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Georgia-Pacific paper and wood products:[ul][li]Quilted Northern toilet paper[/li][li]Angel Soft toilet paper[/li][li]Soft 'n' Gentle toilet paper[/li][li]Mardi Gr... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jack Rabbit/161 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 23:50:47 Gene Sharp: Author of the nonviolent revolution rulebook (BBC Online) [i]From the BBC
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This is Dr Gene Sharp the man now credited with the strategy behind the toppling of the E... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jack Rabbit/160 Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:03:18 I don't know about capitalism per se, but I believe the US is about to go the way of the Soviet Unio I'm serious.

We very nearly didn't survive the Bush super-recession and we aren't anywhere near out of the woods yet. We needed much more reform than we got, thanks largely to GOP nihilism, to President Obama's failure to properly respond to their obstructionism, and to opposition from crooked D... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jack Rabbit/159 Sat, 04 Dec 2010 17:46:16 If I were a Bosox fan, I think that is sometyhing I would very much like to see . . . Of course, as a patriotic American who hates propaganda and lies, this is what I'd really like to see on the [i]New York Post:[/i]
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... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jack Rabbit/158 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:02:54 Diogenes Endorses Coons for US Senate, Rips Christine O'Donnell [i]From the Jack Rabbit News Service
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Diogenes of Sinope, the famous Greek philosopher, has thrown his endorsement to Democratic ca... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jack Rabbit/157 Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:31:33 To my Muslim Brothers and Sisters around the World The Rev. Mr. Jones is a vile, hateful man. Few Americans condone what he will do Saturday.

There is nothing we can do to stop him. There is nothing Mr. Crist, the Governor of Florida, can do to stop him. There is nothing President Obama can do to stop him. The American Constitution guarantees... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jack Rabbit/156 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:39:36 Is this the future of America? Terry Jones discusses the income gap in Imperial Rome Please click [link:video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2458522029318930763#|here] (run time 50 minutes).

Monty Python alumnus Terry Jones presents ancient history painlessly as he discusses the gap between rich and poor in first century Rome. It sounds like today's [i]Wall Street Journal.[/i]

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jack Rabbit/155 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:09:55 Reflections on the Liz Cheney-Arianna Huffington Exchange and the Gulf Spill The exchange on [link:www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-tv/arianna-battles-liz-chene_b_602133.html|ABC television Sunday morning] between Liz Cheney, lawyer and daughter of one of the most corrupt politicians in American history, and Arianna Huffington, who nowadays is a liberal reformist after first comi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jack Rabbit/154 Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:28:13 Rand Paul is an ideologue, not a racist There are racists and there are ideologues. All white supremacists are, in a crude kind of way, ideologues. Not all ideologues are racists. To jump to the point, Rand Paul, the GOP candidate for the US Senate in Kentucky, is an ideologue, not a racist.

Let's define a term first. [i]An ideolog... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jack Rabbit/153 Wed, 26 May 2010 13:30:56 The Republicans are still not Sane enough to Govern Over the last 15 months, the Republican congressional and senatorial delegations have proven themselves to be a herd of wild asses. They are simply unfit to govern a democratic state.

The most disgusting thing they did was not opposing health care reform, but lying about it day in and day out an... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jack Rabbit/152 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:27:31 Objection Bud Selig ended the era of the independent commissioner that began when Judge Landis was made the first Commissioner of Baseball in the wake of the Black Sox scandal of 1919. This was in a failed attempt to break the players' union, a movement led by Selig, White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf and other... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jack Rabbit/151 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:26:14 Critique of the President's decision and reaction at DU Marshall McLuhan said we go into the future looking through a rear view mirror. We go into the unknown making references to what is known that don't quite fit the new situation. Thus, for many of us, Bush, the presidential usurper with authoritarian tendencies, was equal to Hitler, a real totalita... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jack Rabbit/150 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:26:44 Response to Professor Yoo Professor John Yoo, one of the architects of the Bush regime's policy toward detainees in the war on terror, wrote a [link:online.wsj.com/article/SB123318955345726797.html|piece] in the [i]Wall Street Journal[/i] today condemning President Obama's decision to close the detainee facility at Guantánam... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jack Rabbit/149 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:15:37 24 Hours to go: Reflections at the end of the Bush era Please click [link:www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywTXvmVcVj8|here].

[i]From the Soviet film by Grigory Kozintsev (1971):[/i]

The final scene of [i]King Lear[/i] reveals the destruction of Britain and of Lear and Cordelia, Lear's beloved youngest daughter, at the hands of Edmund, the evil son of the ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jack Rabbit/148 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:10:28 And what a joy it was [center]
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No one but Sarah Palin "Dan Quaylized" Sarah Palin. She didn't know what the Bush Doctrine was when asked by Charlie Gibson. Other than [i]Roe v. Wade,[/i] she co... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jack Rabbit/145 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:12:35 It is Mr. Bush Who Has Been the Disgrace In a piece in today's [i]Wall Street Journal,[/i] Jeffery Scott Shapiro admonishes Americans for being so irreverent and disrespectful toward the current occupant of the Oval Office, the former Governor of Texas, George W. Bush.

Mr. Shapiro's piece, [i][link:online.wsj.com/article/SB1225843866275... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jack Rabbit/144 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:32:07 Honestly, I haven't heard such nonsense about who is a communist since the heyday of Robert Welch With right wing talking heads and their celebrity guests calling the President-in-waiting a socialist or a communist because he believes in a progressive income tax, I am reminded of the days when members of the John Birch Society or other far right organization of the Cold War era thought there was... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jack Rabbit/142 Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:00:30 A is A is an Aristotelian formula For years, I've been of the view that Ayn Rand's philosophy is based on a poor reading of Aristotle.

[i]A is A[/i] is Aristotle's law of identity. It is one of three axioms of Aristotelian logic. The other two are the law of contradiction (the poposition [i]A is not A)[/i] is always false) and ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jack Rabbit/141 Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:42:38 They're interested in talking points, not facts These people are willing to believe anything, no matter what the source or how ridiculous, that furthers an agenda or supports a particular world view.

Of course, there are people around here like that, too. They tend to think that September 11 was in "inside job" and Osama had nothing to do wit... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jack Rabbit/140 Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:27:14 Mr. Anderson exposes his own bias [i]
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First of all, he gives western civilization primacy over those barbarian Muslim Ottom... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jack Rabbit/139 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:00:44 Better than expected won't be good enough for Governor Palin The McCain campaign has been lowering the expectations bar to give Alaska Governor Sarah Palin a fighting chance against Senator Joseph Biden in the debate scheduled to begin in a few minutes.

It is a fallacy to to award a contest to someone who does "better than expected," especially when the ex... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Jack Rabbit/138 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:40:45