July 12, 2015

Time for Greece to recite part of this document:

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness...

~ The American Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1776.

Repeated until the end of time, around the globe. No matter the fallout that ensues, the ideal remains the same.

July 12, 2015

He can after he gets help from... Space Godzilla!

Right there at the very end...

I loved those old movies! Here's the musical version. Tell me who's who in this one:



Looks like a temper tantrum at the end, though. I can see either candidate as Godzilla. Note there is no evil applied. Godzilla is just... Godzilla.

July 12, 2015

I don't think it was part of her duties as SoS. And she hasn't held an official position since.

She was in the Senate, ran against Obama on single payer quite vehemently, then was appointed SoS.

Then took a breather with her family when Kerry took over. But she has never been out of touch. Obama and Hillary embrace here, as the votes came in to pass the ACA:



She has long experience working with the people on the Hill, longer than many have been there with the Watergate, hearings where she went after Nixon to impeach him;

To when she thought that the population would rise up and demand single payer as FLOTUS, but it didn't happen;

To her term in the Senate. She did manage within a GOP majority to get SCHIP and the children of military people covered with health insurance;

She has lot of veteran support trying to get single payer for many years, which is definitely a democratic socialist position;

She even had HILLPAC fund Sander's run for Senate, as a priority. That's why he calls her his friend, she's on his side on the issues that count.

The votes have never been there for single payer, even VT was unable to get its state legislature to make use of he single payer option that is part of the ACA, on a state by state basis.

Obama did what he had the odds of passing, busy cleaning up the GOP mess, starting with the country being bankrupt in 2009. The pressure has never let up and she needs to get Congress ready to do what is needed if she is elected.

Bernie has also been thinking post-election, having said who he would put in cabinet level positions, such as Krugman and Stiglitz (sic?) to help deal with the business sector.

Nothing untoward in any of this. I'm not saying you are, nor am I lecturing, just putting this out there for everyone to think on.

July 12, 2015

Ted Kenney didn't turn his back, though:

Ted Kennedy Inspires New Obama Delegate Endorsement



Deborah Nelson's endorsement has already been posted on DU, but I thought the reason behind it deserved attention. Will more superdelegates follow suit? Seems a fitting tribute to Teddy, if you ask me.

State Senator Peter Burling of Cornish and Deborah Nelson of Hanover, two former Edwards superdelegates from New Hampshire, plan to announce their switch at a news conference this morning, the Associated Press reported...

Nelson told the AP she made up her mind as she watched the news coverage of Senator Edward M. Kennedy's diagnosis with brain cancer this week. "I thought, here's someone who represents everything that matters to me, and he supports Obama, so what am I waiting for?" she said in a separate phone interview.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6089159

Other of Senator Obama's colleagues in the Senate endorsed him. Obama said more than once he anticipates HRC being his replacement in a few places...

Particularly at those White House Press Correspondents Dinners. He really roasted the media and the GOP mocking the GOP wanting a white candidate in the White House again.

He invoked her likelihood of winning the White House after him. HRC and Obama have become fast friends. Obama said to the GOP they would get a white candidate in the White House - Hillary. And that their worst nightmare was going to come true..

Or words to that effect...

July 12, 2015

Tobey Maguire endorsed HRC early on!

July 11, 2015

We expect no less from you, Siegfried Hitlery!

BTW, these two sweet guys are still raising big cats. They insist the mauling by Mantecore was not an attack, but a defensive act as Roy was having a seizure from the flashing lights. It's a form of epilepsy, for those not in the know, and rapid light changes trigger it.

Which is exactly what happened at their show, too many flashing lights. And cats carry each other by the throat, the way that their mothers move them. Roy had a very poor prognosis and had to have a lot of terrible surgery but exceeded all expectations and is doing well, only slightly handicapped. There are a lot of good pictures of the pair at the Daily Mail.

to them and you! Thanks for all you do for HRC. Hitlery!

July 11, 2015

When you say 'shared suffering' who are you talking about? Whites and blacks suffered equally?

Did this 'shared suffering' give the white population the right to cause suffering among the black population for a century or more after the Civil War?

When you are post the quote, 'No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved' do you think wage slavery is equal to chattel slavery?

Because the black population of the South knew the true depths of slavery. Not less income or dependence upon employment, which is the definition of wage slavery.

They were not unemployed, they were often worked to death and not paid a thing for their labor. The slave population shared a suffering that other groups did not undergo, with rape, torture, lynching, terrorism, exclusion and the family breakup that the white population has not.

When the Union conquered the South, they killed the POTUS. Booth was not a lone wolf. And then they continued the slaughter as they were offended by Emancipation. See this, one of many such oppressions:

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/07/09/3677437/fourteenth-amendment-anniversary/

Did the Union conduct lynching and tarring and feathering? Did they systematically rape and rob the oppressed in the South as a matter of control and business?

You may have written this off the top of your head, but I think you should edit to take in all of the 'suffering' that went on, not just that of the alleged Confederate victims. I don't care what a thrashing they got and I am from the South. They were ready to do the same things to the North or the slaves. Sorry, but I don't see a moral equivalency there, IMO.

July 10, 2015

Agreed! 'By materialistic logic, everything becomes an object that can be consumed and negotiated.'

July 10, 2015

Birth Control Coverage Guaranteed for All — Despite Religious Exemptions XP

to cal04:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141142427

Women will now get FREE birth control including the morning after pill if their employer will not pay due to religious beliefs (those that disrespect women). This is a win for women's rights. But no surprise from:

The First Feminist President



http://www.democraticunderground.com/110212801

Thanks, Obama!!!

July 9, 2015

American slavery was uniquely based on white supremacy rather than class or circumstances.

Other countries enslave the conquered, the poor or those of other religions. American slavery was based and has continued in less obvious ways *legally* based on race.

The reason black people are targeted is that they are not keeping their *rightful place* by not wearing shackles. So something is connived to make sure that they are put back into shackles again, one way or the other.

It's not about economics, jobs, poverty or religion. Those are just symptoms of the cancer of racism. The mental landscape of black oppressors is the belief they are the inferior 'Other.'

Economics was not the reason for the Civil War, not in the minds of Confederate leaders. It was about race. They also believed women were born incompetent to vote or control what their lives would be.

This is part of the philosophical basis of the Confederacy and all the racist actions that later occured. They believed that the Founders of the USA were out of their minds to believe 'all men are created equal.'

From their bigoted stance, they decided Africans had a role for life. As well as women. And they were the only ones fit to be in charge of government. The actions of the GOP now openly display these beliefs when they restrict voting, get a big happy about lynching PBO, with sovereign citizen groups, the Tenther squads, and believe their guns are their god-given right to protect them from 'the blacks.' Their conspiracy fans preach everything about the founding of this country is a banker plot. They're unwilling to admit the diversion.

But are willing to take us back to before the USConstitution was written to maintain a failed philosophy. They will not win in the end, even in bloodshed, and they are terrified.

Whites in Europe saw when they sailed around the world, that they were a minority and it's why they feel like victims. They could have done better by cooperating with natives, freed and distributed land in the era after the Civil War, but no, they kept to their belief system. All has followed their mindset.

Just a few thoughts, Strong.