tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post1081225907046427128..comments2024-03-28T16:08:29.578-04:00Comments on Sardonicky: A New York State of MindKaren Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15612731479365562803noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-24681353320268221562011-04-21T18:50:11.647-04:002011-04-21T18:50:11.647-04:00Judujahl,
I am also from the west. Know that owni...Judujahl,<br /><br />I am also from the west. Know that owning the land because you are a citizen is in fact incorrect. The land is held in trust for the citizens of the U.S. By the Federal government and it is controlled by nameless faceless bureaucrats with Congressional oversight or not. If you think that is incorrect try going onto your land without a permit or not paying the entrance fee. <br /><br />RichardAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-58485795365451191112011-04-11T11:34:22.746-04:002011-04-11T11:34:22.746-04:00First I would like to comment to Richard and thank...First I would like to comment to Richard and thank Anne for taking him to task about public lands. US Government is largest landowner. Richard, we the people are the US Government and this land is being held in trust for the public use and for generations to come. Some want to sell it off to private owners and corporations and I am from the West and want to keep it for the people and when we deem it logical lease it for private use with regulations for a fee which as Anne said well it is not being done to benefit the taxpayer. Shame on Congress. Also, anonymous people might not of set up accounts enabling to comment. I just did as my last post was anonymous and I want a Multi Million March on Wall Street, K Street and DC asking Ed Shultz, Thom Hartman, John Stewart, Rachel Maddow, Democracy Now et. al to organize this march in July. We need to get in these people faces big time so media cannot ignore us(?).jujudahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16019056495494081918noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-90948440767102444702011-04-04T01:40:51.298-04:002011-04-04T01:40:51.298-04:00Dear Annenigma,
Yes, the government leases some o...Dear Annenigma,<br /><br />Yes, the government leases some of the land, sea floor, and the air waves. The government receives what ever money they are due and down the rat hole it goes with the rest of the money they collect or borrow. However the Government still owns the land. that is why they lease it.<br />Marie Burns is careful to say that "one percent of the population controls forty percent of the wealth"' here in the U.S. She includes most of the members of Congress in the rich one percent. The congress also oversees the leasing of Federal lands and federal spending in general. That makes the members of the Congress the most powerful group in the Country, rich or not. Do you think the Congress has done a good job these last two years? Do you want to give them even more power now and in the future?<br /><br />RichardAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-13909295132248722672011-04-03T22:16:10.235-04:002011-04-03T22:16:10.235-04:00Really appreciate what you choose to cover and how...Really appreciate what you choose to cover and how you cover it,depressing and<br /> maddening as it all is. Been lurkin' for awhile and thought it was time to give you a " you go girl!"<br />I guess I'm kind of a quitter, but it seems to me that the game is over and the conservatives have won. Now they are in the Sore Winner phase and are making sure there aren't even any scraps left for us to fight over. Man, I'm no tea partied, but I sure would like my country back! Is there really no other party we can vote for than democrats? Is it insane to HOPE that the Green party could have an impact in America?<br />Sorry for the negativity, I really do appreciate your efforts. Your writing is pitch perfect...alannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-14346689528924908662011-04-03T22:13:34.716-04:002011-04-03T22:13:34.716-04:00Dear Anonymous:
At least Karen Garcia and Marie B...Dear Anonymous:<br /><br />At least Karen Garcia and Marie Burns use their real names.<br /><br />Janet CampJanet Camphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03645361065385918800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-55441852444686037532011-04-03T22:05:39.044-04:002011-04-03T22:05:39.044-04:00Addressing the last comment made by WHOM? I always...Addressing the last comment made by WHOM? I always find it cowardly to make snide comments and then hide behind "anonymous." Maybe the reason readers are following Marie Burns and Karen Garcia is because they mirror what we believe. Personally, I am glad to read intelligent comments by thoughtful people. <br /><br />Valerie Long Tweedie<br />Adelaide, Australia<br />(for the benefit of anonymous, I am an American citizen)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-49472552176216463722011-04-03T21:28:13.615-04:002011-04-03T21:28:13.615-04:00Karen Garcia, I peruse your comments on and off in...Karen Garcia, I peruse your comments on and off in the Times, but I wonder how you can wonder that no one of note took note (pun intended) of the quasi Arab "day of rage". There is a lot to be upset about under Obama's regime, but taking a page from Islam, never mind Obama's leanings, won't change a thing in our land. <br />Our gemius President did not do much with his hopey changey theme, but vote with an open mind<br />without prejudice toward the Right and some things may change for the better.<br />By the way, congratulations on the more than<br />thousand approvals on every golden word either you or our Marie Burns utter. You are veritable<br />best sellers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-61423482307599055982011-04-03T16:05:23.922-04:002011-04-03T16:05:23.922-04:00To Richard:
Oh boy, Richard, do you need to do yo...To Richard:<br /><br />Oh boy, Richard, do you need to do your homework about public lands! Start by looking up the National Mining Act of 1872. You are so wrong about public lands that it is unbelievable. Year after year, Congress has refused to repeal or amend this act, and for good reason: corporate welfare. <br /><br />For over a hundred years, millions of acres of public lands are used by private corporations to generate billions of dollars in profit, oftentimes with tax breaks, and with NO royalties paid from gold, silver, and precious metals extracted for the lease price of a pittance. <br /><br />Public lands are either leased for a mere $2-$5/year and sometimes simply sold for a few dollars. The public land is used for ski resorts, hotels, logging for the forest products industry, mining for gold and silver and other precious metals, housing subdivisions, campgrounds, even a brothel, to name just a few. <br /><br />Public lands and waters are also used by those who buy snowmobiles, boats, fishing rods and reels, hunting rifles, jet skis, camping equipment, ATVs, and all the other toys of the powerful recreational industry. That's another area for you to do some homework - start with Coleman or Kawasaki or Honda. <br /><br />The land is subject to damage from explosives, earthmovers, logging trucks, chemical pollution such as cyanide to extract precious metals, and who pays for the pollution cleanup? The taxpayer. Granted, many local economies are sustained by these activities, but that also makes nonsense of your statement that public lands are an economic waste. <br /><br />The only thing I agree with you on is that public lands are not generating money for the taxpayer, but you can blame Congress for that. Since there are so many powerful corporate entities that are happy to have free public land to get rich from, don't expect Congress to ever take it away from them! <br /><br />If anything, they will give it away to solve our 'budget problems'. That's the plan anyway - the Corporate takeover of all public resources, aka 'Privatization'.<br /><br />annenigmaAnne Lavoienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-4440640070328549262011-04-03T15:33:21.861-04:002011-04-03T15:33:21.861-04:00Fiddle-dee-diddle! Let's cut to the chase! Cuo...Fiddle-dee-diddle! Let's cut to the chase! Cuomo is, indeed, a clone of Obama. Why? Because it works! And we, God help us, the base, confirm it. Screw us to a fare-thee-well, and we still troop loyally to the polls, because '...the alternative is so much worse.'<br /><br />It's the black strategy, and it worked, over and over again, for both the Republicans and the Democrats. Until the blacks started burning down the cities (Detroit really made THEM nervous). <br /><br />We, the Democratic base, can deny Obama the presidency in 2012 and we should, either through a primary or leaving our presidential choice blank. The alternative will be terrible, but it will finally wake up the electorate to the sham of our political system.James F Traynornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-35300596690293061192011-04-03T13:53:42.695-04:002011-04-03T13:53:42.695-04:00Come to think of it, I didn't even hear about ...Come to think of it, I didn't even hear about this on 'Democracy Now!' Maybe they didn't contact any media in advance? Surely Amy Goodman would have chosen to cover it if she had known. Did anyone know this was happening in advance?<br /><br />Media coverage doesn't necessarily just happen. You have to put out a press release in advance if you want any coverage at all, plus do things like street theater or other media catching, non-violent tactics. Gene Sharp wrote the book on all this and even Egyptians are familiar with him and his works. But Americans? *sigh* <br /><br />It's no wonder Republicans and Tea Party people get the media's attention. They know what they're doing (getting professional help of course) and they are serious about it, while Democrats usually look like they are just trying to have a good time, drumming and singing as in Wisconsin, mostly all loosey goosey feel-good stuff. <br /><br />Our side desperately needs a professional community organizer! (Who isn't busy giving tax cuts to billionaires, worshipping at the feet of his corporate masters, and waging 3 wars for the MIC.) <br /><br />annenigmaAnne Lavoienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-46757655008135378582011-04-03T13:32:04.737-04:002011-04-03T13:32:04.737-04:00Dear Mr. Neville,
Your comment brings to mind The...Dear Mr. Neville,<br /><br />Your comment brings to mind The Committee of Public Safety and the time of Terror. Perhaps you should look at who really "Owns The Country", the Federal Government is the largest Land oner in the U.S. Controling over 650 million acres of land that is 30% of the total country and 50% of the 10 Western States. The largest individual Private Land Owner is Ted Turner a Liberal at just 2 million acres. There are, of corse, the lands controlled by the various states making them second in line behind the Federal Government.<br /><br />Most of this "Public" Land is controlled by nameless, faceless, and unelected Bureaucrats. Land is the ultimate source of wealth and this "Public" Land and it's improvements are the major assets of the U.S. These assets for the most part generate little income and pay no taxes. You might want to consider that when you go looking for "the Rich".<br /><br />RichardAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-48910838998256026542011-04-03T10:16:03.947-04:002011-04-03T10:16:03.947-04:00Inequality the wealthy will come to regret…
“Amer...Inequality the wealthy will come to regret…<br /><br />“America’s inequality distorts our society in every conceivable way…It is this sense of an unjust system without opportunity that has given rise to the conflagrations in the Middle East: rising food prices and growing and persistent youth unemployment simply served as kindling…In recent weeks we have watched people taking to the streets by the millions to protest political, economic, and social conditions in the oppressive societies they inhabit…In important ways, our own country has become like one of these distant, troubled places…<br /><br />Joseph Stiglitz asks, “As we gaze out at the popular fervor in the streets, one question to ask ourselves is this: When will it come to America? In important ways, our own country has become like one of these distant, troubled places…<br /><br />“The top one percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one thing that money doesn’t seem to have bought: an understanding that their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. Throughout history, this is something that the top one percent eventually do learn. Too late.”<br /><br />http://www.vanityfair.com/society/features/2011/05/top-one-percent-201105?currentPage=allDenis Nevillenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-27562932260775171272011-04-03T01:04:38.868-04:002011-04-03T01:04:38.868-04:00Everyone on all sides of the political Spectrum ad...Everyone on all sides of the political Spectrum admit that The President and the people around him only represent themselves. They are not Progressives and they sure are not Tea Baggers. Why then do you think that if you can even get them to tax themselves they will do anything more than just give themselves back the money becoming even richer in the process? <br /><br />RichardAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974773076690597683.post-41389360912513890672011-04-02T22:25:59.286-04:002011-04-02T22:25:59.286-04:00Watching the video, one important thing came to mi...Watching the video, one important thing came to mind that came up with the Middle East uprisings, and that is that protesters need to limit themselves to one demand for a particular action, not dozens, and at the same time have no one single leader. Everyone should feel equal in making the demand, and not act like sheep following a leader.<br /><br />The power elite always want some one person they can soften up and negotiate half-measures with on a minor issue (when multiples demands are made), thus weakening the unified front of the coalition. <br /><br />Somehow we need to do the same in our country. Make one solid, powerful demand and stick with it until the power elite concedes. What could that be? Taxes on the rich?<br /><br />annenigmaAnne Lavoienoreply@blogger.com