[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- On Tuesday, General Petraeus Achieved Victory in Oceania; On Wednesday, He Led Us to War against Eastasia
- [Firedoglake - by emptywheel]
Forgive me if I dismiss what are real measures against a genuinely dangerous organization. But I can’t help but suspect this lays the ground work to ensure we have a war against terror to fight (and with it, expanded executive powers) beyond July 2011.
[Crunchy. -L]
- Seven Myths That Cloud Immigration Debate
- [ImmigrationProf Blog]
- The Most Insane Zero Tolerance Story Yet
- [FreeRangeKids]
…it’s not even that Zero Tolerance is an awful thing that prevents people from using their heads, it also looks only to certain cues and completely ignores kids with real problems who pose a very real physical threat to others around them.
- Beam me up
- [I Can Has Cheezburger]
- The Southern Strategy lives on
- [Pandagon - Amanda Marcotte]
…In order to establish their claim that the country belongs to angry white conservatives and not to everyone, they need to make appeals to history…
[Also, ancestor-worship fits well into the authoritarian worldview.
Authoritarianism comes from clinging to a leader for protection, as children do with their parents. Parent-worship gets a little complicated, though, since living people tend to present you with first-hand evidence that they aren't all-powerful. Much better to revere the dead; even if they treated women and people of color like cattle, it doesn't matter, since not caring about things that you can't see/sense is a common cognitive error.
-L]
…it’s literally undeniable that racism was a major factor in creating the modern Republican party [...] Republicans at the time were pretty open about this… [blockquote - Lee Atwater]
The reason to rewrite history is that the Southern Strategy is still in play.
- Conservapedia: The theory of relativity is a liberal plot « Climate Progress
- [Climate Progress - h/t to Pandagon]
I would have filed this under Signs of the Apocalypse, but we are way past that. This is more like, Signs that the Apocalypse happened a long time ago but we were all too busy watching American Idol to notice.
…how can you possibly quote astrophysics to refute relativity? Why even bother?
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