In my post about the idiotic over-reaction to a New Jersey 10-year-old posing with his new squirrel rifle , Dana Garrett left me this response: One waits, apparently in vain, for you to post the annual rates of children who either shoot themselves or someone else with a gun. But then you Libertarians are notoriously ambivalent to and silent about data and facts and would rather talk abstract principles and fear monger (like the government will confiscate your guns). It doesn't require any degree of subtlety to see why you are data and fact adverse. The facts indicate we have a crisis with gun violence and accidents in the USA, and Libertarians offer nothing credible to address it. Lives, even the lives of children, get sacrificed to the fetishism of liberty. That's intellectual cowardice. OK, Dana, let's talk facts. According to the Children's Defense Fund , which is itself only querying the CDCP data base, fewer than 10 children/teens were killed per year in Delaw
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Progressive agenda for 21st-century America
My Fellow Forum Members. Yes, the election is over, but the work has just begun.We progressives should prepare once again to play our role as agents of bold ideas and political social transformation in the Midterm elections in which members of Congress, state legislatures, and some state governors are elected. We progressives will have to reflect a belief in the need for change. We must support our party through charity, through volunteerism, local and state governments, though surely all have a role. We should argue that we need programs that serve our national and international needs and encourage faith in our public institutions, creating a positive cycle of political change and space for further reform, advocate for true reform of our tax system so that everyone pays their fair share.
We progressives should reach out to recruit new members who share our goals and want to join our fight. Our movement lies in being an unapologetic champion for progressive ideas. Finding new confidence and imagination, we have begun to renew our political capital.
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Here we go! The New York Times once again is broad casting from Fantasy Land. Yes, General Motors is an icon. Yes, Alfred P. Sloan was a genius. However, post WWII, GM has been digging it’s own grave since the 1950s!
Cadillac as the standard for luxury? Maybe ---- for ‘drivers’ who get behind the wheel after hobbling to their vehicle with their walker. Even in the fifties. Even in the back wards mid west /Heart Land. [All three ‘coasts’ were probably a decade ahead of the standard culture curve.]
Yes, even decades ago, Caddy was grandpa’s dream car. Even middle aged drivers were looking else where. .
A vehicle for every niche? Oh, that decisive take over of Jeep for the pre SUV set. [Oops, never happened!]
Over kill on the avalanche of makes and models? Strangulation of creativity via layer after suffocating layer of so called ‘supervision‘? These short falls were served up to GM executive management FOR DECADES.
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Spead the good news! What “Grand Jury” (and to be fair, lots of other groups, like INDEPENDENT Political Report) has /have turned a blind eye to is the gross misbehavior of california governor wanna be ‘Nightmare’ Nightingale will be officially bounced off of the California American Independent Party November 2010 General Election ballot!
Fired from ‘Save Our State’, red flagged by elections officials, CONVICTED fraud defendant! Endorsed by dead people, spouse self described as ‘Hustler’ and constantly lying, lying, lying ……… Exit, stage AIP! Per donlake@ymail.com and 619.420.0209
Citizens For A Better Veterans Home on July 2nd, 2010 at 6:58 pm
Up, up date, Chelene Ward Nightingale maaaaaaaaaay run for California Governor in November, but it will not (AIP State Central Committee, AIP state convention, California Secretary of State) be on the California American Independent Party ballot! (Good riddance to bad rubbish ………)
‘Nightmare’ Nightingale
Chelene Nightingale
Chelene Ward Nightingale