From ThisCantBeHappening.net:
That’s one reason why we still have just two parties winning all the elections. Some of these dissatisfied citizens just hold their noses and vote for the party that is less likely to make them projectile vomit in the voting booth. Others, unable to vote for either major party’s candidates without soiling the equipment, just don’t vote. And then there are a few stalwarts who insist on doing their civic duty, march in and vote for the Constitution Party or the Libertarians or the Greens or the Socialist Workers, or they write in Mickey Mouse. The rest just don’t vote, which is why the US has one of the lowest participation rates in elections of nearly any of the world’s nominal democracies.
It’s possible that this latest poll could be signaling some kind of tectonic political event ahead. Perhaps the incongruous collection of Republicans, the Chamber of Commerce crowd and the bible thumpers, racists, misogynists and neo-fascists who populate the Republican voter rolls will finally turn on each other and split into two or three smaller units.
But what about the Democrats? What will it take for the 33% of party stalwarts who think the party is the pits to give up hope of reforming it and pulling it to the left? What will it take for the working class that has for generations given its votes to the party’s smarmy candidates, hoping against hope for the best, to finally walk away from the stinking corpse that is the Democratic Party and form the base of an American Labor Party?
Maybe a closer look at who’s really buying the Democratic Party and its candidates would do the trick.
Year after year, the country’s labor unions collect money from their members and give it to candidates for Congress — candidates who pretend to be the working man’s and working woman’s friend, but who after election do the bidding of Wall Street and Main Street.
Here’s why. Even most of the the most liberal members of the Democratic Congressional delegation get most of their campaign swag not from the unions, but from large corporate interests, and that tidal wave of corporate cash simply washes away any good that the union donations might have done.
I ‘m serious as your next heart attack !
LOL – Have you found a home to freeload on the Taxpayers yet, bud ?!
wind power, ——— you are kidding, aren’t you? youre kidding! An insane bid for attention? And let’s not have all the folks in India and China jump up and down at the same time.
Boom, out of the solar system we go ……….
Kidding, right?
Kleptocracy and You, How things really work!- http://ldrlongdistancerider.com/images/Kleptocracy_and_You.jpg
Ds and Rs are just two wings of the same VULTURE (bird of prey) !
That’s a good place to start.
Now for Lake’s c/p. It has been noted by some that large fields of wind propellers for turbine power production can actually affect the natural wind currents causing even worse storms than we see now. This definitely needs to be studied more before the Taxpayers are FORCED to fund these expensive projects. Small ones for home use are fine, but large ones in large groups could cause major problems.
There are many empty stomachs in Egypt and many more to come. It’s all in the game plan.
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The following claim made in the article posted above is demonstrably false:
“Even most of the the most liberal members of the Democratic Congressional delegation get most of their campaign swag not from the unions, but from large corporate interests, and that tidal wave of corporate cash simply washes away any good that the union donations might have done.”
Go to http://maroonedinmarin.blogspot.com/2011/02/democrat-supporting-labor-unions-lead.html, and you’ll see that 10 of the top 20 political donors in the United States during the 2010 campaign season were unions.
And that’s covering donations to *all* candidates — if you looked strictly at where the Democrats were getting their money, you’d see that unions comprise an even bigger share of the donors.
Mike Cavlan of the Royal Navy… it is already too late. FAR, far too late. Have some fun while you still can.
Don Lake
You can bet a warm glass of milk or a PLAS insanity plea that the apologists for the Mubarak Regime in Egypt had this kind of denial as well.
Speaking of which
Are we ready to overthrow our own corporate regime, right here at home?
Egypt is not a river in denial.
All indicators are showing that people are starting top wake up and say
YES WE CAN!!!!!!!!!!!
Grin
ah the soothing lie verses the uncomfortable truth …….
ah, Obama’s change, the coinage in the cushions of the national sofa ………
Michael Cavlan RN wrote:
“We are facing a significant political shift folks.”
…this is a sure sign that everything is going to stay the same.
one reason why we still have just two parties winning all the elections ………..write in Mickey Mouse ……… [Lake: from 1972 ………. gee I did not know that Dave remembered me or my anti Dem / anti GOP story]
A former bureau chief covering Los Angeles County government for the Los Angeles Daily News, and a reporter-producer for PBS station KCET in Los Angeles, Lindorff was also a founder and editor of the weekly Los Angeles Vanguard newspaper, established in 1976, where he won the Grand Prize of the Los Angeles Press Club for his reporting. Lindorff also worked at the Minneapolis Tribune (now the Star Tribune), the Santa Monica Evening Outlook and the Middletown Press in Connecticut.
He is the author of four books, the most recent being The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office, written with attorney Barbara Olshansky of the Center for Constitutional Rights.
An investigative reporter since 1973, Lindorff has won numerous awards for his work,
[Lake: likes but does not ‘love’ Ralph Nader. Egg head whom thinks he has the connection to great unwashed with his version of ‘the common touch’]
David Lindorff has been a long time apologist for the Democrats. His schtick has always been “yes, these reasons stated is why I am mad as heck at the Democrats” followed quickly by “we must support them because of these reasons.”
So Mr Lindorff coming to this political conclusion is a very, very good sign.
Add to that the words of other long time Dem apologists like Cornell West, Jessie Jackson etc etc.
We are facing a significant political shift folks.
FROM KCMO AND THE HEAVILY DEM (THINK MAFIA TOM PENDERGAST) JACKSON COUNTY MISSOURI:
Group pursues a ‘no nukes’ Honeywell plant in south KC
By DONALD BRADLEY and LYNN HORSLEY
The Kansas City Star
Voters could see a proposed initiative on the ballot in November.
The petition does not seek to halt construction at the billion-dollar Honeywell campus at Botts Road and Missouri 150. Instead, it would divert the plant from its intended use to “green energy” manufacturing.
Critics of the petition effort say the project is too far along and predict the initiative will get knocked down in court long before it gets on the ballot.
The KC Peace Planters, a grassroots coalition of nuclear opponents and peace activists, contend it’s not too late to stop a bad idea.
The group acknowledges seeming slow in taking action on a project initiated in 2007 and finally approved by the City Council early last year.
“We don’t have big dollars,” said Henry Stoever, an attorney with KC Peace Planters. “We do what we can.”
The plant, a key component in the ongoing modernization of America’s nuclear deterrent, is scheduled to open in the middle of 2014.
Rachel MacNair, who coordinated the petition drive, says the first hurdle has been met. Only 3,572 signatures were needed — a number based on 5 percent of votes cast in the recent mayoral election. The group turned in 4,959.
The city election board will verify whether enough signatures are valid.
“Let the people of Kansas City decide this,” MacNair said. “The Cold War is over. The New START treaty has been passed.
Second, says a city law department memo, plant opponents contend Kansas City will own the plant or the land it sits on.
“These are conscientious, good, smart people, but they are wrong on this point,” Beaufort said.
Stoever, the KC Peace Planters attorney, said that he expects to argue such issues in court.
Councilman Ed Ford and freshman councilman Jermaine Reed attended the petitioners’ rally on Thursday.
Ford, the only council member to oppose the project when it was first approved, said: “I remain steadfastly opposed to building non-nuclear components for nuclear weapons.”
“Whether one can force green technology through an initiative petition remains to be seen,” he said.
Scott Wagner, new to the council, said he had met with petitioners early this year, during his council campaign.
“The issues they brought up are legitimate to talk about,” Wagner said, adding that a public vote could prompt a serious public dialogue.
Wagner said one of his biggest concerns is the health and safety of workers at the new plant, since there have been allegations of such problems at the current plant in the Bannister Federal Complex.
Ann Suellentrop of Peace Planters said the new building would be ideal for the manufacture of wind energy equipment, such as high-voltage power lines, turbines and windmills.
“Kansas could be to wind what Saudi Arabia is to oil,” she said.
To reach Donald Bradley, call 816-234-4182 or send email to [email protected]. To reach Lynn Horsley, call 816-234-4317 or send email to [email protected].
Posted on Sun, May. 15, 2011 10:52 PM
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