http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:24:59 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:24:59 The puzzle never completes itself, does it? No amount of mirror gazing ever reveals the answers sought, only more mystery and wondering and that damned empty spot.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/me b zola/23 Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:39:56 Here's a link to the story:

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/corporate_law/article2633838.ece?Submitted=true

I read the story and the comments and decided that I would not be a good world neighbor if I didn't warn Brits about this type of garbage. Here's what I wrote for the ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/me b zola/22 Sat, 13 Oct 2007 23:25:07 It looks as though Singer's smear against Kerry wasn't just because he felt like * was a guy that he would want to have a beer with:

[div class="excerpt"]Today we take a close look at companies known as “vulture funds.” Vulture fund companies buy up the debt of poor countries at cheap prices, and... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/me b zola/21 Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:18:51 I am watching the c-span airing of the Iraq oversight hearing, and OMG, did Waxman tear the idiot McHenry a new asshole.

Patrick McHenry spent his allotted time instead of asking questions of the witnesses go off on some nonsensical whirlwind of BS, which of course included Bill Clinton :eyes:. O... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/me b zola/20 Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:30:23 The following is Halliburton's statement re the attacked convoy where three of their drivers were killed and was caught on tape, per MSNBC's Scarborough Country:

[div class="excerpt"]"{Halliburton's} priority has always been the safety and security of its employees, regardless of where they work ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/me b zola/19 Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:11:03 Another day of reports of dozens of dead, mutilated bodies being found in Baghdad killed by Iraqi death squads. It's becoming a daily occurence:

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[b]Fifty more bodies found in Baghdad[/b]

BAGHDAD, Sept 15 (Reuters) - The bound bodies of dozens more torture victims were fo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/me b zola/18 Fri, 15 Sep 2006 18:10:42 I have transcribed some of Jesse Jackson's remarks made today at the DNC's general session. Jackson spoke to many issues, but for this post I focused on his remarks about the CT Senate race.

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There's been a big debate lately, Chairman, about how and why did Lamont win i... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/me b zola/17 Sat, 19 Aug 2006 15:45:59 Okay, so he got my name wrong, he said Zita, not Zola---but who cares?!!!!!


on edit, here's my letter!!!!

Rep Conyers is spot on. As Bush promotes bombing the Middle East to convince them of the advantages of constitutional democracy, our own Constitution lies in tatters. Spying on Americans... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/me b zola/16 Wed, 02 Aug 2006 18:02:32 I was just a child, I was born in '63. But the hope, optimism that people could make a difference, and mass movements was a very special time in our history.

Since then corporate amerika has taken over the media, so even when 500,000 of us march on Washington, no one sees it because that is an i... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/me b zola/15 Sat, 22 Jul 2006 23:21:01 But I think that there are far fewer hard-liners, on either side of the issue, then what the responses within threads seem to suggest.

When I came to DU I thought that Israel was far more innocent then I do now. Now I see a whole lot of gray. I think that is how the majority of posters feel, of ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/me b zola/14 Wed, 19 Jul 2006 01:55:33 Roman Catholics used to vote heavily Democratic because the party stood/stands for issues that are morally relevent to them. The NT instructs it readers to work for social justice. The teachings of Jesus were one of the main factors that made me a liberal. That has not changed for me.

The RC chur... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/me b zola/13 Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:34:08 All of the little gop-bot voters who are cheerleading for all of the changes that are being made to our country by the neocons will wake up one day and regret will not begin to describe what they will be feeling.

A few of the things that RWers now are cheerleading that they will come to regret:
... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/me b zola/12 Fri, 23 Jun 2006 20:18:20 I'm so impressed with her. I would love to see her as VP candidate, grooming her for POTUS, but I suppose that I would settle--for now--to see her in the Senate.

Does anybody else feel the same way??... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/me b zola/11 Thu, 08 Jun 2006 10:40:18 The rw had been successful for so long in creating the perception that they speak for the victims of 911 and GI's (and they have used them so well as backdrops). They're mad as hell that a little reality is making it's way into the public consciousness in the form of Cindy Sheehan and other GSFFP, a... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/me b zola/10 Wed, 07 Jun 2006 19:44:11 Years ago I had a neighbor who exhibited what you would call "bad judgement" by staying with her husband who had been threatening to kill (shoot) her. She confided in me and I saw over a short period of time that his behavior was escelating, but she wouldn't leave no matter how I tried to talk some ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/me b zola/9 Thu, 25 May 2006 21:40:26 By now most of you have heard that there has been wide spread election fraud at least since the 2000 elections. Publicly you foo-foo the idea, but if you have done any reading at all you know that the republican machine has been manipulating the elections through various means. From purging eligible... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/me b zola/8 Sun, 21 May 2006 03:01:00 Seriously. Americans are the ingredients, the broth is American culture.

When I cook a roast, the meat & vegies take on the flavor of everything else that has been slooooow cooked together. The meat remains distinguishable as meat, yet has undergone a subtle & wonderful transformation, same with... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/me b zola/7 Fri, 19 May 2006 21:57:48 I have a question to pose to all of you actual and wanna-be psychologists--and for political psychologists, I ask you to think outside of the box.

Could the backlash over the total, complete, and miserable failure of bush* help Gore to win overwhelmingly if he were the Dem candidate in '08?

He... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/me b zola/6 Sun, 14 May 2006 00:47:08 Assimilation & American values are two concepts that get twisted with the contemporary folklore.

American immigrats, whether by legal or illegal means, have never jumped into a suit of red, white, & blue. Those who came from all 'corners' of the world in the mid 19th century thru the early 20th c... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/me b zola/5 Sun, 07 May 2006 17:34:07 Someitmes I think that we need to become two nations. People get to chose which "version" of the Constitution that they believe to be true and then become a member of that nation. One nation, the zealots, can read all of the religion that they want to into the founders & the Constitution. They can e... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/me b zola/4 Tue, 18 Apr 2006 04:49:32 I posted a thread in GD, ranting about how I am sick of rape & DV always being called "alleged", and the vicims are "alleged victims" in the media. Although not included in the body of the OP, I expressed how I feel that this linked to the fact that these crimes have been historically accepted behav... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/me b zola/3 Mon, 10 Apr 2006 23:53:53 Why do we never hear the phrase "the alleged robbery" or the "the alleged victim of burgerly"?? There have been many instances of people fabricating a crime of robbery or burglery that was never committed so as to cover up another crime. We never hear the media or police asserting an "alleged" robbe... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/me b zola/2 Mon, 10 Apr 2006 21:25:15 Rumors and leaks have been swirling around DC this week about Rove cooperating with Fitzgerald and about who may possibly be indicted next in the investigation of who outed Valerie Plame. Libby, too, is said to be talking and bringing others into the investigation. There are said to be two camps wit... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/me b zola/1 Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:46:33