Displaying 331 To 360 Of 3,237 Comments I am now…as of today working with three of those “uneducated voters” who voted for Trump and will be losing their ACA coverage. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On November 9, 2016 @ 2:35 pm Donald Trump’s Acceptance Speech at the RNC Tonight – The Sh*t Hits The Fans Here’s A Message I Got from the Daily Kos…..it captured my feelings/thoughts very well. I am sickened and angry. It is far worse than I thought it was going to be. I AM DONE WITH THIS CRAP…..The Republican National Convention is only half over, but I’m done. I’m done with the blatant, unapologetic racism, sexism and homophobia. I’m done with pretending that this is a normal party convention, when there is nothing at all normal about a reality star running an openly authoritarian campaign for the presidency. We need to beat these people—and not just Trump. We need to beat each and every one of these Republicans propping up this vile, extremist campaign. I have turned off the convention. I will read about it but I am done watching it. I am done with the speakers. I am done with the audiences. I am done with the color commentary. I am done with the analysis (or rather the efforts to pretend that what is being sends requires analysis). » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On July 21, 2016 @ 8:04 pm HELP THE PLANET! Contribute to PlanetPOV Today! Happy to be a part of the community. Glad to contribute. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On May 2, 2016 @ 8:46 pm The Clueless GOP Pours Romney Gas on the Trump Fire I appreciate your thoughts. You make a strong case for Romney’s hypocrisy and duplicity….and for the Machiavellian manipulations taking place to roll back the clock to 2012. As you know, I think the Mitt Romney we saw in 2011 and 2012 was manufactured to appeal to an audience that was not naturally his…thus the “I was a seriously conservative governor….” meme. And he wasn’t. He was someone who knew how to deal on both sides of the aisle. So in one way what we say today was Romney engaging in a bit of redemptive theater. And yes, I think he, and many in his circle, knew that his words would do little to nothing to change the views of the Trump fan-atics. But he was not speaking to them but to a GOP mainstream that is shrunken but still present (that the liberty caucus in the House, formerly the TP caucus, has not grown is a sign of this) and to the power brokers and big money backers to say that an alliance of those forces is required and lacking any national GOP leader he will step up. NOW…what is stepping up to…..naming the truth? fighting to take the usurper down? put himself on the line? emerge as the once and future standard bearer? That is still to be seen. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On March 3, 2016 @ 8:17 pm A Thanksgiving Tradition – 2015 Apology by Joyce Kilmer For blows on the fort of evil There is joy over disappointment Each poet is glad there was no cure For nothing keeps a poet So fools are glad of the folly They know that on flinty sorrow Lord Byron and Shelley and Plunkett, Is Freedom only a Will-o’-the-wisp To all of the Poets at Planet POV…..may your Thanksgiving Day (or your days of thanksgiving) provide you with respite and delight as we all, in our ways, struggle forward in search of truth and what truth. P.S. And Ad Lib and the rest of my friends at Vox Populi….this is addressed to YOU. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On November 26, 2015 @ 11:55 am Weekend Music Thread – Hello Goodbye
» Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On September 26, 2015 @ 10:12 am The Planned Parenthood Videos: GOP Legislation Based On Major Misrepresentation Thank you…..re-read it….every now and then I land a good phrase (not nearly the wordsmith that Ad Lib is!) » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On September 23, 2015 @ 5:24 pm Chomsky so often calls us to intellectual honesty. There is a concerted effort to promote ignorance at work in so much of our political and social discourse. Ignorance as bliss, when it is, in fact, blight. I spend a lot of time in debate with those who regard their unquestioning belief in a certain idea as a sign of righteous commitment when it is a sign of the absence of intellectual integrity. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On September 23, 2015 @ 5:17 pm Thank you. Among the most cynical acts was the request by the House of Representative Committees “investigating” PP for the Full and Unedited tapes by the CMP….sounds good…but NO….ON THE DAY THEY VOTED TO DEFUND. CMP has not replied to the request….note….request not subpoena. I absolutely agree with you re. how glibly the media as a whole mislabel the videos that have been shown by forensic analysis to have been so mangled in editing that they are inadmissible in court. I find it most interesting the CMP has not made an effort to counter that analysis. The networks would be free to speak the bald truth and they do not. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On September 23, 2015 @ 5:11 pm You are welcome Nirek. Thanks for reading it. I have been passing this around at several sites but am so happy to get comments like yours here. How can a woman act in such a way as to undermine the services that women depend on….the allure of power is a narcotic. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On September 22, 2015 @ 8:22 pm Bravo…once more you expand the field of engagement on this to wider and yet intimately connected matters of women’s health and sexual politics. You also stab at the culture of machismo that is nested in most power structures but for which the GOP seems to have a particular attraction to. A word about Jindl. This is from his bio: Jindal graduated from Brown University in 1991 at the age of 20, with honors in two majors, biology and public policy.He was one of 50 students nationwide admitted to the Program in Liberal Medical Education (PLME), guaranteeing him a place at Brown Medical School. Jindal is also credited with leading Brown’s College Republicans student group. Jindal was named to the 1992 USA Today All-USA Academic Team. He applied to and was accepted by both Harvard Medical School and Yale Law School, but studied at New College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar. He received an M.Litt. degree in political science with an emphasis in health policy from the University of Oxford in 1994, where the subject of his thesis was “A needs-based approach to health care”. He is trained in medical science and in public policy and medical systems……in this he betrays in his own education and life experience. When asked questions in science he feigns ignorance. Why? It’s all about power….and he is willing to pay any price…and he is certainly willing to let the women in his state pay whatever price is required for his rise to leadership. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On September 22, 2015 @ 8:19 pm Boy, this is really terrific. You make the case FOR Planned Parenthood very well. Thanks for your kind words regarding my post. You get at the underlying sentiment that the attack is based on….a fundamental disrespect for a law that acknowledges that abortion is part of the far broader services to women’s health. By misrepresenting abortion services provided by PP (ok, bold-faced lying about it)….the so called Center for Medical Progress is attacking the procedure itself. As it stands right now, I am satisfied that the human fetus is sufficiently protected by third trimester limitations on access, the conditions imposed by the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade. Those limitations have been pushed back into the first and second trimesters by state legislatures through laws that are being challenged as violations of Roe v. Wade, by efforts to get hospitals to abandon the service and to close down clinics that do. The impact is horrendous. Have you seen this story. It makes my blood boil. http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a37572/bobby-jindal/ und Planned Parenthood The Louisiana governor and presidential candidate wants to defund Planned Parenthood, including his home state’s two clinics—which don’t even provide abortions. Thanks again for your valuable input. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On September 22, 2015 @ 7:02 am Thank you. Abortion crosses many boundaries: ideological and political. The stakes are high as it is a leverage issue for significant parts of the left’s the right’s bases. So the stakes are incredibly high and as in your list of critical issues/events that requires a “win at all costs mentality. I don’t see this changing much no matter what crowd is in charge in DC. Still the right seems to be playing this particularly hard brand of hard ball with glee. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On September 22, 2015 @ 5:33 am That is the beauty of the strategy…if they haven’t works on them to keep them from doing so; if they have….promotes guilt…they were led into sin. Blame the Dems. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On September 21, 2015 @ 7:59 pm The GOP base includes many who have used PP services BUT here in Mo. the GOP having failed to close the 17 clinics in this state (because the executive branch is in Democratic hands)has been working, in concert with a number of churches, on a campaign of shame addressed at women in their base here: Moral people, Christian people, Republican people do not cross the doorjam of a Planned Parenthood Clinic because even if they are not getting an abortion just being their joins you to their evil. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On September 21, 2015 @ 7:51 pm Thanks for your kind words and your analysis. It is all about power and the no-limits on the means to get to it. The House controlled by the GOP has now requested the full, unedited tapes. Not subpoenaed. And even this small token effort is a front as they are acting without them anyway. LA, where Bobby Jindl has smashed PP, is now experiencing an epidemic in venereal disease because the PP clinics were not replaced. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On September 21, 2015 @ 7:44 pm There is a meanness, and a madness in all of this…..grudges and vengeance at work. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On September 21, 2015 @ 7:37 pm Thank you very much. Given the narrowness of the GOP base the question of appealing to those who have availed themselves of PP services is likely a non-starter. That percentage who has is not their percentage. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On September 21, 2015 @ 7:35 pm Thank you very much. I saw that connection and nodded my head- the whole thing has a familiar feel. Both have strong connections to Breitbart and that makes all the sense (or nonsense) in the world. This is entrapment journalism followed by surgical editing. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On September 21, 2015 @ 7:32 pm Weekend Music Thread – R.I.P. BB King And I like his “shy” act before he “finally” makes a “happy fool” of himself. I shall miss him in the White House. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On May 16, 2015 @ 11:41 am In Tribute: Obama’s ‘Duet’ With B.B. King In 2012, President Obama hosted a show at the White House and sang ‘Sweet Home Chicago’ with blues legend B.B. King.
» Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On May 16, 2015 @ 9:55 am Trey Anastasio has penned a tribute to blues legend B.B. King, who passed away Thursday night at the age of 89. “It’s literally impossible to overstate B.B. King’s influence on every single electric guitarist who followed in his path. All of us who have ever bent a note owe him an enormous debt of gratitude,” Anastasio wrote. “When B.B. bent a note, it sounded like an amazingly soulful singer. He could shape it at will, and it sung out, like it was coming straight from his soul.” Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/trey-anastasio-pays-tribute-to-incredible-b-b-king-20150515#ixzz3aK04HHgG » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On May 16, 2015 @ 9:54 am This is an edited version of the speech Iraq Veteran Mike Prysner delivered at the 2008 Winter Soldier in Maryland. Testimony of what’s really going on in Iraq.
» Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On May 16, 2015 @ 10:12 am Ike’s first draft of his “Military-Industrial Complex” speech used this term “Legislative-Military-Industrial Complex” to emphasize how government is the linchpin in the process. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On May 16, 2015 @ 10:02 am Obama Ally Cameron’s Conservatives Win The Day In The UK: What It Means Somehow I misposted my reply to you. Here it is. All political parties in all nations shape themselves for victory….even if it means pretending that its core mission is no longer relevant. Labour without Labor.The GOP without an intellectual Northeast establishment. The Dems without progressivism. I found Ed Milliband’s campaign singularly unattractive. He does not have a compelling public presence and as to the program submitted to the public for its consideration. Former Labour Home Secretary Lord Reid told the BBC “changing the captain” would not necessarily improve Labour’s electoral prospects. “They (the public) thought we were on the wrong side of all the major arguments — our economic competence, on the question of creating wealth rather than just distributing wealth, on the question of immigration, on the question of reform of the public services,” he said. Another Labour peer, former First Minister Lord McConnell, said his party had experienced a “catastrophic night resulting from the Party having lost its way at the turn of the 20th century. Yes, I am referring to Mr. Blair’s “Labour Leaning Right” configuration.”. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On May 10, 2015 @ 6:18 pm All political parties in all nations shape themselves for victory….even if it means pretending that its core mission is no longer relevant. Labour without Labor.The GOP without an intellectual Northeast establishment. The Dems without progressivism. I found Ed Milliband’s campaign singularly unattractive. He does not have a compelling public presence and as to the program submitted to the public for its consideration. Former Labour Home Secretary Lord Reid told the BBC “changing the captain” would not necessarily improve Labour’s electoral prospects. “They (the public) thought we were on the wrong side of all the major arguments – our economic competence, on the question of creating wealth rather than just distributing wealth, on the question of immigration, on the question of reform of the public services,” he said. Another Labour peer, former First Minister Lord McConnell, said his party had experienced a “catastrophic night resulting from the Party having lost its way at the turn of the 20th century. Yes, I am referring to Mr. Blair’s “Labour Leaning Right” configuration.”. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On May 10, 2015 @ 3:35 pm This reply is written after the fact but I thought I would toss it into the works. 1) He got the death penalty. It seems to me that had he gotten Life without Parole appeals would have gone on for years but without the drama, he would still have been in isolation for his own “safety” and the “mantle” would not be his to claim. All in all Life was the better option. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On May 16, 2015 @ 11:45 am Ted Cruzin’ For a Political Bruisin’ [img]https://yabberz-images.s3.amazonaws.com/post/upload55105a860c435.jpg[/img][img]http://alltherightsnark.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Gladiator.jpg[/img][/img] As the convocation in Liberty University’s Vines Center, nearly full with a max capacity of more than 10,000, students sang along to the inspirational worship songs led by a student rock band. Impressive. Well….Liberty hosts convocations three times a week, attendance is required and checked using id scanners at every door. So he was guaranteed a full house. Cruz is used to being interrupted in his speeches by frequent, long rounds of applause, and standing ovations. There were not many of either at Liberty. His campaign had told media prior to the speech that they should allot 30 minutes for the address, which took just 20. Cruz hit on many conservative principles: repealing Obamacare, abolishing the IRS, establishing a flat tax, securing Second Amendment rights, protecting the border, doing away with “every word of Common Core,” defending “the sanctity of human life,” upholding “the sacrament of marriage,” and standing “apologetically” with Israel. In a windup to his announcement, he asked the students to “imagine a president” who would uphold these conservative values. What he did not do was to provide any alternatives except as vague platitudes.This has been his modus operandi in the Senate. Notably, however, Mr. Cruz has also begun championing a message of economic populism in some speeches, denouncing income inequality and borrowing the “two Americas” metaphor used most famously by former Senator John Edwards in two unsuccessful campaigns for the Democratic presidential nomination. Why be the first out of the gate? In part, financial urgency prompted the accelerated timetable: advisers to Mr. Cruz have seen donors of the party flock to other potential candidates, including Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, who since January has won the most notice among Republicans clamoring for a nominee other than former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida. Mr. Cruz’s advisers say his goal is to raise at least $40 million, with roughly $1 million in the first week. Mr. Cruz’s early entry into the race, according to people briefed on his strategy, is a deliberate effort to recapture the attention of his party’s right wing as he seeks to build a coalition of Tea Party conservatives and evangelical Christians to try to cut through a crowded field of Republican contenders. t will be interesting to see which of the Libertarian Right presidential candidates will get the nod come the GOP primaries. Though both Rand Paul and Ted Cruz are evangelical Christians who share in the elimination of all gun controls, income taxes, social security, Obamacare, Medicare, Medicaid, public education, Planned Parenthood, gay marriage, the EPA and most every financial regulation ever written, Ted Cruz outshines Rand Paul in war, white ethnic appeal and charisma. Ted Cruz is sure to be on stage for the GOP presidential debates. He will likely dominate not only that stage but the audience as well given his rhetorical stylings. Even the new ALL Right-wing moderators the RNC has required for their debates are going to have trouble keeping the foot stomping hooting applause down whenever he speaks. Will it translate into primary votes? That I don’t know. But Ted Cruz is the Tea Party. He is the Republican Base. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On March 23, 2015 @ 1:18 pm Remembering Selma – The Civil Rights Movement: What Went Wrong? Obama has caught flak in both directions… From the left for not being adamant (and even militant) in matters of race and from the right for being a racialist president. His election created false and unrealistic expectations from “his people” and created false and unrealistic fears from “those people”. He became the focus point for crazy hope and crazy fear. Your father was on the mark. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On March 8, 2015 @ 1:29 pm Many great men: Dr. Abernathy, Mr. Young, Dr. Rustin….and lots of ordinary folk who put their health, safety and welfare on the line. The military integrated first, you were a beneficiary of that. Thanks for the kudo. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On March 8, 2015 @ 1:24 pmComments Posted By MurphTheSurf3
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written yesterday….tuned in tonight to watch Trump, the Prince of Lies, pander to his audience and fabricate history …. the entire speech was leaked to a Clinton SuperPac (the first to get it)- they could not even protect that document….another example, in a week of examples of incompetence run amuck.
That never shows a breach,
For terrible life-long races
To a goal no foot can reach,
For reckless leaps into darkness
With hands outstretched to a star,
There is jubilation in Heaven
Where the great dead poets are.
And delight in hopes that were vain.
To stop his lonely pain.
In his high singing mood
Like unappeasable hunger
For unattainable food.
That made them weep and sing,
And Keats is thankful for Fanny Brawne
And Drummond for his king.
And failure and desire
The steel of their souls was hammered
To bring forth the lyric fire.
McDonough and Hunt and Pearse
See now why their hatred of tyrants
Was so insistently fierce.
To cheat a poet’s eye?
Be it phantom or fact, it’s a noble cause
In which to sing and to die!
So not for the Rainbow taken
And the magical White Bird snared
The poets sing grateful carols
In the place to which they have fared;
But for their lifetime’s passion,
The quest that was fruitless and long,
They chorus their loud thanksgiving
To the thorn-crowned Master of Song.
requires of us. Murph
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2) Average appeal time 15 years.
3) In the meantime on death row in isolation.
4) BUT, he gets to wear the mantle of Martyrdom.
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