Mornin’, pups

Good morning and thanks for the post and host SoDrag.

RIP Levon Helm

Good morning all.

Reminded of this when I got rid of my vyns yesterday.

Thanks, SD, Bahrain protests against massive use of fossil fuels to prey on locals seems awfully promising, Occupy is bearing fruit of all sorts. Gives term of ‘petrol bombs’ resonance.

O.M.G., I remember that song.

Nostalgia.

I had that record too. It came with a book of illustrations. Simple times, those days.
And, we were just talking last night about looking at the turn table to see if we can get it to go ’round.
Good Morning, Souther Dragon and Thanks for the Buns.

I used to have that book. Don’t know what happened to it.

Good morning, everyone.

Great discussion about education yesterday. Sorry I missed most of it.

Uigers finally released from Gitmo; settled in el Salvador: democracynow.

Morning all. Thanks for the memories.

My son got a classic Victrola, has fun looking for records for it.

Turned over some 78s, 45s, as well as 33s.

Disturbing piece up from Glennzilla about Obama’s drone fascination.

America’s Drone Sickness

Breaking! Breaking! Death penalty does not deter crime: dn.

Your shorthand is a puzzle sometimes, eCAHN. Until I looked at the video I couldn’t figure out what these “vyns” were that you got rid of. I thought you were cleaning up your yard or something. LOL.

Typo; meant to type vynls. but “L” got inadvertently omitted & by the time I noticed it it was too late to edit.

But it’s vinyls, not vynls, so I’d have still been puzzled. But the video straightened it all out. I need another cup of tea!

‘Platter’ is another term that puzzled my kids.

A friend and I spent a really interesting day in “Amish country” yesterday. Amish folks everywhere, lots of buggies on the side of the roads, fields being tilled by horse-drawn plows. My parents’ families were from NE Ohio where there are Amish, but I don’t remember quite so many. Even the littlest girls wear “covers” (the little “bonnets”).

We had a record chain called Licorice Pizza.

Oh, yes, that would have puzzled mine, too. We had a lot of vinyl records, but my ex has them, if he hasn’t gotten rid of them. I remember my old 45s and the little record player. I had lots of Elvis and McGuire sisters records, and probably Pat Boone, too.

I iz old.

On the back roads of PA, we saw more buggies than cars. Big draft horses, in the fields, and fields being tilled, not nuked, very nice. The locals get annoyed at their taking out as many licenses to take deer as there are members of the families, which are large, and seriously impacting the deer herds such that few are left, tho.

Indeed. The Last Waltz is still one of my favorite sets of all time. I recommend that to everyone.

I recall a Waxy Maxie’s.

Same as the Old Boss

I remember those. Remember the ads on FM radio for them, too. Tower Records was the biggy.

That’s excellent. I hope the Chinese don’t arrange an accident, but knowing Obama’s distaste for confilct I’d bet a deal was reached before they left Gitmo.

Boxturtle (One more American human rights violation cleared, 10,000+ to go)

Good morning, buzz and pupses. Thank you, SD.

Didn’t think I’d ever dislike a boss any more than I did the last one , but I was wrong.

Back to reading comments and articles. Great lineup, SD. Coffee’s darn good, too.

Can’t imagine that those Uigers are important enough for Chinese to do what you suggest, which would be pretty transparent. But there are plenty of foolish things I can’t imagine powerful nations doing.

I still have 16 2/3 RPM records. And they’re not vinyl, they are clay. Or ceramic. If you drop one, it shatters.

Boxturtle (they were my parents, I’m not THAT freaking old!)

This is for you SD and all fellow travelers.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/15/jean-luc-melenchon-france-presidential-candidate

As you might expect, lots of Amish young women work in the stores there (and our waitress at lunch was Amish also). My friend, after a “do you mind a personal question” inquiry, asked one young store clerk if she was Amish or Mennonite, and what the difference in dress is. She didn’t mind and explained that the “cover” is different for Mennonite women, and that the black covers probably were Amish from a different group, perhaps another part of the state. They wear very plain clothes, but Amish dresses are solid color or tiny prints of a single (tone on tone) color, while Mennonite women wear print dresses (although not bright and colorful).

From the sixth bullet (dolphins):

The joint effort is troubling for some campaigners, who fear that BP and the federal government are working to wrap things up before the full impact of the spill is truly understood.

The 1% bargaining with their bought-and-paid-for lackeys behind closed doors.
Sound familiar?

I would not worry about the deer herds in Pa. I think the deer there do nothing but screw. And they’ve got a LOT of places where humans don’t go.

Boxturtle (At least not without heilcopters)

I remember when they closed the Tower Record on Sunset Blvd. That was sad.
We also had Wherehouse Records.

China does things in the name of “face” that I will never understand. I know the Uigers offended them in some way, but I don’t know if it’s a way that requires a face saving gesture.

But for all I know, the Chinese are just as happy to get this issue behind them as ObamaLLP and they will cheerfully walk away and forget it ever happened.

Boxturtle (The Chinese are very pragmatic)

RhinoRecords.

Great piece, thanks. Too bad we don’t have a national figure saying these things here.

Evidently there are sharp doctrinal differences, and deviations are frowned on by being excluded from the business community, as well as ‘shunned’.

Geez, I’ve been in that Sunset Blvd Tower Records so many times. Was it Wherehouse or Warehouse? I thought it was Warehouse.

In the area, it’s hard to find a deer in season, for those who used to supplement their own larder with an occasional one.

What most Americans want is now defined as “far left.”

We had independents around here. Goldenrod. Dingleberry’s. United Butterfly.

Boxturtle (many a happy afternoon spent at Goldenrod)

I forgot to say Good Morning to you, oldnslow.
Got caught up in the vinyl talk.
Hope you and yours are well. Oh, heck, it’s Friday. Hope you are all Fantabulous!

And the political right Also calls it anti-American as they vote it down.

If we did, ObamaLLP would make sure that anybody who might back him is marginalized. Like that Ca progressive caucus, for example.

He fears a rival from his left. He should.

Boxturtle (I could do a 4 credit class at Harvard on if Bush or Obama was the worse president)

Yes, and the “political left” does so also.

I was just reading online, and they originated as Anabaptists but are quite different now. According to my reading, Mennonites don’t live separately and while they may dress more plainly, they aren’t that distinguishable, while Amish are very different in their avoidance of modern things.

It was Wherehouse. I think, like where you can go to find your music. I just googled it and they have a website where you can buy, sell and trade used cd’s.

There was a Tower Records almost across the street from the San Diego Sports Arena, where a lot of concerts were held. The place would be packed at midnight after a concert. Hundred or so stoned hippies wandering around looking at albums. 3-4 bucks in those days. Hot shit.

Yeah, the easy areas get quite a bit of hunting pressure. But once you hit the bramble bushes, the deer are doing just fine. A have several hunters for neighbors and they all say it’s easy to get a deer in the backwoods of Pa.

Boxturtle (If you’re willing to be shredded by the vegatation)

Time for a nationwide Socialist presence in the political system and the media.

Morning SD & Pupses.

The dolphins are preserved in giant freezers in marine labs across America. Tagged, catalogued, carefully guarded – and suspended in liquid nitrogen for the moment when they will determine BP’s final bill for the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, which started two years ago this Friday.”

If BP were held 100% accountable for the damage it’s done, it would be out of business, and the principals (and their enablers in government) would be in a maximum-security federal penitentiary for the remainder of their miserable lives.

Here’s a bit more background.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melenchon

Okay. I’m surprised they’re still around.

What.A.Location! I’ll bet they adjusted their hours on concert nights.

Boxturtle (If they can’t make money there, they don’t deserve to exist)

Yeah, me too. It is nice to be surprised by something these days though, isn’t it?

Yeah, they did. Open to something like 2am on concert nights. Did a land office business. It was a trip. People smokin’ joints in the store, the whole shootin’ match.

From a link within that story:

The French have chosen to take their productivity gains in the form of shorter work hours, longer vacations, universal healthcare, free college education and childcare, and a more equal distribution on income. By contrast, in the US more than 60% of the income gains of the past three decades have gone to the richest 1%

Pretty stark difference.

It may take a while but people are beginning to look at Marx’s analysis of capitalism in a more favourable light.

Nothing frightens the ruling elites in the U.S. more than the “threat” of socialism. The U.S. public has been programmed to howl as if they were nothing more than Pavlov’s dogs at the mere mention of the word. If there is to be a resurgence of socialist thought and goals it’s necessary to educate what is arguably a politically illiterate populace. One way to start might be to point out the folly of how the American “dream” makes it possible for everyone to be rich beyond their wildest imagination.

There was a sign at United Butterfly: Pot smoking not permitted in the front room.

The sign right below it had a directional arrow and the words “Back Room”.

Boxturtle (Those backroom dopers are todays politicians and captains of industry! Sell outs!!!)

From the Guardian link above about RD Wolff:

Wolff’s critique is simple: American capitalism is dying in the face of stagnant wages, fewer jobs, greater debt and larger numbers of Americans being forced to work ever longer hours for ever less money.

What is revealed by the widespread acceptance and embrace of Wolff’s message is that America is a left center — not a right center — nation.

On all the important issues, the majority of Americans support what are now called “far left” by the 1% and MSM.

Edit: That was what was s-o-o- destructive about the administration’s “Professional Left” bullshit.

YMMV

Yep.

LOL That’s funny.

Duty calls:)

See you pupses later.

Link?

and at the Lake that is largely due to your efforts, SD. Of course the impacts go far beyond the shores of the Lake.

Does the Diner have a back room? I haven’t been anywhere but the front and the alley.
Replied to the wrong comment. But, you get my drift.

My host is the son of a late game warden, does a lot in backwoods, tries to keep fellow hunters from shooting does, notes a serious deterioration in deer to hunt in all areas.

Give me a break. You’ve seen what the “political left” has done on virtually every issue that the majority of Americans support — admittedly much behind closed doors. And you need a link?

Alley? What the hell were ya doin’ in the alley, or should I not ask? *g* Of course there’s a back room but we don’t need it. The Diner’s a “Police Free” zone.

And that the American talking points at the moment make it impossible for everyone to share in their mutual production.

Am not sure how you can ask me for a link to lefties calling what most of us support anti-American, when you made that claim.

I’m out too. It’s clean house day chez msmolly, and I’d better get to it!

Revisiting yesterday’s education topic briefly, I came across this yesterday:

John Hunter on the World Peace Game

As I recall, there was a morning where some playful fisticuffs was occuring and I invited someone to take it out to the alley.
That was the morning we discussed having mud wrestling at the Diner.
(remember that?)

Funny photo (no link)There is a picture of Palin with one of the SS who was in the prostitution outing b/c he had been part of her detail. The combination of her photo and the Prostit. story makes the appearance that the story is about her as the focus….funnnnny. It is really just about her making a tacky comment about the story!!

Good Morning Alllll….

Jello is nicer. and more colorful.

She’s making the most of the opportunity to pump up her sagging public influence, which of course, makes her $$.

Well, maybe the disagreement here is how one defines the “political left.” Don’t want to get into an argument over semantics.

My point was simply that the Ds are every bit as guilty at voting down (or eliminating behind closed doors) what the majority of Americans want — issue-by-issue.

True enough, but the if we use the right kind of mud, it will have rejuvinative affects as well as good old clean fun. :)

Off to swim in the great capitalist cesspool.

US KIA Afghanistan: 1,942

Afghan, Iraki and Pakistani casualties: estimates vary to over 1.5M

US MBS 2012: 13,640 and counting

The Night They Drove Ol’ Dixie Down

No war but class war

Be good to yourselves, and all other living things

Namaste

Never. Give. Up.

And I repeat, not being able to pass legislation is not rightly described as purposing defeating it, which you have previously insisted on.

Man, you got that right. Worthless motherfuckers.

Avocado compost, maybe. (*snort*)

Name one D who is or represents themselves as “the left”. To my mind in the US, the “political left” actually in power is an empty set, Bernie Sanders notwithstanding.

I don’t know. I think your contention that this country is “left center” is, at a minimum, debatable.

Having said that, I do agree that on a number of key economic issues, liberals and moderates have come together to form majorities.

I think FDL can play an important part in getting information about socialism out there where people can see it. Where the holes are in capitalist economics ideas that get filled in by important thinkers in socialism’s history.

I also just got Dragon Naturally Speaking a couple of weeks ago. I just figured it out it works okay on a Firefox browser window. You may never shut me up again.

Good morning. Saw you up thread but am not keeping up well at all this morning. Very busy this week.

We have to disagree. Issue-by-issue, there are versions of proposed legislation that I think embody what most Americans want that are defeated by the Ds that we have elected.

The “not being able to pass” vs. “purposely defeating” difference has been repeatedly debated on FDL. Where one stands on that is an honest difference of opinion. Examples that I consider evidence of the latter, you may consider evidence of the former — and vice versa.

I think we agree on goals; strategy, maybe not so much. But YMMV.

I think that FDL has been helpful in that regard already.

However, it seems to me that the most important task is understanding those holes in capitalism as they exist now and in such detail that the social creation of practical solutions undoes the system altogether. We have lots of ideas; we need sound data and practical solutions that are implementable locally. That is where I see that the Occupy movement is beneficial—and why the PtB consider it so much of a threat that they seek to suppress it. I know that is not necessarily been you experience with one particular Occupy encampment, but there are a number of locations that have not yet been evicted and others that never tried and encampment that are networking together lots of direct practical actions for change provide solutions that potentially undermine those institutions they are protesting against. One of the examples that has been most effective so far is the Move Your Money campaign, which has wide appeal and results in the movement of financial resources(savings) and assets (loans) from Wall Street banks to credit unions.

When one weights the issues (i.e., prioritizes) by how important they appear to be to Americans, OG, left-leaning (or progressive?) solutions are most popular. On TBTF, public otion, deregulation, jobs programs, SS, Medicare, etc.

That is why Obama got elected in the first place, IMO.

Happy 4/20. :)

Before we start talking socialism we have to make the American people aware of the shortcomings of capitalism and how it works against them rather than for them. We have to be able to explain how capitalism is a flawed economic system before we can demand the system be changed. And changed into what is not an idea that has only one answer.

Have seen too much accusation of Dems as working against the goals they promote, because those get defeated. That they are going ahead and promoting these with legislation being used against the Dems, as if failure to get enough votes is their doing, is entirely wrongheaded.
The same is done to the ACLU, because they hold off prosecuting cases when they’re facing courts that will set precedents. In those cases, I believe we can all sympathize but historical precedents are being overruled by this court anyway, so the principle itself is negated, and we must move on even though we know initial defeat will result.

And, yes, MM does vary.

So glad you brought up Move Your Money, excellent progress there, and it does indeed threaten the most abusive WS presences.

Happy 4/20!

(Although, I’m not holding. Tragic.)

That’s much better info than my second hand word of mouth. I wonder what’s happening, unless there’s a lot of poaching, the system should maintain the herd size pretty well.

Boxturtle (They can always come to my backyards to hunt. Last fellow filled all his tags in a day)

Al Frankin.

Boxturtle (What do I win?)

Having large families with licenses to take a deer for each member does not amount to poaching, altho I am told some of that occurs also. I have been in Chincoteague, where the deer proliferate to the extent that the refuge has held open seasons, to keep them from killing each other and the ponies off.

Well, you’re at work and working with machines, so that’s a good thing.

An avocado.

… we have to make the American people aware of the shortcomings of capitalism and how it works against them rather than for them

This is why RD Wolff’s message resonates — even with registered Rs. It is also why MMT is growing in acceptance. Both show that the 1% system is working against the people by clinging to defunct and utterly false economic ideas that perpetuate a version of capitalism that has failed to deliver.

Things need to get done here, thanks for good company.

Have a good one, Ruth.

Story:

Westport Ontario is a very small town. It supports one bar/roadhouse where just about everybody in the area eats and relaxes unless they want to drive to Kingston. Dear hunting is a major activity and the roadhouse posts the biggest bucks taken on their wall. I looked at the list and was suprised that over half the top ten bucks were taken by women! I asked about that.

It works like this. Each person gets a certain number of tags, each tag good for one deer. If there’s a hunter in the household, EVERYBODY in the household applies for tags and the hunter uses those.

If you shoot your trophy buck, but all you have is your wife’s tag, your wife just shot a trophy buck! Technically illegal, but the Game wardens don’t care as long as there’s no thieft complaint and each deer is properly tagged.

Later that evening as one man was leaving, the game warden by the door (like I said, everybody eats here) said “Nice buck, ‘Susan’”. You could hear the quote marks.

Boxturtle (Fellow smiled and kept walking)

Dear hunting is a major activity and the roadhouse posts the biggest bucks taken on their wall.

I bet! (Just teasing)

Great morning at the Diner.
Thanks, SD and All.
I’ve got to get started on some things too.

Good morning all, and thank you Southern Dragon for an entire bright week of morsels digestible.

I’m interested in combining the topics of capital/marx isms and Amish/Mennonite dresswear with some of the lookbacks on the education topic, in light of my own cogitations (private so far) about wooden desks.

I have been clearly picturing mine – the inkwell upper right, the hinged top so you could put stuff inside, all one piece with the seat (polished from use of course). And then, too, carvings of names or other graffiti top, sides, and elsewhere. Which brings up the point that, yes, kids could have pocketknives in those days. Made me wonder, do Amish kids still have that freedom? They may well indeed. And are Amish kids capitalist trained or communal? The latter, obviously.

That’s as far as I went. Carry on, lateys. I know alternatives to capitalism have a cacheure (don’t know how to spell that) about them, but it isn’t as if it hasn’t been tried and, sorry folks, but it’s not as easy as it sounds. I think, anyway. I’m not so sure Mr. Wolff is pointing in the right direction – there, I’ve said it!

Wolff isn’t pointing in any direction other than away from capitalism. His task is to try to inform the public about how capitalism really works. He readily admits he doesn’t have an answer and says so in the short interview in the Guardian piece. Nobody is going to support changing a system they know nothing about. We have to get the public to a point where they understand that the capitalist system is fatally flawed before we can have a discussion about where to go. A physician has to understand how the body functions before s/he can take corrective or preventive measures.

The great thing about 99% of what Wolff says that resonates with folks doesn’t require using the term “socialism” at all. In fact, it’s better not to use the term with most lay folks. As SD suggests, a powerful case can be made against our current failing version of capitalism without suggesting that an alternative system is required.

The most powerful part of his presentation — to me, at least — is the dismantling of all the false precepts of mainstream economics. I agree with his fundamental proposition that to completely cure the disease the means of production have to be reorganized, but short of that, large improvements can be made by shedding the worst of the economic bullshit that props up the system. MMT is a good example.

Edit: Sorry didn’t see #113 before posting. LOLOL

Galbraith: The Bush years – Growth demanded new markets among debtors who previously had not qualified for mortgages.”

Pretty much sums up how the elites kept growth going for the last 30 or 40 years.

I’m interested in combining the topics of capital/marx isms and Amish/Mennonite dresswear with some of the lookbacks on the education topic, in light of my own cogitations (private so far) about wooden desks.

That has got to be a classic lakeside musing. LOL. I needed a morning chuckle. Yer working waaaay beyond my ability for interdisciplinary thought.

Yes, plus a fraudulent system of securitizing, overrating, CDSing, and short-selling of those mortgages.

Yep. Of course, the scheme went way beyond fraudulent mortgages to the extension of credit generally so that growth could continue. It’s really been quite a brilliant criminal enterprise.

Hi Everyone. Late start today. No business this morning, so I took an extra few hours of zzzz’s.

So, what’s the next frontier? Haven’t the locusts pretty much stripped all the vegetation?

SD,

I am forever suspect of things as you know. It has been a very long while that Prof. Wolff’s classes have been off of his site. Do you think he might have been censored?

Good way to start the weekend!

And…

OT, but important:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/04/20/faa-coughs-up-info-on-where-drones-are-being-flown-and-whos-flying-them/

Hey PP. Know what’s funny? I have a very narrow number of blogs I visit regularly, but by the time I show up to read the posts and comments, guess who has always beat me there? Great minds think alike, I guess.

Absolutely!

I do have to say that I love this new situation. Telecommute, it’s the best ever!

(((YSD)))

Indeed!

I haven’t turned on the Twitter in a long time. Of course I am very selective of followers and those I do follow. I’m not one of those wishing to brag about the great numbers. I’d much rather have a small group that do no-nonsense like you do with the sites you visit. :-D

Everything is easier when you’re wearing slippers. When I have employees, I’m gonna require slippers as part of the uniform.

Big Grins!

I think better with them. It saves the stress and costs of attire.

Peeking back in (bedroom and bathrooms cleaned!). The Amish are very communal, I think (without any real research on the subject). They hold church services in their homes, all pitch in to help each other, and I saw an Amish school yesterday, so to some extent they have their own schools. They very much live in close communities.

And yes, I had a wooden desk like that in elementary school…

Back to the vacuum. *poof*

Does he say the words “the left” in context of referring to himself?

The left needs to come out. There are more of us out here than a lot of the hunkered-down left thinks.

How is anything OT at the Diner?

Here’s the real link to the EFF article and the lists.

FAA Releases Its List of Drone Certificates

BTW, the Texas Department of Public Safety has a certificate. As does the Arlington Police Department (state not recorded). Neither the City of Chicago nor Cook County are on the list (unless I misread it).

Good morning, all. Thanks for this link. There is no paper, tv station, or radio that would talk about such actual policies and system critiques. So, even if someone with enough of a following rose up, s/he would be treated to the same ad hominem attacks and zero engagement on the merits as were described in the article.

No. I got an email from Jen Hill, his asst, day or two ago. They are almost at a point with BlipTV or some other entity where the videos will be back up in the near future.

Thank you Dear Friend.

May I share with EW at her site?

Whew! That is good news. He has a few more books coming out soon and I hope we can have him here for a Book Salon. Maybe I should send a note off to Bev.

It’s what you get being in the Rockies and sort of sandwiched between awfully bright people!

Thanks for the link. I’ll have to go back and finish watching when I have time.

Force down wages and eliminate the social safety net.

We can jusssttt about put a checkmark in that column. They be workin’ on it.

We’ll just need to start taking over workplaces and sending the boards home.

Yes, my point was (I think) not to diss the alternative ideology, but to suggest that a cooperative strategy (of which I approve very much) does also have practical, structural difficulties, the first of which would be its co-optability, as we saw with the Tea Party most recently and as has been resisted (successfully I think) by the Occupies. (Maybe the latter were helped by the example of the former?)

What works and what doesn’t work seems to be the name of the game just beginning this political year of consequence. I can’t put the final pieces into the puzzle as it’s most definitely an organic thing going forward, like the learning process Naomi Klein points to in ‘The Shock Doctrine.’ We can look at the Amish as we look back (us older ones) at our early educational experiences and recognize freedoms, valuable ones, our own kids don’t have that we wish they did. Maybe point towards reincorporating those so our grandkids can be the kids we were able to be. That’s my idea of freedom: not riches, not empire, just kids able to be kids.

The one thing I absolutely loved and love about Occupy is its positive stance. Change is even more possible now – not less -because Obama didn’t accomplish it. He really shafted us, not just a Mandela being co-opted, but a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Maybe he’ll still fool enough people to drag us further down, remains to be seen. Half of America is in poverty, half! (Got that from Cornell West and Tavis Smiley on Democracy Now yesterday.) That’s a lot of folk not buying stuff, living a bit more like the Amish do. Ready to cooperate.

I’m old enough to remember DF Hippies living in Communes, loving thy neighbor, livin off the land, turning bad shit into good, etc.

I think people not buying stuff is a good thing. The very corporations that are trying to bleed us to death are the ones profiting from our buying powers. When we don’t buy, they have to either take cuts in profits or like most have done, move to another country to rape and pillage.

Yes, SouthernDragon, I do understand, and I don’t wish to offend. I grew up in a world where ‘socialism’ wasn’t a bad word. Government was very involved in regulation, social programs, and there were good and bad things about that. We didn’t end up like the USSR; we were a little country and it worked pretty well. We even got to keep our nonnuclear status. Now I think all nations are being infected by neoliberalism, my native land included. I don’t call that capitalism. To my mind the good aspects of capitalism can co-exist with the good aspects of socialism. They did when I was growing up. I don’t see an ‘end’ to that as Professor Wolff does. I see a pendulum swing back as it becomes obvious that what we are experiencing now cannot sustain itself, and should not.

Neoliberalism is indeed capitalism, capitalism in its worst form. It’s a return to the capitalism of the Gilded Age, of Robber Barons. It’s capitalism capturing whatever governing mechanism exists for the benefit of a few.

This is a book I highly recommend, to everybody:

A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey

Sure. Send the link around. Credit EFF.

Finishing the mugs and here is the last one out of the sink:

Top Ten Reasons to Procrastinate:
1.

*snicker*

So glad I went ahead and got that out of the way….. lol!

We May Never Pass This Way Again

Have a good afternoon, pupses :)

Oh, good. I’m starting to have Wolff lecture withdrawal symptoms.

Why *that* sounds exactly like what the PTB are doing in Greece!

*snort*

Well, there’s this series:

Marxian Class Analysis Theory and Practice Online Course

heh heh heh

That’s an interesting comment, and something to consider. What have been the societal benefits of capitalism, if any? We’ve heard an a lot from Wolff about its problems, but not much of what could be used in capitalism.

For one, it’s been a very efficient way to produce a large surplus, nevermind how the surplus has been distributed. I wonder how the size of the surplus compares to other economic systems?

Greetings, firepups. No insightfiul comments. To make.I. ‘m just being thrilleed at being a working person with some autonomy. Mott chainned to desk or even office, generally grated with respect. Even have an electronic gadget now, on whhhich I am writing now.. just checking in.
MY CITY IS BEGINNING IS ANNUALL PARTY, CALLED OF COUURSE fiesta!
Obj heck .caps accidenttal but I gotta go. Forgive Pls? Laters!!

Rats.Can’t ffigure out hope to refresh on this giz
Mo. Hmmmm….

What kind of new device did you get?

Got one o’ them things with a virtual keyboard with keys the size of a pinhead?

One that I think she needs magnifying glasses to use, lol!

((tj)) !!

Oh, this coming from he who is the diametric opposite of new electronic devices *blert*!

Exactamente. Howdja guess? Autocorrect too. As in. DW Barroom, yesterday. I ‘m learning it tho’.

Kindle Fire. Evil Amazon…sigh. Burt affordable, a..d Iipad is still way out of reach. Plus already have 3 books on it too. I ‘m afraid I love it.

Ahhhh, autocorrect. Now *that* is the electronic incarnation of evil.

Sometimes I wonder if I made a mistake going with an iPad instead of a Kindle Fire. For my simple purposes, the Kindle may have been a much better choice.

The semi-Ludite? LOL

I’m firmly in the iPad camp. But it is only an adjunct to my laptop. For my daughter, however, it IS a laptop.

But you can’t touch-type on the iPad virtual keyboard. Real typewriters (and computer keyboards) don’t do anything if you rest a finger on a key while you’re typing. With the iPad, it’s like pressing the key. So I tend to use two fingers to type.

If you haven’t already seen it, check out Damn You Autocorrect. It is geared to iPhones, where the autocorrect makes for some hilarious (and raunchy) text messages, but it’s funny for anyone with a device that has autocorrect.

I lurve DYAC. Sometimes I go there when I’m in a foul mood, and it always cheers me up.

I like almost everything about the iPad (can’t play some videos and it’s a slippery little sucker that wants to leap out of my hands) but since I use the internet and read books on it, a Kindle Fire would have been a much less expensive alternative. Can’t complain, though.

I have a fairly thick padded case, so the iPad looks like a small notepad. I forget how slim and slippery it is because I almost never see it that way.

Mine is an original iPad that I got shortly before the iPad2 came out, and well before Kindle Fire. I like the illuminated screen, although it’s impossible to read in bright sunlight — but you CAN read it in the dark or near dark, which you can’t do with a regular Kindle. And I like the screen size for reading.