kpete
kpete's Journal
Trying to Suppress the Vote Backfired
Trying to Suppress the Vote Backfired
by BooMan
Sun Apr 28th, 2013 at 01:39:02 PM EST
Hmm.
(NAACP President Ben) Jealous says the 2014 midterm election will be the real bellwether for black turnout. “Black turnout set records this year despite record attempts to suppress the black vote,” he said.
04.28.2013 — 02:20 PM
Breakthrough
If you’ve been watching US politics for a year or a decade or a century, this is amazing. in 2012 African-American voter turnout topped White voter turnout.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/black-voter-turnout-passed-white-turnout-2012.php
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2013/4/28/13392/6314
KRUGMAN: "Bush lied us into war. Let’s repeat that: he lied us into war."
Even more important, Bush lied us into war. Let’s repeat that: he lied us into war. I know, the apologists will say that “everyone” believed Saddam had WMD, but the truth is that even the category “WMD” was a con game, lumping together chemical weapons with nukes in an illegitimate way. And any appearance of an intelligence consensus before the invasion was manufactured: dissenting voices were suppressed, as anyone who was reading Knight-Ridder (now McClatchy) knew at the time.
Why did the Bush administration want war? There probably wasn’t a single reason, but can we really doubt at this point that it was in part about wagging the dog? And right there you have something that should block Bush from redemption of any kind, ever: he misled us into a war that probably killed hundreds of thousands of people, and he did it in part for political reasons.
There was a time when Americans expected their leaders to be more or less truthful. Nobody expected them to be saints, but we thought we could trust them not to lie about fundamental matters. That time is now behind us — and it was Bush who did it.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/27/the-great-degrader/
The Napalm Girl, Then and Now...
SUN APR 28, 2013 AT 03:30 AM PDT
Morning Open Thread: The Napalm Girl and Her Photographer - Then and Now
byJaxDemFollowforMOT - Morning Open Thread
June 8, 1972 a South Vietnamese Air Force plane dropped two bombs while an A-1 Skyraider poured napalm onto a group of people in the village of Trang Bang, near Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) in South Vietnam. The pilots mistook the villagers for enemy combatants. In the center of the photo, naked and crying in pain from the napalm is Kim Phuc.
Following her rescue by Nick Ut, Kim remained in the hospital for 14 months receiving treatment for her third degree burns which covered over half of her body. Upon her release she returned to her village, but required years of physical therapy. In the early 1980s her government subjected her to numerous interviews and used her in propaganda films. Kim became a "national symbol of war" and as such was supervised daily.
Kim was allowed later in life to relocate to Cuba in order to further her education. While there she met a fellow Vietnamese student, Bui Huy Toan with whom she fell in love and married. On their honeymoon to Moscow in 1992 their plane stopped in Canada where the two defected and were granted political asylum. Kim, her husband and two children, Thomas and Stephen currently live in the Toronto area.
the rest of this amazing story here:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/04/28/1205312/-Morning-Open-Thread-The-Napalm-Girl-and-Her-Photographer-Then-and-Now
we asked then and we ask now
Dirty Car Art
Dirty Car Art by Scott Wade. And I always thought I was clever for writing f*ck you on peoples dirty windows when they park to close to my car.
MORE!!!
http://www.dirtycarart.com/
http://www.jaymug.com/post/48642812248/dirty-car-art-by-scott-wade#disqus_thread
David Bowie: 42 words
Effigies
Indulgences
Anarchist
Violence
Chthonic
Intimidation
Vampyric
Pantheon
Succubus
Hostage
Transference
Identity
Mauer
Interface
Flitting
Isolation
Revenge
Osmosis
Crusade
Tyrant
Domination
Indifference
Miasma
Pressgang
Displaced
Flight
Resettlement
Funereal
Glide
Trace
Balkan
Burial
Reverse
Manipulate
Origin
Text
Traitor
Urban
Comeuppance
Tragic
Nerve
Mystification
Read more at http://www.nme.com/news/david-bowie/69951#hwruSmQQAeMS0Omk.99
We've uncovered the secret Republican Apology Machine.
Ever wonder how republicans are able to tuck their tail between their legs and apologize to Rush so quickly after they've offended their leader?
Click Here to see how it works: http://www.dccc.org/content/sorry
The difference between Texas and Bangladesh...
Bangladesh Factory Owners Arrested
By Sara Morrison | The Atlantic Wire – 10 hrs ago
Bangladesh Factory Owners Arrested …
Two owners of the Bangladesh garment factories that collapsed on Wednesday have been arrested, according to Bangladesh News 24 hours and the AFP.
http://news.yahoo.com/bangladesh-factory-owners-arrested-023000852.html
Profile Information
Member since: Fri Sep 17, 2004, 03:59 PMNumber of posts: 72,046
