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(Via The Colbert Nation.)
When the President plays into your show, that’s pull.
For The Slavery\Civil War\Reconstruction Buff In You – Ta-Nehisi Coates:
“I don’t say this to be provocative, but there is no way to get around this–Slavery was big business. The antebellum Southern economy didn’t have slavery as an unfortunate appendage–it was it’s trunk, not a branch. We’re not even talking about the damage done to the slaves themselves. “
(Via Ta-Nehisi Coates.)
Great, great post. Why I read this blog religiously.
The Importance Of Being Politically Correct – Ta-Nehisi Coates:
“Liberal Tolerance is the long war, it’s the long game. It’s Barack Obama, at his core. Liberal tolerance–not Jesse Helms–argued for interracial unions. Liberal tolerance is what allowed Obama to neutralize Rev. Wright, and make his race speech. Liberal tolerance is what allowed him to go to Notre Dame and talk with empathy about abortion. Liberal tolerance bets on the future. It presages that world (the world of today) that the GOP has spent very little time preparing for.
Below is a video of Tom Tancredo claiming that La Raza is the Latino KKK. But Tom Tancredo knows very little about Latinos, La Raza or the KKK. He is the embodiment of conservative ignorance. He is the apex of Schiavo, ‘white hands,’ creationist museums, and, presently, the notion that the thrice-married should carry the banner for marriage.”
(Via Ta-Nehisi Coates.)
Why conservatives and racist keep ending up in the same sentence. (Go to the main article too. The video says it all.)
The Power Of Appointment – Ta-Nehisi Coates:
“More likely, when you have a party, in which people feel comfortable coming to rallies and saying on camera that they won’t vote for a black guy, then that party will have people asserting the right to mispronounce Sotomayor’s name. That party will have people arguing that Sotomayer’s food choices are evil. It’s highly unlikely that that party will have some sort of sophisticated tolerence game at the ready. They are who they are.”
(Via Ta-Nehisi Coates.)
Indeed. You are what you repeatedly do. Damn the “Party of Lincoln” talk.
Jesse Ventura Speaks: Wants Cheney on a Waterboard, Bush Worst President | ChattahBox News Blog:
(Via Chattabox News Blog.)
Jesse body slams. The best question is at the end of the second clip.
Well – Kept From a Dying Partner’s Bedside – NYTimes.com:
“When a loved one is in the hospital, you naturally want to be at the bedside. But what if the staff won’t allow it?
That’s what Janice Langbehn, a social worker in Lacey, Wash., says she experienced when her partner of 18 years, Lisa Pond, collapsed with an aneurysm during a Florida vacation and was taken to a Miami trauma center. She died there, at age 39, as Ms. Langbehn tried in vain to persuade hospital officials to let her visit, along with the couple’s adopted children.
‘I have this deep sense of failure for not being at Lisa’s bedside when she died,’ Ms. Langbehn said. ‘How I get over that I don’t know, or if I ever do.’
The case, now the subject of a federal lawsuit in Florida, is being watched by gay rights groups, which say same-sex partners often report being excluded from a patient’s room because they aren’t ‘real’ family members.”
(Via NY Times.)
This is precisely why I’m for gay civil rights. Despite all the legal documents that should have had the force of law and protected their rights, these couples and no doubt many others were denied basic human treatment. Religious opponents of gay civil rights of course are varied, some honest objectors and others “wolves in sheep’s clothing.” To all of them I say to clothe such hate, such as what we see here, in faith and conscience is unequivocally wrong, no evil. In the words of my Lord:
A Tree and Its Fruit
Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles? In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, no can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus you will know them by their fruits.
This was a great debate. It’s get’s heated in Pt. 2 so be forewarned. I side with Jon on this. “Those who want to trade freedom for security deserve neither.” — Ben Franklin
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M – Th 11p / 10c Intro – Foundation of Democracies
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The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M – Th 11p / 10c Cliff May Unedited Interview Pt. 1
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The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M – Th 11p / 10c Cliff May Unedited Interview Pt. 2
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The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M – Th 11p / 10c Cliff May Unedited Interview Pt. 3
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Great apology for the Truman comment.
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M – Th 11p / 10c Harry Truman Was Not a War Criminal
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Why Are Army Recruiters Killing Themselves? – TIME:
“Last year alone, the number of recruiters who killed themselves was triple the overall Army rate. Like posttraumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, recruiter suicides are a hidden cost of the nation’s wars.”
(Via Time Magazine.)
This is just wrong.
What The Geese Are All Roaring About – Ta-Nehisi Coates:
“It’s true hip-hop has a problem respecting women, but this is a symptom of deeper truth–the music doesn’t respect men. It doesn’t respect that essentially male moment, when standing at the bus stop, when sitting in English class, when in that sales meeting, a dime-piece floats past, and cognition stops. It doesn’t respect the exhilarating terror of being attracted to a woman. To cop to that violates the pimp ethos. One can’t be out of control, and be the player president.”
(Via Ta-Nehisi Coates.)
This is real.
