June 9, 2009 archive

Thanks for allowing me to be here

Hello, all.  I am new here so please put up with me getting the buttons and conventions correct.  All that I really have to say tonight is thanks for the welcome, and please talk me through the details of the site, and of the conventions of being a proper citizen here.  I have an obligation to post a guest spot at DailyKos Thursday, but I wonder if it would be OK to post it here and cross post it there.  It has to do with a medical thing.  Any guidance is welcome, since I am new here.

Warmest regards,

Doc

Thursday Medical Post

I thank the members here for asking me to post my science essays here as a primary site. I hope to make many new friends here. The next one has to do with acetaminophen, a very dangerous drug. If I am not welcome to post it here as my new primary site, please let me know. Warmest regards, Doc

Thursday Medical Post

I thank the members here for asking me to post my science essays here as a primary site.  I hope to make many new friends here.  The next one has to do with acetaminophen, a very dangerous drug.  If I am not welcome to post it here as my new primary site, please let me know.

I need help to make this diary series to make sense.  New here, I do not understand the conventions.  Help would be appreciated.

Warmest regards,

Doc

The “Rule of Law”

I must start this essay with a flashback to another another essay of mine, “Our Government is No Longer Viable“:

So, yes, if you are like me, then you see that our government is no longer viable.  That our Two-Party system has now utterly failed.  Our founding fathers feared this day and warned us of it — the day when two or more of the branches of government band together against the third.  To be fair, that day arrived long ago, but, our government still seemed to function somehow.  Today, it isn’t even functioning.

So, what happens when even the Judicial Branch of our government is totally co-opted against the citizen?  We got a hint of it from the Supreme Court:

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court ruled Monday that elected judges must step aside from cases when large campaign contributions from interested parties create the appearance of bias.

By a 5-4 vote in a case from West Virginia, the court said that a judge who remained involved in a lawsuit filed against the company of the most generous supporter of his election deprived the other side of the constitutional right to a fair trial.

It is in times like this that we must see the end-game that is being played out before our very eyes…

Where is the broad, general movement —

for a better world?

The basic situation is this: as the noose tightens on the old, capitalist ways of life, very few people appear to be all that interested in creating new ones.  Am I missing something here?

(crossposted at Big Orange)

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