Daily Archives: May 27, 2015


IS RACISM OVER YET?

Here is the YouTube from the original author of IS RACISM OVER YET?

Thanks to my Facebook friend Tangelia Sinclair-Moore for sharing this with her Facebook post.

Being privileged myself, I know that I have not lived this, but I did live through the history. I was able to observe, as a bystander, many of the things that Laci Green mentions that are just history to people her age. None of this is a surprise to people of my age who had their eyes and ears open at the time it was happening. The more recent events are available to anyone over the age of, say, 6 if they have an open mind.


In Regards to Conservatives Fierce Defense of Child Rape

The Daily Kos has the tirade In Regards to Conservatives Fierce Defense of Child Rape.

Here is the gist of the story, which you must have heard about by now.

Conservatives heard about Josh Duggar raping at least 5 of his very young sisters. They heard about how his parents knew, tried to cover it all up, and sickeningly allowed it to continue for an entire year after they learned about it.

The tirade in the Daily Kos is more than merited by the facts of this case, and cases like it.

This is the type of thing that made Sharon and me more than happy to leave the state of Texas. I know this sort of stuff goes on all over the world, but the situation in Texas was finally more than we could take. Child molesters can seem like some of the nicest people in the world except to their victims.


Bernie Sanders Tames John Harwood

Speakeasy with John Harwood has the transcript and video for 10 questions with Bernie Sanders. It is easy to hide the taming of the pundit if you can edit the video after the fact. At least they had the decency to publish the entire transcript. Below is just one excerpt.

HARWOOD: After the revolution, what does it look like? What do you see happening to the 1 percent?

SANDERS: What is my dream? My dream is, do we live in a country where 70 percent, 80 percent, 90 percent of the people vote? Where we have serious discourse on media rather than political gossip, by the way? Where we’re debating trade policy, we’re debating foreign policy, we’re debating economic policy, where the American people actually know what’s going on in Congress? Ninety-nine percent of all new income generated today goes to the top 1 percent. Top one-tenth of 1 percent owns as much as wealth as the bottom 90 percent. Does anybody think that that is the kind of economy this country should have? Do we think it’s moral? So to my mind, if you have seen a massive transfer of wealth from the middle class to the top one-tenth of 1 percent, you know what, we’ve got to transfer that back if we’re going to have a vibrant middle class. And you do that in a lot of ways. Certainly one way is tax policy.

HARWOOD: Have you seen some of the quotations from people on Wall Street, people in business? Some have even likened the progressive Democratic crusade to Hitler’s Germany hunting down the Jews.

SANDERS: It’s sick. And I think these people are so greedy, they’re so out of touch with reality, that they can come up and say that. They think they own the world.

What a disgusting remark. I’m sorry to have to tell them, they live in the United States, they benefit from the United States, we have kids who are hungry in this country. We have people who are working two, three, four jobs, who can’t send their kids to college. You know what? Sorry, you’re all going to have to pay your fair share of taxes. If my memory is correct, when radical socialist Dwight D. Eisenhower was president, the highest marginal tax rate was something like 90 percent.

You shouldn’t even bother to watch the video. If you read the transcript, you get the idea of how the editing of the video manages to cut out most of the heart of what Bernie Sanders had to say. The transcript is quite good, tough. You will really enjoy reading it.


Bernie Sanders Tames Wolf Blitzer

I love this never ending series of Bernie Sanders Tames …

Here he is taming Wolf Blitzer. I promise you the video will get there shortly. You have to see the prelude to fully understand the taming.

If all Bernie Sanders did was to handle the media pundits the way he handled Blitzer, this would be a huge gift to society all by itself. Luckily, this skill might get him all the way to the Whitehouse.