From the Mouths of Children Come Stunning Things
by btchd • May 12, 2009 • Thoughts, Video • 0 Comments
I watched this video and didn’t know how to say “I’m sorry.”
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Read more →You can’t script something better than what has happened to Rep. Jane Harman of California. Last month, Rep. Harman tabled a bill in the United States House of Representatives to sanction and limit any foreign aid to Pakistan based on “access to AQ Khan.” Rep. Harman called AQ Khan “Mr. Khan is again a loose [...]
Read more →Reverend Jesse Jackson, an inspirational speaker of the civil rights movement in the United States, wrote a poem called “I Am Somebody,” to motivate black students in 1966. I am reproducing the poem here because I think we need to remind our government that there are still people whose voices, while unheard, still matter. I [...]
Read more →“There is a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying into Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hand, saying that they’re going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses,” Rep. Gary Ackerman, D-New York, told the chief executive officers of Ford, Chrysler and General Motors at [...]
Read more →Ever since President-Elect Barack Obama became a serious candidate for the Democratic Party’s nomination for the presidency, the right and the ultraright, the Fox News, and the ill-informed segment of the population which follows Fox’s “fair and balanced” news and analysis used Mr. Obama’s middle name and the fact that his grandfather was a Muslim [...]
Read more →Gordon Brown issued the most objectionable statement of the financial crisis today by asking China and the oil-rich Gulf nations to bolster an enhanced IMF bailout fund for countries rocked by the global economic downturn. His quote is “those with the greatest surpluses should do more.” (isn’t it interesting that the “do more” comment is [...]
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