Displaying 3,061 To 3,090 Of 3,237 Comments THE BUSH VS. THE OBAMA DOCTRINES What did it take to bring down the old order in Iraq? What did it take to bring down the old order in Libya? AND, GADDAFI WAS CLEARLY A BACKER OF TERRORISM AIMED AT THE U.S. Undisputed Really. Hussein? Well, the Bush folks said he was the same but never could prove it. Now, let’s compare the Bush vs. Obama Doctrines? » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On October 20, 2011 @ 7:24 am They might spew out a little of that food for the rest of us to lap up? » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On October 19, 2011 @ 7:24 pm The question creates a false equivalency and misleads the person taking it. Here is the image of the graph of the results. http://sas-origin.onstreammedia.com/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Production/Cms/POLL/ljk3vsft90wgb9paixga_g.gif After his first year in office Obama has been held responsible by 50 to 53 percent. This is not a big change. It has dropped to 48 once or twice. I expect to see it drop again. The missing question: Obama vs. the GOP in Congress. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On October 19, 2011 @ 7:21 pm NYT tries to take the middle road in most of its reporting. I am actually one of those on-line subscribers and so far have it worthwhile. Your excerpts capture the story well. Elsewhere….lots of crowing re. Obama’s Fault. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On October 19, 2011 @ 7:14 pm MORE THAN 50 PERCENT OF AMERICANS NOW “BLAME” OBAMA FOR THE ECONOMY Here is the actual question Gallup Asked How Much are George W. Bush and Barack Obama to Blame for the U.S. Economy? A slight majority of Americans for the first time blame President Obama either a great deal (24%) or a moderate amount (29%) for the nation’s economic problems. There’s your 53% However, Americans continue to blame former President George W. Bush more. Nearly 7 in 10 blame Bush a great deal (36%) or a moderate amount (33%).There’s your 69% THE POLL WAS CONDUCTED SEPTEMBER 15-18, a month ago. http://www.gallup.com/poll/149600/slight-majority-blame-obama-economy.aspx » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On October 19, 2011 @ 5:56 pm HOW MUCH OF THE WORLD’S WEALTH DO THE MEGAS CONTROL… Here’s another stat that the Occupy Wall Streeters can hoist on their placards: The world’s millionaires and billionaires now control 38.5% of the world’s wealth. According to the latest Global Wealth Report from Credit Suisse, the 29.7 million people in the world with household net worths of $1 million (representing less than 1% of the world’s population) control about $89 trillion of the world’s wealth. That’s up from a share of 35.6% in 2010, and their wealth increased by about $20 trillion, according Credit Suisse. The rest at http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2011/10/19/millionaires-control-39-of-global-wealth/?mod=WSJBlog The wealth of the millionaires grew 29% — about twice as fast as the wealth in the world as a whole, which now has $231 trillion in wealth. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On October 19, 2011 @ 5:09 pm Mightywoof The newsroom is now so driven by its ability to generate profit that news as entertainment has emerged as the primary identity of many journalists. News rooms across the country have closed, others have been reduced significantly in staff. What do those paying the bills want? Of course, some news arms only exist to serve broader corporate news (think Fox) and advance certain political agendas and profit is secondary. As to resetting anti-monopoly laws….given that the entire political process is bought and paid for by those some corporate entities via their lobbies, in direct and indirect campaign support and in promises of very comfortable retirements. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On October 16, 2011 @ 6:59 pm Chernynkaya I have also lost your reply to my Producer friend’s assessment. Yes, he was honest (and I suspect hoping I would pass his thoughts along). Today, more than ever, money drives “journalism” and money is most easily made via products that are people pleasing: entertaining, simple, fitting into their world view. Today’s tv and newspapers news rooms are emptier and emptier. Budgets are driving everything. I agree with each of your points about the importance of the events, the poignancy of the experience, the clarity of the priorities and agenda, BUT it is not neat and it is very disturbing. AND you name the reality…the TP succeeded because their events were tailored by, for and from the media conglomerates. Bought and paid for. Corporate news points out why sites like this one and the rest of the internet may be our last, best guarantee that the truth will be told. AND…from your second post to me. You did your duty in LA and I wish many more had joined you but from what I have seen the event was well managed and still powerful. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On October 16, 2011 @ 2:56 pm Thanks. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On October 16, 2011 @ 2:38 pm bito Reuters? Any surprise here. King, with whom had the honor to march twice as a teenager, spoke out against all the big isms (militarism, classism, racism). His crusade was one of representing the have nots in their struggle with the haves. Reuters and so many of the news organizations are witness to the truth of this poem: Now That He Is Safely Dead Now that he is safely dead » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On October 16, 2011 @ 2:29 pm Fannie Lou was amazing but she was nurtured by her church and by a movement based on a coherent philosophy of resistance. The OWS, 99 Percent Movement has none of this going for it. I get your point about Michael Moore- who I find to be a bit of a fraud (rather like Al Gore), I’m also noting that you are not really dismissing the producer’s reasoning. I think it is an issue and I have no idea how to address it. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On October 15, 2011 @ 9:34 pm Emerald Read my reply to Cher above and see what you think. I am trying to figure out what is behind the tepid and inspid coverage. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On October 15, 2011 @ 8:04 pm Funk…read my reply to Cher above. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On October 15, 2011 @ 8:02 pm Cher…. I wrote you a note last night in frank admiration of what you were doing today. I looked forward to being with you and others here at least in spirit via the news coverage. I was at home most of the day. Without the live feeds from OWS and several of those at events, I would have thought that not much was happening. I knew that was not so. CNN had minimum coverage (a slot every hour). MSNBC was doing is Prison Weekend stuff, it’s how they pay their bills. NBC had a 10 minute slot on its nightly news at 5:30. HP, Salon, Daily Beast, all ran stories during the day. Alternet and Raw Story did quite a bit. I just got off the phone with a friend who is a producer for local and regional news in NYC. Here is what he said. All of this is dissipating coverage. Does this sound plausible to you? I am very angry at the lack of coverage but I am trying to figure out what is going on? Or is this corporate buddies hanging together? » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On October 15, 2011 @ 8:02 pm What continues to stun me is the automatic response of the GOP appointees: “No, you cannot actually participate in the democratic process without our approval. We are the arbiters of constitutionality.” It may not yet be so, but it is what they want. Every day, in some new way, the importance of November 2012 grows. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On October 15, 2011 @ 6:03 am They are using every trick in the book. And the Dems are taking the matter to the courts. They had to do the petition first in order to use the appeal route. Knew it was coming. Bottom Line: Only solution. Vote every GOPer, no matter who, out of office. Even those that pass as moderates today, are complicit. They all have to go. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On October 14, 2011 @ 2:56 pm Gut wrenching, aye? The video has gone viral. Good. She is such a ditz. It didn’t bother me to see the one get go for a photo…after all he had no way of knowing she would be so stupid to actually post the video. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On October 13, 2011 @ 12:41 pm I will try that the next time. Thanks for the help. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On October 13, 2011 @ 12:38 pm Every opportunity for direct democracy, the heart of true progressivism, is a good thing. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On October 13, 2011 @ 10:02 am I know this guy and he is a very nasty piece of work. He has failed in every endeavor. Has a large negative net worth. His nastiness is his only talent. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On October 13, 2011 @ 10:00 am P.S. How do you all embed videos as has now been done for me. I have tried and fail. I am missing a trick or a step. If it was you who converted my link to a live window…thanks. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On October 13, 2011 @ 9:52 am Hold your nose and watch the rest. She gets her lunch handed to her. She is a perfect pinup girl for the TP. I was so proud of the two very well spoken progressives who took her on. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On October 13, 2011 @ 9:50 am The choice is becoming clear and the options on the other side are scary and emblematic of the Party of Greed. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On October 13, 2011 @ 8:33 am TAKE A FEW MINUTES TO WATCH A VIDEO THAT SAYS A LOT ABOUT THE RIGHT… Victoria Jackson of SNL fame, now a right wing talk show host, trying to ambush 99 Percenters on Wall Street. It’s a Powder Puff Football Team vs. the Green Bay Packers. MUST SEE.
Compare these interviews with almost any interview with a Tea Party protestor. Complex ideas, well spoken, high end vocabulary, well marshalled facts. First, they Ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you and then you win. SHE HAS TO BE A SECRET AGENT FOR THE PROGRESSIVES whiny voice A TEA PARTY CANDIDATE FOR CERTAIN……The question is governor? senator? representative? maybe even President. REALLY NOW- THIS HAS TO BE A SNL SKIT….. She comes across as a witless fool and those she thinks she is ambushing best her every single time. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On October 13, 2011 @ 8:31 am Guess I will mosey over to HP and Politico. Shame really. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On October 11, 2011 @ 4:44 pm Nelson and Tester vote NO on Obama plan. Final vote tally being held until NH Sen Shaheen returns. Final vote is likely 51 Aye, 45 No, which means that 4 have not voted. I wonder who? Anyone want to guess. I have my own predictions. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On October 11, 2011 @ 4:19 pm I take it you are “tongue in cheek” on being shocked. Nelson is TRUEBLUEDOG- » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On October 11, 2011 @ 3:52 pm I would appreciate it. Tonight is likely to be very hot and will cement a number of positions on the economy. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On October 11, 2011 @ 3:51 pm Anyone know if PlanetPOV will be blogging the GOP Debate tonight? 8 PM EST on Bloomberg TV? » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On October 11, 2011 @ 3:38 pm Per Alan Grayson The Government Accountability Office (GAO) says that our Government has handed out $16 trillion to the banks. The GAO says that our Government HAS HANDED OUT $16 TRILLION TO THE BANKS. That little gem appears on Page 131 of GAO Report No. GAO-11-696. A report issued two months ago. A report that somehow seems to have eluded the attention of virtually every network, every major newspaper, and every news show. How much is $16 trillion? ===That is an amount equal to more than $50,000 for every man, woman and child in America. ===That’s more than every penny that every American earns in a year. ===That’s an amount equal to almost a third of our national net worth — the value of every home, car, personal belonging, business, bank account, stock, bond, piece of land, book, tree, chandelier, and everything else anyone owns in America. ===That’s an amount greater than our entire national debt, accumulated over the course of two centuries. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On October 11, 2011 @ 4:39 amComments Posted By MurphTheSurf3
10 years
4,477 U.S. deaths; 31,965 U.S. Wounded
$2 Trillion dollars
9 Months
0 U.S. Deaths, 0 U.S. Wounded
$1 Billion
Which one is the most justifiable?
Which one costs less?
Which one is the most effective.
That’s the headline running in blog after blog
1 Percent of the World’s Population Controls 38.5 Percent
By Carl Wendell Hines
Let us praise him
build monuments to his glory
sing hosannas to his name.
Dead men make
such convenient heroes: They
cannot rise
to challenge the images
we would fashion from their lives.
And besides,
it is easier to build monuments
than to make a better world.
1) The novelty is wearing off.
2) There are no central events (speakers, symbolic actions) around which media can gather.
3) The lack of a clear agenda haunts the movement.
4) The crowd is not providing the “stories” they are looking for; and there is an element of real antagonism which seems geared at provoking the police.
5) Lacking identifiable leadership there is no one to speak for the group or to its members.
wild eyed look
fifth grade vocabulary
fourth grade debating skills
no ideas of her own =================================
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