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To: koan who wrote (174628)	10/26/2011 2:46:04 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541556

koan and Rat dislocate shoulders patting themselves on the back, head off to ER for free Medicare treatments screaming "It only hurts when we laugh." He'll need to fight them after the election. Anybody can fight them before. "The middle kept telling us we were helping the right wing and many got very mad at us for saying anything negative about Obama. But what happened?" We got banned :>))) Viva la causa == Keith said "Take it to the streets" in Aug. Keith Olbermann's Debt Ceiling Special Comment: 'Our Government Has Now Given Up The Concept Of Right And Wrong' (VIDEO) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/02/olbermann-debt-ceiling-special-comment-protests-obama_n_915957.html Keith Olbermann excoriated Washington for the debt ceiling deal it struck over the weekend--and called for a protest movement to rise up against it. In a Special Comment on his Monday show, Olbermann did not mince words about the deal, which passed the House on Monday and is headed for a vote in the Senate. "Our government has now given up the concept of right and wrong," he said. "...Those who defend [the deal] have called it a credit to a pragmatic president who wins some sort of political 'points' because, having stood for almost nothing here, he gave away almost nothing for which he stood." Olbermann said that the deal was founded on what he called four "Great Hypocrisies." The first was the so-called "Super Congress" that will have ultimate authority over further spending cuts. Olbermann said the committee seemed unconstitutional to him. He also blasted Republicans who called for a Balanced Budget Amendment, which he said contradicted their call for the new committee. And he lambasted the deal for containing no tax increases on the wealthy. Olbermann then pivoted to address the audience. "Where is the outrage to come from?" he asked rhetorically. "From you! It will do no good to wait for the politicians to suddenly atone for their sins...it will do no good to wait for the media to suddenly remember its origins as the 'free press'...it will do no good to wait for the apolitical public to get a clue." He said that, without a protest movement, the "tide" that had brought the debt deal "will crush us, because those who created it are organized and unified and hell-bent. And the only response is to be organized and unified and hell-bent in return." He said the public "must find again the energy and the purpose of the 1960's and early 1970's and we must protest this deal and all the goddamn deals to come, in the streets."

To: koan who wrote (174628)	10/26/2011 2:48:38 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541556

Thai capital warned "massive" water on the way By Pracha Hariraksapitak \| Reuters – BANGKOK (Reuters) - Floods swamped a new area of Thailand's capital on Wednesday as some shops rationed food and Bangkok's governor warned of "massive water" on the way that could put many parts of the sprawling city in danger by the end of the week. Large-scale evacuation was underway in Bang Phlad, a riverside area some way from Bangkok's inundated northern districts, as floods hit the capital on a second front, deepening anxiety in the city of 12 million people, many of whom were expected to flee before a special five-day holiday. "Now we're at a critical moment, we need to monitor the situation closely from 28-31 October, when many areas might be critical,"Bangkok Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra told reporters on Wednesday. "Massive water is coming." Sukhumbhand said 90 percent of the northern Don Muang district was under water and Bang Phlad was in a critical situation. Fourteen city districts were threatened by floods and two more could be hit on Thursday, he said.