Oopsie
Money makes the world go 'round -- but here's 500 bucks that probably weren't worth the trouble.
And speaking of the Hilton, is Fireman Randy (a union man) still giving them a special deal on his duct tape parade crackdown? For shame.
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Comments (4)
Jack, what is a Progressive. Is that what Sam , Randy, Opie and Tom are?.
Posted by meg | March 6, 2008 12:18 PM
Good question. I always thought it was a Liberal who was allergic to the "L" word.
Posted by Harry | March 6, 2008 2:16 PM
So...Dan the Sodium Man is a Regressive?
I'll agree with that.
Posted by godfry | March 6, 2008 2:55 PM
Some googling peregrinations to ...
Summary:
[ SageHistory.NET/progressive/index.html ]
The Progressive Era actually started long before 1900 and continues in many ways to the present time, for American has been in the business of reform from its earliest existence as a nation. ... Had Progressivism for some reason not gotten off the ground, the country could well have seen far more violence and upheaval than actually happened.
Which links HERE: The Progressive Era: The Great Age of Reform, where we discover Jack's reason for being ...
Constitutional amendments: The Progressives succeeding in getting
* the Seventeenth Amendment
* the Nineteenth Amendment
* The Income Tax, the Sixteenth Amendment
* the Eighteenth Amendment
For totally autre terrain, in searching 'progressive,' 'populist,' 'granger,' and 'gilded age,' as a synonymous set, my favorite, (taking you where you never been before): LA REVUE GAUCHE - Left Analysis And Comment, Eugene Plawiuk.
The farmers movement in Western Canada influenced politics in Canada both left and right for the past ninty years and still is.
When it is used by the right wing such as the Reform party, it is used as an attack on state monopolies. When used by Social Credit it was the monopoly of the banks. When used by the left such as the CCF it was an attack on monopoly captialism and its state.
Posted by Tenskwatawa | March 6, 2008 8:47 PM