Unemployment benefits are unhelpful?

 

Is it eye for an eye...or a 100 eyes for an eye (Israel on Palestinians)

 

Why Barack Obama Was a Horrible President

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Legitimizing Warrantless Surveillance

You will remember Bush’s program of warrantless surveillance from the post on Bush. The battle against it was conducted under the confusing banner of “FISA Reform” (that is, the battle framed not that Bush’s actions destroyed the Fourth Amendment, but that the process of FISA authorization was not properly followed).

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Legitimizing Torture

You will also remember torture under the Bush administration, and there was plenty of it, more than merely Abu Ghaib.[1] One would think that a professor of Constitutional Law — as his supporters constantly reminded us Obama was, albeit without mentioning his non-tenure track status — would favor prosecuting war crimes,

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Implementing Dick Cheney’s Energy Plan

President Bush, in the second week of his administration, charged his Vice-President, Dick Cheney, with heading up an Energy Task Force. Larry Schweiger describes the result in “The Climate Crisis and Corrupt Politics: Overcoming the Powerful Forces that Threaten our Future“:

Src and full article at https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/04/why-barack-obama-was-a-horrible-president.html

Happiness for everyone?

 

source: comments at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6mAf_uPy-o

Dorothy Zink2 days ago (edited)

The other night I watched a very shocking old comedy (1940s) called "Over 21" about a married couple of successful writers in their late 30's/early 40's, devoted to their Nation and to each other. The husband was an editorial opinion writer for a successful newspaper in which he had a controlling interest and the wife wrote screenplays. In the opening scene, the husband has unexpectedly enlisted to fight in WWII, leaving his beloved paper in other's hands to go off to basic training and officer training after that. This threw the paper into a panic, as its profits were strongly tied to the husband's passionate writing detailing the meaning of current events and actions to be taken by the public to manage a beneficial response. The husband believed that he could not accurately write about the situation or the solutions unless he participated in it, so he enlisted. Yet the required investment of his time and attention would temporarily eclipse his ability to write about it. You can see why the other board members at the paper believed he was too special to be replaced. So they chased him. His wife, who concurrently postponed her career to support him, put herself directly in between her husband and the efforts of the paper to badger him into giving up and coming back to keep the paper alive. Various twists and turns lead to the wife secretly writing his column for him, repeating and elaborating on the ideas her husband has communicated to her privately between his demanding training combined with the homespun wisdom of the other wives living in base housing. Of course it all fell apart at the end and here's the shocking part. Not that the wife had accurately described her husband's solution to the best way to win lasting peace at the end of the war, but the solution itself: Our own happiness is directly tied to the happiness of every single other human being on the planet. Peace could only be had by protecting their rights as well as we protect our own. Even if you're only motivated by self interest, it is so. This basic understanding of the true nature of reality is what is missing. This is what cripples us. (Good movie. You can rent it on Amazon for $3.99.)

source: comments at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6mAf_uPy-o

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Bad luck =/= bad character?

"When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatize those who let people die, not those who struggle to live."

- Sarah Kendzior, journalist and author (b. 1978)

Homeschool - Why it's such an awesome idea...