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Bearing the price of dead children (Other people's kids of course...)

The companion piece to Subcommandante Shaleen-both written simultaneously over one week in 2005.  David Seaton's  unlikely encomium to Pat Buchanan reminded me of Madeleine Albright's riposte when confronted with the figure half a million children dead from our sanctions...

 

G-dub's Anthem: 21st Century Star Spangled Banner

 

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Subcommandante Shaleen or The Reprobate Revolutionary Redeemed

Written in April 2005, at the height of the Bush tyranny. I thought it could be retired when Obama was elected. I was wrong...

 

When I first met Abbie Hoffman

It was 1965

Three years later at Grand Central

We just bare got out alive

 

I'd dropped several hits of acid

And at midnight less a half

Met a girl whose name...I can't recall

Took her home to fuck and laugh

 

When the cops came in, clubs swinging

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Terms of use?

Like the theme song to Monk asks:

"Hey, who's in charge here"

In the last few days I've had two posts tampered with.

Both, (quelle surprise!) involved interaction with our local version of Pat Robertson, yclept Resistance.

In one, a "moderator/dagblogger" signing himself d (I think it was Donal, but could have been Destor) changed an expletive "fucking troll" to farging troll, gently reproved me for my tone, and "signed" the editorial intervention with a "d" (less than dispositive...)

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"If someone took your home away, how would you feel?" (Signed) Mike, Age 13

This poignant question, scrawled on the wall of a foreclosed house, opens the broader topic:

Thinking of getting a real steal of a deal in a foreclosed home, now listed by some bank's Real Estate Owned Department?

If you have a heart, (or a soul...) better think again.

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Prez: "I declare three emergencies: Infrastructure, Family, Fiscal"

In keeping with the (fantasy) vigorous executive that we have not got, suppose the following:

At the SOTU, flanked on one side by Gracie Slick ("Tear down the walls") and Michael Vick on the other ("Everyone can use a fresh start") Prez galvanizes his presidency and the country,.

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Prez redeems his sorry ass: Announces VA Friends and Family Medical Plan. Single Provider At Last

Yes, we are officially in fantasyland.

That said, if you remember when GEICO was only for actual  government employees, and when the Slovenian Community Credit Union required appropriate ancestry, you will perhaps be amused by a single provider plan which could, I think, result from executive vigor (if only we had a vigorous executive...) with no tiresome legislative hoorah-ing.

Thusly:

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Bin Laden wins Survivor 2010! Out think, out play, out last!!

On the occasion of another audio greeting from the Wit of Waziristan perhaps we can profitably review the box score thus far. At really trivial cost in manpower and money, ‘Sama has turned the United States into the stumbling pitiful...
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Prez: "I've dumped punk funk, found my junk" (+) I will fight, fight, fight, (21 times in all...) (You can't be your own cheerleader, Prez).

Prez having famously declared himself ready, even eager, to fight the banks side by side with his new BFF, Paul Volcker, he elicits a soupcon of cynicism from one experienced political observer. Robert Reich (may I say, the incomperable Prof....
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Founders to Scalia: Corporations are not people. People are people. Free speech is for people only.

Students of legal history arcana share a chuckle whenever a claim to consitutional rights is made by a state chartered business entity. Only the elevation to jurisprudence of a footnote to an 1886 Supreme Court decision creates the dilemma we...

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