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AMERICA'S IGNORANCE ON RACE

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:59:25 GMT

clipped by: thinkingblue
clipper's remarks: Sad, but let us hope that those who still hold on to their xenophobia and complete unfounded fears of anyone who looks different from themselves. Will, at long last, get so fed up with the status quo of the almighty greed and corporate powerbrokers, who use any tool to hold on to their powers. Consequently, making them realize that they are just pawns to the GREED GODS This "awakening" will end the long reign of power by those who only care about themselves. I can only dream.thinkingblue

PS: this (utter stupidity) was a comment on one of my blogs...

obama bin biden this might be silly but if you put Obama and Biden you come up with the name of osama bin laden ... come on .. how close is that name.. this is not good news for US to have osama bin binden as the people in charge.. i dont think this is an accindent .. you know this kind of scares me alot to see that name...

WHAT STUPID HORSESHIT!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM4NxHGb6iI (VIDEO)

Clip Source: www.thethinkingblue.com

AMERICA'S IGNORANCE ON RACE

EXCERPTED FROM PM CARPENTER

The (Newsweek) new poll suggests white voters continue to be a challenge for Obama

We are still living in the DARK AGES as far as ignorance amongst the American populous. I don't know when it will change, if ever. When I got a job as a civil service employee, in the 60's, working for The Clerk of Quarter Sessions, I had a DOOFUS (click) boyfriend tell me, not to take the job because I would be outnumbered by blacks and maybe even wind up with a black boss.

At that time, I had a friend who was a civil service employee tell me, "it's a good opportunity, don't pass it up". So I took the job and found out... HOLY JUMPING JUPITER, BATMAN, dark skin or light skin, people are all the same. Some are ASSHOLES and some are quite rational.

Well here I am, almost two generations down the road and prejudice is quite ensconced "STILL" in the American psyche.

thinkingblue

utter stupidity

was a comment on one of my blogs

Tags: politics, election, 2008, bigotry

What Will You Discover? Go RVing.

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:07:04 GMT

clipped by: zalisan
clipper's remarks: Don't let the present economic situation keep you from vacationing. RVing is affordale and everything you need is right there with you.
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Clip Source: www.gorving.com

Who doesn’t enjoy a great vacation? You can’t wait for it to begin and wish it would never end…You return to your everyday routine feeling relaxed and happier…You bond with your spouse and family while away, growing closer…you return to work with a more motivated outlook…And research has proven these “feelings” to be truths.

In addition, RV trips add benefits like less stress because you are in control of your itinerary and timetables – easy to pick up and go without having to pack luggage or limit the things you can and can’t take in your luggage – ability to follow special diets or eat your favorite foods with your own kitchen along – no worries about having to leave any family members behind because even four-legged companions love to RV.

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness…Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”

Mark Twain

Clip Source: www.gorving.com

Bring the Pets

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RVing Through History

Clip Source: www.gorving.com

Tags: rv, vacation, affordable, camping, travel

We salute you Howard Baugh

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:46:48 GMT

clipped by: douchrti
clipper's remarks: Good flying Howard, thank you for your courage.

Clip Source: www.inrich.com

Tuskegee Airman died amid plans to immortalize him

Baugh and the other Tuskegee Airmen helped conquer Axis forces abroad, but their greatest victory may have been against bigotry and ignorance at home. Call them a squadron that ushered in not only the desegregation of the armed forces by President Harry S. Truman but the civil-rights movement that followed.

Tags: howard baugh, tuskegee airman

Democratic Party Apology to Godless

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:29:05 GMT

clipped by: laceym
clipper's remarks: Not gonna happen. *sigh*

Clip Source: atheistethicist.blogspot.com

When we organized forums on morality and the common good, and invited only people of faith to these discussions, we engaged in a form of bigotry that we really need to put an end to in this country. We fell into a trap of thinking that if a person does not have a religion, then he does not have any morals or any concern for the public good. The non-religious community was rightly outraged by these insults.

We realize, and we want to make it clear, that any discussion of morals and the public good must include the voice of the non-religious community. In the future, we will make sure that they have a place at the table. We swear ourselves to standing in opposition to any policy that will seek to segregate our community between people of faith and non-believers. We will never again hang a sign on any party door that says, 'People of faith only beyond this point; people of no faith are not allowed in'.

Tags: hypothetical

Please Get Laid

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:23:04 GMT

clipped by: debbyski

Clip Source: www.latimes.com

This week, while you were distractedly waiting for one of the presidential candidates to just go ahead and pick Michael Phelps as his running mate, a Manhattan lawyer sued Columbia University for discriminating against men.

Roy Den Hollander, who's best known for suing Manhattan nightclubs because they offered free or discounted Ladies Night drinks to women, claimed the university could not use government money, such as federal financial aid, to fund its Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

Two questions come to mind (and, for the record, I have a degree from Columbia). First, how did an institution that kept its undergraduate women in a separate college across the street (Barnard) until 1983 manage to become a "bastion of bigotry against men" in such a short time? Second, when did women's studies gather enough steam to pose a legitimate threat to men?

ACLU trying to control public prayer

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:23:38 GMT

clipped by: Eaglewings
clipper's remarks: I thought the ACLU sought to protect people from the overreaching government and discrimination against religion, race, or creed. I guess I was mistaken.

The mission statement of the ACLU states:

The mission of the ACLU is to preserve all of these protections and guarantees:

Your First Amendment rights - freedom of speech, association and assembly; freedom of the press, and freedom of religion.

I wonder what changed?

Clip Source: www.onenewsnow.com

The American Civil Liberties Union is asking the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to tell private citizens how and what they can pray before meetings of the Cobb County, Georgia, Board of Commissioners.

The ACLU actually suggested to the court that Cobb County officials be ordered to send letters to invited clergy telling them "not to invoke religious messages" in their opening prayers and the commissioners' meetings.

This is religious bigotry; it's anti-free speech; it's everything that they're supposed to be against. The idea that the ACLU would want the government to tell people how they should or should not pray is outrageous."

the fact that the ACLU is trying to use the power of the government to tell people how to pray is just an incredible invasion of freedom, and [it] shows that they are not about freedom and liberty at all. They're about oppression and trying to stamp out religious speech."

Tags: aclu, government, prayer, free speech, religion

Florida town needs ACLU to show them why their principal is a BIGOT!

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:04:16 GMT

clipped by: Karzdan
clipper's remarks: And despite this, they still don't think he did anything wrong. Nothing? Punishing his students for something he has no right to? For displaying a very profound bigoted attitude towards some group of people, all because his outdated religious BS says he should?

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Principal’s outing of gay student roils Fla. town

PONCE DE LEON, Fla. - When a high school senior told her principal that students were taunting her for being a lesbian, he told her homosexuality is wrong, outed her to her parents and ordered her to stay away from children.

He suspended some of her friends who expressed their outrage by wearing gay pride T-shirts and buttons at Ponce de Leon High School, according to court records. And he asked dozens of students whether they were gay or associated with gay students.

The American Civil Liberties Union successfully sued the district on behalf of a girl who protested against Principal David Davis, and a federal judge reprimanded Davis for conducting a "witch hunt" against gays. Davis was demoted,

And despite all that, many in this conservative Panhandle community still wonder what, exactly, Davis did wrong.

"We are a small, rural district in the Bible Belt with strong Christian beliefs and feel like homosexuality is wrong," said Steve Griffin

Tags: bigotry, gay rights, gay, lesbian, religious intollerance

Militant Atheist, a slanderus slur we shouldn't abide anylonger.

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:39:39 GMT

clipped by: Karzdan
clipper's remarks: A gross misuse of the word 'Militant'. Just because we think, and question your beliefs. Doesn't make us 'militant'. It takes acts of violence against you.

I think, therefor I am!
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Clip Source: www.atheistrev.com

You Might be a Militant Atheist if...

The slur du jour aimed at atheists appears to be that of "militant atheism." While we in the atheist community know full well that there is no such thing as a militant atheist, the Christians who use this phrase remain willfully ignorant or are simply so used to distorting reality that it no longer bothers them. Make no mistake - this is a form of anti-atheist bigotry and should be treated as such. Atheists need to have a plan for responding to the charge of militancy. To do so, we must understand the accusation, why we are seeing it, and what it reveals about those making it.

Applications of the "Militant" Label

Richard Dawkins was greeted with accusations of "militant atheism" when he published The God Delusion. Based on the book's title, even many Christians who never read the book could assume that it was an attack on their god-belief. That was all it took. Dawkins dared to criticize their religious beliefs; this made him "militant."

Tags: atheism, atheist, militant, extremism, religion, slander

A win against religious bigotry!

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:37:56 GMT

clipped by: Karzdan
clipper's remarks: We can no longer allow people to discriminate based on their imaginary friend's rules.

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California doctors lose gay discrimination case

LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Doctors in California may not discriminate against gay patients on the basis of their religious beliefs, the state's supreme court ruled on Monday.

The California Supreme Court decision overturned a lower court ruling in favor of two Christian doctors who refused fertility treatment to a lesbian citing religious grounds.

The woman, Guadalupe Benitez, successfully filed suit against the doctors and their medical group in 2004 on the basis that their refusal to treat her violated California's anti-discrimination laws.

However an appeal court in San Diego ruled against Benitez, a decision that led to the supreme court ruling.

In an unanimous decision the justices ruled that Benitez was entitled to be treated like other patients with the same condition, and that constitutional protections for religious liberty do not excuse unlawful discrimination.

Tags: religion, bigotry, discrimination, gay rights

Hands Off Mohammed!!!

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:36:06 GMT

clipped by: AtlLiberal
clipper's remarks: Fear seems to have censored the publishing of a book about Mohammed. As the author of the piece points out:

"It is condescending to treat Muslims like excitable children who cannot cope with the probing, mocking treatment we hand out to Christianity, Judaism and Buddhism. It is perfectly consistent to protect Muslims from bigotry while challenging the bigotries and absurdities within their holy texts."

Doesn't seem like too much to ask.

Clip Source: scienceblogs.com

An author named Sherry Jones has written a book, called The Jewel of Medina, that will never see the light of day because it novelizes the life and times, with particular focus on the marital details, of the prophet Mohammed.

The Jewel of Medina was bought by Random House and primed to be a best-seller - before a University of Texas teacher saw proofs and declared it "a national security issue". Random House had visions of a re-run of the Rushdie or the Danish cartoons affairs. Sherry Jones's publisher has pulped the book. It's gone.

Hari goes on to criticize the kid gloves with which Islamic issues are dealt the world round, contrasting it to the relative ease with which people question the tenets of Christianity and other more 'docile' world religions. Although his East End perspective may not allow him to fully appreciate the rebounding resistence to criticism sought by Christians in America, his general conclusions are spot on:

Tags: islam, religion, criticism

Jerome Corsi, 'Obama Nation' Author, Set To Appear On White Supremacist Radio Show

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:53:42 GMT

clipped by: ratilfar
clipper's remarks: What a piece of work!

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

So, on last night's Larry King Live, one of the things that Paul Waldman brought up as a way of demonstrating Obama Nation author Jerome Corsi's lack of credibility was his past embrace of bigotry and general scumbaggery, as documented by "a whole series of bigoted and hateful posts" that Corsi "put up on right-wing Web sites." None of which Corsi denied! But, Corsi defended himself by shooting back that Waldman had failed to mention "all my apologies for those statements."

because this Sunday, he is set to make an appearance on the well-named "The Political Cesspool" - which, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, is "an overtly racist, anti-Semitic radio show hosted by self-avowed white nationalist James Edwards." In the past, the show has welcomed some marquee names in the hate movement, including "Christian Identity pastor Pete Peters, Holocaust denier Mark Weber and former Klan boss David Duke."

If you can bear a look at some of the show's Great Works, you can do so here.

Tags: racism, racist, corsi, liar, swiftboater

Bigotry and professions

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:45:49 GMT

clipped by: Angie66

Clip Source: www.theness.com

The essence of bigotry is making assumptions about an individual or treating them based upon a group to which they belong. This is not limited to race and ethnicity, and can also include profession. There is a difference in that people are not born into their profession; there is a sorting process (both self-selection and societal), and so statistical observations about those who enter a profession are legitimate. Never-the-less, simple-minded statements to the effect that all lawyers are crooks, all doctors are arrogant, and all priests are pedophiles, is bigotry plain and simple.

Bob Barr recants his position on Wicca in the military?

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:44:08 GMT

clipped by: wiccantexan

Clip Source: www.independentpoliticalreport.com

Ed Brayton (Dispatches from the Culture Wars) asked Barr if he would now, as Libertarian candidate, repudiate his 1999 attempt to prohibit the practice of Wicca, a neo-Pagan religion, on military bases. Barr said that he has changed his mind, citing “reports” that the practice of Wicca was causing problems that are apparently not an issue now.

I did ask him for any specific problems that were reported to him back in 1999 by these military leaders, but he said he didn’t want to get into specifics. I’m sure that’s because there are no specific incidents and those military leaders who complained to him did so out of bigotry, or because the problems it caused were really caused by bigotry against Wiccans. He likened it to his stance on Don’t Ask Don’t Tell for gays, which he previously supported but now that it’s clear that allowing gays to serve doesn’t really cause any problems with unit cohesion and good order, he thinks it should be repealed and they should be allowed to serve openly.

Tags: politics, wicca, pagan, military, bob barr

No-no to Atheists

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:40:49 GMT

clipped by: AtlLiberal
clipper's remarks: Our friends across the pond seem to suffer the same sort of religious bigotry that we have here in the States. Of course, I suppose the question could be asked why employees are surfing the net instead of working but that's for another clip.

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Council ban on atheist websites

A city council has blocked its staff from looking at websites about atheism.

Lawyers at the National Secular Society said the move by Birmingham City Council was "discriminatory" and they would consider legal action.

The rules also ban sites that promote witchcraft, the paranormal, sexual deviancy and criminal activity.

The city council declined to comment on the possible legal action, but said the new system helped make it easier for managers to monitor staff web access.

Under the Employment Equality (Religion or Belief) Regulations 2003, it is unlawful to discriminate against workers because of their religion or belief, which includes atheism.

National Secular Society president Terry Sanderson said the city council's rules also discriminated against people who practise witchcraft, which is also classed as a legitimate belief.

He said the society would initially contact the council and ask for the policy to be changed, and otherwise pursue legal action.

Tags: atheist, religion, wicca, web, ban

The Scary Hatred That Exists

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:25:12 GMT

clipped by: billrm
clipper's remarks: They can tell us all they want that bigotry is no longer a problem and that black people have just a good a chance in this county as anyone else, but a picture is worth a 1000 words.

This must be what Geraldine Ferraro meant when she said that Obama only got where he was because he was black.

Clip Source: www.politicalbase.com

A reader from Louisville, Kentucky e-mailed me this cell photo that he took at the end of last week.

This attack managed to incorporate Osama bin Laden and Uncle Tom into one Obama smear. From the home of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R) and RNC Chairman Mike Duncan.

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Tags: obama, bigotry, racism