Random RecitalsI found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race. Bertrand Russell Lively LinksLinks change randomly each time the cache is refreshed. |
Article by John on March 19th, 2010 at 9:04 am “What we’re seeing here is a legislation that doesn’t even kick in until 2014, except for one or two items on staying with your parents’ insurance policy until you’re twenty-six. That means that there will be 180,000 Americans who will die between now and 2014 before any coverage expands, and hundreds of thousands of injuries and illnesses untreated. This bill [...]
Article by John on March 17th, 2010 at 4:27 pm While I disagree with Senator Pridemore that a bad bill with a couple of good provisions is better than no bill at all, Craig deserves praise for staking out a very clear position on health care reform. The Democrats have to pass legislation that will provide health care at a reasonable cost to both businesses and individuals. It needs to be [...]
Article by John on March 7th, 2010 at 1:35 pm Michael Moore has a new letter to President Obama blaming the President’s mistakes and flip flops on Rahm Emanuel. Michael has it wrong here. The mistake was Obama’s hiring of Rahm in the first place. Remember the old saying that President Truman had on his desk, “The Buck Stops Here”? I just read that Goldman Sacks may be stealing $100,000,000 every trading day. And [...]
Article by John on February 21st, 2010 at 5:01 pm Top Two Primary System is Flawed Citing a desire to not “thin the field of Democrats” in the primary, Deb Wallace withdrew from the 3rd district race to replace Rep. Brian Baird. This is yet another example of why the “top two” primary system is undermining the electoral process. If we did not have political parties, the top two primary would make sense. It would [...]
Article by John on February 9th, 2010 at 10:16 am Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Corporatocracy, Joe Bageant and why President Obama cannot fix anything until things get more broken. Here is some white trash talk: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] var wordpress_toolbar_urls = ["http:\/\/www.democracyforvancouver.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/miss-me-yet-billboard1.jpg"];var wordpress_toolbar_url = “http://www.democracyforvancouver.org/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-toolbar/toolbar.php”;var wordpress_toolbar_oinw = “oinw”;var wordpress_toolbar_hash = “aHR0cDovL3d3dy5kZW1vY3JhY3lmb3J2YW5jb3V2ZXIub3JnL2NvbmdyZXNzL3RydXRoLWV2YXBvcmF0aW5nLzx3cHRiPlRydXRoIGlzIEV2YXBvcmF0aW5nPHdwdGI%2BaHR0cDovL3d3dy5kZW1vY3JhY3lmb3J2YW5jb3V2ZXIub3JnPHdwdGI%2BRGVtb2NyYWN5IGZvciBWYW5jb3V2ZXI%3D”;
Article by John on February 6th, 2010 at 5:36 pm 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.
Article by John on February 2nd, 2010 at 10:30 am Cenk Uygur has a fantastic post today about how bipartisanship is used as a foil to enable the Democrats to sell us out just like the Republicans sell us out to big corporate interests. For those of you out there that thought the Democrats were different, this article goes a long way to explaining why their differences are not manifesting themselves now that they are [...]
Article by John on January 29th, 2010 at 9:26 am President Obama should not listen to the cries to “lead from the center” and he should forget completely about bi-partisanship with regard to his priorities. I never thought I would say this but the President needs to take a lesson from Bush II. Do you remember any articles in the mainstream media saying Bush should lead from the center? Did Bush really [...] | |
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