take direction from sandy_lafave@wvmccd.cc.ca.us :

I’d like you to read this famous story and think about whether Nietzsche wasn’t on to something when he criticized the naive idea of human equality.

Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut (1961)
http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/hb.html
http://clusty.com/search?input-form=clusty-simple&v%3Asources=webplus&query=%22Harrison+Bergeron%22+by+Kurt+Vonnegut%2C+Jr

something tells me that you won’t be *happy until a “Ms. Glampers” is, in fact, a sitting “Handicapper General”..you know, to make ‘things *fair’..

His hackneyed re-visit of the late-night comedy gags: that Norwegians, relieved of the specter of the the worst US President in history, felt they had to send a message. But the hundreds of millions of people who get up and go to work everyday disprove his point that it’s all Easy Street out there.

Jeremy Granthan would rather the gov’t let all the people who followed the Bush year’s advice to get whatever punishment comes, whether it’s too much or not. Grantham doesn’t care. But Obama and his people do care, and if you only want to help people like me who didn’t go hog wild but have benefited from having cash at the end of ’08, you’re missing the point of life. We need to fix the system and help the people who suffered. Got it Grantham? Sticking the skewer in further gets what? Your sour little article? Congratulations. You’re a curmudgeon. How cute.

Easy to say when you’re rich, old man. Oh and what’s your alpha? Negative? Just your value add to the debate. Punishment is what he wants. And deflection of support from the ones who are going to raise his taxes a little.

Screw you Grantham.

Matthew Hoh, 36, a senior foreign service officer, wrote a four-page letter to Ambassador Nancy Powell, director general of the foreign service at the State Department, to express his “doubts and reservations about our current strategy and planned future strategy,” as first reported by the Washington Post today.

“To put simply, I fail to see the value or the worth in the continued U.S. casualties or expenditures of resources in support of the Afghan government in what is, truly, a 35-year-old civil war,” the former Marine wrote in the emotional letter.
Hoh spent six years in Iraq, where he served as a Marine Corps captain and then as a civilian for the Department of Defense.

Hoh told the Washington Post he decided to speak out publicly because “I want people in Iowa, people in Arkansas, people in Arizona, to call their congressman and say, ‘Listen, I don’t think this is right.’”

The U.S. ambassador in Afghanistan, Karl W. Eikenberry, and Richard Holbrooke, the special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, apparently tried to talk Hoh out of resigning. The latter even offered him a job but Hoh declined, according to the Post…
http://cryptogon.com/?p=11889
a good reminder that if We want ‘Change’ it’ll, only, come from our doing..
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This item:

Toxic Sludge is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry by John Stauber

Trust Us We’re Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future by Sheldon Rampton

Propaganda by Edward Bernays
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1567510604/ref=nosim/cryptogoncom-20
a good reminder that those that are lying to us, have had long-practice/are well-trained..

You may have a health benefit and not nearly enough doctors. Or hospitals. Pass the law, and try to do it on the cheap…should be fun to watch…

Sorry, Cramer … We Will Not Bow Down:

http://wallstcheatsheet.com/breaking-news/sorry-cramer-we-will-not-bow-down/?p=3046/