Some background info on the Arduino in documentary form. Some preface to the video here.
Author Archives: John Wallenfeldt
GOP Tries New Effort To Bring In Hispanic Voters : NPR
The GOP thinks that it can spend most of it’s time demonizing and bombing brown people, some of the time trying to deport anyone not lily white, and maybe just a few moments trying to appeal to them and hope this gets them some votes.
Um, yeah, good luck with that.
Let’s Get This Straight: There is No Leftist Equivalent to the Right’s Violent Rhetoric | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet
Well said. Give this a read.
The Word – Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Angriness – The Colbert Report – 1/12/11 – Video Clip | Comedy Central
Often, I find Colbert’s shtick to be too close to accurate.
This one hits the ball out of the park, however.
Comedy Central video link
Weigel : The Joe Wilson “You Lie” AR-15 Lower Receiver
Given their outrage over the past few days, it appears that conservatives NEVER condone violence or would trafiic in, say, making gun components that would encourage the assassination of an American president. Much less a black President.
What you see there is a replacement magazine receiver for a M-16/AR-15 produced in South Carolina by a company so energized by nitwit Representative Joe Wilson, a Republican of course, that they went out and made semi-automatic and automatic machine guns parts.
Why? Hell, I dunno. They might be assassination loving traitors. Or just idiots.
And yes, making a gun part that makes mention of an elected representative making false accusations against the President is nothing short of a call to arms.
More at Mother Jones, ThinkProgress, and a South Carolina weekly on this story barely getting noticed elsewhere.
Though kudos to Lawrence O’Donnell for staying on top of it.
Don’t Blame Sarah Palin, Just Stop Paying Attention! | VF Daily | Vanity Fair
Some truth from Henry Rollins.
However, for this one moment, it is instructive to point her out as an example of what NOT to do in political discourse.
That said, her disdain of media attention while trying to grab the spotlight every time she can is transparent, pathetic, and unnecessary for the rest of us.
She may think she’s the shadow president, but folks need to stop treating her like she is.
Drew Westen’s response to ‘Palin’s ‘blood libel’ defense fair?’ – The Arena | POLITICO.COM
One of the better opinions on this “blood libel” nonsense.
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Into The Tunnels: Exploring The Underside Of NYC : NPR
Stuff like this interests me. It seems every major city has some population who have lives completely separate from us whether they live or just work under the streets. Here is a glimpse into New York City’s underbelly.
Palin: Is still an idiot
Well, the nitwit finally said something about the Tucson shootings.
Honestly, she shouldn’t have bothered.
Six people are dead. Another fourteen wounded.
But she’s the victim.
Read/watch it here if you feel you must.
No apology. No hint of even remotely tangential responsibility for throwing targets on people’s backs. No sign she’ll stop using threats of violence as a political tactic.
No class.
And in a nice bit of anti-Semitism, she used the term “blood libel” to describe how she thinks liberals are blaming her words and images for creating this culture of hate, fear, and death that, well, she has added to.
A quick search shows that:
Blood libel (also blood accusation) refers to a false accusation or claim that religious minorities, almost always Jews, murder children to use their blood in certain aspects of their religious rituals and holidays. Historically, these claims have-alongside those of well poisoning and host desecration-been a major theme in European persecution of Jews.
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is, of course, Jewish.
Nice touch there Palin!