http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/147928 – According to the U.S. Census of 2000, 80 percent of the 285 million people living in the United States are urban dwellers. Those living in slums are well below 5 percent. If we translate the Iraqi statistic into the U.S. context, 121 million people in the United States would be living in slums. [...]
Link Dump….
Working…can’t write…dumping link… – This is why they should. (I got sick of this nontroversy a couple days ago) – When Pat Buchanan calls your Nazi analogy over the edge, it is. – Read the comments to see why I call them nutjobs. (note the comment and reactions to the comment that explains this away [...]
How Crazy Have We Become When…
…George W. Bush comes across as a voice of reason (or when viewed through the skewed prism of Election 2010, a terrorist sympathizer). Thank you all very much for your hospitality. We’ve just had a wide-ranging discussion on the matter at hand. Like the good folks standing with me, the American people were appalled and [...]
Desktop clearing link dump re: Ground Zero Mosque
Well I’ve got some bad new for y’all. Looks like I’m backing to selling my skills on the open market, which means *much* less posting (if history is any indication). That being said, here’s the stuff that I found interesting lately and some quick blurbs and all that. You know the drill. First up is [...]
The Latest Bit of Evidence To Be Dismissed by 40% of the American populace….
…. Scientists from the Beijing Genomics Institute last month discovered another striking instance of human genetic change. Among Tibetans, they found, a set of genes evolved to cope with low oxygen levels as recently as 3,000 years ago. This, if confirmed, would be the most recent known instance of human evolution. [full story] The difficulty [...]
Stay Classy, GOP
The level of absurdity on this one just went to 110 (out of 10). Here’s the backstory (a bit of it anyway). And here’s the ad from a political group that invaded and destroyed a country because it had the same religion as “them”. You really can see “their” thought process on Iraq in this [...]
Stay Classy, Tea Party
The message of a controversial billboard in Mason City comparing President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin probably got lost in its visuals, a co-founder of the tea party group that paid for the sign said Tuesday. He said the underlying message remained: The country is headed in the wrong direction. [full story] [...]
72% of Fox Viewers Reject Civil Rights Act
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/36420_SC_GOP_Voters-_15_Oppose_Civil_Rights_Act_27_Not_Sure_-_Update-_72_of_Fox_Viewers_Reject_CRA This doesn’t surprise me, although it does sadden me a tad.
A beautiful blonde, the CIA and America’s lies about Iraq
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article7132341.ece I hope that film can add its unique qualities to the journalistic record on this set of events, so that Americans can truly understand one of the most important, dramatic and personally intense intersections of principle and personalities in their own recent history — a history that is not behind us but that still [...]
Odds are, the Hutaree Militia gets off
I was surprised to learn this… As I describe it in my book, Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream (pp. 144 – 171), the federal government has never won a sedition case against militia-types, white supremacists, or neo-Nazis. Since World War One, they have won [...]
The History of the United States (Tea Party Version)
I was luckly enough to find this bit of sage wisdom from some respectable negroes (not the other kind). You can read the full thing here. Some real gems there. I never knew our history was so proud. 1660-1800–Triangular Atlantic trade continues to bring wealth and prosperity to America while giving opportunities to new immigrants. [...]
Clearing off the desktop…
…sometimes I fall behind. So to catch up, I just dump a lot of stuff with short commentary and reboot the browsers so my computer can think again. Here goes… First up is an acknowledgement of the change to Arizona law. This took away the worst of it, but I’d expect the rest to be [...]
