generalbriefing:

Us Black folks have been expressing our anger over the Trayvon Martin case. Now, the Shaima Alawadi case is coming to light. I am sympathetic, because I believe that anti-Muslim hate is asinine and just as dangerous as anti-Black hate. Further, there are many Black Muslims…

As a Black man, I fundamentally agree with this. The murder of Trayvon Martin need not be diluted by lumping it with the murder of Shaima Alawadi. Vicious crude racism stands on its own noxious stink….just as rancid xenophobia. As a committed Leftist who believes in broad based justice, though, I can’t go all the way to say that fighting racial discrimination should only be an assembly-line process where each group tackles their own issues with no corelation or cooperation with each other. After all, the same forces now attempting to apologize for George Zimmerman are the same forces that also are behind the assault on Arab/Muslim people who are perceived as enough of a threat that they must be slaughtered. It may be different aspects of the same “Stay in your place and don’t cross into ours, because we will KILL you otherwise” mentality..but it’s still the same mentality….and it must be fought collectively.

zjemptv:

Bill O’Reilly took issue with the notion of the government paying for her “activities,” and said if the activities of women are paid for, what about men’s activities like football or going to public gymnasiums?

“So why, then, won’t the government pay for my activities? For example, I played college football. The government should have bought my equipment. My helmet, shoulder pads, cleats, because if I don’t have those things on the field, I might get hurt. And that might cost society a lot, especially if I don’t have the money to pay for my hospital stay. So surely the taxpayers should have ponied up for my football activities.”

So: Men play football and go to the gym (“male activities”), whereas women just have lots of sex (“female activities”). Who are women having sex with? Presumably other women who are also having lots of sex. With women. Hence the need for contraception.

One question, BillO…was your college public?? If it was, then I figure that your equipment was in fact paid for in large part by taxpayer money, through Land Grant/Pell Grant funds used by most students to pay their way through college.

Also….college and professional teams are heavily subsidized by the taxpayers as well. But, I guess that the government should have also paid you for harassing Andrea Mackris, too….right?? And, for mistaking German massacers at the WWII battle of Malmedy for Americans??

You’re over your head here, BillO..back away before Keith Olbermann drops another house on your ass.

(Thanks to Zinnia for granting permission to reblog this.)

shortformblog:

I am deeply disappointed by the gross mischaracterizations of the strategy, its rationale, and my involvement in it. I openly acknowledge my role in the matter and continue to believe our decision was the best one for Komen’s future and the women we serve. However, the decision to update our granting model was made before I joined Komen, and the controversy related to Planned Parenthood has long been a concern to the organization. Neither the decision nor the changes themselves were based on anyone’s political beliefs or ideology. Rather, both were based on Komen’s mission and how to better serve women, as well as a realization of the need to distance Komen from controversy. I believe that Komen, like any other nonprofit organization, has the right and the responsibility to set criteria and highest standards for how and to whom it grants.

What was a thoughtful and thoroughly reviewed decision – one that would have indeed enabled Komen to deliver even greater community impact – has unfortunately been turned into something about politics. This is entirely untrue. This development should sadden us all greatly.

A fuller quote tells a slightly more in-depth story than the quote the AP used. Note the italicized part.

(Source: shortformblog, via keepyourbsoutofmyuterus)

fralcon:

Goodnight white pride: Anonymous hacktivists expose Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul’s connection with American neo-Nazis.

On Tuesday, Anonymous enthusiasts hacked and defaced the website of American Third Position (A3P),  a major US-based white supremacist network. According to Anonymous, documents liberated in the hack show that “Ron Paul has regularly met with many A3P members, even engaging in conference calls with their board of directors.”

 

The notorious international Internet hacktivist collective known as Anonymous is currently targeting American Nazis and white supremacists as part of their ongoing Operation Blitzkrieg (#OpBlitzkrieg).  On Sunday, as part of Operation Blitzkrieg, hacktivists associated with Anonymous hacked and defaced the web page belonging to the American Nazi Party.

 

The Anti-Defamation League reports that the American Third Position (A3P), is a white supremacist political party based in California. The white nationalist political group was reportedly created in October 2009 but began promoting itself to the public in January 2010.