About Damn Time!!!!

Seems to me this would be the best and most healing way to make good use of all that Saudi oil money. Don't send the ever-expanding and quite dubiously-sourced royal family to the front rows at the Paris fashion shows. Use it to compensate the families of the 9/11 victims - who died from a terrorist act that the Saudis bankrolled and in which 15 of them participated directly.

Those families shouldn't have to be made to suffer all over again.

It's really astounding, isn't it! What a photo!

I love it! Gorgeous! Happy New Year!!!

I've got TERRIFIC evidence to back that up. HERE, and NOW, on DU!

Check this post from our own mountain grammy:

"After reading the umpteenth stupid letter in our local paper declaring climate change a hoax, I sent a link to the young editor from the LA Times that declared they would no longer print letters from climate change deniers. I reminded her that the newspaper is not required to print every crackpot letter in the name of free speech. Much to my surprise, she responded positively. That was two months ago and the regular, weekly rants denying climate change have miraculously not appeared."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/112761252#post10

Even just ONE person CAN make a difference!!!!!

EXCELLENT!!!! Brava!!! Hey, everybody, look what mountain grammy did!!!

I have the honor of quoting a great paragraph:

"After reading the umpteenth stupid letter in our local paper declaring climate change a hoax, I sent a link to the young editor from the LA Times that declared they would no longer print letters from climate change deniers. I reminded her that the newspaper is not required to print every crackpot letter in the name of free speech. Much to my surprise, she responded positively. That was two months ago and the regular, weekly rants denying climate change have miraculously not appeared."

See? One person CAN make a difference!

See? If they think you don't care, they won't either!

See? Constant vigilance works!

See? It CAN be done!

See? Change for the good CAN happen!

See? You CAN be heard, AND heeded!!!!!!!

All it took was one of the good guys raising her voice, being vigilant, and correcting the record. That editor should recognize that her work, and that of her paper, is being noted and will be acted upon if it's wrong. The LA Times actually has a conscience! Too bad it has to come from one of its readers rather than internal. But it takes US CITIZENS being vigilant to hold Power's feet to the fire.

GREAT lesson for us all, mountain grammy! One request - could you rerun that link here? It's good ammo for the rest of us to send to all our local papers and point to the LA Times and say - SEE? ONE of your sister papers is actually doing it correctly! I still hate saying "do the right thing" because the very word "right" has been so hijacked and perverted and misconstrued that it is now meaningless. I hope to see the day when we can freely use the word "right" again and have it mean what it really means and not yet another tip-of-the-hat to the radical WRONG. The word "right" seriously needs to be reclaimed and rehabilitated, too.

LOVE it!!!

One word: YAY!!!!!!

We need this kind of thing to get out there as widely as possible.

I'm hoping other republi-CON candidate wannabes will go after him with knives and forks because of this. I hope it's a bloodthirsty primary season for them, and that whoever emerges does so as thoroughly damaged goods. All the Dems hopefully will need to do is just take a whole slew of pages from the various campaign books during the GOP primary season. The bad guys will be doing all the groundwork and heavy lifting for our team and the eventual victor will arrive on the scene not exactly unscathed or injury-free.

Don't forget how the last season went. You had the king-of-the-week show for months, starting actually with the queen-of-the-week, because I think I recall michele bachmann won the Iowa caucuses, as ridiculous a notion as that is! She kicked off primary season in 2012 as the one to beat. And very soon she was, and that was that. It happened to a whole slew of 'em, including rick perry, santorum, newt, herman cain, and whoever else is manifestly forgettable here. One by one they fell as more and more of that side decided to hold its nose and vote for romney. christie is this season's flavor. I heard analysts and pundits on Monday, musing basically - "hey, whatever happened to marco rubio?" 'Cause at one time he, too, was the flavor-of-the-month, before his star faded out. Hopefully christie will, too, as more people get to know him and discover how much there is to dislike. And hopefully his own team will help erode his leadership without our having to do much to soften him up. Hopefully, if he's to be the one, they'll deliver him to us all nicely sliced 'n' diced.

Welcome to DU, abakan!

Glad you're here. Indeed. Poor impulse control. Just what we'd want in a leader who has "the button" at his fingertips.

ALSO - even if he blows it off on his two aides, that's still a huge problem. It's not just the winning candidate. It's WHO HE/SHE WILL BE BRINGING IN WITH HIM.

You say george w bush, you also say cheney, rummy, kkkarl rove, contradicta, dougie feith, paul wolfowitz, gonzales, scooter libby, etc., and the accursed PNAC people (MANY of whom, btw, were itching to get back in with mccain/palin and four years later, romney/ryan - many of those war-hungry fiends were on the foreign policy advisory teams).

You say ronald reagan, you also get bush senior, lee atwater, james watt, oliver north, ed meese, and a shitload of criminals.

You say richard nixon, you also get spiro agnew, haldeman, ehrlichman, john mitchell, original dirty-tricker donald segretti, charles colson, and all kinds of fucking riff-raff, indicted AND unindicted coconspirators.

With the last two, nixon and reagan, I believe the statistic of note was that they both had more administration figures indicted for corruption and subsequently jailed for it than any other administrations in American history. I believe nixon held the record until st. ronnie and his merry band of bastards came along.