LQD: The Blue Dogs Are A Spent Force... Until You See How They've Ditched The White Sheets And Hoods And Morphed Into The New Dems

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Lazy Quote Diary, from DownWithTyranny

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Friday, The Hill reported that the conservative, corporate-oriented New Dems are planning "to fill the power vacuum created by the recent and rapid decline of the Blue Dog Coalition," without even mentioning that half the Blue Dogs who managed to survive are new Dems. 

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Anti-Capitalist Meetup .. The Attack on Gaza: Collective Punishment is Our Collective Responsibility by NY brit expat

The Gaza Strip is a very densely populated area, whose population of more than 1.5 million people consists of 56% children. Bombing this area will, of necessity, lead to civilian deaths. There can be no justification for bombing civilian areas; this is a clear violation of international humanitarian law. Additionally, what we are seeing is a clearly disproportionate response and collective punishment of the civilian population for the actions of a few.

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Sunday Morning without a Cliff

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So I had a thought yesterday that provoked a pretty interesting discussion, the thought was essentially that this supposed  "fiscal cliff" being espoused by the R's, D's and every talking head in the corporate owned media is a lie. A lie formulated by the very people that buy the politicians and use them like hand puppets to express whatever views that would benefit them the most and distract from the real issues. War, poverty, jobs, the fact that the Wall Street casino rolls along unchecked we get not a peep from these learned and very serious people.

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Economic Populist: CBO, on the public dime, peddles BS to the public.

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Burning the Midnight Oil for Economic Populism

Yves Smith at the excellent and insightful Naked Capitalism has recently been taking at a close look at the role of the Congressional Budget Office, the vaunted "CBO", in the "fiscal cliff" scam that the corporate aristocracy is attempting to perpetrate on us mere commoners.

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Union songs for the Wal-Mart strike

At this point anyone who has read Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed can tell you what is at stake with the Wal-Mart worker's strike.  Ehrenreich tried to live off of a Wal-Mart worker's wage, and discovered rather quickly that she couldn't live anywhere in the vicinity of the Wal-Mart at which she was hired, because the rents in that neighborhood were just too high for the paltry wage she was earning.

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Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!

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This past Tuesday evening I included the following snippet in my diary, School Daze.

The average person has a 1 in 15,000 change of being murdered. A transperson has a 1 in 13 chance of being murdered. Additionally transpeople are eight times as likely to commit suicide.

Rightly so, cordgrass commented:

you buried the lede

a transperson has a one in thirteen chance of being MURDERED! I had no idea! What does that say about our society?

Do you have more links for that?

The data was taken from one of my links, but it should rightly be viewed with some skepticism. So I went looking for the source. I had the advantage of knowing who it was, so that made my search easier. Back in 1999 Kay Brown (proprietress of Transgender Roadmap) shared the data with students in her class when she was the instructor for "20th Century Transgender History and Experience" at the Harvey Milk Institute in San Francisco, (Washington Blade, Dec. 10, 1999).

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Petitions Don't Work. What will?

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Is it just me, or is discouragement playing a role in limiting on-line participation from the left? I just got an email from Jim Dean of Democracy for America. He says the "fiscal cliff" is not real, is merely a scare tactic. We all know this.

What does he propose? A petition to Congress. "Pretty please would you please please not run this scam that has been years in the planning and has most powerful people firmly behind it?"

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