In These Times

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• • 20 Jun 06
  • 12:59 pm

  I posted this on another link (after the article about Lou, the elderly union guy), but it is very appropriate here. National campaigns? The congressional elections? I spent time and money in both 2000 and 2004 working hard on the presidential campaigns (being a local precinctperson as well). And guess what? Even though both Gore and Kerry carried Oregon, chicanery and fraud in other states ruined any chance of them getting into office. I am convinced that the same thing will happen this year. Republicans will maintain control of Congress because they control the vote counting via electronic voting machines. Just …

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• • 20 Jun 06
  • 1:23 pm

  For Scorp and Tina, I have several comments -- first, every single recount undertaken after the Florida and Ohio debacles showed that Gore and Kerry had the most votes, and every single investigation by anyone who has bothered to look has shown that multiple instances of fraud occurred in both 2000 and 2004. And while vote fraud occurred in the past, that is never an excuse for it -- it is always bad, no matter who does it. Secondly, you clearly haven't read Marx! Marx's discussion of the evolution of societies is amazingly astute. The people who invented communism were Lenin …

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• • 22 Jun 06
  • 2:55 pm

  I am really too busy revising my novel to spend much time here, but a long post that I wrote two days ago did not get posted, so very briefly, I must correct more of Scorpo's mis-statements. The U.S. does not have and never has had an "elite-leftist" power structure. Please, please, please get down your Encyclopedia Britannica and start reading everything listed in the Propedia about American history. This is a truly judicious and balanced source of historical information about our country -- truly encyclopedic! Right now, nowhere in the world is there an "elite-leftist" government, not even in Venezuela. …

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• • 22 Jun 06
  • 3:07 pm

  When Russia and its former client states left the old communist system behind, they embraced a myth of free-market economics that has caused enormous devastation and human misery. All of those countries would have been much better off if they had followed the mixed economic models of the Scandinavian countries. To a degree, the Baltic countries did, and their economies are the healthiest in the former Soviet bloc.. Don't believe me? Go travel to those places. The failure of "cold turkey" conversion to laissez-faire capitalism in the former Soviet countries has had some interesting effects. It scared the hell out of …

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• • 23 Jun 06
  • 6:16 pm

  Ah, Scorpo, I am laughing out loud! Clearly, you at least enjoyed my typos -- did that give you a sense of superiority? Why do you need it? I type fast, and I don't always take the time to check for typos, especially in such a forum as this, where grammar is pretty much "as you like it" generally. Why should that matter more than content? Wolf, Redhorse and Brian28 seemed to understand what I wrote without a translation. Your two comments in reply to mine prove my case better than anything else I could write here. Confusion is "always politically …

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