http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Mon, 20 May 2013 02:51:46 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:51:46 Are from Brown Shoes don't Make It, from the Mothers second album, Absolutely Free.

Another nice song from that album is Plastic People, due in part to this line: "Take the day and walk around. Watch the Nazi's run your town....."

I think the line "your children will murder you in your sleep... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/90-percent/778 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:38:48 If you employ a little critical thinking to strip away Max's hyperbole, I think the points he makes are valid and well informed.

Can you recommend some economic and wall Street pundits as informed as Max, but without the hyperbole, for us?

Beck deals in in manufactured paranoia. I think Max w... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/90-percent/777 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 06:44:07 "They" usurped a few of our Constitutional Rights in the name of "The War on Terror". Our phones are tapped without warrent, we are in a state of mass criminalization, and the President has used the authority to kill an American Citizen on his order. (This should be fact checked. I may be factual... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/90-percent/776 Fri, 09 Sep 2011 05:03:07 Something I find amazing is watching video's of the Iraq War new product roll out of 2002-2003. Looking at GWB in particular, along with the other traitors (Cheney, Rice, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Feith, et al) it is very easy to tell they barely believe their own bull shit. When Bush talks about evil ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/90-percent/775 Mon, 05 Sep 2011 17:42:03 Cheney is a traitor to America that committed numerous acts of treason. American elites have their own separate but not equal justice system that allows mass murderers to walk free amongst us.

I commend Matt Lauer for asking tough questions. Almost unprecedented in what currently passes for our... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/90-percent/774 Fri, 02 Sep 2011 07:12:27 He is probably the most honorable person to have served in the Bush White House. I like him.

However, as an average DU reader, I knew Powell's speech to the UN was largely bullshit within a day of his presentation. People at this high level of government should have the critical thinking and an... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/90-percent/773 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:54:09 It could be used in the trials of the Bush White House for WAR CRIMES and CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.

One comment I remember from Dastardly Dick a few years back, in talking about our serviceman;

"So what? They volunteered."

The multiple deployments into a war zone these sociopaths forced upo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/90-percent/772 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 11:38:11 This statement by Mitt in Iowa a few days ago should have sparked a violent overthrow of the American Government by WE THE PEOPLE by now. That it has not is of concern. (It has not even become a core issue here at DU, a community that strives to be WELL INFORMED and to dig a few layers deeper than... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/90-percent/771 Sat, 13 Aug 2011 10:49:53 This video has been on DU many times over and over. I think it is the highest quality and most concise summary of the current state of public affairs in America RIGHT THIS VERY MINUTE! (This particular version has a transcript, btw.)




"And now they're comin' for your SOCIAL SECURITY MONEY... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/90-percent/770 Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:47:24 Zappa went to seek medical help for his prostate issues. Four Doctor's did not find the prostate cancer. The fifth one finally did, and by then it advanced so far it was inoperable.

Frank was openly discussing running for President before he got sick. He was skating on powerful political ice a... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/90-percent/769 Sat, 02 Jul 2011 20:42:27 I got the perfect name for this

The College Tuition Industrial Complex!

I would contend that part of the reason we are in such a mess these days is that modern education is oriented around GETTING A GOOD JOB instead of being taught how to think and reason. We are churning out worker bees that... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/90-percent/767 Mon, 16 May 2011 09:30:44 The young man in the basement said that military recruitment is doing well these days.

Is that really true? I remember at the onset of America's "wars of mistakes" that it was hard to get troops of any sort and so they deployed massive amounts of weekend warriors (National guard) and mercenaries... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/90-percent/768 Sat, 14 May 2011 11:30:26 I'm a 9-11 "skeptic". I have noticed that 911 CT's are not very welcome at DU.

I do recall Michael's 911 CT question was simply; "If the government has nothing to hide, how come they're hiding so much information about 911?

I would like the history of 9-11 to be repeatedly reexamined and que... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/90-percent/766 Fri, 13 May 2011 09:58:52 I learned this concept from Frank Zappa's many interviews. "We are a nation of laws - poorly written and randomly enforced." To set the tone here - he said that we are extremely over lawed in the USA. So, at any given time, most of us are engaged in breaking some law some where. I can make my pe... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/90-percent/765 Sun, 08 May 2011 11:36:47 http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/taxonomy/term/8,4634,502

Would have put this in video section except it's not youtube.

Here is Wilkerson's incredible quote:

"My former boss Colin Powell recently said that Donald Rumsfeld is delusional and deceptive and he could prove both points. My fo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/90-percent/764 Sat, 07 May 2011 10:29:33 The consensus from intelligence professionals is that torture simply doesn't work. It results in bogus information and lies and fabrications.

The contention that torture works is only the opinion of the torture advocate. They are only revealing themselves to be ignorant and cruel and stupid.

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/90-percent/762 Fri, 06 May 2011 09:55:50 I find it chilling and remarkable to watch Bush and others in his cabinet in speeches from 2001-2003, when the ramp up to bogus war started. From the comfort of five to ten years later, it's clear that they ALL KNOW THEY ARE LYING THROUGH THEIR TEETH about the threat of Saddam. "Don't want the smo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/90-percent/763 Fri, 06 May 2011 08:42:13 When the going gets rough, the interrogators go un-American.

-90% jimmy

with thanks to Hunter S.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/90-percent/761 Wed, 04 May 2011 11:08:54 Frank generally got it right on things. That he may have actually been on to something here is amazing.

http://wiki.killuglyradio.com/wiki/Big_Note_concept

Now to contemplate what my life would have been if Dr. Edward Teller was my High School adviser, like Michio here!

-90% Jimmy... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/90-percent/760 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:53:38 But, I kind of think my career has not been well served because I think I may fall into this category:

"Rebels, artists, independent thinkers, eccentrics and iconoclasts--those who march to the beat of their own drum--are weeded out."

They've been trying to weed me out for thirty years, and I ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/90-percent/759 Sun, 17 Apr 2011 10:00:32 I went to see John Larson, who I consider to be a good guy (former school teacher, NOT A LAWYER!) and he told me we now have TWO AMERICAS. I took that to mean; One for all of us peons and another for the elites.

I would love to see Lloyd Blankfein do some of God's Work UP THE RIVER AT STATESVIL... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/90-percent/758 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 09:16:37 SS is running a surplus that won't be of concern for at least 26 more years. (more or less - 2047, 2036 or something is when tweaking will be needed)

It is funded by you and your employer. NOT TAXPAYERS.

The government has been using the SS funds like a bank giving them a loan. It is part o... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/90-percent/757 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:23:54 the impression I have of that era is that Americans stuck together. The sense of community and generosity and shared sacrifice created a social fabric more in line with the natural socially interdependent communities that served humanity well for perhaps 30,000 years.

They were not isolated and ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/90-percent/756 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:35:06 I am so old I remember the good old days when I had a complete set of Constitutional Rights.

http://www.nyclu.org/pdfs/eroding_liberty.pdf

At least they are only taking the ones I wasn't using anyway!

-90% Jimmy

According to Thom Hartmann, even Posse Comatatus is inoperative these days. ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/90-percent/755 Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:12:13 Said hero being frank Zappa, who was the idol of my long ago youth. In the context of the facebook uprisings in Egypt and elsewhere, Frank’s initial comments below are quire prescient, aren’t they? Especially if you're Hosni Mubarik or Moamar the K.


The money quotes below start at approximate... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/90-percent/754 Sat, 09 Apr 2011 13:37:46