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Chaz
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greater Boss Angeles area
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Certainly, Occupy San Francisco will be the one occupation to leave their campsite cleaner than it was when they moved in.
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lostinshanghai
Social climber
someplace
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k-man wrote: Pentagon is offering free Military Hardware to every police department in the US.
It will go well with the software [Not CIA or NSA made but have their own] for future sites for where the OWS protestors will be next through cell phones, Facebook and Twitter accounts; add Google Earth, tag it and they will be there 6 hours early. OWS protestors just need to change their words from “OWS protest and Occupy Seattle on Jan 10 2012” to “Christian Gospel Concert on Jan 10 2012” and they will not show up. It is all in the coding of the words.
In the past with Viet Nam War long and gone, now that they have the hardware and software just quicker in getting names and putting them on a list. Match it up with SSN, driver licenses, home addresses, bank accounts, family members and known associates. They will get a few wrong 1% but it will take years for you to get off the list since the spelling of your name matches 100-200.
Oh! yes and then the smaller, really small cheaper drones to take notes.
God Bless America or God Bless UnAmerica.
Edit: And by the way watch out for the 100 to 200 undercover cops, agent provocateurs to text and call in the shots where they need be.
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lostinshanghai
Social climber
someplace
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They will help getting the message out. GOP and Wall Street have something to worry about in the months to come even the police.
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corniss chopper
climber
breaking the speed of gravity
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California Code
Penal Code
Chapter 8. Conspiracy
PENAL CODE
SECTION 182-185
...185.] Section One Hundred and Eighty-five. It shall be unlawful
for any person to wear any mask, false whiskers, or any personal
disguise (whether complete or partial) for the purpose of:
One--Evading or escaping discovery, recognition, or identification
in the commission of any public offense.
We're all eager to see the 'Active Denial Systems' let loose of the Occupiers when they step over the line from protester to criminal.
So don't expect much sympathy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmuyLIrSjxI
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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bookworm
Social climber
Falls Church, VA
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i'm so grateful that i escaped the education system before the liberal juggernaught corrupt all the progress my parents made...although, as a teacher, i'm now suffering the consequences of the progressive agenda
from russell meade
How To Ruin Your Life
Alert reader Dan Shea drew Via Meadia‘s attention to an unusually depressing article in the Boston Globe. It is one of those fluffy and airheaded “lifestyle” pieces, the print equivalent of empty calorie junk food and like many such articles it provides a horrifying glimpse into the vacuous nature of the modern American mind. In this particular case, the reporter, who hopefully is affecting rather than spontaneously producing prose redolent of relentless stupidity, shares her view of 10 “awesome” classes at Boston area colleges that she thinks her readers would like to take.
A couple of them, we hasten to observe, look both useful and good. The MIT course taking first year mechanical engineering students through the entire process of toy design seems a bit out of place on this list. And we also note that the actual classes may have more substance than our chipper journalist reports. But some “awesome” courses look like the kind of academic malpractice that help so many American kids emerge from four years of “education” with massive debt loads, major attitude problems, and no marketable skills. Consider:
“Staging American Women: The Culture of Burlesque”. Burlesque is a complex and alluring underground culture — and sexy, too, of course. Think about tassels for a moment — are you blushing? Then you might want to skip out on a course that involves discussing pin-ups and early sexploitation films. Your loss.
It is hard to know which is more disturbing, here: that a college can accept student loan money for a course like this without being charged with financial fraud or the vapid thinking and limp prose that Globe editors evidently think belongs in their newspaper. Or consider this piece of awesomeness from the same college (Emerson, where tuition and fees run to more than $30,000 a year, and almost half of those who apply are admitted):
“Puppetry”. “The course culminates in the construction of puppets for in-class presentations,” which is really all you need to know. Plus, puppets are pretty popular right now. I’ll be the first to say it: This class will make you a hit with the ladies.
Or there is our fatuous writer’s top suggestion, a useful course on the history of surfing:
“Surfing and American Culture“. As a Massachusetts native, I have a bit of trouble picturing the impact surfing has had on American culture beyond that Beach Boys song and Point Break. This class will take the uninitiated through the history of surfing up to the present day, as well as examine its role as a major economic force. And include field trips? Just a suggestion.
(Again, one wonders when the Globe decided that soggy, tasteless mush like this was publishable content. Either the writer or the editor of this piece and quite possibly both clearly spent much too much time in college taking classes like the ones being praised here.)
As Via Meadia looked at these course descriptions, and reflected that all over America students are borrowing tens of thousands of dollars a year to attend expensive schools and then blowing the money on glittering fripperies like these, we were reminded of a book title we came across in our long vanished youth: How to Make Yourself Miserable. It occurs to us that there is an infallible recipe for making yourself miserable, and that many young people in this country are following it — some, perhaps, without knowing that that is what they are doing.
So, inspired by this list of awesome courses, here is a sure-fire way to make yourself miserably unhappy in your twenties.
First, enroll in a college that you cannot afford, and rely on large student loans to make up the difference.
Second, spend the next four years having as good a time as possible: hang out, hook up, and above all, take plenty of “awesome” courses.
Third, find teachers and role models who will encourage you to develop an attitude of enlightened contempt for ordinary American middle class life, the world of business, and such bourgeois virtues as self-reliance, thrift, accountability and self-discipline. Specialize in sarcasm and snark.
Fourth, avoid all courses with tough requirements, taking only the minimum required number of classes in science, math and foreign languages.
Fifth, never think about acquiring marketable skills.
Sixth, when you graduate and discover that you have to repay the loans and cannot get a job that pays enough to live comfortably while servicing your debts, be surprised. Blame society. Demand that the government or your parents or evil corporations bail you out.
Seventh, expect anyone (except for other clueless losers who’ve been as stupid and wasteful as you) to sympathize with your plight, or to treat you with anything but an infuriating mixture of sorrow, pity and contempt.
If you follow this recipe faithfully, Via Meadia promises that you will achieve all the unhappiness you want. And don’t worry; anytime you feel sad and blue, just read some “lifestyle” journalism in the Boston Globe. It will be sure to cheer you up.
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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By Philo's definition of "hero", Rodney King has earned himself the Congressional Medal Of Honor.
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Please explain your logic on that absurd statement.
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Who's been arrested more times than Rodney King?
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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What? Where is any connection to reality in your fetid mind?
Just because you are too much of a coward to stand up for what you believe in doesn't mean those who do are criminals.
Were your family members of the Vichy French?
Do you always capitulate to the forces of oppression?
You really diggin' on the POLICE STATE?
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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You don't know what a "police state" is.
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Good article on Corporate Personhood
http://www.alternet.org/story/153345/the_real_history_of_%27corporate_personhood%27%3A_meet_the_man_to_blame_for_corporations_having_more_rights_than_you/
The Real History of 'Corporate Personhood': Meet the Man to Blame for Corporations Having More Rights Than You
The real history of today's excessive corporate power starts with a tobacco lawyer appointed to the Supreme Court.
December 6, 2011 | The following is an excerpt of Jeffrey Clement's Corporations Are Not People: Why They Have More Rights Than You Do and What You Can Do About It.) Click here to order a copy.
In 1971, Lewis Powell, a mild-mannered, courtly, and shrewd corporate lawyer in Richmond, Virginia, soon to be appointed to the United States Supreme Court, wrote a memorandum to his client, the United States Chamber of Commerce. He outlined a critique and a plan that changed America.
Lewis Powell, like the Citizens United dissenter Justice John Paul Stevens, was a decorated World War II veteran who returned to his hometown to build a most respected corporate law practice. By all accounts, Powell was a gentleman — reserved, polite, and gracious — and a distinguished lawyer and public servant. Commentators and law professors cite Powell’s “qualities of temperament and character” and his “modest” and “restrained” approach to judging. At his funeral in 1998, Sandra Day O’Connor, who had joined the Supreme Court in 1987, said, “For those who seek a model of human kindness, decency, exemplary behavior, and integrity, there will never be a better man.” Even the rare critic will cite Lewis Powell’s decency and kindness.
Much about these accounts must be true, but none tells the whole story of Lewis Powell. All of them, and even the principal Powell biography, omit the details of how he used his gifts to advance a radical corporate agenda. It is impossible to square this corporatist part of Powell’s life and legacy with any conclusion of “modest” or “restrained” judging.
Powell titled his 1971 memo to the Chamber of Commerce “Attack on American Free Enterprise System.” He explained, “No thoughtful person can question that the American economic system is under broad attack.” In response, corporations must organize and fund a drive to achieve political power through “united action.” Powell emphasized the need for a sustained, multiyear corporate campaign to use an “activist-minded Supreme Court” to shape “social, economic and political change” to the advantage of corporations.
There are about 7 more pages, so it is in depth.
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/11937/corporations_are_not_people/
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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You don't know what a "police state" is.
Another vapid response from Chaz.
Does he offer any information? From this do we assume that Chaz knows what a police state is?
No, all we know from this is that Chaz spews.
Go ahead and read though his posts. Nothing of any value, other than to deride others.
So Chaz, please explain how Rodney King and a retired police captian are the same, you f'tard.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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OK, I got a question for y'all.
I know a lot of people criticize the Chinese Gov't for their abuse of human rights. You know, they jail dissidents and house as political prisoners those that oppose the state. I think most Americans hold this out (human rights) as a key difference between our "free" state and the "non-free" communist state.
OK, here's the question:
What do you think keeps the Chinese-style human rights violations from happening here in the U.S.?
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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You don't know what a "police state" is.
Another vapid response from Chaz.
Does he offer any information? From this do we assume that Chaz knows what a police state is?
No, all we know from this is that Chaz spews.
Go ahead and read though his posts. Nothing of any value, other than to deride others.
So Chaz, please explain how Rodney King and a retired police captian are the same, you f'tard.
Agree. Sounds like this guy (cheez) does "know what a police state is".
Is he writing from America outside the branch dividian or ruby ridge? Is he currently part of OWS? In that case, he knows as much as I do about "police state".
No, he offers no information on police state.
BTW - King and retired captain..... I think even the characters would beg to differ with Cheez on that one...
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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http://www.politicususa.com/en/bernie-sanders-citizens-united
Bernie Sanders Proposes A Constitutional Amendment To Overturn Citizens United
December 8, 2011
By Jason Easley
Sen. Bernie Sanders proposed a constitutional amendment today that would overturn Citizens United and make it clear that corporations are not people.
Sen. Sanders’ proposed Saving American Democracy amendment states,
SECTION 1. The rights protected by the Constitution of the United States are the rights of natural persons and do not extend to for-profit corporations, limited liability companies, or other private entities established for business purposes or to promote business interests under the laws of any state, the United States, or any foreign state.
SECTION 2. Such corporate and other private entities established under law are subject to regulation by the people through the legislative process so long as such regulations are consistent with the powers of Congress and the States and do not limit the freedom of the press.
SECTION 3. Such corporate and other private entities shall be prohibited from making contributions or expenditures in any election of any candidate for public office or the vote upon any ballot measure submitted to the people.
SECTION 4. Congress and the States shall have the power to regulate and set limits on all election contributions and expenditures, including a candidate’s own spending, and to authorize the establishment of political committees to receive, spend, and publicly disclose the sources of those contributions and expenditures.
In a statement Sen. Sanders said, “There comes a time when an issue is so important that the only way to address it is by a constitutional amendment.” Sanders said of the effort to override the court decision that he labeled “a complete undermining of democracy.”
There is one interesting component to the Saving American Democracy Amendment that makes it different from all of the other proposed amendments and remedies designed to overturn Citizens United. Section 4 of the amendment strikes at the basis for every Supreme Court decision related to campaign finance. Sanders is also taking aim at the 1976 Buckley v. Valeo decision where the Supreme Court ruled spending money to influence elections was a form of protected free speech, and struck down limits on expenditures.
The amendment proposed by Sanders changes this by giving Congress the power to set expenditure limits on individuals, organizations, and candidates themselves. The Saving American Democracy Amendment would return the government back to the people by shutting off the money pipeline from the wealthy and special interests. It is also significant that the amendment limits the amount of money a candidate can give to their own campaign. This means that candidates would no longer have to be millionaires, or grovel at the feet of corporate America and the 1% in order to be able to run.
If this amendment was passed and ratified, anyone could run for office. The electoral process would once again be open to the candidates with the best ideas, not the biggest bank accounts. The Saving American Democracy Amendment would not only get rid of the corrupt Citizens United decision. It was also right a series of decades old wrongs that are based on the Buckley decision.
The odds of the amendment getting the support of the required two thirds majorities in the Senate and House, and ¾ of the states needed for ratification are slim, but that isn’t really the point. It is important to keep calling attention to this issue. Campaign finance reform is the only way for the American people to take back their elections and government.
Sen. Sanders is trying to wake America up with this amendment. The politicians aren’t going to fix it, the one percent isn’t going to kill their golden goose, and the Koch brothers own a majority on the Supreme Court, so it is up to the American people to take back the government that by constitutional design belongs to them.
Sounds like a good idea to me!!!!
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Jingy and k-man,
The juxtaposition of your arguments has a delicious irony. K-man asks how we avoid being a police state or stifling dissent, while Jingy wants to restrict political speech. I love the reasoning [sic] of the Left!
John
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