Displaying 61 To 90 Of 429 Comments Jan, Anyway, I hope you reconsider. Sanity » Posted By SanityNow On February 10, 2010 @ 1:45 pm Why Republicans Will Lose By Winning Ad, I have taken a break from interwebby dialogue due to a flavor of mental exhaustion/exasperation with regards to the apparent extinction of (healthy) common sense in our beloved and perplexing society… but of course I have been monitoring the Planet. This article has caught my eye. Again, you pull the words right out of my head. Many thanks. Sanity » Posted By SanityNow On September 1, 2010 @ 1:43 pm Friday Music Thread – Fight The Power! Dead Kennedys: We’ve Got A Bigger Problem Now (Lost Sessions)
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» Posted By SanityNow On April 30, 2010 @ 3:51 pm Chuck E. Cheese Meets Huffington Post Hi Ad, saw this today in my inbox. Pretty funny. The first thing that popped in to my head was the Inquisitorial Squad that Delores Umbridge created in Harry Potter. HEY! Harry Potter (HP) and HuffPost (HP). Maybe Delores, I mean Aryanna, is trying to make everyone feel like they are part of the censor police and make it more of an army. that place gives me the creeps. » Posted By SanityNow On April 29, 2010 @ 2:20 pm Friday Music Thread – Tax Free https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLQRIXZdLhM RIP Malcolm McLaren » Posted By SanityNow On April 16, 2010 @ 8:25 pm
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» Posted By SanityNow On April 16, 2010 @ 7:56 pm oooh. I’ll give it a shot… » Posted By SanityNow On April 16, 2010 @ 7:55 pm how do I embed a youtube vid like you guys?! I wanna be like you guys! » Posted By SanityNow On April 16, 2010 @ 7:45 pm Tea Party Ingredients: Old Hateful White Males on Social Security Heh! bet they didn’t, as is their MO, think about that. » Posted By SanityNow On April 15, 2010 @ 9:06 pm I suppose I could write something more lengthy but these people are literally not credible. This has, from the very beginning, been an obvious venting of racial hatred. The timing of the forming of these groups is the dead giveaway. The Tea Party movements weren’t formed until Obama was elected and took office. The arguments for fiscal responsibility? Really? so then they were just fine with big gummint before Obama? They are unbelievable racists and since they are uncomfortable with the truth of that racism they craft other reasons to hide behind, never minding that each of those reasons crumble upon any meaningful examination. » Posted By SanityNow On April 15, 2010 @ 3:07 pm At Huffington Post, Nobody Knows You’re a Dog 🙂 » Posted By SanityNow On April 12, 2010 @ 1:23 pm The positive quality of my life has increased exponentially since my near complete cessation from HP posting. Way too greasy there. The only really good thing I gained from HP was to “meet” folks like AdLib et al and migrate to a safer, saner place like the Planet to explore and discuss current affairs. still think it might be time to add defamation/libel insurance to my homeowner’s policy though. » Posted By SanityNow On April 12, 2010 @ 1:09 pm Let’s All Give Thanks for Bob McDonnell Racism is a completely irrational social disease. Unfortunately, is is also as American as it is European and Asian and Middle Eastern and African and Oceanian. It is everywhere and shrinks, imho, with more education and knowledge. It also seems to act like a cornered animal: it gets fiercer when confronted with its own demise. I think racists, wherever they be, are ashamed. This explains hoods and re-branding (“we are segregationists”, “we are separatists”, “we are purists”, ad nauseum.) Racists know in their heart they are wrong. It explains the shame and anger. but the fear of the other is stronger than the shame. » Posted By SanityNow On April 11, 2010 @ 4:35 pm Patsy, racist NEVER like being called racists. » Posted By SanityNow On April 11, 2010 @ 1:19 pm Great post Marion. Speaking as a hereditary Virginian, it concerned me that critics of McDonnell et al would paint with a brush too broad. Virginia is the heart of our country’s history, with Massachusetts running a very close, but no less important second. If there is anything to learn from this, it is that we are in a country whose population is very mobile. Carpetbaggers are everywhere. It is a country founded by and for carpetbaggers. We are all either carpetbaggers or descendants of carpetbaggers. Being a carpetbagger is not the issue, but a distraction from the real issue of racism. I don’t believe that the majority of Americans, or Virginians for that matter, are racist. I don’t have any empirical data handy, but my guess is that at least 25% of the adult population is either racist or at least fearful of races different than their own. Out of a country of 308 million, that could be as many as 40 or 50 million racist people. The fact that we have our first AA president is now exposing this racism. But the racism doesn’t just reside in Virginia and Virginians don’t own racism. Racism is everywhere in our country: Washington state, Alaska, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, California, West Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas, etc, etc, etc. If we want to label anyone with the epithet racist, we need look no further than ourselves. As you noted, McDonnell was elected in large part due to the apathy of those who decided not to vote. What they fail to understand is that a non-vote is still a vote. It still registers as a silent consent. So McDonnell, and other tricky politicians with a not-so-hidden racist personal agenda, was not only voted in by those who voted for him, but he was also enabled to win by the lack of those who would say they would have voted against him but failed to vote at all. Keep voting Marion. Lead by example and be vocal about it. It will give others who are weaker of will more strength to do what they know they should do. (btw, the picture in my avatar is my 5th great grandfather, born in 1775, who was a slave holding Tidewater lawyer from Tappahannock and a God son of G. Washington (his father was good friends and neighbors with GW). One of his grandsons later became a Confederate colonel-surgeon from Richmond, owned one of the only (if not the only) sewing machines in Richmond, his wife having sewn many of the uniforms for the Richmond Confederate army units. The portrait of my 5th great grandfather now hangs above the mantle in the Pacific Northwest, having been rescued, along with the family bibles, from the Sacking of Richmond and the burning of the family home literally minutes before the Union army came marching in. The American tradition of carpetbagging continues…) » Posted By SanityNow On April 11, 2010 @ 1:12 pm oh man. pickled radishes from taco trucks. mmmmm. my kind of fast food. » Posted By SanityNow On April 8, 2010 @ 6:18 pm or Oregon’s new drive-thru assisted suicide dispensaries » Posted By SanityNow On April 8, 2010 @ 2:57 pm can’t wait to move back down to the Bay Area after the little league season. My youngest is a gardener at heart. The range of things to grow increases exponentially and the growing season lengthens nicely as you get in to CA. » Posted By SanityNow On April 8, 2010 @ 2:49 pm now THAT’S what I’m talking about: the last meal you’ll ever eat. » Posted By SanityNow On April 8, 2010 @ 2:36 pm that is a problem I will gladly take. We want to make sure the boys are able to truly fend for themselves rather than order off the value menu. Plus, the chicks dig a guy who knows his way around a kitchen. And since we’ve been poverty poor, it is amazing how truly healthfully and economically a family can eat if they are willing to endure the joy of cooking at home. Most meals take under an hour to prep and cook and you know exactly everything that goes in to the meal. I can honestly say that I look forward to every dinner every night. I think my favorite meal is a very simply roasted chicken, simple green salad, some sort of steamed veg and a glass of cheap wine. I suspect that the drive to a fast(read fats) food place, order the meal, eat the meal, and then drive home takes longer than that and throw in the cost of gas and wear and tear on the horse-less carriage, and you are way over budget in almost every respect. » Posted By SanityNow On April 8, 2010 @ 2:18 pm Obviously, the Clog’em Policy is blowing back on us. » Posted By SanityNow On April 8, 2010 @ 1:04 pm jeebus » Posted By SanityNow On April 8, 2010 @ 12:57 pm if it isn’t, it should be. It could be considered a fail-safe policy in case winning the hearts and minds doesn’t eventually work. if you can’t win’em, clog’em. » Posted By SanityNow On April 8, 2010 @ 12:54 pm Now you are thinking like a good corporate citizen 😉 » Posted By SanityNow On April 8, 2010 @ 12:51 pm hmmm. calzonify it? I think you are on to something BIG. BIGGER. BIGGEST. we should start our own R&D kitchen. » Posted By SanityNow On April 8, 2010 @ 12:47 pmComments Posted By SanityNow
sorry to see you go. I am pretty new to this site but came over because of my interactions with AdLib, etc., while posting on HuffPo. I still post on HuffPo but it has gotten fairly clogged with trolls. I think the criticism of HP by some here, while strongly expressed, is well deserved and a somewhat cathartic activity. I like diversity of opinion but what goes on at HP these days is downright malignant. It is more of a shouting match than true debate.
I think the answer to your question is a NO. Slavery was indeed the heart of the state’s rights argument and the state’s rights argument is the lasting deflection of the real issue offered up to this day by the those wanting to obfuscate the racist roots of the fight.
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