Archive for October 3rd, 2004


Big news in drunk driving laws

People can be arrested for driving drunk on frozen lakes, a Wisconsin state appeals court has ruled.


However


A Pennsylvania Court rules riding a horse while drunk is NOT a crime.


And in an exciting related story



New Yorkers dreading jury duty take note: it’s OK to be drunk on booze or high on pot or cocaine while doing your civic duty.

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What goes around, comes around


“… Even where there is no prospect of achieving their election the workers must put up their own candidates to preserve their independence, to gauge their own strength and to bring their revolutionary position and party standpoint to public attention.


They must not be led astray by the empty phrases of the democrats, who will maintain that the workers’ candidates will split the democratic party and offer the forces of reaction the chance of victory.


Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. Address Of The Central Authority To The (Communist) League, March 1850


If Karl Marx were alive to comment on the 2004 elections, I doubt he would change a single word of his comment of 154 years ago, except perhaps to capitalize the ‘d’.  Indeed this election more than any other in recent memory exposes the empty, self-serving rhetoric of those alleged progressives who have formulated the latest cry of “lesser evil.”


From  Election 2004: The ‘Left’ and the Democratic Party, No Dilemma for Socialists by Kevin Bishop, of the California Peace and Freedom Party.

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Rally in support of striking hotel workers, L.A

Please join us for a spirited demonstration in support of San Francisco hotel workers and to demand a good contract for hotel workers in Los Angeles.


Date:  Tuesday, Oct 5, arrive between 4 and 5
Place: Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown L.A. 7th and Hope
What:  Demonstration of workers and community


For more information call 213-486-9880 ext 111


Take the Metro Red line subway to 7th St/Metro Center. Exit on Hope.


Civil disobedience is expected.

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