Tim Wise: Imagine if the Tea Party was Black

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Friday April 23, 2010 · 6:15 PM PDT

2010/04/23 · 18:15

Tim Wise has penned a useful thought experiment: "Imagine if the Tea Party was Black". From the piece:

Imagine that hundreds of black protesters were to descend upon Washington DC . . . armed with AK-47s, assorted handguns, and ammunition. And imagine that some of these protesters —the black protesters — spoke of the need for political revolution, and possibly even armed conflict in the event that laws they didn’t like were enforced by the government? Would these protester — these black protesters with guns — be seen as brave defenders of the Second Amendment, or would they be viewed by most whites as a danger to the republic?

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Friday November 20, 2009 · 10:56 AM PST

2009/11/20 · 10:56

h/t to atrios

Hilarious video at rumproast showing upset Palinites who, god forbid, are booing the Holy One. Apparently, Palin failed to appreciate the sacrifices made by those unlucky wingers who did not get signatures at the latest book-signing shindig.

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Friday September 04, 2009 · 6:09 PM PDT

2009/09/04 · 18:09

Bill Donohue, notorious head of the Catholic League, a far right wing "group", has a new book coming out called Secular Sabotage -- How Liberals Are Destroying Religion and Culture in America.

Sounds pretty good, huh? I'm sure it's chock full of insightful commentary.

It has the some of the usual conservapundits lining up in praise to lend their names to the blurb sheet: Michael Medved, Laura Ingraham, Donald Wildmon, chair of the American Family Association. It also includes the leading conservative voice in America right now: Stephen Colbert.

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Friday May 22, 2009 · 7:47 PM PDT

2009/05/22 · 19:47

On May 10 the following transpired just a few blocks from where I work in Seattle:

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Saturday January 24, 2009 · 3:02 PM PST

2009/01/24 · 15:02

I am no expert on health care reform or the intricacies of the looming national health insurance debates that will take center stage during the Obama administration. Writing this diary is more of an exercise in educating myself, and perhaps offering another perspective to the ongoing healthcare reform conversation. I simply provide this post as a possible forum for more educated or aware Kossacks to put in their "two cents." Look forward to your thoughts!

This week’s Stranger (Seattle alt weekly) has an article on Qliance Medical Group, a group of primary care physicians who have developed a business model that provides health care without dealing with insurance companies. Sometimes described (perhaps dismissively) as boutique care or the "concierge approach", this model writ large might provide a compelling way forward in providing more people affordable primary and preventive health care -- care that specifically cuts out the insurance middleman.

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Monday January 05, 2009 · 5:18 PM PST

2009/01/05 · 17:18

Eli Sanders at Seattle's indie weekly The Stranger has just put a post up suggesting that Gov. Christine Gregoire may be Obama's replacement pick as Sec'y of Commerce.

According to the article,

The Governor of Washington State has disappeared. Her office, while very tight-lipped about her whereabouts, tells me there will be an announcement early tomorrow morning. Obama's transition team plans to announce the new Commerce Secretary nominee (replacing Bill Richardson) "very quickly."

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Pentagon doesn't like results of KBR audit, hires different auditor

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Monday June 16, 2008 · 10:25 PM PDT

2008/06/16 · 22:25

Another day, another middle finger to the American taxpayer and American soldier from the Bush Administration and friends at Kellogg Brown & Root.

The New York Times has an article up detailing how back in the early stages of the Iraq War, the Army's own auditor found lack of support for $ 1 billion in fees and charges sought by KBR for their "services," and that the senior civilian overseeing the KBR contract was "reassigned" for demanding KBR provide information:

The official, Charles M. Smith, was the senior civilian overseeing the multibillion-dollar contract with KBR during the first two years of the war. Speaking out for the first time, Mr. Smith said that he was forced from his job in 2004 after informing KBR officials that the Army would impose escalating financial penalties if they failed to improve their chaotic Iraqi operations.

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Thursday May 22, 2008 · 10:15 PM PDT

2008/05/22 · 22:15

The New York Times has an article up detailing the Army's lack of oversight and accountability regarding both taxpayer dollars and Iraqi funds used to pay contracts in Iraq. Rep. Waxman, and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform had a hearing today regarding an internal Pentagon audit.

A Pentagon audit of $8.2 billion in American taxpayer money spent by the United States Army on contractors in Iraq has found that almost none of the payments followed federal rules and that in some cases, contracts worth millions of dollars were paid for despite little or no record of what, if anything, was received.

...almost none of the payments [made by the Army] followed federal rules and ... in some cases, contracts worth millions of dollars were paid for despite little or no record of what, if anything, was received.

... not exactly chump change. More over the flip.

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Thursday December 13, 2007 · 10:37 PM PST

2007/12/13 · 22:37

I don't know about you, but it's late, the days are fairly trying lately, and I need a bit of a diversion... so forgive me, but..

Did you know...

...that today is the 30th anniversary of the release of Saturday Night Fever, a strange, huge cultural phenomenon that still resonates to this day? (Well, not really, I mean disco's long gone... but like I said, I need a diversion, and maybe you, dear reader, do as well.)

Follow over the flip for a trip down a flashing multi-colored memory lane.

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Sunday October 14, 2007 · 4:23 PM PDT

2007/10/14 · 16:23

So here's what I was gonna do...

I was going to write a broad, thoughtful diary about the use of the word "netroots" vis-a-vis "base" when describing my understanding of modern-day progressives as a group.

I was going to bring in and discuss Thomas Friedman's recent column "Generation Q" where he seems to set up a dichotomy, or a dualism, between online activity and traditional world-changing activism.

I was also going to use Nancy Pelosi's recent "waste of time" comments, already much discussed here at dailykos, and suggest that in actuality we could see that Pelosi has embraced that same dualism, rightly or wrongly, and was merely trying to advocate for the more "traditional" (and, from our perspective, non-crashing-the gates) channels of "activism" from the "base".

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Thursday October 11, 2007 · 9:15 PM PDT

2007/10/11 · 21:15

Today a young female cyclist was hit and killed by a cement truck in Portland, Oregon. The cyclist was in a bicycle lane, and both were at a stoplight.

The truck was headed northbound on SW 14th Ave. and it came to a stop at a red light on W. Burnside. When the truck’s light turned green, the truck began to turn right (eastbound) onto W. Burnside. At that point, somehow a bicycle collided with the truck.

Kruger said they cannot tell what type of movement (if any) the bicyclist was making before the collision. He said there were no skid marks from the bicycle tire.

Oregonian reporter Stuart Tomlinson used to ride through that same intersection. He reports that witnesses in the restaurant directly adjacent to the corner say both the truck and the cyclist were stopped, but when the light turned green the cyclist went straight and the truck turned right.

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Sunday August 12, 2007 · 2:18 PM PDT

2007/08/12 · 14:18

On February 15, 2003 I, like many here, marched with millions around the globe in an effort to stop the inexorable march of the present administration toward war in Iraq.

After March 20 of that year, I was dispirited, heartbroken, and angry. For whatever reason, decisionmakers in our country (and the serious people in the media) did not seem to take notice of all the facts -- or consciously manipulated them (or made them up) to serve questionable purposes. Further, millions of voices that were raised up as one in February had seemingly accomplished nothing.

It was clear to me: government needed people who weren't afraid of the truth and were willing to fight for it within the system. Thus, I decided to go to law school.

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