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As seen over the weekend

Chris Hedges:

It permits the war industry to drain half of all state expenditures, generate trillions in deficits, and profit from conflicts in the Middle East we have no chance of winning. It permits corporations to evade the most basic controls and regulations to cement into place a global neo-feudalism. The last people who should be in charge of our food supply or our social and political life, not to mention the welfare of sick children, are corporate capitalists and Wall Street speculators. But none of this is going to change until we turn our backs on the Democratic Party, denounce the orthodoxies peddled in our universities and in the press by corporate apologists and construct our opposition to the corporate state from the ground up.

This was a long article by Hedges and full of the direct hit one liners that make his paragraphs and opinions so strong.

March 24, 2011

Typing with booboo’s neck on my wrist. Today we took Mary to the doctor. She’s doing well. So much to write about. Too bad I can’t.

March 11, 2011

There’s Never Enough Time

I really like this blog, but it’s hard to figure out all the logistics, like how to post articles, videos, how to move around and command the features and spaces from the dashboard, how to change formats or themes.

I’m barely taking the time to type. On top of it all, these two dachshunds are hanging all over me.

March 8, 2010

It’s a pattern that all the mundane, everyday events of life–like clocking in at work, riding the elevator, lighting my pipe, brushing my teeth, printing and filing at Weil, etc… — are framed within the emotional tenterhooks of some stress-inducing or absorbing circumstance

Last night I went to a little Peace Action meeting at Jerry’s. Oh! I forgot. I have to email John the flier. Jerry always supplies the group with refreshments and cookies and so forth, so I considered bringing something at the last minute. I parked my bike in front of his building about 25 minutes before the meeting and walked West on 86th Street to Columbus Avenue.

There I read a long detailed menu for a Korean health food deli and ice cream store. The menu was good. I decided to get a large chile with rice on the side. When I went in to order, though, there was a “cash only” sign on the register.

So be it: Zeus tees off.

March 7,2011

Need a band-aid on my right hand middle finger. On Sunday morning I was sitting in Mary’s easy chair in her living room, soon after I had taken a video of her sitting on the couch with Lizzy and Bailey. I was drinking coffee from a yellow ceramic mug that I had never used before. I found myself pushing my thumb against the mug while holding the handle firmly. Suddenly, the mug broke free of the handle and fell into the center of the room, spilling coffee on the rug.

For a second, I was sitting there stunned, holding a yellow ceramic coffee cup handle in my right hand, trying to decide what happened and what I should do.

I immediately felt like a liar because I just pretended to be completely surprised and taken aback without giving anybody a clue that I had been pressing my thumb against the mug while holding the handle.

Loretta and Ethan sort of jumped up to clean the rug. I didn’t move. But then I noticed my finger was bleeding.

I just sat there and Loretta cleaned and bandaged my finger for me, then put a plastic covering over the fingertip. She said it’s a trick she started using because she gets so many cuts on her hands, and has to wash her hands so many times a day. She said she cuts the finger in question off of a plastic glove and covers the band-aid with it so it doesn’t get ruined when she washes her hands.

Attacks?

The business of government is no longer a job of, by and for the people, and the Democrats’ inability (read, “unwillingness”) to pass a meaningful National healthcare plan is the proof.

The Democrats are as bad as the Republicans–or worse, now–when it comes to taking PAC money.

Climate change is the other obvious FAILURE.

As the Economic Recovery Plan dissolves in more layoffs, foreclosures, and higher interest rates, we see that the GREEN ECONOMY jobs were a mirage in the desert of Wall St. bailouts and campaign contribution paybacks.

We will only have the CHANGE we need if we do it ourselves.  We have to organize ourselves outside of the system–our Representatives and political/corporate media can’t do it.

The people are ultimately sovereign, not any institution.

Et tu?

Thinking of switching over to serious use of this blog since nobody else I know is on here.