Politricks for Dummies

Posted: December 18th, 2011
at 1:52pm
Tagged with rick perry
Categories: satire
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Just a little something humorous…
Posted: November 20th, 2011
at 12:13pm
Tagged with herman cain, mike tyson
Categories: myninjaplease,video
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Posted: October 26th, 2011
at 6:55pm
Tagged with confessions of an economic hitman
Categories: business/econ,foreign policy,international
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Image: Source (and a good read)
As the nation gears up for the 2012 presidential election, Republican officials have launched an unprecedented, centrally coordinated campaign to suppress the elements of the Democratic vote that elected Barack Obama in 2008. Just as Dixiecrats once used poll taxes and literacy tests to bar black Southerners from voting, a new crop of GOP governors and state legislators has passed a series of seemingly disconnected measures that could prevent millions of students, minorities, immigrants, ex-convicts and the elderly from casting ballots. “What has happened this year is the most significant setback to voting rights in this country in a century,” says Judith Browne-Dianis, who monitors barriers to voting as co-director of the Advancement Project, a civil rights organization based in Washington, D.C. #read from RollingStone
Posted: October 1st, 2011
at 3:49pm
Tagged with black vote, war on voting
Categories: elections,fearmongering,newsworthy,politricks,republicans
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Thanks to JB, for this one.
Posted: September 19th, 2011
at 7:10pm
Tagged with god, rick perry
Categories: opinion,religiosity
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It’s kind of sad that we, as Americans, are basically forced to go outside of our traditional media outlets for alternative viewpoints. Something tells me you’d only find a story like this in American media AFTER an election, or in a MoveOn spam. Anyway, I think it’s interesting what people can get away with, legally, in the name of democracy. Same ole sh!t, though, basically.
I like the historical slant…

In the 1964 presidential elections, a young political operative named Bill guarded a largely African-American polling place in South Phoenix, Arizona like a bull mastiff.
Bill was a legal whiz who knew the ins and outs of voting law and insisted that every obscure provision be applied, no matter what. He even made those who spoke accented English interpret parts of the constitution to prove that they understood it. The lines were long, people fought, got tired or had to go to work, and many of them left without voting. It was a notorious episode long remembered in Phoenix political circles.
It turned out that it was part of a Republican Party strategy known as “Operation Eagle Eye”, and “Bill” was future Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist. He was confronted with his intimidation tactics in his confirmation hearings years later, and characterised his behaviour as simple arbitration of polling place disputes. In doing so, he set a standard for GOP dishonesty and obfuscation surrounding voting rights that continues to this day. #read the rest at Al Jazeera
Posted: September 19th, 2011
at 6:36pm
Tagged with voter supression
Categories: elections,fo' real?,history,keeping tabs on the enemy,politricks,republicans
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This is not really political…
And I’m not even a huge Carl Sagan guy…
But, it’s Tuesday, and that seems a good time to remind you people that we are ALL connected.
Posted: September 13th, 2011
at 9:30am
Tagged with carl sagan, feel-good
Categories: heart-warming
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It’s hard to believe that 10 years have passed since what is sure to be remembered as one of the biggest world events that our generation (20-30 somethings) will ever witness. For a retrospective through pictures, check out The Atlantic.

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians have lost their lives at a cost of trillions of dollars, and western military forces remain in both countries. A third war, the War on Terror, has driven changes in the U.S. that have pushed against the limits of what American society will accept in return for security — measures such as pre-emptive military strikes, indefinite detentions, waterboarding, wiretapping, and invasive airport security systems. As we remember those lost on September 11, 2001, and construction of the new skyscrapers in Manhattan nears completion, most U.S, troops are scheduled to leave Iraq by the end of this year and Afghanistan by 2014. .::link
Posted: September 13th, 2011
at 9:21am
Categories: photo,post 9/11 | new normal
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Posted: September 13th, 2011
at 9:07am
Categories: cartoon,post 9/11 | new normal
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Check out a thorough collection of articles about 9/11 via NYMAG‘s Encyclopedia of 9/11.
What Dinh didn’t anticipate was a profound shift in liberalism and, therefore, in the politics of the country. Even with a Democrat now in the White House, the liberalism that protects the right of the individual against the majority—the politics of civil rights and abortion and gay marriage—has diminished, in favor of one that aims to improve the lot of the median man. Obama’s liberalism is for the majority, not against it. This spirit, and the unlikely endurance of the Patriot Act, owes something to the central psychological events of the decade: the vitality and threat of new economic competitors, the social violence initiated by the authors of obscure financial instruments, but first and most of all September 11—each of which evoked a particular feeling, that we were all together, under attack. .::Patriot Act
Posted: September 8th, 2011
at 7:54am
Tagged with 911, encyclopedia, nymag
Categories: analysis,Bush Presidency,business/econ,campaigns,cheney,civil liberties,congress,democrats,elections,executive power,fearmongering,foreign policy,history,international,iran,iraq,justice department,media,military,Obama Presidency,opinion,politics,politricks,privacy,religiosity,republicans,terrorism,torture
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In other news, the sky is blue.
You tell me, should I qualify this with a response? This may be the dumbest thing I ever heard.
Posted: September 3rd, 2011
at 2:44pm
Categories: the blacks,the whites,unclear on the concept
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They’re already ready already… are you?
Posted: August 16th, 2011
at 12:43pm
Categories: keeping tabs on the enemy,politics
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I found an article over at Good which says that many studies suggest that darker colored women get harsher prison sentences than light-skinned ones. While this is not a surprise- if you’ve ever turned on a television, that is- it does underscore a little-talked-about aspect of the black experience in America, namely colorism, one that dictates that the darker you are, the more associated you become with the negative stereotypes about black people.
I’ve quoted the short article (which links to several studies) underneath this post but you can also read the original here.

People talk a lot about the racism that poisons the criminal justice system, sending African-Americans to jail more often than white criminals, and with longer and harsher sentences. But what about “colorism”? If you don’t know, colorism is the sub-prejudice that finds people treating people of color differently based on how light or dark their skin is. Though it’s rarely talked about, colorism is a major cause for concern in courtrooms around the United States, according to a new study.
Called “The Impact of Light Skin on Prison Time for Black Female Offenders,” the study found a group of Villanova professors assessing the sentences of more than 12,000 black female defendants in North Carolina. Their findings were horrifying: Even after controlling for things like prior convictions, crime severity, and thinness, women with light skin received sentences that were 12 percent shorter on average than dark-skinned women. Lighter women also had their actual time served reduced by about 11 percent.
Colorism doesn’t just impact criminals, either. Another study, this one from the University of Georgia in 2006, found that skin tone was even more important than education when it came to employer satisfaction with black job applicants. The message this sends is that the closer you are to white, the better you are—both morally and professionally, evidently.
Thanks to Sarah for the link!
Posted: July 3rd, 2011
at 12:51pm
Tagged with colorism
Categories: media,politricks,the blacks
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