150 years ago SC was home to the opening of the Civil War, The War between the States, or the War of Northern Aggression however you choose to call it. The bloodiest time in our country and a war that still divides us both racially and politically.

It occurs to me that the Tea Party is very much like the Confederates. Lots of rich white "Plantation" owners (Donald Trump, Glenn Beck for example) who rile up the poor and uneducated to go out and fight for some "cause".

The cause often turns out to be a shiny object
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23 comments (Latest Comment: 04/25/2011 01:48:16 by livingonli)

It looks like the Ustream Chat may still be acting squirrely, so I am opening up a back up blog for the crew to come and Chat. If this is your foirst time here, Enjoy the bells and whistles. You can curse here too.

You can Still watch and listen to the show at Turn Up The Night with Kenny Pick

Enjoy, either here or there!



and
Raine
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91 comments (Latest Comment: 04/23/2011 02:19:59 by kennypick)

As many of you know by now, I often listen to WTOP, a news radio station here in the area. It isn't a talk radio station, so I find it to be refreshing when I just want to listen to news. They do however have a few spots on different days to provide commentary and analysis from, as they put it "All Sides" meaning left and right, conservative and liberal. For the most part, it is winger-free. Yesterday, however, one commentator I heard just really rubbed me the wrong way. It was from Chris Core, who I have come to respect, despite his conservative leanings. His commentary is in a segment called Core Values. Please take a minute to listen to his segment from yesterday.
Click here for the MP3 It's 1:07 in time, and it's important to what I am going to say today.

Yes you heard that right. He is ashamed that 78% of Americans want to see the rich taxed more, because as he seems to think, no one wants to participate in Shared Sacrifice. Well I have news for Mr. Core, at LEAST 78% of Americans are the very people who are sacrificing while people like Donald Trump and the uber wealthy are sacrificing nothing at all.
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87 comments (Latest Comment: 04/22/2011 02:48:40 by Raine)

Good Morning.

Today is our 2,953rd day in Iraq and our 3,481st day in Afghanistan.

We'll start this morning as we always do; with the latest casualty figures from our ongoing wars, courtesy of Antiwar.com:

American Deaths
Since war began (3/19/03): 4447
Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03): 4308
Since Handover (6/29/04): 358
Since Obama Inauguration (1/20/09): 219
Since Operation New Dawn: 29

Other Coalition Troops - Iraq: 318
US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,533
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 875
Contractor Employee Deaths - Iraq: 1,487
Journalists - Iraq : 348
Academics Killed - Iraq: 448


We find this morning's cost of war passing through:

$ 1, 182, 285, 650, 000. 00
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80 comments (Latest Comment: 04/19/2011 21:17:14 by Raine)

Good Morning!

It's Patriot's Day Weekend in Massachusetts. We've got the Marathon and the only morning start in the major leagues coming up on Monday. In what's become a wee tradition around these parts, we'll join some of the men that were there that day for their reports on what happened the morning the "shot was heard 'round the world".
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6 comments (Latest Comment: 04/16/2011 23:11:53 by trojanrabbit)