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Supreme Court Tosses Murder Conviction In Case Of Racial Bias

June 22, 2019, 5:04 am
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Supreme Court tosses murder conviction in case that raised questions of racial bias
Justices criticized a prosecutor's actions in the case of Curtis Flowers, an African American man who was tried six times for the 1996 slaying of four people in Mississippi.
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Remember: The GOP Rolled Back Obama's Rule To Stop Mentally Ill People From Buying Guns

June 22, 2019, 5:08 am
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Official Languages Of Latin America

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Nobel Laureate Pearl S. Buck On The Creative Impulse

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"The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind": Netflix' True Story Is A Winner

June 27, 2019, 3:22 pm
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Chiwetel Ejiofor's film does an impressive job telling the real-life tale of an inventive Malawian teenager who saved his town from famine.

Alan: With 30 minutes left in "The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind," a father and son lock horns.

One fellow is absolutely certain he knows what is best, and the other -- grounded in research, science, study and The Scientific Method -- actually, provably, knows what is best.

Everyone who watches this movie will benefit.

Most particularly, every American "conservative""should" watch this fine film from start to finish, preferably reviewing the "linchpin encounter" several times.

It is not enough to believe we are right, even if we think Jesus Himself has whispered his personal "imprimatur" in our ear.

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The Bible and Textual Analysis





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How Wealth Works To Marginalize "The Little Guy"

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It's Not That The Assholes Are Uninterested In Truth. They Are Hostile To Truth.

June 30, 2019, 10:00 am
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These uneducated "anti-elitists" are hostile to truth because their identity depends on falsehood.
Once the dimwits lose their "grounding" in falsehood, they are as doomed as dementia sufferers witnessing the final evanescence of memory and memory-related understanding.
Or so they fear.
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Facebook Exchange On Bad Religion, Opioid Carnage And Armageddon Cheerleading

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If Jesus is "looking down" and considers Trump a normal human being -- in any sense of the word -- Jesus is not my guy.
It is at least ironic that white, "conservative""Christians" find His Despicability not only normal but laudable -- indeed, in their collective derangement, Trump is considered a cure-all "messiah."
And the crazier the guy gets, the more certain they become of his divine ordination.
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Debate Viewers Struggle with Concept of President Without Glaring Personality Disorder
In interviews across the country, Americans said that they were having difficulty imagining a President who does not display flagrant signs of malignant narcissism, impulse-control deficit, or rampant paranoia.
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  • Robert Hudson Alan - I think real reason they support him is that they think the worse he gets, the closer they are to the End of Days ... which is what they are really after.
    • Alan Archibald I think you're right Robert about the eschatological dreams of white Christian conservatives.

      The Heartland's unabated opioid carnage reveals legions of desparate white people killing themselves with startling ferocity. 

      I know "times are tough" in rural America. 

      But I do not see life in The Heartland getting any easier. 

      Clearly, white people will not return to the rigors of labor-intensive agricultural life. And new jobs -- for better or worse -- are increasingly concentrated in The Information Economy where opportunity abounds but only if people relinquish their "once upon a time" industrial dreams to learn new, intellectually-engaged skills.

      The core issue is not so much that a hugely disproportionate number of rural, white conservatives are uneducated people, but that they refuse to become educated.

      And so, loathe to surrender the advantages of white privilege, these desparate heartlanders neither migrate to communities where opportunities are available (as uneducated, non-English-speaking latinos do)... nor will they learn new skills appropriate to The Information Economy.

      Instead, they "bet it all" on The Second Coming, which -- in the view of many (if not most) Christian conservatives -- requires catastrophic Armageddon to evoke the messiah's next visit when, supposedly, he will "put things right" again. 

      Trump's America Is A Deliberately Cruel Place & "Christian""Conservatives" Are The Cruelest 
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"AT&T, General Electric, Pfizer, UPS And Verizon Against Gay Rights," David Leonhardt

July 2, 2019, 6:21 am
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"AT&T Against Gay Rights"

"FedEx, General Electric, Pfizer, UBS, UPS and Verizon have also given significant financial backing to members of Congress who oppose L.G.B.T. rights."
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The New York Times

Tuesday, July 2, 2019


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Virginia Foxx, a member of Congress from North Carolina, has a long record of opposing gay rights. She has gone so far as to claim that Matthew Shepard — a college student murdered in a hate crime — was not killed because he was gay. At one point, she used the word “hoax.”
Nonetheless, the executives of Comcast, the media company, have decided that Foxx deserves the company’s support: It recently donated money to Foxx’s political action committee.
Doug Collins, a House member from Georgia, is also an opponent of gay rights. He has argued, bizarrely, that a ban on workplace discrimination would somehow hurt “women, lesbians, and families.” Still, Home Depot has decided to support Collins financially.
Senator Marsha Blackburn, from Tennessee, opposes marriage equality and supports President Trump’s efforts to keep transgender Americans out of the military. AT&T recently gave her thousands of dollars.
This list could go on. FedEx, General Electric, Pfizer, UBS, UPS and Verizon have all given significant financial backing to members of Congress who oppose L.G.B.T. rights.
Yet every one of these companies also claims to support L.G.B.T. equality. Their social media accounts post photographs of rainbow flags during Pride Month, and their corporate websites brag about their policies toward L.G.B.T. employees.
This hypocrisy was the subject of a recent newsletter by the journalist Judd Legum, who’s been doing excellent reporting on corporate political activity. The specifics here come from his work. Legum focused on companies that have inclusive benefits for their L.G.B.T. employees but then support politicians who undermine those same employees.
This issue fits a larger pattern. Many big corporations promote an image of decency. They claim to value all of their employees and customers. They claim to care about the state of American democracy and the quality of our schools. But when these same corporations are faced with hard political choices — like whether to bankroll politicians who oppose equality, or whether to damage city budgets by using shady tax loopholes — their principles suddenly take a back seat.
I understand why big companies might prefer to avoid tough issues and simply spread around their campaign donations to maximize their influence. I don’t see any problem with these corporations giving money to politicians on both sides of the abortion debate, for example, because the companies don’t claim to be “pro-life” or “pro-choice.” But they do claim to have a position on L.G.B.T. equality. They say that it’s part of their corporate values, yet they support politicians who treat L.G.B.T. Americans as second-class citizens.
Imagine if AT&T, Pfizer, UBS and the other companies mentioned here took a different stance. Imagine if they said they were willing to back politicians of either party who took diverging positions on any number of issues, so long as those politicians didn’t violate any of the companies’ core values. That approach could actually make a difference, because members of Congress rely on financial support from corporate America.
Instead, the companies are putting profit and influence over their own employees — which suggests that their stated corporate values aren’t very meaningful.
“We stand in support of the L.G.B.T.Q. community members every day,” Corey Anthony, AT&T’s chief diversity officer, recently said. “As an ally, our support is long standing and unwavering.”
Unwavering, eh?
Corporate responses
My colleague Ian Prasad Philbrick and I reached out to all the companies mentioned here for responses, but I didn’t find any of their explanations persuasive. Several pointed out that the Human Rights Campaign has recognized them as having inclusive policies for L.G.B.T. employees. I’ve excerpted the responses below.
Peter Stack, a UBS spokesman: “Our commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is unwavering. The UBS political action committee, which gives equally to Republicans and Democrats, is designed to support members of Congress who we believe promote responsible economic and investment policies at the federal level.”
Sharon Castillo, Pfizer: “The decision to contribute to these elected officials was made based on their support of the biopharmaceutical industry and policies that protect innovation incentives and patients’ access to medicines and vaccines. In no way does our support translate into an endorsement of their position on any social issue.”
Kara Ross, UPS: “UPS has a longstanding record of supporting diversity and inclusion and it is a core value of UPS culture … We have been transparent, clear and unwavering in our positions on diversity and inclusion, including bringing the leaders of our L.G.B.T.Q. Business Resource Groups to Washington to meet with members of Congress on the importance of diversity and inclusion … ”
Michael Balmoris, AT&T: “We support candidates on both sides of the aisle who are addressing the issues that impact our business, our employees and our customers. That doesn’t mean we support their views on every issue.”
John Scruggs, FedEx: “FedEx has a long history of participating in the political process, and we support candidates on both sides of the aisle.”
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On Saturday’s episode of “The Daily,” Ann Northrop, an L.G.B.T. activist, criticized some corporations’ role in Pride celebrations: “They’re there to market to what they perceive as an affluent gay community. And then they turn around the next day and spend all their money buying Republican right-wing politicians, who they need to pass whatever regulations they care about. And those Republican politicians are taking away all our rights, putting really virulently anti-L.G.B.T. judges on the federal benches. … So why are we handing over the Pride parade to these people?”

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"The Moochers Of Middle America: The Democrats Aren’t Radical, But Republicans Are"

July 2, 2019, 6:29 am
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Trump supporters at a rally in Richmond, Kentucky. In 2017 the state received $40 billion more from the federal government than it paid in taxes.




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The History Of Penicillin And The Anti-Scientific Perversity Of The Trump Administration

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"How Biblical Literalism Took Root," Stephen Tompkins, The Guardian

July 2, 2019, 8:03 am
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How Biblical Literalism Took Root
The Bible doesn't state that it should be read literally - yet an all-or-nothing approach is the core of many Christians' faith.

Where does biblical literalism come from? What is the genesis, if you will, of the habit of mind that makes many Christians read the Bible with a different brain to the one they'd use with any other writing?
It is by no means an essential Christian tenet. No creed says anything about how to read the scriptures. The highest claim the Bible makes for itself is when the writer of Paul's letter to Timothy says the Hebrew scriptures were "God-breathed", which is wonderfully suggestive but hardly precise or dogmatic. I mean, Adam was God-breathed, and look what happened to him.
The Bible is the word of God, Christians believe, but why should the fact it's God's mean it has to be read with naive absolutism? Many Christians call the church "the body of Christ" without considering it anything like infallible, or refusing to see its rites as symbolic.
Part of the problem is historical. The deification of the Bible is a result of the Protestant reformation. Before then, the final authority, the ultimate arbiter and source of information in religious matters was the church, with its ancient traditions and living experts. When Luther and friends opposed the teaching of the Catholic hierarchy, they needed a superior authority to appeal to, which was provided by the Bible.
Fair enough. But in defending or reclaiming the Bible from papists and then liberals, evangelical Protestants made it the very heart of the faith. Hence the ludicrous situation where many evangelical organisations, such as the Southern Baptist Convention, have statements of faith where the first point is the Bible, before any mention of, for example, God. Hence the celebrated idolatrous aphorism of William Chillingworth: "The BIBLE, I say, the BIBLE only, is the religion of Protestants!".
One practical problem of this text mania is that the Bible, unlike the church, can't answer questions, clarify earlier statements, arbitrate disagreements or deal with new developments. So those in search of religious certainty have to find it all in the text: if it says the earth was created in six days, or that gay sex is an abomination, them's the facts, end of story. And if it forbids charging interest, well there's always wriggle room.
The other practical problem is that for more moderate Christians, Christ is the heart of the faith, and the Bible offers information and ideas about him and is one of the things that point us in his direction. But if the Bible itself is the heart, then to read it is to enter the Holy of Holies, making it that much harder to accept any normal human ambiguity or inaccuracy in its words.
This effect is magnified by a more recent historical development: the charismatic movement. Even among evangelicals who don't speak in tongues or put their hands in the air when the sing Shine Jesus Shine, the movement has had profound effects, one of which is that they don't read the Bible just to be reminded and shaped by its teaching, but to hear what God has to say to them today.
If you read the Bible asking: "What was St Paul saying to the Galatians?" all kinds of critical questions arise: How would first-century Asia Minor have understood these words? Would Paul have phrased it differently to a church he was less pissed off with? Would other witnesses have recalled the events he describes differently? But if you read the Bible asking: "What is God saying to me today?" it seems less appropriate to do anything but accept it at face value.
One last factor in biblical all-or-nothingism is the part that biblical criticism plays in evangelical conversion, which is none at all.
People who convert to evangelical Christianity, including those who grow up with it, are persuaded by the experience of a religious community, and by finding that evangelical theology seems to hold water. All this is totally underpinned by the Bible – it's the foundation and guarantee. But the only test of its reliability that inquirers are invited to make is to read it and ask "Is this something that I can accept wholesale and entrust my life to?"
It's generally much later that a convert will have to consider concrete evidence that biblical writers were human beings, capable of being one-sided, of writing myth, of exaggerating, of guessing, of having opinions it's impossible to agree with.
Some of us, faced with this evidence, shape our faith in the light of it, making the Bible a far more fascinating, revealing and diverse record of human religious experience. But it's not surprising if for others the evidence comes as an attack that threatens to undermine the foundation of their faith, and has to be beaten off blindfold.

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Let's Take Trump's Incoherent Homelessness Monologue Piece By Piece

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Orwell Redux

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Cookies, Watch Out, and Watch: A billionaire, a worker and an immigrant are sitting at a table with 1000 cookies The billionaire takes 999 cookies and says to the worker, "watch out, that immigrant is going to take your cookie."

Alan: It is incomprehensible to me that people subscribe to conspiracy theories when the plutocratic "cookie scam" -- in one incarnation or another -- has ruled human affairs since the first ungodly rich human squatted atop the dominance-submission hierarchy.

And less we forget...

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"Clarence Thomas Vs. The Evidence," David Leonhardt's Account Of An Alleged Murderer

July 3, 2019, 6:16 am
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The Supreme Court recently threw out the quadruple murder conviction of Curtis Flowers, a Mississippi man whom I’ve written about before. It was a good decision. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, writing an opinion signed by six other justices, documented the numerous dishonest methods that the prosecutor used to keep African-Americans off the jury at Flowers’s trial.
In today’s newsletter, though, I want to focus on a single paragraph from the dissent, which Justice Clarence Thomas wrote. (Justice Neil Gorsuch joined much of the dissent.) The paragraph betrays a distressing disregard for evidence that’s symbolic of a much larger problem in our justice system.
The paragraph is near the beginning of the 42-page dissent, and it summarizes what Thomas evidently considers to be the strongest evidence against Flowers:
“On the morning of the murders, a .380-caliber pistol was reported stolen from the car of Flowers’ uncle, and a witness saw Flowers by that car before the shootings. Officers recovered .380-caliber bullets at Tardy Furniture [the site of the murders] and matched them to bullets fired by the stolen pistol. Gunshot residue was found on Flowers’ hand a few hours after the murders. A bloody footprint found at the scene matched both the size of Flowers’ shoes and the shoe style that he was seen wearing on the morning of the murders. Multiple witnesses placed Flowers near Tardy Furniture that morning, and Flowers provided inconsistent accounts of his whereabouts. Several hundred dollars were missing from the store’s cash drawer, and $235 was found hidden in Flowers’ headboard after the murders.”
Anyone who has followed this case — especially anyone who has listened to “In the Dark,” a prize-winning podcast from Madeleine Baran, Samara Freemark and their colleagues at American Public Media — knows that much of this evidence falls apart under scrutiny.
To take a few examples: An investigator for the district attorney appears to have fabricated evidence about the shoes. Investigators also seem to have coached witnesses to remember — months later — seeing Flowers near the furniture store. The $235 apparently found at Flowers’s home doesn’t match the amount taken from the store. And the test for gunshot residue wasn’t done until after Flowers had been interrogated at a police station, where small amounts of residue are common. The amount of residue on Flowers’s hands? A single particle.
If you listen to the podcast, you come away amazed by the thinness of the evidence against him and by the willingness of police and prosecutors to exaggerate it. To this day, no witness has tied Flowers to the scene of the crime, nor has any reliable physical evidence. More than one witness has recanted testimony given at trial.
I can’t say for sure that Flowers is innocent. But based on the evidence I’ve heard, I would vote to acquit him without agonizing over it. The case against him is shockingly weak and relies on claims by the prosecution that have been proven to be false.
Yet Thomas and Gorsuch don’t appear to have engaged with any of this evidence. They simply accepted the version of events offered by the prosecutor — Doug Evans, a man with a record of lying in court.
Curtis Flowers remains behind bars, where he has been since 1997, while the same prosecutor decides whether to try him again. Many other Americans — most of them black and male, like Flowers — also sit in prison or jail today because of evidence that judges or prosecutors refuse to acknowledge as flimsy or manufactured.
It reminds of me a heartbreaking quotation in “Just Mercy,” Bryan Stevenson’s 2014 book about systemic injustice: “They aren’t ever going to admit they made a mistake,” says a man unjustly convicted of murder. “They know I didn’t do this. They just can’t admit to being wrong, to looking bad.”
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Bill Maher: Donald Trump Reprise

July 3, 2019, 6:17 am
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"Make America..."

July 3, 2019, 10:52 am
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PBS: How the Iroquois Great Law Of Peace Shaped U.S. Democracy

July 3, 2019, 10:57 am
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Alan: I am currently visiting my upstate New York home - the epicenter of The Six Nations of The Iroquois Confederacy.
General George Washington Orders "Complete Destruction" Of Iroquois Settlements


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How the Iroquois Great Law of Peace Shaped U.S. Democracy | Native America
Much has been said about the inspiration of the ancient Iroquois “Great League of Peace” in planting the seeds that led to the formation of the United States of America and its representative democracy.

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"Colorado Just Became The First State To Completely Abolish Slavery"

July 3, 2019, 9:59 pm
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Colorado just became the first state to completely abolish slavery
Two years after a similar effort failed, Coloradans voted Tuesday, 65 percent to 35 percent, to become the first state in the U.S. to ban slavery and its more politely described friend, “involuntary servitude.” Amendment A answered the question:...

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