10.13.2012
Romney's Plan to Obliterate Medicaid - Kevin Drum, Mother Jones
Romney's Plan to Obliterate Medicaid - Kevin Drum, Mother Jones
10.12.2012
US Consumer Sentiment Jumps to a 5-Year High New York Times
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Consumer
sentiment unexpectedly rose to its highest level in five years in
October in the latest in a string of encouraging economic signs.
The 6 Studies Paul Ryan Cited Prove Mitt Romney's Tax Plan Is Impossible The Atlantic
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By
Matthew O'Brien Paul Ryan finally had enough time to go through the
math of the Romney tax plan during the vice-presidential debate.
WOW: New Chinese Nobel Laureate Calls for Fellow Nobel Winner's Freedom New York Times
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BEIJING
- Mo Yan, the new Nobel laureate who has strenuously avoided
antagonizing the Communist Party during much of his career, stepped into
a political minefield on Friday by calling for the release of Liu
Xiaobo, the imprisoned writer and fellow ...
10.10.2012
Joe Romm's Deadly Denial Unabated - The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/why-arent-politicians-listening-to-joe-romm-about-climate-change/263432/
Loving's comment: I'm sorry. Yes, that congress is not listening to 1 man, this is such a break with US and world history history of massive change! Remember how they listened to 1 woman and gave women the right to vote? Remember how they listened to 1 man and passed civil rights legislation? Remember how it was the voice of 1 man that ended the Vietnam War? Remember how the voice of 1 man got rid of Mubarak in Egypt? Remember? Oh. Never mind.
Romm is like Captain Ahab with this maniacal quest to bring congress to heal, single handedly. Tragedy. He, and the rest of the intelligencia on the left are vastly more valuable to the fossil fuel industry than the industry's own lobbyists. The oil shills deny the science. Romm and the the rest of the climate club deny not one, but three things:
1. The true human suffering already underway and impending. Oh, they write ad-nauseum of the impending horrors, but you can see from their personal non-commitment, non-risk... that it is all abstract for them, remote, removed, academic; with the possible exception of Hansen who has put skin in the game. The rest of the climate club, their own kids will be 'fine,' and you can see that in the seemingly infinite lipservice spit-balls they hurl for decades now at an industry after $20-80 trillion in fossil fuel reserves.
2. They deny that there are only two means of bringing mass change - violence and unviolent action, and that the core, the very stuff of unviolent action is voluntary personal suffering. Oh yes, he, McKibben, and the rest of the climate club say, NO, we can do this on the cheap; Few if any need to suffer. As I said, the deniers on the right deny the Truth of Science; the deniers on the left deny the Truth of unviolent historical change. Gandhi, MLK Jr faced and embraced the essence of unviolent action. Romm, McKibben, et al, make a tidy, self-righteous living, denying it.
3. Romm and the rest of the climate club deny personal responsibility to meaningfully act.
Unlike the fossil fuel lobby, Romm flies under the radar of well intended folks, confuses the well intended as the right could never do, and costs the fossil fuel industry not a cent.
That Romm's complicity is something he is in psychological denial about makes it no less deadly.
Hmmm. Einstein too was a physicist. 'The test of insanity is doing the same thing over and over [frenetic blogging, blaming of Washington, free-lunch 'demonstrations' in Romm's case for decades now]
and expecting different results.'
Loving's comment: I'm sorry. Yes, that congress is not listening to 1 man, this is such a break with US and world history history of massive change! Remember how they listened to 1 woman and gave women the right to vote? Remember how they listened to 1 man and passed civil rights legislation? Remember how it was the voice of 1 man that ended the Vietnam War? Remember how the voice of 1 man got rid of Mubarak in Egypt? Remember? Oh. Never mind.
Romm is like Captain Ahab with this maniacal quest to bring congress to heal, single handedly. Tragedy. He, and the rest of the intelligencia on the left are vastly more valuable to the fossil fuel industry than the industry's own lobbyists. The oil shills deny the science. Romm and the the rest of the climate club deny not one, but three things:
1. The true human suffering already underway and impending. Oh, they write ad-nauseum of the impending horrors, but you can see from their personal non-commitment, non-risk... that it is all abstract for them, remote, removed, academic; with the possible exception of Hansen who has put skin in the game. The rest of the climate club, their own kids will be 'fine,' and you can see that in the seemingly infinite lipservice spit-balls they hurl for decades now at an industry after $20-80 trillion in fossil fuel reserves.
2. They deny that there are only two means of bringing mass change - violence and unviolent action, and that the core, the very stuff of unviolent action is voluntary personal suffering. Oh yes, he, McKibben, and the rest of the climate club say, NO, we can do this on the cheap; Few if any need to suffer. As I said, the deniers on the right deny the Truth of Science; the deniers on the left deny the Truth of unviolent historical change. Gandhi, MLK Jr faced and embraced the essence of unviolent action. Romm, McKibben, et al, make a tidy, self-righteous living, denying it.
3. Romm and the rest of the climate club deny personal responsibility to meaningfully act.
Unlike the fossil fuel lobby, Romm flies under the radar of well intended folks, confuses the well intended as the right could never do, and costs the fossil fuel industry not a cent.
That Romm's complicity is something he is in psychological denial about makes it no less deadly.
Hmmm. Einstein too was a physicist. 'The test of insanity is doing the same thing over and over [frenetic blogging, blaming of Washington, free-lunch 'demonstrations' in Romm's case for decades now]
and expecting different results.'
10.09.2012
nd 'Profound Depression. RomneyRyan should be low single digits. Reagan I, Reagan II, Bush I, Bush II, Bush III. We're the WMD.' Loving' Loving
nd 'Profound Depression. RomneyRyan should be low single digits. Reagan I, Reagan II, Bush I, Bush II, Bush III. We're the WMD.' Loving' Loving
Taliban says it shot 'infidel' Pakistani teen for advocating girls' rights Washington Post
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PESHAWAR,
Pakistan— A 14-year-old Pakistani activist who won international
acclaim for speaking out for girls denied education under the Taliban
was shot Tuesday on her way home from school, authorities said.
Fortune Mag: Obama trounces Welch's job record
Obama trounces Welch's job record
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/10/09/jack-welch-obama-jobs/
10.08.2012
nd 'Only those Dying for a different Way can I reach or Help. For King, Gandhi, Jesus... it was and Is the same.' Loving
nd 'Only those Dying for a different Way can I reach or Help. For King, Gandhi, Jesus... it was and Is the same.' Loving
nd 'Satan, Evil: Head, Flesh Reigning, Denying Heart.' Loving
nd 'Satan, Evil: Head, Flesh Reigning, Denying Heart.' Loving
nd 'Evil: Entirely depends on Denying the Heart Reign.' Loving
nd 'Evil: Entirely depends on Denying the Heart Reign.' Loving
Gallup Poll: Obama leads Romney USA TODAY
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***** Obama's Edge With Centenarians ABC News
WATCH: 106 Years Old and Voting for President Obama: "Red, White and Blue, Going Forward!"
READ!!! THIS!!! >>>
READ!!! THIS!!! >>>
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They
form what is perhaps the smallest and least influential voting bloc in
the 2012 presidential race. But this campaign season, the nation's
oldest voters -- 100 years, plus -- are proving that they may have the
most grit, and an affinity for ...
10.07.2012
nd 'Deadly Denial is a failure of the Heart, NOT the Head.' Loving
nd 'Deadly Denial is a failure of the Heart, NOT the Head.' Loving
Axelrod: Obama 'taken aback by the brazenness' of Romney's debate performance Politico
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Obama
senior campaign adviser David Axelrod on Sunday said Republican Mitt
Romney delivered a “very good performance” at the first presidential
debate that was “completely un-rooted in fact” and the president was
“taken aback at the brazenness” of the ...
Which Romney Will Voters Get? - Ezra Klein, Washington Post
Which Romney Will Voters Get? - Ezra Klein, Washington Post
Moderate Mitt? Don't Count on It - Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
Moderate Mitt? Don't Count on It - Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times
nd '"No one saw it as a Family matter." Ecocide's Epitaph.' Loving
nd '"No one saw it as a Family matter." Ecocide's Epitaph.' Loving
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