Overseas's Journal - Democratic Underground http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Mon, 20 May 2013 02:16:14 Mon, 20 May 2013 02:16:14 or... What if the GOP held a debate and nobody watched? The GOP candidates are all so very crazy these days that no one will want to watch them. Even Huntsman has beefed up his Stomp on the Poor credentials lately.

The Republican candidates are so very crazy now that maybe the only people watching will be satire writers.

The GOP could have covered... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Overseas/135 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:42:47 I'd rather give up my $300 than take on cruel GOP cuts. I do feel we have played along for far too long with Republican insanity and sheer lies (Bush tax cuts did not lead to massive job creation. We know that. Just because our president was too kind to beat GOP leaders over the head with those facts, doesn't mean they are not true.)and all that dangerou... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Overseas/134 Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:37:07 A power shift way from the corporate imperative for ever increasing quarterly profits to more sustainable long-term moderate profitability for a broader range of energy producers.

Just need the big old fuel providers to open their minds to a new business model. We don't want to zoom ahead furiously using up all our fossil fuels rushing through the next fifteen years. Most of us kn... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Overseas/133 Sun, 17 Apr 2011 16:49:07 I've just seen disgusting corporatism on parade -- Big Oil PR Spot on TV -- It highlighted another encroaching, gradually increasing scourge of giving up our national community to the control of private corporate states-- the privatization of compassion.

The ad was one of those-- Hey We Do Good! -- ones. But the point was that We Don't Need to Pay No Stinkin' Taxes. We d... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Overseas/132 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:51:03 Oh No! An ounce of compassion might seep into the equation ! We've gotta put a gag order on those dolphin photos! Waves of compassion might overcome our people! Oh no! That's what I thought at first. They're probably arguing-- [i]too cute! highly prejudicial![/i]

Didn't realize that their greater fear was that the dolphins increased mortality rate would al... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Overseas/131 Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:23:55 Watching TV in Japanese today it has been really gratifying to see the TV stations completely turned over to the public interest. And I really appreciated the value of a solid science education as a national priority. Technical details could be given without dolling them up, and details about revised train schedules and rolling ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Overseas/130 Sun, 13 Mar 2011 22:16:31 The Bush Crashes -- moral and economic --- provided the best opportunity to surge forward with a 21st Century FDR approach on very practical, pragmatic grounds. That's why I was not worried about having a practical, pragmatic President. He would demonstrate how practical the FDR approach could be, with the Bush Republican Crash as clear evidence of the need for profound ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Overseas/129 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:00:29 Here's Mario Cuomo's 1984 speech about the Reaganite "Shining City on the Hill" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgIMIEXkcz8&feature=related ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Overseas/128 Sat, 25 Dec 2010 13:29:18 We made Corporate Quarterly Profits more important than anything else in our country. They have given people something to hide behind-- [i]Gosh, you know, I would really like to help US workers, but this is a corporation and we've got to serve our shareholders by keeping production costs as low as possible. Sorry about the death of your towns and cities. Compassion is nice but our du... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Overseas/127 Sat, 25 Dec 2010 12:27:36 We're not supposed to look clearly at the failure of Supply-Side economics. aka Cash for Hoarders. Millions crossed party lines to vote Democratic in 2008 after the Supply Side dribble down mythology led to the Bush Crash.

Instead of all Democratic legislators using that failure to finally admit that Cash for Hoarders hasn't worked, our party bowed down to those who still wanted to believe tho... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Overseas/126 Thu, 09 Dec 2010 14:13:23 K&R. I agree that they had to report it. Even though I had hoped the willingness to compromise was exaggerated and badly wish to believe that such discouraging words are hyped right wing spin designed to discourage Democrats even further.

I had hoped the top Obama strategists would have taken the election results more firmly to heart. T... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Overseas/125 Sat, 13 Nov 2010 11:25:57 He was a great myth buster. Said what needed to be said-- Republicans are better for the economy? "Are you kidding me?" Dr. Dean said quite forcefully, with facts on his side-- "They've run up the biggest deficits in our nation's history. Time and again."

He would not have left the nation's wake up-- when Repubs were at 29% popularity-- go to waste. He or I would have suggested that if the P... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Overseas/123 Tue, 02 Nov 2010 23:53:27 K&R. Thank you George. Media certainly does matter. I hope many others will follow suit. The seething right wing hatred and mean propaganda has too much control over our civic life.

Most of our fellow citizens would like to work together to restore good balanced government. We know the ostrich approach hasn't solved a thing. People like us get cr... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Overseas/122 Wed, 20 Oct 2010 20:57:52 K&R. This is really beautiful. I'd still love my 21st Century FDR. You say what I want to say.

You show why I had hope for very significant, practical change in this country. The FDR plan just made sense, and we had a great new president coming in who has the capacity to explain, with passion and courtesy, just why our economy had crashed by going too GOP and l... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Overseas/121 Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:09:06 I do agree with the guests that too many Democratic legislators had been compromised by the campaign contributions (aka bribes) from multinational corporations to push for the strongest modern FDR agenda.

We jump on our president but we needed hundreds of Alan Graysons pushing for dramatic Democratic change. We needed our party to strategize before his inauguration about pushing ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Overseas/120 Sat, 07 Aug 2010 12:59:22 Minimization PR blitz is well underway. The Wikileaks story is big news-- full of shocking truths we have tried to minimize all along. So here, with the waterfall of facts and details, the PR teams are in overdrive at being sanguine. [i]Aw, we knew that. It's old news. President O's new approach will change things.[/i]

I'd imagine that... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Overseas/119 Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:24:32 But on the other hand, "Van Jones tells netroots to keep fighting" works really well Heartbroken as we may be, that the powers of unbridled commerce have become profoundly powerful, we have definitely made some strides. Major strides that made little news, that we could build upon. Stimulus II. Infrastructure running smoothly saves energy, so it is still very green to conduct regula... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Overseas/118 Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:44:16 Yes, I thank President Obama for taking over the Titanic after it had hit the iceberg. And my Democrats had not impeached the guys who crashed the ship, who steered it on a course for sure disaster. Those who drove our nation far off course economically and ethically had not been prosecuted for their maladministration. My Democratic team had not been able to push back hard enough duri... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Overseas/117 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:46:18 There are billions of dollars wasted in our privatized military budget. It is not "wanting our cake" to expect national health security as part of our tax payments.

It is not "wanting our cake" to expect a regular review and readjustment of our military spending to make it more efficient.

Privatization has been a great waste of funding. We did lots of military ser... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Overseas/116 Sun, 11 Jul 2010 14:21:20 Right wing PR campaigns to discredit the hippies began early. See 1971 Powell Memo. The Lewis Powell Memo of 1971 outlines the action plan to take the USA back from those horrible liberals and their damn flower power and dangerous ideas like alternative energy sources and sustainable development. The Powell memo outlines ways to reclaim the US discussion from those damn lefties eve... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Overseas/115 Sun, 11 Jul 2010 14:08:13 That's a big reason I'll continue voting Democratic. And hating the GOP. But I also retain great disappointment that when judicial activists were nominated by the GOP, our Democrats did not force them to do the full filibuster, or force them to go for the "nuclear option" knowing that it is Republicans who have used the filibuster just to obstruct Democratic administrati... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Overseas/114 Sat, 10 Jul 2010 12:43:29 Could we please do the Bipartisan Thing by ourselves for a while? The GOP has been taken over by multinational monsters with billion dollar marketing budgets. These are not those Republicans of yore who believed government could do some things very well. These are the cruel people who just spent 8 years trying to prove that government was bad. They appointed their... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Overseas/113 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:15:49 Yes Please Give Me 1 T from that Unsustainable Offense Plan the Bushies left behind. Sustainable Defense is what we all need.

For the Democratic majorities that sustained the elections of Democrats in hopes of winning our way out of disastrous Bush Rule, it would be refreshing to have a deep, serious discussion about military efficiency and the fraud that privatization has brough... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Overseas/112 Fri, 11 Jun 2010 23:36:48 Cognitive dissonance -- on a daily basis -- only BP can handle it ? When I hear that stated and restated my heart and brain ache, and I want to shout-- Are you all kidding me? They sure haven't "handled it" so far. Lied on their damn application to set up the drill in the first place.

The remedies they tried are over ten years old. Tried and failed before.

Acc... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Overseas/111 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 03:14:34 What galls me most about the deniers is that we could be having so much more fun Seriously.

When you deny climate change is carbon pollution driven, you just want to keep chugging and burning that oil and you want to spend billions and kill millions to protect your access to it.

When instead, we could be thrilled by ingenious new technology. If solar, wind and conservation... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Overseas/110 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:03:30