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They’re ineligible because they haven’t been paying in Social Security payroll taxes all this time (it’s an opt-in system for state and local government employees). Anyway, I feel bad for the firefighters. Their jobs should not be monopolized by the city government, but they perform a useful service for people who want it. But as far as I’m concerned, if every member of Detroit PD gets a dirty nickel and a punch in the nose for their retirement, that’s a nickel more than they’ve earned.

is transcribing Miriam Daniell labor poems from the pages of LIBERTY. http://margins.fair-use.org/note/Miriam_Daniell

I’m selling anarchist booklets and buttons with Alliance of Libertarian Left Distro at Southside Market in Auburn (Gay St in front of Mama Mocha’s / Gnu’s Room) from now till about 12 noon. Come on by!

To-day @ Rad Geek People’s Daily [radgeek.com]: http://radgeek.com/gt/2013/08/09/1102-am/ 11:02 A.M.

http://www.exploratorium.edu/nagasaki/ Photography by Yosuke Yamahata http://radgeek.com/gt/2006/08/09/Oppenheimer.mp3 “Oppenheimer,” by Jocelyn Pook (1997)

Dr. Q. of CopBlock posts a note about my post on Hiroshima last night. Gets the following reply from one of the readers: KEN CHAMP: “Sorry that was retaliation, not terrorism” Seriously, what the fuck is this even supposed to mean, other than, “I approve of it; therefore, it must not be terrorism”? Back in empirical reality, how many acts of terrorism have there ever been in the entire history of the world that *weren’t* explicitly carried out in retaliation for an earlier attack or policy? Often one directly named in public communiques by the terrorists?

To-day @ Rad Geek People’s Daily [radgeek.com]: http://radgeek.com/gt/2013/08/08/by-the-book/ “By the book”

“Mais ia por diante o monstro horrendo Dizendo nossos fados, quando alçado Lhe disse eu: Quem és tu? que esse estupendo Corpo, certo, me tem maravilhado! A boca e os olhos negros retorcendo, E dando um espantoso e grande brado, Me respondeu, com voz pesada e amara, Como quem da pergunta lhe pesara: “Eu sou aquele oculto e grande Cabo, A quem chamais vós outros Tormentório, Que nunca a Ptolomeu, Pompónio, Estrabo, Plínio, e quantos passaram, fui notório. Aqui toda a Africana costa acabo Neste meu nunca visto promontório, Que para o Pólo Antárctico se estende, A quem vossa ousadia tanto ofende. “Fui dos filhos aspérrimos da Terra, Qual Encélado, Egeu e o Centimano; Chamei-me Adamastor, e fui na guerra Contra o que vibra os raios de Vulcano. Não que pusesse serra sobre serra, Mas conquistando as ondas do Oceano. Fui capitão do mar, por onde andava A armada de Neptuno que eu buscava. . . .” (Os Lusíadas, Canto V)

FYI if you read this and you come away thinking something like “Well, I don’t agree with everywhere you’ve gone with this, but I see the concerns you’re trying to raise here, let’s talk about whether there’s anything we can do to deal with them better,” then you may be part of the solution. If you read it and you come away thinking, “Good riddance! Statist!” or “Kill the apostate!” or similar, then you are probably part of the problem.

iRad #3 now on the shelves at Firestorm Cafe and Books