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    Join the call for a Constitutional amendment to protect our democracy

    This is very unlikely because we either have to Change Congress first or expect the individual states which are also corporate controlled to call for a constitutional convention, but one can still hope.

    Amendment Petition [...]



    Rep. Alan Grayson (FL-D) is all over the SCOTUS decision

    Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) has been less than a quiet first term Congressman, to say the least.

    He shook up the MSM when he stood on the House floor and called Republicans out on Healthcare Reform, wherein he said, “the Republican healthcare plan is: Don’t get sick. They also have a backup plan: If you do get sick, die quickly.

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    the man who wasn’t there

    It’s not even July, and already Obama’s deserting us, in mind, body and spirit.

    First, on the FISA capitulation:

    “The bill has changed. So I don’t think the security threats have changed, I think the security threats are similar. My view on FISA has always been that the issue of the phone companies per se is not one that overrides the security interests [...]



    justice in america

    If you’re fucked by Big Oil, you wait 20 years for compensation.

    If you are Big Oil, you spend $800 million to save $2 billion, when over those twenty years you’ve made half a trillion dollars in profit:

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday slashed the $2.5 billion punitive damages award in the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster to $500 million. … [...]



    Confessions of a Precinct Committee Officer (part 1)

    I don’t believe we are practicing any recognizable form of democracy in this country and here is just another example.

    Let me say at the outset that I don’t blame anyone for this mess besides perhaps a justice system that is more concerned about promoting a “dog eat dog” world than administering wise jurisprudence.

    I am a Democratic Party Precinct Committee Officer (PCO) [...]