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    Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other

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    First Things First

    Fixing the campaign finance system is one of the very few ways we can fix our government. And yet most of us spend far too much time and effort complaining about and/or trying to fix what is caused by not fixing the campaign finance system.  How to Get Our Democracy Back

    Fix Congress First

    Fix Campaign Finance, Support FENA.



    Lessig on SCOTUS Campaign Finance Opinion

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    Lessig on Obama and the Bankrupt Congress

    Correction:  Democrats HAD a super majority.

    It is all about money.

    “Connect the Dots”

    CITIZEN FUNDED ELECTIONS

    Change-congress.org

    If you are in Washington State,

    Washclean.org

    “We won’t get our democracy back until they stop selling it.”

    Update:

    Here is Governor Dean spot on about the Brown win and how Congress must change its tactics.

    Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, [...]



    Had Enough Yet?

    Seemingly endless war
    Starting war on false pretenses
    Bailouts for banks that are too big to exist
    Bailouts for insurance companies disguised as health care reform
    Massive investor frauds
    Torturing disguised as enhanced interrogation techniques
    Illegal wiretapping assisted by Telcos immune from prosecution
    Erosion of civil rights
    Media oligopolies brainwashing the public
    Tax system designed to overtax the lower income earners and undertax the upper income earners
    Stolen elections
    Loan sharking disguised as lending by credit [...]



    Something Sounds Not Right Here

    Quite an interview exposing an example of how our system is corrupted by money.  This guy is full of you know what.  You can read more about it here.

    Sharyl Attkisson spoke with Rep. Stephen Buyer (R-Ind.), whose non-profit organization “Frontier Foundation” has yet to award its first scholarship to an Indiana student since its creation 6 years ago, even though it has received hundreds of [...]



    Could Not Have Said It Better

    From the African T-shirt Factory (click image to buy)

    This comment posted below this article, Public Option is Just Another Private Party – and We’re Not Invited, says it all about what is happening to the health care reform legislation:

    mujeriego November 6th, 2009 3:53 pm

    Health reform can never happen in the US until you have campaign finance reform.

    As long as the insurance industry can throw [...]



    Lessig – Game Changer

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    like steve austin but without the super-vision

    UPDATE: It was an infection. FUCK.

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    My Dad is, right now, under anesthesia and the knife at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida, getting his right knee replacement “revised”: if an infection has caused the failure of the joint they’ll have to remove the knee, identify the bacteria, and put in cement and antibiotic spacer to maintain the ligaments and muscle [...]

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