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Philosophy & Meaning

Feb 25, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

Can anyone help me locate a quote about the law?

It is a comparison of how law is applied to different entities (rich/poor/commoner/connected/powerful/etc.) The quote sounds rather classic like this one by Anatole France. "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread." The one I'm looking for is something along the lines of, "There is one group the law protects but not restricts, and one the law restricts but not protects." Thanks in ...

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Taboo Island Atlantis

Feb 24, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

Brand New Key - Melanie

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Politics

Feb 23, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

Bernie's message has always been consistent.

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Politics

Feb 23, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKWatch: The Bernie Surge Has MSNBC's Chris Matthews On The Verge Of Tears | Zero Hedge

Hey, Chris Matthews! F-You! We're headed to New Berlin (D.C.) to boot that orange paper-hanging son of a bitch. [m.youtube.com]

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Quotes

Feb 22, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKGeorge Carlin-Christian hats and religion - YouTube

"I think all religions should have one rule and one rule only... hats optional." George Carlin

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Philosophy & Meaning

Feb 20, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKMatt Dillahunty & Seth Andrews in Phoenix: Faith, Family, and the Future of Humanism (PART ONE) - YouTube

Interesting discussion. As it is sometimes said, organizing atheists is like herding cats.

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Philosophy & Meaning

Feb 20, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

I came across these gentlemen somewhat by accident, but I can relate with some of their experiences with atheist activism. I didn't have the fundamentalist background they came from, but enjoy they're on the team as it were. I like their ...

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Politics

Feb 17, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKWhat Would Kurt Vonnegut Say About the 2016 Election? - What Would Bale Do

Interesting read, though through the lens of 2016. :-----: "Vonnegut, like Sanders, was a frequent defender of socialism. One example can be found in his book of essays A Man Without a Country: “Socialism” is no more an evil word than “Christianity.” Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches than Christianity prescribed the Spanish Inquisition. Christianity and socialism alike, in fact, prescribe a society dedicated to the ...

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Politics

Feb 17, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKJust Above Sunset June 12, 2005 - "Are there no prisons, are there no poor houses

An old essay but undeniably relevant. :-----: ""Yeah, so? "Are there no prisons, are there no poor houses?" But the fellow who said that in the Dickens novel is not presented as the good guy for saying those words. (You could look it up.) Times have changed since then. Actually, much said on the right, and by the administration, now sounds just like that – and now such questions are accepted as simply urging people to accept personal responsibility, or suffer the ...

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Religion & Spirituality

Feb 14, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKRichard Carrier - Testing Religion Claims with Science and History - YouTube

Really enjoyed this lecture. On my last shopping trip, I was "acosted" by those godbotherers who hang out in parking lots and shopping centers. It was an invite to one of their church events. I chatted with him while I loaded my groceries. I shared up front I was an atheist. He listened politely and I covered quite a bit of ground on my worldview (I bought a lot of stuff). He was a well-groomed 30-something latino with a couple of neck tattoos. Looked like pretty much any suburban dad ...

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Taboo Island Atlantis

Feb 14, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

Still a sweet tune. Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone Again Naturally

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Taboo Island Atlantis

Feb 13, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

Johnny Legend - Are You Hep To It?

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Quotes

Feb 13, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

"Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet." ...

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Academic (e.g., Science)

Feb 12, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKAbout | International Darwin Day

Happy Darwin Day!

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Politics

Feb 12, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

Can anyone suggest a worthwhile Bernie group here? I was shut out of a really good one that I was active in because the group creator had a beef with me over an unrelated group. I feel the pettiness involved in that is not something that assists a ...

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Taboo Island Atlantis

Feb 10, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

Sirtaki

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Quotes

Feb 8, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

Was pleased to come across the full quote. :-----: "Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always and, indeed then most truly, when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances." Albert Schweitzer

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Taboo Island Atlantis

Feb 8, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

All I Hear is Static - The Lillingtons

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News & Links

Feb 7, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKFranklin Graham dropped by every UK tour venue after anger over homophobic and Islamophobic comments - CNN

Lucky UK. Won't have to endure this grifting gobshite.

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Politics

Feb 6, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

Just saw some Romney associate on MSDNC talk about Romney's faith guiding his impeachment vite. He shared he was also Mormon (thought they prefer to be identified as Latter-Day Saints) and went on, to my ears, to use his time to plug Mormonism, ...

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Politics

Feb 6, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

A different world is possible.

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Taboo Island Atlantis

Feb 6, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

Bryan Ferry - A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall

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Taboo Island Atlantis

Feb 6, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

Feb 14th is coming! Harry Nilsson - You're Breaking My Heart

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Politics

Feb 5, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

What do you make of the Iowa caucus clusterfvck?

Is this fiasco just a case of incompetence or something more sinister?

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Politics

Feb 2, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKIntroduction to “Why Bother?’

[prorev.com] "Life is a endless pick-up game between hope and despair, understanding and doubt, crisis and resolution. "Evermore," Emerson said of it, "beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats." Sisyphus nears the mountaintop and the rock rolls down again. We lose courage and suddenly there is a light. What follows reflects this contest in which the grim and the glad are only oscillations and never the end."

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Politics

Feb 2, 2020Feb 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKBlues for Tammuz: This is not the Age of Defeat - Chris Floyd - Empire Burlesque - High Crimes and Low Comedy in the American Imperium

"Goodness can lose, but it cannot be defeated. It can be balked, but it cannot be quelled. In every single moment of existence, the choice for goodness is there. Every single moment – the choice. And you can make it at any point, you can begin the process of accepting, enacting, igniting goodness at any point, even the darkest and most degraded." Chris Floyd [chris-floyd.com]

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Religion & Spirituality

Jan 26, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKGrace Chapel - ironmen

Went to Christian men's conference after being invited by my neighbor (a wonderful, helpful, Christian man who has no personal problem with my godlessness). He had an extra ticket because someone else couldn't make it. I skipped the first night session but attended this morning for the breakfast (which was quite good, though the coffee was remarkably bitter). I sat during the praise music while everyone else stood (good call) which wasn't horrible musically but the lyrics were the usual pablum....

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Politics

Jan 25, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKROBERT PARRY: Cheering a ‘Democratic’ Coup in Ukraine – Consortiumnews

An older piece, but still relevant. :-----: "Though the U.S. news media did show scenes of these violent melees, the U.S. press almost universally blamed Yanukovych and took almost gleeful pleasure as his elected government collapsed and was replaced by thuggish right-wing militias “guarding” government buildings. With Yanukovych and many of his supporters fleeing for their lives, the opposition parties seized control of parliament and began passing draconian new laws often ...

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Taboo Island Atlantis

Jan 23, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

Through the Roof and Underground - Gogol Bordello

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Music, Movies & Books

Jan 22, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

I love this little ditty. Is that wrong? I think it helps that it's written and performed by a female artist. Seems to have popped into my head today for no particular reason. Sorry, 18 and and over only.

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Politics

Jan 17, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

Thoughts on the Bernie/Warren kerfuffle?

What are your thoughts about the claim made by Elizabeth Warren's camp that Bernie told her in private that a woman could not become president. Bernie denied it. Warren felt he essentially called her a liar in his denial during the debate, as per her question caught on hot mic afterward where she refused to shake his hand. Did she misremember and/or misconstrue whatever Bernie said? Did she lie? Did Bernie lie? Was the timing an attempt at kneecapping Bernie though she was friendly with him ...

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Instrumentals

Jan 15, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

The Lonely Bull - Huevos Rancheros

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Instrumentals

Jan 15, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

Tijuana Taxi - Herb Alpert

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Taboo Island Atlantis

Jan 15, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

Miriam Makeba - Pata Pata

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Politics

Jan 11, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKLet America Be America Again Langston Hughes - 1902-1967

Closing lines - :-----: "Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain— All, all the stretch of these great green states— And make America again!"

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Politics

Jan 11, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKWhy Bernie, Not Warren (Definitely worth reading)

"Bernie Sanders has just pulled even with Joe Biden in Iowa and is beating him in New Hampshire, giving Sanders a reasonable claim to being either the frontrunner or the co-frontrunner for the 2020 Democratic nomination. Bernie has struck fear into the heart of the establishment, and even more moderate commentators like Chris Cillizza have noticed that Sanders is in a very good position now: Not only does he top the polls, but his fundraising blows every other candidate out of the water, he has ...

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Politics

Jan 9, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

Wubba lubba dub dub!

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News & Links

Jan 9, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKArizona official quits amid charges he paid women to give up babies

Sad to say that these trafficking rings are undoubtedly bipartisan. The Epstein case established that beyond contention.

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Quotes

Jan 9, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

"You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to ...

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Quotes

Jan 9, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.” ― Charles Bukowski

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Philosophy & Meaning

Jan 9, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKThe Meaning of Life Learned by Those Who Have Greatly Suffered

Usually these experiences occur when our minds are fairly quiet and we feel at ease with ourselves. When we’re walking in the countryside, swimming in the ocean, or after we’ve meditated or had sex. At such times there is a sense of “rightness” about things. We can look above us at the sky and sense something benevolent in it, a harmonious atmosphere. We can feel a kind of radiance filling the landscape around us, emanating from the trees and fields. We can sense it flowing between us...

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Taboo Island Atlantis

Jan 9, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

Ruby Love - Cat Stevens

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Politics

Jan 7, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKKilling Soleimani reflects U.S. desperation in the Middle East

"Recent events in Iraq – the mass protests and attempt by unarmed protesters to storm the US embassy in Baghdad on December 31 – were, to some extent, a game changer. Initially, they were understood as an angry response to US airstrikes on an Iranian-backed militia group on Sunday, but the protests had unintended consequences as well, particularly dangerous from a US military and strategic perspective. For the first time since the phony US ‘withdrawal’ from Iraq under the previous ...

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Quotes

Jan 6, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public." H. L. Mencken

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Politics

Jan 6, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

Shit. Sometimes our luck is so bad, it's like the whole damn place was built atop sacred Indian burial mounds.

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Quotes

Jan 6, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

The bounty on the Mango Manchild's head is currently $80m. Can't say I'd shed any tears. Seriously. :------: "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." — Clarence Darrow

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Quotes

Jan 6, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their ...

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Quotes

Jan 6, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful ...

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Politics

Jan 4, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

I remember a line from a mob movie (I think it was Ray Liotta's voiceover in Goodfellas). "We didn't think of it as stealing, they were only holding onto what already belonged to us." Our foreign policy in a nutshell.

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Politics

Jan 4, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINK'A Face In the Crowd' and the Unfulfilled Prediction of a Better America

"The sheer number of films released each year guarantees that some of them will appear to predict certain aspects of the future, but while Blade Runner (1982) foresaw digital billboards and Minority Report (2002) envisioned advertising targeted directly at individuals, other predictions reach beyond technology and consumer products. Network (1976) is probably the most often mentioned on that count as it forecast the rise of profit-oriented, yellow journalism, but Elia Kazan’s A Face In the ...

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Quotes

Jan 4, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

Abby Martin is an exceptionally courageous and talented truthteller.

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Quotes

Jan 4, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

"This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect." -Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Quotes

Jan 4, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was ...

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Quotes

Jan 4, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all ...

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Quotes

Jan 4, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

"Catch-22 means people have the right to do to you anything that you cannot prevent them from doing to you." Joseph Heller

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Quotes

Jan 3, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

"I am so bloody sick of the claim that the slaughter of innocent people by bringing down the full force of modern weaponry from every possible direction to mangle their flesh in the most horrific and violent ways is not monstrous because ."...

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Human Sexuality: Everything About It

Jan 3, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

"Our task over the next few generations is to transform the world of independent states in which we live into some sort of genuine international community. If we succeed in creating that community, however quarrelsome, discontented, and full of ...

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Quotes

Jan 3, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

"We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world — a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts." Hunter S....

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Politics

Jan 2, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKLawrence of Cyberia: Isaac Asimov On Antisemitism And The Universality Of Prejudice

In honor of Isaac Asimov's burthday. :-----: "The extract was about prejudice and persecution; specifically about Asimov's discomfort at the fact that some of his fellow Jews, who were so animated at any manifestation of antisemitism anywhere in the world, could be completely blind to the persecution of non-Jews, even if it was going on right under their noses. It reminded me of a comment the Israeli two-state activist Uri Avnery once made about his own experience of teaching the ...

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Politics

Jan 2, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKBalloon Juice | Under the Radar

Bernie supporters might want to add their $.02 over here (I'm permanently banned for my failure yo genuflect at the alar of Hillary). They rarely run any positive frontpage pieces on Bernie's campaign so this is rather a novelty. They're generally good at deconstructing fallacious arguments, though they promote more than a few themselves imho.

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Politics

Jan 2, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKMy Semester With the Snowflakes

I found this an exceptionally worthwhile read. :-----: "In my opinion, the real snowflakes are the people who are afraid of that situation. The poor souls who never take the opportunity to discuss ideas in a group of people who will very likely respectfully disagree with them. I challenge any of you hyper-opinionated zealots out there to actually sit down with a group of people who disagree with you and be open to having your mind changed. I’m not talking about submitting your deeply ...

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Taboo Island Atlantis

Jan 1, 2020Jan 2020

Posted by WilliamCharles

Time Adventure - Aventure Time

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Instrumentals

Dec 28, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

A few days late. Didn't think to post this here. This gentleman is quite talented. Christmas Dream

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Politics

Dec 26, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

Included in the "fake news" and disinformation of the media, are the "sins of omissions" as well. Below is but one example, but a persistent one. :-----: Holocaust Denied - The lying silence of those who know by John Pilger January 8, 2009 "When ...

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Instrumentals

Dec 22, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

Whammer Jammer - J.Geils Band

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Quotes

Dec 9, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

"You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do." Anne Lamott

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General & Hellos

Dec 5, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

There's quite a few things in our lives that seem to be reaching a tipping point. Whatever going on around us that you consider critical and worried about the direction it's heading, I think the last line applies. We are all making alliances with ...

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Politics

Dec 2, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

He who controls the past controls the future... even when that past is manufactured, as the damage done once the seed is planted reverberates. Something to consider.

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Politics

Dec 2, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

The blind loyalty of Trump's evangelical base seems oddly familiar... I just can't put my finger on it.

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Politics

Dec 2, 2019Dec 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKHow I Became Pro-Palestine & Why It Matters. | elephant journal

"I was raised on U.S. network news and major newspapers. For much of my life, “objectivity” meant reading both The New York Times and the Washington Post. I did not begin to seriously question U.S. Mainstream Media until the Iraq Invasion of 2003, and I had no reason to doubt the Mainstream narrative on the “Mid-East Conflict” until Operation Cast Lead in December, 2008. By that time, I was augmenting my mainstream news with alternative sources and began to see discrepancies. ...

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General & Hellos

Nov 28, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

Being literally snowed in will make for a quiet National Genocide Celebration Day. Should have cut the firewood down to size earlier. Space heater don't fail me now. A sincere wish for all to enjoy their day as well.

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Quotes

Nov 28, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

“Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.” ― Alan Wilson Watts

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Taboo Island Atlantis

Nov 17, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

Redbone - Come and Get Your Love

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Quotes

Nov 17, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” ― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked

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Politics

Nov 17, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKMatt Taibbi: Deval Patrick Joins Democrats’ 2020 Clown Car Disaster – Rolling Stone

"Deval Patrick, former governor of Massachusetts and newly-resigned executive of Mitt Romney’s private equity firm Bain Capital, has entered the Democratic primary race, which is shaping up to be the biggest ensemble-disaster comedy since Cannonball Run. Patrick’s entry comes after news that former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg put himself on the ballot in Alabama and Arkansas. It also comes amid word from Hillary Clinton that “many, many, many” people are urging her to run in ...

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Politics

Nov 17, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

I expect similar shenanigans for 2020. :-----: "The DNC is like a bank robber complaining that someone stole their getaway car, and then demanding that you give them bus fare." LanceThruster

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Politics

Nov 17, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKA Gangster for Capitalism: Next Up, Bolivia - CounterPunch.org

"“War is a racket. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.” This sounds like a modern day comment from the US far left, but the source is hardly that. It’s from a man who was the most decorated Marine ever at the time of his death. He was an expert on the topic. He served in WW I as well as the Mexican Revolution. Smedley Butler was doomed to be a largely forgotten voice in the rush to gloss over the true causes of war and regime change. He pointed ...

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Politics

Nov 16, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that ...

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News & Links

Nov 16, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKSaugus Shooting Video: Tragedy at the High School | Heavy.com

This is my neighboring community.

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Politics

Nov 16, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKChris Hedges: Why the Deep State Is Trying To Take Trump Out + Why School Shootings Are No Longer News – Dandelion Salad

“In particular, the Empire’s endless wars, and I think that that really is what is driving this impeachment. If it was about the rule of law, this would have been instituted by the Democratic Party in the first few months of the Trump presidency.” — Chris Hedges

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Taboo Island Atlantis

Nov 16, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

Roy Clark and Buck Trent - Dueling Banjos

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Taboo Island Atlantis

Nov 16, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

The Cat Came Back

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Politics

Nov 16, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKWorld Exclusive: Post Testimony Interview with Randy Credico - Craig Murray

"Following his appearance as the main witness for the prosecution against former Trump aide Roger Stone, my good friend Randy Credico has had the entire American mainstream media chasing him for an interview. He has however decided to give only this single interview to me, which is put out here and which is free for everybody to use, with acknowledgement. Five of the seven charges against Stone relate directly to Randy, who is the witness that Stone is accused of tampering with and attempting...

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Politics

Nov 16, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKHey Hillary People, We're Still Mad At You - Caitlin Johnstone - Newslogue Debate

The beauty of FB's memories feed is to be reminded of exceptional analysis like this from Caitlin/Caity Johnstone. Not only was the BS she pointed out taking place right after Team Hillary's loss, it still persists now leading up to the 2020 race. A great article to get you fired up for the fight ahead. :------: "You keep doing this, Hillary supporters, you keep making this same mistake and it's killing the party. Here is the pattern I see recurring -- something bad happens whether that ...

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Politics

Nov 16, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKDEAR HILLARY PUNDITS, OWN YOUR TERRIBLE CANDIDATE

Another needed blast from the past. Trying to sell the base the same old sh!t for 2020 just isn't going to fly. :------: "Hillary Clinton lost the election because she was a terrible candidate. Nobody likes or trusts her (yes, elections actually are popularity contests) and her neoliberal domestic policies and neoconservative foreign policies turned people off because they are genuinely bad. Clinton represented the establishment in a change election, something she was happy to do. She even...

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Quotes

Nov 14, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.” ― Thomas ...

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Politics

Nov 14, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

"It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace. This dichotomy is not an invention of the twentieth century, yet it is in this century that ...

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Politics

Nov 14, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKOppose the Military Coup in Bolivia. Spare Us Your “Critiques” - CounterPunch.org

"It would be hard to point to a country whose president has more democratic legitimacy than Evo Morales. Nobody can seriously dispute that he won the first round of the presidential election on October 20 by a landslide. He received 47% of the vote in an election with 88% turnout, as most polls predicted. That doubles the percentage of the eligible vote that US presidents generally receive. I’ll say a bit more about that below, but it’s crucial to note that he was elected to his present term...

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Politics

Nov 13, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKIt’s the DNC, Stupid: Democratic Party, Not Russia, Has Delegitimized the Democratic Process – Consortiumnews

"Establishment Democrats and those who amplify them continue to project blame for the public’s doubt in the U.S. election process onto outside influence, despite the clear history of the party’s subversion of election integrity. The total inability of the Democratic Party establishment’s willingness to address even one of these critical failures does not give reason to hope that the nomination process in 2020 will be any less pre-ordained. The Democratic Party’s bias against Sen. ...

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Politics

Nov 13, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

“Let all the poison that lurks in the mud, hatch out.” ― Robert Graves, I, Claudius.

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Politics

Nov 13, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

Will we see something like this during the impeachment hearings? "Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!"

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Politics

Nov 13, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

"I am so bloody sick of the claim that the slaughter of innocent people by bringing down the full force of modern weaponry from every possible direction to mangle their flesh in the most horrific and violent ways is not monstrous because ."...

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Politics

Nov 13, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

To the surviving people of Palestine, I am truly so very sorry that you, your families, your neighbors, and your country suffer so as a brutal slaughter is waged across your land. I have tried to remain informed and active politically so that I ...

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Politics

Nov 12, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKIsrael is Silencing the Last Voices Trying to Stop Abuses Against Palestinians - CounterPunch.org

"The collective punishment of Palestinians, such as restrictions on movement and the theft of resources, was inevitable the moment Israel moved the first settlers into the West Bank. That is precisely why it is a war crime for a state to transfer its population into occupied territory."

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Politics

Nov 12, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKWhy the Corporate Media Won’t Call It a Coup

"Army generals appearing on television to demand the resignation and arrest of an elected civilian head of state seems like a textbook example of a coup. And yet that is certainly not how corporate media is presenting the weekend’s events in Bolivia. No establishment outlet framed the action as a coup; instead, President Evo Morales “resigned” (ABC News), amid widespread “protests” (CBS News) from an “infuriated population” (New York Times) angry at the “election fraud” (Fox...

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Politics

Nov 11, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKA forgotten hero stopped the My Lai massacre 50 years ago today - Los Angeles Times

Posted for Veterans Day "On the 30th anniversary of the massacre, Thompson went back to My Lai and met some of the people whose lives he had saved. “There were real good highs,” he told me, “and very low lows. One of the ladies that we had helped out that day came up to me and asked, ‘Why didn’t the people who committed these acts come back with you?’ And I was just devastated. And then she finished her sentence: she said, ‘So we could forgive them.’ I’m not man enough to do...

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Politics

Nov 11, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKBolivian Coup Comes Less Than a Week After Morales Stopped Multinational Firm's Lithium Deal | Common Dreams News

I remember a line from a mob movie. "We didn't think of it as stealing, they were only holding onto what already belonged to us." Our foreign policy in a nutshell. [commondreams.org]

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Politics

Nov 11, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

I became draft age in ’75 as America’s direct military involvement in the Vietnam conflict had essentially ceased. I had considered enlisting but did not feel I could trust my government with regards to those it might determine warranted killing....

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Nov 11, 2019Nov 2019

Posted by WilliamCharles

LINKVeteran’s Day — a celebration of peace becomes a sacrament of war

"When I enlisted, and every time I re-enlisted afterward, I took this oath to “protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” It’s a pro forma exercise, or the entire military would have to go on strike — because in Vietnam, Guatemala, Grenada, El Salvador, Colombia, Peru, Somalia, and Haiti . . . others can chime in from Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria . . . I never met a single enemy of the Constitution of the United States. In every single instance, I had one small role or...

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Nov 11, 2019Nov 2019

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"As I looked at the stains on the coral, I recalled some of the eloquent phrases of politicians and newsmen about how "gallant" it is for a man to "shed his blood for his country," and "to give his life's blood as a sacrifice," and so on. The words ...

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