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		<title>Katha Pollitt&#8217;s Ill-Concieved Response To That Ill-Concieved &#8220;Women Are Stupid&#8221; Column</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because of the strong refute regarding Charlotte Allen’s disrespectful article stating whythe female population are so brainless, Katha Pollitt releases a counter article: I beg your pardon, I know female’s customs and traditions are often ridiculous but on what area can you attest their stupidity? Isn’t it that women demonstrate huge understanding about complicated theater [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Because of the strong refute regarding Charlotte Allen’s disrespectful article stating whythe female population are so brainless, Katha Pollitt releases a counter article:</p>
<blockquote><p>I beg your pardon, I know female’s customs and traditions are often ridiculous but on what area can you attest their stupidity? Isn’t it that women demonstrate huge understanding about complicated theater plays than men? Who do you think feeds the dog while men are busy browsing porn contents? Isn’t it that men waste their time with football while ladies are trying to learn crochet? Do you know the relevance why the majority of Grey’s Anatomy’s viewers are men? Have you forgotten to observe the places of learning? These places apparently represents that women are far smarter and more flexible than men. See how many female are in the museum, a member of the opera or theater. Do you see how many of them are ballet dancers or concert artists?</p></blockquote>
<p>Women are also well versed in terms of literature and art, ladies love fiction which most men despise, and women would generally read anything that she could be deemed helpful including men’s literature. Now tell me who has the inferior shell?</p>
<p>I admit, from what she’s trying to tell, Katha Pollitt definitely has a strong conviction regarding her belief. She even adapts the identical line of attack to directly contradict Charlotte Allen’s presumption. From what I’ve seen, Pollitt was not contented to easily let go Allen’s low view on women, she actually contradict this by emphasizing that the female generations are generally more intelligent than the male. She stress this point by showing several serious representations including that facts like women populating the theater or starring in the opera and women being famous ballerinas or artists.</p>
<p>On my opinion, the dilemma here is in Pollitt’s use of football and videogames as an example because I don’t think she truly understand football games at all. I admit Charlotte Allen’s statement has a predicament because she boldly declared a seemingly wrong conclusion without considering a more intricate study but Pollitt should have contradict the statement in a more delicate manner. </p>
<p>Like a personal injury lawyer, who has various responsibilities when serving the clients. These responsibilities are realted both ethical and professional regulations and codes of conduct set forth by state bar associations where the lawyers are licensed. Once licensed to practice law by their state bar association, <a href="http://free-personal-injury-lawyer-toronto.ca/">free-personal-injury-lawyer-toronto.ca</a> are legally permitted to file legal complaints, argue cases in state court, draft legal documents, and offer legal advice to victims of personal injury.</p>
<p>Pollitt’s bravery in directly rebuking Allen’s dim-witted statement is something I was really delighted yet I hope she should have been more careful on her proclamation because instead of getting a very empowering piece from her, I think we have gotten an equally bothersome composition similar to Allen’s</p>
<p>This is actually just my opinion in respect to this matter, nevertheless I know some people who actually favors this piece of Pollitt.</p>
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		<title>index</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[She&#8217;s a very dangerous woman. Most of these people whose outside persona is all about &#8216;helping people&#8217; are often the opposite. She claims to care about kids. But she stood by as her husband&#8217;s admin killed by starvation half a million children. Then, Clinton, someone who thinks of herself as a saint, voted for the [...]]]></description>
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<p>She&#8217;s a very dangerous woman. Most of these people whose outside persona is all about &#8216;helping people&#8217; are often the opposite. She claims to care about kids. But she stood by as her husband&#8217;s admin killed by starvation half a million children. Then, Clinton, someone who thinks of herself as a saint, voted for the War in Iraq which is killing more innocents including helpless children. She is pro-abortion, on the side of killing, killing, killing. If she is an &#8216;angel&#8217; she is an Angel of Death.</p>
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		<title>Now They Tell Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though Bush and other war cheerleaders had spoken of liberating Iraq, their main argument concerned the threat posed by Saddam Hussein. The reason he was such an immediate danger, they said, was that he had these awful weapons and could, as Bush breathlessly noted, slip them to anti-American terrorists at any moment. Yet once US [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Though Bush and other war cheerleaders had spoken of liberating Iraq, their main argument concerned the threat posed by Saddam Hussein. The reason he was such an immediate danger, they said, was that he had these awful weapons and could, as Bush breathlessly noted, slip them to anti-American terrorists at any moment. Yet once US troops were in Iraq, the Bush Administration and the Pentagon adopted a rather lackadaisical approach to locating and securing such weapons. Weeks after the April 9 fall of Baghdad, the Pentagon was still in the process of assembling a survey team of 1,000 experts to search for chemical and biological weapons and signs of a nuclear weapons program. Why had this force not been ready to roll at the war&#8217;s start? </p>
<p>During an April 17 press briefing, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;ll discover anything, myself. I think what will happen is we&#8217;ll discover people who will tell us where to go find it. It is not like a treasure hunt, where you just run around looking everywhere, hoping you find something&#8230;. The inspectors didn&#8217;t find anything, and I doubt that we will.&#8221; Imagine if Rumsfeld had said that before the war: We&#8217;re invading another country to eliminate its weapons of mass destruction, but we won&#8217;t find them unless people there tell us where they are. </p>
<p>Bush had maintained that Saddam Hussein was a danger partly because he was close to possessing nuclear weapons. The US military, though, did not bother to visit Iraq&#8217;s number-one nuclear site. A Washington Post story noted that before the war the vast Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center held about 4,000 pounds of partially enriched uranium and more than ninety-four tons of natural uranium, as well as radioactive cesium, cobalt and strontium. This is stuff that would be valuable to people seeking to enrich uranium into weapons-grade material or merely interested in constructing a dirty bomb. Yet, the paper reported, &#8220;Defense officials acknowledge that the US government has no idea whether any of Tuwaitha&#8217;s potentially deadly contents have been stolen, because it has not dispatched investigations to appraise the site. What it does know, according to officials at the Pentagon and US Central Command, is that the sprawling campus, 11 miles south of Baghdad, lay unguarded for days and that looters made their way inside.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Another Sista Souljah</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to hear Diane talk about the everyday theft of taxes Black people been paying into the system. I want to hear all the anguish and outrage over taxes Black people paid while enduring the domestic terrorism that went on after her great grandfather purposely fought in the Civil War to &#8220;free the slaves.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I want to hear Diane talk about the everyday theft of taxes Black people been paying into the system. I want to hear all the anguish and outrage over taxes Black people paid while enduring the domestic terrorism that went on after her great grandfather purposely fought in the Civil War to &#8220;free the slaves.&#8221; (I&#8217;m sure theirs a memoir with him in his John Brown suit.) </p>
<p>And sacrifice??? I want Diane to count every single Black body that died from the Middle Passage up until the end of slavery and then talk to me about sacrifice. I also want Diane to count every single Black soldier who fought in every war prior to 1970 before their was even a semblance of freedom/equality in this country then talk to me about sacrifice&#8230;</p>
<p>I want Diane to calculate the cost of all the labor that was exploited, calculate the social costs to all the Africans who were orphan when captured, all the families that were split up&#8230; All land Blacks had stolen from them, not just lost, after Emancipation. </p>
<p>Oh and speaking about land&#8230; I want to hear Diane talk about the Homestead Acts that the U.S. government gave to Whites 160 acres a pop while 40 acres and a mule was something Abe Lincoln would guarantee &#8220;freed slaves&#8221; even as he moved to compensate slaveholders for their loss.</p>
<p>Also, I want Diane to talk about all the textile workers, etc. the slave patrollers and all white men on deck militias for slave control that were present and a part of America&#8217;s slavocracy.</p>
<p>More than anything, though&#8230; I want a complete list of everything Diane refused to pay federal taxes for under the pretense that it was &#8220;theft.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>From the Department of Pot Calling the Kettle</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toby Keith has released a song that calls for tuff reaction on individual violence. But answering the same way will cause more violence, that will never end: Well a man come on the 6 o&#8217;clock news Said somebody&#8217;s been shot, somebody&#8217;s been abused Somebody blew up a building Somebody stole a car Somebody got away [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Toby Keith has released a song that calls for tuff reaction on individual violence. But answering the same way will cause more violence, that will never end:</p>
<blockquote><p>Well a man come on the 6 o&#8217;clock news<br />
Said somebody&#8217;s been shot, somebody&#8217;s been abused<br />
Somebody blew up a building<br />
Somebody stole a car<br />
Somebody got away<br />
Somebody didn&#8217;t get too far yeah<br />
They didn&#8217;t get too far</p>
<p>Grandpappy told my pappy, back in my day, son<br />
A man had to answer for the wicked that he done<br />
Take all the rope in Texas<br />
Find a tall oak tree, round up all of them bad boys<br />
Hang them high in the street for all the people to see that</p>
<p>Justice is the one thing you should always find<br />
You got to saddle up your boys<br />
You got to draw a hard line<br />
When the gun smoke settles we&#8217;ll sing a victory tune<br />
We&#8217;ll all meet back at the local saloon<br />
We&#8217;ll raise up our glasses against evil forces<br />
Singing whiskey for my men, beer for my horses</p>
<p>We got too many gangsters doing dirty deeds<br />
We&#8217;ve got too much corruption, too much crime in the streets<br />
It&#8217;s time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground<br />
Send &#8216;em all to their maker and he&#8217;ll settle &#8216;em down<br />
You can bet he&#8217;ll set &#8216;em down &#8217;cause</p></blockquote>
<p>I would like to comment it with the words of one popular pressman:</p>
<blockquote><p>Mostly on the racism joint, I give people the benefit of the doubt. I think a tin-ear is more common than straight bigotry. But that said, the more things change the more they stay the same. Keith may not be a racist, but he shares the racist&#8217;s need to make Lex Luthor out of lilliputans. The white lynch mobs of old desperately needed to believe in the narrative of villanous black men obsessed with a collective deflowering the South&#8217;s virginal white womenhood.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Can we end the Brett Favre romance now?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really doubt about the consequences of Favre&#8217;s come back but I hope they will reach a success. If you cheer for the Dallas Cowboys, then you want Brett Favre wearing a Green Bay Packers uniform this season. That&#8217;s because he&#8217;s one of the most overrated, overhyped, good quarterbacks of this generation. Yes, he&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I really doubt about the consequences of Favre&#8217;s come back but I hope they will <a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/columnists/jtaylor/stories/070608dnspotaylor.3748c60.html">reach a success</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>If you cheer for the Dallas Cowboys, then you want Brett Favre wearing a Green Bay Packers uniform this season. </p>
<p>That&#8217;s because he&#8217;s one of the most overrated, overhyped, good quarterbacks of this generation. </p>
<p>Yes, he&#8217;s a first-ballot Hall of Fame quarterback based on his record-setting statistics and one Super Bowl championship, but no one can deny Favre was as capable of throwing the game-winning touchdown pass as he was the gut-wrenching interception.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Buckley, Conservatives and Race</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WFB was a brilliant with a sharp, keen, and astute wit. His comments were intended to be fashioned as a mockery of Jackson&#8217;s politics and agenda, and certainly not his race. People like you are like an individual whom I came across at a bar one time; when asked if I supported President elect Obama [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WFB was a brilliant with a sharp, keen, and astute wit. His comments were intended to be fashioned as a mockery of Jackson&#8217;s politics and agenda, and certainly not his race. People like you are like an individual whom I came across at a bar one time; when asked if I supported President elect Obama in the &#8217;08 general election I responed &#8220;no&#8221;, needless to say I was accused of being racist. That&#8217;s funny, considering one of my best friends is Afro-American, and my favorite living Conservative commentator is Thomas Solwell, another Afro-American. However, it seems to some people that those with a Conservative rhetoric are inherently racist, due to the illogical fact that their political agenda is not supported by the majority of Afro-Americans in the US. Moreover, rest in peace WFB; I&#8217;m sorry that you had to see the sad state of today&#8217;s conservative movement. Conservatives, let&#8217;s get away from this social agenda promoted by<br />
Wow, people like you are what&#8217;s wrong with American Politics. </p>
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		<title>The stupidity of polls</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As long as the polls lump older Cubans (primarily anti-Castro Republicans) in with Mexicans and Puerto Ricans (and other Central and South Americans), you are going to have stupid polls. For voting (polling) purposes, a catch all &#8220;Latino&#8221; designation doesn&#8217;t tell the whole story. As half-Cubana, and an early supporter of Obama, I can&#8217;t say [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As long as the polls lump older Cubans (primarily anti-Castro Republicans) in with Mexicans and Puerto Ricans (and other Central and South Americans), you are going to have stupid polls. For voting (polling) purposes, a catch all &#8220;Latino&#8221; designation doesn&#8217;t tell the whole story.</p>
<p>As half-Cubana, and an early supporter of Obama, I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m surprised.</p>
<p>A lot of older generation Cubans tend to swing conservative, but we younger folks aren&#8217;t following their lead!</p>
<p>Both parties are controlled. Obama was selected by the globalists because he could be presented as a saviour figure. Obama will make allot of promises but will offer no fundamental change. The elite and the federal reserve will still controll and manipulate the world.</p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s NAACP Speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a Great Man, Leading us on a great journey.He needs our support. This speech and many others should be watched with the entire family in front of the tv. Just like a Tyler Perry&#8217;s Madea movie. So go ahead download it, bootlegg it, spread this around so all could see. GOD bless America [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a Great Man, Leading us on a great journey.He needs our support. This speech and many others should be watched with the entire family in front of the tv. Just like a Tyler Perry&#8217;s Madea movie. So go ahead download it, bootlegg it, spread this around so all could see. GOD bless America &#038; Obama. Please protect him. Because right now I&#8217;d take a bullet for him if it meant my kids and the kids down the street and everyone in this counrty and everyone in﻿ this world would be in a better place.</p>
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		<title>Insecure much?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I look at Michelle Obama, it&#8217;s often like looking in the mirror. If she&#8217;d been a little closer to my age, I probably would have run into her at some point growing up in Chicago. And when I hear her described as the quintessential Angry Black Bitch (not to be confused with blogger ABB, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When I look at Michelle Obama, it&#8217;s often like looking in the mirror. If she&#8217;d been a little closer to my age, I probably would have run into her at some point growing up in Chicago. And when I hear her described as the quintessential Angry Black Bitch (not to be confused with blogger ABB, who also rocks), I know they&#8217;re talking about me too&#8211;only more so, since I&#8217;m a short, fat, fairly butch-appearing dyke.</p>
<p>Michelle Obama&#8217;s treatment by the media is a reminder to every black woman that in 2008, if we don&#8217;t fit into the slut, Sapphire, or Mammy roles, then they&#8217;ll try to cut off pieces until we do fit into the appropriate box.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s interesting. I saw the articles completely different. I&#8217;ve been waiting for Black women to step up to the plate and defend Michelle Obama, and they did this. I see where you&#8217;re coming from, T-Nehisi, but when Barack Obama is called &#8216; Affirmative Action Run Amok&#8217;, and Michelle Obama is bitched about because she&#8217;s not &#8216; GRATEFUL&#8217;, I believed both pieces were on point. I believe Whites are quite comfortable with Blacks, as long as they conform to Black pathologies. The trouble ensues when the Black person does NOT conform to Black Pathology. </p>
<p>And, there&#8217;s nothing about Michelle Obama that can fit into any Black pathology. </p>
<p>I was very pleased to see the articles written about Michelle by Black women, sharing the complications of the Invisible Black America.</p>
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