I don't see anything that makes this guy a Communist. His worst sin was signing on to a document that raises the far fetched suspicion that the US government looked the other way as 9/11 happened. Even then, it calls for an investigation rather than making a condemnation. If everyone who subscribes to a paranoid CT is a Communist, then we're a Marxist state right now. I'm not aware of it.
Calling Republicans assholes doesn't make anyone a Communist, nor does comparing Bush to a drug addict. As if even worse terms haven't been used on Democrats! It's just a symptom of the nasty political climate that exists now.
Obama has retained the Secretary of Defense from the Bush administration. He has reappointed Ben Bernanke, a Republican, to the chairmanship of the Federal Reserve. My God, that must make Obama a closet...Republican!!!
Mr. Jones declared himself to be a Communist. No one's words or thoughts, smear or slander. Simply Mr. Jones confession on the matter.
I don't consider myself a truther or a wild conspiracy theorist, but really, is it too much to ask why, fifty minutes after the WTC was hit, Washington D.C. was left completely unprotected? I understand DOD was running war games that day, but damn, our fighters have a range of about 1500 miles an hour.
I agree completely that it's not too much to ask why this happened. Along with a lot of other hard questions about the whole disaster.
But, turf wars, personal rivalries, arrogance, butthole obstinacy, self-delusion, bad organization, and good old incompetence - you know, the usual - should be thoroughly considered before entertaining the concept of malicious conspiratorial motives.
I don't see anything that makes this guy a Communist.
How about his own declaration to that effect? “I met all these young radical people of color – I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, ‘This is what I need to be a part of… I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary…I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th..By August, I was a communist.”
And...? The rest of the story? Plenty of people have moved to the center, or even the right, after their student activist days. David Horowitz is one of the more famous examples.
What's the guy now? Looks like he embraces eco-capitalism.
Here's another of his declarations, from his book, The Green Collar Economy :
"So in the end, our success and survival as a species are largely and directly tied to the new eco-entrepreneurs - and the success and survival of their enterprises. Since almost all of the needed eco-technologies are likely to come from the private sector, civic leaders and voters should do all that can be done to help green business leaders succeed. That means, in large part, electing leaders who will pass bills to aid them. We cannot realistically proceed without a strong alliance between the best of the business world -and everyone else."
We need enterpreneurs - to survive, even Needed technologies will come from the private sector The populace and its leaders should help certain business leaders succeed We need an alliance between the business world and everyone else
If you didn't know the author, you'd think this came from a Chamber of Commerce. And that's probably why the Obama administration hired him.
I don't see anything that makes this guy a Communist. His worst sin was signing on to a document that raises the far fetched suspicion that the US government looked the other way as 9/11 happened. Even then, it calls for an investigation rather than making a condemnation. If everyone who subscribes to a paranoid CT is a Communist, then we're a Marxist state right now. I'm not aware of it.
Calling Republicans assholes doesn't make anyone a Communist, nor does comparing Bush to a drug addict. As if even worse terms haven't been used on Democrats! It's just a symptom of the nasty political climate that exists now.
Obama has retained the Secretary of Defense from the Bush administration. He has reappointed Ben Bernanke, a Republican, to the chairmanship of the Federal Reserve. My God, that must make Obama a closet...Republican!!!
I don't consider myself a truther or a wild conspiracy theorist, but really, is it too much to ask why, fifty minutes after the WTC was hit, Washington D.C. was left completely unprotected? I understand DOD was running war games that day, but damn, our fighters have a range of about 1500 miles an hour.
I don't see anything that makes this guy a Communist.
How about his own declaration to that effect? “I met all these young radical people of color – I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, ‘This is what I need to be a part of… I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary…I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th..By August, I was a communist.”
The Bay Area's Van Jones — the Special Advisor for Green Jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality — just finished apologizing for calling Republicans "a-holes" when he got something else to start explaining: How his signature got on a 2004 petition asking for an immediate "inquiry into evidence that suggests high-level government officials may have deliberately allowed the September 11th attacks to occur." Van said he didn't carefully review the petition before signing it "certainly does not reflect my views now or ever."
Bad sign: When asked if Jones still enjoys the confidence of the President Friday, White House flak Robert Gibbs said "he continues to work in this administration."
I don't see anything that makes this guy a Communist. His worst sin was signing on to a document that raises the far fetched suspicion that the US government looked the other way as 9/11 happened. Even then, it calls for an investigation rather than making a condemnation. If everyone who subscribes to a paranoid CT is a Communist, then we're a Marxist state right now. I'm not aware of it.
Calling Republicans assholes doesn't make anyone a Communist, nor does comparing Bush to a drug addict. As if even worse terms haven't been used on Democrats! It's just a symptom of the nasty political climate that exists now.
Obama has retained the Secretary of Defense from the Bush administration. He has reappointed Ben Bernanke, a Republican, to the chairmanship of the Federal Reserve. My God, that must make Obama a closet...Republican!!!
...b b b but didn't the Communists kill the Czars or Tsars ?
Is this the same thing as when we broke up AT&T ?
AT&T came back ...
Reagan instituted the Czar posts. But he was a brain dead mutha, so we can't really hold him accountable cuz he never spoke or did anything that the little voice in the earbud didn't direct him to say and do. So, yah... you can't be a Commie and a Czar at the same time. So lay off whazzizname, alright already?
Dubya has one of those too! His has a voice which continually sez, "Breathe In... Breathe Out... Breathe In... Breathe Out..."
...b b b but didn't the Communists kill the Czars or Tsars ?
Is this the same thing as when we broke up AT&T ?
AT&T came back ...
Reagan instituted the Czar posts. But he was a brain dead mutha, so we can't really hold him accountable cuz he never spoke or did anything that the little voice in the earbud didn't direct him to say and do. So, yah... you can't be a Commie and a Czar at the same time. So lay off whazzizname, alright already?
Must be the gall bladder flush ... It makes me do things ...
...b b b but didn't the Communists kill the Czars or Tsars ?
Is this the same thing as when we broke up AT&T ?
AT&T came back ...
Reagan instituted the Czar posts. But he was a brain dead mutha, so we can't really hold him accountable cuz he never spoke or did anything that the little voice in the earbud didn't direct him to say and do. So, yah... you can't be a Commie and a Czar at the same time. So lay off whazzizname, alright already?
Hey... if I signed that petition, does that make ME a Commie? Hell no! It just makes me a suspicious sunnuvabitch, thats all. And being suspicious has kept me alive a lo-o-o-ong time! I despise Communists. And Socialists. And Fascists. And Republicans. And Democrats. And Libertarians. And the rightwing nutzoids who are driving the popular culture of the country today. And the leftwing apologists who can't find the way to bring compassion into their ideolgy without seeking to foist the behavior without the sea change. And the Christians who are hate mongering provokers of dissent and discord. Oh yeah, and those Islamofundies too. And ferrunners who think they got a handle on our smoothly greased political machine.
The Bay Area's Van Jones — the Special Advisor for Green Jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality — just finished apologizing for calling Republicans "a-holes" when he got something else to start explaining: How his signature got on a 2004 petition asking for an immediate "inquiry into evidence that suggests high-level government officials may have deliberately allowed the September 11th attacks to occur." Van said he didn't carefully review the petition before signing it "certainly does not reflect my views now or ever."
Bad sign: When asked if Jones still enjoys the confidence of the President Friday, White House flak Robert Gibbs said "he continues to work in this administration."
Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.
They're not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors. CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft of S.773 (excerpt), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.
