http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sat, 18 May 2013 21:45:54 Sat, 18 May 2013 21:45:54 Hey, Freepers, get down off your high horse. We all know that Willard “Mitt” Romney will more than likely get the Republican nomination. And when he does, all of you – ALL of you – will dutifully march into the voting booth and pull the lever for Mr. RomneyCare.

There will be no third-party insur... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LuckyTheDog/838 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:45:19 [div class="excerpt"]If some of the latest thinking in physics is correct, there very well could be an alternative universe in which the federal government did not step in to rescue General Motors and Chrysler after the 2008 financial collapse.

Perhaps, in that alternative universe, Alternative B... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LuckyTheDog/837 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:39:35 Now I know why Godfather's Pizza always asks me if I want to hold the sausage.

(Tip of hat to Bill Maher)... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LuckyTheDog/836 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:38:39 For reasons I don't totally understand, my sports-obsessed son (who will turn 10 later this month) has expressed contempt for the Dallas Cowboys.

My advice to him was: Son, if you are going to expend energy on hating a professional sports team, make it the New York Yankees.

Was I right?
... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LuckyTheDog/835 Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:59:05 ... what the fuck you gonna do?

It's not just a line from a rap song anymore, is it? It's getting to be a serious question.

That smelly blob you see flying toward the fan ... it's about to make contact.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LuckyTheDog/834 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:05:20 [div class="excerpt"]
[b]Hansen Clarke’s idea to save Detroit could be crazy enough to work [/b]

U.S. Rep. Hansen Clarke has a crazy plan to save Michigan’s largest city. Or, I should say, he has a plan that seems that way until one realizes every non-crazy idea for saving Detroit has been eithe... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LuckyTheDog/833 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:23:50

[div class="excerpt"]In what might be called the Obama Doctrine, but won't be because it isn't one and we were leading from behind anyway, the nation's top community organizer has helped NATO reorganize another bad guy from the world scene.

Thirty-one weeks after Nobel Peace Prize winner Obam... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LuckyTheDog/832 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:19:20 [div class="excerpt"]... (I)t's clear that OWS (aka the 99 percent movement) is about a lot more than bongos, weed and the latest edition of Worker’s Vanguard. It’s about pain and insecurity. It’s about disappointment. It’s about people who were wiped out because they were laid off in middle age or ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LuckyTheDog/831 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:17:22 The Tea Party will say it proves he's a secret Muslim. The Republicans will suddenly realize that the Iranian mullahs are just like the Founding Fathers. ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LuckyTheDog/830 Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:21:15 These people should have just picked themselves up by their own bootstraps and started their own businesses!

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Source: http://www.ssa.gov/history/acoffee.html

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LuckyTheDog/829 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:05:39 I would like to see somebody do a real, numbers-based evaluation of the percentage of misspelled and racist signs at the Occupy Wall Street protests in comparison to those at Tea Party events.

I don't know what the results would be. But I am ready to live with whatever the data show.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LuckyTheDog/827 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:03:22 ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LuckyTheDog/826 Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:47:18 Today, I suggested to somebody that we should add a 40% marginal income tax rate for taxable income above $1 million, a 50% tax rate for taxable income above $10 million and a 75% rate for taxable income above $100 million.

I was told that such a thing would make the United States like "the forme... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LuckyTheDog/825 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:28:12 It was never likely that Eugene Debs -- whose party advocating things as radical as the abolition of the U.S. Senate -- would ever be elected president. But he did a lot of good.

Debs built support for things that later were adopted by the somewhat-more-Mainstream Progressive (Bull Moose) Party a... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LuckyTheDog/824 Sat, 17 Sep 2011 18:12:29 So, my kid, who just started fourth grade, ate hot lunch at school all last year. I planned to continue that practice this year, but packed him a lunch for the first few days because that's what he wanted.

After this first few days I said: "OK, let's go back to school lunches now." He resisted --... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LuckyTheDog/823 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:03:27
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http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j163/jdmdetroit/new/x2_81d1eae.jpg... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LuckyTheDog/822 Mon, 05 Sep 2011 19:06:45 I get a lot of flack from my family for living in Detroit and (HORRORS!) sending my grade-school son to a Detroit public school. I mean, hey, what am I, nuts? Don't I know that Detroit is horrendously dangerous and has the WORST SCHOOLS IN THE NATION? I must be a VERY BAD PARENT!

Well, guess what... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LuckyTheDog/820 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:13:42 I am standing by my prediction that Willard "Mitt" Romney will get the Republican nomination, Tim Pawlenty will be his running mate, and that they will lose.
... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LuckyTheDog/819 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:30:25 We haven't spent ANYWHERE near $1 trillion! We have not lost any soldiers!

And where are the no-bid contracts? The private mercenaries? The planes full of cash that just disappears?

It can't be! Obama didn't do any of the stuff necessary for regime change in the Middle East!

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LuckyTheDog/818 Sun, 21 Aug 2011 20:59:33 How's that globalism thing workin' out fer ya?... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LuckyTheDog/817 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:32:18 It's not working out. It's time to move on and start hanging out with other economic ideas.

It's not you, it's me.

Oh, who the hell am I kidding. It's you.

:-( ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LuckyTheDog/816 Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:22:42 [div class="excerpt"]

[b]Eleanor Josaitis leaves a 'great legacy' in Focus: HOPE[/b]


Eleanor Josaitis was another suburban housewife when she felt a calling.

Living with her husband and five children in Taylor, she felt moved to build racial harmony in Detroit's segregated communities an... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LuckyTheDog/815 Tue, 09 Aug 2011 11:44:52 [div class="excerpt"]
The political brinksmanship of recent months highlights what we see as America's governance and policymaking becoming less stable, less effective, and less predictable than what we previously believed. The statutory debt ceiling and the threat of default have become political ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LuckyTheDog/814 Fri, 05 Aug 2011 22:41:29 How's that tea taste now, America? ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LuckyTheDog/813 Wed, 03 Aug 2011 08:38:02 Whatever happens to the economy from here on out ... you own it, teabaggers.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/LuckyTheDog/812 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:39:12