http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:48:17 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:48:17 I'm riding in the passenger seat of a friend's car, fast asleep, middle of the night, dead to the world. Next thing I knew, I was picked up by the armpits and deposited in the gravel on the side of the highway. Then the screaming and flashlights go off, just before the kicking begins. Since all t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/warren pease/351 Sun, 26 Jul 2009 01:42:57 .. and not just the ditch digging kind, but the ones FDR's administration created to get writers writing, artists painting and sculpting, actors acting and so forth. In other words, support creativity rather than simply create a new generation of draft animals for the corporate fuckos to exploit, a... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/warren pease/350 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:27:03 Health benefits also act as social control mechanisms used by corporations to increase the level of insecurity their employees have to live with.

And a scared employee -- thrown to the wolves as an overwhelmed individual rather than as a member of a union or some other organized counter-weight ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/warren pease/349 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:37:08 ...before he was a US senator. Too bad he started hanging around with assholes like Lieberman, Reid and Clinton instead of Senator Bernie.

[link:www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4AdtJUvpdw|Here's the Democracy Now segment found on Youtube] where, as a state senator, he's all for single-payer. That's fo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/warren pease/348 Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:05:04 ... and S. Korean gov'ts."


Of course they are. And here's how the invitations were delivered -- by the book, using SOP straight from the pages of the US State Dept. Manual of Preemptive Intervention.

http://www.igfm.de/fileadmin/igfm.de/images/Laenderinfos/China/China_Folter_Zeichnungen/Chi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/warren pease/346 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:18:09 ... all but two of whom died between "the events of 9/11"(tm) and Feb. 5, 2005. There may be more by now, but this is the most comprehensive list I could find. It's called, with unparalleled respect for the deceased, [link:home.comcast.net/~typezero|"Dead Scientists."]

An impressive list, I'm t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/warren pease/347 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:37:15 Americans behave like a conquered, pacified population -- much like Vichy France in WW II.

The Bushies milked the maximum out of "the events of 9/11"(tm), their own personal Reichstag Fire, and that's one of the most convenient, if completely predictable, outcomes.

"Convenient" if you're a c... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/warren pease/345 Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:06:47 Goddammit. The information's sitting in databases all over the world. All you have to do is dip a ladle into the stew and dish some out.

For example, I just posted a bunch of stuff directly above your post that debunks half the garbage these malevolent propagandist bullshitters have been toss... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/warren pease/344 Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:51:04 ...remain uninvestigated, unprosecuted and breathing the air of free men.

The crumbs left over after seven straight years of war profiteering and sleazy investment fund manipulating, with the $750 BILLION financial coup de gras (just a down payment, mind you) administered as the Bushies were fina... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/warren pease/343 Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:47:57 ... dripping with extra cholesterol-producing ingredients and hand-delivered each evening by attractive, telegenic young women (and men) wearing the standard "stroll" uniform.

That's T-E-L-E-G-E-N-I-C, as in b-roll delivered by courier to your local TV assignments editor's desk just as the day... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/warren pease/342 Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:14:22 And just who the fuck are you to be dissing one of maybe a couple dozen remaining members of congress -- and that's a generous guess -- who have managed to stay out of the same pockets that have bought and paid for the rest of the miserable swine?

The current crop of Democrats in both chambers ca... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/warren pease/341 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:51:12 ... but am I the only one getting a little damn sick and tired of petitioning, begging, pleading, whining and sniveling at these goddamn obstructionist, bought-and-paid-for corporate employees rather than DEMANDING WHAT'S ALREADY OURS IN THE FIRST DAMN PLACE?

Health care is a right, not a privile... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/warren pease/339 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:00:55 But... But... if everybody had equal access to quality goods and services...

... what fun would it be to be rich? How would they keep score? How would we all know our betters from the peasant classes?

None of that nonsense in our utopian meritocracy, where anybody can grow up to be a CEO or s... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/warren pease/340 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:05:23 Or, less crudely put, like Diogenes looking for the last honest man -- and finding only knaves and scoundrels. Same result, same inevitable disappointment.

They're pretty much sleaze personified and -- when not boffing young campaign workers or setting girlfriends up in high-end condos (which the... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/warren pease/338 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:00:40 [link:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_state|According to their definition:]

[div class="excerpt"]The term police state describes a state in which the government exercises rigid and repressive controls over the social, economic and political life of the population. A police state typically exhibits e... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/warren pease/337 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:42:32 An average of 60 people are being killed in this country EVERY DAY because they lack access to quality medical care -- [link:www.urban.org/publications/411588.html|22,000 more of them every damn year, and that number's rising.]

That's apparently the price 137,000 people from 2000 through 2006 (w... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/warren pease/336 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:13:52 ... women can go to exercise their LEGAL right to choose.

Plus which, in virtually all civilized countries -- i.e., those not chained to the ideological wheel of Ayn Randian rugged individualism and the "me-first" isolationist bullshit it spawns -- it's standard procedure to subsidize kids from... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/warren pease/335 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:00:42 He's just dancing with thems that brung him. And that specifically excludes me and thee.

I keep writing and blathering about how campaign finance reform is the single lynchpin that's blocking complete, top to bottom reform of this entire banana republic-like corporatocracy.

Just watch these... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/warren pease/334 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:40:14 everything else is bullshit.

In this case, we all know goddamn good and well that the US marines have been killing civilians in that war-besotted country since 2001 -- mostly women, children and old people just looking for a little place in the sun at the end of their miserable war-torn lives.
... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/warren pease/333 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:55:58 How about supplying sleeping bags and urns of hot coffee? How about supplying the freelance video crews to record it all for posterity -- and for the current news cycle as well? Maybe a priority FedEx delivery of adult-sized diapers for Vitter and some tap dancing shoes for the honorable gentleman... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/warren pease/332 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:10:46 ... or start realizing that, without public financing of campaigns, there's nothing -- literally nothing -- progressive individuals can do to see their agenda(s) addressed in congress or the executive branch.

And until the Scalias and Alitos of the world start dying off -- and not just on the S... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/warren pease/330 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:39:25 For decades, the GOP has been proud to be the planet's largest hatchery for world-class assholes. And they've got plenty of company. They're very appealing to the tens of millions of natural born assholes who infest this country like nowhere else I've ever been.

You know that jerkoff down the roa... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/warren pease/328 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:14:01 Just keep repeating it and maybe it'll eventually lose its sting. But not its effects on the great American death toll.


Overall quality, fairness of access to and effectiveness of medical system -- 37th -- just ahead of that medical nirvana, Slovenia and behind Costa Rica, where there may no... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/warren pease/329 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:25:23 How about trying to follow the civilized countries of the world for a change -- the western European social democracies come to mind, along with the former Brit colonies Canada and Australia.

New Zealand's doing well, at least until some snooping petro-geologist discovers OUR OIL in a sub-ocean... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/warren pease/326 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:31:25 ... And as such, it's the perfect template for the so-called "War on Terror." The physical and legal infrastructure's already there; the American people are already conquered and pacified to an extent far greater than that achieved by the Third Reich in WW II Vichy France.

Aerial and satellite... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/warren pease/325 Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:33:42