Tuesday Reads
Posted: January 7, 2014 Filed under: Barack Obama, morning reads, U.S. Economy, U.S. Politics | Tags: Angela Merkel, Bernie Madoff, Janet Yellin, JP Morgan, Larry Sabato, magic spells, Polar Vortex, weather, witchcraft 107 Comments
Good Morning!!
This is going to be another quick post, because my mom is having an emergency that I need to help her with. She lost her internet, TV, and phone, and Comcast is saying they can’t do anything till Friday! She told them she is 88 years old, so maybe they’ll get off their duffs sooner.
Meanwhile, she just has her cell phone and only 100 minutes. She can afford to pay if she goes over, but she’s Great Depression survivor and often panics over “wasting money.”
So let’s see what’s happening in the headlines.
NBC News: Janet Yellen confirmed as first female Fed chair. Another glass ceiling shattered!
Vice chair of the Fed since 2010, Yellen begins her four-year term as leader of the century-old bank on Feb. 1. With the economy rebounding from the depths of the recession but only modestly so far, many economists expect her to focus on how to nurture growth without putting it into overdrive, which could risk fueling inflation….
Under Bernanke, the Fed has driven short-term interest rates down to near zero and flushed money into the economy with huge bond purchases, which it has just started to ease. Yellen, a strong Bernanke ally, has supported those policies and is expected to continue them until concrete signs emerge of sustained improvement of the economy and job market.
In a written statement, President Barack Obama said Yellen’s approval means “the American people will have a fierce champion” who will protect them.
On the other hand,
Lobbyists for the banking and financial services sectors issued statements pledging to work with Yellen. Both industries have led a fight to water down restrictions imposed by Obama’s 2010 law overhauling how the nation’s financial system is regulated.
I hope Dakinikat will weigh in on this later on. My guess is she will pooh pooh the notion that anything is going to suddenly create inflation in this economy.
CNN on the latest media meme: The Polar Vortex.
From Boston to Washington to Atlanta, the polar vortex kept swinging Tuesday, a frozen ice chest hovering over more than 100 million people.
Temperatures in many areas were in the single digits, and well below zero with wind chills.
In the Deep South, hard freeze warnings were in effect from eastern Texas to the Florida Panhandle….
It’s even too cold for polar bears and penguins. At Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo, Anana — a polar bear who never grew the thick layer of fat that bears in the Arctic do — had to be brought inside Monday. And at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh, bald eagles and African penguins, “who are used to temperate climates,” were taken off exhibit until the weather warms up, the facility reported.
And from Think Progress: Everything You Wanted To Know About The ‘Polar Vortex’
the Arctic air that usually sits on top of our planet is “taking an excursion” south for a couple of days, leaving the North Pole “relatively warm” and our temperate region not-so-temperate. “Go Home Arctic, You’re Drunk,” he titledthe explanation.
“The Polar Vortex, a huge system of moving swirling air that normally contains the polar cold air, has shifted so it is not sitting right on the pole as it usually does,” Laden writes. “We are not seeing an expansion of cold, an ice age, or an anti-global warming phenomenon. We are seeing the usual cold polar air taking an excursion. So, this cold weather we are having does not disprove global warming.”
In fact, some scientists have theorized that the influx of extreme cold is actually fueled by effects of climate change. Jennifer Francis, a research professor at Rutgers University’s Institute of Marine and Coastal Science, told ClimateProgress on Monday that it’s not the Arctic who is drunk. It’s the jet stream.
“The drunk part is that the jet stream is in this wavy pattern, like a drunk walking along,” Francis, who primarily studies Arctic links to global weather patterns, said. “In other places, you could see the tropics are drunk.”
Basically, places that are usually cold are warmer and places that are usually warm are getting the cold air. Lots more at the link.
Here’s scary headline for you: Republicans Really Could Win It All This Year, by Larry Sabato. But take it with a grain of salt, because it’s a Politico story.
Another midterm election beckons, and over the next 10 months we’ll see headlines about a thousand supposedly critical developments—the “game changers” and the “tipping points.” But we all know there aren’t a thousand powerful drivers of the vote. I’d argue that three factors are paramount: the president, the economy and the election playing field. And, at least preliminarily, those three factors seem to be pointing toward Republican gains in both houses in the 2014 midterms.
Read all about it at the link. As a side note, Joseph Cannon has a post up about Sabato and his recent book on the JFK assassination. As usual, when Cannon writes about this subject, it’s highly enlightening. Check it out if you like connecting dots.
Here’s a wacky story from Oklahoma that Dakinicat sent me last night: Student Expelled for Casting a Spell.
An Oklahoma high school suspended a
15-year-old student after accusing her of casting a magic spell
that caused a teacher to become sick, lawyers for the student
said on Friday.
The American Civil Liberties Union said it had filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on behalf of student Brandi Blackbear, charging that the assistant principal of Union Intermediate High School in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, suspended her for 15 days last December for supposedly casting a spell.
The suit also charged the Tulsa-area Union Public Schools with repeatedly violating Blackbear’s civil rights by seizing notebooks she used to write horror stories and barring her from drawing or wearing signs of the pagan religion Wicca.
“It’s hard for me to believe that in the year 2000 I am walking into court to defend my daughter against charges of witchcraft brought by her own school,” said Timothy Blackbear, Brandi’s father.
WTF?! So what we’re learning is that at least a teacher and presumably members of the administration of a school in Oklahoma believes it is possible to cast magic spells that make people sick? What century is this again?
Angela Merkel has broken her pelvis in a skiing accident. From CNN:
German Chancellor Angela Merkel fractured her pelvis in a skiing accident in Switzerland over the holidays, her spokesman told reporters Monday.
Merkel was cross-country skiing when the accident occurred. Spokesman Steffen Seibert did not disclose the date of the incident, but said her injuries are not thought to be serious and it is thought she will make a full recovery.Merkel, who has been Chancellor of Germany since 2005, will need aid to walk over the next few weeks and will be canceling some of her commitments, Seibert said.
Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) said it will delay its party retreat, originally slated for January 10-11, as a result of her accident.
From The New York Times: JPMorgan Settles With Federal Authorities in Madoff Case
Before Bernard L. Madoff stole billions of dollars from his clients, and before he received a 150-year prison sentence for those crimes, JPMorgan Chase had a chance to warn federal authorities about his Ponzi scheme but never did.
On Tuesday, five years after Mr. Madoff’s arrest set off a panic on Wall Street and Washington, Mr. Madoff’s primary bank received a punishment of its own.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan imposed a $1.7 billion penalty on JPMorgan, striking a criminal settlement deal involving two felony violations. The prosecutors, essentially accusing the nation’s biggest bank of turning a blind eye to Mr. Madoff’s fraud, will force JPMorgan to pay the sum to his victims.
Later on Tuesday, federal regulators are expected to announce their own rebuke of the bank in a civil case. All told, JPMorgan is likely to pay some $2 billion to resolve the Madoff investigations, which will be fully detailed at a press conference scheduled for Tuesday afternoon at the United States attorney’s office in Manhattan.
Some bankers are going to lose some money and are being embarrassed. It’s something anyway. I’ll end on that positive note.
So . . . what stories are you following today? Please share your links in the comment thread.
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Wishing you success with Comcast and best of luck to your mother. We hit a record low of 14 last night but the warmup will start today. Stay warm to those East!
Thanks Ralph. This weather is bizarre beyond belief. It’s 13 here now, but where my mom is it’s about 15 below zero and they have been told not to go outside.
it’s 12 here right now. our high is supposed to reach 19 today. brrrrr!
We’re at 7 right now, we had a low of 2. Suppose to be up to 16. I dread seeing my utility bill this month, between heating system running non-stop 24/7 and water dripping all over my house, I may have to take out a loan.
We’ve warmed up to a balmy 35 with full sun. It’s gonna be a better day here.
Time to break out the shorts and t-shirts!!! 🙂
On the plus side, it looks to reach 34 degrees today In Anchorage. They may actually go for shorts and t-shirts. 🙂
Damn, that’s sunbathing weather
I hope you’re able to help your mom. The cable providers are worse than AT&T when it comes to making repairs in a timely manner. And the cellphone companies really rip you off when you go over your plan minutes, as if those minutes are costing them any extra. The entire cellphone, cable tv, internet business is one huge ripoff/racket. We become dependent, employ the use of their devices for communication and a measure of safety and security, then they jack up the price of the services far beyond reasonable. Is there anyway you can add minutes to her cellphone plan on a one time basis since she’s in a weather predicament?
So far I can’t even log in or talk to anyone on the phone at Verizon. They need her SS # and my mom isn’t picking up her phone either. I’m really stressed. She does have a friend in the neighborhood who is watching out for her and my niece is in Indianapolis, but she says she can’t go to my mom’s house because the roads are a mess and people have been told not to go outside because of the cold. Schools are all closed.
If you have to call the police department or social services to check in on her, do so. She could easily become confused too. I hope she doesn’t go outside. Gosh, they better get off their arse and do something about connecting her.
Also you can call her doctor’s office, and get him involved in checking on her.
Thanks, Fannie. She isn’t that bad. She just has a lot of trouble with the new technologies. The reason she wasn’t answering my calls is that she accidentally silenced her ringer. That’s fixed now. I got a number for her to call at Verizon and they helped her with the phone and gave her 98 extra minutes. When it warms up, she can go to the phone store and get a new phone and a better plan.
Good for Verizon. Glad to know they helped her.
It wasn’t easy to get them to do anything.
Can you text her?
Yes, BB, if you can teach her to text, that’s simple. It’s about $5.00 month for texting on Verizon wireless. I use it all the time…hardly ever talk on the phone.
Text? Hahahahahaha! Sorry to laugh, but my mom is 88 and has terrible arthritis in her hands. She can barely figure out how to answer her cell phone after several people have showed her how. She can barely type on the computer, and she should learn how to text? First she needs to learn how to delete her messages, which several people have also tried to teach her.
On top of that, my mom can’t see very well. She is basically blind in one eye and her other eye is 20/50 at best.
Really hope everything gets back on for your mother. I find texting slow and tedious myself, and the keys are a ludicrously small size — and that’s with good dexterity and eyesight.
IIRC the US has much higher rates for cell and internet service than most other countries do.
You know I have Cox and I have never ever had them not come out and fix things immediately. The only time they go down here and stay down is when Entergy can’t get the electricity going.
I have Suddenlink, who bought Cox out locally, and they’re the same way. Service has been really good, crossing my fingers now.
I’m pretty sure the problem is the cold. It is well below zero there and they had to close all the schools and ask people to stay inside. They got more than a foot of snow and the roads are a mess also. There could be thousands of people who have lost their internet/cable/phone.
When he was young and new to the political scene in Virginia, Larry Sabato was worth listening to and offered interesting and objective analyses of politics in Virginia. That was 30 some odd years ago. Now Sabato carries water for the Republican party. It was sad watching him become corrupted. He had a keen sense of politics at one time.
In that same note the National Journal seems to have become largely a Republican rag since the idiot Ron Fournier has been editing it.
Agreed
I am extremely grateful for the link to my own humble offering in this post. For perfectly understandable reasons, a lot of people roll their eyes whenever someone brings up the Great Unpleasantness of 50 Years Ago. But I hope that some readers will take another look at the state of the evidence, which is improving all the time.
As for Sabato: What irks me is not so much that he stands with the “lone nutters,” but that he feels compelled to smear JFK’s political legacy. Why would anyone lie about the man’s foreign policy at THIS late date?
Thanks for coming by, Joseph. I wrote about the “Great Unpleasantness” a few times around the anniversary, but I could never write about it as well as you do. Thanks for continuing to post about it.
The story about the young girl suspended from school is incredible. What’s next, are they going to burn her at the stake?
I wonder if telling someone to “go to hell” or “I hope you rot in hell” or telling someone “you’re going to hell” is considered spell casting?
I just find it horrifying that adults who are responsible for the education of children actually believe in magic spells and witchcraft!
I agree.
On that note
Catholic school to married gay man: Get divorced or get fired
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/07/catholic-school-to-married-gay-man-get-divorced-or-get-fired/
I know everyone is getting weary of me droning on and on about gay issues, but that’s what I do. 🙂
The catholic rats……………Keep on keeping on Mouse.
U know I want shut up until cremation. 🙂
ooopppps, my command of the language is poor. I should have said/written “won’t” not “want”.
I think it’s great that so many kids going to the area’s Catholic schools have come out in support of their teacher! On the news this morning they played a recording of the kids protesting at the Archdiocese’s headquarters, chanting of “Love is love.”
And Mouse, keep droning, because we all know it’s not really droning! 🙂
The Senate voted 60-37 to advance a bill that restores expired unemployment benefits for three months. Democrats hope to move to final passage by the end of the week though it will likely stall in the Republican-controlled House unless there’s a deal to pay for the $6.5 billion cost.
For more information… http://www.politico.com
That’s good news, but we know what the Pugs in the House are going to do with it. I heard this morning that the GOP House is leaning toward taking up a minimum wage increase, if/when the Senate sends it to them, but they’re opposed to extended UI. Since they’ve spent a fortune trying to convince the FOX viewers that UI recipients are “lazy”. “couch potatoes” who “don’t really want to work” I doubt they’ll even bring it to the floor.
Yup.
This is interesting. I just got this email from consumer reports…
Nice to see Consumer Reports helping people navigate the ACA.
It sure is and in red states like mine, which is actively trying to keep people from getting any advice, it could prove really helpful.
I wonder how long the red states will be able to hold out when they finally understand that the ACA is here to stay?
I think they’ll hold out as long as they think it’s a political advantage, then they’ll fold like cheap suits once it’s not. I don;t have any idea how long that will take but the propaganda about the ACA has been really effective.
Yeah. the anti-ACA propaganda that FOX News gave to the GOP Free-of-charge, in conjunction with the network news channels joining the chorus for a few weeks, really cast a long shadow. Still, I remember well the rollout of Medicare and it was treated like the second-coming of the Black Death. It took several years for it to shake free of the criticism.
You can keep signing up each month by the 15th or so and the coverage takes effect at the beginning of the next month. It doesn’t end in March. At least according to NPR…
I just got my blue cross blue shield of Louisiana through the ACA and I’m tickled pink. I have a much better plan plus dental, paying less money, and I can’t be more relieved. FInally, I have an ok set up with drugs which is what I sorely lacked in the last employer-provided plan. I really need to move to a state where there are universities hiring full time employees again to do any better.
I’m so glad for you. I know it takes a load off your mind knowing that your coverage is better.
Very good news!
Oh brother!!!! Climatologist, Newt, claims the world was much warmer and just fine when dinosaurs ruled the world.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/newt-gingrich-global-warming-dinosaurs
Where does he live? In one of those cities on or near the coast that would disappear under water with rising sea levels? First he wants to build a moon colony, now he laughs off a return to pre-historic earth? This guy is so full of hot air he could float.
Well he’s right the Earth was a lot warmer but it wouldn’t support human life as we know it. Maybe that wouldn’t affect Newt since I don’t think of him as fully human anyway.
LOL!!! For someone who’s supposed to be so smart he seems a bit loosely strung to me. Mr. Moon Colony needs a NEW Warmer Earth. Bye, bye cities on or near the coast, where most of the world’s population reside.
Another little problem is I’ve read that photosynthesis only happens when temperatures are below about 105F, and pretty piss poor in the temperatures leading up to it. So those hotter summers mean today’s plants don’t grow so good, regardless of hydration.
Some nice pictures of pros riding the big surf.
Guardian: Surfers take on 18-metre waves of the black swell
Morning everyone, it is a whole 16 degrees here in Banjoville, got down to -2 last night. (real temp)
Have y’all seen this weird interview? Dennis Rodman Screams at CNN’s Chris Cuomo, Implies Kenneth Bae is Guilty in Bizarre Interview | Mediaite
whoa, and check out the faces of the players around Dennis…
I has warmed up to 15 degrees here.
Balmy 39 and climbing.
18 here
It’s 31 here. I’m so cold sitting here at my desk. I’m about ready to go get my old space heater from the attic. The central heat just isn’t cutting it!!!
If your weather is like what we got, it will be colder tonight. I know that’s not good news but it warms up after day 2.
Yup. Going to have to run the faucets again tonight.
Rodman’s life has been this weird horror show for a long time. He just seems nuts to me.
Hope everyone stays warm enough, and no pipes freeze!
Fox’s Ed Henry Asks Jay Carney if Taxpayers Will Pay to Fly Michelle Obama Home
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/foxs-ed-henry-asks-jay-carney-if-taxpayers-will-pay-to-fly-michelle-obama-home/
Carney should take Henry’s seat away and he should have to shout questions from the hall as the other reporters are leaving.
Jay should have asked Ed if he knew what the protocol was for all prior FLOTUS travel without POTUS at her side. I have no doubt that every FLOTUS has used Air Force One and other government paid for transportation to travel without the POTUS. I got in a heated discussion at the “other” now non-existent place, over POTUS & FLOTUS flying Air Force one and traveling with an entourage and government provided security. WTF do they want them to do, take a bus? Yep….that is exactly what they want this POTUS & FLOTUS to do. For god’s sake, every POTUS and FLOTUS in the past century has traveled with government provided transportation and government security 24/7/365. Why should this POTUS and FLOTUS be any different??? Any clues??????
But those other POTUS and FLOTUS’s weren’t black. See the difference? The Obamas have taken very few vacations, while Bush was on vacation constantly. Reagan too.
Exactly. Just the notion that the right-wing-nuts want this POTUS to pay for the transportation costs of FLOTUS if she’s not traveling with him is ridiculous and shameful. The racism in Henry’s question isn’t even veiled. Carney needs to get examples of the unreimbursed travels of prior Republican FLOTUS’s and shove it up Henry’s nose.
Don’t forget both the Reagans and the Bushes had their damned vacation homes practically rebuilt with taxpayer money too.
Reagan even had the ranch as a gift from the car dealers assoc in California and other donors. He didn’t even buy the thing himself.
The first Xmas that Obama was in office, I got into a tussle over at THE PLACE THAT NO LONGER EXISTS, with people who were upset that Obama was travelling on Air Force One to Hawaii for Xmas. They didn’t know WHY he would go to Hawaii. I suggested that it could be because he was born and basically raised in Hawaii, that his roots are there, he has many friends there and that his sister and her family live there? Why shouldn’t he go to Hawaii on Air Force One? The entire thought process associated with questioning WHY our first Black POTUS would dare to go to Hawaii “On Air Force One” for Xmas, or that he should pay for FLOTUS to travel when he’s not present, is drenched in racism.
…or they’d have no problem with a Republican POTUS and his family flying on Air Force One.
Marsha Blackburn this morning: Put on a clean shirt and get a job. I guess she thinks men are the only people needing jobs. This might help then, and oh, don’t try this on clean undies.
http://youtu.be/MAhcf6u_XDc
She’s a pompous ass. During the govt shutdown she said that people would be surprised by “what they could live without”. More Richsplain from a HAVE. She’s a bona fide member of the IF IT AIN’T HAPPENING TO ME, IT AIN’T HAPPENING, CLUB. She has no understanding of how difficult it is to find employment in this economic environment, especially for people over 50.
When no one’s hiring, it doesn’t matter what the hell you wear.
This morning Marsha Blackburn had a group of activist at her office door, encouraging her to vote for extending employment benefits. Along with John McCain, and Mark Kirk, Marsha refused to vote. Listening to her this morning, she said that the democrats were portraying her party as haters of the poor, and that isn’t so. She said ” put on a clean shirt and get a job”. She said her party was all about the family value brand. About that time I spit up all over the place. I just couldn’t help myself from screaming out Bill Young, the Christian family man who paid his wife $2,000 a month for the job of “shutting her up” until he died. And so when he died in October that wife no longer had that income. We do know that Bill Young (like a lot of other republicans) have put their sons (and daughters in law) to work making damn good money via earmarks. He never helped his kids from the first marriage get jobs.
Son, Patrick Young, at the young age of 20 (yes twenty) became the security administrator of Science Application International Corp. (SAIC). Hell, yeah, he had high level of security clearence and worked with intelligence data, wonder if he ever met up with Snowden. The other son Billy was 23 years, and became a specialist for National Forensic Science Technology Center. Then there was the son Robert, and the daughter in law who was a lobbyist for the defense contractors. It just goes on and on. Can you humveeeeeeee. Meanwhile, everybody else in this country were losing their jobs, their homes, their health insurance, and family members to war. They gut, and shut down our government so that the working person didn’t stand a chance.
That’s family values for you, and that is how they are keeping it in the family.
Republican family values are quite different from everyone else’s family values for sure!
I see that golden goose laying billion dollar eggs all over the place. The SAIC is an American defense company in Reston, Va. It works extensively with US Dept. of Defense (of which Rep. Bill Young served on), the US Dept. Homeland Security, the US Intelligence community, including the NATIONAL Security Agency, as well as other civil agencies. I don’t know who answers to who anymore. Not only do the republicans do not want you to touch those eggs, apparently allowed it to shed some campaign monies to our President, being the top recipient. Just look at the billions of dollars going out to contractors. I remember reading that contractors were sent into the war areas to do what the soldiers were doing, only the soldiers were paid $25,000, while the contractor got $125,000 doing the same job. Don’t you remember that? When was the last time the Defense Department was ever audited? Never, it’s probably impossible to do since, particularly since 911.
Looky:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leidos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Applications_International_Corporation
The DoD actually tried to audit the books several years ago and just couldn’t do it. They literally had about $80 billion or so that couldn’t be accounted for at all in that year. The DoD needs some drastic downsizing of contractors and support people. Congress would have a cow if anyone seriously even suggested that.
Combat personnel, at the tip of the spear, are always the last people considered during budgeting. That, in itself, is a damn national disgrace.
Exactly Ralph. Here’s Marsha Blackburn voting record during Bush & Obama years. She’s solid right pro big money……………..
Under bush she voted YES on extending unemployment benefits from 39 weeks to 59 weeks (2008)……………..She vote NO on increasing minimum wage…………I said earlier she was a no vote today, forgetting she’s in the house..
http://www.ontheissues.org/house/marsha_Blackburn.htm
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We should kidnap @RealAlexJones , knock him out, tattoo a barcode on his neck, and then release him with a note saying “we’re watching you”.
I think that already happened to him. 🙂
Ed Snowden exaggerates even more than Alex Jones does.
CBS is really earning that Media Matters “Misinformer of the Year” award they won.
Salon: “60 Minutes” gets it wrong again: Cleantech hit job doesn’t check out
I heard yesterday that CBS has given a contract to Frank Luntz as a political consultant. Asshats!
Maddowblog: A lucrative fight against ‘Big Brother’
A couple of small goodies from Steve Benen,,,
Tell Rand to head to the hospital, I went to ER, and they had everything about me at hand, and I had never been to one in Idaho before. They got the goods on you.
Likely because they’re connected somehow with the organization where you’ve received medical care from before — or because the two organizations use the same electronic health record system.
Laura Rozen @lrozen 7h
Gates zings Congress: when “little red light went on atop a TV camera it had the effect of a full moon on a werewolf”
Rush Limbaugh: Polar vortex is a “hoax” created by the left
Yes, Rush, there are polar vortexes, they exist and they’ve been around,named, and talked about for a long time. You flunked out of community college in southern missouri and it’s showing …
http://www.salon.com/2014/01/07/rush_limbaugh_polar_vortex_is_a_hoax_created_by_the_left/
Cliff Mass does his usual good weather-wonky explanation of the science. He’s definite about the evidence for climate change / global warming, but rigorous in pointing out that individual occurrences can’t be attributed to it — too much variability.
http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2014/01/does-cold-wave-imply-anything-about.html
Yes, cold weather happens every year. Climate scientists call it “winter”. People just don’t think anymore.
Funny thing Luna, I put that Cliffmass link in my post for Wed before I saw your comment.
Lol. wise minds and all that!
Good News! This asshole judge is retiring!!
http://mtstandard.com/news/state-and-regional/embattled-judge-to-retire/article_0a1dfab6-775c-11e3-b418-0019bb2963f4.html
He’s the guy that let that rapist teacher off.
Way past time for him to go.
http://thefeministbreeder.com/explaining-white-privilege-broke-white-person/
http://politicalblindspot.com/study-finds-white-americans-believe-they-experience-more-racism-than-african-americans/
How stupid can they get?
(Rhetorical question.)
Glad that was a rhetorical question. I thought those reverse racism opinions were largely isolated in the old South. Wow.
I found that an especially stunning example of stupidity. I bet those are the type of people who think that other people getting health care coverage makes their own worse.
Yep, no doubt. Morons.
Click to access WhitePrivilege.pdf
white privilege check
Best article about white privilege I have ever read, Just magnificent!
http://seattletimes.com/text/2022617234.html
Hope this works, but it’d be a miracle in the current political climate:
http://seattletimes.com/text/2022614434.html