isn't that what laws are, that aren't drafted to benefit corporate interests?

it's bad enough to be a secret agent of sharia, now he wants to protect wage workers? and he thinks republicans are responsible for establishing alqaeda in iraq?

there must be some disquiet in american chambers of commerce, across the land. to these people i say: "be calm. after the election it will turn out that he's just another politician. we will prevail, just as we did in china. money is master of all."

the mechanics of politics rewards immoral behavior. if you want a better outcome: a. put angels into the system, or b. put people into a better system.

haven't got angels? consider an amendment to the constitution, establishing democracy.

.. you've gotta have standards in the first place. it's no holds barred, in the land of the free, and no lie unspoken, in the home of the brave.

nothing new about that, something similar was chiseled on a passage inside a pyramid, and what the athenian orators had to say about one another was educational.

there's never any lack of divisive forces in human society. i wonder if the relative lack of cohesive forces is the harbinger of advancing social decay.

when america's constitution was new, protecting yourselves from the power of the king was a primary concern. the world has turned often since then, maybe today's concern should be protecting yourselves from the power of the rich. they can hire a lot of liars.

... about amending the constitution until the pain of the current law stirs widespread action. mike gravel's 'initiative for democracy' is the carrot, maybe nader's campaign will provide a bit of stick.

i doubt it. democracy is never popular among people who can change things easily because their position is dependent on things staying as they are. so joan walsh is upset if someone threatens the ascendancy of 'her' candidate, but is quite uninterested in establishing actual democracy.

unfortunately, neither are the vast majority of americans who should be interested in democracy. like sheep in a field,they turn grass into fleece collected annually, and line up to be counted bi-annually as to whether tweedledum pastoral corporation should run the station, or tweedledee's.

into every city on the planet, april fool's day would be good. it's the best way to bring the human race back into line with the environment. the only workable alternative is nuclear warfare, and that's clearly second best.

or we could sit down and figure out a way to keep the population under 1 billion, everybody well fed and in a house, and preserving the nature that is preserving us. already you can see why i think small pox is the answer, with the black death to follow the year after if results not good enough..

the vietnam war cured me of believing in america. worse, when i got the idea that 'american' history was a set of lies, and started looking at history as told by the other side, or third parties, vietnam was not only a war crime, it was typical.

a lot of people are going to have american propaganda shattered by current activities in the middle east, and ending the activities won't change the character of the people that did them. it just means that the bad guys got a bloody nose, and pulled back. americans would never have discovered the iraq war was wasteful, or stupid, or criminal, if it was successful.

and it may yet be successful. whoever is in office will be greatly tempted to stay in iraq, to guard the oil, and buy it cheaply. so i won't applaud obama in a hurry, or expect much from clinton, or be suprised by anything mccain does. americans have never let christianity impede their foreign policy,and in the declining years of the empire, greater violence can be expected to compensate for fading prosperity.

reading about chickens coming home to roost on american heads. if ever anyone richly deserved an extended diet of shit pie, it was you, baby, it was you.

unfortunately, fading economic power will be compensated for with military adventures and a lot of ordinary people will be passed through the grinder, so that america's elite can go on feeling like masters of the universe.

the solution is simple: bring democracy to the federal government. but who will do it? not the elite. not the wage slaves. not the academics. certainly not the corporations, whose structure mimics the federal oligarchy. the solution is simple, and impossible. the elite will continue to rule, and corrupt, and betray the nation.

there's a good movie in this, several in fact. aristophanes would approve, and commiserate: no amount of talk will stop the drift into tyranny and decay.

i just wish you could work out your depressing destiny without buggering up the rest of the planet.

.. john mccain even happier.

munitions industry is not the best use of america's resources. but of course, you can't change. as rome ran on slaves, america runs on guns.

schools, hospitals, roads and rail are all second best, or fourth, or third world. recent immigrants prop up your universities, wetbacks pick your crops, rich and poor despise the nation. there may be a few middles still proud of america, but they are deluded. see "in the valley of elah", "rendition", "taxi to the dark side", and tell me there is something to be proud of.

so the the blonds are leading in responsible use of resources? no surprise. self respect and respect for others are necessary to leadership like this. arrogance and chauvinism are not substitutes, and that's all that's left in american society.