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August 31, 2015
Jade Helm! Call the Texas National Guard, Obama's coming! Whoops! 10 years ago...
'La panza llena, corazón contento.'
August 29, 2015
Thanks for expanding my knowledge. Sounds like 'fusion politics' or 'the 3rd Reconstruction':
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11029383
August 29, 2015
It fits all the GOP memes made to put down Democrats by the 'Oligarchy Are Us' GOP.
Who can forget the many coservative photoshops of 'Emperor (or King) Obama?
They don't have any fresh material, so rightwingers keep recycling their old slurs to demoralize Dems. Some would rather we lose and let the GOP have all three branches of federal governance again.
Since people will die from that, I'm not for it. Some many be immune, so they can afford to play games and depress the vote of Democrats here.
As 1SBM said:
And "Mission Accomplished" ... could be heard whispered throughout the land. (It seems)
GOP: "Government doesn't work" ... Check!
Libertarians (right and left): "Government is evil" ... Check!
Tea Party: "Government doesn't work and there is no difference between establishment republicans and establishment Democrats" ... Check!
"Liberals/Progressives": "Government is evil and there is no difference between establishment republicans and establishment Democrats" ... Check!
The media has played this narrative on a 7-day, 24-hour loop.
Result: Only 15% of the American people pay close attention to the only mechanism for change.
Nicely played, Oligarchs!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025631843#post133
August 28, 2015
Linkin Park - The Little Things Give You Away (Katrina Tribute)
From 1SBM replying to me:
"The levy system in N.O. was designed to flood one ward ... the 9th ward ... to save the rest of N.O. The 9th ward, also, was the only section of N.O. proper that Black folks could purchase on home (in the 50s, 60s and into the 70s), and later, was where the 'Projects' were built ... So yes, the deaths in the 9th ward had a racist component."
BLM mentioned in Seattle, they were being driven out of town by gentrification. The area they speak of, the Central District, IIRC was the only place in WA state blacks could legally live.
Only since 2004 Governor Gregoire signed a law to prohibit housing bias, not in 1968 when it became illegal as the law of the land, the Central has been the center of the black community.
It is now being gentrified and black people are losing their homes again. This process is a lengthy one where services are denied and an area is termed as 'blighted' and ready for renovation. By removing the residents in various ways.
My first reply ot 1SBM:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11874904#post5
Background to the death toll of Katrina. This was discussed a lot afterward:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11874904#post7
Some words to the song:
Hope decays
Generations disappear
Washed away
As a nation simply stares
Don't want to reach for me, do you?
I mean nothing to you
The little things give you away...
History shows a pattern. This was intentional and a crime against humanity. Call me crazy, but I know what I have seen and read.
Am I off topic?
TRIGGER WARNING: DO NOT WATCH IF FROM NOLA:
Linkin Park - The Little Things Give You Away (Katrina Tribute)
From 1SBM replying to me:
"The levy system in N.O. was designed to flood one ward ... the 9th ward ... to save the rest of N.O. The 9th ward, also, was the only section of N.O. proper that Black folks could purchase on home (in the 50s, 60s and into the 70s), and later, was where the 'Projects' were built ... So yes, the deaths in the 9th ward had a racist component."
BLM mentioned in Seattle, they were being driven out of town by gentrification. The area they speak of, the Central District, IIRC was the only place in WA state blacks could legally live.
Only since 2004 Governor Gregoire signed a law to prohibit housing bias, not in 1968 when it became illegal as the law of the land, the Central has been the center of the black community.
It is now being gentrified and black people are losing their homes again. This process is a lengthy one where services are denied and an area is termed as 'blighted' and ready for renovation. By removing the residents in various ways.
My first reply ot 1SBM:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11874904#post5
Background to the death toll of Katrina. This was discussed a lot afterward:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11874904#post7
Some words to the song:
Hope decays
Generations disappear
Washed away
As a nation simply stares
Don't want to reach for me, do you?
I mean nothing to you
The little things give you away...
History shows a pattern. This was intentional and a crime against humanity. Call me crazy, but I know what I have seen and read.
Am I off topic?
August 23, 2015
That is a complex matter; irregular spacing ... allows both amplification and retardation. Further, spacing of key words allows puns which would otherwise be impossible. Some devices, such as the use of lowercase letters at the beginnings of lines ... allow a kind of distortion that often re-enforces that of the syntax.... All these devices have the effect of jarring the reader, of forcing him to examine experience with fresh eyes."
S. I. Hayakawa also remarked on this quality in Cummings' poetry. "No modern poet to my knowledge," Hayakawa wrote in Poetry, "has such a clear, childlike perception as E. E. Cummings—a way of coming smack against things with unaffected delight and wonder. This candor ... results in breath-takingly clean vision."
Norman Friedman explained in his E. E. Cummings: The Growth of a Writer that Cummings' innovations "are best understood as various ways of stripping the film of familiarity from language in order to strip the film of familiarity from the world. Transform the word, he seems to have felt, and you are on the way to transforming the world..."
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/e-e-cummings
I like to format my replies to emphasize and separate thoughts. Like Cummings, I enjoy creating formats as art on the page:
...Cummings also experimented with poems as visual objects on the page...
I've written novels and essays in the conventional style. But one of my largest works of fiction uses no capitalization. The journey is following the thoughts conveyed, not the format. No one has any difficulty with any of my works.
To read Seabeyond, a person must be willing to travel to where she is going and observe what she is pondering. She leaves much unfinished as she writes, not trying to sell anything. Her posts are mere explorations of the mind.
Seabeyond writes in the style of e. e. cummings, required reading in my grade school.
He began to write avant-garde poems in which conventional punctuation and syntax were ignored in favor of a dynamic use of language....That is a complex matter; irregular spacing ... allows both amplification and retardation. Further, spacing of key words allows puns which would otherwise be impossible. Some devices, such as the use of lowercase letters at the beginnings of lines ... allow a kind of distortion that often re-enforces that of the syntax.... All these devices have the effect of jarring the reader, of forcing him to examine experience with fresh eyes."
S. I. Hayakawa also remarked on this quality in Cummings' poetry. "No modern poet to my knowledge," Hayakawa wrote in Poetry, "has such a clear, childlike perception as E. E. Cummings—a way of coming smack against things with unaffected delight and wonder. This candor ... results in breath-takingly clean vision."
Norman Friedman explained in his E. E. Cummings: The Growth of a Writer that Cummings' innovations "are best understood as various ways of stripping the film of familiarity from language in order to strip the film of familiarity from the world. Transform the word, he seems to have felt, and you are on the way to transforming the world..."
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/e-e-cummings
I like to format my replies to emphasize and separate thoughts. Like Cummings, I enjoy creating formats as art on the page:
...Cummings also experimented with poems as visual objects on the page...
I've written novels and essays in the conventional style. But one of my largest works of fiction uses no capitalization. The journey is following the thoughts conveyed, not the format. No one has any difficulty with any of my works.
To read Seabeyond, a person must be willing to travel to where she is going and observe what she is pondering. She leaves much unfinished as she writes, not trying to sell anything. Her posts are mere explorations of the mind.
August 23, 2015
In this new movement toward criminalization, El Salvador is in the vanguard. The array of exceptions that tend to exist even in countries where abortion is circumscribed — rape, incest, fetal malformation, life of the mother — don't apply in El Salvador. They were rejected in the late 1990's, in a period after the country's long civil war ended. The country's penal system was revamped and its constitution was amended. Abortion is now absolutely forbidden in every possible circumstance. No exceptions.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/09/magazine/09abortion.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
El Salvador mulls freeing 17 women jailed for abortion crimes
Like much of Latin America, El Salvador is predominantly Catholic. The country’s influential Catholic Church, evangelical groups and conservative lawmakers argue that abortion infringes on the rights of an unborn child, which is enshrined in El Salvador’s constitution and should be protected by law at all costs.*
http://www.trust.org/item/20140515070722-xav1r/
to Judi Lynn:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014804287#op
The leftist president who was leaving office left the women in the article in prison. Haven't seen any updates on these women.
*This is the position of Rand Paul who wants to rewrite the 14th to read the same way. The GOP doesn't like the 14th Amendment, with its clauses covering birthright citizenship, due process and equal treatment under the law.
Most of what we know of as American law since that time came from the interpretation of the 14th such as abortion rights, marriage equality and others since the 4th was inadequate to protect the rights of the disadvantaged. It didn't when Dred Scott appealed his status under the 4th.
The most enlightening post is on Judi Lynn's thread about the 17 women:
MisterP (17,652 posts)
3. it's actually a rich and intriguing issue in Latin America
the Salvadoran students' union called it "preemptive genocide" (reducing the number of the poor--and preventing The Revolution from happening by reducing misery) and Honduras's 70s Communist Youth were the ones beating up any doctor who talked about contraception on the National University's campus and cancelling even demographics from the curriculum ("We've convinced them that to carry out such a program is to act against the nation. ... The Medical School will never allow a plan of North American penetration to be carried out in its name!"
; Salvadoran editors (pre-Humanæ Vitæ) opined that Central America "should think of birth control only after it has twice the population of England or France. At one point he speaks of Central America's resources being sufficient for a population ten times its present size" and the Hondurans' belief 1970 was "If we would have had more people, El Salvador would not have dared to invade us" 1969: 75% of intelligentsia and 60% of students in Honduras thought that a doubled or tripled population was needed to end poverty; Planned Parenthood's job was seen as "assuring the domination of western civilization" by keeping foreigners in control of the Third World: the First World feared "that their prestige and power positions might be threatened if our countries grow too fast"; one French-educated Honduran atheist said that "A situation now favorable to the U.S. will no longer be so once Latin America triples its present population," and leftists were likelier to oppose family planning if irreligious (39% right pro-planning vs. 29% left): 24% of the right denied that growth increased poverty, as opposed to 50% of the far left (Axel Mundigo); in the 80s it was the decidedly un-religious (but very male-dominated) human-rights orgs opposing legalizing abortion way more than the Archdiocese in the newspapers
it's not that new either: 20s France was the only European country to see its population fall, so abortionists were outlawed and called national traitors there, too.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014804287#post3
The same generation who did these things, is still around, and the OP's link says 10% of the people in El Salvador are involved in the gangs. The issue of how 'human rights' are enabling the gangs is also mentioned, and it also said that many support a very hard line against them. They are a very divided society, such as our is now turning into and it's brutal for women.
A read of the OP below will explain why this is happening around the world, and I believe it is for the purpose of making more cannon fodder and to enrich the 1%. There is more than one kind of army and I consider gangs part of the destabilization of society brought about indirectly by their actions. Chaos benefits the 1%:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/110212801
Not an option in El Salvador:
Pro-Life NationIn this new movement toward criminalization, El Salvador is in the vanguard. The array of exceptions that tend to exist even in countries where abortion is circumscribed — rape, incest, fetal malformation, life of the mother — don't apply in El Salvador. They were rejected in the late 1990's, in a period after the country's long civil war ended. The country's penal system was revamped and its constitution was amended. Abortion is now absolutely forbidden in every possible circumstance. No exceptions.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/09/magazine/09abortion.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
El Salvador mulls freeing 17 women jailed for abortion crimes
Like much of Latin America, El Salvador is predominantly Catholic. The country’s influential Catholic Church, evangelical groups and conservative lawmakers argue that abortion infringes on the rights of an unborn child, which is enshrined in El Salvador’s constitution and should be protected by law at all costs.*
http://www.trust.org/item/20140515070722-xav1r/
to Judi Lynn:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014804287#op
The leftist president who was leaving office left the women in the article in prison. Haven't seen any updates on these women.
*This is the position of Rand Paul who wants to rewrite the 14th to read the same way. The GOP doesn't like the 14th Amendment, with its clauses covering birthright citizenship, due process and equal treatment under the law.
Most of what we know of as American law since that time came from the interpretation of the 14th such as abortion rights, marriage equality and others since the 4th was inadequate to protect the rights of the disadvantaged. It didn't when Dred Scott appealed his status under the 4th.
The most enlightening post is on Judi Lynn's thread about the 17 women:
MisterP (17,652 posts)
3. it's actually a rich and intriguing issue in Latin America
the Salvadoran students' union called it "preemptive genocide" (reducing the number of the poor--and preventing The Revolution from happening by reducing misery) and Honduras's 70s Communist Youth were the ones beating up any doctor who talked about contraception on the National University's campus and cancelling even demographics from the curriculum ("We've convinced them that to carry out such a program is to act against the nation. ... The Medical School will never allow a plan of North American penetration to be carried out in its name!"
; Salvadoran editors (pre-Humanæ Vitæ) opined that Central America "should think of birth control only after it has twice the population of England or France. At one point he speaks of Central America's resources being sufficient for a population ten times its present size" and the Hondurans' belief 1970 was "If we would have had more people, El Salvador would not have dared to invade us" 1969: 75% of intelligentsia and 60% of students in Honduras thought that a doubled or tripled population was needed to end poverty; Planned Parenthood's job was seen as "assuring the domination of western civilization" by keeping foreigners in control of the Third World: the First World feared "that their prestige and power positions might be threatened if our countries grow too fast"; one French-educated Honduran atheist said that "A situation now favorable to the U.S. will no longer be so once Latin America triples its present population," and leftists were likelier to oppose family planning if irreligious (39% right pro-planning vs. 29% left): 24% of the right denied that growth increased poverty, as opposed to 50% of the far left (Axel Mundigo); in the 80s it was the decidedly un-religious (but very male-dominated) human-rights orgs opposing legalizing abortion way more than the Archdiocese in the newspapers
it's not that new either: 20s France was the only European country to see its population fall, so abortionists were outlawed and called national traitors there, too.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014804287#post3
The same generation who did these things, is still around, and the OP's link says 10% of the people in El Salvador are involved in the gangs. The issue of how 'human rights' are enabling the gangs is also mentioned, and it also said that many support a very hard line against them. They are a very divided society, such as our is now turning into and it's brutal for women.
A read of the OP below will explain why this is happening around the world, and I believe it is for the purpose of making more cannon fodder and to enrich the 1%. There is more than one kind of army and I consider gangs part of the destabilization of society brought about indirectly by their actions. Chaos benefits the 1%:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/110212801
August 23, 2015
Prescription for the 2016 election: read, and re-read this column, as needed, whenever you might feel disappointment about individual candidates, and especially when you find yourself falling into the meme-trap of "both parties are the same". Re-read, rinse and repeat... but the differences between the parties are so clear and dramatic that it’s hard to see how anyone who has been paying attention could be undecided even now, or be induced to change his or her mind between now and the election...
~ Paul Krugman
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/13/opinion/it-takes-a-party.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
to MBS:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016119970
The Republicans are taking the gloves off. Soon they will offer the fist in our faces. IMO,
this will be our last time to vote if the GOP gets in. They haven't been subtle about their views on who deserves to vote and have a say over our lives and our national course. Yes, please, vote!Prescription for the 2016 election: read, and re-read this column, as needed, whenever you might feel disappointment about individual candidates, and especially when you find yourself falling into the meme-trap of "both parties are the same". Re-read, rinse and repeat... but the differences between the parties are so clear and dramatic that it’s hard to see how anyone who has been paying attention could be undecided even now, or be induced to change his or her mind between now and the election...
~ Paul Krugman
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/13/opinion/it-takes-a-party.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
to MBS:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016119970
August 22, 2015
Uploaded by Dierne on Jan 16, 2007
Breathtaking footage of the River Torridge in Devon and its wildlife throughout the seasons, set to Ralph Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.
Enjoy.
Note 1: Unfortunately resizing for YouTube has degraded the video quality quite considerably.
Note 2: I do not claim any credit for the footage. I merely edited it together from a one-off BBC programme and set it to music.
Sorry, it cuts off abruptly at the end. But put it on full screen to experience the marvel of that special place in time on the island that we call England.
River Torridge - Fantasia on a Theme
Uploaded by Dierne on Jan 16, 2007
Breathtaking footage of the River Torridge in Devon and its wildlife throughout the seasons, set to Ralph Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.
Enjoy.
Note 1: Unfortunately resizing for YouTube has degraded the video quality quite considerably.
Note 2: I do not claim any credit for the footage. I merely edited it together from a one-off BBC programme and set it to music.
Sorry, it cuts off abruptly at the end. But put it on full screen to experience the marvel of that special place in time on the island that we call England.
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