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Website

http://sleepinjeezus.posterous.com/

Favorite Quotes

"Is this a private fight, or can anyone join?" - Old Irish Saying

"We Can Be Together" - Jefferson Airplane

"Misery's the river of the world - everybody row!" - Tom Waits

"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." - Jonathan Swift

“If a man is not an oligarch, something is not right with him. Everyone had the same starting conditions, everyone could have done it.” - Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russian Tycoon, now in prison.

"I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half." - Jay Gould, 19th Century Industrialist

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." - John Steinbeck

Biography

I slept with the lions
and Marilyn Monroe
had breakfast in the eye
of a hurricane

fought Rocky Marciano,
played Minnesota Fats
burned hundred-dollar bills,
I've eaten Mulligan stew

got drunk with Louis Armstrong
what's that old song?
I taught Mickey Mantle
everything that he knows
-Tom Waits "Jitterbug Boy"

Location:
Somewhere in Wisconsin, at the junction of Principles and Opinion

Politics:
Progressive Liberal Socialist - Studs Terkel; Clarence Darrow; Bob LaFollette; Frank Zeidler; Eugene Debs; Joe Hill; Saul Alinsky; FDR New Deal; Henry Wallace; James Groppi; Catonsville 9; Harold Washington; Tip O'Neill; Ann Richards; Molly Ivins; Mahatma Ghandi; Mother Jones; Chalmers Johnson; Ed Garvey; Michael Moore

Favorite Books:
"The Jungle" - Upton Sinclair
"The Grapes of Wrath" - John Steinbeck
"Reveille for Radicals" - Saul Alinsky
"Clarence Darrow for the Defense" - Irving Stone
"Ironweed" - William Kennedy
"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" - Carson McCullers
"The Glass Menagerie" - Tennessee Williams
"The Last Lion" trilogy (unfinished) - William Manchester
"Moby Dick" - Herman Melville
"Great Expectations" - Charles Dickens
"A River Runs Through It" - Norman MacLean
"The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany" - Willliam L. Shirer
"Trout Fishing in America" / "Revenge of the Lawn" - Richard Brautigan
"TRUCK" / "COOP" - Michael Perry
"A Confederacy of Dunces" - John Kennedy O'Toole
"Wisconsin Death Trip" - Michael Lesy
"Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage" - Alfred Lansing

For DickDay and the Others, the Party Continues!

By SleepinJeezus on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 11:49am |

I guess I missed the party. And I can only imagine the aftermath. Dick slowly awakening to find he slept face-down on the keyboard, the ashtray full of half smoked cigarettes laying amidst a crumpled wrapper from a package...

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"A Republic, If You Can Keep it"

By SleepinJeezus on Sun, 04/19/2009 - 12:26pm |

It is troubling to see many among us who are willing to cut President Obama too much slack on the issue of human rights violations and his responsibility to "...preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States." The...

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What Liberal Media?

By SleepinJeezus on Sat, 03/21/2009 - 2:07pm |

We continually hear about the "librul media." And we hear this expressed as a complaint against our mainstream media which is regularly made by conservatives appearing on mainstream media outlets in higher proportions than their more liberal counterparts.It doesn't take...

REMEMBER WHEN? Accountability in Financial Markets

By SleepinJeezus on Thu, 03/12/2009 - 9:27pm |

In honor of Bernie Madoff and Jim Cramer, I thought I would reprise the following which was previously published in this blog on TPM: In a photo taken during the pre-Reagan era when banking activities were closely monitored and regulated,...

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Ma Joad & The Collapse of the Consumer Culture

By SleepinJeezus on Fri, 02/06/2009 - 4:10am |

(With thanks to stillidealistic, who prompted the following "lengthy wandering" by asking a most important question: "What can we little guys do to be a part of the solution to today's economic crisis?")*****************************************What do we do to address the failure...

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Groundhog Cheney Rears Its Ugly Head

By SleepinJeezus on Wed, 02/04/2009 - 3:08pm |

The "still President" Dick Cheney addressed a kindergarten class on Monday, February 2nd after emerging from his undisclosed location. In his prepared comments, he forecast six more weeks of winter. He is seen here responding to a question from one...

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From the Archive: Remember When Banking Industry Was Regulated?

By SleepinJeezus on Mon, 01/26/2009 - 1:29pm |

In a photo taken during the pre-Reagan era when banking activities were closely monitored and regulated, we see Banking Industry mogul Jesse James auditing accounts receivable in his inbox under the watchful eyes of the regulators....

Paulson, Geithner & Friends "Gang Up" On Economy

By SleepinJeezus on Sun, 01/25/2009 - 5:35pm |

I could hardly believe what I was hearing when this financial crisis first broke. Our Treasury Secretary issued a quick response, offering a three-page solution that required immediate application to be successful. Among its points: He needed to have singular...

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"May Posterity Forget That Ye Were Our Countrymen"

By SleepinJeezus on Wed, 01/21/2009 - 2:36pm |

Posted below are a few indications of where the founders and other wise ancestors would be aligned in the question about pursuing Justice for alleged perpetrators of crimes against humanity and violations of our Bill of Rights. It is difficult...

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"You, too, can be a success on Wall Street!"

By SleepinJeezus on Fri, 01/16/2009 - 7:59pm |

Click below to learn about a guaranteed path to wealth and fortune designed specifically for the ethically impaired. Enjoy! ...

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The "Human Resource" is not an Expendable Commodity

By SleepinJeezus on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 7:22pm |

Henry Ford was obsessed with improving the assembly line and standardizing his product as the means to gain efficiencies and cost savings. All inputs to production were carefully studied to ensure that they were acquired at the lowest cost which was then reflected in the lower sale price of the cars he manufactured.

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Barney Fife Offers Extraordinary Rendition?

By SleepinJeezus on Mon, 12/29/2008 - 9:35am |

"How can anyone be sure this guy actually worked for the CIA as a clandestine operative?"

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CLASS WAR: "We Ain't Your Human Resource!"

By SleepinJeezus on Fri, 12/26/2008 - 3:53pm |

"Let the wealthy corporations and the 'ownership' class know that we are not their 'human resource.' We are not simply another commodity - like steel, or utilities, or raw materials - to be bought cheap, used up, discarded and replaced."

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"Just Joshing, I Hope?"

By SleepinJeezus on Sun, 12/21/2008 - 11:07am |

From Josh Marshall on TPM: The Fed has set up something called the TALF, the Term Asset-backed Securities Loan Facility, which will offer "low-cost three-year funding to any US company investing in securitized consumer loans" including hedge funds. Says the...

CLASS WAR: Bailout Questions From The Worker's Perspective

By SleepinJeezus on Sat, 12/20/2008 - 7:47am |

"Why should we not compel the other automakers to pay a UAW wage rather than compel UAW members to take a major reduction?"

Warren-style "Ecumenism" Undermines 1st Amendment

By SleepinJeezus on Fri, 12/19/2008 - 4:31am |

"To now offer (Warren) the honor of representing all God's People in prayer at this Inauguration... is to legitimize his confounding of Religion and Government."

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Bush Solely Dodges Yet One More Issue In Legacy Promotion

By SleepinJeezus on Tue, 12/16/2008 - 9:38am |

On the eve of President Bush's recent surprise visit to Iraq, Charles Gibson of ABC News introduced a segment including an interview with Bush by saying the following: "Much has been made of his historically low approval ratings, but Mr. Bush...

CLASS WAR: "Say, Don't You Remember? You Called Me Al!"

By SleepinJeezus on Sun, 12/14/2008 - 5:56pm |

CLASS WAR: Third Installment GOP Senators have all but declared outright that they will withhold any help in curing the overall economic slowdown unless they can first break the Autoworkers Union (UAW). In so doing, they have painted a picture of who are to...

CLASS WAR: "Reaganomics? First, Bust the Unions!"

By SleepinJeezus on Sun, 12/14/2008 - 5:08pm |

"Ronald Reagan had shown the way (to gain dominion over the working class) in 1980 when he refused to negotiate with the Air Traffic Controllers and instead simply replaced them with cheaper labor."

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CLASS WAR: "Whose Economy Is It, Anyway?"

By SleepinJeezus on Sun, 12/14/2008 - 3:01am |

"At what point did economic Darwinism within the proletariat become a fundamental principle in our economy?"

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