Showing posts with label racism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label racism. Show all posts

Friday, January 23, 2009

For Friday, January 23, 2009




Suspected US missile strikes kill 18 in Pakistan

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090123/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan;_ylt=Aj9LI85gr58NyR8_DD8C7ems0NUE

UK in recession as economy slides

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7846266.stm

UK in recession after worst GDP drop in 30 years

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre50m2au-us-britain-economy/

Report: Former Gitmo prisoner fights again

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28800516/

Ex-Gitmo Detainee May Be Al Qaeda Leader

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/23/terror/main4749326.shtml

Stem Cell OK Gives Paraplegics New Hope

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=6714423&page=1


Green light for US stem cell work

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7847450.stm

FDA allows first test of human stem cell therapy

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre50m2u9-us-stemcells/

Analysis: Abrupt end to 'war on terror'

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28807952/

Obama asks lawmakers to back stimulus bill

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090123/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_economy;_ylt=AnMcS5t6gcImBY3D_fWXqvqs0NUE

Obama removes restrictions on abortion funding

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre50m3pq-us-obama-abortion/

FDA: 31M lbs of peanut products recalled

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090122/ap_on_he_me/med_salmonella_outbreak;_ylt=AkAwtFIC91VYqnghi7pexnqs0NUE

Peanut product recall keeps spreading

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28749159/

Peanut popularity complicates salmonella probe

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/23/peanut.probe.salmonella/index.html

Kentucky leads nation in smoking deaths

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28801743/

Obama acts fast on Mideast, but substance familiar

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre50m32g-us-obama-arabs/

Did Israel Use A Banned Weapon?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/22/eveningnews/main4748346.shtml

Retailers at risk of closing

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1019193

GE profit down 44 percent, shares fall premarket

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre50m2nc-us-ge/

Russia says ready to work with U.S. on Afghanistan

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre50m3da-us-russia-usa-afghan/
































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Saturday, October 25, 2008

For Saturday, October 25, 2008



Did our crummy little blog beat ABC News and the other news outlets on positing the election of Obama and the effects on racism in our October 20, 2008 Posting: Racism: Is the End Near? (http://americanpoliticalhandbook.blogspot.com/2008/10/racism-is-end-near.html) See the ABC News.com posting for today Saturday, October 25, 2008: Obama Rises: Is Racism on the Way Out? (http://abcnews.go.com/US/Vote2008/story?id=6108101&page=1 ). Like we said, no, not quite. For proof of this, read the story about 20-year old caucasian girl: McCain Volunteer in Attack Hoax. (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27350530/). Is it just a coincidence that ABC (long time champion against racism and the "cause") picked up on almost the same string of thought? Were we just prescient? Or was it that it just wasn't that much of a stretch? Or is it a right-on prediction for both of us and good news for the rest of the world? We hope its the latter. Meanwhile, the real reason we're here, here are the links.






Ohio paper backs McCain, Fla. paper endorses Obama

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081025/ap_on_el_pr/presidential_endorsements;_ylt=Ap0YNkSPB9SLo_WAXbmh5Mus0NUE



NYT: Support for Obama among Bush backers

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27350891/

Obama Rises: Is Racism on Way Out?

http://abcnews.go.com/US/Vote2008/story?id=6108101&page=1

Obama pitches self in new ad; McCain hits tax plan

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081025/ap_on_el_pr/campaign_rdp;_ylt=Akvubk279cCXTYCE5pAqTNys0NUE

Democrats headed toward big gains in House, Senate

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081025/ap_on_el_ge/congress_stakes;_ylt=AuEjnfqsjywB6b39gRWoQH2s0NUE

Justin Webb: (McCain) Palling with Pinochet

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/justinwebb/2008/10/unhelpful_messages.html

Augusto Pinochet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinochet

McCain volunteer charged in attack hoax

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27350530/

McCain's brother apologizes for calling 911

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081025/ap_on_el_ge/joe_mccain911;_ylt=AoPnhAPB2HVz_ohnDR1hK.2s0NUE

Palin: Bush a major obstacle for campaign

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27364991/

Battle intensifies for the working class male

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/us_elections_2008/7681979.stm

US election guide

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7643755.stm

Palin quizzed over Alaska sacking

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/us_elections_2008/7688391.stm

Palin testifies to investigator in ethics dispute

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/palin_troopergate;_ylt=AqFWC0C8wXpfkPLuIsMhMUoDW7oF

UN chief seeks crisis help for poor

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7690437.stm

US claims Afghan opium progress

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7690422.stm

Japan recalls noodles over scare

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7690591.stm




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Monday, October 20, 2008

Racism: Is the End Near?




A very nice 106 years young lady by the name of Ann Nixon Cooper (notice the middle name? Follow the link to the CNN story about her) just can't help but hope that this will be a change year of historic proportions. She remembers a time when being black meant you could NOT vote. We should also mention a time when WOMEN were not allowed to vote. Ms. Cooper might be just young enough to recall the Women's Suffrage Movement of the early 1900's, too.
Winning the right to vote and the right to run for public office has had some deadly serious obstacles in this country throughout its sometimes turbulent history. Our senior editor is young enough to remember water cannons and police dogs and rubber hoses and many other deterrents being turned on the demonstrators in Selma, Alabama (where Obama was when this photo was taken, some decades later). That was some real suffering that happened then. We almost weep when we think of the vagaries that have led Mr. Obama to the point in this image and to heights he has reached today and may reach even higher tomorrow.
We haven't adjusted the numbers for inflation, but neither can we recall a candidate (any candidate) that generated so much cash and popularity. Look at the $ 150 million received in September (CNN). Is the death of racism so near that we might actually have a diversity president in office next year? It is almost unbelievable. We hold our breath for the white vote that may or may not turn out. See the BBC story "Closet racism Might white voters abandon Obama on election day?" WE ARE still predicting a WIN in his column. If you dare doubt his solid popularity, look at the throngs that come just to see him when he arrives in town. Just look back at the tapes. There has been much talk of the "Bradley Effect", but we don't believe it to be present in this election.
BUT, there has been some positioning of Obama to get him to this point. Though, too there has been much political wrangling to get Mr. McCain to the same point, though with some high ups and some very low downs. We watched with great interest the Frontline (PBS) Documentary The Choice 2008 on just this topic. (You can view it online). It was powerfully done with exacting research and background. We were amazed at just how uninformed some of us were when reviewing this spectacle of political brinkmanship. Its just a whole lot more than a Kansas City Toedance.
Will the election be the absolute death of racism? No, not yet. But it might just be a big, all-important step in that fateful direction.






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Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Oh NO You Didn't


Oh NO you didn't. Didn't John McCain just jibe the other day about Obama being "a politician from Chicago."? Well, what's wrong about being from Chicago? The senior editor used to live in that great city. We feel somewhat disrespected - don't you? And what's wrong with being a politician from Chicago? Nothing. There is however something wrong with being a politician - if you go around disrespecting the great city of Chicago. There's something very wrong with that. We are predicting a loss for John McCain, if not in Chicago, but the entire state of Illinois should get behind Obama, and vote against the insult.



























































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