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kpete's JournalMissouri Mayor Says He 'Kind Of Agreed' With Alleged Jewish Center Shooter
The mayor of a small Missouri town has mostly nice things to say about the white supremacist accused of killing three people at Jewish facilities last weekend.
Marionville, Mo. Mayor Dan Clevenger spoke warmly this week of Frazier Glenn Miller, who allegedly went on a killing rampage on Sunday in Overland Park, Kan.
"He was always nice and friendly and respectful of elder people, you know, he respected his elders greatly. As long as they were the same color as him," Clevenger said while laughing, according to television station KSPR. "Very fair and honest and never had a bit of problems out of him."
Clevenger said he sympathized with some of Miller's views, but didn't like to broadcast that.
more:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/frazier-glenn-miller-marionville-dan-clevenger
UPDATE (h/t to DonViejo)
Mayor No Longer Wants To Discuss How Much He Agrees With Alleged Jewish Center Shooter
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/dan-clavenger-frazier-glenn-miller-marionville-missouri
Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.
David Foster Wallace On The Key To Living A Compassionate Life"In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship -- be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles -- is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It's the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you."
a keeper:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/16/david-foster-wallace-keny_n_5148773.html
SHOE TRUTHERS --- Connect The Dots Here People!
Attempting to cover up this story, which is possibly THE MOST IMPORTANT SCANDAL IN UNITED STATES HISTORY!! I've made up a simple diagram of the 'crime' scene - this makes the entire scandal crystal clear! CONNECT THE DOTS HERE PEOPLE!!! (scribbles furiously on blackboard)
found here:
http://www.dailykos.com/comments/1292433/53165601#c51
Tea Partiers Livid State GOP Wants Clarification On White Supremacy Ties
Tea Partiers Livid State GOP Wants Clarification On White Supremacy Ties
Mississippi Tea Partiers want the state's Republican Party chairman to resign for calling on state Sen. Chris McDaniel (R-MS) to clarify whether he planned to be the keynote speaker at a pro-Second Amendment event and tea party rally that featured a segregationist vendor.
The call for state party chairman Joe Nosef to resign comes in response to Nosef telling MSNBC that McDaniel needed to clarify whether he had planned to attend the event or not. Nosef, on the Paul Gallo Show, also suggested that McDaniel could cost Republicans a Senate seat. McDaniel is running to unseat Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS).
"It is inappropriate for Nosef to make such claims given his role as Chairman of the MS GOP. Accordingly, Joe Nosef should resign from his position as Chairman of the MS GOP effective immediately," the Mississippi Tea Party said in a statement.
Nosef, in a statement to the Clarion Ledger of Mississippi, said he would not resign:
MORE:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/mississippi-tea-party-chris-mcdaniel-joe-nosef
MSU Students: "If we had not heard these people we wouldn’t believe such hateful people exist"
More Teachers Need To Show Students How Dangerous White Supremacists AreIn 2012, Missouri State University professor David Embree invited Frazier Glenn Miller to speak to his class so they would know how dangerous white supremacists really are. Miller, who was charged yesterday with killing three people at Jewish sites in Kansas this weekend, told the class that he hoped the next Hitler was sitting in the room.
The classroom lecture had the desired effect. Students were convinced that “white supremacy is a real thing and a dangerous thing,” Embree added.
“I asked the class, I said, ‘What did you think about bringing these people in?’” Embree explained to BuzzFeed. “And they said, ‘You’re absolutely right, if we had not heard these people we wouldn’t believe such hateful people exist.’
Miller helpfully underlined the lesson by insulting perceived Jews among the student body. We suggest that this experiment requires emulation, and that the time has come for courageous education professionals to follow Dr. Embree’s model and educate their students. Hate like Miller’s may be ugly, but if we never countenance it we can never truly appreciate the dangerous banality of evil that Hitler and his latter-day fanatics embody.
MORE:
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/04/more-teachers-need-show-students-how
Americans increasingly prefer Democrats on healthcare: Reuters/Ipsos poll
Americans increasingly prefer Democrats on healthcare: Reuters/Ipsos poll
(Reuters) - Americans increasingly think Democrats have a better plan for healthcare than Republicans, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted after the White House announced that more people than expected had signed up for the "Obamacare" health plan.
Nearly one-third of respondents in the online survey released on Tuesday said they prefer Democrats' plan, policy or approach to healthcare, compared to just 18 percent for Republicans. This marks both an uptick in support for Democrats and a slide for Republicans since a similar poll in February.
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"Democrats have not managed to have a huge lead over Republicans so much as Republicans have managed to damage their own position and stay behind Democrats," Jackson said. "That's because people don't view the Republican Party as standing for any particular healthcare system."
MORE:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/15/us-usa-healthcare-poll-idUSBREA3E21220140415
Lessons of Immortality and Mortality From My Father, Carl Sagan - BY SASHA SAGAN
Carl Sagan's Daughter on What Her Dad Taught Her About Life and Death:BY SASHA SAGAN
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.......he told me, very tenderly, that it can be dangerous to believe things just because you want them to be true. You can get tricked if you don’t question yourself and others, especially people in a position of authority. He told me that anything that’s truly real can stand up to scrutiny.
As I veered into a kind of mini existential crisis, my parents comforted me without deviating from their scientific worldview.
“You are alive right this second. That is an amazing thing,” they told me. When you consider the nearly infinite number of forks in the road that lead to any single person being born, they said, you must be grateful that you’re you at this very second. Think of the enormous number of potential alternate universes where, for example, your great-great-grandparents never meet and you never come to be. Moreover, you have the pleasure of living on a planet where you have evolved to breathe the air, drink the water, and love the warmth of the closest star. You’re connected to the generations through DNA — and, even farther back, to the universe, because every cell in your body was cooked in the hearts of stars. We are star stuff, my dad famously said, and he made me feel that way.
My parents taught me that even though it’s not forever — because it’s not forever — being alive is a profoundly beautiful thing for which each of us should feel deeply grateful. If we lived forever it would not be so amazing.
More and pics too:
http://nymag.com/thecut/2014/04/my-dad-and-the-cosmos.html
"nice" people can't be racists"
from a comment to TPM re: "Hard To Handle"
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/hard-to-handle
Let me tell you about my grandfather. He was a burly hard-working man with a close black friend that his children considered an uncle. His favorite musician was Louis Armstrong. He cried whenever we left his house to drive home, because he would miss us so. He cooked for three generations almost every Sunday. At least six of the nurses from his the hospital where he died attended his funeral after becoming so attached to him. He was one of the sweetest and toughest men you can imagine.
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He was a "kindly old guy," and most of my Republican family would be furious with me for calling him a racist, because he gave food to poor black families, he worked with and hired black men and women. He didn't attack anyone, he wasn't vicious, and I loved him. But just because he didn't firebomb houses doesn't mean he wasn't a racist.
But my grandfather also never published "endless articles taking about mooching black 'animals', impending race wars and embattled whites and not dissimilar stuff about Jews," as you note that Ron Paul did.
Ron Paul may come across as a "kindly older man." But his newsletter gave comfort to and encouraged violent racists all over the country, and he and his supporters should be extremely concerned (I'd say "horrified"
that he bears some responsibility for this tragedy and others like it. Based on the "ferocious" defensive response, it seems that his supporters are.
(more, from a comment at TPM)
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/thoughts-on-hard-to-handle
What if Bundy Ranch Were Owned by a Bunch of Black People?
I love how conservatives believe grazing cattle on public land is a private property issue.First, this entire incident speaks to the continued power of right-wing mythology. For many of the protesters, this isn’t about a rogue rancher as much as it’s a stand against “tyranny” personified in Barack Obama and his administration.
Second, it won’t happen, but right-wing media ought to be condemned for their role in fanning the flames of this standoff. After years of decrying Obama’s “lawlessness” and hyperventilating over faux scandals, it’s galling to watch conservatives applaud actual lawbreaking and violent threats to federal officials.
Finally, I can’t help but wonder how conservatives would react if these were black farmers—or black anyone—defending “their” land against federal officials. Would Fox News applaud black militiamen aiming their guns at white bureaucrats?
Somehow, given the degree to which right-wing media traffic in racial paranoia, I think we’d be looking at a different situation if the Bundy Ranch belonged to a bunch of black people. And as someone who closely follows the regular incidents of lethal police violence against blacks and Latinos, I also wonder whether law enforcement would be as tepid against a group of armed African-Americans. Judging from past events, I’m not so sure.
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2014/04/15/bundy_ranch_and_bureau_of_land_management_standoff_what_right_wingers_anger.html?wpisrc=burger_bar
hmmmmm: Records suggest that F. Glenn Miller Jr. was once in witness protection program
In 1987, Miller reached a plea bargain with federal prosecutors on weapons charges. In exchange for a reduced sentence, he agreed to testify against associates in paramilitary and white supremacist movements.But Miller’s plea bargain likely included federal witness protection services as well. The 1987 sentencing memorandum recommended witness protection for Miller, according to Chris Shields, a domestic terrorism researcher.
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“I was to plead guilty to one count of felony possession of a hand grenade and answer all questions posed to me by the authorities,” Miller wrote. “In return, they would recommend a 5-year prison sentence, immunity from any further prosecution by either state or federal authorities, and entrance into the Federal Witness Protection Program which included the financial support of my family while I served my sentence.”
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There is little doubt that Miller was in danger when he was released from custody in 1990. His decision to testify against other members of the movement had infuriated other supremacists and members of the paramilitary.
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Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2014/04/15/4962168/records-suggest-federal-authorities.html#storylink=cpy
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