post by froggy

posted by froggy

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already
to challenge our government to a trial by strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
- Thomas Jefferson


The corporate statehood that the colonies exemplified was the very reason for the American Revolution, and the development of the Constitution. Remember folks, the original 13 colonies were the private property of the Crown, and the King, and were treated as such. Their only purpose was to enhance the Crowns wealth and finance his wars with France and Spain.
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BobPomeroy 1 hour ago in reply to deathfrogg

Thankyou froggy. It's of a tenor anyone who's thought about Jefferson recognizes its veracity. May I borrow it for my own use in my own right? (Just being polite). It is incomprehensible to me that anyone would make Mitt's Assertion. We have all become commodities in his eyes, and he doesn't understand that corporations are from Flatland: that people are more complex than corporations by many many degrees cubed. And all of that complexity is as real as anything can be. And that is what the Constitution protects - not some artificial 'being' endowed by the Court with Equal Protection. Corporations do deal with commodities, but they weren't meant to be more than we are. To seriously engage them, we need all the allies we can enlist. If all those willing to enlist would plant all the sunflower seeds they can, 1000's and 1000's of sunflowers would sprout in the spring, and nobody could do anything about. Something which doesn't speak of violence or pomposity or aggrandizement. Probably need watering at times and seasons, but that's all the enlistment would be for, it's all volunteer, non-reporting.

t-party's achilles heel

The tale that tells the T-party is manifold, but a short bit or two does it. They don't want to promote changes they think would improve it; they have invented a hate word for it and want only its repeal. Why did to have to oppose lifting the debt ceiling, a symbol, when they might have promoted their proclaimed objective of cutting spending? It now appears that failure to do so has caused the international jitters. And everyone on earth knows that taxes are the only way we can pay for 'common goods', such as reducing our national debt.

Ideology is the lazy man's poor substitute for thinking and judgment, or shirking the responsibility therefor. It is to pray at a graven image.

The T-party better figure out how to break the deadlockked log-jam in Congress by acting like a balance of power which has replaced platitudes with wisdom. It's not going to do that behind the pretentious ignorance of its Palins, Perrys and Macks. Bachmann's purported law school should retrieve its diploma for her obvious failure to grasp the most basic principles of constitutional law.

Show us something thoughtful and well-considered. Practice using only using positive words (not about the person you see in the mirror) for one sentence every morning when you brush your teeth.
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lees

they really have some dramatic history. Geo D, a fall guy, Rex's dad died in a car wreck in the middle of life on his way to or from some minor hearing, Rex had half 'the 'legendary' first class' upstairs in 'private' constitutional law classes (wouldn't let me in the door), resigned from what he called the best job in the country, and died before his time. The interwoven/reciprocal resume building that went on for Mike reads like a midevil conspiracy among the cardinals. Now he's going to filibuster 'the deal' belaboring historically routine legislation? Who will they put him with as a VP nomination, or is he about to mimic Obama's rise? Have you read his 'agenda for freedom'? Whew! Shades of Aaron Burr.

cover ups and credibility crisis.

dammit weiner! I can't post my npr comment, but 'think' it's on facebook

Gabby has been so notably middle-of-the-road that she's been called a 'blue dog' by more liberally-inclined folks, yet she was viciously attacked by RWE's in the last election for being 'liberal' and even 'socialist'. Juxtaposing those facts, it cannot be avoided that an atmosphere of hate and anger was created, artificially, about her for its gratuitous application by an unbalanced person. She was just not ordinarily in the 'target' posture, and worked very hard to reflect the views of all the community she served, and was very non-partisan in that approach. She voted against Pelosi and Obama several times, unfortunately imo.The 'fiddling' of the direct cause argument is fatuous. Hate mongering killed 6 people, maybe more. This pathetic perp suffered John Wilkes Booth syndrome -- wanted to be a hero and not make those in his circle mad at him. So now he's a historic figure. I guess he got his wish. It is our patriotic duty to engage or debate in civil terms based on fact. We have experienced a massive betrayal of that duty and are reaping the whirlwind for that reason. Government's credibility, partly as a function of 'credible deniability', has vanished in the breeze. The result is that when 'big lies' are caught en flagrante, much of public perception and reaction is simply that 'they all do it', and this reaction is used by certain partisan media to shield them from responsibility for those lies. Think Elmer Gantry or Lonesome Rhodes. It's nothing new for those conversant in history. The question remains of our Republic, "can we keep it".