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Cut and paste for your troops

By ~LS~ On November 11, 2010 · Add Comment · In Politics and tagged Tagged With: Bush, Capitalism, Consumption, Facebook, Obama, Politics, Slacktivism, War

On this Veteran’s Day, stop fake support of your troops.

Today is Veteran’s Day, a day that spawns a number of cut and paste micro-memes on Facebook. After last month’s screed on pinkwashing, I feel compelled to repeat my rant pre-emptively as the first posts start to trickle in.

People see the “Support our Troops Cut and Paste” and they dutifully follow directions without taking a moment to honor the sentiment, and without admitting that they’ve accomplished absolutely nothing meaningful in any way.

I find flag waving “support your veteran” statuses on Facebook amusing. They’re pointless. I might as well cut and paste a status from a status generator app (they do exist) – that’s about how interesting and meaningful those memes are.

Last year when this sort of thing went around, a lot of posts falsely claimed that Obama was cutting Veterans’ benefits, giving more money to welfare, [...]

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By ~LS~ On September 29, 2010 · Add Comment · In Humor, The Web and tagged Tagged With: Obama, Political Cartoons, Silliness

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Reality check on health care

By ~LS~ On March 23, 2010 · Add Comment · In Politics and tagged Tagged With: Obama, Politics

See? It just proves it!

Today, in the wake of the “historic” bill signed by the “historic” president, the liberal blogosphere has been crowing over the health care bill. I find this disturbing. People are cheering because the bill was resuscitated after its near death and they applaud that the bill went through with enough votes that Democrats didn’t need to rely on parliamentary shenanigans such as reconciliation. Admittedly there are those who acknowledge that the bill has little meat and that it’s basically a symbolic victory. Nonetheless, they are giddy with their success.

Well, Imma glass-half-empty kinda girl.

Hello? The Democrats scraped by tooth and nail to get this bill passed. They made enough concessions that much of the bill was gutted. Insurance stocks soared when the bill passed, right? That can’t be a good sign.

Right now, liberal folks are at once gleeful and indignant that the Tea [...]

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10 Random Musings (#10 is the best)

By ~LS~ On September 18, 2009 · Add Comment · In Random Musings and tagged Tagged With: D&D, For Wordies, Generations, Obama, Politics, Pop Culture, Race

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Tea party protest signs and some other stuff

By ~LS~ On September 17, 2009 · 3 Comments · In Politics, Race and Racism and tagged Tagged With: News Media, Obama, Political Humor, Race, Rhetoric

We’ve all seen the tea bag party’s stupid, misspelled protest signs these days. No surprise there. We all immediately recognize the painful hypocrisy of those misspelled signs that demand we make English America’s “offical” language. We all also recognize by now the anti-anti-war protester of a few years ago who called us all “morans,” which some thoughtful person has turned into a motivational poster. The illiteracy of the tea baggers party is just depressing — it just underscores that these people are victims taken advantage of by astroturfing corporate interests. So depressing. Now, to be fair, the left has its fair share of misspelled posters. My fave: “Will sombody please give Bush a blowjob so we can impeach him.” Misspelling aside, the sentiment is funny. Anyway, these tea party folks are working against their own interests, which makes [...]

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Obama, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Dangerous Negro

By ~LS~ On June 9, 2009 · 1 Comment · In Politics, Race and Racism and tagged Tagged With: Obama, Politics, Race, YWCA

Today in the Huffington Post there’s an article saying that Rupert Murdoch called Obama “dangerous”:

“I think Barack Obama would describe himself as a pragmatic leftist but he’s not an extremist,” Murdoch said. “I think he sees himself as a president for change and that involves bigger government. He’s made no secret of that. I think that’s dangerous.”

This statement reminded me of something I read in the YWCA Dialogue on Race reading packet. I first heard this phrase of “dangerous negro” in an article called “Struggle and Transformation: The Challenge of Martin Luther King, Jr.” by Vincent Harding, written in the mid-80s. Vincent Harding is a Professor Emeritus of Religion and Social Transformation at Illiff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado, he was an adviser to SNCC, and he was a speechwriter for King. In his article, Harding reminds us that the FBI called King [...]

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