Critical Mass

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Sunday December 07, 2014 · 2:51 PM PST

2014/12/07 · 14:51

Everyone needs to read this LONG and COMPREHENSIVE expose' about Republican Attorneys Generals and their secret cobnnections to the energy industry carefully.

We need to put watchdogs on these AG's doorsteps, with perpetual FOIA requests in their paws.

http://www.nytimes.com/...

The words "Obamacare" and "n**ger" have become interchangeable

John Patterson

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Saturday November 08, 2014 · 4:39 AM PST

2014/11/08 · 04:39

The words "Obamacare" and "Nigger" have become interchangeable.

History will prove that racial bigots represented the only mob available in 2009 that the Corporate Right had to tap for support once their moderate voters proved too moderate to keep the Democrats from exercising their growing majority.

Those bosses, particularly the med and health insurance profiteers who engineered the outrageous cost explosion in those industries, saw the ACA coming down the pike and knew if they did not find a way to control that natural political flow to the center, it was only a matter of time before REAL regulations with executive teeth were leveled at them, intended to protect We, the People from their dangerous Earth-polluting and sustenance-draining greed.

So they stirred up that hateful, race-challenged mob that heretofore was considered the crazy, prejudiced Aunt and Uncle at family gatherings, and gave their ringleaders rare authority within Republican ranks, which in the past only happened in the deep south. And it lost them the Senate control they now claim for two election cycles before they could herd that mob effectively.

John Patterson

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Monday January 03, 2011 · 10:25 AM PST

2011/01/03 · 10:25

Nicholas Ruiz, a young Progressive Florida Democrat is starting early in the 2012 U.S. Congressional Campaign season, running to reclaim the District 24 seat that was lost by blue dog Suzanne Kosmas to a Republican in the 2010 election.

Dr. Ruiz (Ph.D in Humanities, Florida State University, 2006; MLA in Liberal Arts, University of North Carolina, 2003; BS in Molecular and Microbiology, University of Central Florida, 1996)was born in New York City in 1970 and lives in New Smyrna Beach, FL, USA.

He is married to Danielle Ruiz and has two sons, Nicholas and Kai. He is the author of America in Absentia (2008), Integral Reality (with Robert Hassan, forthcoming, 2011) and The Metaphysics of Capital, (2006). He is also the editor of Kritikos.

John Patterson

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Thursday December 16, 2010 · 8:14 AM PST

2010/12/16 · 08:14

History repeats itself. Republicans are very adept at gathering suckers to fool when their own base comes up short in the majority game.

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62 votes Show Results

Do you believe that Republicans will honor their promises to the Tea Party?

62 votes Vote Now!

Do you believe that Republicans will honor their promises to the Tea Party?

Yes

5 votes

57 votes

Make Tax Cut Extension for Millionaires Contingent on Lower Unemployment Rates?

John Patterson

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Thursday December 09, 2010 · 8:34 PM PST

2010/12/09 · 20:34

What do you think?

Since it appears the rich will get their blood money, maybe there is a way to force them to put it into creating jobs like they claim.

Could the Dems make the extension of high income tax cuts temporary, and continued cuts contingent on lowering unemployment rates?

Don't they claim they will make jobs appear if they get their tax cut extension? The Dems should write the bill with that actually as a condition of keeping those cuts.

If Obama and the Dems actually give the trickle-downers their "precious" (think gollum) tax cut extension for 2 years, can they also make it so that if the wealthy fail to trickle it down, the tax break goes away?

Could the extension be written so that if the unemployment rate doesn't drop below a given figure withn a year, (6% seems proper) then their tax cuts would be rescinded.

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Should upper-income tax cuts be pegged to lower unemployment?

50 votes Vote Now!

Should upper-income tax cuts be pegged to lower unemployment?

yes

40 votes

9 votes

makes no difference to me

1 vote

Lower the SS retirement age to free up jobs?

John Patterson

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Sunday December 05, 2010 · 9:35 AM PST

2010/12/05 · 09:35

Here's a deep thought: Congress should LOWER the social security eligibility age to 55, and thereby relieve the workplace of older employees, to open up the employment prospects for the next wave.

It might require a substantial uptick in Social Security funding via income deductions, but I'd bet that "next wave" would gladly trade a higher weekly FICA paycheck deduction in exchange for better job security.

And I'd also wager there are more than a few overworked older employees who got dumped on when their employers laid off all their fellow employees, workers who are tired of shouldering all that enforced productivity, who would be happy to retire earlier than they originally planned.

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Do you think lowering the SS retirement age would free up jobs?

102 votes Vote Now!

Do you think lowering the SS retirement age would free up jobs?

YES

83 votes

15 votes

WHO KNOWS?

4 votes

Congressional majorities have nothing to do with party affiliation any more..

John Patterson

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Saturday December 04, 2010 · 6:01 AM PST

2010/12/04 · 06:01

It is time to rethink the whole concept of Congressional Majorities.

We need to stop thinking "Democrat v. Republican" in terms of Congressional power swings.

There is a majority of wealthy people in Congress, both houses, and they are voting for their own interests, not for The People, per se.

It is now "Rich v. Middle Class," it is no longer R v D, and we know which side owns that majority and which side is perpetually winning.

Forget the whole "D and R" facade, this is class war, not political squabbling. Congress is almost wholly on the side of the wealthy, we learn that fresh every session.

Ponder for just a moment, how many truly middle class or recently impoverished people are in Congress. Count them on your hands and toes.

Which, in many ways, constitutes taxation without representation. Why is it only wealthy people or their hired hands can run for office?

The People have no representation any more, we are simply ruled by the wealthy.

Citizens United is living proof.

The Battle of New Orleans, 2010 "The British kept on drillin' "

John Patterson

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Thursday June 10, 2010 · 12:02 PM PDT

2010/06/10 · 12:02

In 2010, BP took a little trip
Along with Halliburton down the mighty Mississip.
They had a lot of money and they had a lot of greed
Yes, they were the bloody British in the town of New Orleans.

[Chorus:]
They fired up the rig and the British kept on drillin'.
Deeper in the ocean than they ever did before,
They drilled too deep and that big rig just exploded
dumpin' all that oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

John Patterson

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Monday February 15, 2010 · 10:54 AM PST

2010/02/15 · 10:54

With the announced resignation of Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana still hot on the blogs and heading for the MSM headlines, a comment by Talking Points Memo reader “erica” suggesting John Mellencamp as a viable candidate for the Indiana Democrats to offer in the general election, has sparked a grassroots wildfire on the internet to draft the singer/songwriter to run for office.

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Do you think John Mellencamp could hold his own in the Senate

644 votes Vote Now!

Do you think John Mellencamp could hold his own in the Senate

YES, he's already head and shoulders above most of them

198 votes

Yes, he's capable of it

127 votes

Yes, Al Franken is proof entertainers make great Senators

62 votes

Yes, he is obviously aware of the public plight

66 votes

191 votes

Who deserves to be more outraged: American voyeurs or Islamic faithful?

John Patterson

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Wednesday May 13, 2009 · 2:07 PM PDT

2009/05/13 · 14:07

Considering how much of that taunting and torture in those unreleased photos is specifically dependent on degrading Islamic ethnic and religious customs, I think the Obama administration’s refusal to release them is prudent, to put it mildly.

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Who do you think should be more outraged?

62 votes Vote Now!

Who do you think should be more outraged?

Americans who don't get to see those photos?

13 votes

Muslims who get to see those photos?

49 votes

Kossacks all need to support and network for Sebelius for Senate if she decides to run.

John Patterson

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Sunday February 08, 2009 · 7:26 AM PST

2009/02/08 · 07:26

If Sebelius runs for Senate, the Kossacks should get behind her from every corner of Kosland. Sure, relative to our favorite lefties, she's decidedly centrist, but considering her stand on energy issues, she's no doubt "one of us."

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Do you think Sebelius should...

35 votes Vote Now!

Do you think Sebelius should...

take a cabinet position now?

8 votes

run for the Senate in 2010?

27 votes

The case for Sebelius at HHS

John Patterson

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Thursday November 06, 2008 · 11:30 AM PST

2008/11/06 · 11:30

Obama needs to build his leadership root directory first, then flesh it out through the outline he creates with his first appointments.
And Sebelius should be well up on that list.

The case for Sebelius at HHS

From today's Wichita Eagle;

"A potential Obama cabinet projected in June on the Daily Kos Web site slotted Sebelius in at secretary of Health and Human Services.

It's not a bad guess, said Mel Kahn, a professor of political science at Wichita State University.

Health care reform is expected to be a key goal of the Obama administration and Sebelius has strong credentials in that area, he said.

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