September 17, 2015

AFRICAN-AMERICAN GROUP: sincere query

NOTE TO JURIES: THIS THREAD IS NOT BEING STARTED TO BASH DU OR ANYONE HERE.

Ok, now that I got the obligatory ass-covering out of the way, I think non-PoC need to hear vignettes of subtle racism that PoC endure everyday. I've read many examples, so I'm very aware of those I know about. I'm always fascinated to hear more, but if no one wants to share, that's totally cool. I know it's a difficult subject.

Somehow non-PoC need to understand that racism exists on a continuum. It's not just the KKK and the neo-Nazis and the n-word and blatant discrimination.

Anyway... floor is open. Thank you sincerely for your time and effort in this thread. I will sit back and learn!

September 17, 2015

more evidence of alert stalking, imho

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1187&pid=27401

September 17, 2015

RNC Debate Watchers Appreciation Thread

Thanks a lot, ladies and gents, sincerely. You spared me much angst.

September 17, 2015

GOP Debate Hunk's Identity Revealed

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/gop-debate-hunks-identity-revealed/story?id=33830163

There ya go, Agschmid et al.

September 17, 2015

question

I think I already know the answer, but here goes.

The support groups we have here on DU are great, a nice resource for people between meetings and for people, for whatever reason, that cannot or will not go to a real life meeting. As you know, in real life AA/NA/OA/name_your_support_group_acronym, confidentiality is a gigantic thing.

Is there any possible technical way that the support groups can be PASSWORD-PROTECTED ? Obviously, if the same password was given out to everyone who walked in, pretty soon the sociopaths on the net would be in there. So, the password would have to be unique to each person and easily revocable. In addition, I think you admins would need to mull over the password request for a while to see if the person really merited it (i.e, was not a troll and was not a potential trouble-maker).

On a totally OT tangent, it would not surprise me in the least if you've been DDOS'ed at least once by the numbskulls on the other side of the aisle.

Anyway.... idle minds are the devil's workshop

September 17, 2015

Leftists clash with right-wing anti-refugee protesters in Leipzig

http://www.dw.com/en/leftists-clash-with-right-wing-anti-refugee-protesters-in-leipzig/a-18715779

Date 15.09.2015

After largely disappearing from the German media in recent months, demonstrations by PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West) hit Germany's headlines this week after Monday's rally in the eastern German city of Leipzig turned violent.

The city's police reported that some 500 LEGIDA marchers where confronted with a counter movement of around 1,000 people who blocked the route of the rally. The evening became violent, however, after dozens of "hooligans" joined LEGIDA's ranks, with some protesters successfully breaking free from the area secured by police.

Two officers were injured after bottles and fireworks where thrown by right-wing marchers, while a water cannon was also deployed to hold back counter-demonstrators.

Almost a year since PEGIDA began its first demonstrations in the Saxony capital of Dresden, DW spoke to Marcel Nowicki, co-founder of Leipzig's anti-PEGIDA movement "NO LEGIDA," to assess the the current situation.


I always hate to read stories like this out of Germany.

September 17, 2015

Poll for fun only: How vigilant are you about cyber-security ?

Again, this is only for fun.

September 17, 2015

Ann Coulter posts angry sequence about GOP and Jews

http://www.jta.org/2015/09/17/news-opinion/politics/ann-coulter-posts-angry-sequence-about-gop-and-jews

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Conservative columnist Ann Coulter used an epithet to describe Jews in expressing frustration with pledges to support Israel during the most recent Republican debate.

“How many f—ing Jews do these people think there are in the United States?” Coulter said on Twitter during the final minutes of the three-hour debate Wednesday evening, when four of eleven candidates mentioned their support for Israel in their closing remarks.

The four candidates were former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who said he would move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem as one of his first acts as president, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.

In a separate tweet, she said, “Maybe it’s to suck up to the Evangelicals.

more at link

September 17, 2015

yea, I need to learn more

I guess Ann would have to wear a Nazi uniform and shout Heil Hitler to be shunned. Disgusting.

September 17, 2015

Ann Coulter: toast or not toast ?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027177695

Her tweet: https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/644346473304453120

Check that out.