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10:19:19 02/04/12
Actor Gazzara dead at 81
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Actor Gazzara dead at 81
www.euronews.net Actor Ben Gazzara has died at the age of 81 The star of the Broadway version of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and TV drama Run for Your Life died on Friday in New York. He had been suffering from cancer. Gazzara made his name in the 1959 courtoom drama Anatomy of Murder. He played a US Army officer on trial for murdering a man accused of raping his wife. After Run for Your Life ended in 1968, Gazzara rarely enjoyed the critical acclaim of his early career. From: Euronews Views: 312 5 ratings Time: 00:53 More in News & Politics
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Actor Gazzara dead at 81
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Actor Gazzara dead at 81
www.euronews.net Actor Ben Gazzara has died at the age of 81 The star of the Broadway version of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and TV drama Run for Your Life died on Friday in New York. He had been suffering from cancer. Gazzara made his name in the 1959 courtoom drama Anatomy of Murder. He played a US Army officer on trial for murdering a man accused of raping his wife. After Run for Your Life ended in 1968, Gazzara rarely enjoyed the critical acclaim of his early career. From: Euronews Views: 1807 6 ratings Time: 00:53 More in News & Politics
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19:00:30 12/28/11
Notable Death of the Year: RIP Austerity Economics, 1921-2011
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"Smokestack Lightnin'," with Hubert Sumlin backing Howlin' Wolf in 1964
This is the time of year when we're reminded of all the famous people who died over the last twelve months, a list which includes two of my favorite guitar players ( Hubert Sumlin and Cornell Dupree ). But there were also some notable non-human deaths in 2011, especially in the world of economic policy.
One of those deaths should have completely altered the political debate in Washington. The name of the deceased was "Austerity Economics," and it was first glimpsed in a 1921 paper by conservative economist Frank Wright. Austerity died of natural causes brought on by prolonged exposure to reality.
But the debate in Washington didn't change nearly enough after its passing. In the nation's capital, dead things still rule the night.
Why Austerity?
"Austerity economics" backers claim that today's economic woes can only be fixed by dramatic reductions in government spending, which will lead to increased private-sector confidence and therefore to greater investment and growth.
But it's never worked. And if investors have lost confidence in the U.S. government's fiscal stability, they're sure not acting that way. There hasn't been this much demand for Treasury bonds since the government began tracking it twenty years ago, and they haven't performed as well since the go-go 1990s.
It's easy to understand austerity's attraction for power elites inside and outside of government. The people who suffer from austerity budgets aren't the kinds of people they know personally, since they're typically public employees like teachers, police, firefighters and the administrators of social programs; people who need government assistance, like the poor; and middle-class people with the temerity to either grow old or become disabled.
Austerity's attraction became even greater in the U.S. because once it became conventional wisdom that tax increases on the wealthy was "politically infeasible." That made it a program whose sole purpose was to cut government spending, lowering the pressure to increase taxes on the wealthy from today's historically low levels.
For a one-percenter, what's not to love?
Austerity Comes of Age
The idea's been around in one form or another since that 1921 paper, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had been imposing it on Third World nations for decades.
But 2009 was the year that austerity really came of age. That was the year that a wealthy stockbroker's son named David Cameron began campaigning for Prime Minister of Great Britain on an explicitly pro-austerity platform.
It was also the year that Cameron helped to form a group named European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) dedicated to electing like-minded politicians across Europe and helping them collaborate on ways to slash government spending. It was also the year that right-leaning Angela Merkel won reelection as the Chancellor of Germany with a stronger mandate than she'd been given in her first term.
With Nicolas Sarkozy as President of France, Great Britain was the only major European power not yet in the hands of the corporate-backed austerity crowd.
The Global Sado-Erotic Thrill Machine
That changed with Cameron's election as Prime Minister in May 2010, an event that threw pro-austerity Americans into throes of near-erotic ecstasy. And if that sounds like hyperbole, consider conservative Anne Appelbaum's reaction to Cameron's budget in September of 2010: >
Vicious cuts." "Savage cuts." "Swingeing (sic) cuts." The language that the British use to describe their new government's spending-reduction policy is apocalyptic in the extreme. The ministers in charge of the country's finances are known as "axe-wielders" who will be "hacking" away at the budget. Articles about the nation's finances are filled with talk of blood, knives, and amputation.
And the British love it.
What can I say? There are people who collect serial-killer memorabilia, too. But Appelbaum wasn't just speaking for herself. It became unacceptable for any politician in Washington, Democrat or Republican, to advocate anything other than an austerity budget for the United States.
And it was more than an economic strategy to its backers. Austerity became a way to demonize those who had suffered most from the banking abuses and self-indulgences of the wealthy, a totemic "blame the victim" response that turned the political debate into a grotesque inversion of morality. Again, Appelbaum: >
"Not only is austerity being touted as the solution to Britain's economic woes; it is also being described as the answer to the country's moral failings."
Bad Metaphors vs. Good Economists
The Democratic President of the United States, Barack Obama, jumped onto the bandwagon with both feet by repeatedly lecturing Americans on the need for government to stop "spending beyond its means." Obama recycled the popular conservative metaphor of a family that has to sit around the kitchen table and decide how much money it has to spend.
That's one of the worst metaphors in modern politics. Does a family establish its own currency -- especially one that has the unique position of the dollar? Can a family borrow money at rates so low they're effectively less than zero? Would a family let Grandma go hungry because Junior bought too many Porsches out of the family kitty and then gambled it away on lousy mortgage investments?
The world's top economists, those who had successfully predicted the crisis of 2008, tried telling the rest of the world what was wrong with the idea: Joblessness and consumer fears were killing any chance of real recovery. More short-term spending was needed to get the economy moving again. Austerity would make things worse, not better.
But nobody listened. Austerity's S%M-like attraction had the world's elites in its grip.
Death of a Delusion
And then something else came into the picture: Reality.
Cameron's austerity budget had a shattering effect on the already-struggling British economy. His government's financial stability was downgraded five times during his first year in power and retail sales had fallen 2.5 percent. Household income was projected to fall an additional 2 percent if his austerity plans were carried forward. Britain's modest employment gains were reversed, youth unemployment reached record levels, and income inequality was the worst it had been in more than half a century.
Anne Appelbaum's erotic dreams had become Great Britain's nightmare.
As Europe's ruling austerity class pushed forward with their plans, even the IMF tried to dissuade them. It was clear to anyone who wasn't blinded by ideology or political cynicism that austerity economics was a failed program. Even in countries like Greece, where government was far graver than elsewhere, the austerity programs imposed from outside threatened to destabilize society while other reasonable measures like improved tax collection were still not taken seriously enough.
And now the entire Eurozone hangs in the balance. Bankers became wealthy by treating governments as if they were mortgages, lending recklessly and pocketing their fees without considering the long-term reliability of their loans. European leaders insisted for months they were take the kind of sensible steps that should've been taken in the United States by requiring bankers to accept at least part of the losses for the bad loans they had issed.
That plan was quietly dropped last month. "Austerity economics" never calls for austerity from those who have gotten rich by being irresponsible, only from those who didn't benefit from it at all.
The Afterlife
President Obama has dropped his austerity rhetoric, at least for the time being, but the Republicans have not. Listening to Mitt Romney discuss economics is like having a doctor wave a dead chicken over your head and saying he's decided to cast a spell on you rather than operate on that thing they found in your X-rays.
Aside from the bill introduced this month by the House Progressive Caucus to almost no media attention, there's no comprehensive plan for dropping this country's ineffective austerity strategy and replacing it with an agenda that works.
Rational solutions to our economic problems are being ignored. There won't be a real debate about alternatives to austerity until an entire political party, not just part of it, adopts this kind of program. Until then there will be chaos. And where there is chaos, austerity's powerful advocates can step in and take charge.
Austerity economics died in 2011 and is survived by the British, German, and French governments as well as the GOP and large portions of the Democratic Party. Instead of sending flowers, the family has asked the public to abandon all hopes of future economic growth.
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19:00:30 12/28/11
Notable Death of the Year: RIP Austerity Economics, 1921-2011
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"Smokestack Lightnin'," with Hubert Sumlin backing Howlin' Wolf in 1964
This is the time of year when we're reminded of all the famous people who died over the last twelve months, a list which includes two of my favorite guitar players ( Hubert Sumlin and Cornell Dupree ). But there were also some notable non-human deaths in 2011, especially in the world of economic policy.
One of those deaths should have completely altered the political debate in Washington. The name of the deceased was "Austerity Economics," and it was first glimpsed in a 1921 paper by conservative economist Frank Wright. Austerity died of natural causes brought on by prolonged exposure to reality.
But the debate in Washington didn't change nearly enough after its passing. In the nation's capital, dead things still rule the night.
Why Austerity?
"Austerity economics" backers claim that today's economic woes can only be fixed by dramatic reductions in government spending, which will lead to increased private-sector confidence and therefore to greater investment and growth.
But it's never worked. And if investors have lost confidence in the U.S. government's fiscal stability, they're sure not acting that way. There hasn't been this much demand for Treasury bonds since the government began tracking it twenty years ago, and they haven't performed as well since the go-go 1990s.
It's easy to understand austerity's attraction for power elites inside and outside of government. The people who suffer from austerity budgets aren't the kinds of people they know personally, since they're typically public employees like teachers, police, firefighters and the administrators of social programs; people who need government assistance, like the poor; and middle-class people with the temerity to either grow old or become disabled.
Austerity's attraction became even greater in the U.S. because once it became conventional wisdom that tax increases on the wealthy was "politically infeasible." That made it a program whose sole purpose was to cut government spending, lowering the pressure to increase taxes on the wealthy from today's historically low levels.
For a one-percenter, what's not to love?
Austerity Comes of Age
The idea's been around in one form or another since that 1921 paper, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had been imposing it on Third World nations for decades.
But 2009 was the year that austerity really came of age. That was the year that a wealthy stockbroker's son named David Cameron began campaigning for Prime Minister of Great Britain on an explicitly pro-austerity platform.
It was also the year that Cameron helped to form a group named European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) dedicated to electing like-minded politicians across Europe and helping them collaborate on ways to slash government spending. It was also the year that right-leaning Angela Merkel won reelection as the Chancellor of Germany with a stronger mandate than she'd been given in her first term.
With Nicolas Sarkozy as President of France, Great Britain was the only major European power not yet in the hands of the corporate-backed austerity crowd.
The Global Sado-Erotic Thrill Machine
That changed with Cameron's election as Prime Minister in May 2010, an event that threw pro-austerity Americans into throes of near-erotic ecstasy. And if that sounds like hyperbole, consider conservative Anne Appelbaum's reaction to Cameron's budget in September of 2010: >
Vicious cuts." "Savage cuts." "Swingeing (sic) cuts." The language that the British use to describe their new government's spending-reduction policy is apocalyptic in the extreme. The ministers in charge of the country's finances are known as "axe-wielders" who will be "hacking" away at the budget. Articles about the nation's finances are filled with talk of blood, knives, and amputation.
And the British love it.
What can I say? There are people who collect serial-killer memorabilia, too. But Appelbaum wasn't just speaking for herself. It became unacceptable for any politician in Washington, Democrat or Republican, to advocate anything other than an austerity budget for the United States.
And it was more than an economic strategy to its backers. Austerity became a way to demonize those who had suffered most from the banking abuses and self-indulgences of the wealthy, a totemic "blame the victim" response that turned the political debate into a grotesque inversion of morality. Again, Appelbaum: >
"Not only is austerity being touted as the solution to Britain's economic woes; it is also being described as the answer to the country's moral failings."
Bad Metaphors vs. Good Economists
The Democratic President of the United States, Barack Obama, jumped onto the bandwagon with both feet by repeatedly lecturing Americans on the need for government to stop "spending beyond its means." Obama recycled the popular conservative metaphor of a family that has to sit around the kitchen table and decide how much money it has to spend.
That's one of the worst metaphors in modern politics. Does a family establish its own currency -- especially one that has the unique position of the dollar? Can a family borrow money at rates so low they're effectively less than zero? Would a family let Grandma go hungry because Junior bought too many Porsches out of the family kitty and then gambled it away on lousy mortgage investments?
The world's top economists, those who had successfully predicted the crisis of 2008, tried telling the rest of the world what was wrong with the idea: Joblessness and consumer fears were killing any chance of real recovery. More short-term spending was needed to get the economy moving again. Austerity would make things worse, not better.
But nobody listened. Austerity's S%M-like attraction had the world's elites in its grip.
Death of a Delusion
And then something else came into the picture: Reality.
Cameron's austerity budget had a shattering effect on the already-struggling British economy. His government's financial stability was downgraded five times during his first year in power and retail sales had fallen 2.5 percent. Household income was projected to fall an additional 2 percent if his austerity plans were carried forward. Britain's modest employment gains were reversed, youth unemployment reached record levels, and income inequality was the worst it had been in more than half a century.
Anne Appelbaum's erotic dreams had become Great Britain's nightmare.
As Europe's ruling austerity class pushed forward with their plans, even the IMF tried to dissuade them. It was clear to anyone who wasn't blinded by ideology or political cynicism that austerity economics was a failed program. Even in countries like Greece, where government was far graver than elsewhere, the austerity programs imposed from outside threatened to destabilize society while other reasonable measures like improved tax collection were still not taken seriously enough.
And now the entire Eurozone hangs in the balance. Bankers became wealthy by treating governments as if they were mortgages, lending recklessly and pocketing their fees without considering the long-term reliability of their loans. European leaders insisted for months they were take the kind of sensible steps that should've been taken in the United States by requiring bankers to accept at least part of the losses for the bad loans they had issed.
That plan was quietly dropped last month. "Austerity economics" never calls for austerity from those who have gotten rich by being irresponsible, only from those who didn't benefit from it at all.
The Afterlife
President Obama has dropped his austerity rhetoric, at least for the time being, but the Republicans have not. Listening to Mitt Romney discuss economics is like having a doctor wave a dead chicken over your head and saying he's decided to cast a spell on you rather than operate on that thing they found in your X-rays.
Aside from the bill introduced this month by the House Progressive Caucus to almost no media attention, there's no comprehensive plan for dropping this country's ineffective austerity strategy and replacing it with an agenda that works.
Rational solutions to our economic problems are being ignored. There won't be a real debate about alternatives to austerity until an entire political party, not just part of it, adopts this kind of program. Until then there will be chaos. And where there is chaos, austerity's powerful advocates can step in and take charge.
Austerity economics died in 2011 and is survived by the British, German, and French governments as well as the GOP and large portions of the Democratic Party. Instead of sending flowers, the family has asked the public to abandon all hopes of future economic growth.
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20:00:16 10/31/11
New Hampshire Haunted by Alinsky Ghost - BOO!
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Wow, keep it up tea partiers. This is really stunning. A 15-year old student asks a legitimate question about voting rights and is completely ripped on by Bill O'Brien, New Hampshire's Speaker of the House. Way to alienate young people from conservatism there, Billy-boy.
Here's the backstory, from "michael" on Blue Hampshire : >
However, this is when I lifted my hand and asked my question. I asked him about the aforementioned quote about students and whether or not he believed that there should be a litmus test based on ideology determining who gets to vote easily and conveniently. His response was not to answer the question I quite politely posed, but to start speaking in a rather untoward, declamatory manner about how I "demonized" him and how liberals "demonize" conservatives instead of talking about the important issues of the day- namely, supporting business, lowering taxes, cutting spending and family values. He then went on to distemperately rant about Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals", bitterly implying that I, a flipping fifteen year old, am a Communist subversive, sandwiched between lines about me demonizing Republicans.
I think it's worth reading the transcript of Michael's question: >
First, you mentioned in a conversation with several Tea Party members at a Tea Party meeting that you wanted a law passed that would stop out-of-state students from voting in New Hampshire because, quote -- Students, when they're in college -- I'm paraphrasing here -- Students, when they're in college, they're sitting around, they're voting their feelings, they're being foolish, they're voting liberal.
What is the threshold for when someone can actually exercise their Constitutional right to vote? Is someone's ideology supposed to be a litmus test? Or age, when it's Constitutionally allowed, intended on being a litmus test on who can vote? I mean --
OBRIEN: No, no, no. What's your second question? There's a series of questions. What's your second question?
What do you think, C%L readers? Fair question? I think so, particularly in light of the ongoing war on voting happening around this country, courtesy of the Tea Party and conservatives.
But the answer is just...well, it's like Glenn Beck's more-evil twin was sitting at the front of the room. >
OBRIEN: You know there's a [unintelligible] thread in all of this. Namely Saul Alinsky. And Saul Alinsky realized that something -- you know, he was a Marxist back in the 40s, 50s and 60s. He realized something. He realized that the United States would never, never turn socialist. And so he thought to himself, how do I get socialism? And so he wrote this book that still [unintelligible]...he operated out of Chicago and he wrote this book and it's called "Rules for Radicals." And the Rules for Radical work never taught any substantive issues with conservative politicians. Try to demonize them, try to marginalize them, try to radicalize them, make them something strange and different and exotic.
And so we see among conservative Republican leaders in this country a constant effort to try to marginalize them. You know, Sarah Palin's, not a leader, she's not educated well, and Newt Gingrich is kind of a fat guy, and Herman Cain is -- you know.
What we find is that people want to talk about issues like that, rather than issues that are important to our state.
In fact, I was joking around with some people talking about voter ID and voter laws and having a joke with people, and that's all they want to talk about. Marginalize this guy, make sure that his conservative agenda isn't being talked about. Let's not talk about the substantive issues of overtaxing. Let's not talk about the issues of bringing jobs and affordable government back here. Let's see if we can just marginalize him.
And that's what you're doing.
Yes, Alice, you've fallen down the conservative rabbit hole into that other place where they do what they say others do. That would be the conservative rabbit hole with the unending assault on anyone who disagrees, the turning-around of a substantive question by conjuring forth Saul Alinsky from the corridors of the dead to distract, deflect, and otherwise ignore a reasonable question by a soon-to-be voting citizen of this great country.
Let me see if I can actually pull the substance away from the fiction. Evidently Mr. O'Brien was heard to say that he didn't think students should vote because they vote liberal. Mr. O'Brien doesn't like liberals very much. Therefore, he feels that it's his duty to remove their constitutionally guaranteed voting rights from them.
Do watch the video past the transcription, where another student stands up, outraged that Mr. O'Brien is marginalizing him and his right to vote coming up in a few years. It will restore your faith in humanity, at least, a little bit.
This video is a remarkable sleight-of-hand on Mr. O'Brien's part. Even when confronted with the vote in New Hampshire's House of Representatives which would have disenfranchised student voters there, O'Brien ducks the real question and chooses instead to launch an attack on the person asking it, as though the question itself were simply justification to trash liberals rather than actually address a legitimate concern.
In fact, that concern is more than well-founded. The first version of New Hampshire's Voter ID bill was vetoed by the Governor, prompting a second version to be put forward in the House of Representatives. This is the bill michael is asking about. Via PeoplesWorld : >
According to their detractors, New Hampshire Republican leaders are part of what is called a corporate-driven Republican national agenda. The American Legislative Exchange Council, which, according to the American Association for Justice, operates as " the ultimate smoke-filled back room ," is seen to have its hands in New Hampshire politics. In August, Granite State Progress called on New Hampshire House Speaker Bill O'Brien to release a list of state legislators who had attended ALEC's recent conference.
The voter ID drive in New Hampshire is itself far from dead, however. Republicans in the state's House of Representatives plan to revive it, possibly entering a new bill as early as Weds.
The original bill was drafted in the State Senate, more right leaning than the House, and did not include the provision allowing people those without photo ID to cast provisional ballots. However, the House, in passing its version of the bill, added the rule.
Fortunately it sounds as though the Governor will backstop any bill that's more to the right than the one he already vetoed, but given the push by O'Brien and his House of Representatives, it sounds like Michael asked a question regarding a substantial and far-reaching policy issue, only to be demonized, Alinsky-style.
Shame on Speaker O'Brien, and kudos to Michael and his friends for standing up for their rights and putting up with that barrage of verbal abuse.
[h/t Daily Kos ]
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20:00:16 10/31/11
New Hampshire Haunted by Alinsky Ghost - BOO!
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Wow, keep it up tea partiers. This is really stunning. A 15-year old student asks a legitimate question about voting rights and is completely ripped on by Bill O'Brien, New Hampshire's Speaker of the House. Way to alienate young people from conservatism there, Billy-boy.
Here's the backstory, from "michael" on Blue Hampshire : >
However, this is when I lifted my hand and asked my question. I asked him about the aforementioned quote about students and whether or not he believed that there should be a litmus test based on ideology determining who gets to vote easily and conveniently. His response was not to answer the question I quite politely posed, but to start speaking in a rather untoward, declamatory manner about how I "demonized" him and how liberals "demonize" conservatives instead of talking about the important issues of the day- namely, supporting business, lowering taxes, cutting spending and family values. He then went on to distemperately rant about Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals", bitterly implying that I, a flipping fifteen year old, am a Communist subversive, sandwiched between lines about me demonizing Republicans.
I think it's worth reading the transcript of Michael's question: >
First, you mentioned in a conversation with several Tea Party members at a Tea Party meeting that you wanted a law passed that would stop out-of-state students from voting in New Hampshire because, quote -- Students, when they're in college -- I'm paraphrasing here -- Students, when they're in college, they're sitting around, they're voting their feelings, they're being foolish, they're voting liberal.
What is the threshold for when someone can actually exercise their Constitutional right to vote? Is someone's ideology supposed to be a litmus test? Or age, when it's Constitutionally allowed, intended on being a litmus test on who can vote? I mean --
OBRIEN: No, no, no. What's your second question? There's a series of questions. What's your second question?
What do you think, C%L readers? Fair question? I think so, particularly in light of the ongoing war on voting happening around this country, courtesy of the Tea Party and conservatives.
But the answer is just...well, it's like Glenn Beck's more-evil twin was sitting at the front of the room. >
OBRIEN: You know there's a [unintelligible] thread in all of this. Namely Saul Alinsky. And Saul Alinsky realized that something -- you know, he was a Marxist back in the 40s, 50s and 60s. He realized something. He realized that the United States would never, never turn socialist. And so he thought to himself, how do I get socialism? And so he wrote this book that still [unintelligible]...he operated out of Chicago and he wrote this book and it's called "Rules for Radicals." And the Rules for Radical work never taught any substantive issues with conservative politicians. Try to demonize them, try to marginalize them, try to radicalize them, make them something strange and different and exotic.
And so we see among conservative Republican leaders in this country a constant effort to try to marginalize them. You know, Sarah Palin's, not a leader, she's not educated well, and Newt Gingrich is kind of a fat guy, and Herman Cain is -- you know.
What we find is that people want to talk about issues like that, rather than issues that are important to our state.
In fact, I was joking around with some people talking about voter ID and voter laws and having a joke with people, and that's all they want to talk about. Marginalize this guy, make sure that his conservative agenda isn't being talked about. Let's not talk about the substantive issues of overtaxing. Let's not talk about the issues of bringing jobs and affordable government back here. Let's see if we can just marginalize him.
And that's what you're doing.
Yes, Alice, you've fallen down the conservative rabbit hole into that other place where they do what they say others do. That would be the conservative rabbit hole with the unending assault on anyone who disagrees, the turning-around of a substantive question by conjuring forth Saul Alinsky from the corridors of the dead to distract, deflect, and otherwise ignore a reasonable question by a soon-to-be voting citizen of this great country.
Let me see if I can actually pull the substance away from the fiction. Evidently Mr. O'Brien was heard to say that he didn't think students should vote because they vote liberal. Mr. O'Brien doesn't like liberals very much. Therefore, he feels that it's his duty to remove their constitutionally guaranteed voting rights from them.
Do watch the video past the transcription, where another student stands up, outraged that Mr. O'Brien is marginalizing him and his right to vote coming up in a few years. It will restore your faith in humanity, at least, a little bit.
This video is a remarkable sleight-of-hand on Mr. O'Brien's part. Even when confronted with the vote in New Hampshire's House of Representatives which would have disenfranchised student voters there, O'Brien ducks the real question and chooses instead to launch an attack on the person asking it, as though the question itself were simply justification to trash liberals rather than actually address a legitimate concern.
In fact, that concern is more than well-founded. The first version of New Hampshire's Voter ID bill was vetoed by the Governor, prompting a second version to be put forward in the House of Representatives. This is the bill michael is asking about. Via PeoplesWorld : >
According to their detractors, New Hampshire Republican leaders are part of what is called a corporate-driven Republican national agenda. The American Legislative Exchange Council, which, according to the American Association for Justice, operates as " the ultimate smoke-filled back room ," is seen to have its hands in New Hampshire politics. In August, Granite State Progress called on New Hampshire House Speaker Bill O'Brien to release a list of state legislators who had attended ALEC's recent conference.
The voter ID drive in New Hampshire is itself far from dead, however. Republicans in the state's House of Representatives plan to revive it, possibly entering a new bill as early as Weds.
The original bill was drafted in the State Senate, more right leaning than the House, and did not include the provision allowing people those without photo ID to cast provisional ballots. However, the House, in passing its version of the bill, added the rule.
Fortunately it sounds as though the Governor will backstop any bill that's more to the right than the one he already vetoed, but given the push by O'Brien and his House of Representatives, it sounds like Michael asked a question regarding a substantial and far-reaching policy issue, only to be demonized, Alinsky-style.
Shame on Speaker O'Brien, and kudos to Michael and his friends for standing up for their rights and putting up with that barrage of verbal abuse.
[h/t Daily Kos ]
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09:45:00 09/29/11
The Dark Eyes of London 1939 Also known as The Human Monster
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03:38:04 09/15/11
Saints Row 2 Gameplay Walkthrough Brotherhood Mission 5 Bank Error In Your Favor
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Saints Row 2 Gameplay Walkthrough - Brotherhood Mission 5: Bank Error in your Favor
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03:00:00 08/31/11
Theme Park Sims Coming To 3DS and iOS - Press Pause Daily
[LESS INFO] 15 VIEWS | ADDED 03:00:00 08/31/11
Theme park simulation games are making a comeback on mobile platforms, and we have the details. SHOW NOTES: Story 1:
Roller Coaster Tycoon, the theme park simulation game that can suck the hours out of any day, is coming to the 3DS. N-Space, developer of Call Of Duty DS and the upcoming Heroes of Ruin will be building this game from the ground up. While we’re a bit skeptical of messing with an already awesome engine we don’t really care. As long as we can manage our roller coasters on the go we’re happy campers!
http://www.destructoid.com/rollercoaster-tycoon-hurtling-towards-3ds-210060.phtml
Story 2:
AND for you Apple iPhone fanboys you can get your amusement park management on too...with a theme park game of your own. its said to have a freemium model, so think Cityville and microtransactions, and be released later this year.
The cool thing about this title is that some of the attractions in the game, published by EA, will be other EA properties such as Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and Dead Space.
http://www.destructoid.com/freemium-theme-park-game-headed-to-ios-209751.phtml
Oh and for all of you who don’t understand what we’ve just said .. the whole theme park simulation thing...try and find Theme Park or Roller Coaster Tycoon to get yourself primed for these handheld versions.
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23:51:05 05/02/11
Darkspore Walkthrough - Level 2-4
[LESS INFO] 0 VIEWS | ADDED 23:51:05 05/02/11
Darkspore Walkthrough - Level 2-4
For the complete walkthrough visit: mahalo.com Join the Crogenitors in a battle to save the universe by commanding your own personal Heroes in this Diabloesque MOBA from Maxis and EA. Checkout the playlist for this game at: www.youtube.com Be sure to Like us on our Facebook page at: www.facebook.com Check out these related Mahalo Video Game Walkthroughs: Mass Effect 2 Arrival DLC Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com Yakuza 4 Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com The 3rd Birthday Walkthrough: www.youtube.com WWE All Stars Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com Playstation Move Heroes Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com Crysis 2 Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com Dragon Age 2 Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com Homefront Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com Shogun 2 Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com Fight Night Champion Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com Check out these Mahalo Video Games Reviews: Homefront Review: www.youtube.com Battle: Los Angeles Review: www.youtube.com Dragon Age 2 Review: www.youtube.com Bulletstorm Review: www.youtube.com Fight Night Champion Review: www.youtube.com MLB 11 The Show Review: www.youtube.com Killzone 3 Review: www.youtube.com Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Review: www.youtube.com Beyond Good and Evil Review: www.youtube.com Hard Corps: Uprising Review: www.youtube.com De Blob 2 Review: www.youtube.com Dead Space 2 Review: www.youtube.com Check out these Mahalo Video Games Specialty Videos: Black Ops Tango Down: Basic Lessons -- Cover: www.youtube.com ... From: MahaloVideoGames Views: 59 2 ratings Time: 12:25 More in Gaming
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23:28:43 05/02/11
Darkspore Walkthrough - Level 2-3
[LESS INFO] 2 VIEWS | ADDED 23:28:43 05/02/11
Darkspore Walkthrough - Level 2-3
For the complete walkthrough visit: mahalo.com Join the Crogenitors in a battle to save the universe by commanding your own personal Heroes in this Diabloesque MOBA from Maxis and EA. Checkout the playlist for this game at: www.youtube.com Be sure to Like us on our Facebook page at: www.facebook.com Check out these related Mahalo Video Game Walkthroughs: Mass Effect 2 Arrival DLC Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com Yakuza 4 Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com The 3rd Birthday Walkthrough: www.youtube.com WWE All Stars Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com Playstation Move Heroes Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com Crysis 2 Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com Dragon Age 2 Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com Homefront Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com Shogun 2 Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com Fight Night Champion Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com Check out these Mahalo Video Games Reviews: Homefront Review: www.youtube.com Battle: Los Angeles Review: www.youtube.com Dragon Age 2 Review: www.youtube.com Bulletstorm Review: www.youtube.com Fight Night Champion Review: www.youtube.com MLB 11 The Show Review: www.youtube.com Killzone 3 Review: www.youtube.com Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Review: www.youtube.com Beyond Good and Evil Review: www.youtube.com Hard Corps: Uprising Review: www.youtube.com De Blob 2 Review: www.youtube.com Dead Space 2 Review: www.youtube.com Check out these Mahalo Video Games Specialty Videos: Black Ops Tango Down: Basic Lessons -- Cover: www.youtube.com ... From: MahaloVideoGames Views: 33 1 ratings Time: 16:27 More in Gaming
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23:11:36 05/02/11
Darkspore Walkthrough - Level 2-2
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Darkspore Walkthrough - Level 2-2
For the complete walkthrough visit: mahalo.com Join the Crogenitors in a battle to save the universe by commanding your own personal Heroes in this Diabloesque MOBA from Maxis and EA. Checkout the playlist for this game at: www.youtube.com Be sure to Like us on our Facebook page at: www.facebook.com Check out these related Mahalo Video Game Walkthroughs: Mass Effect 2 Arrival DLC Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com Yakuza 4 Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com The 3rd Birthday Walkthrough: www.youtube.com WWE All Stars Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com Playstation Move Heroes Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com Crysis 2 Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com Dragon Age 2 Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com Homefront Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com Shogun 2 Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com Fight Night Champion Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com Check out these Mahalo Video Games Reviews: Homefront Review: www.youtube.com Battle: Los Angeles Review: www.youtube.com Dragon Age 2 Review: www.youtube.com Bulletstorm Review: www.youtube.com Fight Night Champion Review: www.youtube.com MLB 11 The Show Review: www.youtube.com Killzone 3 Review: www.youtube.com Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Review: www.youtube.com Beyond Good and Evil Review: www.youtube.com Hard Corps: Uprising Review: www.youtube.com De Blob 2 Review: www.youtube.com Dead Space 2 Review: www.youtube.com Check out these Mahalo Video Games Specialty Videos: Black Ops Tango Down: Basic Lessons -- Cover: www.youtube.com ... From: MahaloVideoGames Views: 54 3 ratings Time: 11:53 More in Gaming
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22:48:09 05/02/11
Darkspore Walkthrough - Level 2-1
[LESS INFO] 3 VIEWS | ADDED 22:48:09 05/02/11
Darkspore Walkthrough - Level 2-1
For the complete walkthrough visit: mahalo.com Join the Crogenitors in a battle to save the universe by commanding your own personal Heroes in this Diabloesque MOBA from Maxis and EA. Checkout the playlist for this game at: www.youtube.com Be sure to Like us on our Facebook page at: www.facebook.com Check out these related Mahalo Video Game Walkthroughs: Mass Effect 2 Arrival DLC Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com Yakuza 4 Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com The 3rd Birthday Walkthrough: www.youtube.com WWE All Stars Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com Playstation Move Heroes Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com Crysis 2 Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com Dragon Age 2 Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com Homefront Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com Shogun 2 Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com Fight Night Champion Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds Walkthrough: www.mahalo.com Check out these Mahalo Video Games Reviews: Homefront Review: www.youtube.com Battle: Los Angeles Review: www.youtube.com Dragon Age 2 Review: www.youtube.com Bulletstorm Review: www.youtube.com Fight Night Champion Review: www.youtube.com MLB 11 The Show Review: www.youtube.com Killzone 3 Review: www.youtube.com Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Review: www.youtube.com Beyond Good and Evil Review: www.youtube.com Hard Corps: Uprising Review: www.youtube.com De Blob 2 Review: www.youtube.com Dead Space 2 Review: www.youtube.com Check out these Mahalo Video Games Specialty Videos: Black Ops Tango Down: Basic Lessons -- Cover: www.youtube.com ... From: MahaloVideoGames Views: 100 4 ratings Time: 15:08 More in Gaming
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18:20:08 02/04/11
Episode 158 - Donkey Kong Country Returns and Dead Space 2
[LESS INFO] 92 VIEWS | ADDED 18:20:08 02/04/11
On this weeks episode of Gamesweasel TV:-
* Batman Arkham City map
* Dragon Age Legends launched
* Final Fantasy IV The Complete Collection release date
* Donkey Kong Country Returns review
* The Mysterious Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde for the Nintendo DS
* Dead Space 2 review
* Bulletstorm
For your chance of winning one of 5 copies of The Mysterious Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde for the Nintendo DS head over to our competitions page by 11 April 2011. If you want to contact Gamesweasel then you can email gamesweasel@mevio.com , follow Gamesweasel on Twitter and become a fan on our official Gamesweasel Facebook page . On the blog we cover the Kinect red ring of death error , getting free Microsoft points codes , Little Big Planet for the Xbox 360 and using the Wii Rock Band controller with Guitar Hero . You can also watch the Donkey Kong Country Returns review and the Dead Space 2 review on Youtube .
If you like any of the games we have reviewed in this episode you can buy from the Dead Space 2 and Donkey Kong Country Returns pages from Amazon.com.
There isn't an Amazon claim code available, however we've put together a handy guide showing you how to get free shipping with Amazon to help you save cash next time you buy some games. To save you money whenever you buy athletic shoes over at Eastbay use our EastBay coupons , we've also got our Footlocker coupon codes handy when buying sports shoes at Footlocker.com. Plus you can also save when you buy personalized apparel with Zazzle when you use our Zazzle promo when shopping. We are also brought to you in association with CCS.com, using the April 2011 CCS discount code 'AFGAMEFS' will get you free shipping on orders over $30 and 'AFGAME15' for 15% off orders over $75.
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18:20:08 02/04/11
Episode 158 - Donkey Kong Country Returns and Dead Space 2
[LESS INFO] 49 VIEWS | ADDED 18:20:08 02/04/11
On this weeks episode of Gamesweasel TV:-
* Batman Arkham City map
* Dragon Age Legends launched
* Final Fantasy IV The Complete Collection release date
* Donkey Kong Country Returns review
* The Mysterious Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde for the Nintendo DS
* Dead Space 2 review
* Bulletstorm
For your chance of winning one of 5 copies of The Mysterious Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde for the Nintendo DS head over to our competitions page by 11 April 2011. If you want to contact Gamesweasel then you can email gamesweasel@mevio.com , follow Gamesweasel on Twitter and become a fan on our official Gamesweasel Facebook page . On the blog we cover the Kinect red ring of death error , getting free Microsoft points codes , Little Big Planet for the Xbox 360 and using the Wii Rock Band controller with Guitar Hero . You can also watch the Donkey Kong Country Returns review and the Dead Space 2 review on Youtube .
If you like any of the games we have reviewed in this episode you can buy from the Dead Space 2 and Donkey Kong Country Returns pages from Amazon.com.
There isn't an Amazon claim code available, however we've put together a handy guide showing you how to get free shipping with Amazon to help you save cash next time you buy some games. To save you money whenever you buy athletic shoes over at Eastbay use our EastBay coupons , we've also got our Footlocker coupon codes handy when buying sports shoes at Footlocker.com. Plus you can also save when you buy personalized apparel with Zazzle when you use our Zazzle promo when shopping. We are also brought to you in association with CCS.com, using the April 2011 CCS discount code 'AFGAMEFS' will get you free shipping on orders over $30 and 'AFGAME15' for 15% off orders over $75.
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