Gingrich agrees with Obama on economic fix

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Thursday February 11, 2010 · 7:56 AM PST

2010/02/11 · 07:56

OK Newt Gingrich didn't say the words 'I agree with Obama' but during Jon Stewart's extended interview of him, he agreed with Obama's policies. Deficits grow the economy.

The Daily Show

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Friday January 29, 2010 · 3:18 PM PST

2010/01/29 · 15:18

Conservatives have tried to run a story line that the founding fathers would be smiling after the supreme court decision that corporations can flood money into political campaigns. I sincerely think this is untrue. So I compiled some quotes and am looking for help with more. Not all of these quotes are from founders but still represent that it's been more than 100 years that corporations were thought to be a danger to liberty and reigned in instead of let loose. In fact this corporate/government collusion in part led to revolutionary action. Not that I want to start a tea party on the democratic side, I just want to point out again that they have no idea what they're talking about (not that you didn't already know that).

Trade-dominance by the East India Company aroused the greatest passions of America’s Founders – every schoolboy knows how they dumped the Company’s tea into Boston harbour. At the time in Britain virtually all members of parliament were stockholders, a tenth had made their fortunes through the Company, and the Company funded parliamentary elections generously.

Thomas Hartman "Unequal Protection"

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What was the founders intentions for corporations?

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What was the founders intentions for corporations?

Their influence is bribery

12 votes

Limited for elections so individuals rights aren't trumped

5 votes

Balance of powers in constitution will sufficiently dim influence

3 votes

Any and all groups have the right to lobby with all their power

6 votes

"Loving your enemies" - MLK remembrance

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Monday January 18, 2010 · 7:22 AM PST

2010/01/18 · 07:22

This is one of my favorite Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. sermons. Here he lays out the rationale for non-violent defiance. He beautifully articulates why we must not demonize the enemy but instead see an element of good in them that can produce more good. Hate begets hate, even if you hate someone for a so-called good reason. On the other hand love is redeeming and has a power of unifying unlike other forces.

Jesus, one of the biggest influences on the Reverend, said:

Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? Do not even the publicans the same?

Publican here being Tax Collector

And on Dailykos, where we’ve obviously chose a side, I think MLK day is a good day to reflect on some of MLK’s words from "Loving your enemies" to understand how to value those who differ from you.

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Is MLK's advice practical in political life?

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Is MLK's advice practical in political life?

Yes, and it's the only way to make lasting change

6 votes

Sometimes it's needed but often other ways make more change

2 votes

No, the problems of today are different and require different actions

1 vote

Who are DKos readers favorite founding fathers?

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Thursday January 14, 2010 · 7:16 AM PST

2010/01/14 · 07:16

After Palin's 'all of them answer' response when Glenn Beck asked her is who her favorite founding father (at least she didn't say any of them) I thought I'd poll DKos readers on who are their favorite founding fathers.

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Who is your favorite founding father

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Who is your favorite founding father

Alexander Hamilton

17 votes

Benjamin Franklin

82 votes

George Washington

16 votes

James Madison

23 votes

John Adams

27 votes

John Jay

4 votes

Thomas Jefferson

87 votes

Other (list below)

16 votes

None of them - I wish we were still British

4 votes

None of them - they all suck equally

5 votes

ConAgra explosions

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Thursday June 11, 2009 · 7:45 AM PDT

2009/06/11 · 07:45

I was surprised yesterday to see this in the news

Police say they have found the bodies of two people missing after an explosion at the ConAgra Foods plant caved in parts of the roof, sparked fires and caused an ammonia leak.

About 300 workers were in the plant at 4851 Jones Sausage Road at the time of the 11:30 a.m. Tuesday blast. Many suffered from exposure to toxic fumes from ammonia leaks, and some also suffered severe burns, authorities said.

It happened in Garner, NC

conagra explosion

And it seems like this company has a history of things going awry

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Tuesday March 17, 2009 · 9:40 AM PDT

2009/03/17 · 09:40

http://www.govtrack.us/...
HR 875

It's got many layers of stupidity, but of most concern for those that like to buy local is it's generically written manner with no exemptions

Any food establishment or foreign food establishment engaged in manufacturing, processing, packing, or holding food for consumption in the United States shall register annually with the Administrator.

The Administrator shall annually compile a list of domestic food establishments and a list of foreign food establishments that are registered under this section. The Administrator may establish the manner of and any fees required for reregistration and any circumstances by which either such list may be shared with other governmental authorities. The Administrator may remove from either list the name of any establishment that fails to reregister, and such delisting shall be treated as a suspension.

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Thursday March 12, 2009 · 7:50 AM PDT

2009/03/12 · 07:50

Men and women in Afghanistan still have a long way to go. Who knows who is the government now, is it the Taliban, the Mullahs, President Karzai.

Mr Kambaksh was found guilty of blasphemy and sentenced to death last year for circulating an essay on women's rights which questioned verses in the Koran.

misogyny much?

This is a 23-year-old student journalist. Under global pressure the case was turned over but

It said the upper house [of the Senate] approved the death sentence conferred on Mr Kambaksh by a city court in Mazar-e-Sharif.
It also strongly criticised what it called those institutions and foreign sources which, it said, had tried to pressurise the country's government and judiciary as they pursued people like Mr Kambaksh

women's rights = death?

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Wednesday February 18, 2009 · 2:51 PM PST

2009/02/18 · 14:51

So lets play with a little math and give them all the benefit. It turns out that a low ball estimate of the GM CEO salary per year is still over 100x higher than the fake salary Fox News is asserting that workers make. So even if the $70/hour were true, why is it the workers who need to make so many concessions?

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Monday January 19, 2009 · 7:54 AM PST

2009/01/19 · 07:54

Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr based his life’s work on the biblical "love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven" because

this command is an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization. Yes, it is love that will save our world and our civilization, love even for enemies

This journal shows samples from MLKs sermon ‘Loving your Enemies’, a sermon worth reading in its entirety because it lays out the beautiful philosophy of Rev. Dr. MLK, jr.

He first addresses how to love your enemies:
Step 1: Analyze yourself
Step 2: Discover an element of good in your enemy
Step 3: Do not defeat your enemy

And why should we love our enemies:
Reason 1: Hate begets hate
Reason 2: Hate destroys the hater
Reason 3: Love is redeeming
Read full sermon

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Can love still transform the world today?

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Can love still transform the world today?

Yes, always

23 votes

I'm not sure that it can make the I/P situation better

2 votes

I'm not sure that love makes people less prejudiced

3 votes

Can you love a Republican?

0 votes

Can you love someone who voted yes on Prop 8?

0 votes

Can you love someone who gossips about you?

0 votes

Several of the about doubts

1 vote

No, real change needs force then people accept

1 vote

Obama fans are money donating power houses

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Thursday November 06, 2008 · 9:37 AM PST

2008/11/06 · 09:37

Obama showed incredible power in rallying his supporters and getting us to donate to change the world. Newsweek has had some pretty good behind the scenes articles the past two days, with some illustrating just how good Obama and his team was. So good his supporters crashed the Red Cross site after hurricane Gustav with all their donations. People are looking to see how they can keep the Obama fans rallied for good causes to change the world.

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Monday October 06, 2008 · 3:32 PM PDT

2008/10/06 · 15:32

Palin does not want me to be a productive person and instead just wants to keep doing and saying ridiculous stuff to get me fired up. Basically she implies damnation on a large majority of women because they don't want to vote for her. But she just says it in such a gosh darn cute way how can you mind.

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Wednesday October 01, 2008 · 9:57 AM PDT

2008/10/01 · 09:57

I was only 11 but I liked Ross Perot, maybe because of his fiery attitude. But he had some excellent points about NAFTA that were revisited in this election when Hillary was asked: Was Perot right about NAFTA. Turns out that he was partially right and US-Mexico economies have somewhat been on a race to the bottom rather than a race to the top. This may be partially what's to blame for current economic woes. How do we fix it?

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ConAgra explosions

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Obama fans are money donating power houses

Wink Go to hell Wink

The bailout and NAFTA