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kpete's JournalOops!---Yup, that's a Charles Koch editorial illustrated ... by the Daily Kos flag guy.
THU APR 03, 2014 AT 09:24 AM PDT
What's that pretty orange icon with your editorial, Charles Koch?
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another pic:
Yup, that's a Charles Koch editorial illustrated ... by the Daily Kos flag guy. Oops!
To be clear, the use is legal. That image is royalty-free clip art available at many clip art sites. It's what I chose to originally illustrate the site. Eventually, I tracked down the artist and had her do a horizontal version for me, and I bought full and exclusive rights to it ($5,000, at a time when I didn't have $5,000, so credit card advance!). But this little square one remains a royalty-free image to this day.
So the use may be legal, but it's still ironic as all hell. Particularly when it illustrates such Orwellian concepts Koch is all about like "free and open debate:"
Instead of encouraging free and open debate, collectivists strive to discredit and intimidate opponents. They engage in character assassination. (I should know, as the almost daily target of their attacks.) This is the approach that Arthur Schopenhauer described in the 19th century, that Saul Alinsky famously advocated in the 20th, and that so many despots have infamously practiced. Such tactics are the antithesis of what is required for a free society—and a telltale sign that the collectivists do not have good answers.
.........it's not his speech that anyone cares about. It's the hundreds of millions he's spending to try and buy what real democracy won't deliver.
Still, cool logo, dude!
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/03/1289381/-What-s-that-pretty-orange-icon-with-your-editorial-Charles-Koch
The original artwork upon which the Daily Kos logo and branding is based. This was created by Lisa Zador...and was commissioned by Markos for his 2004 redesign of Daily Kos.
John Robert's Work Not Done YET - Lays The Groundwork To Wipe Out Campaign Finance Limits
John Roberts Lays The Groundwork To Wipe Out Campaign Finance Limits
Not only did the Supreme Court deliver a major blow Wednesday to campaign finance restrictions, it may have laid the groundwork to dismantle what's left of campaign contribution limits, legal experts say.
The controlling opinion in McCutcheon v. FEC, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, eliminated "aggregate" limits on a person's contribution to candidates and political committees in an election cycle. It left untouched restrictions on how much money someone can give to a single candidate or committee -- but Roberts' reasoning signals that those may be in trouble, too.
"By requiring that any campaign finance laws be deemed necessary to prevent quid pro quo corruption, akin to bribery, many more campaign laws could fall in the near future, including those base $2,600 limits," wrote Rick Hasen, an election law expert at UC Irvine. "While Roberts goes out of his way to say that those base limits were not challenged today, he does not do anything to affirm that those limits are safe."
the rest:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/john-roberts-campaign-finance-limits
Clinton Hopes That If There's An Alien Invasion, It Will At Least Unite The World
Clinton Hopes That If There's An Alien Invasion, It Will At Least Unite The World (VIDEO)
Former President Bill Clinton on Wednesday night said he "wouldn't be surprised" if extraterrestrial life existed in the universe. "First, I had people go look at the records on Area 51 to make sure there was no alien down there," Clinton said while discussing Area 51 on "Jimmy Kimmel Live." “But there are no aliens there. So then I, when the Roswell thing came up, I knew we’d get gazillions of letters. So I had all the Roswell papers reviewed, everything." Read More ?...
read more plus video:
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/202534-bill-clinton-we-may-not-be-alone#
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bill-clinton-aliens-jimmy-kimmel
Eric Cantor: No minimum wage increase because Obamacare (tearing my hair out, 3-2-1...)
THE CRI DE KOCH - By Charles P. Pierce
George Orwell.
THE CRI DE KOCH
By Charles P. Pierce on April 3, 2014
Somebody's feeling picked upon.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303978304579475860515021286
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And I am sure that the millions that the Kochs are pouring into local races for state legislatures around the country -- including, most recently, into the fight against a mass transit project in Nashville -- are simply an expression of their interest in good government, and not about "political favors" for their interests, and that there is no quo they expect for their quid. John Roberts taught me that yesterday.
Instead of fostering a system that enables people to help themselves, America is now saddled with a system that destroys value, raises costs, hinders innovation and relegates millions of citizens to a life of poverty, dependency and hopelessness. This is what happens when elected officials believe that people's lives are better run by politicians and regulators than by the people themselves. Those in power fail to see that more government means less liberty, and liberty is the essence of what it means to be American. Love of liberty is the American ideal.
Says the gentleman who's poured more millions into voter-suppression efforts all over the country. Again, all done out of altruism and in the name of saving America from the tyranny of clean air and insurance-friendly health-care reform. If I'm Harry Reid, I keep pounding on these guys. The public butthurt is getting quite entertaining.
so much more:
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/charles-koch-op-ed-040314
KRUGMAN: The Fifth Freedom
The Fifth Freedom
APRIL 3, 2014, 10:42 AM
Never mind freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, freedom from fear. What America’s embattled billionaires are demanding, as their birthright (and I mean that pretty much literally), is something much more important: freedom from criticism. Making a desperate stand in the maquis the Wall Street Journal, heroic, oppressed men like Tom Perkins and now Charles Koch have been telling it like it is: anyone who says anything negative about them is just like the Nazis, or maybe Stalin.
OK, to be fair, Koch didn’t explicitly say that his critics are like Hitler or Stalin. Here’s what he said:
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And yes, character assassination is the mark of collectivism. You would never, ever, see the Wall Street Journal doing that; and liberals are absolutely never subjected to personal attack from the right. Oh, wait.
But freedom from criticism isn’t meant to be a universal right. It’s for the job creators. You might call it the droit du seigneur.
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the rest:
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/03/the-fifth-freedom/?_php=true&_type=blogs&module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Opinion&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs®ion=Body&_r=0
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