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The Burka Band.
Hmm. They are apparently from Afghanistan and the song apparently became a hit in Germany.
Via:Muslimah Media Watch
Apr. 3rd, 2008
The Burka Band.
Hmm. They are apparently from Afghanistan and the song apparently became a hit in Germany.
Via:Muslimah Media Watch
Robert C. Lieberman, Shifting the Color Line: Race and the American Welfare State
"An Ethic for Enemies," by Donald W. Shriver, Jr.
Piven and Cloward, Regulating the Poor.
(1) Who provided welfare, food stamps, etc.? Not white people, but the US government, and through it, the taxpayers. Blacks pay taxes. They helped to provide those programs. To imagine that they did not is, quite literally, to write them out of the citizenry.
(2) To whom were welfare, food stamps, etc., provided? Not to blacks, but to Americans of all ethnicities. Annoyingly, I can't find historical data, but I believe that in general, while the proportion of black families on welfare was considerably higher than the proportion of white families on welfare (reflecting higher black poverty rates), the number of white families on welfare was generally higher. This was true in 1993, for which I did find data; the number of black families had edged slightly ahead of whites by 1995. In any case, the point is: welfare was not given to blacks; it was given to people who met certain race-neutral criteria, and that included an awful lot of whites. The same is true of Pell Grants: they are given to needy students of whatever ethnicity. Ditto food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8, and so on and so forth.
"An Ethic for Enemies," by Donald W. Shriver, Jr.
Piven and Cloward, Regulating the Poor.
(1) Who provided welfare, food stamps, etc.? Not white people, but the US government, and through it, the taxpayers. Blacks pay taxes. They helped to provide those programs. To imagine that they did not is, quite literally, to write them out of the citizenry.
(2) To whom were welfare, food stamps, etc., provided? Not to blacks, but to Americans of all ethnicities. Annoyingly, I can't find historical data, but I believe that in general, while the proportion of black families on welfare was considerably higher than the proportion of white families on welfare (reflecting higher black poverty rates), the number of white families on welfare was generally higher. This was true in 1993, for which I did find data; the number of black families had edged slightly ahead of whites by 1995. In any case, the point is: welfare was not given to blacks; it was given to people who met certain race-neutral criteria, and that included an awful lot of whites. The same is true of Pell Grants: they are given to needy students of whatever ethnicity. Ditto food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8, and so on and so forth.
Patriotism is...
Apr. 3rd, 2008 03:51 pmFrom the Chicago Tribune
chicagotribune.com
Factor military duty into criticism
By Lawrence Korb
April 3, 2008
By Lawrence Korb and Ian Moss
In 1961, a young African-American man, after hearing President John F. Kennedy's challenge to, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country," gave up his student deferment, left college in Virginia and voluntarily joined the Marines.
In 1963, this man, having completed his two years of service in the Marines, volunteered again to become a Navy corpsman. (They provide medical assistance to the Marines as well as to Navy personnel.)
The man did so well in corpsman school that he was the valedictorian and became a cardiopulmonary technician. Not surprisingly, he was assigned to the Navy's premier medical facility, Bethesda Naval Hospital, as a member of the commander in chief's medical team, and helped care for President Lyndon B. Johnson after his 1966 surgery. For his service on the team, which he left in 1967, the White House awarded him three letters of commendation.
What is even more remarkable is that this man entered the Marines and Navy not many years after the two branches began to become integrated.
While this young man was serving six years on active duty, Vice President Dick Cheney, who was born the same year as the Marine/sailor, received five deferments, four for being an undergraduate and graduate student and one for being a prospective father. Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, both five years younger than the African-American youth, used their student deferments to stay in college until 1968. Both then avoided going on active duty through family connections.
Who is the real patriot? The young man who interrupted his studies to serve his country for six years or our three political leaders who beat the system? Are the patriots the people who actually sacrifice something or those who merely talk about their love of the country?
After leaving the service of his country, the young African-American finished his final year of college, entered the seminary, was ordained as a minister, and eventually became pastor of a large church in one of America's biggest cities.
This man is Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the retiring pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ, who has been in the news for comments he made over the last three decades.
Since these comments became public we have heard criticisms, condemnations, denouncements and rejections of his comments and him.
We've seen on television, in a seemingly endless loop, sound bites of a select few of Rev. Wright's many sermons.
Some of the Wright's comments are inexcusable and inappropriate and should be condemned, but in calling him "unpatriotic," let us not forget that this is a man who gave up six of the most productive years of his life to serve his country.
How many of Wright's detractors, Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly to name but a few, volunteered for service, and did so under the often tumultuous circumstances of a newly integrated armed forces and a society in the midst of a civil rights struggle? Not many.
While words do count, so do actions.
Let us not forget that, for whatever Rev. Wright may have said over the last 30 years, he has demonstrated his patriotism.
Lawrence Korb and Ian Moss are, respectively, Navy and Marine Corps veterans. They work at The Center For American Progress. Korb served as assistant secretary of Defense in the Reagan administration.
chicagotribune.com
Factor military duty into criticism
By Lawrence Korb
April 3, 2008
By Lawrence Korb and Ian Moss
In 1961, a young African-American man, after hearing President John F. Kennedy's challenge to, "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country," gave up his student deferment, left college in Virginia and voluntarily joined the Marines.
In 1963, this man, having completed his two years of service in the Marines, volunteered again to become a Navy corpsman. (They provide medical assistance to the Marines as well as to Navy personnel.)
The man did so well in corpsman school that he was the valedictorian and became a cardiopulmonary technician. Not surprisingly, he was assigned to the Navy's premier medical facility, Bethesda Naval Hospital, as a member of the commander in chief's medical team, and helped care for President Lyndon B. Johnson after his 1966 surgery. For his service on the team, which he left in 1967, the White House awarded him three letters of commendation.
What is even more remarkable is that this man entered the Marines and Navy not many years after the two branches began to become integrated.
While this young man was serving six years on active duty, Vice President Dick Cheney, who was born the same year as the Marine/sailor, received five deferments, four for being an undergraduate and graduate student and one for being a prospective father. Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, both five years younger than the African-American youth, used their student deferments to stay in college until 1968. Both then avoided going on active duty through family connections.
Who is the real patriot? The young man who interrupted his studies to serve his country for six years or our three political leaders who beat the system? Are the patriots the people who actually sacrifice something or those who merely talk about their love of the country?
After leaving the service of his country, the young African-American finished his final year of college, entered the seminary, was ordained as a minister, and eventually became pastor of a large church in one of America's biggest cities.
This man is Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the retiring pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ, who has been in the news for comments he made over the last three decades.
Since these comments became public we have heard criticisms, condemnations, denouncements and rejections of his comments and him.
We've seen on television, in a seemingly endless loop, sound bites of a select few of Rev. Wright's many sermons.
Some of the Wright's comments are inexcusable and inappropriate and should be condemned, but in calling him "unpatriotic," let us not forget that this is a man who gave up six of the most productive years of his life to serve his country.
How many of Wright's detractors, Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly to name but a few, volunteered for service, and did so under the often tumultuous circumstances of a newly integrated armed forces and a society in the midst of a civil rights struggle? Not many.
While words do count, so do actions.
Let us not forget that, for whatever Rev. Wright may have said over the last 30 years, he has demonstrated his patriotism.
Lawrence Korb and Ian Moss are, respectively, Navy and Marine Corps veterans. They work at The Center For American Progress. Korb served as assistant secretary of Defense in the Reagan administration.
FUCK SEAL PRESS.
Apr. 3rd, 2008 11:09 pmA hearty FUCK YOU with two middle fingers to 'em.
And yeah for new publishing houses for me to explore! Thanks Lady J and delux_vivens!
Firebrand Books
Spinsters Ink
Aunt Lute
Bella Books
And yeah for new publishing houses for me to explore! Thanks Lady J and delux_vivens!
Firebrand Books
Spinsters Ink
Aunt Lute
Bella Books