Displaying 0 To 0 Of 0 Comments Morning Kalima! I don’t know Clegg as well as I should or the LDs, will get up to speed on them but I still can’t help but feel a bit of satisfaction at the thought of Gordon Brown wobbling. Hard to forgive Labor for Blair and his toadying to Bush, Brown may have been a minor change from that but never seemed far enough. » Posted By AdLib On May 1, 2010 @ 7:33 am Hope you’re doing okay, dildenusa. I think it’s most realistic to just accept that those who are fans of Sarah Palin are the equivalent of children for whom “Mommy” can never be wrong. Facts and reason isn’t going to change what passes for their minds, they will proudly display their hypocrisy on and on as their heroes do. » Posted By AdLib On April 13, 2010 @ 9:31 am I picked a bad day to have left out my collection of Alka Seltzer tablets in the back yard. Damn! » Posted By AdLib On April 5, 2010 @ 9:38 am My pleasure, Lise. » Posted By AdLib On April 5, 2010 @ 9:34 am The Obama Admin is writing the rules and there was a news item out this week affirming that the rules will specifically address such attempts at looking for loopholes by insurance companies. They will be covered. » Posted By AdLib On April 3, 2010 @ 9:48 pm Worry not. This is from the government’s web site, HealthReform.gov and here’s the direct link: http://www.healthreform.gov/reports/keyprovisions.html Please note Item 2: Key Provisions That Take Effect Immediately 1. SMALL BUSINESS TAX CREDITS » Posted By AdLib On April 3, 2010 @ 8:26 pm As their taking credit for what the Stimulus Bill brought to their state proved, Repubs have no shame in being absolute hypocrites. My problem on this kind of thing is less with them than their constituents. The GOP expects that most people are complete idiots. How right are they? How many people will step back from these obvious frauds for being such? » Posted By AdLib On March 24, 2010 @ 11:15 am Khirad, IMO, Dershowitz is an unprincipled tool, I don’t give anything he says any weight, I usually look to someone else to validate anything he might say. » Posted By AdLib On March 19, 2010 @ 11:10 am We killed the possibility of using Google AdSense for The Planet in the test phase. One of the first ads that came up here was promoting Newt Gingrich’s book. I canceled it immediately (which is why we’re dependent on the kindness of our members for helping us cover expenses). It’s an all or nothing thing, if you go with Google AdSense for ad revenue, you have to accept promoting horrible right wing ads. For us here at The Planet, that was not acceptable. » Posted By AdLib On March 11, 2010 @ 5:05 pm Commissioner Gordon turned on the Grabamop signal on the roof and it worked! Nice to see you! » Posted By AdLib On March 14, 2010 @ 8:29 am Site Maintenance Underway – Now Completed! Think of it more as an avid hobby! » Posted By AdLib On March 12, 2010 @ 2:27 pm Thanks for asking, Sue! It’s absolutely cool, the posts are fine, it’s the WordPress front end that has been a bit quirky. The only way to make sure things are (hopefully) fixed is if everyone posts and comments as normal. » Posted By AdLib On March 12, 2010 @ 2:25 pm Cheers nellie! » Posted By AdLib On March 12, 2010 @ 10:38 am Thanks Kes, very kind of you! It does however remind me of trying to explain the concept of multiplying numbers by zero to my daughter. 😉 » Posted By AdLib On March 12, 2010 @ 10:38 am Thanks nellie! I am temporarily removing the edit function along with some others to try to deduce what is causing the spam issue. It will be back once this bug is figured out. » Posted By AdLib On March 12, 2010 @ 10:36 am My brain is like jelly but I seem to have solved the image display issues and hopefully the accidental sending of comments to spam. I also have optimized the site a bit. If you see any comments disappear or any other quirks, please let me know ASAP at the Help Desk. Thanks to all for your patience with this, I was viewing all the wonderful comments throughout the day (and night!), it was great motivation to get the site working smoothly! Cheers! » Posted By AdLib On March 11, 2010 @ 10:10 pm Welcome to The Planet, Tweety! » Posted By AdLib On March 10, 2010 @ 4:08 pm Once again, a bulls eye, Marion. There is a legislative dance that we now know so well and it bears no resemblence to what we were taught in history class. I have liked Kucinich for his uncompromising and consistant stands on the issues but in this situation, he needs to compromise. It is pie in the sky to think stonewalling HCR is going to generate more votes for a second attempt, let alone one with single payer proposed. Bernie Sanders snuck in a provision for states to be financed to have single payer. The provision won’t kick in for 7 years, Sanders is hoping to make it sooner through the reconcillation bill. So, single payer IS in this bill, it just won’t happen for 7 years. Sen Kucinich, isn’t having single payer in 7 years and 30 million covered soon better than waiting another 14 years and possibly failing again? And losing hundreds of thousands of lives due to no coverage? Get on the HCR train if you want single payer. » Posted By AdLib On March 9, 2010 @ 9:44 am Cheers Escrib, thanks for zooming out to add some perspective to where we really are. Granted, HCR isn’t passed yet but I think it will be. The road to HCR has proven that this is going to be a long hard slog so those who are discouraged are justified in feeling that way but what is the only alternative? No HCR. When this bill passes and is signed, I think many will change their opinions. As time passes and the doom and gloomers find they still have their same HMO and the sky hasn’t fallen, the angst will turn to acceptance and in many cases appreciation. Obama did mess up with his approach, starting off with “Medicare for All” would have been a far stronger way to have gone, even if it was compromised, it would have brought more reform. Still, until Apple invents the iTimeMachine, we have to live in the worlds of “now” and “tomorrow”, and just a few weeks from “now”, I think an historic change in this nation will occur. » Posted By AdLib On March 9, 2010 @ 10:12 am Blogging and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance I’m telling God on you! » Posted By AdLib On March 8, 2010 @ 2:50 pm Yes, I see this as the sneakier thing in a community about blogging. We can all agree that personally insulting someone in a comment is wrong. But we don’t often talk about or recognize how we may take legit disagreements personally. People feeling that they are being dissed in a disagreement may be unjustified in others’ eyes but to the one feeling that way, it is wholly justified. For me, the issue is not about judging anyone but about saying, “Let’s all agree to these ground rules so we can all be comfortable that we are not being dissed.” 1. No personal criticisms or attacks. 2. No personalizing of legit disagreements. 3. Forgiveness towards those who mess up and apologize. Sounds pretty Progressive to me. » Posted By AdLib On March 8, 2010 @ 2:23 pm Pew!!! Pepe! » Posted By AdLib On March 8, 2010 @ 2:14 pm Indeed, in all the instances you give, it is the personalizing of a comment, making it about the person and not the opinion that is inappropriate and not in keeping with the site’s rules. In writing the above article, I’ve assumed that it is well known by all that personal criticisms or conflicts are against the Terms of Use. As for intent, that is my point. The author of a comment needs to be mindful of aiming criticism only at an opinion, never a member personally. The one reading the comment also has to be mindful of not taking a criticism of an opinion as a personal criticism. Jumping to another topic I just remembered that I didn’t mention above. All of us are capable of posting something that we wish we hadn’t. IMO, seeking to work things out and if good faith is shown, forgiveness, is the thoughtful and constructive path. » Posted By AdLib On March 8, 2010 @ 1:42 pm Hey, Something odd happened this morning and sent several comments into Spam, I have no idea why. I’ve posted all the comments back up. Sorry about this glitch, don’t know what caused it but it seems to be gone now. I will keep an eye out for it though! » Posted By AdLib On March 8, 2010 @ 8:27 am No transfat and 100% natural artificial flavorings! » Posted By AdLib On March 7, 2010 @ 12:06 pm Let’s be our OWN “Moral Majority” Right with you. Check out the posts here about GROW, there are many people here who are geared up to be more activist as Progressives and in our democracy. The time for passivity is over, it’s time to either grab the wheel or sit passively in the passenger seat while being driven off a cliff. » Posted By AdLib On March 7, 2010 @ 6:54 am You left out that he supported Bush on the Iraq War as well. Maher is a self-absorbed, opportunist “progressive”. He is not fully evolved as a Progressive with this simplistic, kneejerk positions on many issues and he seems to take positions that will get him a lot of publicity, make him look “cool” or “rebellious” or, in the case of supporting Bush and the Iraq War, are meant to ingratiate himself with those in power. Certainly, everyone is entitled to their own combination of opinions but as you say, his opinions seem less than earnest or thoughtful or Progressive on many issues. As for his plea to the people suffering through this economy to let Hollywood eat their cake in front of everyone, I completely agree that it is wholly ignorant. Just the opposite, when the majority of Americans are going through tough times, it is far more Progressive not to flaunt wealth and reprimand people for not appreciating that. Maher wanted to brag about all the extravagant parties he’s attending with celebrities and didn’t want the common people ruining the high he gets from it. Very childish and self-centered. Maher IS an elitist. Did you hear him tell Arianna that she should just marry a billionaire and start up her own news channel? Maher’s world is so far removed from real people, true Progressives, the condescending attitude he has is not flattering to the movement at all. » Posted By AdLib On March 7, 2010 @ 8:40 am Vox Populi AfterChat – 3-5-2010 Actually, the ironic thing is that China could be in the position the U.S. Government was in and the U.S. would be in the position of U.S. banks. China would have to see the U.S. as » Posted By AdLib On March 6, 2010 @ 8:33 pm The ATM thing was never an odd thing to me, of course your bank has this data and if a crime was related to it, not a surprise that law enforcement could get access with a search warrant. As for cameras in public places, I hate that. Here too,it’s not surprising since cameras have been in banks, casinos, parking structures, malls and plenty of public places for security reasons for a long time. It is the idea of cameras on city streets that I find creepy and a potential slippery slope. In the UK they have whole towns under complete video surveillance, awful. » Posted By AdLib On March 6, 2010 @ 8:25 pm Add to that the complication that people have less credit available from using it up then and since then, maybe even due to being out of work. Add to that, the banks have slashed the credit limits on credit cards and this time, it could be far more serious. » Posted By AdLib On March 6, 2010 @ 7:39 pmComments Posted By AdLib
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