Warning: This is not a book about a politician. This is not a book about military policy. This is a book about a son, a veteran, a neighbor, a friend who faces his demons, failures and regrets. This is about a person who shows his true courage in repair his shattered life more than any person should endure. This is a book that if you are human will tug at your heartstrings.
WTF is "reverse racism"? This is the mode of attack right wing republican neocons under the leadership of Rush Limpballs and Newt Gringrich, are using to bash President Barack Obama, the first African American President of the United States, and Sonya Sotomayer, the first Hispanic woman nominated to the United States Supreme Court. Evidently, I'm not the only one asking the question. Check out these definitions from the Urban Dictionary. This is my favorite;
I'm going out on a limb here people, but bear with me... Reverse racism, in actuality, shouldn't even be a term... It's described as the act of racism against a majority (typically used in context of whites). But...isn't that just plain old regular racism? Last time I checked, Caucasian WAS a race. And I'm willing to bet that any other majority suffering from "reverse racism" is a race too. So why isn't it just racism? Why give it a fancy new term? If you wanted to take the literal definition, reverse racism would actually be the opposite: supporting a race as equal to another. Just a thought.
Reverse racism- The act of being racist. In reverse.
Racism vs Reality H/T to Michael D at Daily Kos who puts Sotomayors words in context, something the media we have is loath to do.
In context, you see that Judge Sotomayor believes justices should strive to overcome personal biases, but she also believes we all have different perspectives, experiences, and perhaps even ways of reasoning.
You gotta love those folks in Alabama. Seems that the people of that great state have voted to allow businesses within the state's borders to pay Negroes half of what they pay each of their white workers.
Racially segregated proms have been held in Montgomery County — where about two-thirds of the population is white — almost every year since its schools were integrated in 1971.
It's called Enviromental Racism and it's coming to poor communities in sweet home Alabama. Surprised?
The Tennessee Valley Authority has begun shipping toxic coal ash from the massive spill that occurred last December at its Kingston power plant in east Tennessee's Roane County to landfills in the neighboring states of Georgia and Alabama as part of a test to determine a final resting place for the waste.
The counties where the ash is going have large black populations and high poverty rates, raising questions about environmental justice.
With Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III set to lead the Republican opposition against whoever President Obama's nominates to replace David Souter on the Supreme Court, and with the still unresolved concerns about his racist past, we can now add the possibility that he's a homphobe.
Per a new CNN/Opinion Research poll, 69% of Americans do not want the Supreme Court to overrule Roe v. Wade. That result comes as other recent polls have suggested that more Americans are pro-life rather than pro-choice on the contentious issue of abortion.
OK. This is only to put a poll out there. LiA has a lot of traffic and the majority are citizens of Alabama. As such, hopefully we can get a good poll result out of this. I'm not going to phrase the question to try and influence anyone's decision. The question is twofold. Do you support gambling in other states? And would you support an Alabama lottery?
The polls haven't moved much since November 4, when GOP Senator Saxby Chambliss (most famous for a slimy campaign ad that compared Vietnam war hero and triple amputee, Max Cleland, to Osama Bin Laden), got 49% of the vote, forcing him into a runoff with progressive Democrat, Jim Martin. (Jim Martin for Senate Campaign Web site).
NARAL's Blog for Choice, calls Martin the "Seabiscuit of Georgia" and urges support for him:
Jim Martin has stood on the side of women and now it's our turn to stand with him. Throughout his entire legislative career, Jim was fighting against anti-choice politicians who threatened Roe v. Wade; who undermined a woman's right to choose at every turn; who thought that they knew better than women and their doctors what was best for women and their families. Jim stood with us even when his family was threatened...even when it wasn't popular...even when he constantly had to face down anti-choice politicians in the legislature.
During the fall campaign, I confess to exchanging sharp words with some Alabama progressives who boasted about gathering to make campaign phone calls to Ohio and other "swing states." HELLO?We had close races - like Paseur and Segall - where progressive Democrats in ALABAMA needed help!
But now, I'm asking everyone to do what you can to help in a neighboring "swing state." Maybe you live close enough to spend a day volunteering in Georgia? Maybe you can make a donation to help Martin counter the $2 million dollars the GOP just dropped into the state. Or, why not make phone calls through Obama's Phonebanking page?
Do we want health care reform? Do we want tax reform? Do we want the environment protected? Obama will need as much support as he can get in the Senate. The election isn't over. Let's help Jim Martin become the next senator from Georgia.
"I'd never seen anything like that ad. Putting pictures of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden next to the picture of a man who left three limbs on the battlefield -- it's worse than disgraceful. It's reprehensible."
For the past two weeks we have paid more attention to the rest of the world than usual, what with the Olympics drawing our attention to Asia, and the conflict in the Balkans forcing us to learn that Atlanta is not in danger...that indeed, there is another Georgia—and how events in that Georgia could affect life in our Georgia.
As it happens, I belong to an international blogging collective (the Blogpower community) with voices that happen to be especially well-placed and often powerful to boot...a combination that will be most helpful for today’s exercise.
We are going to take a journey, Gentle Reader, all the way from India to Australia. We’ll visit Canadian friends, then we have much to discuss in the UK...and we get to meet a friend in the Sudan—and just for fun, we’ll toss in a few discussion questions based on Russian history.
Finally, through the miracle of Facebook, we’ll meet an actual volunteer soldier from South Ossetia who will describe the Georgian attack on his city.
There’s a lot to cover, so put on your travel hat, grab your virtual passport, and let’s hit the road.
ALABAMA'S LAW against cockfighting is so weak it might as well not exist. So Attorney General Troy King should be commended for wanting to get tougher with folks who promote the cruel entertainment.
Mr. King is right to ask the Legislature to approve prison time and higher fines for promoters.
WriteChic Press tells the so called "Family Values" crowd to Focus on their own Family. The Field Negro follows with Dear God.
WriteChic:
Focus on the Family caught hell for their solicitation of rain prayers aimed at ruining Barack Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Committee Convention. The radical, so-called Christian group says the video they made was just a little joke. Nothing like trivializing the sacred.
Field Negro:
Dear God, could you please send buckets and buckets of rain---kind of like you did back in the days of Noah-- to rain down on this uppity Negro, Osama. Dear God, we think he could be the Anti-christ here on earth; or worse, a communist. So we really need you to show him and all of his followers who is the boss. Dear God, they are talking about 75,000 lost souls in that huge house that Elway built, so there will be a nice large audience for you to display your powers.
Booman Tribune has a partial list of things that are no longer crimes.
It sickens me to think that Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood were disqualified as choices for Attorney General because of nanny taxes and yet we get Attorneys General who believed in stomping on the Constitution (Ashcroft), approve of voter suppression and torture as well as lie to Congress and reporters (Gonzales) and who think torture is only torture if it is done to him, won’t prosecute or investigate crimes committed by the Executive Branch and now thinks that not all violations of the law are crimes (Mukasey).
Truthout ask if the Georgia war is a Neocon Weapon of Mass Deception.
Is it possible that this time the October surprise was tried in August, and that the garbage issue of brave little Georgia struggling for its survival from the grasp of the Russian bear was stoked to influence the U.S. presidential election?
Before you dismiss that possibility, consider the role of one Randy Scheunemann, for four years a paid lobbyist for the Georgian government who ended his official lobbying connection only in March, months after he became Republican presidential candidate John McCain's senior foreign policy adviser
Buzzflash.com ask if the National Enquirer is right about Bush the way they were right about John Edwards.
Most of the time, the tabloids focus on Britney and Paris (now also of John McCain ad fame), but when they go after a political figure, we have found that some of them have about a 50% chance of being onto something. For instance, The National Enquirer had such specific details of the Edwards trip to the hotel in Beverly Hills that he could have sued them for libel if it weren't true. And as sleazy as these publications are, The Enquirer was credited with being one of the more accurate sources on the Lewinsky scandal.
The main reason that the mainstream press looks down on them on political stories is that they pay for information if they need to, not to mention that "real" reporters look down on their tabloid brethren.
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The polls haven't moved much since November 4, when GOP Senator Saxby Chambliss (most famous for a slimy campaign ad that compared Vietnam war hero and triple amputee, Max Cleland, to Osama Bin Laden), got 49% of the vote, forcing him into a runoff with progressive Democrat, Jim Martin. (
