Saturday Stuff

post from The Liberal Doomsayer on 19 May 2012 11:54:00 PM. © The Liberal Doomsayer

Hey, remember that ultra-stupid right wing talking point about how African Americans wouldn?t support marriage equality since, well?I mean, everybody knows that African Americans are more culturally conservative than white people, right?

Wrong (here, and Paul Broun remains as big a bonehead as ever?kudos to Rep. John Lewis, and a pox on Andrea Mitchell and her alleged disconnect about ?many African Americans? and marriage equality)?

?and by the way, aren?t you glad you use Dial? Don?t you wish everybody did? J

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Texas Progressive Alliance Round-UpThe Work Of
Freedom Is Up To Each Of Us

post from Texas Liberal on 19 May 2012 11:48:09 PM. © Texas Liberal

Here is the weekly posting of the Texas Progressive Alliance round-up. The TPA is a confederation of the best political bloggers in Texas. TPA members are citizen-bloggers working for a better Texas. Every Texan and every American has the ability to attend a public meeting, attend or organize a protest, write or call an elected official, [...]

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Open Thread: C&L's Saturday Night Podcast Round
Up

post from Crooks and Liars on 19 May 2012 11:30:00 PM. © Crooks and Liars

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Happy Saturday night, folks! It's Blue Gal from The Professional Left Podcast, bringing you this week's podcast round up. Be aware that these podcasts are also available on i-Tunes, and may not be safe for work.

Tomcast from Tom Dispatch: Barbara Ehrenreich, author of the acclaimed Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, talks about her latest project to fund investigative journalism focused on poverty in the United States and the financial reality of being part of our nation's working poor.

The Dinner Party: Satirist Christopher Buckley on international (etiquette) relations.

Lee Camp (video): 15 Crucial Facts Never Heard on the Mainstream Media.

Open Thread below....

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Late Night: Shalersville Speaks Out Against
Fracking

post from Firedoglake on 19 May 2012 11:00:27 PM. © Firedoglake

One of the recurring themes environmental activists have been hearing at the local level is that fracking is a state-level issue and that municipalities have limited ability to address it. That has been true in Portage County, Ohio generally, and it was[...]

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It's the 21st Century, but the house Negro is
still here.

post from field negro on 19 May 2012 11:00:23 PM. © field negro

Happy Birthday Malcolm X.

"...If you're afraid of black nationalism, you're afraid of revolution. And if you love revolution, you love black nationalism.

To understand this, you have to go back to what [the] young brother here referred to as the house Negro and the field Negro -- back during slavery. There was two kinds of slaves. There was the house Negro and the field Negro. The house Negroes - they lived in the house with master, they dressed pretty good, they ate good 'cause they ate his food -- what he left. They lived in the attic or the basement, but still they lived near the master; and they loved their master more than the master loved himself. They would give their life to save the master's house quicker than the master would. The house Negro, if the master said, "We got a good house here," the house Negro would say, "Yeah, we got a good house here." Whenever the master said "we," he said "we." That's how you can tell a house Negro.

If the master's house caught on fire, the house Negro would fight harder to put the blaze out than the master would. If the master got sick, the house Negro would say, "What's the matter, boss, we sick?" We sick! He identified himself with his master more than his master identified with himself. And if you came to the house Negro and said, "Let's run away, let's escape, let's separate," the house Negro would look at you and say, "Man, you crazy. What you mean, separate? Where is there a better house than this? Where can I wear better clothes than this? Where can I eat better food than this?" That was that house Negro. In those days he was called a "house nigger." And that's what we call him today, because we've still got some house niggers running around here.

This modern house Negro loves his master. He wants to live near him. He'll pay three times as much as the house is worth just to live near his master, and then brag about "I'm the only Negro out here." "I'm the only one on my job." "I'm the only one in this school." You're nothing but a house Negro. And if someone comes to you right now and says, "Let's separate," you say the same thing that the house Negro said on the plantation. "What you mean, separate? From America? This good white man? Where you going to get a better job than you get here?" I mean, this is what you say. "I ain't left nothing in Africa," that's what you say. Why, you left your mind in Africa.

On that same plantation, there was the field Negro. The field Negro -- those were the masses. There were always more Negroes in the field than there was Negroes in the house. The Negro in the field caught hell. He ate leftovers. In the house they ate high up on the hog. The Negro in the field didn't get nothing but what was left of the insides of the hog. They call 'em "chitt'lings" nowadays. In those days they called them what they were: guts. That's what you were -- a gut-eater. And some of you all still gut-eaters.

*The field Negro was beaten from morning to night. He lived in a shack, in a hut; He wore old, castoff clothes. He hated his master. I say he hated his master. He was intelligent. That house Negro loved his master. But that field Negro -- remember, they were in the majority, and they hated the master. When the house caught on fire, he didn't try and put it out; that field Negro prayed for a wind, for a breeze. When the master got sick, the field Negro prayed that he'd die. If someone come [sic] to the field Negro and said, "Let's separate, let's run," he didn't say "Where we going?" He'd say, "Any place is better than here." You've got field Negroes in America today. I'm a field Negro. The masses are the field Negroes. When they see this man's house on fire, you don't hear these little Negroes talking about "our government is in trouble." They say, "The government is in trouble." Imagine a Negro: "Our government"! I even heard one say "our astronauts." They won't even let him near the plant -- and "our astronauts"! "Our Navy" -- that's a Negro that's out of his mind. That's a Negro that's out of his mind.

Just as the slavemaster of that day used Tom, the house Negro, to keep the field Negroes in check, the same old slavemaster today has Negroes who are nothing but modern Uncle Toms, 20th century Uncle Toms, to keep you and me in check, keep us under control, keep us passive and peaceful and nonviolent. That's Tom making you nonviolent. It's like when you go to the dentist, and the man's going to take your tooth. You're going to fight him when he starts pulling. So he squirts some stuff in your jaw called novocaine, to make you think they're not doing anything to you. So you sit there and 'cause you've got all of that novocaine in your jaw, you suffer peacefully. Blood running all down your jaw, and you don't know what's happening. 'Cause someone has taught you to suffer -- peacefully." [Listen]

"We sick"? Yes, "we sick". Because, sadly, there are still a lot of house Negroes running around today.

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Mother accuses school of forcing 13 year old girl
to give Facebook password

post from US Politics | AMERICAblog News on 19 May 2012 11:00:20 PM. © US Politics | AMERICAblog News

Besides being an obvious violation of privacy, it just sounds creepy not to mention wrong. School officials are claiming no such thing happened, that it would open the school up to legal problems. Hopefully there's a big mistake with this story because there is no way this should be tolerated. MSNBC.com:Pam Broviak, who lives in the Chicago suburb of Geneva, Ill., says her daughter was...

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C&L's Late Night Music Club With Bonnie Raitt,
feat. Mike Finnigan

post from Crooks and Liars on 19 May 2012 11:00:14 PM. © Crooks and Liars

Genre: BluesTitle: Used To Rule The WorldArtist: Bonnie Raitt
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Ok folks, comin to you live(kinda) from WC&L. The new Bonnie Raitt. First release in 7 years. And our own Mike Finnigan (formerly of Mike's Blog Round Up) backing up on the Hammond Organ. Tell us what you think, and add to this. Lets see what you got folks. On the slide.

Slipstream, Bonnie Raitt

Artist: Bonnie Raitt Price: $8.69 (As of 05/19/12 05:45 pm details)

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A Dissenters Digest for May 13-19

Dissenters' Digest takes a look back at the week's stories covering whistleblowers, watchdogs, and government accountability.[...]

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G8 Summit

Pictures from today's G8 huddle at Camp David. Always thought discussions about avoiding the dissolution of the euro would look less cheerful. [...]

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Newstalgia Reference Room - The 1936 Democratic
Convention

enlarge Credit: Acme1936 Democratic Convention - some things are destined never to change. Ballyhoo is one of them.
1936 Democratic Convention seconding speeches

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As a reminder that media coverage of Political conventions hasn't really changed all that much since broadcasting got started, here is a one hour snapshot from June 26, 1936 at the Democratic National Convention.

On this evening there were seconding speeches, and pleas from the Chairman to keep the hyperbole down to five minutes apiece. On this evening too, there was sufficient boredom going on in the broadcast studio that such journalistic greats as H.V. Kaltenborn and Edward R. Murrow were reduced to interviewing delegates to find out which was the youngest at the convention - and in Murrow's case, interviewing the on-site barber to get the "scoop" on "just what goes on in a barber shop during a convention". Pretty weighty stuff, but no less strange than the endless trivia and human interest stories we deal with now.

So here is the last hour of the convention day for June 26th 1936, the seconding speeches, as presented by CBS Radio, hosted by Robert Trout.