Trump is amazingly *unpopular* with general election voters. https://t.co/jmwl5uaR4Z pic.twitter.com/7SQfrsFaLp
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) January 18, 2016
Jan 19, 2016
Today's Tweet
Jan 18, 2016
Today's Tweet
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience..." #MLKDay2016 #MLK pic.twitter.com/Uq3JkU9KJ2
— The King Center (@TheKingCenter) January 18, 2016
MLK Day
Civil Disobedience is an honored tradition in USAmerica Inc. As long as you do it right - with respect for the rule of law. Even when you're resisting a law you believe is unjust, you still adhere to the greater concept of A Nation Of Laws.
He got arrested too😒🙄........ Happy Birthday Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. !!!!#MLK ✊🏾 pic.twitter.com/bEIOfAG0LK
— HBCU Buzz (@HBCUBuzz) January 15, 2016
And now for today's Check-Your-White-Privilege Quiz:
Here we see LBJ meeting with MLK and "other black leaders" in the run up to The Civil Rights Act in 1964 - can you name any of those 3 other guys?
Jan 17, 2016
Choosing Sides?
A good look at the candidates from a slightly obtuse viewpoint(?) I dunno - worth considering.
From Bitter Empire:
(In reverse order, starting at)
14. Ted Cruz
Let’s be clear here: Ted Cruz is not just the worst presidential candidate to have on your side in a bar fight. He is the worst possible human being to have on your side in a bar fight. And it’s not only because when he speaks he sounds like Eddie Murphy doing his nerd character. It’s that everyone hates Ted Cruz, and they hate him for a reason. Not just Democrats, everyone. Ted Cruz is famously and vigorously loathed by everyone in his own party. Fellow Republican Bob Dole has been out of politics for like 20 years and even he takes the time to hate Ted Cruz.hat tip = FB pal AF
Ali's Birthday
"I handcuffed lightnin' and throwed thunder in jail"
Happy birthday to the greatest.
I grew up without benefit of color. I don't remember even meeting anybody with dark brown skin for the first 12 or 15 years of my life. But in 7th grade, I had a teacher/coach who showed us films of (then) Cassius Clay. He taught us that a man's ability is where everything starts because that will show you what's in his heart. If you get hung up on how he doesn't look like you or act like you or think like you - while you're busy with all the shit that doesn't matter, he'll be busy knockin' you on your dumb ass. On a playing field. In a classroom. At a job. Everybody's competing. Everybody can learn to do what it takes to win.
If you don't respect all of that because you refuse to see anybody else as your equal, you'll have a hard time being willing to do the work necessary to give yourself a shot. Then the only way you win is if the game is rigged in your favor. And that ain't winnin'.
Always A Little Perspective Please
Again, this by no means obviates the real threat from terrorism generally or ISIS specifically, but it makes the rhetoric on the GOP stage seem a bit hysterical.
For even more perspective: The number of Americans killed per year by terrorism is the same as the number crushed to death by their own furniture.
Obviously one key difference here is that terrorist groups would like to kill many more Americans, and are surely trying to accomplish just that, whereas presumably your sofa is not plotting any major attacks. But the point is that the risk terrorism poses to everyday American lives is not where you might have thought it was from this debate.
America just doesn't have much of a domestic terrorism problem. Incidents like the shootings in San Bernardino are vanishingly rare, as violent extremist groups have very few adherents here. US intelligence operations make it very difficult for foreign terrorist groups to bring operatives into the US and plan an attack.
Today's Tweet
Trump to go all out for the Millennial vote in the general election. [pic via @figdrewton] pic.twitter.com/nRurK40h0X
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) January 17, 2016
Jan 16, 2016
Testing My Embeds
Sorry - found it at Mock Paper Scissors and I just couldn't resist.
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