly - April 4, 2009 - Pittburgh - slain in the line of duty<br />
Officer…</b></div>
Here's a gem for all you <i>nitwits</i> and <i>NimRods</i> who unapologetically <i>tune in</i>:<br />
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<div style="margin:50px"><b>Stephen Tyrone Johns - June 10, 2009 - slain outside the Holocaust Museum
Dr. George Tiller - May 31, 2009 - slain in church<br />
Bill Gwatney - August 13, 2008 - a super delegate slain in his own office<br />
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Officer Paul Sciullo II, - April 4, 2009 - Pittburgh - slain in the line of duty<br />
Officer Eric G. Kelly - April 4, 2009 - Pittburgh - slain in the line of duty<br />
Officer Stephen J. Mayhle - April 4, 2009 - Pittburgh - slain in the line of duty</b></div>
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I'm sure it is lost on no one that the four murderers of the above six individuals were dutiful Rush/Beck acolytes -
Tis the season
tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2009-12-25:1991841:Topic:690858
2009-12-25T16:03:19.875Z
ZenDog
https://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/ZenDog
<div style="margin:30px 100px; font-family:helvetica; font-size:11pt; font-weight:500">Tis the season, so they say . . .<div style="margin:15px 50px">it's time<br/> to deck <br/> the halls.</div>
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Would you indulge a little Sage<br />
without coherent reason?<br />
<br />
Put away your credit cards,<br />
and don't go near the mall;<br />
lest the bailed out bankers<br />
grab ya by the balls.<br />
</div>
<div style="margin:30px 20px">© D. Winter<br/> December 25, 2009</div>
<div style="margin:30px 100px; font-family:helvetica; font-size:11pt; font-weight:500">Tis the season, so they say . . .<div style="margin:15px 50px">it's time<br/> to deck <br/> the halls.</div>
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Would you indulge a little Sage<br />
without coherent reason?<br />
<br />
Put away your credit cards,<br />
and don't go near the mall;<br />
lest the bailed out bankers<br />
grab ya by the balls.<br />
</div>
<div style="margin:30px 20px">© D. Winter<br/> December 25, 2009</div>
A Message from James Rucker
tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2009-09-09:1991841:Topic:355179
2009-09-09T12:55:54.813Z
ZenDog
https://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/ZenDog
<div style="font-family:helvetica; font-size:11pt; font-weight:500">Saturday night, Van Jones resigned from his job as the White House special adviser on Green Jobs.1 Van's resignation came after a vicious smear campaign by Fox television host Glenn Beck, and it is the latest evidence of why our campaign against Beck is so important.
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Van is a passionate thinker and leader and we are grateful to him for co-founding ColorOfChange. But this campaign is not about Van. It's about stopping Glenn…</div>
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Saturday night, Van Jones resigned from his job as the White House special adviser on Green Jobs.1 Van's resignation came after a vicious smear campaign by Fox television host Glenn Beck, and it is the latest evidence of why our campaign against Beck is so important.<br />
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Van is a passionate thinker and leader and we are grateful to him for co-founding ColorOfChange. But this campaign is not about Van. It's about stopping Glenn Beck, who has promised to take his witch-hunt to others in the administration. Beck's overall plan is to create an atmosphere in which the White House can accomplish nothing, and he's carrying it out by preying on race-based fears and mobilizing hate.<br />
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The good news is that our campaign is working. More than 175,000 of you have stood up, and advertisers have followed suit. As of today, 62 companies have stopped their ads from running on Beck's show. Every national company with a name you'd recognize is gone. What's left are mostly far-right groups and direct marketing companies selling things like gold coins and discounted exercise equipment.<br />
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<b>The reality of Beck's attacks on Van</b><br />
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After we launched this campaign, some bloggers and reporters tried to discredit the effort by claiming that the White House or Van was somehow involved, or that we launched the campaign to protect Van. It's an absurd accusation. Van hasn't worked with ColorOfChange in years, and when we decided to launch the campaign we didn't even know that Beck had attacked him. The reality is that we began our campaign for the same reason 175,000 of you have now joined it: Glenn Beck called the president of the United States a "racist" who "has a deep seated hatred for White people," which is part of a pattern of Beck using lies and distortions to race-bait and fear-monger.2<br />
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As Beck started losing advertisers in response to our campaign, he went into full-scale attack mode on Van--exaggerating or distorting his record on 23 shows and devoting an entire segment to discrediting him. Beck presented his attacks on Van as honest journalistic inquiry, while dishonestly failing to mention that Van co-founded the group leading a successful advertiser boycott against him.<br />
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But Beck's real goals were clear: Take down Van. Undermine the White House. Set the stage for his followers to say our campaign was about protecting Van. And of course, create a distraction from our campaign and the real reasons major companies are ditching Beck's show.<br />
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<b>The problem with Beck</b><br />
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Glenn Beck's show is described as news analysis and commentary, and he claims to be bringing his viewers "the facts"; but his attacks on the President's character, agenda and advisers are anything but news. They are political character assassination of the worst form, relying on dishonesty, distortion, exaggeration, and fear. And Beck has promised to launch more attacks on new targets.3 Our country is facing numerous challenges, including a struggling economy, a climate and energy crisis, and a broken health care system. The media should be promoting thoughtful, rational dialogue about how to solve these problems, not launching dishonest political attacks to distract and divide us.<br />
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Our team is working hard to use all the tools at our disposal to take away Beck's platform. In the coming weeks there will be more for you to do. But for now, we ask you to do something simple. If you haven't done so already, please email your friends and family, and ask them to sign on to our campaign against Glenn Beck. There's a message you can send them at the link below:<br />
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<a href="http://colorofchange.org/beck" target="new">http://colorofchange.org/beck.html</a><br />
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Thanks and Peace,<br />
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-- James, Gabriel, William, Dani and the rest of the ColorOfChange.org team<br />
September 9th, 2009<br />
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Help support our work. ColorOfChange.org is powered by YOU -- your energy and dollars. We take no money from lobbyists or large corporations that don't share our values, and our tiny staff ensures your contributions go a long way. You can contribute here:<br />
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<a href="https://secure.colorofchange.org/contribute/" target="new">https://secure.colorofchange.org/contribute/</a><br />
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References<br />
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1. "White House Official Resigns After G.O.P. Criticism," New York Times, 9-06-09<br />
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/07/us/politics/07vanjones.html" target="new">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/07/us/politics/07vanjones.html</a><br />
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2. "Beck caps off week of race-baiting by calling Obama a 'racist'," Media Matters, 7-30-09<br />
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/200907300019" target="new">http://mediamatters.org/research/200907300019</a><br />
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3. @glennbeck on Twitter, 9-03-09<br />
<a href="http://twitter.com/glennbeck/status/3749169499" target="new">http://twitter.com/glennbeck/status/3749169499</a><br />
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WE AREN'T IN KANSAS ANYMORE
tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2009-09-04:1991841:Topic:334631
2009-09-04T14:44:09.730Z
ZenDog
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<div style="font-family:helvetica; font-size:11pt; font-weight:600">I saw on NBC last night how there was an allusion to some unspecified and unsubstantiated fear that the President was going to steal the children's minds.
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So of course I went a-ha. Then I sent a letter to one of my senators requesting a Congressional hearing, on the topic of behavioral research involving neural linguistics, conducted by universities in public. My expectation is that if all of the facts come out it will be…</div>
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I saw on NBC last night how there was an allusion to some unspecified and unsubstantiated fear that the President was going to steal the children's minds.<br />
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So of course I went a-ha. Then I sent a letter to one of my senators requesting a Congressional hearing, on the topic of behavioral research involving neural linguistics, conducted by universities in public. My expectation is that if all of the facts come out it will be shown that this body of research is little more than an outgrowth of MK-ULTRA; that it has a variety of practical uses, none of which are really very useful or in the public interest.<br />
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What? You don't immediately get the connection between the public's <i>unspecified and unsubstantiated fear</i>, behavioral research involving neural linguistics conducted in public, and MK-ULTRA? That's alright, don't worry. Just send the letter.<br />
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I think it should be interesting to see which politicians from either side of the aisle oppose public examination of the details of this nonsense. It might even go some way toward bridging the divide between parties.<br />
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So I dunno. What do you think? Are you willing to send a letter to your Congressional Rep requesting hearings on the issue?<br />
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Maybe then the <i>butterflies</i> can go free . . .<br />
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</div>
"Games . . . Games that wanna get out . . . "
tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2009-08-29:1991841:Topic:310961
2009-08-29T15:40:28.900Z
ZenDog
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<div style="font-family:helvetica; font-size:11pt; font-weight:500">I saw a child playing with the board game <i>Sorry</i> - have you seen it? The game pieces look like little cheeze-Zits or something ~ from a modest distance of course.
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So that got me thinking. Of course the entity that owns the board game Sorry is owned by another entity and that entity is controlled by a conglomerate that manufactures <i>and markets</i> food, soap, beauty products, you know . . . the list goes on.<br />
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And the…</div>
<div style="font-family:helvetica; font-size:11pt; font-weight:500">I saw a child playing with the board game <i>Sorry</i> - have you seen it? The game pieces look like little cheeze-Zits or something ~
from a modest distance of course.<br />
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So that got me thinking. Of course the entity that owns the board game Sorry is owned by another entity and that entity is controlled by a conglomerate that manufactures <i>and markets</i> food, soap, beauty products, you know . . . the list goes on.<br />
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And the point of course, is to provide children the suggestion that they are hungry while they play the board game. Indeed, at least one of the participants I observed that got me thinking along these lines was eating ~ and of course this conspicuous consumption was nothing more than junk food.<br />
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I find it interesting.<br />
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I also find interesting the notion that no one complains when we insist to the tobacco companies that their advertisements not be placed at the eye level of children at the corner store. We may not get the direct connection between marketing campaigns and their impact on the kids, but the iconography of the Marlboro man seated on his horse traversing some snow covered ridge is lost on no one. And so it receives regulation, much to the consternation of Big Tobacco.<br />
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Yet, if we attempt to regulate the power of suggestion applied to board games attempting to suggest to the children with subtlety and craft that they are hungry, I have no doubt that we will see a back lash of resentment and heated debate. As if industrial entities were entitled to all of the freedoms enshrined by our founding documents, just as any other citizen.<br />
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I have no doubt of this outcome, even though we have documented the effects of junk food on our nation's trend toward obiesisty, the consequence and the cost to our system of health care and our overall well being.<br />
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How can this be?<br />
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Simple. Most of the mass of Americans who hew toward the right cannot grasp either subtlety or nuance, and so the how and the why that lies behind the ways in which they are manipulated to our general harm is lost on them, though it is not at all lost on those who tend toward profit as they use the power of suggestion to manipulate our appetite - whether it be for food, sex, or public outrage.<br />
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Some folks just aren't too bright I guess.</div>
Encore?
tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2009-08-19:1991841:Topic:264852
2009-08-19T01:32:00.895Z
ZenDog
https://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/ZenDog
Did someone ask what I planned for an encore now that I've been <b>TOSSED</b> from We The [right wing-nut] People?<br />
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Well. First I went to GreenPeace.org - It seems they have documentation indicating the Oil Industry is planing a bit of astro-turfing of their own. I've been trying to strategize ways they can take over the local networks and spin off the right wing Ticking Timebombs and get them to detonate - basically hi-jacking the whole program to the left.<br />
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It doesn't really look like they…
Did someone ask what I planned for an encore now that I've been <b>TOSSED</b> from We The [right wing-nut] People?<br />
<br />
Well. First I went to GreenPeace.org - It seems they have documentation indicating the Oil Industry is planing a bit of astro-turfing of their own. I've been trying to strategize ways they can take over the local networks and spin off the right wing Ticking Timebombs and get them to detonate - basically hi-jacking the whole program to the left.<br />
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It doesn't really look like they are buying though. Too bad.<br />
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Then I headed over to the NRA and grabbed their email:<br />
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nraprogrammaterials@nrahq.org<br />
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and I sent the following little note, documenting my objections to the protest in Arizona the other day. You heard about that, right? Where the right wingers were hanging outside the hall where Obama was speaking, armed to the teeth?<br />
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Ya. Well. Here's the note I sent the NRA:<br />
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I am writing out of concern over the appearance of weapons at a protest rally in Arizona. I find that very disturbing. Firearms have no place at the picket line. That's my opinion.<br />
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I'll stand by that opinion.<br />
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I own a weapon or two myself. So here's a plan. Why don't you network with some more of your members, and get a rally going here in Vermont - say outside one of Bernie Sanders events or something. You can get your friends to bring their arms and stand on one side.<br />
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I'll be standing with mine on the other.<br />
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AND THE FIRST MOTHER FUCKER I HEAR SAY KILL THAT NIGGER OBAMA AND HIS KIDS WILL MOST CERTAINLY GET ME FOAMING AT THE MOUTH.<br />
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THAT WILL BE THE SIGNAL - ME FOAMING.<br />
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MY FRIENDS AROUND THE CORNER WILL LIGHT OFF SOME M-80S<br />
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WHEN THE SMOKE CLEARS WE'LL SEE WHOSE LEFT STANDING<br />
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Most sincerely and respectfully yours . . .<br />
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<br />
D. Winter<br />
<a href="http://zendogblog.net">http://zendogblog.net</a><br />
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You could send that note to the NRA too if you want. Maybe set up a google account or something, copy the note, and indicate you're a friend with <b>M-80s</b><br />
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hee-hee!<br />
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Crazy isn't it? Just plain Cr4zY!
An Open Letter On Health Care
tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2009-08-14:1991841:Topic:246599
2009-08-14T15:11:44.394Z
ZenDog
https://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/ZenDog
<b>An Open Letter On Health Care</b><br />
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I've posted the following comments online:<br />
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There are thousands of stories out there, of the insurance industry engaging in a pattern of denial and delay when it comes to medical services. Hey, it's cheaper if the patient dies, right? Then we don't have to pay for chemo or for a transplant - and the insurance co. board doesn't really give a shit what the insured contract says.<br />
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Just like hurricane insurance - 'we'll insure for wind or water, but not both…
<b>An Open Letter On Health Care</b><br />
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I've posted the following comments online:<br />
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There are thousands of stories out there, of the insurance industry engaging in a pattern of denial and delay when it comes to medical services. Hey, it's cheaper if the patient dies, right? Then we don't have to pay for chemo or for a transplant - and the insurance co. board doesn't really give a shit what the insured contract says.<br />
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Just like hurricane insurance - 'we'll insure for wind or water, but not both and we'll leave the details in very fine print - and regardless of which way they are covered, their damage is not.'<br />
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<b>THE INSURANCE COMPANY BOARD ROOM IS A DEATH PANEL</b><br />
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What is really interesting is the number of people who simply don't get it. We all are well aware the health care system is broken. Yet the voices of fear coupled with disinformation are rampant, and people are angry. Very angry. Which leads me to the question: How did it get like this?<br />
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Take Sara Palin's statement that we will coerce the elderly into some sort of <b>early life termination.</b> Could such a claim gain traction were we not engaged in some form of wide spread coercion? If we, as a nation, were not engaged in some wide spread form of denial and deception, could such a claim gain any traction among the population at all?<br />
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Is it not true to say, <b>We Can Manufacture Consent For Just About Anything Today?</b><br />
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I've seen online advertisements for republican groups organizing around the basic principles of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, where the following peculiar phrase appears:<br />
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<b>The Right To Life, Liberty, and Property</b>.<br />
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To me that seems to suggest that if you do not own property, you have no rights. That isn't what the Constitution or the Declaration actually say.<br />
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It is my opinion that we have indeed engaged in widespread deceit and deception, and that television programming like Big Brother is little more than the sale of a level of dishonesty that is difficult to comprehend. I further believe that this leads to justification of ever more dishonesty, ever more deceit, and that much of it begins with what I have heard termed the Surviellance Industrial Complex. Because we have not been honest about the depth and breadth of all that has been done in our name, this dishonest discourse has expanded to include every topic of national debate from global warming to health care to regulation of the banking industry and on and on ad infititum.<br />
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It is my opinion that this dishonesty serves very few, a very select few indeed; and that they generally lean toward the right.<br />
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Given that health care is the current issue, I would propose a solution, framed in the context of that debate.<br />
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I propose the identification of the most egregious of those insurers who do, with regular indifference, deny their contractural obligations to their policy holders, which may and do result in death. I then suggest killing the entire board of directors in charge of said insurer, for no other reason than to drive home the point that not only is the health care system broken, but that those who have benefited from breaking it must pay.<br />
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This is only a proposal, reprehenisble at best. And yet, it seems to be past time to bring some honesty to the table of our discourse, and that it seems cannot happen while those who benefit most from the mass of lies and deceptions feel themselves beyond the reach of the people's rage.<br />
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Congress must focus with care and deliberation on this issue, if they are to arrive at the best possible solution for all Americans. This seems highly unlikely while the moneyied lobby rails with obsinate and vociferous insistence <b>Do Nothing</b>, and manipulates the people's rage to make it so.<br />
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Most sincerely and respectfullly yours,<br />
<br />
<br />
D. Winter<br />
<a href="http://zendogblog.net">http://zendogblog.net</a>
A Message from the ACLU
tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2009-08-14:1991841:Topic:246392
2009-08-14T13:52:06.862Z
ZenDog
https://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/ZenDog
Dear ACLU Supporter,<br />
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Oliver Stone, Rosie Perez, Philip Glass and a host of talented performers have come together to expose something our government tried to keep secret from the American people.<br />
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The Bush torture memos brought to light by the ACLU reveal a systematic program of torture so appalling that it would be a moral outrage to let those who authorized it escape a criminal investigation.<br />
<br />
Watch the Tortured Logic video now and…
Dear ACLU Supporter,<br />
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Oliver Stone, Rosie Perez, Philip Glass and a host of talented performers have come together to expose something our government tried to keep secret from the American people.<br />
<br />
The Bush torture memos brought to light by the ACLU reveal a systematic program of torture so appalling that it would be a moral outrage to let those who authorized it escape a criminal investigation.<br />
<br />
Watch the Tortured Logic video now and <a href="http://www.aclu.org/torturedlogic/index2.php" target="new""">send it to Attorney General Eric Holder.</a><br />
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Reports in Newsweek and the LA Times indicate that Attorney General Holder is on the verge of appointing an independent prosecutor to investigate CIA abuses committed during the interrogation of detainees in U.S. custody.<br />
<br />
Unfortunately, the reports indicate that the investigation may be limited to low-level CIA operatives who went beyond techniques authorized in the “torture memos,” letting high level government officials who commissioned and authorized “enhanced interrogation techniques” off the hook.<br />
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It is absolutely critical for Attorney General Holder to know that the American people support a full investigation -- wherever the facts may lead -- and that those who authorized these horrific violations of human rights must be held accountable.<br />
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Please watch the Tortured Logic video now. Then send it to Attorney General Eric Holder and ask that he appoint an independent prosecutor.<br />
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The dedicated and talented group of individuals in our video came together to draw dramatic attention to the tortured logic that allowed unconscionable and illegal acts to be carried out in our name. Please join them in calling for justice by watching the video and making sure Attorney General Holder hears the call for a thorough criminal investigation by sending him the video.<br />
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As the Tortured Logic video arrives in his in-box from every corner of our nation, the Attorney General will understand just how determined we are to make sure that those who authorized torture are held accountable.<br />
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<a href="http://www.aclu.org/torturedlogic/index2.php" target="new""">Ask the Attorney General</a> to see for himself -- forward the Tortured Logic video to Eric Holder.<br />
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We have an opportunity right now to show the world that the United States can and will live up to the standards written in our Constitution.<br />
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Through our decisive action in support of justice and the rule of law, we can prove again that we are a great nation.<br />
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So please, take a moment and share this with Eric Holder as he makes this important decision.<br />
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Thanks for all you do. We are proud to have you standing with us.<br />
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Sincerely,<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Anthony D. Romero<br />
Executive Director, ACLU<br />
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© ACLU, 125 Broad Street, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10004
Bite me
tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2009-08-13:1991841:Topic:241503
2009-08-13T04:55:01.607Z
ZenDog
https://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/ZenDog
It seems clear I'm having some issues with comcast. Intermitent connectivity issues. I've done some rudimentary testing, and it appears that whining is an effective solution.<br />
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Imagine that.<br />
<br />
They must be <i>repelicans . . .</i>
It seems clear I'm having some issues with comcast. Intermitent connectivity issues. I've done some rudimentary testing, and it appears that whining is an effective solution.<br />
<br />
Imagine that.<br />
<br />
They must be <i>repelicans . . .</i>
A Message from Timothy Carr, FreePress.net
tag:teebeedee.ning.com,2009-08-04:1991841:Topic:205081
2009-08-04T12:30:36.405Z
ZenDog
https://teebeedee.ning.com/profile/ZenDog
Tell Congress: Pass Net Neutrality Now<br />
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The phone and cable companies are scrambling to kill Net Neutrality so they can inspect and filter content, and overcharge you for using the Web in ways they don't like. Over the past six months alone, these companies have hired 500 lobbyists in Washington to try to stop this bill from becoming law.<br />
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It's up to you to tell your members of Congress to side with the public -- not with the corporate lobbyists -- and take a final stand for an open Internet…
Tell Congress: Pass Net Neutrality Now<br />
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<br />
The phone and cable companies are scrambling to kill Net Neutrality so they can inspect and filter content, and overcharge you for using the Web in ways they don't like. Over the past six months alone, these companies have hired 500 lobbyists in Washington to try to stop this bill from becoming law.<br />
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It's up to you to tell your members of Congress to side with the public -- not with the corporate lobbyists -- and take a final stand for an open Internet by supporting the Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2009 (H.R. 3458).<br />
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<a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/" target="new">http://www.savetheinternet.com/</a><br />
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[you can read more about the issue, or click the link in the large banner: Sign Our Petition to Congress]