The Real Center of American Politics: A Reflection on Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert
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- former US Marine, retired police; in other words, professional babysitter. "Ah's jes' th' ign'nt sonuva po' ol' shahcroppah, yas ah is. . ."
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20101031
Sarah Palin: 'Corrupt Bastards' In Media Tried To Find Child Molester In Joe Miller Crowd
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Arianna Discusses The Media And Jon Stewart's Rally To Restore Sanity On CNN's 'Reliable Sources' (VIDEO)
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YouTube War: Fighting in a World of Cameras in Every Cell Phone and Photoshop on Every Computer http://ping.fm/Uatt3
Karzai Blasts Opium Drug Raid As Violation Of Afghan Sovereignty
this is a country which has fought off every occupation since Alexander the Great. . .i wouldn't count my chickens before they're hatched. . .
About Afghanistan
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20101030
Rally To Restore Sanity Attendance Estimated In Hundreds Of Thousands
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Glenn Beck issued a statement responding to Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's plan to hold rallies in Washington D.C next month. The Comedy Central hosts' rallies are expected to draw thousands to an event that essentially spoofs the Fox News host's "Restoring Honor" event Aug. 28. "8/28 was a historic event for a lot of Americans," Beck said. "I hope that Ed Schultz, the AFL-CIO, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and whoever else wants to plan a march in DC have the same great success that we had with Restoring Honor."
(Glenn Beck, on 2010 0920)
Be careful what you wish for: you just might get it (or more). . .
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Rally To Restore Sanity LIVE: Video, Updates From The Jon Stewart Rally In DC
i didn't get to go to the rally; i'm disabled and don't have the funds. i didn't watch it, either, as i was asleep. . .but it'd seem to me that it was a resounding success. Jon's closing speech appears to me, on first glance, to be one of the best i've ever heard, done without notes or teleprompter. he's direct, coherent, rational and nonideological about it. it evokes memories of some other great speeches, but i digress. . .
i've stated elsewhere that comedy is born of tragedy; comedians take bad situations and reveal the absurdity that lies within them. Jon and Stephen are masters of this art, what i call the Mark Twains or Jonathan Swifts of this era.
(and i was especially pleased to see the sign from Calaveras County, which links them to Mark Twain's first published story, 'The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County'.)
you don't have to be a demagogue or poltician to be an effective voice within your community or nation. their efforts at doing both have benefited the nation, which is patriotism, which the late Robert A Heinlein defined as working within the country to make it better.
i've often told people that i wish to make them think and laugh, preferably both. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are masters of doing both. it's my wish that this is NOT the apex of their careers, and that they continue to reach higher and farther in educating and entertaining others. . .
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i've stated elsewhere that comedy is born of tragedy; comedians take bad situations and reveal the absurdity that lies within them. Jon and Stephen are masters of this art, what i call the Mark Twains or Jonathan Swifts of this era.
(and i was especially pleased to see the sign from Calaveras County, which links them to Mark Twain's first published story, 'The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County'.)
you don't have to be a demagogue or poltician to be an effective voice within your community or nation. their efforts at doing both have benefited the nation, which is patriotism, which the late Robert A Heinlein defined as working within the country to make it better.
i've often told people that i wish to make them think and laugh, preferably both. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are masters of doing both. it's my wish that this is NOT the apex of their careers, and that they continue to reach higher and farther in educating and entertaining others. . .
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Sean Parnell: 'Only God Knows' How Old Earth Is
exact answers don't occur in science. since it is always open to disproof and revision, there is no unchanging dogma, as in religion. the future might always reveal some phenomenon which makes scientists revise their theories.
religious dogma, on the other hand asserts an unchanging, stagnant 'truth' which shackles its believers to a long-ago world that has long since moved on.
in the end, science works with probabilities. so far, those probabilties and the constant revision of science give you benefits such as the computer which you use.
you could always pray for your message to magically appear here in this thread, but i don't think you or others have that much 'faith'. so, regardless of their religious dogmatic 'certainties', they fall back to using the fruits of a science which is under constant revision and improvement.
. . .and it's done the world pretty well over the years, too. . .
PS: The age of the Earth has been determined to be 4.54 billion years (4.54 × 109 years ± 1%). (US Geological Survey, 1997). i always leaned towards 4.6 billion, m'self.
About Elections 2010
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20101029
Politico Has Concerns About Rally To Restore Sanity For Some Reason
HuffPost is a great fave of mine, but i supplement it with a variety of news sources, including alternative news and those of other countries. i often find stories that are ignored or played down in this country; for instance, Bush did interviews in other countries that were kept from US distribution.
interesting how, at times, a foreign paper might have info that's strangely absent from US media. . .
i don't know much. i try to understand. but i do realize that just using sources outside this country can fill in some of the holes, get rid of the 'fluff' and sometimes get to the real stories.
About Eat The Press
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Citizens United, an Assault on Our Democracy, Needs a Constitutional Amendment
the penalties differ between corporations and individual human beings. one person can commit a murder, and be executed or imprisoned for life.
with the stroke of a pen, a corporation can create effects resulting in untold financial and literal misery, causing many if not most of the conditions for causing an individual to commit crimes, violent or otherwise, and creating a certain measure of death as a byproduct.
if penalities for corporations were proportional to the economic and social effects they cause, a great many executives would be on death row.
instead, their penalties are historically light in proportion to their crimes, including offenders like Enron, DuPont or Exxon.
there exist two sets of different laws. . .one for the rich, and one for everyone else. hardly fair or balanced in any way.
About Max Baucus
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Rand Paul Headstomper Just the Latest Violent Right-Winger: 17 More Instances of Recent Violence by Conservatives
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20101028
An Army Transformed: The U.S. Army's Post-Vietnam Recovery and the Dynamics of Change in Military Organizations http://ping.fm/8fkwI
Ethan Ogden Was Stomping Mad - Jailed After Stomping Infant When Child’s Mother Took Too Long To Pay His Bills http://ping.fm/pce4F
Suspect Manages To Evade Highway Patrol After High Speed Chase In Yellow School Bus http://ping.fm/oT3No
Mental Patient Discovers How To Avoid Serving Hard Time In Jail, Strangle a Nurse To Death http://ping.fm/r3bnn
The Coming Obama Reich: 10 Things That Terrify Right-Wingers | PoliticalArticles.NET http://ping.fm/NlzTp
What The Tea Partiers Really Want: A Whites ONLY Country …’Dang It!’ | PoliticalArticles.NET http://ping.fm/M3X1O
Sarah Palin Names New 'Mavericky' Man Of The GOP (VIDEO)
"When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end." - Aristotle
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About Elections 2010
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20101027
Obama On Daily Show: Change 'Not Going To Happen Overnight'
as the late Robert A Heinlein usedta say, "Always vote. There may not be anybody you want to vote FOR, but there's sure to be someone you'll want to vite AGAINST."
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20101026
Mexican cartel’s founding members trained at Fort Bragg: report - BlackListed News http://ping.fm/c0IGl
"Pentagon Has About As Much Credibility As North Korea!" Julian Assange WikiLeaks Interview pt.1 http://ping.fm/04fiJ
20101025
"Though you should be going to live three thousand years, and as many times ten thousand years, still remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this he now loses. The longest and the shortest are thus brought to the same." - 'The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius', Book 1:14
20101024
This Is What 121-1/2 Tons of Marijuana Looks Like ... Before and After You Burn It http://ping.fm/l0SsE
WikiLeaks Confirms Shocking Civilian Death Toll -- But U.S. Has Been Paying Off Victims' Families for Years
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| Witchcraft again - Aiona, Hawaii Candidate For Gov., Tied to Witch-Fighting Evangelicals http://ping.fm/kldta
Alarming Amendment: Fundamentalists Use `Personhood' Proposal To Invade America's Bedrooms
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Uganda homophobia: Uganda paper publishes photos of gays with headline reading 'Hang them' - CSMonitor.com http://ping.fm/VMRXe
NPR vs. Fox News: Juan Williams firing reveals deeper media fight - CSMonitor.com http://ping.fm/x625U
Jon Stewart's 'Rally to Restore Sanity' goes global, sparking events all the way to Mt. Everest - CSMonitor.com http://ping.fm/VN9pv
Five bombshells from WikiLeaks' Iraq war documents - Secret death counts - CSMonitor.com http://ping.fm/SrIbD
WikiLeaks defends its release of classified documents on Iraq War - CSMonitor.com http://ping.fm/mGLHC
20101023
Jeff Perry, GOP House Candidate, Haunted By Allegations That He Ignored Illegal Strip Search Of Teenage Girls
i was in law enforcement 30 years. i can not only envision it, but have known of similar events.
you probably don't believe the stories of people who came forward years later to tell their stories of being abused by Catholic priests, either. the Catholic Church--and, it seems, the Vatican--believe it.
the girl's own motives in coming forward are of little importance. it happened. she'll remember the incident for the rest of her life, in shame and emotional pain. it won't go away. never.
altruism isn't a factor in reporting crimes or in gaining witnesses. sources of information and confidential informants have themselves often been accised of or convicted of crimes. using them is standard practice nationwide, even worldwide.
this girl may or may not be a saint. what is confirmed is that she was victimized at a VERY young and impressionable age, by corrupt people who were suppposed to be guardians of the law and the citizens.
that has marked her for the rest of her life. she now sees one of the people involved in her humiliation attempting to reach a position that would exalt him above most other people.
it's entirely reasonable that she'd want to speak out. corrupt police who stand by and do nothing when crime occurs in their view--by their own--are no better to me than those who are cruel and brutal in their actions against suspected criminals, no better than those who take bribes.
there's no place for either.
About 2010 Elections
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Julian Assange WALKS OUT Of CNN Interview (VIDEO)
so Julian Assange's life--including his suspected sex life--is of more importance than thousands of deaths of non-white, non-Christian peoples? more important than the crimes and horrors committed by American and Iraqi soldiers and their governments?
i saw a year or so ago that CNN was moving towards a FOX-style personality, in the stories it covered and the way they were presented. i'd hoped for reason to come back.
'reason has left the building. . .'
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Pentagon Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg on Upcoming Iraq War Wikileaks Docs (Part 2 of 2) http://ping.fm/i6bMo
Pentagon Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg on Upcoming Iraq War Wikileaks Docs (Part 1 of 2) http://ping.fm/Laq8o
20101022
Nancy Pelosi Responds To President Bush On Social Security: We're Very 'Pleased' He Is Disappointed
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