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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Wrenching Choices on Guantanamo (see sig)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/20/AR2008112003005.html
Al Qaeda Detainees and Congress's Duty
Habeas corpus hearings could set terrorists free inside the U.S.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122722814865546291.html
NYT Editorial: "Enough": A court's ruling exposes the travesty of holding 'enemy combatants' on flimsy -- or nonexistent -- evidence.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/20/AR2008112003356.html
If it turns out he uses the master's tools to take apart the master's house (in which he lives), he will have to be (and will have had to have been) extremely crafty.
Trolling with a few balloon words--
The conservative's fear was the liberal's hope--Guerrillas In The Mist.
Or said another way...
Did you bet on his white half or his black half?
Another way still...
Does Obama have more reason not to rock the boat because he is "black." Or did we vote for a "black" man because we assumed he would rock the boat?
Same old bullshit. Just a question of product/market positioning.
I apologize for rubbing you the wrong way, though it was a risk I took with my eyes open.
Never apologize for making people think. Especially me;)
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omooex,
And those seeking to extricate themselves from its more nefarious effects, would do better acknowledging its political reality, rather than pleading for the world to don color-blind sunglasses.
I agree completely. I don't want a world of grey--I just want a little less red.
I will add that racial atheists might change more minds if they stopped going to church so often.
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Hay for the Horses.
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He had driven half the night from far down San Joaquin through Mariposa, up the Dangerous Mountain roads,and pulled in at eight a.m. with his big truckload of hay behind the barn.
With winch and ropes and hooks we stacked the bales up clean to splintery redwood rafters high in the dark, flecks of alfalfa whirling through shingle-cracks of light, itch of hay dust in the sweaty shirt and shoes.
At lunchtime under Black oak out in the hot corral,
-- The old mare nosing lunchpail, Grasshoppers crackling in the weeds--
"I'm sixty-eight" he said, "I first bucked hat when I was seventeen.
I thought that day, I started, I sure would hate to do this all my life.
And dammit, that's just what I've gone and done." -Gary Snyder.
"Jebbie may gobbles-up Mona's leg stockings?"-- GoodCelery!
Speak thee not of incest.
She said she doesn't wear fishnets anyway.
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Hopes there is no typo of the 'Word' porch or pee. Oy!
The day comes when bleak darkness seems to prevail.
Go into the night. Then brightest, a light will embrace.
Well, I'm late. I's saddle my cranky mule. She's hungry.
I'm wearing pitch black goggles. I hope I fine my YKW?
Glenn sends ya' to the barn if you type: penis or porch.
The day comes when bleak darkness seems to prevail. Go into the night. Then brightest, a light will embrace.
That's lovely.
Much love to you, my friend.
It's been nearly 10 hours and you still haven't told me how I can get my "Free BebopO" bumper sticker!
"It's been nearly 10 hours and you still haven't told me how I can get my "Free BebopO" bumper sticker!"-- ethics_professor
Free?
I guess the trick is to find a network that will actually let you say/define torture, and who is practicing it, domestically.Why does Sisyphus come to mind?
No kidding, and I'm beginning to wonder if Olbermann and Maddow would actually have the courage to cover something like this the way it should be covered. My guess is they don't, and they won't. Anything which exposes the management of mass media for what they really are, even in passing, is accidental at best, and verboten at worst.
It is tiring trying to maintain hope that these things will be handled appropriately. *Sigh* I guess it's off to the garage to do a "rattle can restoration" on my new 1977 Ford LTD battle wagon.
So who is Obama's John Yoo? And Addington, Feith, Cheney, Wolfowitz, while you're about it. But maybe you have too much of a headache to answer.
Does Obama have more reason not to rock the boat because he is "black." Or did we vote for a "black" man because we assumed he would rock the boat?
Why not both?
I'm not saying we've been fooled. But we must examine our (and others') assumptions.
but it's a good quote (from David Sirota):
This is the usual post-election nonsense from the Braindead Megaphone, as author George Saunders famously calls our political and media noise machine. When George W. Bush wins by 3 million votes, the megaphone blares announcements about a conservative mandate that Democrats must respect. When Obama wins by twice as much, the same megaphone roars about Democrats having no mandate to do anything other than appease conservatives.
Ah, what a center-right nation we have.
Here's one final update before I hand the ToD over to you.
Good luck.
link at sig
But we must examine our (and others') assumptions.
I agree with that.
We seem to be in a place of racial nihilism*. When pressed, very few people will actually stand up and say that they believe in the concept of race as it is articulated today, but very few are willing to incorporate that idea into their behavior and philosophy.
With race as religion, we seem to be a country where a large part of the atheists still go to church and speak as if god existed. I am trying to figure out who we don't want to upset.
I often use religion as a metaphor for race because I am fascinated with the idea of both religious and racial nihilism. I am somewhat sympathetic to the idea that sometimes you go to church on christmas when you visit your grandma and bite your tongue. It's christmas--does my grandma really need me to interrupt the dinner prayer with a speech on the FSM?
But when it comes to race--I am still trying to figure out who we don't want to upset. There seems to be the unspoken belief that if race isn't real then slavery was extra bad. If we say race isn't real then "black" people will really be pissed.
I am still trying to figure out who we don't want to upset.
How in the world we came up with a way to categorize humans based upon the assumption that different "races" either couldn't or wouldn't have sex with each other--is beyond me. How do we continue to keep a straight face with this absurdity?
We are country biting our tongue over christmas dinner. I am still trying to figure out who we don't want to upset.
*I am roughly stealing Nietzsche's definition of nihilism: To continue behaviors and beliefs once you have destroyed the underlying foundation for those behaviors and beliefs.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
