Displaying 2,971 To 3,000 Of 3,237 Comments Walsh has lost two houses to foreclosure and owes his own children $115,000 in child support. The man has a negative net worth. AND HERE HE IS LECTURING ON ECONOMICS. The woman he sparred with, if the fight was scored, Joe lost. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On November 8, 2011 @ 8:18 pm In Arizona, state Sen. Russell Pearce, architect of the tough immigration law that put the state at the forefront of the national debate, faced a recall attempt led by a fellow Republican. He was defeated by challenger Jerry Lewis on Tuesday night. Pearce held a 3-to-1 fundraising advantage. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On November 8, 2011 @ 8:17 pm I have a Politico Subscription that keeps me on top of things. Hope you are watching all of this form bed. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On November 8, 2011 @ 7:42 pm AP has called the Mississippi fertilized egg as a person referendum has been defeated….a big upset. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On November 8, 2011 @ 7:28 pm 59 percent NO Surprising numbers for the NO crowd Let’s hope it continues » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On November 8, 2011 @ 7:24 pm I hope it is the start of a Progressive Tsunami. Go rest. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On November 8, 2011 @ 7:22 pm Icon Yes. Fits very well. Well put. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On November 8, 2011 @ 7:06 pm I understand how personal memory can be and how events are viewed through our experience of that memory. As to the Cuban Missile Crisis….the level heads. You might want to explore this a bit. The Pentagon wanted Bay of Pigs Part III. The CIA wanted to keep them missiles in Turkey off the table. The advisers around the president were generally too new at what was going on. The USSR was in the grip of a politburo and central committee power fight. Castro was happy to play the sides off. Things were quickly speeding out of control. I think it is Khrushchev who deserves the credit for pulling us back from the brink. John Scali of ABC news had contact with Aleksandr Fomin (AKA Alexander Feklisov, KGB station chief and contemporary with Nikita Khrushchev)who broke the ice on this. He met with Bobby Kennedy expressing the Premier’s concern that the American President was pushing the world toward thermonuclear war for lack of understanding of the chess game (U.S. missiles in Turkey pointing straight at the U.S.S.R vs. supposed missiles in Cuba- missiles that most now agree were never armed). The talk went well. 5 hours later a personal letter in the form of a secure teletype message to the State Dept. from NK arrived suggesting that a way had to be found to back down on both sides. The secret deal was struck, but NK took the hit for it and lost the support of the Politburo and the Central Committee. I believe that it was NK who pulled us back from the brink. Kennedy was way over his head….way over. Please remember that Kennedy did not consult with the Eisenhower Administration about the Bay of Pigs- a plan summarily reject by Ike as badly planned based on unfounded assumptions. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On November 8, 2011 @ 7:04 pm Wake County School Board now back in Dem hands. Runoff election today completes the Dem sweep last month. Wake County School Board: Most school boards races are sleepy affairs, but not so in Wake County, North Carolina. Last year, Art Pope, a wealthy financier of right-wing causes and board member of the Koch Brothers’ Americans for Prosperity front group, spent heavily in Wake County schools elections in order to elect board members who would end the district’s racial integration program. (Pope also spent heavily in the successful effort to flip North Carolina’s state legislature into Republican hands, helping to ensure Republican gains in congressional redistricting.) This year, the Wake County School Board elections have become pitched battles, with some candidates spending hundreds of thousands of dollars — sums previously unheard of in such elections. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On November 8, 2011 @ 6:55 pm Indeed…the borders are not nearly so neat. But the right is for the Corporate States of America (paralleling the Confederate States of America) Your reading on JFK and progressives reminds me of observations made re. Reagan and conservatives (he would be too liberal today). » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On November 8, 2011 @ 6:51 pm Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear cruised to reelection Tuesday night, winning a double-digit victory over Republican Senate President David Williams, 57 percent to 31 percent, with 51 percent of precincts reporting, according to the Associated Press. And in Ohio…Senate Bill 5 is dead. Jack Conway won reelection as the Ky Attorney General. Watching a dozen other elections, referenda, and recalls. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On November 8, 2011 @ 6:21 pm I understand the sentiment but he was not a good president. He was miserably unprepared. He fell into the CIA/Pentagon Bay of Pigs Trap, and almost pushed us over the edge with the Cuban Missile Crisis (fortunate Nikita Khrushchev was about to manipulate the players although it cost him his job). He was lukewarm on Civil Rights. Hid decisions led us into the big muddy, Vietnam. Sadly, it is his death that froze him in our memories as the young prince-king. He has an elevated position in our memory, but not one he really deserves. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On November 8, 2011 @ 6:16 pm Ok….I thought I might have misled you about Matthews actually being balanced. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On November 8, 2011 @ 4:15 pm Well….John Scali of ABC news had contact with Aleksandr Fomin (AKA Alexander Feklisov, KGB station chief and contemporary with Nikita Khrushchev)who broke the ice on this. He met with Bobby Kennedy expressing the Premier’s concern that the American President was pushing the world toward thermonuclear war for lack of understanding of the chess game (U.S. missiles in Turkey pointing straight at the U.S.S.R vs. supposed missiles in Cuba- missiles that most now agree were never armed). The talk went well. 5 hours later a personal letter in the form of a secure teletype message to the State Dept. from NK arrived suggesting that a way had to be found to back down on both sides. The secret deal was struck, but NK took the hit for it and lost the support of the Politburo and the Central Committee. I believe that it was NK who pulled us back from the brink. Kennedy was way over his head….way over. Please remember that Kennedy did not consult with the Eisenhower Administration about the Bay of Pigs- a plan summarily reject by Ike as badly planned based on unfounded assumptions. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On November 8, 2011 @ 4:14 pm It is the Obama/Kennedy comparisons that drive me crazy. JFK was heading toward a disastrous midterm – saved by the Cuban Missile Crisis. In terms of accomplishment…Obama has JFK hands down. I am a Bobby Kennedy for reasons that are a good deal more substantive. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On November 8, 2011 @ 4:02 pm There is nothing new in Matthews book which is more of the miasmic, fog shrouded, mythology of the Kennedys. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On November 8, 2011 @ 3:08 pm Too much hero worship in his presidential years. Too young, too inexperienced. The Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis were book ends and both could have been complete disasters and had it not been for Soviet sensibility would have been. His civil rights record was tepid. His engagement in Vietnam the seeds of the ill growing weed ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Those words are my own not Matthews. He is the hero worshiper which I am not. Those are my thoughts. Your reading of Matthews is correct. Like Camelot, the JFK years are mythic, as in, not for real. I think JFK almost got us into a thermonuclear war and that Khrushchev got us out of the boiling pot by backing out. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On November 8, 2011 @ 3:07 pm To All Who Contributed Your Thinking to the Vision for OWS…..If you have not had the chance to offer your thoughts on the “finished” work, let me invite you to do so. A number have offered new insights and takes on the work already one which has become part of a wider discussion. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On November 8, 2011 @ 2:35 pm “Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero.” Interesting read, especially regarding his early life, and the behind the scenes relationship he had with Bobby (on the up side) and his father (on the down side). Too much hero worship in his presidential years. Too young, too inexperienced. The Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis were book ends and both could have been complete disasters and had it not been for Soviet sensibility would have been. His civil rights record was tepid. His engagement in Vietnam the seeds of the ill growing weed. Anyone else read the book yet? » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On November 8, 2011 @ 2:31 pm There is security in company with others. There is security where the cameras know where to cluster. There is security where your own “security” is on duty. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On November 6, 2011 @ 1:34 pm In the Vision for OWS article that should be published here soon I have adopted the idea of not leaving the encampment at night because the police seem to be zeroing in on isolated groups. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On November 6, 2011 @ 10:37 am Em- know someone there and they are very, very worried. It is turning into a pissing war. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On November 6, 2011 @ 10:33 am Read the column at the Standard….He is saying that no one in the GOP field is a Reagan. I think that is just part of the problem. That lack is not what will defeat Obama or give us a GOP Senate or leave us with a GOP House. I think everyday voter stupidity and laziness is the principal reason we should be scared. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On November 6, 2011 @ 10:01 am A VISION FOR THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT…… » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On November 6, 2011 @ 9:56 am WELCOME TO THE CORPORATE STATES OF AMERICA… Might find the following interesting…how the right is poisoning the internet. There are so many paid Koch Keyboard Kommandos now that many go unchallenged Did you know that they even give classes on how to troII liberal websites? Here is a video of one of the Koch trolling classes: another one for context: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8k66kB4Zn8 The root site is even better: http://astroturfwars.com/ Please drop this info wherever you go. I will do the same. Tweet, facebook, blog it. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On November 5, 2011 @ 10:35 am Ok. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On November 4, 2011 @ 3:52 pm Bito…. I tried both the v and c&p method. The v method just leaves the url plus v. The c&p leaves nothing at all. I suppose I will just post the link and if an admin sees it and wants to convert it (as I think you did for me, great). I have a server issue that affects my posting. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On November 4, 2011 @ 2:05 pm Did it, but it did not work….might be my server problem again. Grrrrrrr. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On November 4, 2011 @ 1:23 pm Here goes….. great video by a fantastic state senator. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On November 4, 2011 @ 1:22 pm To match the cracks in their skulls. Boehner doubled down today. I think this might be a real signal. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On November 4, 2011 @ 1:11 pmComments Posted By MurphTheSurf3
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In many ways JFK was “saved” by his assassination. Things were not going well for him when he went to Dallas.
Greetings All Who Provided Your Wisdom to the Project (you know who you are)-I submitted the Vision for OWS” article to the admin team yesterday. Looks like they have been busy fighting internet demons. I thank you all for your responses last week and for the discussion on Friday evening. MTS
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