Too many of us are aware but in denial of what Citizens United actually meant. Too many of us are aware but in denial of what the Comcast-NBC merger actually meant. We hear these stories about our rights as individuals being given away to corporations but we lie to ourselves because we don’t want to believe the effect it will have on our lives... Guess what? It affects us all, you aren’t special. Neither am I.We know that these things are problems but we rarely do anything notable. And even in Wisconsin where hundreds of thousands have mobilized to fight the bullshit Scott Walker and his buddies threw at them, it is not reported or not reported well because the men with the money who own the news stations only want you to know so much.The President is aware of this. Congress is aware of this. Their paychecks however are too good to do anything about it. Corporations matter, people don’tSo where does that leave us? In the shitter unless we wake up. Run for office [...]
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Too many of us are aware but in denial of what Citizens United actually meant. Too many of us are aware but in denial of what the Comcast-NBC merger actually meant. We hear these stories about our rights as individuals being given away to corporations but we lie to ourselves because we don’t want to believe the effect it will have on our lives... Guess what? It affects us all, you aren’t special. Neither am I.We know that these things are problems but we rarely do anything notable. And even in Wisconsin where hundreds of thousands have mobilized to fight the bullshit Scott Walker and his buddies threw at them, it is not reported or not reported well because the men with the money who own the news stations only want you to know so much.The President is aware of this. Congress is aware of this. Their paychecks however are too good to do anything about it. Corporations matter, people don’tSo where does that leave us? In the shitter unless we wake up. Run for office [...]
Ain't No Ticks Like Poly-Ticks #8 - An Email to a Friend about God
Posted on February 8, 2011 with 0 commentsI would like to believe in the stories that I grew up listening to. But more and more I can't. It may be that there is a God and if there is then I would agree with you that he left us the instructions and set the game and then went and did his thing.
The problem with that is twofold to me.
1. If he loves us as much as the Bible claims he does then he would not just leave the instructions and then fuck off to somewhere else in the Universe.
2. This then leads me to question the authority of the Bible. Not that the 'basic' idea isn't there, but that to many specifics aren't which leaves me questioning the men who penned it and translated it and passed it on to be translated further.
I know it is a cliche argument, but when you play telephone the wires very often times get crossed.
The wires getting crossed meeting with the fact that man is imperfect (though I don't believe in God, I still believe man to be sinful, which admittedly may render my whole point moot) I can't [...]
Sorry, I have been left speechless lately. Though there were several key 'victories' at the end of the last session of congress, they were over shadowed to me by the tax cut deal Obama made with Republicans and the FCC not protecting Net-Neutrality.
Then yesterday when I believed I would write a new entry we were all shaken by the tragic shooting in Arizona. I felt sick all afternoon. This is where we are and what we have become. There has already been a lot of talk on both sides left and right, meanwhile the Congresswoman is fighting for her life in a hospital, a Federal Judge was killed and so was a 9 year old girl.
This is awful and the bottom line here is simple: We must do better than this.
Communication is everything. But our Freedom of Speech has been reduced to nothing by the FCC and all we have available to listen to for FREE is Glenn Beck on the radio or Fox news on the TV and the messages and rhetoric of those avenues spin further and further to the Radical Right [...]
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Then yesterday when I believed I would write a new entry we were all shaken by the tragic shooting in Arizona. I felt sick all afternoon. This is where we are and what we have become. There has already been a lot of talk on both sides left and right, meanwhile the Congresswoman is fighting for her life in a hospital, a Federal Judge was killed and so was a 9 year old girl.
This is awful and the bottom line here is simple: We must do better than this.
Communication is everything. But our Freedom of Speech has been reduced to nothing by the FCC and all we have available to listen to for FREE is Glenn Beck on the radio or Fox news on the TV and the messages and rhetoric of those avenues spin further and further to the Radical Right [...]
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