Many years ago there was a comic strip titled Pogo. One of my favorite Pogo lines is, “We have met the enemy! and it is us!”
The only change to that wisdom that I can see today is that if the oligarchs are in charge it is “we the people” who have allowed that to happen.
Oligarchs have been in control of our would-be republic since at least 1826. Unfortunately, of recent the oligarchs have been tightening their death grip ever more choking off what little “democracy”, privacy and freedom is left in America.
The tactics of the oligarchs have become even more reactionary than those they (the oligarchs) applied during what was arguably the most conservative decade in the history of this republic, the 1950’s.
Don’t forget it was the 1950’s that gave us the McCarthy Era Witchhunts, Blacklists, snitching, sellouts, the Pledge of Allegiance, “In God We Trust” on folding money and the insidious conflict in Vietnam that spread across Laos, Cambodia and Thailand and gave us The Politics of Heroin.
Do we really need another 1950’s-like decade? I think not.
Think and vote progressive!
Elections 2010: Only 4 early voting days left! Have you voted yet?
From Texas Red: a cratered landscape of prisons, deplorable apartheid public education, lack of healthcare and politicians and majority population intent on keeping it that way…
Hasta Siempre,
More:
Know Your Voting Rights - State by State
http://www.aclu.org/racial-justice_voting-rights/know-your-voting-rights-state-state#map
Group Claims [San Antonio] East Side Voters' Rights Violated
http://www.ksat.com/news/25466251/detail.html?taf=ant
Early voting's popularity is still growing
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/politics/elections/bexar_early_voting_turnout_stronger_than_expected_105464208.html?showFullArticle=y
Conservatives for Nico La Hood
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Conservatives-for-Nico-La-Hood/160631897294896?ref=ts#!/pages/Conservatives-for-Nico-La-Hood/160631897294896
Bexar County Candidates at a glance
http://mysapolitics.com/election.php/2010/01/06/current-election-candidates-list-2010
Bexar County Elections Department
http://www.co.bexar.tx.us/elections/Links/links.html
Bexar County Democratic Party
http://www.bexardemocrats.org/
Bexar County Republican Party
http://www.bexargop.org/calendar.php
League of Women Voters of Texas
http://www.lwvtexas.org/
Virginia gun dealers: Small number supply most guns tied to crimes
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/24/AR2010102402221.html?wpisrc=nl_headline
Because I know I.F. Stone was right I like it when power is not concentrated in one set of hands…
Election Day could bring historic split: Democrats lose House, keep Senate
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/24/AR2010102403202.html?wpisrc=nl_headline
Secret Iraq war files offer grim new details
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/22/AR2010102201682.html?wpisrc=nl_headline
Think debtor’s prisons have been out of fashion since the Dark Ages?Think again…..
ACLU sues county, embattled JP over truancy jailings
http://www.themonitor.com/articles/sues-41235-aclu-truancy.html
Popping online: MoveOn has launched a new interactive get-out-the-vote video that puts the viewer's name and photo into the ad. "The video, which can be customized and sent to your friends, features actress Olivia Wilde and actor Romany Malco, as rebel fighters living in the year 2057. They are fighting RepbliCorp, a merger of the Republican Party and big corporations that is currently ruling the world." Watch it here: http://cnnbc.moveon.org/
SHARRON ANGLE USES DECOY TO ELUDE REPORTERS - We would have preferred Buddy Holly glasses attached to a comically large plastic noise with a mustache. Sam Stein: "Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle used a decoy to dodge members of the press at an event on Monday, a reporter on the scene tells the Huffington Post. The Tea Party-backed pol, who has avoided public appearances since offering racially insensitive remarks to a group of Hispanic students, left reporters waiting at an event at a Microsoft Licensing office for nearly two hours (between the time she showed up late until they realized that she had actually left). Getting out of the building without being noticed, however, was tricky. According to Mackenzie Warren, a morning reporter for Reno's NBC-affiliate, KRNV, a staffer for Angle's campaign suckered the pressed by making it appear that she would be leaving the front entrance (the one she initially entered) while she was, instead, exiting through a side door." http://huff.to/aFlpZc
Citizenship For Sale?
http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/111069/citizenship-for-sale
NPR TOTN 25 Oct 2010
White majority is having a fea-based “status anxiety.”
Multiculturalism Debated In The U.S. And Abroad
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130812557
Texas Red: a cratered landscape of prisons, deplorable apartheid public education, lack of healthcare and politicians and majority population intent on keeping it that way
http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-18764-San-Antonio-Public-Policy-Examiner~y2009m10d4-Texas-Red-a-cratered-landscape-of-prisons-deplorable-public-education-lack-of-healthcare-and-poli
The Center for Public Integrity
http://www.publicintegrity.org/
Think Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/
Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class
http://www.amazon.com/Winner-Take-All-Politics-Washington-Richer-Turned/dp/1416588698
Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity
www.amazon.com/Good-Capitalism-Economics-Growth-Prosperity/dp/0300158327/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1285203922&sr=1-1
13 Bankers
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307379051
Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future
http://www.amazon.com/Aftershock-Next-Economy-Americas-Future/dp/0307592812/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1285922323&sr=1-1
The Politics of Heroin: and the CIA’s Complicity in the Global Drug Trade
http://www.amazon.com/Politics-Heroin-Complicity-Global-Trade/dp/1556524838
YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS - George Carlin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWiBt-pqp0E
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