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An Open Letter To Newt Gingrich From A Black Kid Who Grew Up In A Poor Neighborhood
An Open Letter To Newt Gingrich From A Black Kid Who Grew Up In A
Poor Neighborhood
Dear Newt Gingrich,
I recently saw you stand up in front of a group of people and allow some of the most 
idiotic, unfounded, racist, and ignorant words pass your lips that I’ve ever heard
from a member of a group of the most unqualified presidential candidates America
has ever seen.
To have the audacity to say that poor kids, and let’s be clear that’s republican speak
 for black and brown kids, “have no habits of working and nobody around them who
works” is not only an insult to me as black man who grew up in one of those “really
poor” neighborhoods you spoke of, but it’s an insult to my mother. And it’s an insult to
many other black, brown and white children, adults, and hard working parents(often single 
parents) who get up every single day to try to provide a better life for their children in 
poor neighborhoods.
As a child who grew up in Compton in the early 90′s, one of the most dangerous 
neighborhoods in America at that time, I watched my mother work tirelessly, sometimes juggling multiple jobs to provide for myself and my sister. Day in and day out like many other parents in poor neighborhoods, she did what she had to do in order to provide for us. You know what that turned into Mr. Gingrich?
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PS. You look like someone poured mashed potatoes into a suit
for all of it plus a video go to:
http://travonfree.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/an-open-letter-to-newt-gingrich-from-a-black-kid-who-grew-up-in-a-poor-neighborhood/
Conspiracy Theorists Believe Republican Candidates Are Tied Up somewhere-Borowitz suspects Obama
Conspiracy Theorists Believe Actual Republican Candidates Are Tied Up Somewhere
Obama a Prime Suspect
DES MOINES (The Borowitz Report) – A growing number of conspiracy theorists believe that the Republican candidates who keep showing up for televised debates are impostors and that the actual GOP candidates are tied up in a warehouse somewhere.
“There’s no way that these people are the actual candidates,” said Tracy Klugian, a leading conspiracy theorist who subscribes to the warehouse theory. “The American people need to stand up and demand the return of the real ones.”
Mr. Klugian, who started the website WhereAreTheRealOnes.com, said he started suspecting “something was up” months ago when the “supposed Republican candidates started debating,” but last night’s debate in Iowa left little doubt in his mind that the actual Republican candidates have been detained elsewhere.
“When the most sensible person onstage is Ron Paul,” he said, “you know that what you’re witnessing is an elaborate hoax.”
Conspiracy theorists like Mr. Klugian leave little doubt who might be behind the conspiracy to tie up the actual candidates at some remote location: President Barack Obama.
“If you could ensure that you’d be running against Newt Gingrich or Mitt Romney, wouldn’t you?” he said. “When the truth about this conspiracy comes out, it’s going to make what happened with the aliens at Roswell look like a game of duck-duck-goose.”
Meanwhile, Mr. Klugian said he remains “baffled” by people who insist on believing that the seven people who debated last night in Iowa are the actual Republican candidates.
“There’s no way you can believe that if you actually watched the debate,” he said. “It was like a sitcom with no main characters and just wacky neighbors.”
www.borowitzreport.com
Let's do a little comparing of "Liberal Rude" versus "Republican Rude"
Letter to the Editor: Winston-Salem, NC Journal, todayConsider
So the writer of the letter "Rude liberals" (Dec. 10) thinks that liberals are rude. After all, that rude columnist, Paul Krugman, pointed out that Newt Gingrich isn't as smart as he thinks he is. What a slap-down!
So consider:
Willie Horton ads, Swiftboating, GOP convention-goers waving purple band-aids to mock a veteran's war wounds, birtherism, Ann Coulter claiming that 9/11 widows were "enjoying their husbands' deaths," Rush Limbaugh mocking Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's disease, ads falsely claiming Sen. Kay Hagan was "godless," Rep. Michele Bachmann calling for an investigation of "un-American views" among some members of Congress, Joyce Kaufman at a tea-party rally: "If ballots don't work, bullets will," Glenn Beck: "Obama hates white people," Rep. Joe Wilson: "You lie!" wingnuts at the FreeRepublic website calling 11-year-old Sasha Obama a "street whore," outright lies from Sarah Palin and others about "death panels," Sharron Angle's "Second Amendment remedies," booing soldiers in war zones for being gay, South Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer comparing poor people to stray animals you shouldn't feed, South Carolina state Sen. Jake Knotts: "We've got one raghead in the White House, we don't need one in the governor's mansion," conservative "Christians" suggesting that people pray for the president's death using Psalm 109:8 as a text, Limbaugh calling the First Lady "uppity," and on and on and on …
Sure, liberals can be rude. But we have yet to master rudeness as a political philosophy the way conservatives have.
This really happened to a self-depracating friend of mine
My wife and I were browsing in a crafts store when I noticed
a display of country-style musical instruments. After
looking over the flutes, dulcimers and recorders, I picked
up a shiny, one-stringed instrument I took to be a mouth
harp. I put it to my lips and, much to the amusement of
other shoppers, twanged a few notes on it.
After watching from a distance, my wife came up and
whispered in my ear, "I hate to tell you this, honey, but
you're trying to play a cheese slicer."
RIP - Christopher Hitchens is dead
December 16, 2011
The influential writer and cultural critic Christopher Hitchens died on Thursday at the age of 62 from complications of cancer of the esophagus. Hitchens confronted his disease in part by writing, bringing the same unsparing insight to his mortality that he had directed at so many other subjects.
Over the years, Hitchens' caustic attention was directed at a broad range of subjects, including Henry Kissinger, Prince Charles, Bob Hope, Michael Moore, the Dalai Lama and Mother Teresa.
Hitchens On NPR
Christopher Hitchens On Suffering, Beliefs And Dying Oct. 29, 2010
Hitchens Brothers Agree To Disagree Over God Oct. 13, 2010
Unsolicited Advice Abounds In 'Tumortown,' Christopher Hitchens Writes Oct. 8, 2010
Christopher Hitchens' Unusual And Radical Life June 5, 2010
A 'Collision' Of Beliefs: Atheist Vs. Theologian Oct. 25, 2009
Hitchens: How Paine's 'Rights' Changed the World Oct. 23, 2007
Christopher Hitchens, Literary Agent Provocateur June 21, 2006
"If you're at Vanity Fair and you're talking about some of the things that Christopher has taken on, at the top of the list is going to be Mother Teresa," said Graydon Carter, editor at Vanity Fair and a longtime friend.
In 1994, Hitchens co-wrote and narrated a documentary on her called Hell's Angel.
"This profane marriage between tawdry media hype and medieval superstition gave birth to an icon which few have since had the poor taste to question," he said in it.
Hitchens wrote about her for the magazine, too. Carter says it didn't go over so well.
"That's a tough topic to go after," he said. "It was quite negative, and we had hundreds of subscription cancellations, including some from our own staff."
Christopher Eric Hitchens was born in 1949 — the son of a British naval commander and a navy nurse — and by his own account was trained to join the British elite. He studied at a prestigious private school and then at Oxford, picking up along the way a love of smoking, drinking, politics, philosophy and argument. In 2010, Hitchens reviewed his life's path on NPR's Talk of the Nation as he talked about his latest memoir.
for the rest:
http://www.npr.org/2011/12/16/143595854/writer-christopher-hitchens-dies
P.Tchaikovsky - Sugar Plum Fairy (The Nutcracker) like you have never heard it before
&feature=youtube_gdata_playerGlass Duo (Poland) - ChamberMusic Festival in Bologna, Italy - June 2010.
Placed in Chiostro della Basilica di Santo Stefano.
Festival di Santo Stefano XXII edizione.
A link to a wealth of photos to look at link - CNN photos - worldwide
http://cnnphotos.blogs.cnn.com/?hpt=hp_c3FYI - checking in with you about the December contest - which I cannot yet run
There have been two threads in the "Help and Meta discussion" forum concerning polls.
I'm linking you to show what's been said, and why I have not as promised been able to start the contest today.
As you know, the switchover to DU3 caught me in the middle of the contest preparations, and left us with no ability to poll.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12406733
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12406747
basically, I'm on it to the degree I can be.
I'm writing this post in order to report it to you.
I don't want to cave to a contrived alternative way of polling for two reasons:
1) I'm not savvy enough to pull it off in the first way suggested which is to find an outside polling place.
If I were, as I said, I would have made sure we have a calendar this year.
I also don't like the idea of running the contest in DU2. Though I love it, am comfortable in it, DU2 is our history, and we need to move on.
2) I am POed that I never got an official answer or nod about the contest and the timing of when we can poll again, because it makes me feel like our value is only in our heads, and I know it is not.
You gotta have art.
Bottom line: Indulge me while I make the decision for us to wait for having our polls restored and our normal way of running the contest enabled whenever that may be.
Anyone who wants to do it differently, creatively, NOW, can just say so and I'll turn it over.
If this offer does not come, let's just say I'm on top of it, and I'll do it ASAP
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