A great piece in the Guardian this morning on Washington DC's racism and
contradictions/hipocracy surrounding it as the center of democracy.
It also touches on something that is often missed when talking about the
US and that is the state capitals, centres of where democracy is to be
practiced
Yup. In the mid-60's I lived in DC in the then newly renovated area of SW.
This so I could walk to work on Mall. We lived across the street from the
last of a newly constructed public housing project. The colour line ran
right down the street. White on one side and black on the other. We met
I guess my evolving perspective on the health of a democratic Israel is
less optimistic than a year ago.
It seems two of the four main characters, the Israeli citizens and the
Palestinian refugees, have become victims of their own success. They each have powerful allies now, their
cause
Yes, Tanya this was a good read, part humor part dirty facts. If it weren't
for the fact that the seat of government takes up so much of it's real
estate, Washington DC would be just another urban renewal project in some
ways. But hey, they've got great real estate and the Smithsonian, too.
January 21, 2003Doubling Up of Taxation Isn't
Limited to DividendsBy DANIEL ALTMANDouble taxation," President
Bush said in introducing his proposal to end the personal tax on dividends, "is
bad for our economy. Double taxation is wrong."
Corporate dividends, however, are not the only
kind
A few postings ago I suggested that what Iraq was really about was global
control, regional hegemony, and the supply of oil, probably in that order.
Interestingly, on a CBC news item last night a Kuwaiti also said it was about
hegemony and oil. However, most Kuwaitis interviewed, including a
Greetings, everyone,
This is one of those articles written by someone who knows just enough to be
profoundly wrong -- or worse, to miss the point entirely.
To point to some of the more egregious areas:
1. Washington is as segregated as Johannesburg. Fact: any person of any race
can be in any
Hi Lawry,
My dean was at a conference in DC recently (during the sniper scare)
and she was told that DC has a very high violent crime rate. Any
truth to that?
Take care,
Brian
Greetings, everyone,
This is one of those articles written by someone who knows just enough to be
profoundly wrong
Lawry, so glad my post provoked you to respond at length. You always write
well and say worthwhile things. I hope you send your post to the journalist
to clean up the brush strokes of the picture he painted.
My point was that as a seat of government, DC is put into exceptional
circumstances
Who says that Canada wants to be annexed??
arthur
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Yes, Tanya this was a good
Hi, Brian,
The article, I assume, is correct on the number of murders, so I guess the
rate may have increased last year. The US, generally, has a high murder
rate (too many guns out there) and Washington does not have the highest
murder rate in the US, I don't think.
Crime IS one of the areas
Lawry,
I was here also during the sniper attacks. It held the area hypnotized for
many days. One of the highlights was the outpouring of sympathy for the
victims and their families, the lack of racial speculation over the identity
of the perpetrators, and the immense outpouring of support for
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible
man hardly anything. (Goethe)
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No Arthur,
Not White Man, White Van, they were looking for a White Van and the only
racial characteristic at the time was Hispanic.The picture they
published was hispanic.
How is it that a majority that has benefitted immensely from racial policies
up until 1954 claiming that Blacks were
Yes, the fact that it was centered in the suburbs was startling and
out-of-pattern. But it was happening to whites, blacks and Hispanics. The
suburban element was more startling, I think, than the racial diversity.
The police focus on white perpetrators came solely from the FBI and its
profilers
Just trying to be colour blind.
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Yes, the fact that it was centered in the
Who says that Canada wants to be annexed??
arthur
Perhaps we should offer provincehood to the US -- under very strict
conditions of course.
Ed
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Please do! Then I could move there permanently. Even at my advanced
age
Bruce Leier
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Ray,
Unfortunately, I had a clean out of old messages so have lost Hutton.
I don't recall being particularly enthralled with it.
Perhaps because conservatives are imagined to be a block of people like
the blacks, the hispanics, the liberals the Catholics and so on -
when each block contains
Lawry,
Some 80% of violent crimes are committed by blacks. Also, 51.5% of the
homicides.
This in 13% of the population.
A kid was killed yesterday - a gang killing. He had already lost 4 brothers.
So, complaining at so many blacks in prison isn't particularly worthwhile.
Also, it's
Brad McCormick, Ed.D. wrote:
... recent Dilbert cartoon
where the Grim Reaper comes for Dilbert, and
Dilbert is baffled because G.R. has a smile on his face.
Dilbert asks about this, and G.R. explains: I,
unlike you, like my job.
Can't resist sharing my all-time favourite N-YrKr cartoon (a
Stephen Straker wrote:
Brad McCormick, Ed.D. wrote:
... recent Dilbert cartoon
where the Grim Reaper comes for Dilbert, and
Dilbert is baffled because G.R. has a smile on his face.
Dilbert asks about this, and G.R. explains: I,
unlike you, like my job.
Can't resist sharing my all-time
Harry Pollard wrote:
[snip]
Perhaps because conservatives are imagined to be a block of people
like the blacks, the hispanics, the liberals the Catholics and
so on - when each block contains individuals with all kinds of variations.
[snip]
What a shame that most of these individuals don't
Ed,
I'm not sure American males could take playing in the end zones, and three
downs.
Of course the psychiatrists would benefit from such an attack on reality.
Harry
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Ed wrote:
Who says that Canada wants to be annexed??
arthur
Perhaps we
Brad,
Neither of us is #6.
Harry
Brad wrote:
Harry Pollard wrote:
[snip]
Perhaps because conservatives are imagined to be a block of people like
the blacks, the hispanics, the liberals the Catholics and so on -
Ed,
I'm not sure American males could take playing in the end zones, and three
downs.
Of course the psychiatrists would benefit from such an attack on reality.
Harry
We could compromise and play three and a half downs and send all of the
psychiatrists to Winnipeg.
Ed
Ed Weick
577
Harry,
You have to speak in the language of the people you are teaching.I
taught in a Roman Catholic High School in college. The Nuns marched the
kids in with yardsticks ready to whack them if they were out of step.
These genuinely nice women turned tyrants in front of a classroom. Out of
Check this out Harry:
The New Criterion, founded in 1982 by the art
critic Hilton Kramer and the pianist and music critic Samuel Lipman, is a
monthly review of the arts and intellectual life. Written with great verve,
clarity, and wit, The New Criterion has emerged as America's
Why would you guys wish the same people that screwed up the American Ideal
on the Canadians?
REH
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Given the
Good point. The Canadians would want some sort of triage
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Why would you
Harry,
You have to speak in the language of the people you are teaching.I
taught in a Roman Catholic High School in college. The Nuns marched the
kids in with yardsticks ready to whack them if they were out of step.
These genuinely nice women turned tyrants in front of a classroom. Out of
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