KCabotDullesMarxIII's Journal - Democratic Underground http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:45:00 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:45:00 'Selling Edinburgh off will come at great cost to us all.' The following letter, written by John Stevenson, President of the UNISON public-service trade-union, City of Edinburgh Branch, appeared in Thursday's Edinburgh Evening News. It concerns the accelerating privatisation of public services under the Lib-Con coalition.

In an otherwise enlightened art... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/KCabotDullesMarxIII/356 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 18:56:22 Didn't Yaweh institute the first welfare-state a few thousand year ago? Leaving produce in the fields and on the trees, after the first harvesting, for the poor man and the wayfarer?

In the Gospels, we are told that (even at the time of Christ), the Gentiles - and I speak as one - were a byword for cruelty among the Jews, whose leaders could not, themselves, have any... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/KCabotDullesMarxIII/357 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 12:58:30 What you said. ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/KCabotDullesMarxIII/358 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 12:52:36 The more I read your post, bobbolink, the more it bowls me over. It's profound truths could not be more beautifully expressed, either.

'They consider anyone who observes the dances to be participants in their prayers, and that is what happens, from my experience. I don't have to know what it "means".... I just have to be there and be open.'

There is an old... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/KCabotDullesMarxIII/359 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 09:44:43 As my brother-in-law remarked of a driver on the road ahead, "It's not that he doesn't know where he's going. He doesn't now who he is."... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/KCabotDullesMarxIII/355 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:20:49 “There's no mercy in nature. And there's very much something that people should understand: that you suffer in direct ratio to your transgressions against the natural world. The natural world will prevail.” – Chief Oren Lyons

Why is it that the deepest, most ironical truths, when uttered matter-of-factly, can convulse us with laughter. I mean, what Chief Oren Lyons sa... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/KCabotDullesMarxIII/354 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:41:29 Such wickedness absolutely cries to heaven for vengeance. And the US constantly decries the Cubans' treatment of anti-Cuban terrorists!... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/KCabotDullesMarxIII/360 Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:53:49 It's really Mother Nature, isn't it, Syrupoffigs? A great designer! The best. ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/KCabotDullesMarxIII/353 Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:27:42 Professor Reich's article not factual enough for you? Why I do I have this overwhelming impression that, as Lloyd George said of Chamberlain's grasp of foreign policy, mutatis mutandis, you are looking at this financial-regulation Bill through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe?

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/KCabotDullesMarxIII/352 Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:50:30 You really do need well-programmed robots, if only to tell your police what to do. ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/KCabotDullesMarxIII/350 Sat, 17 Jul 2010 19:03:44 It just seems to go and on, doesn't it? Where is the moral outrage in high places? ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/KCabotDullesMarxIII/351 Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:21:11 Yes. For putting your faith in big business and little science, instead of faith in your Creator. It might not be too long before every person on the planet capable of speech gets down on their knees and prays the Our Father every morning. Noon and night too, for that matter.

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/KCabotDullesMarxIII/349 Sun, 20 Jun 2010 17:09:22 Deleted message Message removed by moderator. [link:www.democraticunderground.com/forums/rules.html|Click here] to review the message board rules.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/KCabotDullesMarxIII/348 Sun, 30 May 2010 11:49:06 it's a weird thing about these threads reporting criminal over-reactions - in this case, possibly sexually-depraved behaviour - by US law-enforcement personnel of one stripe or another.

Someone posts here, reporting it, then a swarm of other DUers respond, either by claiming it was perfectly justified by the behaviour or even the demeanour of the victim, or, as in thi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/KCabotDullesMarxIII/347 Wed, 12 May 2010 14:55:48 'To examine capitalism, is to indict it.' - Dom Helder Camara, Archbishop of Recife, Brazil. It's only a matter of time before the psychopaths achieve hegemony and they twist even the most unambiguous criticism against them, while praising the authors to the heavens for precepts, which, far from being a central part of their teaching, they, in fact, vehemently opposed.

Adam Smith is a p... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/KCabotDullesMarxIII/346 Wed, 12 May 2010 05:25:21 The Catholic Church calls it, 'bilocation'. http://www.catholic.org/encyclopedia/view.php?id=1897
http://www.tanbooks.com/doct/mysteries_marvels.htm

What took y'all so long?... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/KCabotDullesMarxIII/345 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:35:28 I thought they stopped making Monty Python episodes long ago. ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/KCabotDullesMarxIII/344 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:03:31 The soft underbelly of mankind, who pride themsleves on their hard-nosed pragmatism. Not a moral fibre in their being. The kind who don't have a problem working as secret police under South American dictators, or as 'interrogators' in Guantanamo. The scabs who break strikes, yet are happy to take the better pay and conditions fought for by their co-workers. The ones who ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/KCabotDullesMarxIII/343 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:43:31 Like your 'Walter' avatar (an unlikely avatar in the religious sense, if ever there was one!). Fits your wry post to a tee.

Walter, ever the pragmatist in his own mind, would have understood. Reminds me of Milo Minderbender's words, when Yossarian catches up with him in Rome. "His parents were very rich. Well then, they'd have understood...." The lad had been kille... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/KCabotDullesMarxIII/342 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:44:16 "3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Thank you. It will do in the heads of the neo-Darwinists, who think there's nothing Darwin didn't 'splain. God's redundant. Big time.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/KCabotDullesMarxIII/341 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:56:32 Love the word, 'maverick' though, in his u/n. Very impressive, isn't it? No mistaking him for a troll, that's for sure.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/KCabotDullesMarxIII/340 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 09:27:45 I'm sorry. Some things are so outrageous, they just make you laugh. It reminds me a bit of that song: They're coming to take me away.

refrain:

'And They're coming to take me away Ha Ha
They're coming to take me away ho ho he he ha ha
to the funny farm where life is beautiful all the time, and I'll be happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coa... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/KCabotDullesMarxIII/339 Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:30:40 How about as President? ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/KCabotDullesMarxIII/338 Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:09:08 It's way past the time very modest, maximum multiples of the earnings of CEO's in relation to the earnings of entrance-level staff, akin to that imposed by MacArthur in Japan after WWII - not just here but in the UK and Europe.

If that means they can't finance their life-style with a dozen or so mansions, private jets, ocean-going yachts, etc, from their private fortunes, ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/KCabotDullesMarxIII/337 Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:53:59 Wow! One of the most beautiful anecdotes and moving commentaries I've ever read. I must print it out keep a copy of it.

This post should top the bill of fare.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/KCabotDullesMarxIII/336 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:56:23