I think this is really, really wonderful.
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Scathing
And understandably so. It's worth watching.
“Is there really something to quibble about in how powerful a bullet is when it is heading toward a six-year-old at the speed of 3200 feet per second? What kind of desperate, cornered rat would dare to mention that the Sandy Hook shooter could have used a more powerful bullet? Could have what? Done more damage? Made the bodies of six-year-olds even more difficult to identify?"
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“Is there really something to quibble about in how powerful a bullet is when it is heading toward a six-year-old at the speed of 3200 feet per second? What kind of desperate, cornered rat would dare to mention that the Sandy Hook shooter could have used a more powerful bullet? Could have what? Done more damage? Made the bodies of six-year-olds even more difficult to identify?"
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
"Obama derangement syndrome"
Oh, good grief. Please watch it.
Honestly!
Of course. it's fine with Bush and Reagan did the same thing....
Honestly!
Of course. it's fine with Bush and Reagan did the same thing....
Monday, December 10, 2012
Something I just learned...
I had not come across this passage (by John Tyler, tenth president of the U.S.) before today:
“The United States have adventured upon a great and noble experiment, which is believed to have been hazarded in the absence of all previous precedent — that of total separation of Church and State. No religious establishment by law exists among us. The conscience is left free from all restraint and each is permitted to worship his Maker after his own judgment. The offices of the Government are open alike to all. No tithes are levied to support an established Hierarchy, nor is the fallible judgment of man set up as the sure and infallible creed of faith. The Mohammedan, if he will to come among us would have the privilege guaranteed to him by the constitution to worship according to the Koran; and the East Indian might erect a shrine to Brahma, if it so pleased him. Such is the spirit of toleration inculcated by our political Institutions.”
So, it's not only Thomas Jefferson who understood the Constitution to be establishing a "separation of Church and State."
Of course, I don't see how the First Amendment and Article VI ("no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust in the United States.”) can reasonably be interpreted any other way.
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“The United States have adventured upon a great and noble experiment, which is believed to have been hazarded in the absence of all previous precedent — that of total separation of Church and State. No religious establishment by law exists among us. The conscience is left free from all restraint and each is permitted to worship his Maker after his own judgment. The offices of the Government are open alike to all. No tithes are levied to support an established Hierarchy, nor is the fallible judgment of man set up as the sure and infallible creed of faith. The Mohammedan, if he will to come among us would have the privilege guaranteed to him by the constitution to worship according to the Koran; and the East Indian might erect a shrine to Brahma, if it so pleased him. Such is the spirit of toleration inculcated by our political Institutions.”
So, it's not only Thomas Jefferson who understood the Constitution to be establishing a "separation of Church and State."
Of course, I don't see how the First Amendment and Article VI ("no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust in the United States.”) can reasonably be interpreted any other way.
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Friday, December 07, 2012
Thursday, December 06, 2012
Are we really civilized?
Countries still having the death penalty are in red.
(click to enlarge)
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Saturday, December 01, 2012
Friday, November 30, 2012
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Headline of the day
Please take a look. This is so, so true:
America Didn’t “End” Slavery After the Civil War -- We Simply Exported It
Here's a brief excerpt:
The recent fires that killed 112 workers in Bangladeshi sweat shops making garments for Wal-Mart and other American retailers show how we, today, are frankly more hypocritical and dishonest about slavery than was Jefferson himself.
As are those Libertarians who argue that the Bangladeshis were “willing workers,” when poverty is so severe in that country that working, chained into a firetrap factory, is essential to survival itself. To call the working conditions of much of the developing world anything less than slavery is to ignore the power relationships that keep workers behind fences, locked 24/7 in often-violent dormitories, and the companies that string nets outside windows to reduce worker suicides.
I've actually heard people who think of themselves as having values and a conscience say that they can't justify NOT buying cheap imported stuff -- even when they know full well that workers are exploited and mistreated.
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America Didn’t “End” Slavery After the Civil War -- We Simply Exported It
Here's a brief excerpt:
The recent fires that killed 112 workers in Bangladeshi sweat shops making garments for Wal-Mart and other American retailers show how we, today, are frankly more hypocritical and dishonest about slavery than was Jefferson himself.
As are those Libertarians who argue that the Bangladeshis were “willing workers,” when poverty is so severe in that country that working, chained into a firetrap factory, is essential to survival itself. To call the working conditions of much of the developing world anything less than slavery is to ignore the power relationships that keep workers behind fences, locked 24/7 in often-violent dormitories, and the companies that string nets outside windows to reduce worker suicides.
I've actually heard people who think of themselves as having values and a conscience say that they can't justify NOT buying cheap imported stuff -- even when they know full well that workers are exploited and mistreated.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Friday, November 09, 2012
Analyzing the Republicans' loss
This is intriguing, actually. Mind you, Cenk Uygur is engaging in some pretty strong schadenfreude in this but listen beyond it, okay?
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Tuesday, November 06, 2012
Quotation of the hour
In my humble opinion.
"They outspent us, they outlied us, they made it harder for us to vote, and they tried to make our candidate into a Kenyan, Muslim, Socialist. We won anyway.
"They can deal with it."
This "Dave" is the administrator of The Pragmatic Progressive Page over on Facebook.
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"They outspent us, they outlied us, they made it harder for us to vote, and they tried to make our candidate into a Kenyan, Muslim, Socialist. We won anyway.
"They can deal with it."
-- Dave
This "Dave" is the administrator of The Pragmatic Progressive Page over on Facebook.
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Monday, November 05, 2012
Inspiring, actually
Do you think those right wingers who think that money is everything could ever say something like this:
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