Don Quixokie

We have a 2nd Amendment which protects the rights of American to carry arms. It does not protect the right to walk down the street and fire your weapon randomly. Likewise the 1st Amendment protects freedom of speech and religion. But it does not protect the right to shout Fire! in a crowded theater. NOR DOES IT PROTECT SPEECH THAT ENDANGERS AMERICAN TROOPS OR AMERICA'S DIPLOMATIC MISSION! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exceptions Incitement The Supreme Court has held that "advocacy of the use of force" is unprotected when it is "directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action " and is "likely to incite or produce such action". [1] [2] In Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969), the Court struck down a criminal conviction of a Ku Klux Klan group for "advocating ... violence ... as a means of accomplishing political reform" because their statements at a rally did not express an immediate, or imminent intent to do v...

Herein are a number of questions which weigh heavily on my mind and which, should you win the election will become important to you as well rest of America. Please answer these honestly. If deregulation and tax cuts are enough to grow the economy, why didn't it work any better for Bush? How will it work any better for you? If job creators can fatten their bottom lines off-shoring factories to third world nations, how will you stop them? If you aren't willing to punish job creators who off-shore, how are you going to raise employment by the numbers you predict here at home? You claim that you will act in the very best interests of the middle class and told the NAACP that you will be the very best candidate for them. But the policies you (Romney) and Ryan outline all look like the same European-style Austerity which has failed to produce results in Europe. Why should it work any better for us? If the jobs you predict fail to appear, how is the result any different for the...

This post is apropos observations made by Michael Eric Dyson and TJ Holmes on the Ed Show. The genesis of said observations was TJ's traffic stop for Driving while Black. Of course race relations have gotten uglier since Obama took office. The only way they wouldn't have is if he was stamped with the seal of approval from the far right. As, say, a marionette for the Koch bros who had famously observed that water from black water fountains tasted the same as water from white water fountains - Herman Cain; or a former torturer who specialized in mock executions and token black  member of a white supremacist biker gang who equates social security with slavery (I guess because the only people who are free are those who are starving to death) and accuses sitting representatives of being Communists - Allen West; or a Supreme Court Justice who has proven the old adage that there is no whore like a whore who is once bought, stays bought. In this instance by the Monsanto corporation...

7-25-2012 James Holmes. What a dork, yeah? The Joker had GREEN hair. My apologies to that fine fast food chain...but Homes is the Ronald McDonald of murder spree clowns. Not the Joker. The following was extracted and grown from comments on Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/DonQuixokie/colorado-shooting-puts-po_0_n_1697666_171243952.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/DonQuixokie/colorado-shooting-puts-po_0_n_1697666_171279672.html There is alot of noise about not rushing to politicize this tragedy, not dishonoring the slain in Aurora. Which is really hilarious given who was the very first to try to make political hay out of it. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/20/louie-gohmert-aurora-shootings_n_1689099.html You know what dishonors the slain? The very same thing that dishonored the slain at the Gabby Gifford's assassination attempt. The same thing that dishonors the memory of those killed in the Virginia tech massacre, and those killed in th...

Romney has ALWAYS been a phenomenally weak presidential candidate. The Bush/Cheney Administration was so fantastically toxic that it could groom no heir apparents. If they did, he would have looked just like Romney...an absolute third generation Reaganite (Bush/Cheney was 2nd Gen, Reagan was the first. Multiply the number of their generation to determine the damage they will do to the nation: Bush/Cheney made Reagan look sane, though they were true disciples of his policies; Romney will make Bush/Cheney look like Reagan by comparison. Next Republican president after that will make Romney look good by comparison, and so on.) As weak as Romney is as a candidate, however, there is an excess of machinary that could get a syphilitic chupacabra into the Whitehouse against Obama even without Citizen's United. Representative democracy (small "d") is being dismantled by voter suppression, post-census gerrymandering, and even small bore Fascism as practiced by Rick Snyder of Mi...

             Here's a crazy thought. What about extending personhood under the First Amendment ONLY to tax payers in proportion to the percentage of their income that they pay in taxes? Never mind one person one vote. Try one vote per 10% of income. Under the Eisenhower tax rate, this would have given the wealthiest  9 votes, because over 90% was the tax rate. If you want tax breaks, then you pay for it in votes. You want to pay less? You get less say. Votes = 10%(income) - (tax breaks + subsidies+deductions) /Unadjusted income. Something like that This would neuter the 1% who pay no taxes and create a substantial disincentive to cut taxes and would empower those who are too poor to afford tax shelters, high power tax attorneys and accountants. Under this arrangement Romney, paying only 15% on capital gains, would get no more than 2 votes (rounding up, most generous.) Companies like GE who make billions, but pay no t...

In the milieu of Reaganite Conservative Orthodoxy  - to today's Conservative -  Reagan is the absolute final word in social and economic policy. History began with Reagan. And in the mind of Reagan, history ended with the Warren G.Harding Administration. Between the two periods, nothing happened. Nothing from which any policy lessons could be drawn. Not the Great Depression; not the struggle and value of the Labor movement; not the deficit investment in industrial expansion leading up to WW2 which was in fact the greatest economic expansion in history; not the Eisenhower tax rate, the Interstate highway System or his timely warning against the Military Industrial Complex; or LBJs War on Poverty and Great Society Programs, or the salutory effect of public education in over-coming Seperate but Equal and the enfranchisement of blacks after the abolition of Jim Crow. None of that exists, except as a horror that the Prophet Reagan saved us from. As a consequence, despite a...