July 3, 2008 Substance? Please? Anyone?
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July 2, 2008
So apparently there are a lot of North Carolinians who have license plates starting with the letters
WTF. They are replacing them for free, but I would love to have a plate that started WTF. It would be perfect combined with a Jesus Fish.
And on that article is a slide show (slide show?) of “ Internet Acronyms Parents Should Know.” POS leads the list, which is funny to me because that’s an old acronym that would have raised my eyebrows to begin with. Instead of “Cloverfield,” the acronym apparently now means “Parents Over Shoulder.” Likewise, PAL means “Parents Are Listening,” not “Phase Altering Line.” Then there’s NALOPKT (”Not A Lot of People Know This”), which is apparently used so much everyone knows it.
This reminds me of the Grunge speak of my youth. Ah, for the days of getting bloated, swinging on the flippity-flop, and making fun of the lamestains downtown. Life since then has been one harsh realm.
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July 1, 2008 Wes Clark is apparently in trouble for observing that McCain’s military service doesn’t mean he’d make a good president. It’s apparently “disrespectful” to say that, although I for the life of me can’t understand why.
I grew up around a lot of military folks. Generally speaking they’re great people. Same goes for police officers, firemen, and EMTs. But I don’t think any of them became qualified to run the country because of their service.
McCain’s great experience for Presidenting is his time in the Senate. McCain’s time in the Senate has show rather poor domestic and foreign policy judgment in my opinion. And that’s not outweighed by his military service which, as I’ve said, is admirable but not related to the task at hand.
Or is the idea that his military service has earned him the Presidency? In that case, there are an awful lot of vets who would settle for decent health care right about now, but McCain doesn’t even think military service earns you a free trip to college.
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July 1, 2008 Diesel’s take on the little Jesus Fish symbols:
Historically the fish was used as a secret sign by Christians to identify themselves to each other, back when being a Christian meant persecution and possibly execution. The last time I checked the local paper, though, Christians weren’t being rounded up and burned alive by the authorities in California. So to me, using the fish symbol smacks of a persecution complex. [ Something Fishy This Way Comes ]
You think?
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June 27, 2008 Or, in plain language, “black voting rights before the Civil War.”
A couple of folks have suggested here that Northern sentiment towards black civil rights was more or less one of convenience and self interest — that no one was actually interested in treating Black people as equals. Not knowing any better, I assumed this was true enough to not make any difference. But it turns out that the late Antebellum North saw quite a blossoming of civil rights for free Black men. Several states had votes on enfranchising black people, and Massachusetts actually desegregated their public schools in the 1850s.
I’m not suggesting that civil rights were high in the mind of everyone, or even in the majority on the North. But there were enough people thinking and working for equal rights in the nineteenth century for the issue to show up on the political radar. In fact, Democrats in the 1856 election trying to slander the Republican party by claiming the Republicans supported equal rights for blacks, a charge the Republicans tried to deny but couldn’t — because there were enough of them who demonstrably did.
What I’ve found so far is pretty sketchy — anyone else know anything about this?
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