California Governor Schwarzenegger launches right-wing agenda (Socialists are having apoplexy)

World Socialist WebSite ^ | Nov. 29, 2003 | Don Knowland and Andrea Peters

[King Prout]

last line, first stanza, minipoem, near the end of The End by the Doors.
I like it. It suits my usual online mood.

[Mad Dawgg]

"'Splain."

Mickey?

[Lazamataz]

Yeah, but, WTF does it mean?

[Lazamataz]

Mickey?

The best line I have ever read in one of those books:

"She looked like she wouldn't object, so I slipped her a Mickey."

[Smokin' Joe]

Schwarzenegger is combining these attacks on the living standards and democratic rights of California’s working people with threats to bypass the legislative process and go directly to the voters for approval of his initiatives should the state legislature fail to fall into line. In this way the new governor is signaling his intention to rule in a quasi-Bonapartist manner, posing as an authoritative figure who is “above politics,” while in reality pushing an agenda set by the corporate elite.

Translation. He is taking the first steps to cutting off the massive flow of individual and corporate tax money to undocumented immigrants, and at the same time, making it more difficult for the Democrat legislators to buy votes in their home districts using these funds.

[King Prout]

Ask Jim.

*fleeing while ROFL... not impossible, but a nifty trick*

[King Prout]

seriously, though:
When we go online, we put on an online "persona" (a mask) from whatever cherished source (the ancient gallery) and then we... we surf on down the web, man...

[Lazamataz]

When we go online, we put on an online "persona" (a mask) from whatever cherished source (the ancient gallery) and then we... we surf on down the web, man

Oh dear.

Explain me, then.

I'm thinking 1 part Bugs Bunny, 1 part Larry from the Three Stooges, 1 part Caesar Augustus, and 1 part First Citizen Forgen Critor.

[freeforall]

The Democrat Socialists (slavery) of America and the Liberty Caucus (freedom): country cousins.

[Amerigomag]

This massive increase in state debt

...well that now makes the left agreeing with the right. First the right thought the bond was a bad idea. Now the left feels the bond is a bad ideal.... ergo, the bond is a bad idea.

I personally hope it's sponsors choke on it.

[Spiff]

last line, first stanza, minipoem, near the end of The End by the Doors. I like it. It suits my usual online mood.

It goes on to say, at the end of the poem, "Father, I want to kill you. Mother, I want to F*** you!"

Utter crap, just like all of Jim Morrison's depraved stuff. He wrote this drug addled crap between shows where he liked to lay down and writhe around on stage or show his genitals to the audience.

And before I grew up and stopped being a liberal, I actually used to be a fan. I defended his depraved words and behavior as "art". Pure crap...

[King Prout]

oh, relax, Spiff.
I chose the stanza that suited, not the one that blows your headgasket.

the poem opens up: the killer awoke before dawn (430am today) he put his boots on (yep: steel-toed paratroopers)

...and then I went out to kill... Bambi - not my father

The Doors were and remain quite good, within the genre.

[Spiff]

Yeah, but, WTF does it mean?

Just Jim Morrison's attempt at injecting some psychobabble into his depraved rantings. He is speaking, like a stunted retard, of the Oedipal Complex or some such crap.

[King Prout]

1 part Bugs?
don't'cha mean "1 part Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius"?

[King Prout]

I think Laz meant: "what do you (KP) mean by using it?"
Do be polite enough to allow me to answer questions directed to me, please and thank you.
We get the point - you loathe Jim Morrisson.
Fine - you're on TV. Happy?

[Cultural Jihad]

Sorry I wasn't clear. They are country-cousins for not only their shared moral-liberalism, but also because both claim there is no difference between the Republicans and the Democrats.

[MeekOneGOP]

Good ! Let the Socialists squirm !!

Thanks for the post and ping.

Speaking of Socialists ...

Exposed: Pelosi's Socialist Ties

Pelosi leader of 'Progressive Caucus'

From those links, these excerpts ...

"DSA/USA, the 'Democratic Socialists of America' are the U.S. arm of the Socialist International. They share the symbol of the fist holding the rose, and they share the tasks to be accomplished — in our case, an altogether different America ...

"Some time ago — the date is missing from the descriptions — 58 members of the U.S. House of Representatives formed a subdivision of the Democratic Socialists of America and called it the Progressive Caucus. Their statement of purpose, as well as their membership list, formed an integral part of the dsausa Web site (www.dsausa.org ). The membership list appeared on the screen with the continuous background of the fist holding the rose, should anyone have missed the connection with the Socialist International."

Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., the likely [she is now] new minority leader in the House of Representatives, serves on the executive committee of the socialist-leaning Progressive Caucus, a bloc of about 60 votes or nearly 30 percent of the minority vote in the lower chamber.

The Democratic Socialists of America's chief organizing goal is to work within the Democratic Party and remove the stigma attached to "socialism" in the eyes of most Americans.

"Stress our Democratic Party strategy and electoral work," explains an organizing document of the DSA. "The Democratic Party is something the public understands, and association with it takes the edge off. Stressing our Democratic Party work will establish some distance from the radical subculture and help integrate you to the milieu of the young liberals."

Progressive Caucus

[Lazamataz]

Naaaah. I'm much more of a Bugs Bunny persona.

[King Prout]

ugh.
and I thought deer-guts were ugly.

[daviddennis]

I visited a school about a week ago, because I had business with the school administrators.

The place looked, and felt, like a jail.

Based on what I saw, I'd be comfortable cutting the budget of the LAUSD to $0. My contacts weren't bad people, but it's clear from even brief conversations that the fish rots from the head, and there is no saving it.

Incidentally, the far superior Santa Monica/Malibu and Las Virgienes (Calabasas) school districts are so much better than LAUSD (even in a very affluent area) that it's not even funny. Both school districts spend LESS per pupil than the LAUSD.

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Amerigo, what would you do at this point? The bond is essentially an attempt to legalize what Gray Davis already did, not new money for Arnold's budget. If he doesn't pass it, we have to chop government way more than anyone in the legislature's going to tolerate.

I don't particularly like it, but I think the massive tax increase that's the main alternative would be even worse.