http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 26 May 2013 03:03:50 Sun, 26 May 2013 03:03:50 Cocoa Beach, for those who don't know, is/was the bedroom community for the space center. It is a barrier island four miles off the Florida mainland, separated from the coast by Merritt Island and the Intracoastal Waterway. Much of the town was dredged up from the Mosquito Lagoon (like the way they ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Atman/96 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 09:08:51 And tragedy it is, because it didn't have to happen. This morning as I sipped my coffee and scanned the worldwide news headlines on my smartphone, the always self-important Joe Scarborough fought back against his panelists to assert that the problem with the current war situation was the total apath... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Atman/95 Mon, 08 Aug 2011 10:57:44 I just don't get why the for-profit nature of our health care industry isn't part of the discussion. It is the biggest driver of costs. It's not Doctors' reimbursements, they've gone down every year. It's not fraud, though I don't deny fraud exists. In retail, it's called "shrinkage" or "loss contro... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Atman/94 Thu, 26 May 2011 10:02:29 How difficult would it be for even the poorest of our Congressional Reps to just accept and pass a nominal tax increase on the only people who have benefitted from the Bush/Obama tax breaks? Boom -- a huge part of the debt paid off before you can say "Trickle Down." And the unfortunate wealthy WILL ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Atman/93 Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:05:48 Holy shit...what an ad. Didn't see who is "responsible" for it. It showed Main Streets full of empty storefronts with the message that it is Obama's failed policies that caused all of it. Ends with a sad child waving an American flag, imploring voters to send a message.

We need to send a message,... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Atman/92 Tue, 28 Sep 2010 08:47:44 [i]I posted this on a private message board which has nothing to do with politics -- except for when it does. I can't link you to the site because it requires a membership password, but I'm happy to post my response to a Repub on the site who tried to make the case that while global warming might be... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Atman/91 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:42:54 http://www.caglecartoons.com/images/preview/%7B95430399-242a-4558-896e-e6a786abf046%7D.gif

.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Atman/90 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:02:47 I'm in Crazy Town!

I defy ANY DUer to try to organize a concert such as Woodstock. So many of you kids keep talking about how it meant nothing, it was just a big concert. Yeah, cuz YOU know. YOU went to Bonnaroo or Lollapalooza.

Yeah...YOU went to big corporate ad-fests that charged you $8 fo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Atman/88 Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:32:55 While I completely agree that taking the lazy, politically convenient way out is, well...lazy and politically convenient, I don't consider very many of our Senators and House members to be any sort of "leaders." Most are purely followers. Followers of polls, followers of money, followers of anything... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Atman/87 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:29:31 Everything going wrong is Obama's fault now. No mention anywhere, by anybody (except the American people, of course, but we don't count) about who caused this mess and why we're not doing anything to bring him/them to justice.

Make no mistake, Bush and Grover "Drown the economy in a bathtub" Norq... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Atman/86 Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:42:30 I'm not a defender of GM or Ford. I owned a Ford Windstar which I literally had throw away after a few years because it was such a piece of crap. My GM S-10 truck was rugged, but it was heavy and sucked gas. We did buy our son a 2002 Saturn L200 which seems light years ahead of either the Windstar o... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Atman/85 Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:40:38 While I'm celebrating this historic day (but not prematurely!) with the rest of you, I'm also reminded that nothing that is happening in the world today was truly unforeseen or accidental. Everything that we are hearing about today, from the economic collapse to the amazing shifting demographics in ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Atman/83 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:48:35 When I was a kid in the sixties, my folks (my dad, specifically) was a civil rights activist. My best friend was Reggie Mims, a black kid, and our families hung together a lot. When I drove to Florida from Massachusetts with my grandparents, my dad stuffed a biography of Martin Luther King in my tra... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Atman/84 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:08:12 That's the morning talking head theme. But it got me thinking...why not? If we were able to pull eleventy-brazillion dollars out of our collective ass (actually, China's ass) just to give it to Bush and Paulson and their buddies, why can't Barack say that it's also vital to our survival and the grea... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Atman/82 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:29:10 I'm speaking of what happens to Skinner, EarlG and Elad after next week. I'm sure DU will spike for a while, but after the dust settles, then what? I'm sure they must have thought about it, too. Your business plan addresses it, right guys? :wink: H

Having once been a DU front-page contributor, af... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Atman/81 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:31:04 They got theirs. They already won, for all intents and purposes. They have all our money, they've crippled the country so that nothing can take place but war and servicing the debt they've piled up. They won't pay taxes, respond to subpoenas, or show the slightest respect for truth and the rule of l... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Atman/80 Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:01:41 Americans HATE the Republican Party right now, and are extremely unlikely to vote for any Republican in November for any post for any reason. Sure, some will win re-election to their school boards and House seats, but without wholesale election fraud, Republicans simply cannot win in November. Never... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Atman/78 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:38:23 Washington - President Bush assembled his top advisers today hoping to find a way to retroactively blame the current recession on the as-yet-unelected Hillary Clinton. Having falsely claimed the economy was booming for over four years now, Bush could be forced into the uncomfortable position of havi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Atman/76 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:42:25 I speak from experience. A couple of years ago I landed a job for a slot machine manufacturer, doing the animation you see on the big plasma screens around the casinos. The animation was linked to triggers in the slots so that if/when a player won it would jump to the appropriate part of the animati... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Atman/75 Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:42:18 How obvious can it be what is going on? We've all whined here for seven years that the press is Bush's back pocket, that the corporate media is backing the GOP because it is in their best interest to do so, etc, etc, etc...and now, those same media outlets are blasting messages at us 24/7...all abou... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Atman/74 Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:32:11 So I've just read yet another gloom and doom prediction about what's in store for our country. This time, it's about the [link:www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2374870&mesg_id=2374870|dollar crashing by 90% and hard times] like no living American has ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Atman/73 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:06:29 Today Al Hubbard, chairman of President Bush’s National Economic Council, announced his resignation. Trent Lott and Denny Hastert did just recently. The list of Republicans bailing on BushCo is growing longer than the Titanic passenger manifest.

[i]Don't believe it for a second.[/i] None of thes... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Atman/72 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:53:16 Just watching the morning news, and video of her recent campaign appearance; the freakin' Orwellian backdrops! They're sooooo BUSH. They look like they're straight out of the Bush graphics department, which obviously consists of some punk twenty-something who just figured out how to use the "Bevel &... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Atman/71 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:25:39 Search through my DU posts, now approaching the 17,000 mark, and you'll find that I've seldom been on the front lines of the the "OMG, we've finally got them!" crowd. I think the last time I felt compelled to write "We've nailed the bastards" was after the torturous Medicaid vote, held open for umpt... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Atman/69 Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:13:05 Once again, Propaganda Joe catapults it through the roof. It's painfully obvious why an ex-Congressman was installed in that anchor chair...he will shamelessly advance any absurd claim the administration wants. Once again today he went on and on about the phenomenal economy, the lowest unemployment ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Atman/68 Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:32:27