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One of the problems plaguing our government is a form of corruption called "the revolving door". A public official who is responsible for regulating private industries will make recommendations and enforcement decisions favorable to those industries in hopes of getting a well-paying job when they leave government service. Like all people, they want to make a lot of money, but as public employees, they are almost never paid commensurate with people in similar positions of responsibility in the industries that they regulate. Their public salaries encourage them to think about how they can make more money later.
In fact, 423 important officials in the Obama administration have used their government positions to get through that revolving door. As anyone would, they want to get out of their low-paying public service jobs as fast as they can in order to get where they can make real money.
Corporations, on the other hand, have an interest in keeping the pay of public employees low, and it isn't necessarily about keeping their taxes low. Their interest is that if public employees are hungry, they are easier to bribe.
However, Ms. Muranishi did not have that pressure on her. She worked for 38 years in the public interest and there has never been any indication that she performed her job in other than an exemplary fashion. She managed a very large organization that is responsible for serving the needs of 1.5 million people — a tremendous responsibility. And she did it well enough that they kept her on year after year. Perhaps her $420,000 salary seems like a lot to those of us who have not escaped the oppression of the plutocrats, but it is far less than what is earned by people in similar management positions in private industry.
I say congratulations to Ms. Muranishi, and thank you for your service. I hope that you have a peaceful retirement and a good life. You deserve it!
We should pay all of our public employees, especially those who are responsible for legislation, regulation, and administration, much more than we do now. If the public wants their employees to be answerable to them instead of to corporate bribery, then the public should pay their employees like they mean it.
Establishing parity for people in government administration, enforcement, and policy-making positions is especially important now. People who have sought to further their education to attain such positions can be counted upon to want to further their careers, too, and the rewards that come with success. Personally, I see no reason to not expect that because there's nothing inherently wrong with it. And when the rules permit corruption — as they certainly do now — then we should also expect it as people take advantage of those rules in order to increase their incomes.
And that corruption, legal though it may be, has caused and is causing great damage to our society by perverting the public will and destroying our economy.
Some will argue that raising public salaries eventually becomes unsustainable. However, we're only talking about parity with the private marketplace, not endless increases in salaries with no ceilings. Government participates in that market every day, buying all sorts of goods and services and selling services, but we do not see the areas where government competes on either the supply or demand side suffering imbalances. Competition — when it is effective — moderates both supply and demand. Right now, however, the public sector does not compete for labor. It gets the leftovers (as in military enlistees and clerks), people who really do wish to serve, and some people whose purpose is to serve corrupt private interests while they work for the public with the intention of getting better jobs later.
Private employers, because they are a much larger buyer in the market, have labor all tied up, and the private labor market can pay as little or as much as it wants. And with public salaries so low, we see fairly low bribes going to legislators and low, and even impoverishing, paychecks going to almost everyone below the level of executive in both the public and private sectors. Companies can bribe public officials with pennies and reap huge returns for their efforts.
But if government sets parity with private employment as a goal, not only does it encourage professionals to stay in government service and encourage good people to seek those jobs, but the private market will have to compete, albeit only modestly, for all jobs based on cost-effectiveness. Private employers' domination of the labor market would be slightly weakened, and they would be less able to abuse employees with low pay. Furthermore, bribes would have to become so large — even under our current system of legal bribery – as to be impractical (for many reasons, including the headlines that they would generate).
There is little need to worry about increasing taxes or inflation. The multiplier effect of having more government workers paid more stimulates economic activity. The competitive pressure that it would put on private employers to raise salaries would be negligible, since the private labor market is huge in comparison. And while taxes certainly would increase, those tax increases would offset any inflationary pressure, and would be offset by the multiplier.
In the end, parity between public pay and private pay is nothing but good. There are no negatives to it.
]]>But it turns out that that was not the worst of his problems. His mortgage was held by Wells Fargo, and it killed him.
For two years, Wells Fargo had been paying taxes on the wrong property because of a typo that was entirely their fault. Larry didn't owe those taxes, but Wells Fargo said that he did. They doubled his mortgage payments. They even demanded that Larry pay more than the taxes they said that he had owed. Larry just couldn't afford those payments. Eventually, on the day that he came home from the hospital after an especially bad bout with his disease, they sold his condo and threw him out on the street.
Larry took Wells Fargo to court. He thought that he could get justice there. However, the judge had indicated that she was prepared to give a summary ruling in favor of Wells Fargo — as unbelievable as that may seem. Nevertheless, wrongly charged, wrongly evicted, and wrongly treated, Larry wanted his day in court. But as his attorney was arguing his case, Larry suffered a heart attack and died.
Larry Delassus died fighting a monstrous tyrant that has similarly abused countless others while its executives have collected millions in bonuses at taxpayers' expense. Wells Fargo, one of the banks at the core of our country's 2008 financial meltdown, which threw million of people out of work and contributed to a world-wide economic disaster which still affects us to this day, received billions in bail-out money from taxpayers but has not seen fit to share that largesse with them.
On March 19, Wells Fargo, a company that should have suffered the corporate death penalty for its crimes, will celebrate its 161st birthday. Larry Delassus won't have any more birthdays. He spent the last of his energy and his life fighting their abuse.
From now on, March 19 should be known not as Wells Fargo's birthday, but as "Larry Delassus Day" in honor and commemoration of a man who fought to his last breath a monster that abuses us all.
Next Tuesday, get a friend and celebrate Larry Delassus Day in front of your nearest Wells Fargo. You could even carry a sign if you want to. Larry can't fight them for us anymore. It's our fight, now.
Note: If you've got an idea for what could be painted on a sign that Wells Fargo might see, your suggestions will be welcome.
]]>Most of you have heard the story already. Larry Delassus died in court trying to fight Wells Fargo's abuse. They made a typo, and even after admitting that they'd made a mistake, foreclosed on him and threw him out in the street the day that he got out of the hospital. Here's the full story:
Wells Fargo Typo Victim Dies In Court
Larry died fighting. But all of us — every one of us who is not rich, who doesn't get million-dollar bonuses, and who abides by the rules because it's the right thing to do — have also been victims of Wells Fargo's executives and the other banksters that have drained our country, putting our money and our nation's wealth in their pockets. Larry died fighting our fight.
On March 19, Wells Fargo will celebrate it's 161st birth day. But Larry won't have any more birthdays because of them. On that day, Larry Delassus Day, I'm going to paint a sign and stand in front of that awful, inhuman monster and tell everyone I meet what they did. I'm going to tell everyone that I can about their filthy greed and how they are destroying our lives and our country.
Please don't let Larry be forgotten. Don't let his death be in vain. Stand up for yourselves, for your children, and for your country. Please join me on March 19, in front of your nearest Wells Fargo Bank.
]]>The deal Obama is seeking with Republicans will allow the elimination of cuts in military spending, putting the entire burden of cuts on the middle class and poor. What's more, Obama is making this offer even though Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit or the debt because it is not a part of the budget.
How did we get in this predicament where a Democratic President is offering Republicans what they have craved for more than sixty years?
We are learning the lesson of lesser evil politics.
If we look at each Presidency issue by issue rather than by party affiliation, we cannot deny that each successive government that we've had since Jimmy Carter has been farther to the right than the previous one, particularly when it comes to spending on vital but "discretionary" programs. Bill Clinton gave us "welfare reform" that has failed miserably during this financial crisis, the repeal of Glass-Steagall, which was Wall Street's wet dream and (at least) a huge contributing factor to the financial collapse in 2008, and the Defense of Marriage Act, to name a few of his right-wing policies.
Barack Obama has overseen the dramatic growth of an authoritarian state, curtailing individuals' rights under several amendments in the Bill of Rights even to the point of saying, in actual effect, that he can kill anyone anywhere at any time for reasons that he specifies without review by another branch of government. And there can be little doubt that corruption in government has gotten worse under his tenure, while he has done nothing to try to combat it except give a few speeches. Many officials in the executive branch have gone to work for corporations that they were formerly responsible for regulating. Such employment is widely and justly seen as a reward for those former public employees not doing their jobs while they were in public service.
In fact, there are no issues other than abortion and the Lilly Ledbetter act on which the actual results of government policy are not farther to the right than what George W. Bush gave us.
The problem is how we vote. We have become convinced that Republicans are so terrible that we are unwilling to hold accountable Democrats who are not actually very different from them. There are no primary fights because we're afraid to weaken Democratic incumbents. The result is that we get what we don't want anyway. The entire focus of Democrats becomes not policy but making sure that someone with a "D" behind their name holds office. The impediments to reaching our goals has become not Republicans but corruption and Democrats who support right-wing policies.
Of course, the excuse we always hear is that things would be worse under Republicans. This is, however, clearly a fallacy since we end up with the very policies that Republicans would work for anyway. (Tax hikes? Even Ronald Reagan eventually saw that he had to increase taxes, which a Republican-controlled Senate helped him to do.)
Our shift to being more concerned about personality than principle is what has gotten us in our current predicament. Only when we become more concerned with actual results than with who holds office will things begin to change for the better. But that's a tide that will take a long time to shift. In the meantime, get ready for austerity (which everyone should know by now will only make things worse), for the loss of even more of our fundamental Constitutional rights, and for the further demise of human habitat at our children's and grandchildren's expense.
]]>That is why I feel especially frustrated at the news that the Supreme Court has struck down Clapper v. Amnesty International. At issue is the federal government's warrantless wiretapping program. The plain text of the Fourth Amendment seems — at least to me — to make that program clearly unconstitutional. It strikes at the very heart of the sovereignty of The People, a fundamental principle that underlies our Constitution. However, with their ruling, the Supreme Court has said that the government is supreme over the People, that certain rights — both enumerated and unenumerated — are not held by the People because the government can infringe upon them simply by saying those infringements are secret.
Clapper v. Amnesty International, Warrantless Wiretapping Challenge, Struck Down By Supreme Court
So, with SCOTUS turning a deaf ear to our individual liberties and rights, what options do we have left? Our politicians don't listen to us — they listen only to a very few very wealthy individuals and corporations. The President doesn't listen to us — he said "Make me", and we gave him huge public opinion polls telling him what we wanted to have done, but he went in the opposite direction, instead, on many issues. And, now, the Supreme Court has confirmed that it has no interest in protecting our fundamental rights.
In times long past, Americans revolted against such tyranny. Today, however, the general public is much less aware of what is being done to them. As long as they've got their smart phones and junk food and football games, they're content to let things ride. And those are things that the establishment will not mess with, since that actually would raise the ire of the public.
Since a modern revolt to reassert and protect our rights seems very unlikely to occur, must we resign ourselves to losing all of our rights, and to a planet made destitute by corruption and the ruining of our climate? Are our children truly doomed by our ignorance and laziness?
]]>Justices Breyer, Ginsburg, Sotomayor, and Kagan voted with the majority to not to hear the case, and they have received some criticism for that vote.
The argument being made by some opponents of Citizens United is that the Court should, at least, have heard the arguments justifying Montana's ruling. They believe that the corruption of our government is such a compelling reason to limit the Court's ruling in Citizens United that they could have been successful if only the Court had listened to arguments.
But the four "liberal" Justices did not vote to give certiorari even though they wanted to reconsider Citizens United. Justice Breyer wrote, "Were the matter up to me, I would vote to grant the petition for certiorari in order to reconsider Citizens United or, at least, its application in this case." But he did not want to do so now, saying, "given the Court's per curiam disposition, I do not see a significant possibility of reconsideration. Consequently, I vote instead to deny the petition."
The five Justices who opposed the Montana ruling intend to allow financial contributions and corporate spending to control the political process even in the face of corruption. The four Justices understood that the majority would not reverse themselves. Furthermore, the "liberals" were afraid that, if the case was heard, a subsequent ruling might serve only to strengthen Citizens United even more, and they did not want to take that risk.
Thinking about that, I'm convinced that we probably dodged a bullet. For those of us who want to quash Citizens United, those four Justices did us a favor in spite of ourselves. If we'd gotten our way, we might have even bigger problems than we have now.
– David Dickinson
]]>But on election night, when it became clear that Obama would win and the cheers went up and the joyful tears started flowing at our local campaign headquarters, I didn't join the cheering or the grateful crying. I knew that Obama wasn't actually a reformer when he voted in the Senate to let the telecommunications companies slide for violating our constitutional rights. Also, I'd been watching the edits to Obama's web site, and I saw how he kept removing things and watering down his positions. The last change that I noticed before I realized that Obama would actually betray me on some issues was when he deleted campaign finance reform and public campaign financing. I was certain then that Obama would actually oppose me on policies that I knew were essential for our country. But I voted for him anyway.
I knew that I was voting for the lesser of two evils in 2008, but I did think that Obama was significantly less evil than McCain. I simply hoped that he would make a few significant repairs to the damage done to our economy and to our government and to our Constitution during the Bush administration.
Republicans were nearly finished as a political party after that election. They'd been driven from government in droves. Yet, just as soon as Obama introduced his health care finance proposals, he started negotiating with Republicans as if they mattered. He held backroom meetings with the insurance companies and the pharmaceutical industry in which he pledged that there would be no public option despite a polls showing that a huge majority of Americans wanted public health care financing. He told progressives to shut up and sit down.
We started to hear that ridiculous mantra — the excuse for not fighting Republicans — that he had to "compromise" with them because a super-majority of Democrats just wasn't enough. Not once did Obama stand up and fight for what he had said during the campaign was a requirement, a public option. The result is that the insurance companies now have a strengthened stranglehold on our increasingly expensive health care finance system.
Still, there was the chance that we might be able to restore the rule of law. Surely, some of the criminal bankers who had stolen so much from our country would be prosecuted. Maybe some of the people who had ordered the torturing of our prisoners would be imprisoned. Years later, however, not one of those terrible criminals have been imprisoned.
Finance reform was a joke, too. They put the office that is supposed to protect consumers under the control of the Federal Reserve, a private, quasi-governmental organization controlled by the banks. They watered down or eliminated regulation of derivatives, and they haven't even made use of the law that was supposed to help those who were duped by the banks to renegotiate their mortgages. Instead, money that was supposed to help the public was fed, instead, to the banks.
Then Obama back-tracked on extending the Bush tax cuts. I remember that December grimly. John Boehner, soon to be the Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, had already said that he would vote for a bill that included only an extention of the tax cuts for the middle class, even if it raised taxes on the rich. Within just a few days, however, Obama said that he would negotiate with the Republicans to extend all of the tax cuts. In addition, he would add another one, a cut to the payroll tax, which happens to be the only means that many people can use to save for their retirement. Sure, that cut was to be paid for out of the general fund, but that meant that the money would never actually make it into the Social Security Trust Fund. It would simply be immediately borrowed back again and never repaid. The death knell for Social Security had been rung.
But that turned out not to be the worst of it. Within the last few months, Obama has made direct attacks against our Constitutional rights. He has claimed that he can kill any American anywhere at any time just on his say so. He got his Attorney General to stand up and say with all seriousness that due process is not necessarily a judicial process even though what the Constitution actually calls for is due process of law, something that only the courts can decide. Even more, he signed HR347, a law that makes certain that our elected officials never have to hear our protests. Our rights to speak and to peaceably assemble and to seek redress of our grievances have been eviscerated.
So I'm wondering, did I vote for the lesser or the greater of two evils? Would John McCain, limited by a Democratic Congress, have been allowed to do any of those things?
I voted for Obama anyway, knowing that he was much less than what I'd hoped for, and that he would certainly not do the most important thing that needed to be done: reform our corrupted voting system. I was told that I had to because, if I didn't, McCain would win and things would be worse. People repeated their horror stories of 2000, and they blamed people who voted honestly for what happened. We have to sacrifice our principles, I was told, in order to avoid the boogeyman.
I wanted change, but I didn't get it. What I got, instead, was an amplification of the harm that Bush had done to our country. How could that have happened?
I think now that I know why. It's because I didn't change.
I voted for Obama with my eyes open. There were other candidates much closer to my position on all of the important issues but, I thought, they don't really have a chance of winning, so I might as well vote for as much as I can get, even if a lot of what I would get could be harmful to me. I knowingly voted against my interests. It doesn't matter that I had no idea how destructive to my most essential liberties Obama would actually turn out to be. I voted against my interests on significant issues, thinking that Obama was the best that I could get.
In the end, I got what I voted for. I got a government that opposes my interests, and I have no one to blame but me.
It doesn't matter that Obama may have been the best that I could get. He wasn't the best for whom I could vote. Looking back on my life, it's clear that whenever I've voted for the lesser of two evils, the best that I could get was always worse than the last time. When I voted for the lesser of two evils, I voted for evil.
It started to get really bad in 1980. At that time, lots of people disagreed with Reagan on the issues, but they were going to vote for him anyway because he was such a nice guy. He sang a pretty song about "morning in America", and won their hearts. So they voted against their interests. I was still smart enough then to not vote for Reagan, but the Reagan Democrats got what they voted for: a government that works against their interests.
It's been like that every election since. I voted for Clinton even though I knew that he would end up creating some of the disastrous policies that have so crippled our country today. I got what I voted for then, too.
The chant that we have to vote for the lesser of two evils rather than for our interests is now accepted as absolute truth. We're not supposed to vote for the people whom we really want to represent us because, we're told, they can't win. We can't vote for them because the boogeyman might get us. We're supposed to stay in what the media has told us is the mainstream, and we'd better not stray.
Well, it's certainly true that the people we actually want can't win if we don't vote for them. But so many people are convinced that we have to settle for having our rights taken away from us that it is now impossible to elect people who can actually preserve and strengthen our rights.
And all of that is because I didn't change me. I bought that lie. I voted for less than what I wanted, less than what I needed, knowing that Obama would work against me on the issues that I considered most important. Sure, I was afraid not to because I was afraid of the Republican boogeyman. I was scared that if McCain won, the very things that have happened would happen. But it's clear now – too late – that my children and my grandchildren will suffer for my irresponsibility, my refusal to stand up for myself, my refusal to fight.
I'm not going to do that anymore. I will not vote for the lesser of two evils anymore. I will vote for the person who most represents my will whether or not that person can actually win. I'm going to work hard to persuade others to start doing the same, and I know that I'll get some converts, too, because I already have. And they will talk to people and persuade some to change how they vote.
Yes, we're going to lose in the short term. There's no way that we can not lose even more of our rights and more of our control of our government over the next few years because Obama will be the next President. But I can start working for actual change today and, sooner or later, there will be enough of us voting our consciences that we will start winning elections. With time, we will win more and more. Eventually, we'll have our country back, and my children — or, at least, my grandchildren — will have their rights back and control of their country in their hands, the way our Founding Fathers intended.
The change that I want will begin with me, and I will never, ever again, give in.
– David Dickinson
]]>But he wants you to vote for Barack Obama because he thinks that's the only opportunity that progressives will have to push their agenda forward. He thinks that Congress can be made to bend in the People's direction and against the obvious will of Obama. And, even though Sam admits that Obama's appointments to the Supreme Court have been less than progressive (Kagan, in particular, is a disappointment), he seems to think that an Obama-appointed Court that votes 9-0 against the people (as it eventually will, whether Obama replaces Ruth Bader Ginsburg or not) is better than a Republican-appointed Court that votes the same way.
Sam Seder has said that if we vote for our interests rather than against them, it is merely a "protest vote" that is "less than useless". Of course, large numbers of people have been either ignorantly or knowingly (as many did in 1980) voting against their interests for quite some time. Unfortunately, it turns out that we've gotten what they voted for: a government that acts against our interests.
I say that it acts against our interests because I believe that our security lies not in the strength of an authoritarian police state but, instead, in our freedom. Our security lies in the ability of The People to control their government and not the other way around. I should note that I'm pretty sure that Sam believes the same things.
But Sam is afraid of the consequences of allowing a Republican to be our next President. He says, without being very specific, that a Republican President would be worse than Obama. I'm not exactly sure what could be worse than the dramatic usurpation of our rights signed in to law by Obama under the NDAA or H.R. 347 or by Eric Holder's anti-constitutional statement that due process is not necessarily judicial process, but Sam thinks it would be worse to have a Republican President do the same kind of things, although Obama has done more than simply lay the groundwork to make more terrible oppression easier for Republicans to implement.
Sam may believe that our economic conditions would be somewhat better with Obama than with a Republican President, and he is correct to some extent, but Obama has shown time and again that his sympathies lie more with the welfare of the bankers than with the welfare of The People. And, under Obama, the flow of money from the poor and the middle class to the very rich has not slowed even a little bit. Yet Sam thinks that we must continue to vote against our interests because of the possible short-term consequences of doing otherwise, as if bare economic survival is worth the cost of surrendering our rights to the state.
I admit that at least the next four years would be horrible with a Republican President. But I don't see that Obama would do better to any extent that would make extending his term in office worthwhile. Obama is interested, as Digby wrote, in "what works". Unfortunately, history is replete with examples of "what works" contradicting the values and beliefs of The People. Focusing too much on "what works" leads to authoritarianism and, too often, to fascism. Nevertheless, Obama has been entirely consistent in strengthening the corporate security state at the expense of our liberty.
Furthermore, the corruption that infests our government may be the direct result of our own corruption. We have sacrificed our interests by voting for people who work against us, and Sam proposes that we continue doing so. That demonstrates a fundamental dishonesty on our part. We are responsible for the corruption of our electoral system and our government because we have corrupted the purpose of having elections. The purpose of elections is to allow The People to exercise their will, and our failure to do so corrupts that system.
Sam wants to do the same thing that many people did in 1980: vote against our interests. After all, a lot of people think that Obama is a nice guy, especially when compared with any of the Republican candidates. Even I believe that. We can imagine having a beer with him or even playing basketball with him while the Republicans are proven liars, hypocrites, and demagogues. And Sam says that only if Obama is President will progressives have an opportunity to push their agenda.
And he's serious about that, as if Obama can be made to care what progressives want even though Obama sincerely believe that progressives' idea are bad ideas and has consistently ignored or criticized us. Furthermore, Sam thinks that Congressional Democrats can be pressured to act in our favor and against Obama. He believes this even though a large majority of Congressional Democrats voted to pass those horrible laws that have deprived us of our rights. Sam believes progressives can gain strength by supporting Obama, even though the Democratic corporatists, led by Obama, control the reigns of the Democratic Party and work hard – and very effectively – to keep progressive Democrats out of power.
Sam believes that even if we keep doing the same thing we've done before, we can have different results. He believes that if progressives condone Obama's horrific policies by voting for him, they will be taken seriously when, later, they ask Obama to change his policies. However, contrary to what Sam believes, if we support Obama again then progressives will be weaker than ever, and we will fail to hand down to our children the freedom that we used to enjoy.
Sam Seder's strategy is a cowardly one. If we're afraid to fight because we might get hit, the result will be only a greater loss of our freedom.
It is certainly true that, for the short term, our country and our people will not do well, but there is very little that we can do about that. We waited too long to become active. Progressives will not be listened to in the short term. We will not get a seat at the table. There is no "winning strategy" for progressives in the short term. While we might pick up a few progressive seats in Congress, the best that we can hope for on policy over the next four years is to not lose any more ground, although Obama certainly will strengthen the police state. That's why we have to start looking at the long term. We have to start working now so that our children won't have to fight even harder to get their rights back because we were unwilling to stand up for them today.
We need a long term view and a long term strategy. But what can progressives do?
We have to admit that if we want change then we have to begin by changing ourselves. We cannot continue to support the people who oppose us. Even though we will lose the next few battles against the authoritarians, we can start building our strength by actively opposing them. We can begin by changing the way we vote. Instead of voting against our interests, we can begin to vote for them. Instead of voting for the lesser of two evils, we can extend our outlook and start voting for the greater good. That certainly doesn't mean that we must vote Republican, because there will be other candidates even this year, and some who want to restore our rights to us are campaigning even now, and we certainly must have a Democratic Congress. Progressive challengers to Obama will lose this race to him, and he will win in November, but we will, at least, have finally entered the fight rather than be content to surrender our will. That would be a significant change, and it can lead to greater changes in the future if we keep fighting for our freedom. But we must vow never to surrender again.
We must start changing now. We must not force our children to fight our battles for us. The danger to them will be greater than it is for us today.
– David Dickinson
]]>A constitutional convention is a different kind of body, and one is not required if the goal is to create and pass amendments to the Constitution. A constitutional convention is very powerful. It can completely re-structure our society.
With a constitutional convention, the entire constitution can and will be re-written. That is the purpose of constitutional conventions. That means that the entire structure of our government can change. That means that the Bill of Rights could disappear. In fact, since our Constitution defines what the United States of America is, and since that constitution would no longer exist, our country would no longer exist. It would be replaced by an entirely new country.
A constitutional convention makes the future completely unpredictable.
In his comments, Cenk cited the fabulous product of the work of our founding fathers. He used the fact that what they did turned out to be pretty good as an assurance that what we would come up with now would also be equally good. But that assurance is completely unjustified, and to understand that all that needs to be examined is our current political climate.
Where are today's Thomas Jeffersons and Benjamin Franklins? Who would sit on today's Committee of Detail? John Boehner and Harry Reid? Make no mistake: those who are politically powerful today would determine what would be in our next constitution, yet they are the very people whom we oppose. And we must not forget that many state legislatures, who also would have a significant say in who sits at a convention, are controlled at least in some part by ALEC.
A constitutional convention would make the future entirely unpredictable except in one respect: We would (or should) know already that the result could very likely be a disaster.
Yes, we need a change in the Constitution to strip corporations of their human rights, their political rights, and their immortality. We can do that with an amendment and without writing a new constitution. Do we really want to take the risk of a completely unpredictable future when an amendment would solve the immediate problem? How much do you trust our under-educated population when the media is so dominated by the right-wing?
Personally, I think that a constitutional convention is a very dangerous undertaking.
Disclaimer: I've volunteered to help with Wolf PAC's efforts to strip corporations of their political liberties, and I've even given them money. I think that is essential to maintaining our freedom. I also hope that I'll be able to talk with others in the organization about my concerns.
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]]>Last week I wrote a post entitled "Messaging Failure at #OccupyWallStreet". I noted the vagueness of the reasons that some people expressed when interviewed as their reason for attending the protest. Since then, others have noted the wide-ranging "and-a-pony" variety of the occupiers' signs and complaints.
There was also a lot of confusion when, on Wednesday of last week, one person posted a list of four grievances on Reddit. Some bloggers and media commentators took that list as an official statement, even though it clearly constituted the thoughts of only one person. And when the NYC General Assembly finally published their "Declaration of the Occupation of New York City", twenty-one grievances in all, it was far from the "one demand" that had been publicized as the goal by initial promoters of the event.
Is it a diluted message? Yes, of course it is.
Does that weaken the message? No, not in any way, shape, or form.
Viewing that list of grievances, the reason for the "diluted" nature of the message becomes obvious: It is diluted by necessity. The variety of crimes committed by those in power against the People is so wide-ranging that it cannot be contained in a shorter list. In fact, the NYC General Assembly acknowledges that when they say that the list of grievances is "not all-inclusive".
The "message" from the occupiers is stronger than ever. Almost anyone, upon first hearing the news that some "hippies" (although the vast majority of them are not hippies — "hippies" has a specific meaning.) are protesting on Wall Street knows what it's about. It's a protest against the establishment. For many, it's a protest against an establishment that has driven our country to the brink of ruin and taken the rights and the power of the People to govern themselves and given it to corporations and the rich. To others, it might be a protest against an establishment in which they have placed their ultimate faith for the sake of what they perceive to be their security. But it's a protest against the establishment, and the Declaration spells out the reasons for the discontent of the millions of supporters of the occupation.
A more precise message is unnecessary. A list of demands is not needed. The only message that they have sent, and the only message that needs to be sent right now is in that Declaration, and it is very simple. It is a warning to the manipulators of the establishment that the remaining days of their laissez-faire power are few and that change is coming. That message is, in fact, only one demand:
They must submit to the will of the People.
That message could not be more clear, and no other message needs to be sent because the next one, if there must be a next one, could only be less friendly.
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Rutgers had a bunch of new players on the field for this game. WR Janarion Grant celebrated his first career start with four receptions and a total of 48 yards. Many other players made their collegiate debuts such as Mike Bimonte, Andre Hunt, Andrew Turzilli and many more.
This was a very important game for Rutgers because it was their debut in the Big Ten. Rutgers defeated a school in the PAC-12 for the first time in school history. They rushed the ball 43 times, and had 215 yards on the ground.
So far, they are showing improvements from last season. Penn State also had their first victory of the season over the University of Central Florida Knights, with a final score of 28-26. Justin Holman found Josh Reese in the end zone for a 10-yard touchdown pass early in the quarter.
With under two minutes to play, Reese made an incredible catch to put UCF in the red zone. This game did not go as smoothly as Penn State would have liked, considering they were on the 20, down by one with nine seconds left in the fourth quarter. Christian Hackenberg finished with 457 yards passing with a touchdown, but his performance also included two interceptions. The Nittany Lions rushed for only 57 yards, averaging 2.0 yards per carry. The Nittany Lions are on a mission to get back to the top of the Big Ten.
Ohio State had quite the performance as well, with their win over the Navy Midshipmen with a final score of 34-17. Freshman J.T. Barrett threw for 226 yards, and threw two touchdowns. This was his college debut. He earned his starting position after senior Braxton Miller injured his right shoulder a few weeks ago. Barrett became the second freshman since 1950 to start a season opener at quarterback for Ohio State. Barrett ran nine times for 50 yards. He did not throw often so the game was mostly on the ground. The Buckeyes launched a 10-play drive that only included one pass.
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A passion for Neil is conducting, particularly choirs where he enjoys working with students, "to offer them a solid foundation in choral conducting and singing - research into these areas provides knowledge and understanding with an eye to historic and modern performance ideals."
Neil McEwan is a Lecturer in Conducting and Music Education at Sydney Conservatorium of Music, whose work over many years, which resulted in his doctoral study, has been in researching performing methods, particularly in early music and Gregorian chant, "choristers and listeners are fascinated how the old tenth century medieval notational signs and letters play such an amazing interpretive role in the singing and study of Gregorian chant."
As a choral conductor, church musician, broadcaster, performer, and researcher into Gregorian chant semiology and performance Neil continues to work on performance practice issues and ideals in his work with students. As a cathedral chorister his passion for Gregorian chant led to further study at the celebrated Abbey of Solesmes, and at the Musikhochschule in Würzburg. He also studied orchestral conducting and advanced choral conducting techniques in Stuttgart, Berlin and at the Meistersinger Konservatorium in Nürnberg. He was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 1994 for further overseas study in these areas. Neil has been invited and given many research papers on Gregorian chant semiology for Universities and other music institutions. He has conducted in New Zealand, Austria, Germany, Italy, France, Hungary, England, Canada and the USA. As an adjudicator he has appeared on national and international panels. He specialises in Gregorian chant and Early Music performance practice. Neil recently transcribed Gregorian chants from the medieval manuscript, the 1328 Rimini Antiphonale which was on exhibition at the NSW State Library. The performing edition of these chants were sung in four sold - out concerts at the State Library in March 2008 and broadcast on ABC TV and ABC Classic FM - another concert is scheduled for June 2009. Neil is Director of the Conservatorium Choir, Sydney Conservatorium Chamber Choir, which won prizes in the Bartok Competition and was awarded first and special prize from the city of Vienna in 2002, and the Choir of Christ Church St. Laurence, which he led on tours to New Zealand in 1991/1998 and to Germany, France and England in 1994 and 2002. In January 2007 he toured the Choir of Christ Church St. Laurence to England and the USA. The Choir was invited for the second time to be the resident choir at Westminster Abbey for ten days. In January 2009 Neil was made a Member of the Order of Australia for services to music, education and choral conducting, and was also made a Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music.
Selected publications
- Transcription of chants and performances of the Rimini Antiphonal (1328) State Library of NSW. 2008/2009
- 'Interpretative Signs and Letters in Gregorian chant: The rhythmic and expressive differences in the manuscript of the Cantatorium, Codex 359, St. Gall.' Études Grégoriennes, 2005, Vol.XXXIII, pp.107-151, Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes, France.
- What Sweeter Music: Music from Advent to Epiphany, Choir of Christ Church St. Laurence. CCSL CD05 (CD released 2005)
- The Iberian Connection, St Laurence Chamber Choir, an initiative of the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Sydney. (CD released 2004)
- Samuel Wesley (1766-1837). A Source Book. Aldershot, 2001. ISBN 1 85928 3578. Musicology Australia: Journal of the Musicological Society of Australia, 2003, Vol. 26, p.147.
- Requiem: Officium Defunctorum a 6 Victoria, and Gregorian Mass and Introits Choir of Christ Church St. Laurence, SLM CD 04 (CD released 2002)
- Interpretative signs and letters in Gregorian chant: the rhythmic and expressive differences between the episema and tenete in the manuscript of the Cantatorium, Codex 359 St Gall. (PhD dissertation, 2002)
- Victoria: Missa surge propera, Choir of Christ Church St Laurence, CCSL CD02 (CD released 1990; re-released 1999 – nominated for ARIA award)
- Various documentary programs as producer and presenter for ABC Classic FM
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While there is a lot to brag about for Zalman in this design, things like a quad-pass system to give the coolant four chances to be rid of heat, rather than just two. There is the uniqueness of the design, and you will for sure not see another AIO like this from anyone other than Zalman. It looks good once it is installed, and with PWM control of the fans, the Reserator 3 Max Dual is fine for just about anyone, even while gaming.
The real issue here is that for every "pro" there is a "con", and that just doesn't work out well for the Reserator 3 Max Dual. While the head unit is sleek and attractive, the centralized location of the tubing in the radiator blocks that view anyways.
The radiator is super thick and looks like a beast, but with all the hardware and offsetting, combined with the fact that all the naming that is visible on the side of the radiator is upside down, it really takes things down a notch. Then, of course, even if you could deal with selling out the highly priced cost, the lackluster performance we got in our testing sort of kicks the whole thing right in the grapes.
While there is always the chance of getting a bad unit, since this is a retail sample, it can only go two ways. Either this particular cooler just isn't up to the job at hand by design, or there is the distinct possibility that there are more, identical coolers that out in the wild waiting for someone to buy them.
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On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 10:02 +0200, Set Hallstrom wrote:
The bitrate is either 16 or 24. The samplerate is only restricted to
44.1KHz as a standalone unit. When used as a computer sound interface
you are supposed to be able to set it at the usual places between
44.1KHz and 96KHz.
On a related yet unrelated note, I have two of these and use them in a
master/slave configuration to record gigs using direct outs from our
board. I did have to make a couple of 8 port, 50dB L-pad boxes though
because the inputs on the R-16 are expecting line input at consumer
level (-10dBV) while the board puts out pro level (+4dBu). If anyone is
interested in the L-pad boxes I've posted a tutorial on my web page:
I've since found that I should have made them 40dB so now I have to swap
out the 33K ohm resistors for 10K ohm. Oh well ;-)
> Perhaps configuring jack to use 44.1 will solve the problem?
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I've been growing butterfly bushes in PA zone 6 for the last 7 years and this is the first year that I have no signs of life on the branches in May. Has anyone else noticed that their bushes look dead? |
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Ours have been quite hardy for 8 years or so, until now. They died. We thought maybe we cut them back too soon last year, but, upon checking out another neighborhood home that has/had these bushes for many years, hers were dead as well. Today I visited a Gardens Center and asked one of the horticulturist about them and he said so many people have experienced the same. Apparently, the very cold winter with all the constant precip was the culprit, as you probably suspected. |
Butterfly bushes (davidii) are supposed to be hardy to zone 5. They may die back to the ground. Mine looked dead as well when I cut them back severaly. But, I'm noticing tiny green leaves emerging low to the ground. Watch and wait. |
Mine are dead looking also. Even my Russian sage look dead. If they are really from Russia, and they are dead, WTF? Mine has (butterfly bush) been in my yard for 3 years, at the least. My American Beech is just starting to put out leaves, though. And the tree is from the local woods. It has swollen buds, no leaves quite out yet. So IOW, those butterfly bushes (and my Russ. sage) may not be dead just yet. |
- Posted by windsor224 6b Upper Bucks Co, P (My Page) on Mon, May 19, 14 at 18:17
I did notice that the only signs of life are at the ground so yesterday I cut all of my butterfly bushes to the ground. So disappointing but I see that I am not the only one. Now I'm worried about the crape myrtles that also look dead. I know they leaf out much later but this year I'm starting to see a little leafing at the ground level just like the BF bushes. Is anyone else concerned about your crape myrtles? |
I regularly cut my butterfly bushes low every year to keep them from getting too large; it also increases the flower size. So, as long as they sprout *somewhere*, that's all good. I think the *hardy* crape myrtles are the ones with the Indian names and those will die to the ground in a bad winter. If it's really bad, seeing as they are borderline hardy in zone 6, you could lose even those types completely. I guess you'll find out! |
- Posted by spaceman13 6b (My Page) on Tue, May 20, 14 at 15:14
I had 2, one came back with gusto ( can't recall the cultivar) The "Flutterby" 'Heavenly Blue' kind of bit the dust. I had some salvia I got on sale and decided to replace it with. |
I had a number of dead branches on my buddleia, but part of it is doing well. I gave it a hard pruning at the end of March. Lots of green is sprouting out. It is at least 10 years old, maybe older. My neighbor's crape myrtle is doing very well and rubbing against the roof of my garage, which I wish it would not. |
- Posted by windsor224 6b Upper Bucks Co, P (My Page) on Wed, May 21, 14 at 9:49
I sure hope the crape myrtles live. They are about 6 yrs old and very large and beautiful. I'll keep watching and hoping. Thanks to all for your comments. I see I'm not alone. |
- Posted by waretrop 6 (email@example.com) on Tue, Jul 15, 14 at 19:15
Ours looked dead also. Now they are 2 feet tall from the ground, I am in Stroudsburg..nepa |
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- Washington state is preparing to release its latest unemployment numbers, and officials hope the statistics show a revival in job growth.
The June figures to be released Wednesday morning by the Employment Security Commission come after May's report indicated that eight consecutive months of employment growth had stalled. May's jobless rate stood at 9.1 percent.
Washington's seasonally-adjusted jobless rate hasn't been at 9 percent or below in more than two years and has trended as high as 10 percent.
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Homes and buses were damaged when stones were thrown from outside the grounds at Linfield supporters as they left.
Linfield fans also threw stones and bottles at nearby houses and two of the club's buses were attacked with missiles as they left the area.
One arrest was made after disorder broke out towards the end of a heavily policed Setanta Cup quarter-final clash, which Derry won 3 - 1.
Derry City Football Club said it was saddened by the violence.
The club says one of its directors was attacked when he tried to remonstrate with visiting fans.
Derry City chairman, Sean Barrett, said something must be done to prevent a replay of the violence at future matches.
"We need to sit down as two clubs together and thrash out exactly what happened and get everybody's point of view, hopefully to make sure something like this never happens again because I certainly never want to see the kind of scenes I saw at the Brandywell last night," he said.
In a statement, Linfield said they condemned "the alleged stone throwing from whatever quarter", but added that the vast majority of their supporters were "impeccably behaved".
It is regrettable that a small element of the Linfield support reacted to the aggressive and provocative behaviour of two Derry City stewards and a number of local residents.Linfield Football Club
It is regrettable that a small element of the Linfield support reacted to the aggressive and provocative behaviour of two Derry City stewards and a number of local residents.
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"The vast majority of Linfield supporters entered and exited the allocated seating areas in the stadium in an exemplary manner under the control of Linfield FC stewards and a private security firm engaged by this club", the statement added.
Linfield say they will carry out a "full debrief on all events surrounding the game" and will take "appropriate action" where necessary.
Officers said they had to enter the stadium to quell violence following reports of sectarian chanting.
At one stage a temporary fence to keep fans separated was knocked down. Earlier alcohol was seized by officers from buses arriving for the match.
Sinn Féin councillor Patricia Logue said the Linfield fans were being escorted out to their buses when a large group broke away.
"They tore the barriers and started throwing bottles - plastic bottles filled with urine - and other objects, and there was a tirade of sectarian abuse lobbed at the residents as well," she said.
PUP councillor Billy Hutchinson, a passenger on the damaged bus, said a pensioner who was on board could have been badly hurt.
"A window of my bus was put in and a pensioner and several young people were all trapped inside the bus," the Blues fan said.
"I have to say that after the match when we got on the buses, the cauldron of hate that met us coming out of that ground was unbelievable."
The PSNI has launched an investigation into the disorder.
Chief Inspector Andy Lemon said: "Police had been working closely with both teams and community representatives to prevent this type of behaviour.
"It was instigated by a small group of people who could not call themselves fans."
Officers are reviewing footage from the game. Anyone who witnessed the trouble and who has further information is asked to come forward.
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We have a 20 acre family farm located in the Hungry Hollow Hills of Yolo County. We have been growing and marketing organic vegetables, fruits, herbs and flowers with some heirloom varieties, in the Sacramento Valley since 1976. We believe strongly in strengthening our local communities and offer farm to shcool visits. You can visit us weekly at the Saturday or Wednesday Farmers Market in Downtown Davis or join our weekly CSA that serves Davis, Wooodland, Sacrament, San Francisco and Fair Oaks.
Spring Plant Sale Saturday April 12th from 10-5 at Good Humus Farm grown flower perennials, and veggie annuals along with workshops. Pleasure of the Peach Harvest Festival First Saturday in August from 2-pm at Good Humus-Bring a pot luck and enjoy making peach pizza, salsa, pies, along with a farm tour-and dance under the stars. Pumpkin Picnic third Sunday in October 12-4 at Good Humus. Pick your own pumpkin and carve it up, make your own pizza, toast some pumpkin seeds too.
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Focal length of Concave and Convex lens
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Focal length of Concave and Convex lens Objective In this experiment, we are going to use three different methods and one method to find the focal length of an unknown-focal length of convex lens and concave lens. Apparatus 2 meter rules, a light box, a white-coloured screen, a D.C. power supply, 2 lens holders, a plane mirror, a transparent object F, two-unknown focal length of convex and concave lens. Theory Since the convex and concave lenses are made of glasses, the focal lengths are actually the convergent point of all refracted light sources. So, the main theory that we are applying is the refraction theory and also the Lensmaker's equation. is an equation which shows the relationship between the focal length with the object and image distances. With mathematical simplification, the Lensmaker's equation can be applied as follow . ...read more.
Obtain a sharp image and mark down the distance of U and V. Then plot a graph with U and V to find out the focal length of the lens by applying the equation. Concave lens Place the light source in front of the convex lens which is placed between the concave lens and the light source. Then adjust the distance between the convex lens and the light source and the concave lens and the convex lens to obtain a sharp image on the screen. Mark the distance between the two lens when and sharp image is formed on the screen as S. Next minus F with S to get the focal length of the concave lens. Data analysis After the data analysis we obtain several stat. of the focal length. Convex lens A: 22.8cm was obtain from method I 22.3cm from method II 19-23.4cm from method III Convex lens B: 5.1 cm was obtain from ...read more.
It is because the image that we obtained is slightly tolerated. Actually, whenever we test the focal length of the lenses we need to consider the degree of the curve of the lens. Since some light rays may refracted near the edge of the lenses and the refracted ray may thus get another focal length and thus resulting a unclear image. On the other hand the nodal inside the lenses is another interesting topic that students should know. Although we cannot apply the knowledge of it in this experiment, I think most of us should know more about it. It is because this is another factor that affecting the degree of refraction of light rays in lenses. Lastly, since light ray consist of 7different colours,and what we need to know that the distortion of the rays may happen. So we need to make the total distance of the experiment much smaller. ?? ?? ?? ?? ...read more.
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National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Missing Greeley Man Could Be Living With Homeless In Denver
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is asking for the public's help locating a missing man who might be living among the homeless in Denver.
Boulder Police Arrest Child Sexual Exploitation Suspect
Police in Boulder arrested a child sexual exploitation suspect after a tip from a national database.
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The FBI is stepping up its crackdown of child sex trafficking and agents in Denver are getting national recognition for their work.
FBI Wants Help Identifying Man In Child Porn Videos
The FBI in Denver has issued an alert for a man agents say has been seen on video sexually abusing children.
The Most Important Photo In Your Wallet
All of us parents know how quickly papers pile up in our kids' backpacks. But there's one take-home item you may want to make sure you save from the recycling bin.
More Than 2,000 Attend Memorial For Jessica Ridgeway
More than 2,000 friends, family and community members gathered Tuesday to remember a 10-year-old Colorado girl who was abducted Oct. 5 on her way to school in suburban Denver.
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Hundreds are set to attend a public memorial service Tuesday for a 10-year-old Colorado girl as the search for her abductor continues.
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About 125 people from a dozen different police agencies are helping Westminster police in their search in a new area for Jessica Ridgeway.
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Police shut down a neighborhood in Superior for most of the day on Sunday after a missing Westminster girl's backpack and water bottle were found there.
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Job Board expanded to all job seekers
October 22, 2012
A-B Tech's job posting website, Job Board, is now open to all job seekers, not just current and former A-B Tech students. The site was launched March 22 to help area employers fill vacancies and the College's students find jobs.
Job Board supports employers in Buncombe, Madison, Haywood, Henderson, McDowell and Yancey counties by providing free listings that are accessible to applicants 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Job seekers are able to search and apply for those openings online.
"Helping match employers and skilled employees is part of A-B Tech's mission," said A-B Tech President Hank Dunn. "This complements what we're already doing. Our focus continues to be on jobs."
Users can create an account with Job Board via the A-B Tech website and apply for or post job openings. There is no limit on the number of jobs an employer can post or the number of positions for which one can apply.
For more information, visit the Job Board page.
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EUGENE — The Oregonian's Andrew Greif joined Bi-Mart Presents: Sunday Sports Extra to discuss Oregon's response to rape allegations against three basketball players.
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Dana Altman Speaks on Rape Allegations
Following Friday morning's press conference with University of Oregon administrators, head men's basketball coach Dana Altman met with the media to discuss the rape allegations surrounding Damyean Dotson, Dominic Artis and Brandon Austin. Dotson, Artis and Austin have all been kicked off the team and will not be back next season. Athletic Director Rob Mullens … Continue reading »
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text: Students' businesses reap rewards for Minneapolis Crisis Nursery St. Thomas Newsroom December 2, 1999 Students in MGMT 150, Introduction to Business, have been busy developing their own small businesses this semester. After extensive market research, analysis of distribution channels and creation of imaginative advertising campaigns, the markets are now open. Four UST products — two T-shirts, a hat and a blanket — are being offered for sale at Market Days. One day remains, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. today, Dec. 2, in the first-floor atrium of Murray-Herrick Campus Center (near Room 155). Express cards are welcome. All profits from the sale will be donated to the Minneapolis Crisis Nursery. The students have visited the nursery and will visit again on Dec. 7 to prepare and serve lunch. The children and the students appreciate your support. RelatedWinning Strategies for Growing Retail Sales and Profits program is May 17-19Association for Women in Communication to host speaker March 220th Annual Entrepreneur Awards to be held May 13