I’ve discovered a new site. Bear with me as I overwhelm you with links from there in coming days.
Overall, not a bad list, even though there’s a bit too much of the Grindhouse flicks involved (not that I would ever vote against Rosario Dawson).
There’s also a Top 50 sexy sci-fi costume list. Apparently I now need to watch AI.
Some miscreants in public school districts are not going to air the President’s address to our nation’s schoolchildren next week.
Pull their funding. Close any school that is unpatriotic enough to ban the President of the United States. This smacks of treason.
Do it now.
The Racist Rethugs have a variety of excuses as to why they reject Obama speaking to their children directly.
I’d love to say such opposition is based in reality. But hey, these are the same idiots calling Obama a socialist, fascist, and racist in the same breath. The reality is, he is none of those things and he certainly isn’t a liberal. Damn the luck, but I knew that when I backed him anyway.
Hell, thirty years ago, his policies would – in the main – label him as a Republican. Hell, forty years ago Richard Nixon was for employee-mandated health insurance. How far we’ve fallen that even Tricky Dick was more liberal than the so-called “Socialist” Obama.
Nah, these folks merely don’t want a black man telling their kids to live their dreams, stay in school, and to work hard – and possibly together! gasp! – at improving their lives and communities.
To be even more to the point, these racists “dun’t wanna a lazy nigger telling their rugrats how to live”.
In short, they are afraid he’s going to push an agenda of responsibility and service to our children. You know, like that’s a bad thing or something.
He might not even do it. I don’t know because the speech hasn’t even been publicly shown yet! But I do know there is a precedent for presidential brainwashing and that would be the Rethugs own Ronald Reagan trying to “indoctrinate” our children to be pro-gun and pro-tax cuts to the rich as he did back in 1988.
Ah, here we go.
THIS is why the racists and thugs don’t want America’s children to hear the President speak. They are too busy trying to subvert the content of schoolbooks to teach kids how to be hate-filled bigots and racists to have to explain how an articulate black man can lead this nation. It would be contrary to everything written in the new Mein Kampf Lite primers they are trying to get approved.
You’ve got it all wrong. Right-wing parents are not afraid that Obama is going to indoctrinate their kids. They’re afraid that his rational and common sense address will shatter the false image of Obama that they’ve indoctrinated into their sheltered kids’ minds.
– submitted by EatSleepJeep at Reddit
More honest commentary regarding the unpatriotic assholes who are against the President’s speech to our children.
A damned cool list. Check it out and argue amongst yourselves.
So….if you, like most Rethugs, support the insurance companies, you must be fine with a 22% chance of failure in getting your medical care paid for.
If we were in school, that would give you a 78, which is a C, and possibly a D in some districts.
For all their talk of American exceptionalism, Republicans are hunky-dory with a C-class medical insurance system. Yelling “We’re Number One” doesn’t make it so, as we increasingly are finding out.
Well, those of us who aren’t Republicans.
Not entirely related but more proof of anti-reform stupidity and hypocrisy:
Lastly, some words for Robert Reich on what the President should say in next Wednesday’s speech.
Not that he will.
Another great geography post. This one tackles how population dispersion – or the lack of it – may be a more realistic look at how we view some nations.
How long did it take the right to go from: “if you criticize the President you are a traitor” to “School children should not trust the President.”
This really disturbs me. As a child, I was raised to have respect for presidents. As a parent, I enforced respect for the office on my own child even in the worst years of the Bush administration.
But now that a black man holds the office, tinfoil-hat lunatics say children should not learn to respect presidents, nor should presidents encourage them to succeed. It’s an incredible hypocrisy.
Yeah, that’s right folks. Glenn Beck and his Legion of Mouth Breathers fear that armed mobs of step dancers will take the country from them.
This guy gets on the TV and radio and whispers treason and his greatest fear are dancing black teenagers who want to be doctors and lawyers.
Actually, given the inherent racism of the GOP, minority professionals probably ARE their biggest fear.
What confuses me is that if ignorance is bliss, why are these people so angry?
— Len Kaminsky commenting on a Krugman post where he still tries to justify his backing of Hillary