[PLUG-TALK] Strong words, strong actions

[Gregory Salter]

I must disagree here. the two parties are NOT the same. 



http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/09/fifteen-differences/

Further, if you are one who pays no attention to Politics, I submit this quote/essay:

The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. he doesn't seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions. He even prides himself on his political ignorance, Sticks out his chest and says he hates politics. He doesn't know, the imbecile, that from his political non-participation comes the prostitute, the robber, and the worst of all, the corrupt officials. the lackeys of exploitative multinational corporations.
-Bertolt Brecht. 


Folks, this is a Representational Democracy, and it's like driving a motorcycle. You have to pay attention to what You are doing, and also what others around you are doing. Not paying attention is how the Badguys on the Right got in, and it will take a great effort to get them out. Especially with Monsanto having their own Supreme Court Justice. (worked for them as a lawyer, and has never once voted against them in any decision on the Supreme Bench.)



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> From: Keith Lofstrom <keithl at gate.kl-ic.com>
>To: Off-topic and potentially flammable discussion <plug-talk at lists.pdxlinux.org> 
>Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 8:39 AM
>Subject: Re: [PLUG-TALK] Strong words, strong actions
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>On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 11:14:05AM -0700, Paul Heinlein wrote:
>> Dear Congress,
>> 
>> Some of you have decided to fight against paying financial commitments 
>> that became law through your own branch of our government. I'm sure 
>> you're able to justify your stance with rhetoric about "ceilings" and 
>> "compromise" rather using the more plain-spoken term: reneging on a 
>> promise.
>...
>
>Americans, on average, watch 1500 hours of television a year.  You
>can monetize that at $20 per hour, times 300 million Americans, to
>9 trillion dollars per year, spent.  You can "educationalize" that
>to 15% of a PhD per person per year, lost.  You can medicalize that
>into diabetes and early death, at national rates at least three
>times the effects of smoking.  Or you can "non-quantify" that into
>countless hours NOT playing with kids, learning from seniors,
>volunteering in the community, contributing to the future.
>
>In a world of dwindling resources, with billions of others climbing
>the ladder to join us in the consumption of them, something has to
>give.  The debate in Congress is whether that should be the few
>remaining people who create jobs, or the growing hoards of people
>who can't do them.  None will talk about a destructive addiction
>that is making Americans too stupid to work, educate, employ, or
>govern themselves.  
>
>OF COURSE we can't pay for promises made in more enlightened times.
>At best, we can pull out our China-backed credit cards and keep
>spending like it was 1980, and expect our children to pay the bills.
>The same children we park in front of televisions rather than share
>and learn with, because we are too busy watching our own TV shows.
>
>I'm an open source guy.  My solution is to end copyright for all
>broadcast entertainment, to make media encryption subject to huge
>fines -- which subsidize the breaking of existing media encryption.
>So how will we pay for Hollywood?  What prevents rebroadcasting
>and remixing content with advertising removed?  Nothing.  Bye-bye.
>The cocaine-snorters in the Beverly Hills mansions will have to
>find real jobs.  When they stop making broadcast crap, people will
>eventually stop watching the existing stuff, or have fun remixing
>it and repurposing it.  We can return to a many-to-many culture,
>instead of red and blue siloed simpletons sucking on a glass teat.
>
>The republicrats and the demopublicans are two sides of one 
>counterfeit coin.  They are both absolutely correct that their
>opponents are evil.  In other matters, they are lethally wrong.
>There is a third choice.  Ignore the bastards, turn off the 
>boob tube, go outside, and live.
>
>Keith
>
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>Keith Lofstrom          keithl at keithl.com
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