January 14, 2014

The mighty oak tree has many children. The source is long lived and not extinquished. n/t

January 14, 2014

Life on Earth instigated 400 million years ago by:

An alien who just wanted to go home. What could possibly go wrong. Life on Earth being by accident he was trying to prevent, poor thing.

There were complaints about writers missing the figure by 360 million years, but dramatic license takes care of a lot of zeros.

Hey, I saw it on the BBC, so it must be true!

January 14, 2014

The thread looks fine to me:

Life is short.

January 13, 2014

Crooks and Liars is a good source of all political subjects. Other topics posted on DU at the link:

What's up with Iran?!
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Another NJ Mayor Punished By Chris Christie
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One Dead After Dispute Over Cell Phone Noise in Movie Theater
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Water Ban Lifted for Part of W.Virginia After Coal Industry Chemical Spill
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Watch Out, Senate! Paul Teller Joins Ted Cruz' Staff
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Was Bridgegate related to a $1 billion development project in Fort Lee?
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What's The Matter With Ezra Klein?
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Indiana House chamber erupts into laughter when speaker calls LGBT people 'intolerant'
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New subpoenas expected today in GWB probe
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No, Congress, You Shouldn’t “Pay For” Extending Unemployment Insurance
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CNN: Feds Investigating How Christie Used Sandy Relief Money
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New York Governor Announces $1 Billion Commitment To Clean Energy
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'American Hustle,' '12 Years a Slave' top Golden Globes
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John McCain: If I Were Robert Gates, 'I Would Have Waited' To Publish Memoirs
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Top 10 political winners and losers from the George Washington Bridge scandal

The pic at Crooks and Liars:



Link says they were not married in the church and it sounds like they were in a hurry to get married as it was an out of wedlock pregnancy.

Thanks for posting on how women and children should be celebrated without conditions set by those who disdain them as most conservatives do.

Francis has more than once gone to the defense of being a human, without any social status or having conforming with intolerant, self-serving societial rules.

JMHO.

January 13, 2014

Their 'don't tax me bro' eliminated regulatory oversight, to destroy civil society and devolve to:

'The Jungle' by Upton Sinclair:



The Jungle is a 1906 book written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair 1878–1968).[1] Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities.

Many readers were most concerned with his exposure of health violations and unsanitary practices in the American meatpacking industry during the early 20th century, based on an investigation he did for a socialist newspaper.

The book depicts working class poverty, the absence of social programs, harsh and unpleasant living and working conditions, and a hopelessness among many workers. These elements are contrasted with the deeply rooted corruption of people in power. A review by the writer Jack London called it, "the Uncle Tom's Cabin of wage slavery."[2]

Sinclair was considered a muckraker, or journalist who exposed corruption in government and business.[3] He first published the novel in serial form in 1905 in the socialist newspaper, Appeal to Reason, between February 25, 1905, and November 4, 1905. In 1904, Sinclair had spent seven weeks gathering information while working incognito in the meatpacking plants of the Chicago stockyards for the newspaper. It was published as a book on 26 February 1906 by Doubleday and in a subscribers' edition.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle

There are more favorable reviews of the book in searches, but this one shows better the mindset that we as Democrats are up against. Because he was a socialist and the book was sensationalist, it didn't go over well, but inspired public support in terms of regulation for health safety, but only for those able to buy products, not out of much concern for the then unpopular emigrants - the same attitude prevailed in worse form during the legalized practice of black slavery. The poor of any kind are demonized just like blacks and immigrants under the banner of not being white or 'real Americans.'

In those days, libertarian capitalism ruled and libertarians long for its return so much they are legislating it state by state with ALEC. That pre-progressive ere placed them well above the teeming masses, and they are all would be plutocrats.

Back then, just as now, the arrogant philosophers of libertarianism see workers deserving such condtions. They are, after all, 'parasites' and 'consumers,' not the 'job creators' and 'producers' in their world view. They are of less moral value than the animals in the slaughter houses.

Anything goes to get back to the 'natural order' of things, of the rich bleeding those less advantaged to death, and if government gets in the way of the producers, it is immoral, statist and tyrannical. That's why they hate and villify government and its supporters so much. They've done a great job in making those who support rightful actions by government unpopular. So people are subconsiously nervous about discussing, asking for or supporting any 'government program'

Libertartian leaders know full well those regulations are not working, as they vote against it day by day to make government less popular. They have brainwashed the masses into thinking all taxes, for the rich or poor, are immoral and against God, liberty, freedom or survival.

Cutting back on the number of government employees or leaving responsibility for regulation in the hands of the private sector, which is their way of governing, never leaves the ability to regulate. It becomes ineffective as the social safety net that keeps millions fed, off the street and healthy must come first, and they know that.

But they want that eliminated to keep people down to lower labor costs and thus enrich themselves.
Their system is a closed circle.



JMHO.

January 13, 2014

No wonder. Because they've legislated individual rights vs. corporations to 'frivolous' complaints

which created a large, discontented group. They're armed to protect themselves from the society they made exercising their 'liberty' and 'freedom' to rip others off.

The myth of their superiority keeps them high on their beliefs. They are using it to destroy all democratic process to protect themselves.

They are safest in feudalism. That was the world capitalism sprang from, which regulation mitigates in a mixed socialist setting to relieve still inherent inequalities.

They've got a bought and paid for media in their corner to stupefy as many as they can reach, while they continue to plunder the whole.

January 13, 2014

Make this go viral. Most conservative and some other groups believe this fiction. n/t

January 12, 2014

A famous Democratic family believes in Obama:

Caroline, daughter of President Kennedy endorsed Obama on the road:

As did her uncle Ted on the road:

Caroline introduced her uncle at the DNC at 2008 for Obama:

Another of the Kennedy family endorsed Obama on the road:

We have some great Democrats and there is more to come.

January 12, 2014

Although he did not prevail in 2004, he remembered Obama in 2008:

And he endorsed Obama in 2008:

Another man who endorsed Obama on the road in 2008:

And at the DNC in 2008:

As did a former president:

His wife gave her support on the road:

And endorsed him at the DNC:

Obama accepted his party's nomination:

More to come...

January 12, 2014

Obama And The Democrats:

You see, there was this guy from Massachusetts running for President in 2004. A lot of people liked him:



He had a well-known running mate who spoke for him at the DNC:

He accepted his party's nomination:

But an young, unknown man also supported him:

And in the first post following this, we will see that candidate did not forget that young man.