October 24, 2009 04:00 AM
Mike's Blog Round Up
Philly2Philly: This post is from June, but we thought the White House needed a reminder that Fox News won the right to LIE TO THE PUBLIC in a 2003 appellate court decision.
Gin and Tacos: Wall Street is Too Clever by Half.
Race Wire: “Progressive” cities aren’t red or blue, but another color entirely: white.
If you haven't heard Philip Spooner's wonderful speech on marriage equality yet, don't miss it.
Tom Dispatch: We can win in Afghanistan with 10 years of $5 billion a month. No, really.
They've been so bullied and intimidated by Fox for being "liberal" that they go out of their way to specifically craft stories that fall into the exact middle of the moderate - conservative tangent. None of their coverage is remotely accurate in context or content.
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Thanks for catching that! I fixed. -- Blue Gal
In academic circles it's whites and Asian's that dominate the scene.
Given that the studies and charts were produced by those with degree's it is obvious why there is a bias in the outcome.
When the African American population produces as many college grads as the Asian community is producing on a yearly basis this might change. Until then these kinds of studies are going to reflect the fact that racial bias is a way of life in the US no matter how much everyone tries to deny it.
Statistics grabbed from reading/surfing not long ago watching morons demonstrate against their own quality of life... during the fevered tea bagging season (sorry, didn't keep link)
"In 1969, the top quintile of American wage-earners made 43 per cent of all the money earned in the US; the bottom quintile made 4.1 per cent. In 2007, the top quintile made 49.7 per cent; the bottom quintile 3.4.
....White people, for example, make up about 70 per cent of the US population, and 62 per cent of those are in the bottom quintile"
Thanks for the link to Philip Spooner's speech. I got tears in my eyes and shivers ... a woman at his polling place asked him if he believed in equality for gay people, and he replied, "What do you think I voted for at Omaha Beach?"
That Trillin piece is fantastic, and Ed has some good thoughts on it.
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