RANDI WEINGARTEN AND KERRY KENNEDY have a good op.ed. in this morning’s Albany Times-Union..

RANDI WEINGARTEN AND KERRY KENNEDY have a good op.ed. in this morning’s Albany Times-Union..
Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/opinion/article/Justice-for-labor-on-the-farm-4523828.php#ixzz2TYe4cQD2
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They are asking for support for the New York to pass”the Farm
Workers’ Fair Labor Practices Act, a bill sponsored by Assemblywoman
Catherine Nolan and State Sen. Adriano Espaillat currently under
consideration by the state Legislature.”
The issue is clear that farm worker’s have very little labor law
protections; and this law should be supported by the legislature and
Gov. Cuomo.
It also should be given support in commemoration of the 45th anniversary of RFK’s assassination.
Next month is the 45th anniversary of RFK’s assassination.
Would he have gotten the nomination, taking it from Hubert Humphrey?
Likely, as Mayor Daley would have likely moved to RFK and brought along other big state Dem. leaders.
Would he have won in the contest between Nixon, and Wallace?
More than likely!
He would have taken a good percentage of the Wallace white working class vote, enough to beat Nixon.
Would he have been a good President?
This is the great historical conundrum!
He surely would have been an active Pres.; what political scientist James Barber labeled an active-postive President.
The Nam war would have ended at least 4 years sooner than it did under Nixon, through negotiations with the North Vietnamese.
To speculate further on a RFK Presidency is academic; good armchair ruminating on what might have been.
There would not have been Watergate, which was in reality a
continuation of the cover-up of the JFK assassination…..many of the same
actors (anti-Castro renegades; CIA spooks (i.e. E.Howard Hunt), and the
Lamar Waldron thesis that Nixon was searching the Watergate for the
files on the Bay of Pigs, CIA Castro assassination history, and the JFK
murder.
RFK would also have persued the conspirators in his brother’s murder.
All this is speculative ruminating.
This has been very little discussion of the RFK murder and the coming 45th anniversary.
And that is likely what Kerry Kennedy, and the Kennedy family desires.
But the RFK assassination was a conspiracy in the Ambassador.
And Sirhan, still alive in prison, should be granted a new trial.

http://www.amazon.com/Watergate-Hidden-History-Nixon-Mafia/dp/1619021625/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1368797904&sr=1-1&keywords=lamar+waldron
http://www.amazon.com/Presidential-Character-Predicting-Performance-Political/dp/020565259X/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1368799101&sr=1-3&keywords=james+barber

 

Buzzfeed's Ben Smith critiques the White House evesdropping on AP phones; and includes a photo of Obama morphing into Nixon.

Buzzfeed's Ben Smith critiques the White House evesdropping on AP phones; and includes a photo of Obama morphing into Nixon.
The House GOP radical Darrell Issa appeared on CBS Morning News; and immediately after the lead-in of Obama dismissing the Benghazi attack investigation as one of there is no there there, Issa smiled and declared the POTUS is spinning.
The right-wing onslaught is increasing in intensity.
The morphing of Obama into Nixon; the claim that these scrapes are Nixonian in their import, are laying the groundwork for a move by the House GOP to impeach Obama.
But the hidden , deep politics behind this is operating above the Issa level.
The power elite in the US are moving to render Obama politically impotent; to make the progressive rhetoric Obama outlined in his inaugural and SOTU addresses mute.
Many of us lived through the Nixon years.
And Obama is no Nixon.
Nixon had a fertile active mind; but he was a very flawed person...a bitter partisan, paranoid in the dark, overpowering dark centers of his brain; and he really was a crook.
We are heading toward a very difficult crisis , more severe than mere deadlock in DC .
For many reasons, Obama seems to locked in epic struggle with the most powerful forces in our country.

 http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/the-panopticon-president

 

Hillary Clinton and the right-wing attack squads.

Hillary Clinton and the right-wing attack squads.
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The loudmouth US Sen. Rand Paul took to the Senate floor last week and declared that Hillary Clinton is unqualified to be POTUS because of the Benghazi affair.
Karl Rove is already running anti-Hillary 2016 ads in Nevada.
The right-wing attack squads have their poisonous weapons poised to attack Hillary from now through 2015.
The supermarket scandal rag National Enquirer apparently has an anti-Hilllary and anti-Clinton agenda.
Week after week the rag has a cover story on Bill’s immanent death; and Hillary’s personal secrets.
It’s as though the publishers are the Koch brothers…perhaps they do own the rag.
This week’s Enquirer has the cover story of Hillary’s $25 million “tell-all” book scheduled for next year.
And the rag tells us that Hillary will reveal her “lesbian lovers.”
I was at the supermarket checkout; picked up this rag; and skimmed the story.
Hillary will reveal her lesbian affairs!!!
Hellzapoppin!!!
I dropped the rag; fell to the floor in convulsive laughter; and lost my place in the checkout.
Hillary will reveal her lesbian affairs???
Right, and I have that bridge in Brooklyn I’ll sell you at a fabulous cut rate price.

(…The level of the most important heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, has passed a long-feared milestone, scientists reported Friday, reaching a concentration not seen on the earth for millions of years.

(…The level of the most important heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere,
carbon dioxide, has passed a long-feared milestone, scientists reported
Friday, reaching a concentration not seen on the earth for millions of
years.
Scientific instruments showed that the gas had reached an average daily
level above 400 parts per million — just an odometer moment in one
sense, but also a sobering reminder that decades of efforts to bring
human-produced emissions under control are faltering….)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/11/science/earth/carbon-dioxide-level-passes-long-feared-milestone.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
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And it is likely too late to reverse the damage that this CO2 concentration has done, and will do, to the Earth’s ecosystem.
Al Gore,Bill McKibben et. al. can sound the alarm; but who among us is going to give up our affluent lifestyle.
Who is going to give up our cars, tech. toys, consumer desires to deal with the record CO2 level?
While our national political class dithers , and dabbles in inane political toxic fights, the Earth’s ecosystem is telling us, in so many ways every day, that our consumer, wasteful way of life is dangerous.

The white smoke emanating from the White House west wing Friday may signal the Obama administration is burning documents in anticipation of coming impeachment proceedings.

The white smoke emanating from the White House west wing Friday may signal the Obama administration is burning documents in anticipation of coming impeachment proceedings.
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The conservative attack dogs are snarling, with sharpened teeth, as the clamor for possible impeachment of Obama gains steam.
In his regular role on ABC’s Sunday Morning, the venerable Dr. George Will had a small note card, outlining the Nixon impeachment charge of using the IRS for political skullduggery.
Will was implying, even stating directly, that Obama’s IRS caper in auditing tea party, conservative pacs can easily become an impeachment charge.
The very conservative Utah Mormon US Sen. Orrin Hatch says the IRS caper is Nixonian!!*
Sen. Lindsey Graham says the Benghazi episode is “every bit as damaging as Watergate.”
Okie US Senator James Inhofe says the Benghazi affair is worse than Watergate.**
Many of the House GOP radicals seem to be itching for an impeachment move.
Nobody should be surprised if this scenario transpires in the next year.
It will signal the depths of the political toxic cesspool that is DC in our modern age.
It could also trigger a violent civil war in our country.
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*Nixonian is cool sounding….taking a personal name and converting it into a conjugated noun.
A google search found this:
Washingtonian Adamsonian Jeffersonian
Madisonian Monrovian Jacksonian
Burenian Harrisonian Tylerian
Polkian Taylorian Filmorian
Pierceian Buchananian Lincolnian
Johnsonian Grantonian Hayesian
Garfieldian Arthurian Clevelandian
Harrisonian McKinleyan Rooseveltian
Howardian Wilsonian Hardingian
Coolidgean Hooverian Trumanian
Eisenhoweran (can’t find a cite for this, but maybe “Ikeian”?)
Kennedian Nixonian Fordian
Carterian Reaganian Bushonian
Clintonian Obamaian
**The extreme right-wing wackjobs took to the airwaves this weekend and declared that the IRS caper is worse than Watergate.
Me thinks they are engaged in hyper-hyperbole.
Watergate was the culmination of a long White House operation, a cesspool of illegalities, commandeered by Nixon and his venerable plumbers.
Investigator Lamar Waldron has perhaps finally determined why Nixon wanted the Dem. Committee Watergate offices burglarized.
It was to find the secret files on the CIA, White House executive actions, assassination program against Casro; and its’ relationship to the murder of JFK.
http://www.amazon.com/Watergate-Hidden-History-Nixon-Mafia/dp/1619021625/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1368453466&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=larmar+waldron

Sen. Lindsey Graham, of the GOP foreign policy trifecta, McCain to Graham to Kelly Ayotte, proclaimed to all that the Benghazi episode is comparable to Watergate.

(...A top State Department official pressed the CIA
and the White House to delete any mention of terrorism in public
statements on the Benghazi attack to prevent critics from blaming lax
security at the consulate....)
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Sen. Lindsey Graham, of the GOP foreign policy trifecta, McCain to Graham to Kelly Ayotte, proclaimed to all that the Benghazi episode is comparable to Watergate.
Speaker John Boehner is allowing the House GOP extremists, like Darrell Issa, to weaken the Obama administration through anti-administration hearings.
Boehner, a prisoner of the House GOP radicals, will allow another House vote on repealing Obamacare, the 39th House vote on this.
The picture is becoming clear; the GOP's strategy has emerged from the fog of the Nov. elections. The goal is to move to impeachment of Obama.
I'm convinced from the actions, communicating to some staffers in DC, that this is the goal of the GOP.
By controlling the House, the GOP radicals have the power to initiate impeachment proceedings.
If this reaches the Senate for a trial on trumped-up impeachment charges, the Dem. Senate will vote against it.
Regarding the Benghazi tragedy, there is hypocrisy aplenty.
Blogger Bob Cesca lists at least 13 Benghazi-like attacks that took place under Bush 2:
"January 22, 2002. Calcutta, India. Gunmen associated with Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami attack the U.S. Consulate. Five people are killed.
June 14, 2002. Karachi, Pakistan. Suicide bomber connected with al Qaeda attacks the U.S. Consulate, killing 12 and injuring 51.
October 12, 2002. Denpasar, Indonesia. U.S. diplomatic offices bombed as part of a string of "Bali Bombings." No fatalities.
February 28, 2003. Islamabad, Pakistan. Several gunmen fire upon the U.S. Embassy. Two people are killed.
May 12, 2003. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Armed al Qaeda
terrorists storm the diplomatic compound, killing 36 people including
nine Americans. The assailants committed suicide by detonating a truck
bomb.
July 30, 2004. Tashkent, Uzbekistan. A suicide bomber from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan attacks the U.S. Embassy, killing two people.
December 6, 2004. Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Al Qaeda terrorists storm the U.S. Consulate and occupy the perimeter wall. Nine people are killed.
March 2, 2006. Karachi, Pakistan again. Suicide
bomber attacks the U.S. Consulate killing four people, including U.S.
diplomat David Foy who was directly targeted by the attackers. (I wonder
if Lindsey Graham or Fox News would even recognize the name "David
Foy." This is the third Karachi terrorist attack in four years on what's
considered American soil.)
July 9, 2008. Istanbul, Turkey. Four armed terrorists attack the U.S. Consulate. Six people are killed.
September 17, 2008. Sana'a, Yemen. Terrorists
dressed as military officials attack the U.S. Embassy with an arsenal of
weapons including RPGs and detonate two car bombs. Sixteen people are
killed, including an American student and her husband (they had been married for three weeks when the attack occurred). This is the second attack on this embassy in seven months...."
http://www.huffingtonpost. com/bob-cesca/13-benghazis-that-occurre_b_3246847.html

 

(New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie had his stomach stapled. (NYP))

(New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie had his stomach stapled. (NYP))
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Although some late night comic likely has already said this, how about getting his mouth stapled?
Gov. Chris first has to win reelection, which is likely; and then the
serious speculation among the chattering class about the POTUS 2016
race can begin.
Don’t believe he will market, sell, well outside NJ.