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March 30 2011 Should the US support the Sharron Angle Insurrection?

Should the US support the Sharron Angle Insurrection? by Bruce Wallace, 121Contact.org

The Washington Post reported that Angle approvingly quoted Thomas Jefferson saying it's good for a country to have a revolution every 20 years -- and said that if Congress keeps it up, people may find themselves resorting to "Second Amendment remedies."

June 14 2010 Texas Textbooks Tell Truth, at last...the last stop on road to madness

Bruce K. sent this in and I couldn't resist passing it on.

You may have heard about the Texas Board of Education approving a new history textbook.

Here are some of the chapter titles they might include.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN: Native Kentuckian or Kenyan ?

 

THE WAR ON INDIAN AGGRESSION

 

THE ALAMO: Mission Accomplished

 

The Texas Contribution to the Revolutionary War

 

HARRIET TUBMAN: Employee of the Week

 

PEARL HARBOR: God's Punishment on a New Deal President

 

JOE McCARTHY: The humble senator who saved us from

                           Communist takeover.

 

GEORGE BUSH: The Misunderestimated Leader

 

LIBERALS GONE WILD: The Women's and Civil Rights Movements

 

HOW GAY MARRIAGE LED TO 9/11

 

1835-1850: Americans Liberate Texas Territory From Illegal

                 Mexican Immigrants

May 26 2010 Oh, those oppressed Muslim women! or were they Jewish?

West Bank rabbi bans women from local election

The chief rabbi of a West Bank settlement has prohibited women from standing in a local community election. Rabbi Elyakim Levanon of the Elon Moreh settlement, near Nablus, said women lacked the authority to stand for the post of local secretary.

So now let's all think of all Jewish women as oppressed by all Jewish men (and paint all of Judaism with one big bigotry brush!-)

[BBC News]

March 10 2010 An old joke from Baghad

Bush: Why did that guy throw 2 shoes at me?

Almaliky: Well, because he didn't have 3!

Nov 7 2008 Iraq Contractor bids: a simple solution

Like all jokes, good and bad [and this one is pretty bad], there is a kernel of truth at the core. This joke speaks to the depth of corruption that pervades the effort to rebuild. Simply throwing money at the problem is not enough. There has to be a renewal of moral authority to accompany the good intentions.

"Three Iraqi contractors were bidding for a contract for the construction of a wall around a local municipal council. The first contractor proposed a bid of $1000 ($400 for construction materials, $400 for the laborers, and a profit of $200). The second contractor proposed $700 ($300 for materials, $300 for workers, and a profit of $100). The third contractor offered a bid of $2700. The head of the municipal council angrily asked the contractor why he proposed such a high bid. "It's very simple," said the contractor, smiling. "A thousand for me, a thousand for you, and we'll give the $700 to the second contractor to finish the job."

And as soon as I had posted the first version of this I was reminded, from Baghdad, that corruption in contracts is merely a drop in the bucket. Why, to even get a job one must pay up to $ 2000US to a 'broker' and then you get the interview. Of course no one gets arrested for this, so that implies come collusion on the part of law enforcement, and so on, and so on...