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Lairderg

Lairderg
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Yes, that's me, ringing up a little mojo for my Fightin' Phils during the 2008 World Series. I grew up, in 1950s and 60s suburbia, with the heart of a frontierswoman. I grew up a Catholic with the heart of a seeker of the Divine Feminine. I grew up a girl and a woman, when being either "just wasn't good enough," with the heart of a warrior priestess of a warrior goddess. My favorite television shows are (from the mid 90s) Profiler, (from the early 21st Century) Witchblade, and (now) Saving Grace, so you know where my mind still is. I was a journalist before big advertising bullies started owning the media and quit (after a long, loud battle) when I saw what they were doing. I was the oldest, and the most eccentric, of seven children in an Irish American family. I married, divorced, and now have a significant other. I am a "budding" herbalist, a mother of four avians (My poor Keenan died recently.), a guerilla gardener, an adjunct professor of pre-composition college writing, a poet, a fiction writer, a creative non-fiction writer, a feature writer, and now a player and a blogger of women's baseball.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2010 6:37PM

That did it: We lost culture because we feared losing it.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/media/ 

That's it!

I'm done with this bullshit!

We have lost our freedom of speech; we have lost our right to express ourselves just because we need to work. We have lost voices because they are too poor or too loud or hit us in the face with the truth, as in the case of Keith's show. We live in an plutocracy (see http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/11/02-2) now, where individuals no longer matter and our votes are easily submerged into the stinking quagmire of what's important for the corporate interests.

Keith Olbermann was an American citizen with rights that included freedom of speech. Olbermann expressed his freedom of speech by giving the individual maximum contribution allowed to three candidates. Why he did that knowing what is contract said, I do not know. Maybe he is testing the contract's constitutionality. And he would have a right to do so. 

Suspending this man is the height of corporate hypocrisy. I don't care if he signed a contract that said he couldn't contribute to  political campaigns. I believe that contract was unconstitutional. It violated like so many other contracts -- as in those of WalMart and Advanced Auto Parts that forbid the mentioning of unions by employees anywhere on the premises -- the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights. I hope his fellow hosts walk off their sets in protest.

And as for those on the right who are claiming victory in this, a word from Someone in Whom you "believe:" Let those who have not sinned cast the first stone.

Go ahead. Your God's watching.

We have lost a voice of reason, even if only (we can hope) temporarily. We have lost a bit more sanity.

We have, indeed, lost. AGAIN.

"Lean Forward," yeah, right.

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