One of the last surviving heros from my youth died today.

All of us knew George Carlin as a side-splitting comedian who always seemed to hit whatever he spoke about dead on. One of my other heros, Robert Anton Wilson who passed away two years ago used to call him "America's greatest philosopher".

That's more than a joke...

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Army Sgt. Matthis Chiroux Refuses His Deployment to Iraq.

He went to the Capital to declare his refusal to obey an order from the Army to deploy to Iraq.

Guts. Decency. Honesty.

I'm sure they'll try to put him in jail for it...

Sigh...

Whatever, he'll be OK.  24 years old and he looks like a movie star.

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Video by Ian Magruder

By that I mean, progressives should raise 12 million and quietly dangle it in front of Clinton. That’s about how much she’s loaned her campaign.

We pay off all your debts. You commit to x number of campaign days at Obama’s side.

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I’m sorry, I’m so disgusted with the resurfacing of the Wright controversy via his remarks at the National Press Club that I am left speechless. Literally.

I’ll reemerge from my protective shell when I can stand it again.

FUCK IT!

I'm also disappointed in the Kossacks semi indifference to the Sean Bell outrage.  Please correct me if I'm wrong, but that's how it felt to me.

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I hope NYC doesn't burn down, but I could hardly blame anyone if it did.

REC THIS PLEASE!!!!

This is worth all the Kossacks input.

Is BREAKING: Wall Street Journal: Barack Obama is the Nominee Really more important than this story?

ALL NYC KOSSACKS SHOULD BE HEADING TO THE CENTRAL POLICE STATION NOW!!!!!

He needs to offer not only solutions to the problems facing Americans in their lives.

He needs to offer solutions to fix this broken democracy of ours through legislation.

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How could Hillary do better than Barack in PA. Don’t tell me about demographics, people are people, and they are HURTING. Is racism really SO strong that it completely overrides common sense? If it isn’t racism, then is it reverse sexism? Is feminist ideology so strong that it completely blinds its adherents.

Neither of these options make much sense to me. If they reflect the reality of what happened, then I am at a complete loss as to how to respond rationally. It makes me want to pick up a picket sign and a brick, or if need be a machine gun. If Racism and Reverse Sexism are behind Barack’s defeat in PA despite his outspending her 3 to 1 for TV ads what are we to do?

We CAN’T let rigid ideology paralyze our system anymore than the bag-man system of lobbyists that has paralyzed it for the last 30 years.

I’d love to hear another theory about what went wrong in PA. I gave up on bricks when I quit SDS in the 70’s.

My son tells me not to worry, that Barack’s going to with the nomination.

Maybe. But if the ideology of Racism runs as deep nationwide as it does in PA we’re going to end up with Mcsame no matter what we do.

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I've been watching the Obama campaign since the beginning, and I think I finally understand his strategy that is giving him win after win after win, despite all the things he obviously has going against him.

His secret strategy may also be the simplest strategy imaginable. Just tell the truth. I mean, telling the truth is not something you need a Mark Penn to tell you how to do. You don't need focus groups to poll to tell you what they want to hear. In fact, you don't need anything except the intelligence and perception to see what is plain not only to you, but to anyone else who is paying attention.

While telling the truth may not "sound" revolutionary, looking back as far as the Gulf of Tonken resolution, it's a strategy that hasn't even been tried.

This blog is meant to share my thoughts, ruminations, and experiences. First, coming down with Multiple Sclerosis, then trying to cure it with ayauasca.

As nutty as that may sound, Western medicine holds out no cure yet. I either wait for our scientists to figure it out while praying that I won’t be crippled in the meantime, or I can try what the Amazonian Shamans have to offer. There is lots of anecdotal evidence of cancer being cured that way, and I even found one woman online who claims it cured her MS.

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Just visited Hufpo, and the huge headline there in red reads:

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Clinton On Working Class Whites In 1995: "Screw 'Em"

Enough already. I've always known about the Clintons from back when they were in power. Unlike all the pundits I never thought she would beat Obama after the first time I saw him.

I'm tired of the weekly/daily disclosures that keep coming up about her and that she and her "husband" bring on themselves with their obvious fake, self-interested behavior.

This is the week where it becomes clearer in relief than ever before.

At the same time it was revealed that a policy of torturing prisoners was approved at the highest levels of the White house, Barack Obama told a private audience in San Francisco that people in Pennsylvania were bitter.

Checking Google news for "Obama bitter Pennsylvania" produced 2,173 news articles .

Checking for "White House Torture" produced 17 news articles.

Check for yourselves!

That the Main Stream media is disconnected from what Americans actually care about has never been more graphically dramatized.

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PLEASE HELP MAKE THIS HAPPEN !

I really think this could work.  The July 4th date and the subject of torture combine in a way that the MSM simply can't ignore.

Neither can congress.  

Neither can the candidates.

It should be a non-partisan march, if possible.

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It should be up soon.  Till then, please check my new blog at:

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Please check it out and give me feedback.

Thank you, all.

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Where the hell am I?

What have we got to do with the country that defeated fascism?

Why isn't ANYONE doing ANYTHING to STOP it?

What's become of us?

We shouldn't have to wait until Barack takes office to stop this stuff.

Even Ashcroft knew it was wrong to the core.

Check this out....

All you gay guys who think Obama is ignoring you, or antigay, or whatever.
It simply couldn't be further from the truth.  He's the only chance any of us have to regain self respect, both individually and as a nation.

This guy has figured out that telling the truth works.  Not only that, it's easy to do!  Don't have to make anything up.

Anyway I was really happy to read the CNN post below.  Please join the Obama campaign.  He needs you, and you need him

Today was the final straw that made me realize this fact...

In the upper left... All by itself the following link:

OBAMA: DON'T LABEL ME LIBERAL...

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Also:

NYT: MCCAIN RARELY MENTIONS TALK OF LEAVING REPUBLICAN PARTY...

In the center of the page the following 4 stories:

NM Gov. Bill Richardson Endorses Obama...

Carville Compares to Judas!

Richardson: Clinton aides in the 'gutter'...

DETAILS: Obama Has Financial Edge For Primary Endgame...

And on the right:

OBAMA AIDE: BILL CLINTON LIKE MCCARTHY...

GALLUP: Obama back on top...

Let us actually DO SOMETHING about the Ferraro/Clinton racism strategy.

I know that I feel that I need to distance myself from this sort of stuff if I'm to feel comfortable voting Democratic.

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To me it is hard to believe that every Democrat everywhere has not come out to condemn the Ferraro/Clinton Race baiting.  The idea that there is a Democratic candidate for president that would use such tactics leaves me breathless.

My guess is that Keith Olbermann feels likewise, ergo his "Special Statement" tonight.

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