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Rock A Bye Grover

Obama's Making A Huge Comeback:

Rock a bye Grover

On your treetop

Obama's rising

See how he rocks

When the bough breaks

Your cradle will fall and

Down will come Grover

Cradle and all

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ProPublica should investigate the woman who accused Julian Assange

ProPublica | Search results for julian assange:

Too bad one of the few investigative journalism venues left has not dug into the skeevy story of Julian Assange's possible entrapment in Sweden. I say possible because I distinctly recall that at the outset it was entirely plausible that this was a setup. I wrote of it at the time but never saw any followup.

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Assange extradition looms

Let Out Your Daughters — Julian Assange Loses Extradition Appeal: "It's not the end of all hope for Assange to remain in the UK, though — there still may be a slim chance of an appeal to the Supreme Court if lawyers believe the case is of "legal significance.""

Imagine a setup that begins with
Consensual sex

In which the original female instigator is
Connected to the skeevy underside

Of the CIA 

Imagine the tentacles of our paranoid
Transparency bashers
Reaching out to turn

That setup into a charge that might conceivably gain traction
Even in permissive Sweden

Imagine a story where you do not know the half of it
And the media passively fails to investigate

Divide the sum of ignorance by a simple thing called truth

The US is powerful and paranoid 

Julian Assange has done what Jesus more or less anticipated would

Be the result of his good news of openness
Democracy
Reciprocity
Neighbor love
And the like

Seeing that all things are made manifest

Knocking the legs out from under
Official hypocrisy

And The Way Things Are

You cannot get away with classifying reality

Sweden can either be a pawn of  such small thinking and regression

Or stand up and not
Cave to hidden influences

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Terrorists without borders

Open Channel - Born in the USA, but now among Somalia's Islamist terrorists: "The suicide bombing last weekend in Mogadishu – allegedly by a Somali American from Minnesota – has highlighted the important role played by U.S. citizens in the operations of al-Shabab, the Islamic terrorist organization battling the government in the war-torn east African nation."

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The year of the vanishing incumbent

Voter Rage Has Congress Worried About Job Security - Its Own - NYTimes.com: "WASHINGTON — One of the immutable laws of American politics has been that while voters typically loathe Congress, they tend to tolerate their own lawmaker. Now, with ratings for that institution in the root cellar and approval of individual lawmakers heading there, members of Congress and analysts are beginning to wonder if that law could be repealed next year."

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A radical version of U.S. disestablishment

Going to law « The Immanent Frame: "A radical version of U.S. disestablishment would suggest that churches in the U.S. are, and have from the beginning been, understood to be entirely voluntary and private organizations that survive or not due to the enthusiasm and pocketbooks of their congregants (and God’s will), not public institutions legally defined and supported by the state. State-supported churches with their own jurisdictional domains were the common model in Europe. Arguably it is that model that Americans have been trying to get away from for several hundred years. The ministerial exceptions, and other lingering legal privileges for American churches, particularly the most legal-minded of them, seem, at times, to be vestiges of that older European model."

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Obama checkup unmasks more GOP lies

Obama ‘Tobacco Free’ and Fit, Doctor Finds - NYTimes.com: "WASHINGTON — Forget the rumors that he has been sneaking cigarettes; President Obama is “tobacco free,” the president’s doctor said in reporting the results of the president’s second physical since he took office."

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Perry comes off as flat out weird

Rick Perry Goes Full On Goofy in New Hampshire | Addicting Info: "It’s hard to know what to make of Governor Perry’s campaign thus far. Is he serious? Does he really want to be president? Who the hell knows?

However, I would argue that his ascent/descent trajectory clearly outpaces any that I’ve ever seen, including that of the former half-term governor from Alaska."

Video commentary - maybe the last we'll see of him?


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Krugman buys the supercommittee charade

Bombs, Bridges and Jobs - NYTimes.com: "What’s bringing out the military big spenders is the approaching deadline for the so-called supercommittee to agree on a plan for deficit reduction. If no agreement is reached, this failure is supposed to trigger cuts in the defense budget."

Or else he just wants to prove how dunderheaded we are about what constitutes actual evil in the world. That would be big military spending which is lethality by conscious and implicit intent. The Supercommittee will fail and the result will not be the massive cuts triggered to go into effect. The result will be that that will be voted down. The cuts will only come if the people wake up and build a new world based on moral principles that assume that human beings are responsible for both good and evil.


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Muammar Qaddafi Reprise and Farewell

Muammar Qaddafi’s Death and Legacy : The New Yorker: "Most fitting, perhaps, is the version told by the young commander of the Misurata force that found and killed Qaddafi. In the drainpipe, the King of Kings was revealed to be a confused and wounded old man, without even the comfort of his customary Bedouin cap to hide his bald spot. But, the commander observed with a kind of grudging respect, right up to the end Qaddafi still believed that he was President of Libya."

On a single long page.

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Money speaks again in the corrupt GOP House

House of Representatives Passes Mining Company Land Swap Bill Favoring Foreign-Based Rio Tinto | MAPLight.org - Money and Politics:

Five to one roughly in favor of the U.S. Chamber and other minions of the one percent.

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I feel some fines coming on

Overhead Bin - Stranded JetBlue pilot pleaded for help from Conn. airport: "The Department of Transportation (DOT) is investigating the JetBlue tarmac delay and others that lasted more than three hours. Airlines that keep passengers stranded for more than three hours face fines of up to $27,500 per flier."

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China:quid pro quos

Letter from China: Quid Pro Quo : The New Yorker: "For the European plans to succeed, Sarkozy and others will need to find creditors willing to boost the fund, and Chinese reaction immediately gravitated to the sense that this help should not come cheap."

It's short. Read it.

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I'll wait until Obama finishes his second term

Obama’s legacy: What phrase will stick in history’s mind? (contest!) - In the Loop - The Washington Post:

I wish MSM would use their money to investigate things instead of dreaming up mindless trivia contests. But then again their biggest advertisers are the ones most in need of investigation.


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FOX tackier every day

How the Bitter Elitists at Fox Keep Trying And Failing to Dampen Support for Occupy Wall Street - Digg: "alternet.org — Another day, another Fox News attempt to smear the Occupy Wall Street movement. This time they've resurrected their favorite bogeyman, ACORN. "

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Reject the oil sprawl automobile culture

Reject the oil sprawl automobile cultureThis culture underlies the world's present faltering economic orderSimple decisions regarding density and community and polity are thestarting point for salient policy creation
We shouldCreate car free communities globallyAim at a fifty percent reduction in the number of carsPhase out oil as the principal fuelDesign and build models of multi-zonedwalkable communities
Car free communities are economically viableThe technologies needed to build them economically and universallycould lead to the resurgence of the US as the global economic leader

Supercommittee is a silly charade

Supercommittee: Democrat Max Baucus floats $3-trillion-dollar deficit deal: "The chief sticking point between the two parties remains the same as it ever was: new taxes."

Ten to one it will simply deadlock with a lot of idiot talk that simply reveals the inability to act because all parties will not get into the same boat. When the time comes all the automatic business will be voted down in the first bipartisan action of this charade. Then in 20 whenever when the money people cry uncle there will be the action we could have had if Boehner had not said no to Obama when he offered the grand bargain in the first place. Who is to blame. Anyone not willing to put everything on the table and mean it when they say we are all Americans.

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Debt RX - A Universal Reduction in Costs

HowBy making a general default for community sizeTo enable viable local economies and representative democracy locallyCommunities of 5-10KWhether clustered into cities and metropolises Or found along the routes of existing transport corridorsBeyond rural and beyond sprawlSuch communities would reside in omni-zoned structuresStadium-sized with no more than four above ground levelsThe eco-infrastructure would be common to all spacesA matrix conducting everything requiring circulationAttached would be the lego-like structures or spaces that would composeResidences education venues commercial kiosksWithin a short walk of everything small squares public areas athletic areasCultural areas and so forthBy creating a viable universal notion of car free economically and culturally vibrant communitiesWe advance mentally beyond oil captivitySprawl captivityAnd create for the poorest the richest environmentsWhich become the model for how we make the billionsof usA sustainable global mega-community
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Biden's mojo video

The Page by Mark Halperin | Bonus Video: Biden's Stem-Winding Closing:

Biden's mojo video

Was not that ballistic

But it's nice to see that he
Is at least optimistic

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