The Golden Road

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Wednesday September 04, 2013 · 1:37 PM PDT

2013/09/04 · 13:37

We can't solve all the world's problems, and we don't really want to. Yet, there is a golden road we can travail. People are always bemoaning all the problems, there are real solutions, let me tell you. Our fundamental rot in America is secrecy and violence. We believe in violence, that is solves problems, and we hide information. This is the exact opposite of a renaissance culture, a culture that provokes and unveils, and a city on a hill, a majestic rights-based democracy as ourselves, well, we should be interested in being a renaissance culture, and traversing that golden road.

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Wednesday September 04, 2013 · 1:21 AM PDT

2013/09/04 · 01:21

It's time to start looking for the Spring war specials, as it's been decided we're going to bomb Iran in Spring 2014. Of course, it's important to make sure we have the best fashions in place then, as no one wants to do war with khakis or camoflauge anymore, c'mon, we conduct it from the Pentagon father's basement (with joysticks!). Yes, John Kerry and various other clowns will drag down the party, but they can't be avoided. Remembering back to 2002-03, you have to plan and market the war in that summer before the spring, is a no-brainer.

'Tis really an easy plan, buy off the Egyptian military again, roll back that ish and pretend the military didn't do it, because you can't do that Iran strike with democracy in the Middle East, or Egypt independently run, set up Syria as the fall guy mofo Hitler and hopefully provoke Iran to a response, and regardless because the Persians are smarter than that just make some shit up and bomb the fuck out of them by remote control.

Sounds retarded!

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Thursday October 04, 2012 · 1:11 PM PDT

2012/10/04 · 13:11

Expect a different analysis here than from the chattering media classes. I viewed the debate largely as a tie, but with the caveat that Romney surprised me. He actually had some zingers, and he made me pay attention to him. I won't explain the zingers, people who pay closer attention will discover them (Obama had his own as well).

The important thing is content. Romney is a liar. He's lied to his primary supporters, and he lied to the American people last night, in different ways. He's been running for president since God knows when, but said he's in this race because jobs or the economy are so bad. Sure, I (don't) believe that.

The guy wants to be president. He's a rich kid who double-downed on his father's wealth (mostly transferred to him and his family before his father died, as almost all rich families do), and made a name for himself in business circles. He said he would "grade" schools, so parent could move their kids, (um) how does that help the economy or education system that all the parent want to move their kids to the same high-achieving schools?

Dumb.

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Thursday October 04, 2012 · 12:52 PM PDT

2012/10/04 · 12:52

Imagine what Thomas Paine would say regarding (our lack of) common sense amidst our unrelenting interference everywhere in the world right now (for all the wrong reasons, e.g. not for ecological sanity, but in the pursuit and maintenance of power), or George Washington in his farewell address:

"The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities."

We still have our own unique interests, which are not the same as the various countries of Europe, or Israel, or the Middle East at large, or Iran, or beyond, though we ever always in the interests of peace and prosperity should be willing to work and trade with all peoples, as well as pursue our common interests in preserving the global commons (ecology and environment).

Beyond that, you deal with the political vanity (and insanity) that the original founders and leaders of our nation sought to avoid, and to which we have since descended in greater depth than they might ever have imagined.

The Incredible Shrinking Boy (How Gov't Steals Your Children II)

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Wednesday July 28, 2010 · 12:05 AM PDT

2010/07/28 · 00:05

(this diary has been edited to remove any specific references to places or persons as requested by court)

Well, it's been awhile since I posted the last diary, introducing my friend Terry and her boys, who have been cruelly separated by Child Protective Services, over a case of absurdly victimizing the mother for the size of her 14-month old toddler, along with other slander and defamation based upon anonymous hearsay deemed unfounded that they threw in to influence the judge to continue the foster custodian arrangement for all three of her children, and wow let me tell you there have been new developments, such that I won't even get into the factual details yet en large, as I promised in the last diary, but instead focus on a more limited perspective at the moment - my friend Terry's toddler and his amazing ability to change his physical size in the span of days and hours, at least according to the hospital.

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Friday July 23, 2010 · 11:52 PM PDT

2010/07/23 · 23:52

(this diary has been edited to remove any specific references to places or persons as requested by court)

Almost a month ago, 4 police officers and a CPS social worker pushed their way into my friend Terry's house in the evening and stole her children. At the time, the claim was that her 15-month old was underweight and she was refusing the child care. In reality, this wasn't true, but they claimed it anyway, and for good measure took her 5 year-old and 12 year-old too, claiming all the children were at risk due to medical neglect because of the situation with the one. I was next door and came over as soon as I heard what was going on, but it was too late, they had already taken the children. You will lose your mind when you hear the facts of this case, which I will get to later in the diary and in future diaries, but be aware that it's almost a month later and her children are not even close to back home yet, and no significant court activity has taken place. Following in this diary is Terry's (a German citizen) stream-of-consciousness rant to me at 3am that she simultaneously spoke and wrote at the same time (remarkably).

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Tuesday April 21, 2009 · 8:22 PM PDT

2009/04/21 · 20:22

News is breaking that Obama's national intelligence adviser, Admiral Dennis Blair, did release a memo the day of Obama's disclosure of the OPC memos that we had gained valuable information through torture. Drudge is pushing this and it's going to be primary meme of the Right going forward, but what shouldn't be lost is that the Admiral did not condone torture, and we should not accept rhetoric that "we are safer", so "torture is okay", as if we're cowards or something (cue Ben Franklin).

"The information gained from these techniques was valuable in some instances, but there is no way of knowing whether the same information could have been obtained through other means," Admiral Blair said in a written statement issued last night. "The bottom line is these techniques have hurt our image around the world, the damage they have done to our interests far outweighed whatever benefit they gave us and they are not essential to our national security."

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Tuesday November 04, 2008 · 10:04 PM PST

2008/11/04 · 22:04

We've been on a long, winding road since 1776, a new leg has begun. Hard, hard work is ahead. Too many forces are still arrayed to hold the human heart, mind, hope down. Yet we feel a surge of momentum, a push from the roots, for new growth, for transformation, for liberation on a more inclusive and complete scale.

Those are the grand ideals, the continuing story, the beautiful manifestation of reality that is the emergence of humanity, of the liberation of humanity, of America, the dream of freedom, love, trust, security, creativity; yet right here, right now, we have the struggle closer to our time and place, the immense challenges before us that have become even more immense with the inattention and negligence of those who came immediately before us, challenges we should have no fear to face and overcome.

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Tuesday May 27, 2008 · 1:34 AM PDT

2008/05/27 · 01:34

New studies by scientists at the University of Edinburgh and Japan's National Institute of Health Sciences have raised disturbing new concerns that the physical structure of a particular type of carbon nanotube fiber, one that is already in use in the real world, may be as hazardous to your health as asbestos.

As the saying goes, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s reasonable to assume it’s a duck. In light of a new rodent study, environmental scientists worry that the same might apply to asbestos.

Certain long carbon nanotubes — tiny cylinders only 20 micrometers long and perhaps a few micrometers wide — have the same basic dimensions as toxic asbestos fibers. A broad body of data has suggested that the damage caused by asbestos traces more to its physical dimensions than its chemical recipe. So scientists had begun over the past few years expressing concerns that long nanotubes could trigger characteristic asbestos disease, especially mesothelioma — an unusual cancer that is nearly always fatal.

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Thursday June 28, 2007 · 1:35 AM PDT

2007/06/28 · 01:35

The biggest test all along for the liberal and progressive blogospheres has been how to function with the Democrats in power (if even only partially so).

Would the life, would the spirit, remain? Would we still apply the appropriate grassroots pressure, or would the netroots sell out?

Would the reliance on principles and values that sustained this movement survive the infection of the political operatives?

I'm not sure that question has been answered, or that those who have ventured to answer it have found conclusions we would like to hear.

I am interested in hearing what everyone thinks about this, and this is not a timely diary, you can answer any time.

After Libby, On To Dick Cheney's Resignation

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Tuesday March 06, 2007 · 9:36 AM PST

2007/03/06 · 09:36

It's gratifying to get through this phase of the Plame affair without any speed bumps. Libby will face responsibility for his egregious actions in exposing a United States intelligence official for reasons best described as "self-interest". Fitzgerald will now lean on Libby during the sentencing process to come clean and redeem his name. The infamy of a presidential pardon from the worst president in American history doesn't seem very appetizing.

Meanwhile, Dick Cheney suddenly has a blood clot in his leg and will likely soon step down. Nothing could be more convenient, after the suspicous incident in Afghanistan to generate sympathy for the old fart. Some would call me an uncivil and uncouth liberal extremist for calling Cheney a "fart", but that's what he smells like, and I'm standing by it (not behind it). Obviously, Cheney is ruined, as it is all but known now that all the lies Bush told about Libby not being involved, and his administration not being involved, in the Plame outing is a blatant and damning lie.

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Monday December 11, 2006 · 1:11 PM PST

2006/12/11 · 13:11

I've been on hiatus from site for awhile, so imagine my surprise this morning to see that YearlyKos07 is going to be in Chicago this year...sweet. So I'm thinking I should check Pollstar to see what gigs might be scheduled this early for Chicago in August, and lo and behold the only item listed is the Holy Grail of festivals...Lollapalooza! I've got a huge place in my heart for Lollapalooza after actually going to the 1st one (and the 3rd one), so I'm stoked.

Thanks to a comment below (shout out to Vivian Darkbloom), I have now realized that the lineup hasn't been set yet (I was looking at last year's), but hopefully it's a sweet one and worth attending (last year's lineup was killer).

If so, I'm thinking that's going to be one wild and crazy weekend, because I'm going to squeeze all of it in...days with YKos, evenings with Lollapalooza, late nights with Kossacks again at the parties, clubs, and Buddy Guy's Legends. I'm going to start stocking up the premium ginseng roots right now babies.

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