Displaying 1,831 To 1,860 Of 2,270 Comments Cher, for sure. » Posted By funksands On March 10, 2011 @ 11:42 am I’m having a hard time believing that the volume of wonderful writing you churn out can be done by one person. » Posted By funksands On March 10, 2011 @ 11:41 am Cher, do you pay your writers minion wage? » Posted By funksands On March 10, 2011 @ 11:35 am I contrast their efforts with those of the ACLU for example… » Posted By funksands On March 10, 2011 @ 11:32 am I have my own issues with the SPLC. While I feel they are generally a worthy operation, I am beginning to ask myself this question. Are they using some of the same fear-inducing fund-raising tactics that the right is notorious for? Is the threat from radicalized groups 1000% greater than it has ever been? Or is that what brings in the money? Is it useful for fund-raising? Certainly. Does it help the general tone and environment of debate and discovery? Probably not. Just thinking out loud. » Posted By funksands On March 10, 2011 @ 11:32 am Awkward…… » Posted By funksands On March 10, 2011 @ 11:28 am If Rep. King was really interested in exposing and investigating radicalism, his committee would be the “Committee to Investigate Radicalism” rather than the “Committee to Investigate MUSLIM Radicalism”. The former would allow truly valuable inquiry into all forms of radicalization in the US INCLUDING Islamic radicalism. But no, the scary brown people have got to be margainalized and belittled in order to get good information. » Posted By funksands On March 10, 2011 @ 10:19 am When they drown. » Posted By funksands On March 10, 2011 @ 10:16 am chase, just doing my part to keep you ungainfully employed. » Posted By funksands On March 7, 2011 @ 10:18 pm Oo Oo! How about this? (picture Malcom McDowell doing the voice-over) “In today’s world half of the major banks are assholes. The problem is only half of those will tell you they are. The rest? Well, you’ll have to find out the hard way. Thank you Bank of America for making it so obvious.” “Your local credit union….we’re not assholes.” » Posted By funksands On March 7, 2011 @ 8:51 pm Chase: How about “The world is your oyster, all you have to do is suck it?” I’ve always been partial to that one for some reason. » Posted By funksands On March 7, 2011 @ 8:47 pm Yes Virginia, There is Class Warfare Fox- No bigger scam coming than cap and trade. Big oil and coal might be fighting it, but Wall Street can barely keep from drooling on itself as it prepares to feast. » Posted By funksands On March 7, 2011 @ 4:22 pm .300 gets you in the Hall….. » Posted By funksands On March 7, 2011 @ 10:40 pm 🙂 » Posted By funksands On March 7, 2011 @ 10:32 pm KT, thats really well done. I’m impressed. » Posted By funksands On March 7, 2011 @ 10:32 pm I’ve really enjoyed reading the poetry and discussion tonight. Thank you. Here’s a piece that really affected me when I first read it and led me to search out more like it. Facing Snow Battle cry many new ghosts Du Fu – (circa 756) » Posted By funksands On March 7, 2011 @ 10:30 pm Freddled Gruntbuggly Oh freddled gruntbuggly – Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz » Posted By funksands On March 7, 2011 @ 10:25 pm One thing about Montana I genuinely get fed up with e » Posted By funksands On March 10, 2011 @ 5:22 pm Changing the mental blocks to change KQuark you are so right. We have six billion people shitting into a balloon every day. How can anyone think that doesn’t have consequences? » Posted By funksands On March 3, 2011 @ 3:30 pm The View From Here: An Open Letter to President Obama Khirad, I am in complete and total agreement with you. Particular attention should paid to the judiciary. There has been a concerted effort to infect the judiciary with right-wing judges. It has been successful. » Posted By funksands On March 3, 2011 @ 5:16 pm Abby, I’ll have to digest your post for a bit. 🙂 » Posted By funksands On March 3, 2011 @ 4:14 pm KT, well said. I’m a a believer in treating Al Queda like the Mafia and not a state enemy. Marginalize them and you’ll take away a lot of what attracts foot soldiers to their cause. » Posted By funksands On March 3, 2011 @ 3:40 pm Abby do you think too many of us are satisfied by looking at current Democratic policies on a COMPARATIVE basis? My suspicion is that too many view many of these policies with grudging acceptance because they are comparatively better than the previous administration. But are they enough when viewed objectively? I can’t shake the feeling of how the meal,silverware, dessert, garnish, cocktail, and appetizer are all better than they were before, but really not that great. Is that enough for now? It’s enough to get me to vote Democratic on every federal level. But is it enough? » Posted By funksands On March 3, 2011 @ 3:37 pm I’m sorry but I’m going to take this back to the “Culture Warrior” article I wrote a few weeks ago. The left came into its own by fighting for the dream of simple economic fairness. The rise of unions, the rise of tax rates on the wealthy, the regulations imposed on and the walls built between industries to end once and for all the never ending 2000 year cycle of boom / bust / boom /bust. I share the view of some that once accomplished, the focus of the left began to move to social and societal issues. Environment, racial equality, gender equality, etc. I think we’ve taken our eye off the ball. I think far too many of our federal elected officials are too young, and by virtue of their wealth, too far removed from the bare-knuckled fight for the economic future of our country. I think far too big a slice of our federal Democratic party is more than happy to let the current system of economic injustice continue in return for greater social justice. Not because its right, but because its simply the way things work. » Posted By funksands On March 3, 2011 @ 3:22 pm Pessimism in the Age of Mass Manipulation and Plutocracy… Abby I think we have more opportunities today that we can mentally process. There are almost too many to sift through. However, the security to sort and pursue these threads does seem to be more tenuous for this generation. » Posted By funksands On February 26, 2011 @ 8:59 pm Abby, I think my point was that humans are MEANT to tilt at windmills. That is one the the uniquely magnificent parts of the human experience. Finding the “thing” that you were meant to do and flinging it into the face of the universe regardless of outcome. Very very few people have the stones to do that. » Posted By funksands On February 26, 2011 @ 8:16 pm Abby I’d like to offer my father as a case study. He became an environmental consultant in the late 70’s dealing primarily with salmon recovery issues in the Northwest. He single-handedly took on the federal government, utilities, and entrenched GOP and their lackeys in a deeply red state for 30 years. His consultant for hire gig did not lend itself to wealth, reward or recognition. Christmas was never more than a few gifts, trucks lasted for 20 years, trips were kept to outdoor hiking, rafting and camping. A failed vinyard, fencing business and a divorce came later. He was unable to save much money during his career and after several poor health experiences is now still pretending to look for paying consulting work in his late 60’s while he collects Social Security and his son figures out how to retire him. When he looks back on his life now, he made a lot of powerful enemies, lived his life with no regrets and engaged in some mighty windmill tilting. He has a huge garden, a couple cows out back and some magnificent pot plants scattered throughout his property. He still hunts with his dogs and writes with an ease that I’ll never have. He’ll die with nothing except a life well-lived, full of purpose and honesty. Would that be enough for you? » Posted By funksands On February 26, 2011 @ 2:03 pm Arab Uprisings: Still Writing History Khirad I value your opinion and appreciate your thoughtful comments. I’ll figure out a way to get the article, which was much shorter and to the point that the counterpunch article. I’m going to digest your response for a bit if you don’t mind. » Posted By funksands On June 22, 2011 @ 2:25 pm Khirad, I’d really like to get your take on an article I read yesterday. It really struck a nerve for me, because it echoed a lot of my doubts and misgivings about Libya and Bahrain. I’d like to get your opinion on it. http://www.thenation.com/article/161225/libya-old-fashioned-colonial-smash-and-grab » Posted By funksands On June 22, 2011 @ 8:50 am “…The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.” -George Orwell In Front of Your Nose » Posted By funksands On February 23, 2011 @ 7:54 amComments Posted By funksands
Worry and grieve alone old man
Disorder cloud low dusk
Rapid snow dance return wind
Gourd ladle discard cup without green
Stove remain fire like red
Many place news broken
Worry sit straight book empty After the battle, many new ghosts cry,
The solitary old man worries and grieves.
Ragged clouds are low amid the dusk,
Snow dances quickly in the whirling wind.
The ladle’s cast aside, the cup not green,
The stove still looks as if a fiery red.
To many places, communications are broken,
I sit, but cannot read my books for grief.
Thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.
Groop I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes
And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon,
See if I don’t!
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