1. As all the "debates", OWS raids, weather and earthquake disasters swirl around us, the income distribution widens in this country. Most people call it the "economy", and yes in a scientific sense it is an economic issue. However the collateral damage is that our society is being destroyed. Our sense of community through unmet expectations, a loss of a sense of fairness and justice is eroding our moral fiber as a nation. This cannot last very long, and it will not. We are already seeing the baby-steps of the beginnings of a revolution. Do I sound like a crazed neo-something or other left over from the 60's???.....maybe. There is too much doom and gloom and lack of hope to sustain the American Dream:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/us/middle-class-areas-shrink-as-income-gap-grows-report-finds.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print
2. It is awfully difficult not to develop a sense of outrage. Stuff like this, if it is true, is a real disappointment. Disappointed because you would think that the greedy bastards would have gotten the message by now. No, they have not. It's an insult to think that "they" think that they can get away with it without repercussions:
http://www.truth-out.org/print/9121
3. When you put lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig. A very dirty, deceitful, greedy, and sick pig:
http://www.truth-out.org/print/9125
4. With observations, journalistic pieces, and opinions by so many people involved in reporting the human experience of our times, the violent reaction by the police -"the servants of the 1%" - the Occupation Movement will not fold, and will come back to haunt, and will eventually succeed over time. How peaceful the transition, and how fair and just it operates will be determined by political leadership that has not as yet come forth.
http://www.truth-out.org/print/9159
5. Considering the Dysfunction of Congress, this suggestion of failure looks like a great idea:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-we-can-succeed-through-supercommittees-failure/2011/11/16/gIQA7hLXSN_print.html
6. Most of us agree that political campaign funding winds up corrupting the intent of our representative form of democracy. If we are to learn anything from the OWS emotions, it is that we cannot sustain the 1% controlling the system. Here is one great suggestion to begin getting us back to what the US Constitution means:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/opinion/in-campaign-financing-more-money-can-beat-big-money.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print
7. Newton Leroy "Porky" Gingrich, by mere fact of just standing around while all the others imploded, is now the latest "Not-Mitt" figure in the spotlight. How long do you give him before he wallows in his baggage? He'll be around long enough for me to continually dump a daily load on him. He deserves it:
http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/professor-of-profits/?pagemode=print
8. Guns.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/opinion/collins-something-to-shoot-for.html?ref=opinion&pagewanted=print
Juan Matute
"I'm a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house."
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor
"So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause."
-- George Lucas
-- George Lucas
"No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast."
-- W. S. Gilbert
-- W. S. Gilbert
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-- Ambrose Bierce
-- Ambrose Bierce
"This isn't right. This isn't even wrong."
-- Wolfgang Pauli
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