I have enjoyed this series on the arcane parts of the Civil War. This story on the possible partition of part of Mexico is really interesting.
Would those lands have become part of the US after the Confederacy was defeated? Would my mom have been born an American citizen instead? Really odd stuff to consider.
The things about all these kinds of episodes prove a couple things.
1. These guys refuse to comment on-stage about the reprehensible behavior of their supporters. Truly, if you are silent, you are endorsing these various forms of hatred.
2. If these audiences do not reflect the traditional GOP voter, why is it always the same blood thirsty bigots around the country that goes to these things?
3. Also, once again, if these are NOT the standard Republicans, stand up to them. If you don’t need them to win, call ’em out. If you DO, then what do these cretins running to lead this nation truly stand for?
A pretty neat background story on Mike Rowe. I do like that guy, caustic as he is. Did not know he somewhat got his break on late night home shopping.
Still, he’s a fan of work, and a promoter of hard, honest work. Hard to argue with that.
Yeah, I’m catching up on my Sunday Morning posts. Haven’t done a lot for awhile and this past week was a pretty good one. Here, we discuss the death of penmanship. To be fair though, I think the real problem is that we use fewer and fewer words in our language and can’t spell them for shit.
If I can not figure out what you are trying to write, who cares if I can read it or not?
Everyone acts like we spent the past decade getting Afghanistan to come our of the Dark Ages and join the 21st century.
That is a simple – and wrong – explanation. Between religion, culture, and decades of war, yes, the place is a tad behind the times. Some of that, however, is by choice.
I mean, we’ve got so-called Christians who are too afraid to leave their homes because they are afraid of gay people. So bigotry, hatred, and sexual hatred isn’t anything new.
That said, this story about how an Afghan pilot has to take her daughter on her chopper during potential combat missions is just damn unsettling.
I get why she does it. You just wish someone would pull their head out of their ass and create conditions where she doesn’t have to make the decision in the first place.
You can give folks weapons. You can train their to use them. You can slap names on buildings that make it the Ministry of Whatsit. But you can’t make a nation out of guns and name plaques. You’ve got to get them to want to do it.
Sometimes a tragedy just spawns other forms of tragedy.
In Japan, many elderly citizens are volunteering to clean up the nuclear plant at Fukujima, sparing the lives of younger workers with small children.
This is beyond admirable. It is humbling that folks would do such a thing.
This is not the tragedy, though it is pretty much a volunteer death sentence to those folks.
The tragedy is that their nation’s leaders are not taking them seriously.
The other tragedy is that the only motivation we get from the elderly here in the US is a bunch of racist morons who complain about the government and travel to Tea Bagger rallies using their Social Security checks and buying pills in faraway WalMarts with their Medicare money.
Just makes ya sick some days.
Your tax dollars at work.
The FBI is teaching its new agents that Muslims – all Muslims – are dangerous and to be suspicious of them.
So much for that “liberty and justice for ALL” bullshit we say we run our nation by.
Check the article for links to some of the odious training material.
Mother Jones covers more bigoted proposals from the nation that supposedly guarantees freedom for all.
This is despicable reactionary crap from a bunch of folks more afraid of living than of living correctly.
Some fun projects in here related to plastics.
To be fair, I haven’t owned an honest-to-God tuna boat since the ’76 Bonneville I had in college finally gave up any attempt to contain piston pressure.
That said, this is sad. No huge ass V8 land yachts in the Ford stable. That’s just weird.
And no more Crown Vic police cars once the existing ones die off. That’s just, well, un-American.
I know I did a similar story when the last old Beetle came off the line in Mexico and that still tears me up. Definitely more so than this will, but I have to acknowledge the passing.
For the record, I hate Good. The magazine, which I am taking this from. They are pals of white supremacists and, thus, can eat a flaming bag of shit for all I care. But this is a useful map and some history of the Mexican drug cartels and their territory.