Yes…McGinnis is projecting his inner Mark Klein

Kat Baldassare—“If the sale violates any laws, then it will be stopped.” Since apparently you believe that hysterical sentence…please contact me ASAP. Bring your checkbook…I have a garage full of gold bricks I want to sell you REALLY cheap because I like your “handle.”

Julia, Julia, Julia, Julia….Puhleeeze re-read the Declaration of Independance, Bill of Rights, and Constitution. Thank you. Sheesh.

Well, yes, the NeoCons base their ideology on Leo Strauss who espouses Nazi views. http://www.alternet.org/story/15935/ Thomas Jefferson/JFK on the other hand based government on 18th C French Enlightenment Values—-which came from Plato’s Republic and the Renaissance that sprung out of dark times by reviving Plato’s views esp in his “Republic” that said that society should be based on the needs of the human soul. What a concept.

Elizabeth F—Thanks for the laugh….but you’re just turning on the Left Behinders.

Kay— You keep on saying time for government to step in….government is NOT going to step in it is up to the people. People get the government they deserve by being apathetic, uninvolved, uninformed—or activist and informed. Thomas Jefferson said given a choice the free press was more important that the government to really inform the people. Don’t you understand that our government is run OF, For and By the Oil Barons….who’s sitting in the White House????? When did we ever have a Sec of State whose name is on on Exxon tanker??? Here’s JFK address to the heads of US media in NYC in 1962 on a free press and secret socities (which GWB’s ‘government’ is) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlghYpDx0f4

We are in the situation we are in because people do not do sufficient investigation and the money powers, knowing this, name things so they SOUND as if helpful to the people, and also put riders on bills that do a lot of damage. Brief explanation of Net Neutrality: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9jHOn0EW8U Bill Moyers and other related activist links: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/net/neutrality.html http://www.google.com/help/netneutrality.html http://www.savetheinternet.com/=faq

PREAMBLE OF THE US CONSTITUTION; “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE [ie the common good], and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Full test of the US Constitution: http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/freedom/constitution/text.html “A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the COMMON GOOD.” Barbara Jordan Lawyer and U.S. Congressperson (1936-1996) “Now the trumpet summons us again—not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need—not as a call to battle, though embattled we are—but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in and year out, “rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation”—a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty and war itself.” JFK But history will judge you, and as the years pass, you will ultimately judge yourself, in the extent to which you have used your gifts and talents to lighten and enrich the lives of your fellow men. In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfillment of the best qualities of your own spirit.” RFK “At the heart of all that civilization has meant and developed is ‘community’ – the mutually cooperative and voluntary venture of man to assume a semblance of responsibility for his brother.” MLK Jr “Make a career of humanity…and you will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.” MLK Jr “Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.” Abraham Lincoln “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” John Muir “The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.” Teddy Roosevelt “I don’t know what your destiny will be, but the one thing I know; the only ones among you who will really be happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve…” Albert Schweitzer Result’s 30 - 34 of 34 “Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better—this is all life is.” Booker T Washington “Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interest of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.” Woodrow Wilson “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. —— That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —— That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government” our Founding Fathers on government based on the Common Good—a notion based on 18th c French Enlightenment Ideals: http://compuball.com/Inquisition/foundingfathers.htm A poll conducted by Financial Dynamics, reveals that progressive moral themes about public life have deep resonance with large segments of the American population. Voters are deeply concerned about rising materialism and self-interest in American society. They want government to be focused on the common good and greatly value an emphasis on the basic decency and dignity of all people. 71% of voters strongly agree that “Americans are becoming too materialistic,” including 71% of Democrats, 70% of Independents, and 72% of Republicans. (92% total agree.) 68% of voters strongly agree that the “government should be committed to the COMMON GOOD and put the public’s interest above the privileges of the few.” (85% total agree.) 73% of Democrats, 62% of Independents, and 67% of Republicans strongly agree with a common good focus for government. A similar percentage of voters (68%) strongly agree that “government should uphold the basic decency and dignity of all and take greater steps to help the poor and disadvantaged in America.” (89% total agree.) http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2006/06/b1728259.html

There’s nothing wrong with You Tube as a vehicle for public consumption if the vid is a grab off something reliable. Ditto Wikipedia. The reason all the news, corporations, and advertising firms etc are flocking to the Internet is that the MSM just makes everything up. I’m done with you. You note that some of the links were to the World Economic Conference at Davos, to Bloomberg, to Federal Government statistics. You’re too stupid to waste time further time with Mark Klein/McGin. You make unsupported statements and are a roaring idiot. Believe as you wish.

McGin- George Soros spent $18M on Campaign Finance Reform: http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0825/p11s01-ussc.html Here is the Federal Government’s chart of total $ raised by party, and by year (scroll down) Since the early 1990s as this records, the GOP has out raised the Demos until this year. I guess the message there would be screw everything up and folks kinda dial-back on the dough. http://www.fec.gov/press/press2008/20080229party/20080229party.shtml Let’s not forget that one of the recent 66% of historians polled that named George Bush the WORST president in history, said “He’s good at two things. Making the ultra rich richer, and fuc*ing everything else up.” As if the entire world needed to have the obvious confirmed. http://harpers.org/archive/2008/04/hbc-90002804 Soros contribution: (nearly netted out by his concurrent donation to campaign finance reform) http://www.opensecrets.org/527s/527contribs.asp?cycle=2004 KINDLY back up your statements with FACTS. This is what the GOP gave the world: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDFNIGdd9oI&feature=related The last time we had a president who was a WIT and not a DIMWIT: JFK News Conferences http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG7jjF6xuKM&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC_B3OBmb0Y&feature=related

McGin-As Liz pointed out, the brilliant Keith Olbermann is punching bag for dumb-arse Bill “I love sex with falafel” and vice versa. OK she didn’t use that exact language. Murdock is a business man. Controversy increases audience. In Urbane vs. Neanderthal Murdock has the Red-States Blue-States [as a mindset not actually geography] duking it ou nightly on TV. Civil War Part Deux minus the uniforms.

Dan—In addition to Anti-Trust laws, if we had a government functioning under the Constitution the entire Bush Administration would be on trial under the RICCO Act….but we don’t. And as Edith Ann says, ‘That’ the trufth.”

Joseph, I am a huge fan of Olbermann and cannot stand Matthews. Liz did a very fair summation. Even fans of Olbermann could agree he has a big ego, as do many in the public eye—and so what? It takes all kinds to make a world and thank god KO is driven to do what he does…to me he’s great even though he can be self-righteous for sure. Liz doesn’t owe anybody an apology, she was fair, balanced and telling the truth. Let’s grow-up…this is no longer a white gloves world.

“Dr. McGinnis— The Constitution was established to preserve a nation ‘Of, For, and By The People” and for “The Common Good.” Today, Corporations have the legal status of human beings while actual human rights are taken away. Dangerous unregulated made up ‘financial” instruments that Warren Buffet called “sewage” are destroying the stability of our economy; ie since 2000 derivatives have gone from $9 trillion in value when our GNP was $14 trillion to $700 trillion today worldwide when global wealth is one-seventh that figure. They were the underlying cause of the sub-prime debacle, the greatest number of foreclosures in US history, they helped sweep $4 trillion of value out of our markets with the Citigroup, Enron, World Com, JP Morgan frauds, and are a ticking time bomb. And 1/2 the global population exists on less than $2 a day. Aren’t the Freepers missing one of their idiots, “Dr.”? Let’s see, you popped up when MK got smacked down so should we address you as ‘Dr. Doppleganger’? There are FEW checks and balances today, Bush Inc and their corporate cronies have a lock on the Supreme Court, Justice, Intelligence, and Congress is under control of the Demos…IF you can term Pelosi/Reid leaders. Pelosi/Reid have a CONSTITUTIONAL duty to impeach Bush/Cheney. It is not their call to take impeachment off the table when laws have been broken. Adam Smith capitalism/unrestrained free markets have created the dangerous world we live in today. All organizations be they families, corporations or nations require laws, not unrestrained anarchy. This is a nation of laws, not MEN. The GOP is always for controlling the people and freeing the corporations. Democrats are for freeing the people and making the corporations carry their own weight. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjS60TaD_J8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YNyn1XGyWg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A87wF7DuvS0 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7338326.stm Further, all strong US economies occurred under democratic reasonable controls to prevent predatory corporate/banking behavior. Your statements are so blind it is breathtaking. And the WTO and NAFTA unleashed have produced a much more dangerous world, unstable markets and growing global poverty. Some charts of economic performance by the “MBA President” only his Dad was worse. http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/28/why-doesnt-bush-get-economic…

George Soros does NOT have ANYWHERE near the influence or platform of Rupert Murdock, whose media holdings are listed below. Soros DID have a now defunct 527 organization ACT. There is no LEFT-WING media. GE, FOX, Disney, etc ALL support the GOP. There are a FEW progressive outlets, and the GOP has had a major 20 year effort funded by Coors and Heritage Foundations and billionaires like Richard Mellon Scaife, etc, to “wipe liberals off the face of this Earth…don’t debate them, use almost Stalinist tactics.” That handbook with that instruction was distributed to 350 MAIN GOP centers of influence across the US and Grover Nordquist, who under earlier Reagan-Bush administrations headed US overthrows of democratically elected officials in developing countries to replace them with US puppets, lead the charge. GET A FRICKIN CLUE. All economically vital eras, nations, states are/were progressive. All fascist states sweep the wealth from the masses into the hands of the few by tricking the people by control of the media. Here are the 14 elements of a fascist state: Dr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia) and several Latin American regimes. Britt found 14 defining characteristics common to each: 1. Powerful Nationalism - Constant use of patriotic symbols. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays. 2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights -Fascist regimes approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc. 3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause - The people are rallied into a frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc. 4. Supremacy of the Military - The military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. 5. Rampant Sexism - The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes the state is represented as the ultimate guardian of the family institution. 6. Controlled Mass Media - Sometimes directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation. 7. Obsession with National Security - Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses. 8. Religion and Government are Intertwined - Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. 9. Corporate Power is Protected - The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite. 10. Labor Power is Suppressed - Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed. 11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts - Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts and letters is openly attacked. 12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment - Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws.. 13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption - Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders. 14. Fraudulent Elections - Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections. Robert Greenwald did an excellent documentary, “Outfoxed” for those who actually wish to base arguments on facts, and understand who controls America which is now a hallogram of their shaping: http://www.iwantmedia.com/people/people39.html http://www.outfoxed.org/ http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9904E3D6143BF932A25754C0A… Finally Murdock’s holdings, and “Dr.” McGinnis…a thought, pretty fades, stupid is forever. 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