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     cheetah Citizen Username: Cheetah Post Number: 65 Registered: 5-2001 |
http://theangryliberal.blogspot.com/ | ||
| nan Citizen Username: Nan Post Number: 2054 Registered: 2-2001 |
Thanks for the link, Cheetah! I saw you posted this somwhere on MOL, but I don't remember why. What's your role in this blog? Are you THE angryliberal? I've been checking it out and was surprised to see this quote at the top: "Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will." -- Antonio Gramsci I've spent some time previously and during this weekend reading up on Gramsci's views on education and thinking about ordering a book on that topic (Do I want to spend $30 bucks to stick yet another volume on the bottom of a sky high pile--that is the question). Evidently E.D. Hirsch tried to appropriate his remarks on education into a neoconservative framework and it pissed a whole lot of people off as you can imagine. Besides that I'm seeing some other interesting links and articles. | ||
| cheetah Citizen Username: Cheetah Post Number: 66 Registered: 5-2001 |
Yes, I'm "Angry".... and also a former Maplewood resident (now Bostonian). http://theangryliberal.blogspot.com/ | ||
| nan Citizen Username: Nan Post Number: 2059 Registered: 2-2001 |
Looks like we switched spots. I'm a former Bostonian, now Maplewood resident. I'm "Angry" and liberal too. Thanks for the link. | ||
| cheetah Citizen Username: Cheetah Post Number: 68 Registered: 5-2001 |
The Comics (aka Wall Street Journal editorial page) http://theangryliberal.blogspot.com/ The Wall Street Journal editorial page has to be viewed as comical. I read it and try to keep a straight face, but can't as hard as I try. Today, the page bemoans the lack of a middle in the Democratic Party. Are they so completely delusional as to not see the irony in what they accuse? If anything, it's the GOP that has long lost its middle, verging so far to the right that many REPUBLICANS are on the record stating this fact. Christine Whitman, Chris Shays, John McCain, John Danforth, Paul O'Neal, just to name a few. Because the GOP has shifted so far to the right, and have just a few Snowe's and McCain's, what at one point in time might be considered a moderate Dem is now considered a flagrant liberal. The terms "middle" or "moderate" are relative and these days, such a central position is much farther right than it was ten or twenty years ago. Example: Goldwater was considered extreme right-wing in the '60s and yet today he'd be a run-of-the-mill Republican; also, Reagan would be considered moderate whereas at the time he was regarded as a hard-right conservative. Oh, and this nugget from the editorial: "As tough as these columns have been on the current Republican majority in Congress, Democrats bear their share of the blame for its dysfunction." Anyone, please send examples of this "toughness" they mention. I often read their editorials (beats reading the comics) and I don't recall such frequent GOP blastings. The editorial concludes with "Many conservatives have watched the left's hostile takeover of the Democratic Party...." First, what are they talking about? Proof, we want proof, names, anything! But secondly, it's much easier to make the case that the extreme right-wing contingent of the GOP has successfully taken over their party. And again, many within the GOP have publicly stated this fact. Kevin Drum is right when he states the WSJ has "the most dishonest editorial page in the country." | ||
| cheetah Citizen Username: Cheetah Post Number: 69 Registered: 5-2001 |
http://theangryliberal.blogspot.com/ The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. -- GW Bush <http://www.cnn.com/2003/us/05/01/bush.transcript/>, 5/1/03 WASHINGTON, June 21 - A new classified assessment by the Central Intelligence Agency says Iraq may prove to be an even more effective training ground for Islamic extremists than Afghanistan was in Al Qaeda's early days. -- NY Times <http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/22/international/middleeast/22intel.html?>, 6/22/05 | ||
| cheetah Citizen Username: Cheetah Post Number: 76 Registered: 5-2001 |
It's been a week or two since it first came out but not sure if everyone caught the exclusive interview Stars and Stripes conducted with King GW. The key question asked of him: why hasn't he attended even one funeral for a fallen U.S. soldier from Iraq? GW's reply, "Because which funeral do you go to? In my judgment, I think if I go to one I should go to all. How do you honor one person but not another?" Wow, what a BS answer. As it is in Arlington there exists the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, serving as a symbolic gesture to all those who died in wars and were not properly identified. When you pay respect to this monument you are honoring all of the unidentified dead soldiers. Likewise, King GW could attend one or even a few funerals, doing so in a symbolic effort to honor all of our fallen soldiers. The families of the soldiers would completely understand this practical and yet respectful act. I don't believe anyone would expect any president to attend all 2500+ funerals and for GW to insinuate such an asinine expectation is not surprising coming from him. Past presidents have honored countless numbers of people and events through the use of symbolic ceremonies. In this case, for Bush to fudge and dodge concerning this matter is pitiful and typically gutless. He's a weak, spineless man who has no problem sending Americans off to fight in Iraq but will not honor any who arrive back here in a casket. http://theangryliberal.blogspot.com/ | ||
| G. Webb Citizen Username: Bam Post Number: 6 Registered: 5-2006 |
"Many conservatives have watched the left's hostile takeover of the Democratic Party...." First, what are they talking about? Whether intentionally or not, they may be talking about the political realignment in this country that began in the 60's. Since FDR the democratic party dominated at every political level, even in the south. Once the party began taking more progressive (aka leftist) positions regarding civil rights, women's rights, abortion rights, handicap rights, clean air, clean water, separation of church and state, flag burning etc etc, blue states became red states, southern democrats became southern republicans. If you look as far back as the period after the civil war until WWII, the democratic party (at least in the south) was the party dedicated to the supremacy of "the white man". During reconstruction, the republican party was the party of "freedom" for blacks. Most republicans were northerners. talk about roll reversal. | ||
| Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 6727 Registered: 12-2001  |
me too. Former Bostonian now in Maplewood. would like to switch back someday |
