http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sat, 18 May 2013 19:07:43 Sat, 18 May 2013 19:07:43 This comes out of another post I make on another thread and a discussion on Thom Hartmann yesterday. I have always thought we needed a labor party. Let's face it, most Americans either work for someone else or want to work if they are unemployed, or are former retired workers and many are small busi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cleita/26 Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:32:13 happening today.

http://www.livescience.com/7366-global-warming-spur-earthquakes-volcanoes.html

[div class="excerpt"]
Global Warming Might Spur Earthquakes and Volcanoes
Andrea ThompsonDate: 30 August 2007 Time: 04:57 AM ET

Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and landslides are some... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cleita/25 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:44:40 I guess these are the new wedge issues to get the Republicans a platform. Not far behind will be immigration and the always popular pro-life debates. Please fellow DUers be very diligent in putting down all disinformation regarding these issues and alerting on those threads instead of letting them f... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cleita/24 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:02:12 They are up and down the coast from the bottom of California through the top of Washington. However, I am going to limit this post to the one I am most familiar with, El Diablo here in San Luis Obispo County. You can read about it on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_Canyon_Power_Plant)... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cleita/23 Sat, 12 Mar 2011 20:06:40 It seems like one extra letter and a slight turn of phrase has turned this health care reform into a whole different animal. Let's see...a public option would be a government run health program like Medicaid or Medicare or the VA that the consumer could opt to buy into if he weren't happy with his p... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cleita/22 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:03:51 insurance industry would like you to believe.

http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2009/01/expanding_medic.html

[div class="excerpt"]On a day in which Congress prepared to vote on the Obama administration's proposed $800 billion economic stimulus package, the nation's largest organization o... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cleita/20 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:03:29 I’m tired of people saying that elected government officials need to run things like a business. It’s a bad choice and every time we get one of these business wonks in office, things rapidly go down hill. I don’t care if it’s from the municipal level to the federal level. Business’s primary purpose ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cleita/18 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:08:09 problems today.

http://www.pnhp.org/news/2007/january/singlepayer_health_.php

[div class="excerpt"]Posted on January 29, 2007
Single-Payer Health Care Advocates Bring Campaign to D.C.

By Mark Gruenberg
PAI Staff Writer
1/29/2007

PHILADELPHIA (PAI)—At Temple University Hospital in Phi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cleita/16 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:09:44 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4447471.stm

[div class="excerpt"]Are you racist? The test that claims to know
By Lucy Wilkins
BBC News

Can a five-minute online test help tell whether you are racist or not? In the US, two million people have taken one and now a UK version is a... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cleita/15 Tue, 21 Nov 2006 13:28:00 According to the Pew Hispanic Center, a good place to get stats about this issue, half of them enter legally through ports of entry. Since the illegal in "illegal immigrants" is about them crossing the border illegally, it seems to make the designation of "illegal immigrants" even more inaccurate. T... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cleita/13 Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:29:05 Things we don't know because our news has gone AWOL. With all the hateful talk about immigrants, I thought I would monitor the news on the Spanish cable channels I get. The big news is about the nationwide miner's strike in Mexico due to a mining accident.

[div class="excerpt"]The strike by membe... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cleita/10 Sat, 22 Apr 2006 12:36:48 [div class="excerpt"]SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER

Ring smuggling illegals from South Asia halted
More than 50 Indians, Pakistanis smuggled

Thursday, April 13, 2006

By PAUL SHUKOVSKY
P-I REPORTER

BLAINE -- U.S. and Canadian authorities Wednesday announced they have broken up a human-smug... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cleita/9 Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:45:27 I wrote a paper on this in 2004 right before the presidential elections. Here are excerpts about the state of our national health care then. I think many of these stats have gotten worse.

[div class="excerpt"]According to a study by the National Academy of Sciences 44 million Americans or 16% do ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cleita/8 Wed, 05 Apr 2006 16:27:25 This is the medical plan or extension and improvement on Medicare that should be extended to all Americans. It will take a strong grass roots movement to accomplish this as the for profit health care industry fights this proposal with the ferocity of a jihad. Their operatives are everywhere spreadi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cleita/7 Wed, 05 Apr 2006 16:02:28 Considering that many here seem to be focusing on the illegality of the undocumented workers, I went googling with the help of a legal eagle Duer to find out what legal obligations the employer has and what he would be fined for not complying with the law. Here it is:

http://www.doleta.gov/dinap/... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cleita/5 Sat, 01 Apr 2006 16:22:55 [div class="excerpt"][b]Third of homeless in San Luis Obispo County are under 21[/b]

By Nathan Welton

A third of San Luis Obispo County's 2,400 homeless people are under age 21, and more than a fifth aren't yet out of junior high school.

Those are some preliminary results of a unique projec... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cleita/4 Thu, 30 Mar 2006 19:14:18 of the United States.”

So spoke historian, Anna Louise Strong then a "progressive" reporter for the union-owned Seattle daily, “The Union Record”, about the Seattle General Strike of 1919 in a pamphlet she wrote to document it shortly after it was over. The History Committee of The General Strike... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cleita/3 Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:04:27 This is a short history of the Bush regime and the lies institutionalized by the right wing and President George W. Bush and his Vice President Dick Cheney since they took office. It’s all been said before, but it is time to put it all in one place. It’s time to speak the truth in blunt and simple t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cleita/2 Sun, 26 Mar 2006 23:09:58