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It gets very dry and factual and mathy midway through - if anybody could sum it up, that'd be great, I sort of glazed over even though the individual facts were interesting. (Gee, that's an incentive to read, isn't it?)

Tags: america, articles, economics, health, politics
I'm feeling: apathetic

So, over at Conservative Free Republic they have a forum. Lots of places have forums.

And over there, occasionally they have people making and commenting with objectionable matter. Lots of forums have that problem.

And hey, there it's racist and people are attacking the President's young daughters, which is abhorrent. Okay... it happens... but hey, their policy forbids racist content! (And anything which advocates for rebellion and secession as well.) So you'd think that they'd deal with that fast before it made them look bad... right?

Well... no, don't make me laugh. They waited a day, and then only removed it because a guy doing research made a complaint. And... then they put it back up, only removing it for good once liberal blogs got a hold of this.

Link one
Link two
Link three.

Now, everybody is commenting on the vicious comments left about the President's kids, which is as it should be. Attacking anybody's young children (and 11 is still young) with slurs and misogyny (as well as racism and some basic classism, they've hit the trifecta there) is wrong, that goes without saying.

But what gets me is the comment about Obama's Mother-in-Law, that she's "free-loadin'". I've heard that before, but without the overt racist subtext, and it makes no sense to me, firstly because she is, as I'm told, there to help keep things normal for her grandkids, and second because she's seventy-one! Seventy-one! What sort of family values allow you to insult people for taking care of their parents? If she were sitting around doing nothing, isn't she entitled? Surely, after 71 years, she gets to rest and be with her family? (Well, I suppose those are the same family values that tell you it's okay to insult defenseless 11 year old girls who haven't even done anything.)

Some choice comments ( cut for offensiveness )

Tags: america, articles, politics, race
I'm feeling: upset

Here's the article
But first - definitely check out the slideshow. Go carefully through those pictures, remember that this is NYC, and ask yourself - "What is wrong with these photographs?"

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So, yes, the fact that the slideshow shows only white people (and I *am* white! and I still think it's weird and creepy and disturbing!) prompted me to track down this entry on racism in the American Girl world by kittikattie.

In fact, I'm so creeped out that I'm going to go ahead and re-quote Ms. Clueless from that article on the disabled dolls:

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Tags: america, articles, links, race, toys and games
I'm feeling: irked

On ships in the city

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On Japan's Succession, and nationalism

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Oh dear. We have a Trader Joe's now.

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On John Rabe, China's own "good Nazi"

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On teaching Our National Anthem

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"Acquittal in Killing Unleashes Ire at India's Rich"

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On upstate wind farms

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On Irish-Americans and illegal immigration

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Separate and Unequal for Gypsies

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On a Muslim part of China

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Tags: america, articles, asia, nyc
I'm feeling: bored