Early client caught me with my post unuploaded but the news seems to have slowed down a bit on the heels of the giant sucking Blue Dog of yesterday’s fail. If it does come down to that, Collin Peterson’s constituents should be giving some very hard thought as to whether they want to pick Collin’s replacement, or if they want to wait for the netroots to do it for them. Michael Moore calls it finding your spine.
Because interventionist fools are coming, and there’s every reason to think that they could screw up 2010 for everybody. Americans have been corporately crushed and are downright downtrodden. They don’t need more choices taken away from them by money from people they’ve never met and who in many cases have never stepped foot in the states and districts they’re trying to buy.
Let locals pick new candidates and then, after they have chosen, shovel your money where you will. Then, in 2011, maybe we’ll have a less doggy Congress that can rid us of the blight of $20 million Senators and $5 million members of Congress.
I give you the Wege’s Creed:
We believe in campaign finance reform, our only true hope, begotten of the founding fathers, George to Tom, Adams to Adams, Lincoln through TR and FDR, beholden, not paid, being of one objection to the corporation, through them all plans are waylaid. For us and our salvation, campaign finance reform, incarnating human needs and espousing justice. Reform was crucified under Bill Clinton, suffered death under Bush and was buried. Under Obama reform rose again in accordance with our platform, ascended into Senate committees, and was circularly filed in the Majority Leader’s office. It will come again in rhetoric to judge the left and the right, whose obstructionism will have no end.
If I could make this any more annoying to Christianists and Birthers, the traitors, jackals and warmongers, I would. What the fuck ever happened to campaign finance reform? And why are we living in a bizzaro world in which the liars steal our best lines and use them to ponzi the briars?
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Scott Horton and Rachel Maddow on ACORN baiting.
Former ACORN workers are up on felony charges in Nevada for doing the light version of what unindicted Republican felons did on a grand larceny scale in California. (Actually, I guess one of the Republicans was arrested.)
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The Roberts Baron Court will hear a gun ban case from Chicago.
If they’re corporate-owned, they’ll uphold the restrictions on handguns. If they’re just political whores, they’ll turn our inner cities into Snake Plisskin sanctuaries.
The ChiTrib has a poll up and the gun nuts own it so far. Vote like your life depends on it because Chicago without guns is dangerous as all shit, but Chicago with no gun bans would be a death funnel.
Remember, real men carry muskets. Six shooters are for post-revolutionary war wussies.
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Media fail means business opportunities. An out of work iron ranger might want to consider the money to be made by buying subscriptions to the Hibbing Daily Tribune, Mesabi Daily News, and Grand Rapids Herald Review, and then aggregating them as an Iron Range Free Press.
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Confession time. I’ve been watching football again. Got sucked in by the Favre-Vikings thing. The truth is I’ve always enjoyed the game. It’s the only sport I ever played in any meaningful way, the line of scrimmage being tailor made for short-legged, long-waisted lardbuckets.
But there’s a new study out that finally reveals what I’ve been saying for decades about pro football: the price for playing at the highest levels is too high.
A study commissioned by the National Football League reports that Alzheimer’s disease or similar memory-related diseases appear to have been diagnosed in the league’s former players vastly more often than in the national population — including a rate of 19 times the normal rate for men ages 30 through 49.
The N.F.L. has long denied the existence of reliable data about cognitive decline among its players. These numbers would become the league’s first public affirmation of any connection, though the league pointed to limitations of this study.
The findings could ring loud at the youth and college levels, which often take cues from the N.F.L. on safety policies and whose players emulate the pros. Hundreds of on-field concussions are sustained at every level each week, with many going undiagnosed and untreated.
The fix is obvious: spread out the line of scrimmage so as to penalize the behemoths, putting an emphasis on speed over bulk, nimbleness over momentum. But a real fix would be tough to sell. Technology would let us put ball carriers into electronic flak jackets that would enable tackles to be made with a “touch,” and not a crunch, but that probably wouldn’t sell well with the blood and circuses fans.
In a world that can’t even ban boxing, I don’t look for any new rules any time soon.
Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to play football.
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Following up on Polanski.
Yeah, he would have made a great priest.
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The last of the John Wayne Gacy investigators has retired.
No truth to the rumors that they were investigating Snake Plissken before getting a tip about Gacy’s crawlspace.
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99 dead in Samoan tsunami. Thank god we have a President who doesn’t need to be reminded that this is U.S. territory.
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Media whore interviews financial moron regarding imbecile’s comeback.
