Kossack Lays the Smackdown on Tim Wise

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Saturday August 21, 2010 · 9:09 PM PDT

2010/08/21 · 21:09

One of the things I love the most about Daily Kos is the vibrant conversation that often occurs within the comments to rec list diaries. I don't know of anyplace else on the 'Nets where there is the same level of real-time, political discussion.

Some members of this community have been ripping their shirts off for the past several days in response to a pair of rec list diaries that addressed the issue of race as it relates to the "Liberal-Left" and the Democratic Party.

One particular commenter, StuartZ, wrote a series of comments that could've and should've been a diary in itself. Here's my attempt at that diary . . .

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Thursday August 19, 2010 · 9:02 AM PDT

2010/08/19 · 09:02

This is not good:

New claims for jobless benefits rose to a nine-month high last week, touching the half-million mark, in a worrying sign for the US labour market.

Initial jobless claims increased by 12,000 to 500,000, labour department figures showed on Thursday. Wall Street analysts were expecting claims to dip.

In the past month, claims for unemployment insurance have been creeping higher and the less volatile four-week average rose 8,000 to 482,500. That was the highest level since December 2009.

http://www.ft.com/...

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Tuesday August 17, 2010 · 9:30 PM PDT

2010/08/17 · 21:30

One thing we tend not to see a lot of in these political discussions about Islamic-Western relations is the actual voice of Islamic people. It tends to be a debate within the context of non-Islamic society about religious tolerance vs. concerns about encroachments on our Western way of life.

Abdul Rahman Al-Rashid is the general manager of Al-Arabiya television. Mr. Al-Rashid is also the former editor-in-chief of Asharq Al-Awsat, and the leading Arabic weekly magazine, Al-Majalla. He is also a senior Columnist in the daily newspapers of Al-Madina and Al-Bilad.

Yesterday, he published a column where he called President Obama's statement Friday in support of freedom of religion for the developers of the Ground Zero mosque, "unnecessary and unimportant, even as far as Muslims are concerned" . . .

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Tuesday August 03, 2010 · 8:15 PM PDT

2010/08/03 · 20:15

In her interview with Anderson Cooper a couple of weeks ago, Shirley Sherrod made the following statement about Andrew Breitbart:

I think he would like to get us stuck back in the times of slavery. That's where I think he would like to see all black people end up again.

http://www.youtube.com/...

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Friday July 30, 2010 · 9:40 PM PDT

2010/07/30 · 21:40

Anderson Cooper apologized on-air yesterday for not challenging Shirley Sherrod when she appeared on his show and called Andrew Breitbart a racist. Cooper said he erred by allowing Sherrod to deliver the remarks unchecked, and said that he’d handle the situation differently if he had the opportunity again:

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Shirley Sherrod will call Anderson Cooper a racist

12 votes

Shirley Sherrod will apologize for calling Andrew Breitbart a racist

2 votes

Andrew Breitbart will call Anderson Cooper a racist

12 votes

The MSM will call Charles Sherrod a racist

36 votes

Charles Sherrod will call Anderson Cooper a racist

2 votes

Anderson Cooper will apologize for calling Charles Sherrod a racist

16 votes

Sen. Jim Webb: Non-Black "Diversity Programs Should End"

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Friday July 23, 2010 · 1:44 PM PDT

2010/07/23 · 13:44

Senator James Webb (D-VA) is out today with a Wall Street Journal editorial, provocatively entitled, "Diversity and the Myth of White Privilege", in which he calls for the end of most government-directed affirmative action programs and policies:

Forty years ago, as the United States experienced the civil rights movement, the supposed monolith of White Anglo-Saxon Protestant dominance served as the whipping post for almost every debate about power and status in America. After a full generation of such debate, WASP elites have fallen by the wayside and a plethora of government-enforced diversity policies have marginalized many white workers. The time has come to cease the false arguments and allow every American the benefit of a fair chance at the future.

http://online.wsj.com/...

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Thursday July 22, 2010 · 1:00 PM PDT

2010/07/22 · 13:00

"Let's take our time and get the facts straight on this story. Can we get confirmation and comments from Sherrod before going on-air. Let's make sure we do this right."

-- Fox Senior Vice President Michael Clemente, email to news staff, Monday, July 19, 2010

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

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Wednesday July 21, 2010 · 4:16 PM PDT

2010/07/21 · 16:16

If you'd like to take a break from all of the accusations of alleged racism flying around the blogosphere today, how about some real racism:

A Palestinian man has been convicted of rape after having consensual sex with a woman who had believed him to be a fellow Jew.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/...

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Needed additional protection

17 votes

A bridge too far

98 votes

Has Corporate America "Gone Galt"?

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Friday July 16, 2010 · 9:00 PM PDT

2010/07/16 · 21:00

While you were dragging the men who made your happiness possible to your sacrificial altars, I beat you to it. I reached them first and told them about the game you were playing and where it would take them. I explained the consequences of your 'brother-love' morality, which they had been too innocently generous to understand. You won't find them now, when you need them more than ever. We're on strike against your creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties.

-- Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand

Businesses are not hiring. Despite months of "recovery", job growth in 2010 has been paltry to non-existent. Now we know why:

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Federal direct hiring

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Neoliberalism

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President Obama, White House: "Al Qaeda is a Racist Organization"

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Tuesday July 13, 2010 · 11:32 PM PDT

2010/07/13 · 23:32

From Jake Tapper, in an interview for South African television today, President Obama addressed the Uganda bombings:

"What you've seen in some of the statements that have been made by these terrorist organizations is that they do not regard African life as valuable in and of itself. They see it as a potential place where you can carry out ideological battles that kill innocents without regard to long-term consequences for their short-term tactical gains."

http://blogs.abcnews.com/...

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Monday July 12, 2010 · 11:44 PM PDT

2010/07/12 · 23:44

At today's management meeting at work, the ED talked about negotiations that were going on with the union regarding our health care coverage, and an issue was raised that I don't remember hearing about at all during the health care debate.

According to our HR manager, our excellent health care coverage will be "grandfathered in" as of the date HCR goes into effect (well, at least one of the several dates). This means that we can keep our current coverage.

After a certain point in time, however, if we make any changes in our "plan design", we would risk losing our grandfather status, and if that happened, we would be forced to offer only the standard, federally-mandated plan, which would be significantly worse that what we currently enjoy. Any company that is not grandfathered in, in other words, will only be allowed to offer the federally-mandated health care plan, and nothing better.

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Monday June 28, 2010 · 8:14 AM PDT

2010/06/28 · 08:14

From what I can tell from 2000 miles away, the "media blackout" of the effects of the BP gusher has been somewhat effective in preventing the reality of the situation there from really getting out. I came across this video of Gulf Coast resident Kendra Arnesan speaking at the Gulf Emergency Summit last week, and I think what she said needs to be heard far and wide.

H/t Lusty for the transcript.

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Sen. Jim Webb: Non-Black "Diversity Programs Should End"

Stop Slandering Fox News on Sherrod UPDATE

Arab-Israeli Found Guilty of 'Rape by Deception' after Pretending to be Jewish

Has Corporate America "Gone Galt"?

President Obama, White House: "Al Qaeda is a Racist Organization"

For the HCR Experts . . . [UPDATE]

"BP Has Taken Over Our Gulf!" (VIDEO)