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  • Wednesday 20 August '14 show notes   10 years 47 weeks ago

    There is alot of information on this page to go through. Thanks for taking the time to write it.

    http://southwarkirish.com/each-state-has-its-own-minimum-amount-of-car-insurance-coverage-needed-to-drive-a-vehicle/

  • Earth's credit card has been maxed out!   10 years 47 weeks ago

    Thanks, mathboy

  • Earth's credit card has been maxed out!   10 years 47 weeks ago

    If your really 'that concerned' about this......go to the countries that do NOTHING to (re)cover their carbon footprint. It's easy to say that we aren't doing enough. Have the stone to confront those who are doing nothing about the issue.

  • Earth's credit card has been maxed out!   10 years 47 weeks ago

    Last line of the first paragraph: "planet", not "plant".

  • It’s Time for Bill O’Reilly to Get Real about White Privilege   10 years 47 weeks ago

    Thom Hartmann again writes words of wisdom. When a person is the recipient of "invisible privilege" it is difficult to understand that he is being treated in a special way. Hartmann has unwrapped the privilege he experiences that is denied black men. Well done my friend.

  • It’s Time for Bill O’Reilly to Get Real about White Privilege   10 years 47 weeks ago

    I believe that what's going on in Fergeson is not Racist, it's Bigotry. Most people don't even know the difference. It has nothing to do with skin color, it has to do with culture. There is a violent culture inherent in Americas urban youth. Bill O'Riely is right when he says that the biggest cause of this is lack of parenting. Particularly the lack of fathers in the urban family's. These young men grow up angry and gravitate to violence. It is not Racist to disagree with ones culture, that is Bigotry. So, myself and many others and admitidly bigots because we do not agree with or respect the culture of violence.

  • It’s Time for Bill O’Reilly to Get Real about White Privilege   10 years 47 weeks ago

    Craig Bush:

    Quote science magazine:... chimps and bonobos are two species of chimpanzees that are close enough to humans to share 99.6% of their DNA.
    ----
    ...the ancestors of humans split from the ancestor of bonobos and chimps more than 4 million years ago...

    http://news.sciencemag.org/plants-animals/2012/06/bonobos-join-chimps-cl...

    Quote popular science:Once upon a time in the 1960s, scientists thought the human genome might contain as many as 2 million genes, units of DNA that code for proteins. But ever since then, the estimated number has been steadily shrinking. A new study suggests that the human genome could contain as few as 19,000 protein-coding genes, fewer than nematode worms.
    Quote craig bush: Truth is being stonewalled by bigots much the same way as the Stokes trial and Darwin's theory of evolution.
    Most bigots just can't stand the idea that they evolved from monkeys and that Darwin's theory of evolution is correct. Most of those deep South thumpers (and many can now be found interspersed throughout the nation) are really big into segregation based on race thinking their white asses are better than the blacks. A lot of it is based upon their ridiculous religious beliefs and they have a long history of using those religious beliefs to justify their racial hatreds of blacks. It wasn't atheists who put on white hooded sheets and put up those burning crosses. The real bigots are not of those who believe we have evolved from lower forms of animals...the real ones are the one's who believe the ridiculous story of Adam and Eve...creationism...and who believe themselves superior to blacks. Not that atheists couldn't be bigoted as well...but there has to be far fewer just because of the fact that they are the minority in the US. I've heard far more bible-spouting believers make condescending remarks about blacks than I've heard from atheists. What I don't get is why do the exploited always take up the belief systems of their exploiters. Do they not see how it is not really in their interests to do so unless it is purely from a standpoint of trying to assimilate and hopefully, yet failing in that endeavor, to gain respect and equality.

  • It’s Time for Bill O’Reilly to Get Real about White Privilege   10 years 48 weeks ago

    The whole history of humans has shown a predilection for racial hatreds. People have slaughtered each other just because others were just slightly different. And when there is a significant difference in physical or religious belief it doesn't take much to set them off against one another. Indian tribes in the Americas were slaughtering each other. Europeans could never really get along very well always fighting each other. Southeast Asians would constantly kill each other. All over the world over the whole history of the world people were seeing each other as different somehow. Yes, some of it had to do with trying to steal what others had but seeing each other as different helped to justify their atrocities against each other. Even, according to the Bible: "God" told Moses to send down unto the land of Canaan an army to kill every man and man child and to take the young girls as concubines. Steal their land and possessions. Even the blacks, taken as slaves from Africa, were previously killing off other tribes and taking their own slaves.

    The movie Apocaloyto" was an interesting movie that portrayed how the Mayans had enslaved other Indians and even had ritualistic sacrifices to appease the gods.

  • It’s Time for Bill O’Reilly to Get Real about White Privilege   10 years 48 weeks ago

    While racism is a huge social issue, we have major social and political issues that are even more destructive than the social issue of racism. The best way to over come racism is for the races to protest over issues on which they agree and are more important, and less divisive.

    To make racism the most important issue of our times is divisive and destructive. We overcome our tribal insticts when we come together for a purpose. We should not allow ourselves to be balcanized to the advatage of our oppressors.

    And we do have OUR oppressors, oppressors of all races. Divided we fall.

  • The Ferguson Effect On Our Great Grand Children   10 years 48 weeks ago

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  • It’s Time for Bill O’Reilly to Get Real about White Privilege   10 years 48 weeks ago

    P.S. Thom, one more thing if just a little off-topic. I happen to be no fan of Richard Pryor’s. Roughly 35 years ago, maybe late seventies or early eighties, I saw Mr. Pryor deliver the most vile, hateful homophobic diatribe I’ve heard, before or since. It was revolting. Because it was so long ago, I’m unable to offer any quotes. But I’ve never forgotten it. - AIW

  • It’s Time for Bill O’Reilly to Get Real about White Privilege   10 years 48 weeks ago

    Thom, telling Bill O’Reilley to get real about anything seems almost laughable. Especially anything that pertains to matters of race or class.

    Frankly Thom, I don’t know how much I’ve “profited” from white privilege. I’ve almost always been aware of it. However I’m aware of how I’ve been hurt by it as well.

    My family moved from L.A. to Oakland, California in the mid-fifties, a time when Oakland was well populated with black transplants from the south. Their children were angry and hostile. Undoubtedly the abuse they’d just suffered back in the ole confederate dung hole left many of them hungry for some form of revenge. At the age of six, I had no knowledge of racism; all I knew was that I was being verbally harassed and bullied by a bunch of strangers I’d never spoken or interacted with, for no apparent reason. It bloody infuriated me, and my quick temper got me into a heap of trouble. After I’d experienced a particularly traumatic scuffle with some teenage black girls twice my size, my mother finally sat me down and explained everything from slavery to all the current turmoil going on in the south. It changed me forever. From that moment, I was determined not to be part of the problem.

    I was punched, spat on and verbally abused. There were other racially fueled traumas I endured through the years, that I’d rather not go into here in any detail because it is too painful and too personal. But the point is, I could easily have become a racist because of those experiences. Instead, after that talk with my mother, I went the other way. But it turned out to be the other extreme. For years after that I suffered what I now call “white guilt syndrome”, thinking I deserved to be punished because of what my ancestors did or might have done, thinking I always had to turn the other cheek and just take all that crap, thinking that if I stood up and defended myself that it would make me a “racist”.

    Racism hurts even some of us who benefit from “white privilege”. To this day, it bothers me that my skin color could symbolize tyranny and oppression for so many people. I would give up "white privilege" in a heartbeat in exchange for a childhood untouched by racism. Because racism hurts. It batters the spirit. Anyone who sees my avatar knows I’m not black, but I was deeply traumatized and hurt by racism.

    Not all the black kids I knew, growing up, were mean and hostile. Some even became friends. But I’ll never forget those early traumas and I wouldn’t wish them on anyone. I am disgusted by the cluelessness from which most white people seem to regard this relentless, ongoing scourge. If you’re in denial, you’re part of the problem. Sorry if the truth hurts, folks.

    In much more subtile ways, unearned privilege can feel kinda degrading. That’s how I have experienced it. “Enjoying” something at someone else’s expense doesn’t feel all that good to me.

    What is called “white privilege”, from my perspective, is basic human dignity. It’s not that we, as whites, are getting anything we don’t deserve to get; it’s that people of color aren’t getting what they deserve as much as we do. - Aliceinwonderland

  • It’s Time for Bill O’Reilly to Get Real about White Privilege   10 years 48 weeks ago

    Wow "leighmf", that's quite a story! I hope Mr. Thurston wins that seat. Sounds like he'd be perfect for it. - AIW

  • It’s Time for Bill O’Reilly to Get Real about White Privilege   10 years 48 weeks ago

    Dr. Andrew Wakefield, once again, exposes and documents CDC malfeasance. Watch Video

    Excerpt rom Mike Adams on the cover up: “Today I can report that I now have in my possession CDC documents which prove beyond any doubt that the former head of the CDC, Dr. Julie Gerberding, actively participated in willful scientific fraud in order to bury clinical evidence linking the MMR vaccine to a 340% increase in autism among African-American children”. Read more...

    Breaking: autism, MMR vaccine, CDC cover-up (excerpts from
    By Jon Rappoport
    August 20, 2014

  • It’s Time for Bill O’Reilly to Get Real about White Privilege   10 years 48 weeks ago

    We must include in this discussion the human genome study and our unique likeness. Over $10 billion spent on this study and very little review from our genetic theorists? We know now that we are all 99.98% identical. Recently, in Santa Cruz from the UCSC genetic research dept. they discovered all homo sapiens (us) shares an identical strand of human genome. This proves there is no species differentiation among humans.

    There are no white people. Just a group of humans with fewer melanin in their skin cells. That's it. Nothing special about that at all. Oh, I get it. That is why our unique likeness is not being taught in our schools. Truth is being stonewalled by bigots much the same way as the Stokes trial and Darwin's theory of evolution.

    The discovery of our unique likeness should be treated as the most important social epiphany of this century. We must begin educating the next generation this truth with lesson planning as early as 4th grade. One day we will all understand that we are created equal.

  • Stop Complaining About Big Government & Embrace It   10 years 48 weeks ago

    Thanks Leighmf.

  • It’s Time for Bill O’Reilly to Get Real about White Privilege   10 years 48 weeks ago

    Being clueless about white privilege is a big part of white privilege. Being aware of it is a tiny step forward to understanding it. I can't walk in another persons shoes but it doesn't mean I shouldn't try.

  • Will the events in Ferguson lead to the demilitarization of police?   10 years 48 weeks ago

    Will the armed men join forces or make war on each other? Do men ever give up their arms when they make them feel powerful? It isn't the cause it's the fear.

  • It’s Time for Bill O’Reilly to Get Real about White Privilege   10 years 48 weeks ago

    Mel Gibson, Paris Hilton, Brittney Spears, Martin Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, Nicholas Cage, Khloe Kardashian, Sean Penn, and Martha Stewart were not able to avoid the police, to name a few rich, white, and famous people who have been arrested.

    The term "white trash" was in the south used by impoverished people who nevertheless made a distinction between being honest poor and being too lazy to even grow a patch of potatoes and a row of corn. "White trash" get likkered up and go shooting off rifles in the peace of the mountains on Sunday. Instead of chopping firewood from their own trees, they throw their furniture into the fireplace when it gets cold. "White trash" come begging at the doors of the white poor in winter who worked all summer and spring to grow and put up their winter food supplies. This is what the term meant to poor farmers in the south. Even the white poor have a class system.

    In any case, "It is not what a man has, it is what he is."

    and, "It is not that which goes into a man's stomach that defiles him, it is what comes out of his mouth, because what comes out of his mouth shows what is in his heart."

  • Will the events in Ferguson lead to the demilitarization of police?   10 years 48 weeks ago

    My short answer is "no". While this insident may show the militarized police in a bad light, I half expect another event or two to happen showing why the police need to be even more militarized. There will also be the talking heads explaining that if it wasn't for the "Rambo Wannabes in Blue" and their armored personnel carriers, things in Ferguson could have been much worse.

    The fact is that the US is quickly morphing into a fascist nation. We already have the Oligrachy. We've already lost our most of our middle class. We've already lost the power of activist unions. We already have the huge divide between the rich and everyone else. We already the corporate media. And we already have the tools and technology for a police state that would have made Himmler giddy with excitment.

  • It’s Time for Bill O’Reilly to Get Real about White Privilege   10 years 48 weeks ago

    America has a poverty crisis as a direct result of policies chosen over the past 30+ years. Most of our poor are women, and most of these are white. Hunger hurts as much for white people as it does for black poeople, homelessness is as terrifying, joblessness is as hopeless. These masses of people -- sometimes referred to as "white trash" by fellow Americans of all races -- might dispute any claims about "white privilege." The one advantage they do have is that they are usually able to avoid police. It's a bit weird to hear discussions by those who appear to be utterly oblivious to white poverty.

  • It’s Time for Bill O’Reilly to Get Real about White Privilege   10 years 48 weeks ago

    In South Florida there is a reverse effect when it comes to a jury trial. From experience we have reason to be suspicious of police who are building their careers on poor people, especially young people and illegal immigrants or immigrant people they want to deport. We know prosecutors are building a careers of wins to land a juicy job in the private sector. Jurors here see through that and it makes them sympathetic for the defendant side. Too much scandal uncovered about the police and sheriff's departments have ruined their credibility.

    We don't just have black Americans here, we have black Haitians, black people from all over the Caribbean, Africans, and many shades incorporatng Puerto Rican, Cuban, Mexican, East Indian, and South American. These are not united people and have more prejudices amongst themselves than the black/white. A Cuban pulled over by one shade of black policeman can be as endangered as a black American on the white man's street.

    These prejudices are present in the police force and on the streets.

    I am white with freckles and I am terrified of the police here. I would never challenge or not instantly obey a police command, no matter how ludicrous, because I am afraid of getting hit or tasered to death or shot and crippled. It has happened to others.

    But Praise the heavens we have running for State Attorney General a brilliant and fine Mr. Perry Thurston. As an outstanding defense attorney, various segments of the black community have in the past stood together to engage his help with racist-motivated charges against the poor. He was elected Judge in our county in the last election, and now he's going all the way to Tallahassee. Men like that give me hope and inspiration, and I was white-privileged to have been deliberately selected as a white juror in a trial where he defended the lives of two young Haitians we could not bear to see railroaded. As I recall, we were an all-white jury. We sent our message to the police and the prosecutor, they are going to be wasting their time picking on the weak. I do like Mr. Thurston.
    http://www.thurstonforflorida.com/

  • Stop Complaining About Big Government & Embrace It   10 years 48 weeks ago

    Mark S -- Damn! I was hoping you were saving them. In any case I can send you what I have saved. I am not a very good librarian so it will take a little time.

    I think you can search this blog since the beginning of time and find everything you have written.

  • Keystone would be way worse than we thought!   10 years 48 weeks ago

    Leighmf -- It terrorizes me to think what Romney's tax holiday would do. An additional $3,000,000,000,000 looking for bonds. It would be nice if there was any demand in the system to absorb some of it.

  • Keystone would be way worse than we thought!   10 years 48 weeks ago

    Why doesn't anyone mention what Thom pointed out about the price of gasoline in the US. There is a glut of tar sands oil in the midwest. The XL pipeline will reduce this glut and thus the supply of gasoline in the US. The result will be the price of gasoline in the US will increase (according to transcanada, the XL pipeline corp, the price of gasoline in Canada will rise 20 cents a gallon; they have every motivation to underestimate the rise), so the rest of the world will see a decline in price (or at least a less significant increase). The US will suffer the most significant impact on their environment.

    The LA Times within the last year showed the path of the Enbridge pipeline. It does an end run around the aquifier going through Indiana as I recall (I should mention my recall capablities have decreased somewhat with aging). Interesting.

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