Displaying 1,021 To 1,050 Of 3,237 Comments No Longer Lost: Finding a New Home at Daily Kos and PlanetPOV By way of an explanation- this “report” is the one I have been sending to HP posters who wanted to stay engaged in a really interactive platform. It is the result of the input of a dozen frequent bloggers. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 12, 2014 @ 5:51 pm Just to be clear- you DO get e mail alerts if anyone replies to comments. I get them. Great service. It is only direct replies to the posts, the big articles, that the system does not alert you to. I have discussed this with Ad Lib and he is aware of it. It may be a Word Press limitation. Frankly, I do not find it to be a bother since it makes me read all of the comments in a thread and I get into other conversations as a result. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 12, 2014 @ 5:49 pm Just to be clear- you DO get e mail alerts if anyone replies to comments. It is only direct replies to the posts, the big articles, that the system does not alert you to. I have discussed this with Ad Lib and he is aware of it. It may be a Word Press limitation. Frankly, I do not find it to be a bother since it makes me read all of the comments in a thread and I get into other conversations as a result. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 12, 2014 @ 5:48 pm That is what I do when I scan the page. It is a good technique. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 12, 2014 @ 5:46 pm I know all about it. HP was just helping a group of us from the Pundit crowd make contact with those from HP who wanted a blogging experience that Facebook would not offer. The post/article here is the result of the work of that group which recommends DK and PlanetPOV as worthy choices. HP volunteered to provide a bridge between those posters and us, thus my g mail was listed. When folks contact me I sent them this report. AND, HP is trying to do something with blogging for its most productive posters. I don’t think it is going to go where we want but they are trying. Points for that and for the assist with contacting pundits and top commenters. Clearer. Please pass the word on to whoever asks. There is no evil plot here. QUite the opposite. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 12, 2014 @ 5:44 pm I know a senior manager there and she is promising some very good things on the site. She was a HP but left there for Salon more than a year ago. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 12, 2014 @ 5:40 pm I shall check it out. Not one that has popped up on my radar. DK is very liberal. I am actually looking for a conservative one so I can get engaged in the challenge that such sites offer- IF they are willing to a actually have dialogue. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 12, 2014 @ 5:39 pm As far as funding. boy am I with you on your point of view……no corporate money…none. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 12, 2014 @ 4:05 pm I have asked Kalima to edit my post to reflect your input. Thanks for spotting the hold in my presentation. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 12, 2014 @ 4:04 pm I know Disqus but not Politicus or did you mean Politico. Thanks for kudo. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 12, 2014 @ 4:03 pm I have asked Kalima to changed the title to “Weekend Music Thread” and I have also asked Kalima to add in the Morning Blog. I looked at Salon and am a member. it is coming along. I think that it is stepping up now that HP has folded it tent. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 12, 2014 @ 4:02 pm Hello Kalima, Can you do me a favor please? I need to edit my article to include your blog. I missed it. I don’t know how, but I did. Mea Culpa. The Paragraph in question should read: Other features worth noting: Friday evening Live Chat- Vox Populi, special event Live Chats, the Weekend Music Thread, the Morning Blog, the Sunday Funnies. I would be much obliged. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 12, 2014 @ 4:00 pm There is some discussion taking place around how the site needs to be ‘adjusted” organized for another generation of bloggers. We need to talk about this. As Kalima and Ad Lib so often say, the Planet is our planet. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 12, 2014 @ 3:48 pm You are welcome. Has anyone told you that you do not get an e mail alert when people leave comments at an article you wrote? You just have to keep checking back to see who is there. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 12, 2014 @ 3:43 pm Well I asked for and you gave it to me. Short, simple, fast, pointed and still baffling. None of this is home base for me. I have now read three articles on MMT and each provides more and more background on the theory. Your summary here is a helpful skeletal structure for me to hang the information I am gathering onto. I can’t say that I am comfortable with any of it….. I found this http://pragcap.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Critique-of-Modern-Monetary-Theory.pdf Do you know it? The author identifies MMT as a “new arm of Post+Keynesian Economics (PKE) That label helped to put MMT into a broader context. Could you look at this article and tell me what you think of it? So, friend, I am one of those kids who keeps riding up and down in the elevator pushing the buttons all the time and, every now and then, pulling the emergency stop. I am going to keep push at this. Be patient. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 12, 2014 @ 9:02 pm The Republican Encyclopedia of Hindsight Deals I agree. Another will step into his place, likely McCarthy who is a CA GOP and is more closely aligned with Boehner. David Brat’s candidacy is going to be interesting. I think he ran as token opposition- a one issue candidate opposed to “amnesty” for the undocumented. His win stunned him as much as it did Candtor. His AM interviews today showed him to be spectacularly unready to answer almost every question. He seems bright. He does had a PH.D. in economics from American University. He is also a theological conservative, a Catholic evangelical. His opponent Jack Trammell is a political scientist and historian who does a lot of writing (much of it about vampires!) Trammel, also meant to be a token candidate opposed to Cantor, is a classic liberal. Trammell’s platform focuses on the need for educational reform, including special education and greater access to college, student loan relief, job creation, accountability in massive public private projects like the expansion of U.S. Route 460, and basic healthcare for every American. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 11, 2014 @ 10:46 pm I am a conservative….I am also a progressive. In my mind Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, IKE and Clinton were also progressive conservatives. Your excellent discussion is, in my mind, about those I refer to as regressive conservatives. Here is the key word…. Zealotry… “It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.” “Fundamentalism isn’t about religion, it’s about power.” “Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.” “The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he’ll fight and die for it.” I think of the Tea Party, the Dominionists, the Militia and how they have infected the GOP Cantor’s loss yesterday spreads the infection. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 11, 2014 @ 11:24 am Ad Lib…Correcto-Mundo! Cantor’s loss is going to further spook those few GOP who were willing to even discuss the issue and my expectation is that the GOP will take an even harder line on AMNESTY FOR UNDOCUMENTED ILLEGAL ALIENS Build more walls, putting in stricter rules, send the wetbacks packing…I wonder if they will ever get around to addressing all of the other undocumented persons who are not from South of the Border The response to Cantor’s loss will be the adoption of Kryptonite as the official Gemstone of the GOP. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 11, 2014 @ 11:15 am Eric Canto’s loss last night illustrates your point rather nicely. Cantor was on the record, and a sponsor of, very limited reform of our immigration law. In this he was joined by a number of the GOP. Cantor put out a half dozen adds in the last five days making it clear that he was JUST AS CONSERVATIVE, JUST AS OUTRAGED, JUST AS OPPOSED TO AMNESTY AS HIS OPPONENT, MR. BRAT. Of course, he wasn’t. In the past, Cantor came out in support for legalization of undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children. He also recently stated that he supported allowing some undocumented immigrants to enlist in the military “in principle,” but voted against allowing them to serve. He has expressed doubts about an enforcement-only approach especially in regard to the concept of creating a really effective physical barrier such as the wall between Mexico and the U.S. He has pointed to two reasons why a stream of undocumented immigrants will continue to flow into the U.S. – the willingness of employers to hire them as cheap, very hard working, and undemanding labor and the lack of really effective worker id. Cantor is criticized for failing to craft legislation reflecting all of this but Cantor understood that he had to have a coalition of GOP House members in place before launching such an initiative. He cobbled together 30 or so members as a base for such an effort. BUT, Mr. Brat, having pasted the label of Amnesty Promoter on Cantor, pushed Cantor to deny EVERYTHING he ever said about immigration reform and Brat’s victory means that every GOPer will do the same. In the GOP group-think and 1984ish revising of the record is so commonplace that most of us have come to accept it as normal but it is not. It is fundamentally dishonest and a major impediment to progress. My dad used to say: If it’s right it’s right and you stand by it. Not if you are a Republican. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 11, 2014 @ 5:53 am I am not so much in favor of getting them out of politics but rather having them in balance with the other voices in the political dialogue. Big Money right now can buy the most powerful “megaphones” and place them everywhere; religion remains literally “a sacred cow” that has an unwarranted preeminence of position. And we see the result. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 15, 2014 @ 7:56 am Still, the moment was stunning and continues to inform your thinking. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 12, 2014 @ 8:33 pm Here is the key: a central tenet in your case is that we are at a unique moment in U.S. history when our rights are being violated as never before….my point, that is not so. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 12, 2014 @ 8:32 pm My commitment to the Democrats comes with the understanding that there is much in the Demcoratic Party’s platform with which I disagree and that I will act upon my disagreement when proper and necessary. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 12, 2014 @ 8:30 pm I have no difficulty conversing in the midst of unfinished arguments. I hope that my questions and comments push the conversation forward. The TPGOP and their backers/mastersare certainly a principal source of the discord the ST and you refer to and that takes me back my list of the key problems: I suggest it is the emergence of a plutocratic frame of reference in the creation of government- i.e. the buying of elections. I suggest it is the emergence of neoconservative geo-politics leading to the Iraq War for example. I suggest it is anti-intellectualism expressed by religious fundamentalism which has led to dominionist control of the right wing values agenda. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 12, 2014 @ 8:28 pm What would be the means by which such a meeting would be called and what would be the motivation for those leaders to gather. We know how well, or how badly, international gatherings work. Is this a mandate for the UN? If not then how is it organized? » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 12, 2014 @ 8:22 pm Let us continue to engage in real conversation. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 12, 2014 @ 8:17 pm Read this study of the work. http://www.calresco.org/ewp/escher.htm Why did you choose this piece to head your manifesto? » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 12, 2014 @ 8:16 pm And now, a P.S. What is the image that you use to set off your post here? » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 12, 2014 @ 6:51 pm ST…I thank you for sharing this with us. It is grand, bold, noble, visionary…..and I hope you do not take my call, my need to anchor it in the real world where I find my meaning to in anyway discourage or criticize you. I hope this is the beginning of a dialogue with myself and others here at the Planet. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 12, 2014 @ 6:50 pm What is the nature of the evil undermining our nation? I suggest it is the emergence of a plutocratic frame of reference in the creation of government- i.e. the buying of elections. I suggest it is the emergence of neoconservative geo-politics leading to the Iraq War for example. I suggest it is anti-intellectualism expressed by religious fundamentalism which has led to dominionist control of the right wing values agenda. Again, my need is to nail it down. To name names. You suggest that the way we deal with all of this is to disassociate ourselves from political organization and structure. I do not see how that can work. In fact, I suggest that the right wing would be please to have those of noble bearing like yourself do just that….it makes you harmless, no threat at all. A word about your noble goals of reclaiming our environment, of ending disease, of planning to emigrate to the stars….I am all for them, but how. By whom and when? These goals depend upon political, economic, social resolve, planning and implementation. Near the close of your manifeto you write the following: “Will we abandon those in immediate need while pursuing such monumental projects? Will we forsake strong national defense in puerile pursuit of harmony? What about those who reject technology and its advances, will they be forced to participate in procedures or activities against their will? Who will organize and lead such a fantastic program? Who will participate? Who will pay?” And on and on and on. Obviously, I cannot answer all of your questions this evening. There is simply not enough time. However, I can assure you that no one will be abandoned, strong defense will be maintained, and of course no one will be forced to do anything.” I suggest that it is in these questions and the efforts to respond to them that the reality of your call to arms lives. For a person as pragmatic as I am- the nitty gritty is of the essence. » Posted By MurphTheSurf3 On June 12, 2014 @ 6:48 pmComments Posted By MurphTheSurf3
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