http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:16:34 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:16:34 Amazing how many peasants still love their oppressors and hate the oppressed. Reagan was a "divide-and-conquer" master, playing on working/middle class white's hatred and distrust of anyone he deemed "lesser" and "lazy".

His PR team successfully painted the modern Republicans as take-charge he... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/HughBeaumont/194 Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:33:27 http://news.yahoo.com/poll-economy-fix-americans-pick-reagan-over-roosevelt-164905667.html

[div class="excerpt"]Ronald Reagan beat out Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the former president Americans would like to see in the White House during these trying economic times, a new 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/HughBeaumont/193 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 08:18:04 A popular political position among Republicans and Libertarians alike is to lower or abolish the Minimum Wage.

The current Federal minimum is 7.25. Some states have rates higher than that. 7.25/hour wasn’t an adequate wage in 1995, let alone 16 years later. Many Americans are forced to make ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/HughBeaumont/191 Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:42:21 I don't really know why anyone's surprised. Ask anyone who was a punk rock kid in the 80s how California & DC police treated kids who weren't resisting their arrest for . . . well, they really never knew what they were being harassed and intimidated for, really.

Do people really still think the... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/HughBeaumont/192 Wed, 26 Oct 2011 05:56:39 http://www.credoaction.com/comics/2011/10/

http://s3.credoaction.com.s3.amazonaws.com/comics/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/TMW2011-10-26colorlowres.jpg

Well, problem solved, I guess . . .

The sad thing is, people who think like this will go "WHAT? Those two anchors are right!!" ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/HughBeaumont/190 Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:22:49 http://blog.cleveland.com/letters/2011/10/smelling_the_greed.html

[div class="excerpt"]Attention Republicans: As a small-business owner, I can assure you that cutting my taxes, trashing my schools and teachers, and decimating my fire, police, and government regulatory services that keep corporate... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/HughBeaumont/189 Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:18:21 http://blog.cleveland.com/letters/2011/10/no_match_for_the_tea_party.html

To which I say THANK YOU. Nothing gets past you, does it, Long Duk Dong?

[div class="excerpt"]I pray the Occupy Wall Street protest lasts until Election Day 2012. The more clarity shown between these mindless freeloader... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/HughBeaumont/188 Sun, 23 Oct 2011 12:34:08 (Copied that verbatim, BTW)

My response:

[i]Corporate America is already doing such an astounding job failing our children's future that I don't think they need any extra help.

Think about it.

If your kid has a college degree, where's he/she going to go that an overseas kid who can get t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/HughBeaumont/187 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 05:43:55 When is America going to finally renounce Reaganomics?

When are we going to start putting progressives in Washington instead of Republicans disguised as Democrats and Fascists not-so-disguised as Republicans?

When are Americans going to stop believing in Horatio Alger?

When is Washington an... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/HughBeaumont/186 Thu, 13 Oct 2011 08:31:29 http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OSwDLiKxrvI/To-d8_zmQII/AAAAAAAAniE/EqVjpDPvVo0/s1600/111007-down-with-evil-corporations.jpg

Elizabeth Hasselbreath was yapping up this graphic on The View today.

Soooooooooo . . . by your somehow awesome logic, because we're not all taking to the looms, the smithies... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/HughBeaumont/185 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 21:52:22 Really easy to shoot this down - without equitably distributed "wealth", however great or small, there isn't going to be much [b]work[/b] to have ethic [b]FOR[/b]. [b]Demand[/b] creates jobs, not [i]noblesse oblige[/i]. Republicans don't seem to get that there can be [b]no private wealth without e... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/HughBeaumont/184 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:24:04 Erin “Beijing” Burnett. Andrea Mitchell. Herman Cain. Donald Trump. Stephen Moore. Jonathan Hoenig. Chuckles Gasparino. Mitt Romney.

Now that The Movement is underway and cannot be ignored, it’s like they’re all reading from the same Roger Ailes-Chuck Koch-coordinated cue card:

“No on... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/HughBeaumont/183 Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:12:15 They should all just go home now.

They have no coherent message. They have no solidified goal.

“Waaaaah! I hate the banksters! I want them to be prosecuted! I want Justice!!!”

News Flash, people: [b]Greed isn’t a crime.[/b] The “banksters” didn’t commit defined crimes, they’re not go... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/HughBeaumont/182 Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:49:14 . . . it was pretty much open season on anyone who didn't look like a JCPenney mannequin.

Band kids got fucked with the most. As did the learning disabled. So did non-popular smart kids. Fat beta kids had bullseyes on their back. Acne. Brown patches. Skinny. Non-athletic. Bad hair. Socia... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/HughBeaumont/181 Mon, 26 Sep 2011 08:29:06 This station really makes me ill.

Two right wing hacks disguised as anchors (Joe Kernen and Michele Caruso-Cabrera, both staunchly to the right of Bewsh 43, both with anti-Progressive, pro-Laissez-Fail books out) are interviewing one of the worst human beings known to mankind, Neutron Jack Welch,... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/HughBeaumont/180 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:01:30 This was from the additional footage in the movie [i]Sicko[/i].

[link:www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9447-2005Feb8.html|And in the past, she's written an article or two addressing this subject.]

The quote was made in reference to health care affordability.

But really, couldn't th... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/HughBeaumont/179 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:45:57 http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nT3Cqbi1_Q4/Tj1COiaGYhI/AAAAAAAAPl0/Euz-mot-Ljs/s1600/windy%2Bcity.jpg

Yep.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/HughBeaumont/178 Sun, 07 Aug 2011 19:28:21 Not really "kosher" to say this on here, but "strong" presidents who stick up for the people and try to defang corporations take dirt naps in Arlington. Corporations vet every candidate from minute one. They don't play ball, they don't get funded. This is how "messiness" is avoided nowadays.

Y... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/HughBeaumont/177 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 17:52:08 You know, years after he stood on that podium, whatever podium it was, and asked for a blank check for military spending and the Rubberstamp Rodeo lovingly gave it to him, damn the long term cost?

Ever recall seeing that National Debt ticker ANYwhere on ANY TV station after it was nearly double... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/HughBeaumont/176 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:07:00 http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0711/59333.html

Yes, I know it's Politico and Politico sucks. But content is content, so . . .

[div class="excerpt"]The man who played a major role in revitalizing Las Vegas is bashing President Barack Obama as “the greatest wet blanket to business, progre... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/HughBeaumont/174 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 09:45:27 So let me see if I got this right . . .

Corporations and businesses seem to be trying to create a world where they can do business . . . without the need of additional business.

Corporations and businesses want demand, they just don’t want to pay the price necessary [i]for[/i] that demand.

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/HughBeaumont/173 Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:19:12 So today, Candidate Jesus Eyes was on (RN)CNBC today, and she said something that I found intriguing.

Yes, you read that right. Michelle Bachmann said something . . . intriguing.

“Intriguing” in the sense that I’m . . . stunned. And I need it explained to me as if I’m a four year old.

She... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/HughBeaumont/172 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 09:44:48 http://www.cleveland.com/obrien/index.ssf/2011/06/bachmann_vs_the_destroyers_kev.html
http://www.cleveland.com/images/news/columnist_kevin_obrien.gif

I'm partly convinced that Kevin O'Brien is on a quest to put ALL Northeastern Ohio comedians out of business. His performance art is laugh-filled... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/HughBeaumont/171 Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:08:31 I think a good example of this would be that I don't own a device of any kind that has a touch screen, and I just have a plain-ol' crap flip phone instead of a 3G/4G Smartthing. I don't even know what the buzzword [i]du jour[/i] "cloud" means; I'm assuming it's just a conceptual black box related t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/HughBeaumont/170 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 10:47:05 Simply put, both parties lurves them some Uncle Milty and his disasternomic bullshit and nearly everyone installed in Washington either believes it, plays "Get along to go along", or is Sherrod Brown. Democrats have become corporate-enabling Republicans and Republicans have become country-destroyin... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/HughBeaumont/169 Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:06:42