Sunday, November 15, 2009
Friday, October 30, 2009
Gallup interpets the drastic fluctuation in 1995 as a response to the O.J. Simpson trial.
- 10/29/09 02:29 PM ET
Barack Obama's presidency hasn't notably changed views on race relations in America, according to the results of a new Gallup poll.
Fifty-six percent of Americans believe that a solution to America's race problems will eventually be worked out. That's roughly the same result that Gallup found in the years leading up to 2008.
In short, despite a brief and notable bump after Obama won the election, optimism (or lack thereof) about U.S. race relations is back to its previous level.
Friday, October 2, 2009
lemme c ur O face
sorry ya'll. now let's get back to important things:
The budget that was passed by the General Assembly and signed by the Governor on July 14 provides approximately $194 million for the Monetary Award Program, which is half of what the state used for MAP grants last year. If the General Assembly and Governor Quinn do not act to restore $200 million in MAP funds by the end of October, as many as 138,000 students will be unable to return to college for the Spring semester.
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Sunday, September 27, 2009
ANNUAL MEMBERS' SHOW
Friday, October 2nd, 2009
6:00-9:00 PM
832 W Superior St. #204
Chicago, IL 60622
www.arcgallery.org
Please join me and the rest of the ladies for their annual exhibition.
P
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Rules for Radicals
Conservatives are coming for the Democrats on their blind side — the left.
The evidence is everywhere.
At tea parties and town halls, conservative demonstrators oppose health care reform with signs bearing the abortion-rights slogan “Keep your laws off my body” or the line “Obama lies, Grandma dies” — an echo of the “Bush lied, they died” T-shirts worn to protest the Iraq war.
Conservative activists are yelling “Nazi!” and “Big Brother!” where they used to shout “Nanny state!” and “Big Government!”
And the 1971 agitator’s handbook “Rules for Radicals” — written by Saul Alinsky, the Chicago community organizer who was the subject of Hillary Clinton’s senior thesis, and whose teachings helped shape Barack Obama’s work on Chicago’s South Side — has been among Amazon’s top 100 sellers for the past month, put there in part by people who “also bought” books by Michelle Malkin, Glenn Beck,and South Carolina Republican Sen. Jim DeMint.
Yes, the same folks who brought you Obama the socialist have been appropriating the words and ways of leftists past — and generally letting their freak flags fly.
The left-wing rhetoric and symbolism are so thick on the right, in fact, that some conservatives have been taken aback by it: The logo for the Sept. 12 protest in Washington, which organizers called the “March on Washington,” featured an image that looked so much like those associated with the labor, communist and black power movements that some participants objected to it — until they found out that’s what the designers were shooting for.
“As an organization, we have been very closely studying what the left has been doing,” explains FreedomWorks press secretary Adam Brandon, who says he was given a copy of “Rules for Radicals” when he took his current job . Brandon describes the Sept. 12 rally in D.C. as the “culmination of four years worth of work” and says that organizers were “incredibly conscious” of the symbols they chose.
With the logo, he explains, they were “trying to evoke the imagery of the counterrevolutionary protests of the 1960s that captured the imagination of the world.” And as for the phrase “March on Washington,” Brandon says, “this is something people said in the office. If we had been alive back in the 1960s, we would have been on the freedom bus rides. It was an issue of individual liberty. We’re trying to borrow some from the civil rights movement.”
From the outside, at least, it doesn't look like an obvious fit.
Dick Armey did not, in fact, participate in the freedom rides of the 1960s. Brandon said the former House majority leader was an undergrad in Jamestown, N.D., at the time, working his way through school putting up electric poles, and “wasn’t politically active at the time.”
And while they’re handing out Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” at FreedomWorks, Armey himself told the Financial Times last month: “What I think of Alinsky is that he was very good at what he did but what he did was not good.”
But if the tactics of the left helped end segregation and the Vietnam War in the last century, conservatives say there’s no reason those same tactics can’t be used to keep liberals in check now.
James O’Keefe, the activist and filmmaker who posed as a pimp for an expose of several ACORN offices in the Northeast, told the New York Post earlier this week] that he, too, had been inspired by “Rules for Radicals,” which includes such tactical lessons as “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon” and “Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.”
R
Friday, September 18, 2009
He's no Teddy, but
The Scott Brown (Republican up for Kennedy's seat) nudey pic is causing more traction in the news than the fact that he voted YES on the sales tax.
No college institution will ever be able to teach just how ass backwards politics is. Tanks for tryin Emmy-C.
Still waitin for the Menino nudes,
RR
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Everything Can Be Explained
by picking up a classic
"The heart of the matter - to borrow a distinction made by Max Weber about politics - is that the professional man lives off ideas, not for them. His professional role, his professional skills, do not make him an intellectual. He is a mental worker, a technician. He may happen to be an intellectual as well, but if he is, it is because he brings to his profession a distinctive feeling about ideas which is not required by his job. As a professional, he has acquired a stock of mental skills that are for sale. The skills are highly developed, but we do not think of him as being an intellectual if certain qualities are missing from his work - disinterested intelligence, generalizing power, free speculation, fresh observation, creative novelty, radical criticism.
At home he may happen to be an intellectual, but at his job he is a hired mental technician who uses his mind for the pursuit of externally determined ends.
It is this element - the fact that ends are set from some interest or vantage point outside the intellectual process itself - which characterizes both the zealot, who lives obsessively for a single idea, and the mental technician, whose mind is used not for fee speculation but for a salable end.
The difference is not in the character of the ideas with which he works but in his attitude toward them. I have suggested that in some sense he lives for ideas - which means that he has a sense of dedication to the life of them in which is very much like a religious commitment.
This is not suprising, for in a very important way the role of the intellectual is inherited from the office of the cleric: it implies a special sense of the ultimate value in existence of the act of comprehension. Socrates, when he said that the unexamined life is not worth living, struck the essence of it.
The noblest thing, and the closest possible to divinity, is thus the act of knowing.
If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea."
This one's for you P,
Randi
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