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January 24, 2016
My vacay pic from inside the Large Hadron Collider...
January 24, 2016
R2-Demon-2 is a false god!
January 21, 2016
Was Tweety having an on air argument with an NBC correspondent on air?
I've never seen that before.
January 20, 2016
Mark today's date…
When the Wasilla Snow Snooki placed the kiss o' death on The Donald's already doomed to fail campaign.
January 20, 2016
http://www.salon.com/2016/01/18/theyll_never_escape_white_rage_the_world_embraced_obama_and_mlk_their_countrymen_would_not/
Barack Obamas speeches are littered with quotations from Martin Luther King, Jr., so it was no surprise to hear the president weave one of Kings phrases into his State of the Union address. Obama said that he gained inspiration from those everyday Americans who showed that the nation could be a place of fairness and inclusion. These were voices Dr. King believed would have the final word, Obama declared, voices of unarmed truth and unconditional love. King uttered these words in December of 1964, when he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. He told the Oslo audience: I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
It is significant that Obama chose to quote from Kings Nobel Prize acceptance speech, and a reminder of the many links between the two men. They are two African Americans who have influenced American history in extraordinary ways, and two giants in the black struggle for freedom. They also became grand figures on the global stage. Their Nobel Peace Prizes were reflections of their glowing international reputations. Yet even as the world embraced these two men, they attracted intense hatred from white Americans.
When King received the Nobel Peace Prize, many African Americans and civil rights supporters swelled with pride. But white southerners were incredulous. J. Edgar Hoover was enraged. New Yorkers welcomed King home to a celebration at the Waldorf-Astoria, but white leaders in Atlanta were divided about whether to honor their native son. Ralph McGill, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, realized that Europeans embraced King more fully than Americans did. These Europeans have a view of Dr. King that is clearer than ours, McGill wrote, which has become befogged by emotions and prejudices. Though Atlanta did finally hold a tribute to King, whites hatred toward him only increased over the last three years of his life. By the time of his death, King was reviled by a significant number of Americans.
It is a kind of revulsion that Barack Obama knows well. In this way, Obamas experiences in office bears some striking resemblances to Kings final years.
To watch Republican rallies is to see white crowds fuming with a hatred of their black president and to see leaders fan that hatred. Ted Cruzs favored line of attack is to call Obama lawless. Of all the troubling aspects of the Obama presidency, Cruz declared, none is more dangerous than the presidents persistent pattern of lawlessness. Trump took to Twitter to announce: Sadly, because President Obama has done such a poor job as president, you wont see another black president for generations! Martin Luther King confronted a deep-seated racism. And he was called lawless more times than he could count.
They’ll never escape white rage: The world embraced Obama and MLK — their countrymen would not
http://www.salon.com/2016/01/18/theyll_never_escape_white_rage_the_world_embraced_obama_and_mlk_their_countrymen_would_not/
Barack Obamas speeches are littered with quotations from Martin Luther King, Jr., so it was no surprise to hear the president weave one of Kings phrases into his State of the Union address. Obama said that he gained inspiration from those everyday Americans who showed that the nation could be a place of fairness and inclusion. These were voices Dr. King believed would have the final word, Obama declared, voices of unarmed truth and unconditional love. King uttered these words in December of 1964, when he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. He told the Oslo audience: I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
It is significant that Obama chose to quote from Kings Nobel Prize acceptance speech, and a reminder of the many links between the two men. They are two African Americans who have influenced American history in extraordinary ways, and two giants in the black struggle for freedom. They also became grand figures on the global stage. Their Nobel Peace Prizes were reflections of their glowing international reputations. Yet even as the world embraced these two men, they attracted intense hatred from white Americans.
When King received the Nobel Peace Prize, many African Americans and civil rights supporters swelled with pride. But white southerners were incredulous. J. Edgar Hoover was enraged. New Yorkers welcomed King home to a celebration at the Waldorf-Astoria, but white leaders in Atlanta were divided about whether to honor their native son. Ralph McGill, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, realized that Europeans embraced King more fully than Americans did. These Europeans have a view of Dr. King that is clearer than ours, McGill wrote, which has become befogged by emotions and prejudices. Though Atlanta did finally hold a tribute to King, whites hatred toward him only increased over the last three years of his life. By the time of his death, King was reviled by a significant number of Americans.
It is a kind of revulsion that Barack Obama knows well. In this way, Obamas experiences in office bears some striking resemblances to Kings final years.
To watch Republican rallies is to see white crowds fuming with a hatred of their black president and to see leaders fan that hatred. Ted Cruzs favored line of attack is to call Obama lawless. Of all the troubling aspects of the Obama presidency, Cruz declared, none is more dangerous than the presidents persistent pattern of lawlessness. Trump took to Twitter to announce: Sadly, because President Obama has done such a poor job as president, you wont see another black president for generations! Martin Luther King confronted a deep-seated racism. And he was called lawless more times than he could count.
January 18, 2016
Come at me, bro...
January 17, 2016
I'm getting tired of your shit, Stephanie...
January 17, 2016
Rock n' Roll
January 13, 2016
GO BLUE!
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