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Deeg

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About Me



"Senator, when you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. You did not place your hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible."

Capitalism = Freedom "The Freedom to spend our money on products made by other oppressed people who were not fairly compensated for their labor" The Foundation Movement



My Interests

Family, Philosophy, Sailing, Punk music, Great Books, Political Theory, Iconoclasm, Political History, Goth Art/Photography, Body Art, Performance Art, Drag Queens, rollergirls, Spontaneous Art, and my Children's Education

I'd like to meet:



Iconoclasts, punks, goths, freaks, deviants, and other political irritants.

Music:

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. -- Plato

Movies:

Can you say "product placement?" I knew you could.

Television:

The Box is a tool of Corporate deceit.

Books:

Plato: Timaeus, Republic, Charmides, Symposium, Protagoras, Parmenides, Theatetus; Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals and Perpetual Peace; Camus' L'Etranger; Marcuse's Reason and Revolution, Eros and Civilization, and One-Dimensional Man; Hume's Enquiries into Human Understanding; Aristotle's Poetics, De Anima; Nicomachean Ethics, and Politics; Freud's Civilization and its Discontents; Wiredu: Philosophy and an African Culture, and Cultural Universals and Particulars

Heroes:

Kwasi Wiredu

Mary Wollstonecraft

Plato

Socrates

My Blog

The Economic Consequences of Mr. Bush

The next president will have to deal with yet another crippling legacy of George W. Bush: the economy. A Nobel laureate, Joseph E. Stiglitz, sees a generation-long struggle to recoup. byJoseph E. Stig...
Posted by Deeg on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 06:08:00 PST

Stunned by Lack of Outrage, Not Outrageous Acts

Published on Monday, November 26, 2007 by The Times Herald-Record (New York) by Beth QuinnI continue to be stunned.Not by Bush any longer. There was a time when I was stunned by nearly everything he d...
Posted by Deeg on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:54:00 PST

Plight of the Huddled Masses: A Hard Time for Thanksgiving

Published on Thursday, November 22, 2007 by The Independent/UK by Leonard DoyleGertrude Winter, a char lady in her sixties who works at a government office, will have a turkey after all this Thanksgiv...
Posted by Deeg on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:55:00 PST

So you think capitalism works? Just ask 35 million Americans.

Over 35.5 million found hungry in 2006Report: More Than 35.5 Million People Hungry in 2006, Virtually Unchanged From Previous YearHOPE YENAP NewsNov 14, 2007 17:31 ESTMore than 35.5 million people in ...
Posted by Deeg on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:50:00 PST

Why you should have listened in World History 101

Democrat says 'king' Bush no longer honors right that dates to Middle Ages11/09/2007 @ 8:24 amFiled by Mike Aivaz and Nick Juliano Newly confirmed Attorney General Michael Mukasey will not rein in Pre...
Posted by Deeg on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:07:00 PST

So you still believe in free-market healthcare?

Report: Bonuses paid for dropping sick patients11/09/2007 @ 10:46 amFiled by David Edwards and Nick Juliano A health insurance company serving customers in a half-dozen states set out to drop hundreds...
Posted by Deeg on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:05:00 PST

Norman Mailer, There will be few like him

Published on Saturday, November 10, 2007 by The Nation Norman Mailer Brawled With Bush to the Bitter Endby John NicholsThere is much, much to be said of Norman Mailer, the Pulitzer-prize winning autho...
Posted by Deeg on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:03:00 PST

The Lie of Global Economic Progress

Income inequality worst since 1920s, according to IRS data10/12/2007 @ 9:08 amFiled by Nick JulianoHalf of US senators are millionairesThe superrich are gobbling up an ever larger piece of the economi...
Posted by Deeg on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:34:00 PST

Who Owns Adam Smith?

Published on Sunday, September 23, 2007 by The Charleston Gazette (West Virginia)by Rick WilsonAdam Smith is widely regarded as the patron saint of capitalism. His 1776 book, An Inquiry into the Natur...
Posted by Deeg on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 05:00:00 PST

Fascist America, in 10 easy steps

From Hitler to Pinochet and beyond, history shows there are certain steps that any would-be dictator must take to destroy constitutional freedoms. And, argues Naomi Wolf, George Bush and his administr...
Posted by Deeg on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 07:23:00 PST