http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/ANWBTNWFJC4FF

Hugh @ 229

The NewsHour had on some weird dude Andrew Keen, a Silicon Valley type decrying bloggers whose most important duty apparently is to tell the world what they had for breakfast. Also did I mention that bloggers contribute to a fragmentation of daily life while the mass media create our American identity? And of course the corporate media are much more diverse than the blogosphere.

Yes, saw it. Andrew Keen. The Cult of the Amateur: How the Democratization of the Digital World is Assaulting Our Economy, Our Culture. . . He thinks MSM is more diverse and newspapers are “quality,” and the internet is an echo chamber.

Well, Instapundit has to be all kinds of torn about that. I mean, politically his side isn’t much of a loss to his team, but he wrote a whole book about how potent they are.

Good News another investigation (can anyone keep up?)

Waxman investigating Blackwater
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004207.php

I LOVE this news, but I can’t help still being a bit underserved with the lack of prosecutions.

We need prosecutions! NOW!

And word is Leahy and Reid have backed off a LOT of potential items that might lead to prosecutions.

Same as the old boss . . . at this point, Waxman could almost seem to be vying for a higher calling, knowing full well the hearings won’t really lead to any prosecutions, much LESS convictions.

casual observer @ 183

The revolution Jon–you’re looking at it. The intertubes. imo.

I don’t know how the tubes will work out.

Street demontrations still make sense, in my opinion.

Yep. But it seems all forms of dissent are being more and more heavily squelched with heavier hands by the police, and PTB.

It’s part of This Quickening, I feel coming.

And a work stoppage, as of Oct. 27, is sure gonna push all agenda’s ahead at light speed.

I guess, there’s no point waiting around for another few years for the water to boil. It seems the frogs, and the hand on the heat under the pot, are BOTH determined to play this all out sooner than later . . .

I wonder what all these moderists and centrists are gonna think when Cheney hits the fan domestically.

Will they turn in their neighbors who are more progressive, to save their own souls?

Time will tell.

And yes, we DO live in interesting times.

Did we REALLY wish for this?

. . .
There was that woman recently who refused to lead with a Britney story – balled up the paper and threw it away. Who was that?

Staged.

Jonathan @ 163

Casual Observer at 152

I used to believe in the free market of ideas.

The market is corrupted.

The time is for revolution.

Won’t happen today.

Hope it happens during my life.

I think you’re typing in one right now. fwiw

I’m humbled by your simplicity, and insight.

Thanks for the whack up the side of the head.

We ARE the change, we ARE the meteor.

They are the dinosaurs.

With or without the centrist blogs, the Shilary Pundits . . . it’s pretty inevitable that one way or another the dinosaurs can’t possibly sustain things as they are.

Best case, we overwhelm them somehow to a place of better foreign policy thru peace.

Worst case, the dinosaurs blow the phuckin place all to hell and we all lose.

Ergo, NO time for centrist values and posits.

It’s us, or them.

Got life?

Casual Observer at 152

I used to believe in the free market of ideas.

The market is corrupted.

The time is for revolution.

Won’t happen today.

Hope it happens during my life.

Hayall Jonathan, after Nixon, Reagan and Bush 1, I never thought THIS present shi* would happen in my life!! Have some hope!!!! ;-)

Ann in AZ @ 146

Are you serious? How did you find out? KO is not on for another half hour here.

Anyone’s tinfoil hat start humming when they heard the news of the emergency surgery?

Not unless he don’t make it back.

Jonathan @ 142

If I’m in power, I don’t care about what’s said on FDL.

I want to know what’s going to keep me in power.

If I’m on FDL, I want to know how to seize power.

The time for politeness is over.

This makes it seem like a coup. I think it’s more like a market. You provide a better product, you outgrow them, you take their market share, and they expire. Or find some other business.

How about we drop the pseudo-psycho intellectual modeling and call it for what it is:

Our lives and our nation is/are at stake.

And it’s now a war the feint of heart won’t fight till they are neutralized during the struggle by the bad guys.

No more femblog nice gals folks . . . Iran and nukes are ON the table, the dem’s are complicit, and it’s all at stake.

While I’m TERRFIED of the call for a general labor strike on Oct. 27 (it’s a plain invitation for BoyKing to call for martial law and begin the roundup), as Mr. Spoook has posited:

The pace has quickened, considerably. Much like the darning needles of the old ladies in the front row as the ox carts approached, the prisoners were marched up and then the guillotine’s dropped.

The pace has quickened. Considerably.

The blogs, one and all, need to catch up to this.

We are behind, once again, progressives one and all.