Republican Bruce Bartlett on why Romney has been praising Clinton while refusing to even utter George W. Bush’s name. Bartlett points out that Clinton’s policies — unlike Bush’s and the GOP’s — actually worked and are still popular with Americans. Unfortunately, Romney is only praising Clinton, not embracing his policies. Instead, it’s Bush’s policies that Romney would use to govern.
Where Shoes Listen and Coins Kill
“Spy: The Secret World of Espionage” is on view through March 31, 2013, at Discovery Times Square, 226 West 44th Street; discoverytsx.com.
If Bill Clinton was “the first black president” and the real first black president is “the first gay president” what are they gonna call the real first gay president?
John Fugelsang (via kathiek)
[T]he struggle for African-American rights and the struggle for LGBT rights are two fronts in the same battle. Both involve a minority group singled out by the majority for discrimination, unequal treatment, and persecution on the basis of an intrinsic and immutable characteristic. Both movements arose when a critical mass of courageous people decisively pushed back against bigotry and institutionalized oppression for the first time. And in both cases, the work of achieving legislative, judicial, and cultural equality is ongoing. So while the details may be different, at a fundamental level, the fight for African-American civil rights and LGBT civil rights are both part of the same civil rights movement.
I can hear the naysayers now. One might say, “How dare you? We’ve been taken to America against our will, enslaved, whipped, raped, attacked with fire hoses, batons, and dogs, subjected to ‘separate but equal’ Jim Crow laws and medical experimentation, jailed, and lynched.” Another could retort: “Excuse me? We have been persecuted by religions and governments for centuries, imprisoned, castrated, lobotomized, queer-bashed, ‘correctively’ raped and subjected to other ‘separate but equal’ laws, forced into damaging ‘pray away the gay’ therapy, interred in concentration camps, stoned, and hanged.” But playing the my-group-has-suffered-more-than-your-group game – what prominent African-American lesbian blogger Pam Spaulding aptly terms the Oppression Olympics – is both futile and tiresome. No single group has earned the exclusive right to use civil rights language. Nobody is well-served when we construct hierarchies of oppression.
I can hear the naysayers now. One might say, “How dare you? We’ve been taken to America against our will, enslaved, whipped, raped, attacked with fire hoses, batons, and dogs, subjected to ‘separate but equal’ Jim Crow laws and medical experimentation, jailed, and lynched.” Another could retort: “Excuse me? We have been persecuted by religions and governments for centuries, imprisoned, castrated, lobotomized, queer-bashed, ‘correctively’ raped and subjected to other ‘separate but equal’ laws, forced into damaging ‘pray away the gay’ therapy, interred in concentration camps, stoned, and hanged.” But playing the my-group-has-suffered-more-than-your-group game – what prominent African-American lesbian blogger Pam Spaulding aptly terms the Oppression Olympics – is both futile and tiresome. No single group has earned the exclusive right to use civil rights language. Nobody is well-served when we construct hierarchies of oppression.
Romney Campaign Again Warns Of ‘Soviet’ Threat
The Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, Camp Mittens. Did you people not take your naps and meds today?
It’s Been 13 Years Since Columbine…
For a few horrific hours in Littleton. Colo., last week, the school outcasts finally had all the power- and they weilded it without mercy or reason. As scores of students barricaded themselves in classrooms and closets, praying for deliverance, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold casually decided which of their classmates should live and which should die.
Original Coverage: “Anatomy Of A Massacre” & “Why The Young Kill”
Newsweek May 3, 1999
(via cheatsheet)
Silent Israeli vigil for Holocaust victims
The 6 million Jews killed during the Nazi Holocaust have been remembered in Israel with two minutes of public silence. Road traffic stopped and sirens wailed.
Millions of Israelis have stood silently or halted their vehicles for two minutes silence to remember the 6 million Jews murdered during the Nazi Holocaust of World War II.
The solemn day, which includes numerous broadcasts of interviews with survivors, had begun after sundown Wednesday at the Yad Vashem memorial.
The 17th Anniversary Remembrance Ceremony on Thursday in Oklahoma City honored the 168 victims of the 1995 bombing. Morgan Merrell, daughter of victim Frankie Ann Merrell, talked about her mother to the crowd of 2,200 people.
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