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. [...]
August 23, 2010
Categories: Doh, Poli-Fi, bullshit, government, history, iraq, middle east, sad, terror, us . Tags: iraq, Disaster, Bush's War, Lie . Author: RoPiNi . Comments: Leave a Comment
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 [...]
August 20, 2010
Categories: Big Business, bullshit, curious, government, history, middle east, myth, religion, stupid, us . Tags: Arms Sales, Conspiracy Theories, Fox "news", Ground Zero Mosque, israel, Military Industrial Complex, News Corp, Newt Gingrich, Nontroversy, Pat Buchanon, riaa, Roger Ebert, U.S. Military Aid . Author: RoPiNi . Comments: Leave a Comment
…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 [...]
August 17, 2010
Categories: Elections 2010, Poli-Fi, cool, government, history, terror, us . Tags: 9/11, George W. Bush, Ground Zero Mosque, Islam, The Worst of Humankind . Author: RoPiNi . Comments: Leave a Comment
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 [...]
August 9, 2010
Categories: Poli-Fi, bullshit, business, government, history, media, stupid, terror, us, war . Tags: Abraham Foxman, ADL, American Family Association, Bigotry, Fareed Zakaria, Feisal Abdul Rauf, Ground Zero Mosque, GZM, Ignorance, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Newt Gingrich . Author: RoPiNi . Comments: Leave a Comment
…. 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 [...]
July 20, 2010
Categories: Immigration, My World, Sci-Non-Fi, china, cool, history, media, nerd . Tags: china, evidence, evolution, evolution in humans . Author: RoPiNi . Comments: Leave a Comment
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 [...]
July 15, 2010
Categories: Poli-Fi, bullshit, government, history, media, religion, sad, terror, us, war . Tags: GOP, Ground Zero Mosque, Hate, The Audacity of Jihad . Author: RoPiNi . Comments: Leave a Comment
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] [...]
July 14, 2010
Categories: Poli-Fi, President 08, bullshit, government, history, us . Tags: fear and loathing, Paranoia, Tea Party, Tea Party Class(less) . Author: RoPiNi . Comments: 1 Comment
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.
May 25, 2010
Categories: Doh, business, government, history, sad, us . Tags: Civial Rights Act, Fox "news", racism, Republicans . Author: RoPiNi . Comments: Leave a Comment
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 [...]
May 22, 2010
Categories: bullshit, government, history, iraq, media, middle east, myth, oil, sad, terror, us, war . Tags: Dick Cheney, Fair Game Movie, Joe Wilson, Karl Rove, Scooter Libby, Sixteen Words, Valeri Plame, Yellowcake . Author: RoPiNi . Comments: Leave a Comment
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 [...]
May 20, 2010
Categories: Doh, My World, curious, government, history, terror, us, war . Tags: Anarchists, Communists, Hutaree Militia, Nazis, Overthrow the Government, Revolutionaries, Sedition, Trials . Author: RoPiNi . Comments: Leave a Comment
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. [...]
May 19, 2010
Categories: My World, Texas, funny, government, history, media, pirate, us . Tags: Alternate History, Alternate Reality, Respectable Negroes, Satire, Tea Party, Tea Party History, Teabagger Reality . Author: RoPiNi . Comments: Leave a Comment
…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 [...]
May 6, 2010
Categories: Big Business, Dallas, Doh, Immigration, Int Poly, My World, Poli-Fi, Sci-Fi, Sci-Non-Fi, Texas, africa, asia, bullshit, business, cool, curious, environment, gaming, government, history, iPhone, internet, latin, media, middle east, money, music, nerd, oil, religion, sad, tech, terror, us, war . Tags: iran, nukes, Fox "news", global warming, science, israel, Republicans, Big Oil, Arizona, Tea Party, Immigration, Illegal Immigration, Arizona Immigration Law, Gulf Oil Spill, Dallas March, Revisionist History, Times Square Bomber, Bobby Jindal, Disaster Relief, Antipope, Charles Stross, Arykah Badu, Michall Mann, Witchhunt, Street Fighter Movie, Gay Anti-Gay Activist, Egypt, Oranisms . Author: RoPiNi . Comments: Leave a Comment