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    Get on the boat! Health care with no deductibles, co-pays, etc. To any union members who think their negotiated health plan is better, if your employer doesn't have to pay for your health care, THEY CAN PAY YOU MORE!

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    is getting seriously unwieldy; please post in the new thread here: http://www.dead.net/forum/long-strange-and-trippy-still-more-current-events
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    > The cost of the war to America was roughly one trillion dollars. Where this gets really interesting is that the US borrowed that trillion dollars from the People's Republic of China. Add to this the fact that most of the oil coming out of Iraq these days is headed, not for the US, but to Asia, and you've got yourself a real head-scratcher of a conclusion: the US borrowed a trillion dollars from the Chinese to secure their supply of oil?
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    There are few people out there who believe this wasn't a war of personal animosity between Dubya and Hussein. All the evidence was forged or made up as far as weapons of mass destruction are concerned. In a place where there was no AQ one came to be established in the chaos of war. The US was ill-prepared, thinking it would be a shorter term conflict and not committing enough resources to it. Not only that, the generals didn't conceive of the IEDs that would be used to blow up convoys. Thus, American soldiers didn't have the body armor they needed or the armored vehicles they needed. Soldiers didn't have the psychological preparation needed to fight an enemy without uniforms, melting into an innocent population, thus causing unbelievable psychological damage to the troops - suicides and PTSD were rampant in the front line troops. Some of them come home to become ticking time-bombs. The whole argument of "So what if there weren't weapons of mass destruction there, Hussein was a bad man who needed to be removed." doesn't hold water. There are a lot of bad dictators out there whom we don't regard as bad enough to go to war over. This war is the result of the neo-cons who were thoroughly disgraced -- people like Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld & Bush. These former leaders of the US don't even dare to travel to Britain as they may be arrested, to this day, as war criminals. Due to this war being the first one where contractors took a large percentage of low-level jobs there were relatively few casualties among US soldiers, about 4000. This should be compared to the most precise count of Iraqis killed, based partly on Wikki Leaks information, that shows that roughly 120,000 Iraqis were killed from all sources of violence, not just American or American hired, during the years of war 2003-2011. The cost of the war to America was roughly one trillion dollars. It was this indiscriminate killing by Americans and their civilian contractors that turned the Iraqi population against the US as the war progressed. The neo-cons are now widely regarded as short-sighted fools and part of an administration that allowed carnage and widespread economic suffering around the world to this day because of lax oversight of investment banks.
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    The recent spate of gun violence in upstate NY, about 200 miles to the West of me, is quite frightening. The Governor of that State passed the most strict gun controls in the nation and it seems to be of no avail. And that is because the genie is out of the bottle with no way to put the genie back. 250,000,000 guns on our streets will never be turned in again to any significant degree. This latest episode had an otherwise normal 64 year-old man shoot 4 people in a barbershop in Herkimer and then head across the river and shoot two more at a quick lube in Mohawk before returning to Herkimer and barricading himself in an abandoned building in the middle of downtown. He was fatally shot when he killed a police dog that was sent in by SWAT teams after a 24 hour stand-off. These things happening in small towns are very frightening to those of us who live in semi-rural America. I attribute a lot of these shootings not to people who are mentally unbalanced but to otherwise middle-class people who are slipping into poverty and feel that their lives are embarrassing and useless, on top of which they are continuously bombarded by news stories about Congress about to pull the social safety net out from under them. No subsidized housing, no food stamps, no medical care, no medicine, no social security check. This angst is felt by Millennial also who generally feel cheated that the good things 80% of the population experienced during their lives will not be there for them in a brave new world filled with crushing debt, global warming and helplessness in old age. On TV this morning I saw a commercial for Sig-Sauer Academy. It was cutting- edge gun-nut stuff. It showed people responding to being touched on the arm by quickly whipping out a pistol and emptying a clip into them. Being touched on the arm does not constitute a mortal threat and in more than 75% of the states in this country the person who kills such a person with a legally concealed handgun will go to jail for involuntary manslaughter at the very least.
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    The Catholic Church's apology last year was for it's role during WWII, not for Cardinal Bergolio's conduct in Argentina. The Catholic church maintains still to this day that it's responsibility was to save Catholics during this time period. Upon reflection, Bergolio has been very outspoken about the responsibility of the rich to the poor. Indeed this is the central to the problems experienced during the time of the disappeared in South America. Bergolio had to know what was going on but he couldn't call a spade a spade or he could have ended up like the Archbishop of El Salvador: Assassinated. It was pointed out yesterday on MSNBC that this retirement of a pope and the election of the first pope outside of Europe in a strongly Catholic emerging continent is not an accident. The bottom line is more envelopes in the collection plate while a European oversees the "colored" pope so he doesn't run amok. At least the last pope gave up the trappings of power such as his red Prada shoes. Jon Stewart pointed out that he could always use those shoes to click his heels three times together and incant: "There is no place like Rome There is no place like Rome"
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    I guess the Pranksters pulled a fast one on the Smithsonian or maybe a replica was part of the deal, but they drove a bus across the country to be placed in the Smithsonian in or around 1997. I welcome this project by the Kesey family to restore the original bus and certainly hope funds can be raised. Please keep us informed as I will certainly make a small donation to this part of history that could be preserved to at least 2065, the one hundred year anniversary of the Grateful Dead. It could be an attraction at a major festival of jam bands still belting it out and commemorating the scene and one of America's favorite bands. The venue should be UC Santa Cruz, where the archives are enshrined.
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    At least one member of the Republican Party seems to have suffered a moment of clarity recently. Speaking at CPAC, Newt Gingrich observed that the Republican establishment is "mired in stupidity."
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    ...here's something else to flag down to this summer (well, this summer for the twinkies, next summer for the bus) the furthur bus!
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    The Republicans have their guns squarely set on entitlement programs and they are going to get their way. The Koch brothers have set the agenda with their billions and the media has served up this steaming pile of offal like lap dogs. The social contract is about to be broken and for the baby boomers it looks as if those 55 older will be able to keep their Medicare and SS benefits while those under that age will have their benefits cut and delivered two years later. This is not ridiculous, it is a crime. Something needs to be pointed out here before this happens. The stinking mess created by lax regulation of investment banks by a Republican president resulted in massive bailouts that boosted the Federal deficit 1.45 trillion dollars in 2009. As of 2012, the Obama Administration has reduced that debt to 845 billion. The sky is not about to fall. We don't need to declare war on the poor by slashing entitlements and stabbing the middle class baby boomers in the back. This whole dance by Obama seems very well orchestrated. First the big deal of increasing taxes on the rich and then the Republicans refusing to budge an inch on the tax code, closing massive loopholes for special interests you could sail a ship through. Then Obama goes on a "charm offensive" which is nothing but a euphemism for caving on entitlements. Centrist Democrats suck. This rant is far from over. To be continued.
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Nuclear power! Carcinogenic cell phones! The Stanley Cup! and the usual parade of kids dancing and shaking their bones, politicians throwing stones, etc. Discuss.

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Considering the ongoing rhetoric that's been coming out of the Right since President Barack "I'm Not a Muslin" Obama won the election, it flabbergasts me to utter stupification how any even remotely (and I mean REMOTELY) intelligent American can get behind ANYTHING that side is saying. They continue to knod their heads like good little robots whenever the current talking points come on their beloved Fox News, and everything else gets ignored. And then they sit there and point their fingers at their television sets, claiming Obama's trying to take their rights away when it was the party that came before that restricted more of our Constitutional rights than any president in a long, long time. I'm not one of those conspiracy theorists, but is there something in the water out in the middle of the country? Some chemical or remote transmitter that shuts down a citizen's ability to take in information and process it like the rest of us? How do these people think that Romney & Ryan are "one of them" and actually concerned with their station in this nation? Can't they see that, by reducing/restricting taxes on the wealthy means it comes out of the middle class, thus reducing the middle class to a higher-income version of the poor? I swear, whenever I talk about these issues with my Republican friends, I want to throw my hands in the air and scream, "I FEEL LIKE I'M TAKING CRAZY PILLS!!!"
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I think it's the deep-fried butter sticks they consume at their fairs. Either that or Koch Brothers sponsored alien anal probes radiating out from Wichita (a stupid chip is left implanted) Seriously, how people, other than the top 2%, can vote for Republicans is a modern miracle of conditional advertizing! We're all doomed.
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a ww II vet. called into npr the other day to say that for the first time in his adult life he would not be voting for the pres. he then said the best thing to do from now on is to just place whoever has the most money into office and into congress. Aren't we already pretty close to that? Don't the koch bros.tell their puppets (boner and his cronies) how to vote and what to say? which laws to pass so that american "job creators" have an easier (more profitable) time going over seas to exploit brown people and destroy their environment due to no environmental regulations? Aren't the insurance and oil companies together so far up their asses that they make them cough? I guess i haven't been paying attention. to be honest, i can't believe the repoobs. didn't go for the jugular this time around and announce their ticket of christie /limbaugh (maybe next time). THAT really would have brought the sheeple out of the woodwork. ah yes, the great american plutocracy...........brought to you by at least 51% of american sheeple.ps. anyone seen "idiocracy"; funny "b" movie, but probably more prophetic than it's given credit for.
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if you have not come across this before, give it a listen. Enjoy Michael D. Higgins (who was elected president of Ireland last year) is fed up with over-the-top Tea Party rhetoric, and he isn't afraid to show it. Listen to him call out radio host Michael Graham on everything from health care to foreign policy in this heated exchange from 2010. http://www.upworthy.com/a-tea-partier-decided-to-pick-a-fight-with-a-fo…
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a most passionate, accurate and well stated argument/condemnation indeed!
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that the war will be over when the Isreali tank driver is convicted of muder for running over a peaceful protester nonviolently protesting. Until then they (IAFs) are all terrorists.
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PLEASE GO BACK TO THE OLD ONE. NO DOUBT THIS IS DUE TO CRAMMING IN ALL THE STORE STUFF. HOW ABOUT SPLITTING THEM UP?
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Good luck to all who fight the rising storm waters in Louisiana and Mississippi. Pumps are keeping up, and the levees are holding, in Jefferson Parish this morning. The French Quarter looks deserted, except for 3 people from the Weather Channel. How small is the font on this new comment form?? I'm tilting the eyeglasses way down!
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As the speeches go on it is so clear that the men and women who are giving then are strong and passionate in their vigor. Even John Kerry who always seemed like a vampire who came back from the Dead at then end of his stump speech came across with such strength and vigor it was truly astounding. If John Kerrry can burn down the house we may just be looking at at runaway race! (Amazing!!)
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Is there a chat room for dead.net anymore? Yeah it's been a long time since I got on this site, busy working and new girlfriend, etc. Wish you all well. "Once in a while you get shown the Light in the strangest of places if you look at it right..."
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Thank goodness for football! College games and now pro action are back! Will the Raiders be good this year? I'm not sure what to expect from the Chiefs.
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Not sure how many of ya'll out there are fans of Black Flag, but this really caught my eye. On Black Flag's Facebook wall, they posted a cut-out from BAM Magazine circa '83/84: "Say It Loud! I'm A Deadhead And Proud! Someone sent me a copy of your Grateful Dead review [in which BAM contributor Mark Levinton wrote, 'So-called adventuresome people who dig Black Flag probably wouldn't be caught alive at a Grateful Dead concert.'] I saw that Grateful Dead show in Irvine! I've seen them three times in Oakland and once in San Diego since the Irvine show. I've also seen them many times in years past. The Dead is my favorite band. What we find is that there are Dead fans at our shows outside of California. California's music scene is remarkably segmented. Bands like Black Flag and the Dead draw all kinds of music fans to performances *outside* of California. But maybe things are changing. I saw some Black Flag shirts at the San Diego Dead show. I feel that in terms of approach and music the Dead have been a big influence on Black Flag from the beginning. We love the Dead. Glad you do, too!" UTTERLY MIND-BLOWING!!!!!
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As one who worked at BAM back in the day, I get an even greater kick out of this. A blast from the past. And, of course, well said, Mr. Ginn!
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So, we've got this bogus quasi-movie going around seeming to demean the the Prophet Mohamed and causing his followers to do well-timed deadly actions. Not only has the movie caused the killing of the US ambassador to Libya, it has caused outright pitched battles in Eqypt, Tunisia and Yemen among possibly others world Arab countries. Added to this is the possibility that the movies makers mis-directed the entire cast about it's supposed plot and content of the highly polemical and incendiary flicks This has in turn given rise to the supposition that the film itself, shadowy as it is, is a tactical arm of Al Queda sewing mayhem and destructio,,
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The BBC Radiophonic Workshop is to reopen. Home of electronic experimentation, it was created in 1958 to produce sound effects and new music for radio and then television. An extraordinary pool of talent was located in those Maida Vale Studios on Delaware Road, including Daphne Oram, Delia Derbyshire, Dick Mills, Desmond Briscoe, Brian Hodgson, John Baker, David Cain, Paddy Kingsland and many more. The sound of the 'Doctor Who' theme that Delia Derbyshire helped to create, signaled the retreat behind the sofa for many a frightened child, myself included. The new Creative Director is Matthew Herbert, musician, master samplist, sound collagist and electronic wizard. It will now be based entirely online. Herbert's appointment is certainly promising. Here's to the future! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19568120 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Radiophonic_Workshop
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Understand that hundreds of Daves Picks vol 3 were stolen in shipment. I live abroad and find that shipment takes 37 days,three times longer than Amazon dealers arrange. My copy of Spring 1990 supposively arrived in Arlington accofrding to USPS tracking info on the 24th of August but disappeared before delivery. The shipping problems are a strain on us anda certainly on you guys and Rhino. Please keep us updated about the website's experience with USPS,which may not be as bad as previously thought. Maybe you guys should use the same shippers as Amazon dealers.
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That after 17 years The Grateful Dead continue to pull in not only widely held historical interest but ennui--like historical minutiae. Not to mention performances from spin-offs that the the genre they they themselves made famous..... shhhh, the baby is waking up. (this thing has now crossed two generational lines.) Is it worth all the stuff written & performed? Perhaps only as a sidebar to the history of LSD, whose letters are more favorably writ large on the dollar bill than USA.
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Though I've been espousing an electoral victory for the current president for the last few months-- to the point of taking all bets and giving ridiculous odds, with the release of the latest polls I am ready to call it an official victory without chance if loss. The sad thing? Nothing will change until perhaps the next 4 year annual melee.... I find it unutterably sad that the best president elected since JFK has to be chopped off at the knees by by a bunch of morally bankrupt corporate whores.
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listening to him speak to the united nations council today reinforced the feeling of how nice it is to have an intelligent human being as a president. he really is an incredible orator..........and then i try to picture geo. bush jr. speaking in front of this same group of people and wonder how anybody in the free world (or just the world,period) ever took the usa seriously during his two demented terms. i imagine that leaders around the world would mark their calendars for the next u.n. meeting so that they wouldn't miss having a good laugh should the great tex-ass speak. even with obama's hands tied, he's light years better than what we had (or might have).
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Here's a link to a funny little video starring Samuel L. Jackson that is the one true glimmer of hope I've seen in this presidential election season, since it uses humor, and not fear tactics, to persuade its viewers to vote: http://wtfu2012.com/
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Too bad Jackson isn't debating Romney or his bat-boy. Thanks for posting Mike!.
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would've gladly been romney's veep, but the poor child was just too tired from his sexual marathon with the middle class here. he's building his stamina for '16 when him and his senatorial sweety will be running mates (assuming obama wins).
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to all the colon cleansing cross-dressers out there, please accept my apology for associating you health conscious, socially adventurous and fun-luvin' folks with the likes of walker and ryan. political disgust got the best of me for a moment.
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GAUSHALA,Kathmandu, Nepal: A man died after he was stung by snake at Ekrahiya VDC in Mahottari district last night. He is 50-year-old Amilakh Mandal of Ekrahiya VDC-4. According to his family, Mandal was bitten by a cobra while spreading manure in the paddy field at Dhirapur-5 on Wednesday evening. He was first taken to a witch doctor for treatment and rushed to local hospital only after treatment by the witch doctor did not work. But it was too late by the time he reached the hospital and he died on way to the hospital, it is stated. Moral of the story: Taken them to the hospital first and alert the witch doctor his services are needed as the hospital. Seems like a sensible policy to me....
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The BBC analysis is that the three upcoming debates will not serve to sway the election. Rather, Americans are being prepared for the fiscal cliff, the slashing of social welfare programs to avoid a massive raise in the interest on the national debt. Whoever gets elected, bad news is coming...
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We're about to be bombarded with full press Karl Rove and Koch Brother funded commercials. If your TV set is in Florida, Ohio or Colorado, watch out!! I'm off to the Joint for Furthur!!
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so all we're getting is disingenuous spin on the propositions by the usual suspects on both sides.
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Tell vague lies for an hour and a half was more than I could take. Obama not being fired up was disappointing. Neither had any good ideas for the future. Goooooo Mayans!
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Sooooo besides all of the garbage in the news I would like to think that the Love for Levon event I attended in New Jersey last night was a spiritually healing and lovely event for one of music's most revered men. I have not teared up and had goosebumps from a live music experience in too long. This review puts it fairly poignantly http://www.jambands.com/news/2012/10/04/roger-waters-gregg-allman-john-…
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Without need for a concise history in the last 20 years of Afghanistan, the Mujahadeen fought and extraordinarily bloody war to oust the Russians from that desolate country. The Communist president, Najibullah and his brother were allowed to remain under UN protection (though the UN were merely public relations window-dressing without weapons, with the help of the Mujahadeen) Najibullah was left in relative obscurity in the diplomatic quarter of Kabul. The Taliban showed up after the Mujahadeen realized the impossibility of holding on to the war-torn country. Najibulllah's tortured body was strung from a traffic control light pole and guarded for all to see. Now, some 12 years later, Afghan President Hamat Karzai and his brother cling to power with the help of coalition forces, who have made clear through Obama that they are bugging out in 2014. Once again the Taliban are knocking on the door and once again it will be some component of the current coalition who will be tasked with handing over the bodies of it's erstwhile leadrers in the hopes of currying some type of favor. Today, on the anniversary of Najibullah's demise, Karzai pleads mournfully with the USSECDEF Leon Panetta for more support (who tells him to be more grateful for the sacrifice of 2000 allied soldiers as the coalition has expended that many men in mortal combat.
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Y'know, this thought came to me the other night, and it proves just how stupid and simple-minded the people of this beautiful country can be: The TEA Party consider themselves to be conservatives/Republicans, and their stance is that they've been "Taxed Enough Already." The majority of them appear to be middle-class Americans, and they're about as anti-Obama as you can get. Now, here's the part where I start scratching my head. They're anti-Obama because they don't like his tax policies (he wants to increase taxes on the upper class/richest 1%) and are going to vote for Mitt Romney, whom they identify with because he's filthy-f**king-rich. But Romney has admitted he doesn't intend on increasing taxes on the rich while also saying the American people need to pay more in taxes to recover from the deficit of '00 through '08. So, where's that money going to come from? The upper class's taxes are already reduced, and the poor can barely afford to pay the standard tax rate based on their income. Now, here's where I fail to find the logic in the TEA Party's argument (assuming there was ever logic to begin with): The obvious answer of who will be shouldering the brunt of the tax increases is the MIDDLE CLASS. How the TEA Party can't see this boggles my mind to near-migraine proportions. It's clear that we live in a country where the majority of the population chooses not to think for themselves, especially when we have a**holes like Bill O'Reilly and Glen Beck (among numerous others) who take it upon themselves to act as the mouthpieces of the extreme right.
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Is rooted in racism, among other roots in my opinion. The vast, vast proportion of the Tea Party are white and the type who lock their doors when driving through semi-marginal neighborhoods, thumbing the door locks. Many of them are "birthers" who hate all blacks and would never vote for a black under any circumstances. Next, they tend to be older and very conservative. Their rage (energy?) has to do mainly with the bail-outs and other spending Obama has done over his tenure, As usual, they conveniently forget Obama was facing a massive big-bank invented crisis which forced him to spend with little restraint with questionable legislation. They see this spending as irresponsible in the extreme and feel it will handicap the country as a whole and their kids and grand-kids in particular. Much of their ideology is written as talking points by conservative ideologues like the Koch brothers. Out of this (or starting from this) is a a guy called Grover Norquist who has had every possible politician sign a pledge saying they will never vote to raise taxes, whatever the circumstance. This is a thundering clash of opposing philosophies on the economy. The US Government's economy is not the same as your household economy and this is where they make their simplistic mistakes, You don't need to kill the social safety net -- you need to tax the highest 2% of the income tax bracket while shutting down corporate subsidies and loopholes (corporate welfare) and identify at least 5% of waste that every sane person knows is in the military budget. The Koch brothers and other super-rich Ayn Rand conservatives are foaming at the mouth to kill Medicare.Medicaid and Social Security. They need to be silenced to a reasonable proportion. One theory is slash all spending. Another is to spend money on physical infrastructure and other vital needs. No doubt the US will muddle through in a mixture of these two thanks to Norquist and the Tea Party, The Simpson/Bowles legislation does have some sound fiscal policy that would help address the debt and it's attendant interest. This would incorporate many of the Tea Party's legitimate concerns. The problem is to separate what is sound fiscal policy from the hysterical gibberish coming from the Koch Brothers and other super greed-head Ayn Rand coneheads. The Tea Party people are being used like tools. They need to see how they are being used in the class war.
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i wish those would come up for intelligent and educated discussions where i reside...............but i'm afraid that will happen at about the same time they run out of beer and brats in milwaukee. until then, it's best to do what any good and resourceful gardener would do. --- best of luck co, wa, or. !!!!!!! ---- (it's 2012, we shouldn't even so much as have to discuss this anymore, but it makes some politicians feel worthy of their useless jobs ( with their obscene perks) by creating ludicrous drug laws which target minorities and the poor......... who, in turn, feed the prison industry). "i like to think of laws not as rules to live by, but more as suggestions". :D....... a wise adage indeed! george carlin "they've outlawed the most popular vegetable in the world!" timothy leary
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Or does it still seem a little surreal to be seeing a couple of guys from the Grateful Dead singing the national anthem on national tv? Don't the the MLB, SF Giants, and Fox PTB know who these guys are? Happy Birthday, Bob!
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I hit the refresh button and got a duplicate post
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Bob and Phil must be buddies with the 3rd base coach, Tim Flannery. I was watching the Chargers kick ass over on ESPN.
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Happy birthday Bob!
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Comes as they are singing "land of the FREEEEEE." I loved Phil's raised-fist emphasis on "free."
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Screwing up on the first debate and then having to pray Joe Biden didn't muck-up scrambling up that apple tree in the 2nd debate. Truly, by the exit polls of those who are likely to vote, this race is a statistical dead heat. Could it really be that Obama doesn't want a second term? (And would anybody have blamed him?)
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It wasn't Justin Verlander's night as his slumbering Tigers ran into a deep swinging Pablo Sandoval. Barry Zito pitched well and contributed 2 hits too. We'll see what tomorrow brings.
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"I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets inAnd stops my mind from wandering Where it will go I'm filling the cracks that ran through the door And kept my mind from wandering Where it will go And it really doesn't matter if I'm wrong I'm right Where I belong I'm right Where I belong. See the people standing there who disagree and never win" Yeah well, at least it's a chance to get off the road and just squeeze the phone. Everybody stay safe on the East Coast!.
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I'm surprised I haven't read any accounts of baseball fans celebrating the sweep of the Tigers by the San Francisco Giants Sunday evening! Congratulations and hope the parade is fun, too.
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Cartels are fighting it out in jet-set destination Acapulco, Mexico while opium production is up 17.6% in the world-leading producer country Burma. Perhaps that is why Ang Sang Su Kyi gets her cosmetic freedom. Afghanistan is the #2 producer in the world, just waiting for the US exit in 2014 to retake the lead.
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Greetings Beings! Hope some East Coast Heads out there find this post. Would love to see you so we can dance and shake our bones one more time... Will be sipping some sweet tunes into the night and groovin' in this massive dance space just like old times... Here are some details... FALL FOR THE DEAD! ~ A Night of Dancin' to the Good 'ol Grateful Dead! Saturday, Nov 3, 2012 8:00p NEA - North East American School of Dance 25 Main Street, 4th Floor, Northampton, MA Join us as we clear out the cob webs, dust off those rusty strings one more time, and enter into the circle of community and connection as the kids they dance and shake their bones to the sounds of The Grateful Dead! This one night only barefoot boogie dance event will be a time for all of us who Love the sounds of Jerry and The Boys to come together in Love, Peace, and Celebration! This musical journey will be guided by DEAD DJ's Brothers Antonio Aversano & Bill Baue Sliding Scale: $5 - $10 https://www.facebook.com/events/239395542853679/ Peace, ~ Antonio ~
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The Northeastern portion of the US as well as the Appalachian Mountain chain, the Hatteras shoreline to the North Shore of Boston and 22 foot waves pounding onshore at Lake Michigan (Chicago) and Lake Eerie (Cleveland) provided the rough proportions of a massive collision of two storms with a very low barometric pressure center (a record in fact) of 940 millibars. Hundreds of homes burned to the ground and and about 500 died. The price tag for damage? The second highest in history. It is clear that this combined monster, along with the heat of the summer drought, signaled the full onslaught of global warming. Just as clear is that people and politicians (including the presidential candidates) are in full denial of the real damages yet to be felt. If you live in a home that has no propane or oil heat, it will be uninhabitable when the grid goes out (predicted by cyber attack or otherwise). Unimaginable food and energy prices increases signal just a few of the severest effects. I'm not trying to scare anybody, just saying that I'm making plans for this stark future that include a self-contained tiny house with generator. In the long run of a worst case scenario even this will not be enough.