Zeroth Principle: Incompetence is driven by intellectual sloth.
First Principle: Incompetence surrounds itself with incompetence.
Second Principle: Incompetence is ethics-impaired.
Third Principle: Incompetence abhors transparency and accountability.
Fourth Principle: Incompetence does or says anything to defend itself.
Fifth Principle: Incompetence always supports incompetence.
Sixth Principle: Violence is the last refuge of incompetence.
Seventh Principle: Incompetence is nothing but consistent with itself.

Get to know’em … and have fun spottin’em whenever neocons are in the news – day in and day out. ;-)

Matt @ 10

Kennedy voted with the majority because it will create competition..

But it never does. It NEVER does.

Suzanne @ 39

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So sorry. My comment got totally mangled. Suzanne, can you please just remove it, since I don’t seem to be able to fix it properly? (Hides head in shame…)

Aside from that, I’m a UU which is to the left of just about all religious traditions. The only risk I take is alienating any of the 3 republicans left in our movement (yes, I exaggerate, there are probably many more but not in the congregations I serve).

” My tradition is prophetic so I’m just doing what I’m called to do. I’m doing it here and with my flock and sometimes even in the greater UU movement, but I don’t consider it extraordinary. I’ve been blessed to be called by a congregation that is just fine with my activism (I hope so anyway, they don’t know me very well yet.)

Anyway, thanks for the hugs and all. I appreciate it, but I’m just doing my job (as I see it).”
======martin luther, we could go around and around all night….hitler misused him, we all know that……..his original teachings discount it……as far as your activism goes, learning from my father, that had to be done carefully, and i discount all of your laisse faire commets about how you went about it……..it takes deep down dedication and commitment to place yourself in such a position….so, call it what you want, i know what you had to do to get there, and i commend you for it……..

do-si-do @ 35

Oh garsh, I did it again and embedded my reply in all the quotes. sorry

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revdeb says:
precarious how?
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weeeeeeeelllllllllll…………

you do things in the spirit of martin luther……..human and political……the death of most religious leaders…….yet, from what i’ve gathered from your comments, you delve into that area…..anethema to most religious leaders……therefore the precarious slant that i gave. brava to you.

my dad started out in college to be a methodist minister, he passed on those teachings to all of us kids…….i don’t take it lightly, so, don’t mean it lightly when i said that you have a precarious road to lead…….you must do it exceptionally well if you don’t think it’s precarious………hugs to you……

First of all Martin Luther is on my sh*t list. His original “solution to the Jewish problem” is what Hitler based his “solution to the Jewish Problem” on.

Aside from that, I’m a UU which is to the left of just about all religious traditions. The only risk I take is alienating any of the 3 republicans left in our movement (yes, I exaggerate, there are probably many more but not in the congregations I serve).

My tradition is prophetic so I’m just doing what I’m called to do. I’m doing it here and with my flock and sometimes even in the greater UU movement, but I don’t consider it extraordinary. I’ve been blessed to be called by a congregation that is just fine with my activism (I hope so anyway, they don’t know me very well yet.)

Anyway, thanks for the hugs and all. I appreciate it, but I’m just doing my job (as I see it).

oddmommy @ 72

re SCt minimum price decision — hold on everybody. We don’t do ourselves or anyone else a service by lashing out at EVERYTHING that happens as part of the vast right wing conspiracy. Not saying there isn’t one — there is; not saying our rights and interests, and those of every American not in the top .OOOO1% income bracket aren’t being trashed — they are; not saying those in power are not threatening to undo every ideal on which our nation was founded — they are.

But this decision is really not all that drastic. All it says is that minimum price agreements between mf’ers and distributors are not per se invalid. They can still be proved to be anti-competitive — and therefore illegal — under a “rule of reason” analysis, which is how most agreements in restraint of trade are judged.

Thanks, oddmommy. A while ago there was a story going around about a “no work list” being put into the immigration bill. It was obnoxious, but it wasn’t anywhere near as bad as it was portrayed. But, as usual, trying to inject reason got me accused of being one of them. Heck, I went door to door for Gene McCarthy, and have never ever voted for a Republican.

yeah. I mean that is exactly what is wrong with “THEM” — the knee jerk name calling reaction without regard to context, fact, or nuance.
If we engage in that ourselves…..well, then, for lack of a better analogy…….the terrorists have won.