Slow News Day?

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I’ve been offline for much of yesterday and today while re-installing everything in the world, and restoring gigs o’ data on a new notebook we can’t afford, after one of ours nearly met its maker (DELL) over the past week while I was pressing hard on a deadline for an article elsewhere. (And yes, the article had run-on sentences as well!)

But looks like I’m lucky and haven’t missed much. Or have I, and you all just haven’t told me yet? I’ll hope it’s the former. My brain needs rest.

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Slow News Day?

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    MsKitty said on 10/12/2009 @ 7:21pm PT: [Permalink]

    Yeah! Slow news day!

    Here’s hoping that one day we will have a really boring transparent democratic government that does the right thing without hurting anyone or destroying the planet. Then we could go on about the business of living our lives without worrying about what all of the various players are up to and not telling us.

    Dreams.

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    Konstantin said on 10/12/2009 @ 11:27pm PT: [Permalink]

    It’s not necessary to hope for a “transparent democratic government that does the right thing without hurting anyone or destroying the planet”.

    The founding fathers knew this which is why the constitution was written in a way to limit the federal government’s powers.

    The way to insure this is to have a free market, i.e. the “free market” meaning the free social interaction of all the 330 million people. You can’t separate the free market into economic and social parts since to limit and control one is also limiting and controlling the other.

    The reason why there are large conglomerates and multinationals and cartels that destroy the environment and etc. is because government gives them special privileges. Examples: the ICC cartel, the Federal Reserve System cartel, and probably when the health care bill is passed the health care industry cartel.

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    Konstantin said on 10/13/2009 @ 12:18am PT: [Permalink]

    Forgot to add that J.P. Morgan, aka the House of Morgan, has been behind the ICC with the railroads in th 1800’s and the Federal Reserve cartel from the 1890’s complete with what are now known as astroturf fake citizens groups. Yes they had asroturfs then and probably invented them.

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    Eric Matthew Davis said on 10/14/2009 @ 6:43pm PT: [Permalink]

    Save for the HD, I bought that Dell in 1999. Back then you called a guy in Texas when you wanted some of their equipment. It had a good long run.
    ~e.

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