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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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    Return to the Gilded Age

    Bail out the rich.  Fail to regulate corporations.  Allow unconstrained corporate compensation agreements.  Do not facilitate unionization of workers.  Allow big corporations to control the media.  Make free trade more important than our manufacturing industries.  Ignore environmental priorities.  Keep taxes low.  Deficit spend on the military.  Constrain health care and infrastructure expenditures.

    And expect things to get better.

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    It’s easy to give whole foods a miss because they are terribly overpriced and snooty.  Their level of annoying rich hypocritical yuppiehood just reached new heights when their CEO, Mackey,  wrote this op-ed which says our health problems are our own fault and by golly tort reform is the real path to health care for all.  Even though I’ve only bought a total of  one [...]



    congrats to diane schroer

    And may ENDA soon make cases like hers a thing of the past:

    The US Department of Justice has decided not to appeal a federal district court ruling awarding transgender veteran Diane Schroer a total of $491,190 for the discrimination she suffered because of her sex after being refused a job with the Library of Congress…

    Schroer had applied for a terrorism specialist position at the Library [...]



    GM – Too Big to Not Fail?

    Michael Moore has penned a letter (below) concerning the ramifications of the bankruptcy and government takeover of GM.  He has some lofty goals with regard to the company including building long distance high-speed rail, more light rail for the cities, electric buses for the rural areas and of course electric cars for all of us.  Sometimes when something catastrophic happens, like the bankruptcy of a [...]



    i guess i should stop complaining about my pay cut now

    At least I’m lucky enough to still have my Oregon job:

    Oregon’s jobless rate has taken a dramatic jump, to 12.1 percent in March — a rate seen only once before since the years after World War II.

    The increase could put Oregon on a pace to have the highest unemployment rate in the nation when those figures are released on Friday, state labor economist Art Ayre [...]



    New Nationalism Speech – Teddy Roosevelt History Lesson

    Mt. Rushmore, Theodore Roosevelt closeup. Image via Wikipedia

    Since the 1980s (when I worked for Eastern Airlines, which no longer exists due to deregulation fever) we as a people have amnesia when it comes to the lessons that history teaches us.  Regulations did not just magically appear one day.  They were derived from the wisdom that came about from the mistakes of the past.  Reagan [...]



    An Example of Why the Employee Free Choice Act Must Pass

    WASHINGTON – MARCH 09: A man carries a props money bag during a rally at the Lafayette Square March 9, 2009 in Washington, DC. The rally was held to support the "Employee Free Choice Act" which petitions corporate CEOs to stop preventing an economy which functions for everyone.

    Fedex is threatening to cancel a 15 Boeing jet order if Congress passes the Employee Free [...]



    time to name names and put the blame where it belongs

    On Hank Paulson’s bald head.

    When AIG started to become unwound last fall, who better to know just how much Goldman Sach’s own rape & pillage squad was going to depend on its AIG bad bet insurance than the former CEO, Paulson himself – and who else but the Treasury Secretary would be better positioned to make sure that at least his alma mater – if [...]

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