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    * The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance which fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.

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    Why Isn’t Simon Johnson the Treasury Secretary?

    This is the most succinct explanation I have come across of where we are at and of what to do with regard to the financial crisis affecting our country.  I hope Obama and Congress are listening.  From Bill Moyers Journal (you can watch the video here):

    February 13, 2009

    BILL MOYERS: Welcome to the Journal.

    The battle is joined as they say — and here’s the [...]



    Tell Me Why We Are Not Doomed?

    It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know what to do about the banking crisis.  But it does take a Congress that is comprised of something more than paid shills for the industries they are supposed to be regulating.  President Obama got it right by attempting to put a compensation cap on executive pay for entities taking taxpayer rescue funds.

    Well according to Cenk Uygur [...]



    Thank You Ingela Levett

    On November 13, 2008, the world lost a tremendous force of good in the dog world.

    Ingela Levett, 63, was the Founder and President of Rawhide Rescue. A non-profit rescue group of foster homes that worked tirelessly to find “forever homes” for dogs. She helped save over 2000 dogs and brought happiness to so many people.

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    rejected, for all the wrong reasons

    In a moment of historic drama in the Capitol and on Wall Street, the House of Representatives voted on Monday to reject a $700 billion rescue of the financial industry.

    The vote against the measure was 228 to 205. Supporters vowed to try to bring the rescue package up for consideration against as soon as possible.

    Stock markets plunged sharply at midday as it appeared that the [...]



    Let’s Take the Tires on Their Mercedes-Benz

    Words are easy.

    Go back 15 years and somehow decide that so and so should not have been paid this million or that million because it led to the mortgage collapse?  Who gets to decide who was paid too much and by how much?  Confiscate the overpaid Wall Street barons’ assets that are now parked in offshore accounts that are [...]



    jimmy & johnny

    Unlike most white folks from the South, Burma has been a part of my consciousness since I was in kindergarten.

    My education began in the first kindergarten class of a new, progressive-minded Episcopal school. St. Stephens back then was tiny: fewer than 200 students in 13 grades, and six of those students were Newhalls.

    And two of the Newhalls were Burmese.

    Jimmy and Johnny were identical twins, [...]



    America, Rest At Ease – The D.C. Pundits Are Fighting to Save the Universe

    This is such a splendid article I am pasting it in full.  I don't think David will mind.  He can sue me if he does.  And since we are no longer a country ruled by laws, it won't matter.

    By David Sirota

    There is a story that warms the heart of every Washington-based pundit, liberal or conservative, Republican or Democrat, a story that hearkens back [...]



    Sicko: Google to the Rescue

    I just saw Michael Moore's Sicko. It was great seeing it in a crowded theater on a Friday afternoon. Like watching Fahrenheit 911, hearing a whole room full of people gasp in exasperation at some of the movie's more startling revelations made it all the more real. This is an issue that really hits home with all of us, yet gets little real mainstream discussion [...]

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