My friend (and former student) Nathan Rodriguez has a measured and well-written look at the VP debate over at the Talking Points Memo Cafe. Support another Kansan who is out there thinking and writing, won’t you?
We must not buy federally-mandated insurance! No single-payer, no sale! No public option, no sale!

Any law that requires an individual to pay money to a private corporation or face criminal penalty is a bad law and must be struck down. I could write pages and pages about the healthcare issues with this bill…
Question Copyright

That’s right, kiddies, copying is not theft! Time to forget the propaganda that you are fed every time you pop a dvd into the player. Oh, it is still a crime thanks to our draconian Digital Millennium Copyright Act, but it is not theft, so don’t feel like you are stealing, because you aren’t. Case in point: Nina Paley….
The biggest story you’ve never heard

“Sibel Edmonds has a story to tell…It is about massive and systematic corruption of our elected officials and senior bureaucrats with the active connivance of the media. Worse, the corruption was carried out by agents of several foreign governments and involved nuclear secrets stolen from American defense laboratories and military bases that were, in some cases, sold to the highest bidder…”
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Mantra #1
We owe no allegiance to any government. They owe abject allegiance to us.
Mantra #2
Corporations are not human. Non-humans have no inalienable rights.
Mantra #3
Single-payer or bust!
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It is impossible to awaken someone who is pretending to sleep.
#1 by Shelly Walston on October 7, 2008 - 12:24 pm
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What? Nothing about the fact that even after the Paulsen Plan passed, the markets are still in a HUGE crisis AND the Government is planning to use commerical papers to “help things out.” FRIGHTENING! I appreciate how they plan to use an “on your honor” system to pay off myriad bad practices in the financial system. Oxymoronic?
#2 by Patrick T. Lafferty on October 7, 2008 - 3:04 pm
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There, is that better?
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