PBS NewHour: Texas Monthly’s Wayne Slater: Previewing The Governor’s Race in Texas

Posted on March 4, 2014 by kireschneider

This is Texas Democrats’ best opportunity to win the Texas governorship since 1990, when Anne Richards won this seat.  I’m not saying State Senator Wendy Davis is going to win this race, because she is definitely the underdog.  I am saying that she can win this race, and it could become competitive, somewhere around five points by election day in November either way because of the growing Latino population in Texas, especially female Mexican voters, both Democrats and Republicans, and perhaps because of Attorney General Gregg Abbott being too far to the right on social issues, even for Texas as a whole.

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Crooks & Liars: Heather: Bill Maher Floats Notion of Maximum Wage On New Rules Segment

Posted on March 4, 2014 by kireschneider

Source:Crooks & Liars

This is where so-called Progressives, and I use that term loosely for a good reason, as I would call race car drivers athletes, especially when the person making fun of billionaires just happens to be worth 50 to 100 million dollars. Bill Maher didn’t get rich by being a Socialist but by working hard and having a skill, talent, and mind that have made him so successful that he could retire today in his late fifties and probably never work again. He didn’t get rich by government giving him most of the services and money he needed to be successful.

I can understand people having a problem with the extremely rich having so much compared with the people who are very to extremely poor. But the answer should be about empowering people at the very bottom, close to the bottom, or barely in the middle so they can be successful and not worry about how they will cover their basic necessities, let alone bills, simple things like paying for dinner and so forth instead of putting down people for being successful. You become successful through marketable talents and skills.

Someone worth 50 to 100 million dollars pouncing on billionaires is like compulsive liars deriding spin doctors for being dishonest or alcoholics deriding narcotic addicts. The hypocrisy is as obvious as knowing water is wet, not to put your finger in a moving fan, or not to jump in front of a moving truck, etc.  A blind person could see that if you make an argument like that, perhaps Bill should admit he makes too much money and should either give a lot of it back or donate all of it to charity or to Uncle Sam.

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The Young Turks: Ana Kasparian & Cenk Uygur- ‘Facial Hair Transplants The Latest Hipster Rage’

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Derik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat

People who claim to not care about what others think of them and how they look are sure as hell spending a lot of money to look a certain way. And of course they have the right to do that and I don’t believe anyone is saying they don’t, because it is their money and they can do whatever the hell they want to themselves as long as they are held responsible for their own decisions. But it’s definitely a big contradiction, the smoking gun if you will, that hipsters are just as superficial about how they look as what I call valley people, who follow valley culture and live its lifestyle.

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CBS Sports: NFL 1977- Week 14- NFL Today (December 17, 1977)

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Ederik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat 

That was an interesting week for the NFL Week 14 of the 1977 season because it was the last game George Allen in Washington coaching the Redskins, and obviously they lost this game because they didn’t make the NFC Playoffs in 1977. It was also a week when teams like the Dallas Cowboys were looking to lock up the 1977 season with momentum going into the NFC Playoffs with home field advantage on course to winning their second Super Bowl by beating the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl 11.

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NFL Films: The New York Jets 1968 Yearbook

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Rik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat 

The 1968 Jets were a solid team, but not a great team loaded with Hall of Famers all across the board.  They only had two that I know of, QB Joe Namath, obviously one of the top five to ten quarterbacks of all time, and, of course, WR Don Maynard, one of the best receivers of all time.  This team was not loaded with great players at every position but had a lot of very good players at every position as well as a lot of depth and a great head coach in Weeb Ewbank.

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Conel Rad: How to Spot a Communist

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Rik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat 

The U.S. government, just a few decades ago, had an undemocratic habit of suppressing dissent by labeling any person or organization whom they perceived as disapproving official actions or policies, for whatever reason, as communist.  In the heyday of McCarthyism and cheerleading jingoism, this was an enthusiastic effort joined by both media and government, as exemplified by the video above.

Government propaganda, amplified by right wing media, about communism, tried to pick out individual people and give them the horrible label of communist, equivalent to being called a devil.  This guilt by association is very undemocratic and  typical of totalitarian republics.  So-called American conservatives often, unknowingly, advocate policies typical of totalitarian governments.

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Marilyn Monroe History: The Jack Benny Show (1953)

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Erik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat 

There is no better way to kick off the Jack Benny program than with Marilyn Monroe highlighting her excellent comedic abilities, which includes playing the dumb blonde but doing it intentionally for entertainment. Jack Benny is living out his fantasy with a goddess sent to his cruise ship.  He believes he has Marilyn all to himself, whereas he is just having a great dream as he lies in the sun next to a very large woman instead.

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The McLaughlin Group: Russia/Ukraine, Military Cuts & Arizona Gay Discrimination Bill

Posted on March 3, 2014 by kireschneider

Source:The New Democrat 

I think the panel is correct when they say President Vladimir Putin’s real goal for the Russian Federation is to return it to a superpower, or at least a world power, again, at least on the scale of the People’s Republic of China, and have Russia grow its military and economy to the same levels as those of the Chinese. But I hope the panel is correct when they say Russia has no intention of invading and occupying Ukraine but is perhaps more interested in simply ending the violence there.

As far as the military cuts go, there is nothing radical here, just an understanding of the reality that we no longer occupy Afghanistan and Iraq and are no longer in a position where we need to police the world. Nor can we afford to do that, especially with our alliances in Europe and now in the Middle East as well. This is not about weakening American power, but paying for the power that we need in an affordable way and cutting back in areas we no longer need to be involved in.

As far as the Arizona gay discrimination bill goes, because that is exactly what it is, which is legally to deny people service simply because they are gay and move us back to the 1960s, when Americans could be denied service because of their race or color. Even if Governor Jan Brewer vetoed the bill for economic reasons, she still did the right thing, and, as we learned today, the Arizona Legislature has no intention of bringing up another gay discrimination bill this session.

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Baltimore Orioles 1954: Tribute to the Orioles at Memorial Stadium

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Derik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat

The Orioles in their first 10 seasons or so weren’t very good at all, but by 1964 or 1965, they not only started winning but also became solid American League contenders and in 1966 not only won the American League but also their first World Series, a 4-0 sweep of the Los Angeles Dodgers. And after that, up until 1986, you are talking about the winningest franchise in baseball, which included a total of three World Series championships, six American League championships, and seven AL East titles. Those are the Orioles at Baltimore Memorial Stadium that I love and respect and have been hoping will get back to that consistent winning ever since they started sliding in the late 1980s.

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Daniel Hannan: ‘Hitler Was a Progressive’

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Ederik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat 

When I first saw the title of this blog on Lew Rockwell.com, my first thought, to be perfectly frank, was “bullshit.” I mean, what is progressive about murdering millions of people simply because of their ethnicity, which is exactly what the German Nazis did in Europe in the 1930s and 1940s, I mean, where is the progress in that. What possible good could come from it, with those innocent lives lost simply because they were of Jewish ethnicity and not ethnically German.

But if you go into it deeper, the Nazi Party was a socialist party, not a democratic socialist party, which is more common today, especially in the developed world.  However, they did believe in nationalizing private businesses and industries, and probably even with good intentions.  So with all of this being true, how does this qualify as progressive when those who are actual Progressives don’t just call themselves Progressives but do in believe in capitalism and private enterprise.

So maybe “bullshit” is not the correct word even though Nazis were economic socialists, but maybe the word should be “inaccurate” or “misleading” when in fact there wasn’t really anything that was progressive, or is progressive, about the Nazi Party either back in Adolph Hitler’s time or today in Germany, where the Nazi Party is not much more than a criminal or terrorist organization in the midst of ethnic Germans in Germany who detest Nazism.

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