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		<title>Comment on Do Occupy Wall Street&#8217;s critics have a point? by David Dornbusch</title>
		<link>http://averageliberal.com/2011/10/11/do-occupy-wall-streets-critics-have-a-point/#comment-1664</link>
		<dc:creator>David Dornbusch</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Check this rhymed and illustrated “bedtime story” about greed.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z587_i5pqU

Here’s a sample from the narration:

Greed had displaced the golden rule.
Compassion and morals were thought traits of a fool.

And if truth or fair play ever got in their way,
the greedy agreed they’re a fair price to pay.

The greedy controlled news on the air,
pretending reports were balanced and fair.

Faking righteous anger, using code words for race,
frauds were thought fair if they had a fair face.

With relentless repeating, the myths took hold.
Pumping family values, pundits sold gold.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Check this rhymed and illustrated “bedtime story” about greed.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z587_i5pqU" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z587_i5pqU</a></p>
<p>Here’s a sample from the narration:</p>
<p>Greed had displaced the golden rule.<br />
Compassion and morals were thought traits of a fool.</p>
<p>And if truth or fair play ever got in their way,<br />
the greedy agreed they’re a fair price to pay.</p>
<p>The greedy controlled news on the air,<br />
pretending reports were balanced and fair.</p>
<p>Faking righteous anger, using code words for race,<br />
frauds were thought fair if they had a fair face.</p>
<p>With relentless repeating, the myths took hold.<br />
Pumping family values, pundits sold gold.</p>
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		<title>Comment on In Tucson, Arizona’s SB1070 Not So Popular by An oasis of brilliance in Arizona's desert full of crazy &#124; Smart v. Stupid</title>
		<link>http://averageliberal.com/2010/05/19/in-tucson-sb1070-not-so-popular/#comment-1070</link>
		<dc:creator>An oasis of brilliance in Arizona's desert full of crazy &#124; Smart v. Stupid</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Pima County has a population of about one million and includes the uber-cool City of Tucson. It hosts the University of Arizona, and values a friendly relationship with Arizona’s largest trading partner, Mexico. Tucson offers multi-cultural education as an elective in public school. And as I found last year, they’ve never been too fond of SB1070. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Pima County has a population of about one million and includes the uber-cool City of Tucson. It hosts the University of Arizona, and values a friendly relationship with Arizona’s largest trading partner, Mexico. Tucson offers multi-cultural education as an elective in public school. And as I found last year, they’ve never been too fond of SB1070. [...]</p>
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		<title>Comment on CPAC: Ron Paul not next President! by Thomas</title>
		<link>http://averageliberal.com/2010/02/22/cpac-ron-paul-not-next-president/#comment-615</link>
		<dc:creator>Thomas</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 12:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Watch on youtube news coverage showing the 2010 reaction to CPAC results claiming it as 2011 reaction at CPAC with a big difference of boos and yays:
watch on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG2DI7o-W7A

or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19jXxSeH2oQ&amp;feature=youtu.be

two sincere question for progressives or liberals:

1-  If you are a democrat and or a true progressive would you vote for someone that would -
 - restore the democratically elected republic &amp; end the empire spending saving about $500 billion every year and 1 trillion at least every two years (DHS police state budgets, even more savings), while ensuring our Bill of Rights, eliminating corporate welfare (hundreds of billions), ending the drug war (billions), reducing the debt by lowering the interest paid making your dollar worth more, legalizing hemp, making a more hospitipal environment for entreprenuers and starts ups, making sure alternative medicine and voices are protected, allowing prescription drugs to be imported, having a strong defence and making more friends with the world by leading from example, having a transparent, open and accountable government that also protects whiste blowers and audits not just the Federal Reserve but makes no agency above the law, and opening dialougue and debate with sincerity and honesty while not having to realistically worry about Education and Social Security and other social safety nets because that is mostly up to our Congress and is just a bunch of fear hype - but everything else mentioned would come to pass - would you then vote for Ron Paul? - if the most libertarian idea he proposes is if someone wants to excercise their right to opt out, that, that would be recogznized, and they wont go to prison for it and have their property seized and even that would also need to pass Congress and is now more a philosphical debate although you may come to think it makes sense and that we actually have solved this puzzle because maybe if all the above things were corrected it wouldnt be such a big issue anyways (and we could have the best from the so called left and right and not the worst).  Do you think that 4 years of that with maybe lets say Jesse Ventura as Vice President (which would erase the age issue) might be a good vote this 2012?

2- or would you rather vote for someone that tells you what you think you want to hear but breaks almost every promise and never delivers on hardly any of it?  like corporate bailouts (both parties) to Wall Street (the money could have been directed to the people to trickle up and saved both the people and the banks but instead trickled only to the connected institutions) and the Health Care &amp; Military Industrial Complex and private mercenaries, and to secret private intelligence agencies and others that have the money, empire spending, empire wars, supporting the patriot act and other laws that contradict the Bill of Rights and 4th amendment and executive signing statements, indefinate detention etc &amp; keeping the status quo on the drug war and hemp and being surrounded by lobbyists in your own administration?

[Keep in mind even without an income tax we would be able to have a government the size of the 2000 fiscal year so dont give me the driving on public roads analogy please, and that would also cover the costs of defence etc., and actually having a voluntary tax or fee for services you may see more people signing up, I would pay into a public castostrophic insurance that was voluntary and saved money from not having to advertise etc, &amp; with a deductible to cut out fraud and keep prices reasonable; anyways that&#039;s nothing to lose sleep on because those debates would most likely be after Ron Pauls 4 or 8 years when doing all that I mentioned above first we would be in the beginning of a new Renaissance, anyone who actually is worried about that needs to consider what a President can actually do and not do and what the real issues are and the issues that Ron Paul can really affect are ones you may consider voting on -]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Watch on youtube news coverage showing the 2010 reaction to CPAC results claiming it as 2011 reaction at CPAC with a big difference of boos and yays:<br />
watch on youtube:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG2DI7o-W7A" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG2DI7o-W7A</a></p>
<p>or <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19jXxSeH2oQ&#038;feature=youtu.be" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19jXxSeH2oQ&#038;feature=youtu.be</a></p>
<p>two sincere question for progressives or liberals:</p>
<p>1-  If you are a democrat and or a true progressive would you vote for someone that would -<br />
 &#8211; restore the democratically elected republic &amp; end the empire spending saving about $500 billion every year and 1 trillion at least every two years (DHS police state budgets, even more savings), while ensuring our Bill of Rights, eliminating corporate welfare (hundreds of billions), ending the drug war (billions), reducing the debt by lowering the interest paid making your dollar worth more, legalizing hemp, making a more hospitipal environment for entreprenuers and starts ups, making sure alternative medicine and voices are protected, allowing prescription drugs to be imported, having a strong defence and making more friends with the world by leading from example, having a transparent, open and accountable government that also protects whiste blowers and audits not just the Federal Reserve but makes no agency above the law, and opening dialougue and debate with sincerity and honesty while not having to realistically worry about Education and Social Security and other social safety nets because that is mostly up to our Congress and is just a bunch of fear hype &#8211; but everything else mentioned would come to pass &#8211; would you then vote for Ron Paul? &#8211; if the most libertarian idea he proposes is if someone wants to excercise their right to opt out, that, that would be recogznized, and they wont go to prison for it and have their property seized and even that would also need to pass Congress and is now more a philosphical debate although you may come to think it makes sense and that we actually have solved this puzzle because maybe if all the above things were corrected it wouldnt be such a big issue anyways (and we could have the best from the so called left and right and not the worst).  Do you think that 4 years of that with maybe lets say Jesse Ventura as Vice President (which would erase the age issue) might be a good vote this 2012?</p>
<p>2- or would you rather vote for someone that tells you what you think you want to hear but breaks almost every promise and never delivers on hardly any of it?  like corporate bailouts (both parties) to Wall Street (the money could have been directed to the people to trickle up and saved both the people and the banks but instead trickled only to the connected institutions) and the Health Care &amp; Military Industrial Complex and private mercenaries, and to secret private intelligence agencies and others that have the money, empire spending, empire wars, supporting the patriot act and other laws that contradict the Bill of Rights and 4th amendment and executive signing statements, indefinate detention etc &amp; keeping the status quo on the drug war and hemp and being surrounded by lobbyists in your own administration?</p>
<p>[Keep in mind even without an income tax we would be able to have a government the size of the 2000 fiscal year so dont give me the driving on public roads analogy please, and that would also cover the costs of defence etc., and actually having a voluntary tax or fee for services you may see more people signing up, I would pay into a public castostrophic insurance that was voluntary and saved money from not having to advertise etc, &amp; with a deductible to cut out fraud and keep prices reasonable; anyways that's nothing to lose sleep on because those debates would most likely be after Ron Pauls 4 or 8 years when doing all that I mentioned above first we would be in the beginning of a new Renaissance, anyone who actually is worried about that needs to consider what a President can actually do and not do and what the real issues are and the issues that Ron Paul can really affect are ones you may consider voting on -]</p>
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		<title>Comment on Tom DeLay: The Hammer gets nailed by Democratic Senators Seek Filibuster Reform</title>
		<link>http://averageliberal.com/2010/11/30/tom-delay-the-hammer-gets-nailed/#comment-344</link>
		<dc:creator>Democratic Senators Seek Filibuster Reform</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 22:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Comment on Liberty Central: Repo&#039;d by the Koch brothers? by bro43</title>
		<link>http://averageliberal.com/2010/11/24/liberty-central-repod-by-the-koch-brothers/#comment-258</link>
		<dc:creator>bro43</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 18:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Koch bros are complicit in the perpetration of the crony-capitalist system that is destoying liberty. Their involvement in the liberty movement is not in earnest, but is being used as a way to co-op the mostly under-educated (on true liberty issues anyway) freedom folks. The collapse they fear is imminent and no amount of propaganda will stop it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Koch bros are complicit in the perpetration of the crony-capitalist system that is destoying liberty. Their involvement in the liberty movement is not in earnest, but is being used as a way to co-op the mostly under-educated (on true liberty issues anyway) freedom folks. The collapse they fear is imminent and no amount of propaganda will stop it.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Liberty Central: Repo&#039;d by the Koch brothers? by Nick Dranias</title>
		<link>http://averageliberal.com/2010/11/24/liberty-central-repod-by-the-koch-brothers/#comment-257</link>
		<dc:creator>Nick Dranias</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 15:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve met and had a number of conversations with Sarah Field and I have to say you&#039;ve got all of this wrong. She&#039;s a principled advocate of constitutionalism and individual liberty. And in the grand scheme of things, this paranoia about Koch is really unfortunate. Given the mixed economy in which businesses must operate, and the leverage that the government has over capital-intensive businesses in particular, it takes immense courage for anyone who invests in that system to stick their neck out to support principles of individual liberty and limited government. Whatever one fantasizes about the motivations of the Koch entities, the fact is that they are very effective at promoting the ideas of liberty.And in the end, what counts is the fact that serious resources are being put behind advancing the ideas of Hayek, Mises, and other genuine freedom lovers. This Thanksgiving Day we should be thankful for that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve met and had a number of conversations with Sarah Field and I have to say you&#8217;ve got all of this wrong. She&#8217;s a principled advocate of constitutionalism and individual liberty. And in the grand scheme of things, this paranoia about Koch is really unfortunate. Given the mixed economy in which businesses must operate, and the leverage that the government has over capital-intensive businesses in particular, it takes immense courage for anyone who invests in that system to stick their neck out to support principles of individual liberty and limited government. Whatever one fantasizes about the motivations of the Koch entities, the fact is that they are very effective at promoting the ideas of liberty.And in the end, what counts is the fact that serious resources are being put behind advancing the ideas of Hayek, Mises, and other genuine freedom lovers. This Thanksgiving Day we should be thankful for that.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Liberty Central: Repo&#039;d by the Koch brothers? by Repo&#8217;d By the Koch Brothers? &#171; LewRockwell.com Blog</title>
		<link>http://averageliberal.com/2010/11/24/liberty-central-repod-by-the-koch-brothers/#comment-256</link>
		<dc:creator>Repo&#8217;d By the Koch Brothers? &#171; LewRockwell.com Blog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 13:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] to Jule Herbert for this fascinating story on Virginia Thomas, wife of the supremo, being sidelined by new management from the anti-LRC [...]</description>
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		<title>Comment on About by Calvin</title>
		<link>http://averageliberal.com/about-2/#comment-62</link>
		<dc:creator>Calvin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 06:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Jimmy, great blog. I came across it reading your &quot;Our Two-Tiered Citizenship&quot; post on Technorati. However, I noticed that the link to your blog on your Technorati profile is broken. It points to &quot;http://http//smartvstupid.com&quot;. I just wanted to bring that to your attention.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Jimmy, great blog. I came across it reading your &#8220;Our Two-Tiered Citizenship&#8221; post on Technorati. However, I noticed that the link to your blog on your Technorati profile is broken. It points to &#8220;http://http//smartvstupid.com&#8221;. I just wanted to bring that to your attention.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Seven reasons why Liberals and Progressives should vote by Tweets that mention Seven reasons why Liberals and Progressives must vote &#124; Smart v. Stupid -- Topsy.com</title>
		<link>http://averageliberal.com/2010/10/29/seven-reasons-liberals-must-vote/#comment-239</link>
		<dc:creator>Tweets that mention Seven reasons why Liberals and Progressives must vote &#124; Smart v. Stupid -- Topsy.com</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 19:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Carolyn Ames, Jimmy Zuma. Jimmy Zuma said: New Smart v. Stupid- Seven reasons why Liberals and Progressives should vote: Some Liberal and Progressive America... http://bit.ly/bzkfpV [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Carolyn Ames, Jimmy Zuma. Jimmy Zuma said: New Smart v. Stupid- Seven reasons why Liberals and Progressives should vote: Some Liberal and Progressive America&#8230; <a href="http://bit.ly/bzkfpV" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/bzkfpV</a> [...]</p>
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		<title>Comment on The GOP’s “Lady Problem” by Will</title>
		<link>http://averageliberal.com/2010/10/13/the-gops-lady-problem/#comment-235</link>
		<dc:creator>Will</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>These women are not failing at the Sarah Palin strategy.  They are playing it to perfection with the same results.  Palin has a core of devoted followers, but she also has a much larger pool of detractors who think she&#039;s an underqualified, none too bright opportunist.  Exactly like these other Republican women who have somehow bubbled up from the bottom of the swamp.

I&#039;m looking forward to the GOP becoming a viable alternative to the Democratic Party, but for the time being, it is a political cartoon and no more.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>These women are not failing at the Sarah Palin strategy.  They are playing it to perfection with the same results.  Palin has a core of devoted followers, but she also has a much larger pool of detractors who think she&#8217;s an underqualified, none too bright opportunist.  Exactly like these other Republican women who have somehow bubbled up from the bottom of the swamp.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to the GOP becoming a viable alternative to the Democratic Party, but for the time being, it is a political cartoon and no more.</p>
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