Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Oct 1, 2010, 4:10 pm
The non-existent moral case for tax cuts - Taxes - Salon.com: "Although conservatives generally make the case for specific tax cuts in economic terms, mainstream American conservatism very clearly has a strong moral commitment to keeping taxes as low as they can. You can see this in the Tea Partyâ€...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Oct 1, 2010, 4:07 pm
Eliot Spitzer on the crisis of accountability - War Room - Salon.com: "There’s the issue of communitarianism -- we need a sense of community and responsibility to each other that rises in parallel with a sense of the freedom of the individual. How does accountability impact the legitimacy of our ...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Oct 1, 2010, 4:01 pm
The smug morality of breast cancer month - Cancer - Salon.com: "Yet plenty of other deadly diseases get considerably less attention. The leading non-accident-related cause of death in America is heart disease, frequently a diet and lifestyle-related problem that only recently has gained traction as...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Sep 30, 2010, 11:05 pm
Unbelievably, tonight Maddow CUT AWAY from one of those live Obama speeches which are intended to goose up the youth vote, to play a raft of ads and then Eugene Robinson's commentary on a speech we were not getting to see. If MSNBC is in lala land too, how much hope does Obama have?
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Sep 30, 2010, 12:51 am
William S. Lerach: Blame the Wall Street Bankers and Corporate CEOs for the "Jobless" Recovery: "These bankers and corporate CEOs are 'men and women of the world.' If the legal and economic rules of the game permit them to make more money for themselves at the cost of ordinary Americans, they will ...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Sep 30, 2010, 12:46 am
Pentagon Losing Control of Bombs to China’s Monopoly - BusinessWeek: "A generation after Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping made mastering neodymium and 16 other elements known as rare earths a priority, China dominates the market, with far-reaching effects ranging from global trade friction to U.S. jo...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Sep 28, 2010, 11:04 pm
Marty Kaplan: The Scary Staleness of Truth Telling: "Why, an audience member asked NPR's Linda Wertheimer at a San Diego symposium this past weekend, wasn't public radio correcting all the lies being told in the campaign? We do correct a lot of them, she replied. We report that candidate so-and-so ...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Sep 27, 2010, 11:32 am
Drew Westen: The Two Stories of the Election of 2010: A Biopsy Before the Autopsy: "Years ago psychologists found that under high anxiety, people tend to revert to well-worn patterns, and with 6 or 7 weeks to go before a high-anxiety election, Democrats seems to be reverting to habits that have ser...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Sep 27, 2010, 9:04 am
A new Politico poll shows the public trusting the GOP over Obama to create jobs by 51-40%. More important, Palin has closed to within single digits against Obama in 2012. What we are soon going to see is the biggest vote of non-confidence ever delivered to a president. Clinton had the drive and the ...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Sep 25, 2010, 2:52 am
Charles Ferguson: Summers Down, Fifty Odd More to Go: "In fact, the most depressing part of the CNBC Town Hall was President Obama's reaction when that amazing woman told him off -- his timid evasions as the great orator was stripped away to reveal -- emptiness. But people are getting angry and eve...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Sep 25, 2010, 2:50 am
Robert Reich: The Super Rich Get Richer, Everyone Else Gets Poorer, and the Democrats Punt: "Democrats have thereby given up a defining issue that could have enabled them to show the big story of the last three decades -- the accumulation of almost all the gain from economic growth at the top -- an...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Sep 25, 2010, 2:45 am
Dems' Tax Cut Punt Doesn't Make Any Sense: "So, let's get it straight. The American people broadly support the Democrats' plans for these tax cuts. But if the Democrats were to hold a vote on them, members of their own caucus, who are either too stupid or too scared to know what to do, would not vo...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Sep 24, 2010, 5:42 am
Richard (RJ) Eskow: GOP's "Pledge" to Rob the Middle Class: No Jobs, No Health Care, No Security: "Off the top, their plan is a trillion-dollar giveaway to the rich - at everybody else's expense. Their 'pledge' would slash needed spending, kill jobs and end any hope of growing the economy. It decla...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Sep 24, 2010, 5:16 am
Obama's Could-Have-Been-Worse Presidency - Newsweek: "The BP crisis and its political aftermath are apt symbols for what ails, and what ultimately might save, the president and the Democrats. They are going to get hammered in November. He and they overpromised and underperformed. But if they avoid ...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Sep 22, 2010, 11:45 pm
Obama's presidency is likely to be shortly destroyed. He will almost certainly be impeached, and the really significant question involving the number of seats Republicans get is do they have the votes to get him? Or even more horrible, will Democrats join with them in taking Obama out? This is not t...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Sep 22, 2010, 10:52 am
Job-Creation Idea No. 2: Rescue The States: "By contrast, if you want federal money to reduce the unemployment rate, economists generally agree there's no faster or more effective way than sending it to states so they can avoid layoffs or can actually increase their hiring. States are in a position...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Sep 22, 2010, 10:47 am
So it will be Palin in 2012. She has greatly improved her self-presentation and has uniquely mastered the art of being political in non political settings. She's the Oprah of politics, and should be recognized that way by all sides. Denial is absurd. You have to dig very deep to find the bullshit c...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Sep 22, 2010, 12:17 am
Obama complains that the left are whiners. But it's Obama who's the whiner, a petulant kid who seems to be at the verge of a tantrum when he doesn't get what he thinks he deserves. He seems to view the presidency as his personal possession and that it's nobody's damn business what he does with it wh...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Sep 21, 2010, 1:05 pm
Timothy Karr: Net Neutrality: We're Still Waiting: "Instead of doing what's right for Internet users, Genachowski has dodged, dithered and delayed. But it's not too late to turn things around. And Genachowski's legacy as chair of the FCC - either as a champion of openness or as a toothless bureaucr...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Sep 21, 2010, 1:04 pm
Jacob Lew, Obama Nominee And Former Citigroup Executive, Doesn't Believe Deregulation Led To Financial Crisis: "Experts and policymakers, including U.S. Senators, commissioners at the Securities and Exchange Commission, top leaders in Congress, former financial regulators and even Obama himself hav...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Sep 21, 2010, 1:01 pm
James Amos, Obama's Pick To Lead Marine Corps, Opposes Repealing 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell': "President Barack Obama's choice to lead the Marine Corps says he doesn't think Congress should lift the ban on gay troops who want to serve openly." Not only does the right not understand Obama, he is becomin...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Sep 20, 2010, 6:52 pm
The headline is "Banks fight to kill proposed consumer protection agency." It's starkly true, of course. But only in times like these, where naked capitalism has decided it no longer has to consider the interests of anyone other than themselves, and no longer has to sugarcoat or disguise its intenti...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Sep 20, 2010, 1:31 pm
Obama Aides Weigh Bid to Tie the G.O.P. to the Tea Party - NYTimes.com: "President Obama’s political advisers, looking for ways to help Democrats and alter the course of the midterm elections in the final weeks, are considering a range of ideas, including national advertisements, to cast the Repu...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Sep 20, 2010, 10:33 am
We are about to have an election in which voting will, to a large extent, be entirely based on fiction. People will be voting beliefs which have no basis in fact. The critical question is: how many voters will do that, as opposed to those who have some connection to reality. When the media report th...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Sep 19, 2010, 11:24 pm
The story of the last few years - and longer if you care to contemplate that far - if written fully would be the best, the funniest, the most ontrack satire ever done. Every element of the story brilliantly falls off the edge of reality into what would be a hysterical joke if it were fiction. Sati...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Sep 19, 2010, 11:58 am
Capitol Hill reaction to poverty figures sidetracked by political concerns: "The reluctance of political leaders on both sides of the aisle to directly confront the fact that growing numbers of Americans are slipping into poverty reflects a stubborn reality about the poor: They are not much of a p...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Sep 19, 2010, 11:55 am
Joe Miller Says Unemployment Benefits Are Unconstitutional, Struggles To Say How He Would Deal With Poverty (VIDEO): "Wallace asked Miller about his assertion in August on CBS's 'Face the Nation' that unemployment benefits are unconstitutional, noting that without them, many more Ameri...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Sep 18, 2010, 9:13 pm
Obama Demeans His Own Supporters
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Sep 18, 2010, 12:08 am
Here in Florida the three Republican candidates - Rick Scott, Allan West and Marco Rubio - are running really well crafted, positive, confident ads. Ron Klein is barely on air and when he is it's with a weak attack on West. Alex Sink looks pathetic, and she's running negative too. Only Kendr...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Sep 16, 2010, 12:37 pm
The core conservative goal is to get as many dollars as possible and to keep everything they get. This is not a matter of utility - i.e., how much money do you really need? It's a matter of "it's mine and you're not getting any of it." In decent economic times enough may be left of the ...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Sep 15, 2010, 6:17 am
Democrats seem to think that every Republican nomination of a crazy guarantees the democrats a seat. That's nonsense. People are well beyond looking at these people's records and stances. They are deciding - probably have already decided - to vote Republican or Democrat. Voting will be ticke...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Sep 14, 2010, 9:38 am
It's important to understand - as few in the eminently distractable media do - that conservatives who matter do not hate Obama because he's black. They do not think he's a Muslim or born somewhere else. They don't hate Muslims. All of these beliefs, which they have fostered through ...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Sep 13, 2010, 2:49 pm
I simply don't understand people who attack the left for not appreciating Obama's legislative accomplishments. There's no argument that he has accomplished a lot. What he has not done is the politics or messaging to tie them into coherence and a strong position on how this country is sup...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Sep 13, 2010, 2:25 pm
People keep looking for Americans to return to their senses before the election. Not going to happen. They will disjoint the country from whatever realities they can't accept or don't understand and send it spinning down a rabbit hole in a vortex of fantasies. The next two years are going to...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Sep 12, 2010, 6:47 am
Why are we in a terminal state - and make no mistake, we are, and so is much of the world? Because we can't see beyond our own noses. Everything must produce an immediate benefit to us, never mind what it does to everyone else. We can't understand that issues we don't care about actually...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Sep 11, 2010, 7:04 pm
They say we must never forget 9/11. Too bad. The memory has paralyzed America. It causes a constant focus on hyperbolized weakness and fear. The response has helped to bankrupt the country and convince us we are constantly in peril. We are unable to concentrate on solving problems while we fester in...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Sep 11, 2010, 1:41 pm
Ted Koppel: Nine years after 9/11, let's stop playing into bin Laden's hands: "The goal of any organized terrorist attack is to goad a vastly more powerful enemy into an excessive response. And over the past nine years, the United States has blundered into the 9/11 snare with one overreact...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Sep 11, 2010, 12:52 am
Quran Burning Story: This Is How The Media Embarrass Themselves: "Imagine that, in a world with a nine year-long, going nowhere war and a massive unemployment crisis! Imagine how many times you would have to hit yourself in the head with a ball peen hammer before you would ask a politician from Ca...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Sep 8, 2010, 6:33 pm
What kind of world is it where one insignificant man in Gainesville FL can threaten the peace of the world with the burning of one book? How can we ever feel secure again in an era where single actors can constantly roil the world? The answer is to go back to that innocent time when nobody knew abo...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Sep 4, 2010, 5:52 am
A massive part of the American population is employed in developing and promoting information nobody needs, combined with those giving opinions and predictions which have no value except to hype up anxiety levels. And there are other techniques which do the same - people talking over each other whic...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Aug 26, 2010, 4:12 am
Why did Rick Scott beat McCollum and Meek beat Greene? Because Republican voters are tolerant of big time crooks while even the whiff of impropriety was enough to scare Dems off Greene. Now we need to see how independents look at Scott.
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Aug 25, 2010, 11:30 am
Markos Moulitsas: How Sex, Sin and Power Bind Jihadists to the Radical Right: "Indeed, on issue after issue, there is no daylight between the views of radical jihadists and the American radical right. Fact is, I loathe jihadists for the exact same reasons I hate the modern conservative movement --...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Aug 7, 2010, 2:33 pm
I'm reading Gary Shteyngart's "Super Sad True Love Story" about America's future in economic, political and cultural decline - only to me it's not about the future, it's about now, and it raises in me the sadness and horror I feel about what is and what's to be. I feel like a...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Aug 6, 2010, 5:17 pm
Here's a point not being made: Republicans want to destroy government because they want to privatize all of its functions. Therefore every public sector job lost in this recession is a good thing. Therefore they cannot support any stimulus to the states. it's simple.
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Aug 6, 2010, 11:18 am
For generations TV has sought the lowest common denominator. Ellen Degeneres has found it. Not a word of intelligent comment passes from the host or any guest. The level of hysteria is the highest of anything on TV. I'm glad she's found the key, for her sake. But I think what happens on that...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Aug 5, 2010, 8:43 pm
Romer To Leave White House - Hotline On Call: "'She has been frustrated,' a source with insight into the WH economics team said. 'She doesn't feel that she has a direct line to the president. She would be giving different advice than Larry Summers, who does have a direct line to th...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Aug 5, 2010, 8:39 pm
So who do we blame for Democratic midterm losses? Obama, of course. If Obama had not waited so damned long to strike back at the attacks on him and Congress, had spoken timely to the public explaining what he was doing and why, had not given up major progressive programs without at least a fight - ...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Aug 5, 2010, 10:43 am
So now three court rulings - in Arizona, California and Massachusetts - are the only touchstones I have to the America I remember. Strange that, with the Supreme Court thoroughly corrupted, the lower Federal courts are the last vestige of American democracy as it was conceived. But this has happened...
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Aug 4, 2010, 3:06 pm
AFL-CIO Will Let 'Some' Dems Die On Their Own In 2010 Just because some people call themselves Democrats doesn't mean you want to support them. Let the people they work for support them - or not.
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Aram S. posted an article on Tweet Petite's Onions - Aug 4, 2010, 12:23 pm
If you look at the stories being covered all over the media, it is impossible not to conclude that the coming election will be a ratification of American insanity. The public would have to be much more educated and thoughtful than it is to see through all the crap being peddled to it. I think the De...
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