A conversation about race

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1084394769627714346&ei=CrO3SqmwDcTylQe8w8nQBg&q=a+conversation+about+race&hl=en#%3C/p

Perfectly said. I think I’m going to copy and paste that comment for future reference. I only wish I had the guts to throw it up on my Facebook page. But, then I hate when people get political on the FB.

Tonight Rachel Maddow was focusing on protesters’ behavior and signs at the Town Hall meetings and the 9-12 March on Washington: “the tree of Liberty needs to be watered” (understood as “with the blood of tyrants”), the 3 incidents in which protesters were armed, etc. She declared she was alarmed by the possibility that conservative demonstrations could overflow into violence. (Oh, yeah, I’ll never forget the Presbyterian riots in Des Moines. So typical of conservatives. /sarc) This follows Nancy Pelosi’s lamentations that civil discourse has become impossible and “this kind of rhetoric is … frightening and it created a climate in which … violence took place (in San Francisco 1978)”. (Her reproach on declining civility comes after several years of Democrat heckling of all things Bush, but heck, who’s keeping track, right?)

Does anybody wonder if perchance Obama’s puppet-masters are just waiting and hoping for some such civil crisis to occur, a crisis which might justify a declaration of national emergency and a takeover of vital functions? Paranoid people want to know….

I have enjoyed reading your blog for a few hours. You were referred to me on our blog by a fellow contributor. Keep up the good work.

‘nuf said.

No, I am not a sexer. Because the double-standard existed.

The people who are racers have ZERO evidence of double-standards or pre-judice or anything when they make their claims of racism.

Yep, Barry and friends sure know how to improve our image in the world. CNN World also had a piece on the topic yesterday, showing some of the battier posters from Saturday.

Makes announcement on 70th anniversary of Soviet invasion of poland…

today is the day we signed the constitition…
its constitution day!!!

In October 1939, Molotov reported to the Supreme Soviet that the Soviets had suffered 737 deaths and 1,862 casualties during the campaign, though Polish specialists claim up to 3,000 deaths and 8,000 to 10,000 wounded.[e] On the Polish side, between 6,000 and 7,000 soldiers died fighting the Red Army, with 230,000 to 450,000 taken prisoner.[1][43] The Soviets often failed to honour terms of surrender. In some cases, they promised Polish soldiers freedom and then arrested them when they laid down their arms.[4]

The Soviet Union had ceased to recognise the Polish state at the start of the invasion.[9][10] As a result, the two governments never officially declared war on each other. The Soviets therefore did not classify Polish military prisoners as prisoners of war but as rebels against the new legal government of Western Ukraine and Western Byelorussia.[n] The Soviets killed tens of thousands of Polish prisoners of war. Some, like General Józef Olszyna-Wilczyński, who was captured, interrogated and shot on 22 September, were executed during the campaign itself.[44][45] On 24 September, the Soviets killed forty-two staff and patients of a Polish military hospital in the village of Grabowiec, near Zamość.[46] The Soviets also executed all the Polish officers they captured after the Battle of Szack, on 28 September 1939.[38] Over 20,000 Polish military personnel and civilians perished in the Katyn massacre.[4][35] About 300 Poles were executed after the Battle of Grodno [3].

Torture was used on a wide scale in various prisons, especially those in small towns. Prisoners were scalded with boiling water in Bobrka; in Przemyslany, people had their noses, ears, and fingers cut off and eyes put out; in Czortkow, female inmates had their breasts cut off; and in Drohobycz, victims were bound together with barbed wire. Similar atrocities occurred in Sambor, Stanislawow, Stryj, and Zloczow.[47] Also, in Podolian town of Czortków, a local Polish uprising broke out in January 1940, brutally suppressed by the Soviets. According to historian Jan T. Gross:
“We cannot escape the conclusion: Soviet state security organs tortured their prisoners not only to extract confessions but also to put them to death. Not that the NKVD had sadists in its ranks who had run amok; rather, this was a wide and systematic procedure.” [48]

I bet poland and the slovak states are not too happy…

During the two years following the annexation, the Soviets also arrested approximately 100,000 Polish citizens[54] and deported between 350,000 and 1,500,000, of whom between 250,000 and 1,000,000 died, mostly civilians.[b][55] In 2009 the Polish IPN lowered this estimate to 320,000 deported and 150,000 dead [14].

Soviet censors later suppressed many details of the 1939 invasion and its aftermath.[62] The Politburo had from the start called the operation a “liberation campaign”, and later Soviet statements and publications never wavered from that line.[63] On 30 November 1939, Stalin stated that it was not Germany who had attacked France and England, but France and England who had attacked Germany;[64] and the following March, Molotov claimed that Germany had tried to make peace and been turned down by “Anglo-French imperialists”.[o] All subsequent Soviet governments denied that there had ever been a secret protocol to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact; but when the document was “found” in the Soviet archives in 1989, the truth was finally acknowledged.[7] Censorship was also applied in the People’s Republic of Poland, to preserve the image of “Polish-Soviet friendship” promoted by the two communist governments. Official policy allowed only accounts of the 1939 campaign that portrayed it as a reunification of the Belarusian and Ukrainian peoples and a liberation of the Polish people from “oligarchic capitalism.” The authorities strongly discouraged any further study or teaching on the subject.[16][35]

Come all and learn our new anthem….

the Obama National Anthem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l46t_nrySg4