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Chris Dodd Retiring From Senate

Via Kombiz @ Eschaton

Now with dday update below the fold.

I’ll remember Chris as the Democrat who was almost there.

Almost there on FISA.  Almost there on the Bailout.  Almost there on Health Care.  A guy who made some of the right noises but was ultimately betrayed by Qusiling Democrats like Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel, Tim Geithner, and Larry Summers.

People will bring up Countrywide one more time, but there is no there there.  The deal he got from them was the same Bankster shafting anyone else got with a little more suck up.

VIP?  Yeah, look at the terms and you’ll see it’s like being a VIP at Blockbuster.  Just another piece of plastic to stuff in your wallet.

But there is no denying it was going to hurt.  What electioneering I’ve done over the past few months has been for him and I was twisting arms I shouldn’t have had to.

Blumenthal is Joe Lieberman II.  Seriously.

A self righteous oily prick of a pol who’d stab you in the back for a dime or a dirty dishrag if he happened to need one.  No improvement at all.

That said he is unbeatable and if you’d asked me six months ago what I wanted to happen in Nutmeg Land (which I’ll remind you got the nick because we’re happy to sell you a lump of wood and call it Nutmeg) it would have been Blumenthal v. Rell.

That would have been a tough one because she has underserved popularity too, but Dick proved 4 years ago he was too cowardly to challenge her directly.

What we have instead is Jodi retiring for reasons I don’t understand while Ned waltzes into 990 Prospect Av. and while that’s not a bad thing, it’s a waste of his talents.  Oily Dick will go to a Village that appreciates his dubious dignity and negotiable principles (none of which are progressive).  And Linda and Rob will just have to pound sand because there is a limit to how many people still think wrestling is real or that teabagging does anything but suck balls.

Mercenary Missionary

http://www.freespeechzoneblog….

that’s for the link.

From Jack’s Smirking Revenge. Great essay.

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Wed Jan 06, 2010 at 01:18:20 AM EST

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It seems my “work” has gained some attention.

A professor i’m taking a January course with told me I had to do a “food drive” or work with a charity in order to then write a paper about it…to which I responded “which one?” and gave her a list of one I helped to start as well as others i’m working with currently.

Then, I got a phone call.

Jack’s Smirking Revenge :: Mercenary Missionary

She looked into whether or not I was pulling her leg with the email I sent by asking my advisor if my “tech skills” as well as the other decade-long work I cited was true…he said it was and showed her everything I was doing now and briefed her on what I had done in the past.

So she decided to call me to ask if I “charge” for the computer/web things I do or if I do them for free.  I told her I do them for free because “we don’t live in a time where making a buck is a luxury, people need help now, and we need to get boots on the ground now and fast for what’s coming”.

That did it for her.  

She told me she agrees with me entirely. She then let me know the numerous positions and programs she directed or served on in the U.N. and let me know she is high up in Rotary International doing work currently with food drives here locally while she teaches.  She then laid a line on me that was like the line Bruce Wayne gave to Harvey Dent in “The Dark Knight” (might not be the exact line):

“No, you don’t understand, one meeting with my friends, and you’ll never need another dime.”

At my disposal will be activists of the highest caliber, trained formally in dealing with the “professional” aspects of what I want to do (dealing with obstructive local politician douche-fucks, high-up members of the community that want to help, heads of local chapters of “big name” groups, etc.) as well as what I call “Non-Commissioned Officers” in the activist circles that have been acting without a veteran “grunt” that knows what’s needed in “the shit” to achieve the goals needed to help people.  Things like:

– What politicians need to be “massaged” with words by threats of campaign contributor denial and constituent persuasion so they stay off our fucking backs and let us do what we need to do without question or obstruction

– What can actually “be done”, by this I mean what is just idealist wishful thinking and what can actually be done now to setup for what we want to ultimately achieve overall over time, basically the reality of the goals success no matter how crushing my realist perspective from experience might be

– What technology can be used to help us be more efficient in helping people, things like food pantry inventory services with inter-faith charity cooperation was the one I pitched off the top of my head, as well as social networking websites customized for each group for more effective communication

…and numerous other things that I was told I would be discussing with the kind of people who I bet have never sat down and talked with a person that has a 8-inch mohawk in their lives.

Best part is I don’t have to swear allegiance to any group.  Loose association with no strings attached when I don’t want them, but there when I need them.  Make all the contacts I want and do whatever I want in respect to what I think would work as long as I run it by a few people so they can know what I need/be willing to give me to help people.

Oh, and along with my activist/organizing experience I now come with the following extras:

Computer maintenance, software/hardware configuration, knowledge in open-source/freeware/shareware alternatives to expensive commercial products, systems/network administration, limited web design and web site maintenance, software/hardware consulting customized to fit any non-profit group’s or charity organization’s needs….

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rotating blog memes

wow! just think about it!

Yeah, this isn’t an essay…I know.

I just want everybody to think about rotating blog memes.

I see it all the time.

Orbiting blog memes, maybe.

If so, they’ll come in, sooner or later.

For the several ish time, thanks for not banning me.

Turing test. I erred. You pass. Miep.  

Open Thread, with Pooties

Hai!  I need to ask some stupid questions — well, not stupid to me, because I don’t know the answers, but they will probably sound stupid to those of you who are more tech-savvy than I am: which is just about everyone here.

But first, some pooties:

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New Years Resolve, Binge or Be

FdBrn

copyright © 2010 Betsy L. Angert.  BeThink.org

Another year has come and gone.  Everywhere she goes she hears people speak of New Years resolutions.  They all say this time will be different.  I will decide to do as I had not done previously or at least had not done well.  Countless commit to a life of calorie counting.  Others merely muse that they will exercise more.  Drugs, drinking, there are also discussions of these concerns.  People are confident.  This year I will deliver myself from what I think evil.  A few philosophize as to their personal career path.  Change is the objective.  A greater goal is thought to be golden.  As Author Mary Anne Radmacher reflected and now millions whisper as their mantra, “Live with intention . . .  Choose with no regret. . . . Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.”  Therein lies the problem.

since you haven’t banned me

I’ll only say thank you, for that.

Because I think it is really cool that a leftist blog gets it through their collective heads that banning is wrong. I hope my efforts have gotten this across.

Meanwhile, I have been typing and typing and typing.

I tend to rewrite the same stuff over and over again, except I hope I get it better each time.

It’s like water rushing over the rocks. It becomes more clear.

I am still here, you didn’t throw me away.

Okay.

But I still think you stuck it to Jay. Jay is my friend, from long back.

I’m not going to go away from that.

Jay is a good blogger! he’s nice and understanding.

He’s smart. He’s a liberal. I’ve known him for a long time.

Yeah, he has a degree from a law school. UCLA, actually.

He’s a dear person. And like Allison pointed out; yeah, lawyers kind of get trained to talk like that, kinda confrontational.

Thank you for not banning me. And ek hornbeck and Inky99 and MomCat, I’m always interested in what you have to offer.

But I cannot keep blogging here if any of my long-time friends are cut out at will.

Jesus, ek. Deal with it!!!!

I WANT you to feel secure on this blog. You deserve it.

I don’t want to kick you off or take over this blog, though I might start my own.

And if/when I do, I would want you to come in and chip in, too.

How hard is it to get this across, ek?

Miep

Its time you discontinue with this particular tangent and find another topic to write about. Or, are you just trying to further inflame the situation?  

Hero

And they say that a hero could save us.

I’m not gonna stand here and wait.

I’ll hold on to the wings of the eagles.

Watch as we all fly away.

Someone told me change would all save us

But how can that be, look at what change gave us?

A world full of killing and blood spilling

A world that never came

Why I’m done fighting

Ministry of Truth has a great essay on why he fights.

They are all very good points.  I guess I am just too jaded, because I DO have a rebuttal to those points.

Here is why I am done fighting…

There They Went Again & Again & Again…

Now crossposted at Progressive Democrats of America

In another arrogant collusion to once again deny us any possibility of what we want — real health care reform, single payer, public option — those who do what they want, but not what we want, have decided to scrap the conference committee to reconcile the Senate and House versions.  Instead, they have decided to have a secret meeting of the 3 major players, Pelosi, Reid, Obama, behind closed doors without reporters or C-Span.

This is a call to action.  We need to call congress and tell them we are furious.  Like modern day Paul Reveres, we need to ride through the countryside on our internet horses and yell from the rooftops, “The fascists are coming.  The fascists are coming.”   And we aren’t gonna take it any more.  No we aren’t.

It’s time for the Second American Revolution.  We need to let Congress know we aren’t going to take this any more.  No taxation without representation.  No mandates to force us to buy junk health insurance when we don’t have a democratic say in what is being put into law.

To the rooftops, to the tubes, to Congress, say NO!  We won’t take it any more.  The Second American Revolution is coming.  The Second American Revolution is Coming.

Follow below for more to do and a very cogent letter from PDA.

 

Some good ways to start ‘The Year of Resistance’

I have recently been calling for a large social movement (or, more realistically, an expansion of the social movements for justice already in existence) and here are a few ways we can all get started on being part of this movement.

(Included:  Cindy Sheehan’s thoughts on recent events and a list of upcoming action events you can get involved with.)

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