By SueN
"The Republicans say that Obama's pick for a replacement is completely unacceptable. And they'll let us know why as soon as they figure out who it is."
Bill Maher.
"If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine."
"But to attain any success it is quite clear that the Federal government cannot avoid or escape responsibilities which the mass of the people firmly believe should be undertaken by it. The political processes of our country are such that if a rule of reason is not applied in this effort, we will lose everything--even to a possible and drastic change in the Constitution. This is what I mean by my constant insistence upon "moderation" in government. Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are H. L. Hunt (you possibly know his background), a few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid. ...
I suppose that even the most violent critic would agree that it is well for us to have friends in the world, to encourage them to oppose communism both in its external form and in its internal manifestations, to promote trade in the world that would be mutually profitable between us and our friends (and it must be mutually profitable or it will dry up), and to attempt the promotion of peace in the world, negotiating from a position of moral, intellectual, economic and military strength.
I notice that everybody seems to be a great Constitutionalist until his idea of what the Constitution ought to do is violated--then he suddenly becomes very strong for amendments or some peculiar and individualistic interpretation of his own. ...
But the mere repetition of aphorisms and political slogans and newspaper headlines leaves me cold.
""Under an old anti-lynching statute, South Carolina prosecutors are targeting mainly young African Americans. It's a cynical misuse of a law that originally sought to protect blacks from white mob violence, writes PNS contributor Earl Ofari Hutchinson.
In a bizarre twist, South Carolina has stood America's most disgraceful racial blot -- lynching -- on its head. State prosecutors are using an anti-lynching statute passed in 1951 to prosecute hundreds of mostly young blacks. ...
One of those charged with lynching was NBA star Kevin Garnett, who plays for the Minnesota Timberwolves. In 1994, Garnett, then a high school student in Greenville, S.C., and four other black youth were charged with second-degree lynching, which can carry a sentence of up to 20 years, after a fight in which the white victim fractured his ankle. The charges were eventually dropped, and Garnett's mother moved the family to Chicago.
"Thom,
I don’t care how you classify the victims…a hate crime, is a hate crime, is a hate crime…plain and simple! To discern what victim class is worthy of protection is just another reich wing attempt to draw the focus away from the source of the problem…BIGOTRY!
