http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:56:15 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:56:15 [em][blockquote]The alleged crimes came to light in August when a 26-year-old woman approached police with the suppressed memories of years of abuse at the hand of her father, uncles and grandfather. [a href="http://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_father_sons_charged_with_ritual__11122009.html" title="Raw... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pamela Troy/75 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:03:52 I used to comment that some of the yahoos I debated online were apparently looking forward to the glorious day when they could take their “Kiss Me, I’m a White Supremacist” t-shirts out of the closet and wear them in public without fear of being hissed and booed off the street. These were the ones w... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pamela Troy/74 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:41:39 [blockquote][i]I keep wondering how this happened, I mean, those pictures you showed earlier of all those yelling, screaming people, it’s just, it’s [u]so[/u] unpleasant, and I just have to believe it has to do with the shortage of nuns, because anybody raised by nuns would not behave in that way… [... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pamela Troy/73 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:39:41 Last week, the day after Dr. George Tiller was murdered by an anti-abortion activist in the vestibule of a church, Tucker Carlson was asked the following question by a [a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2009/05/29/DI2009052902325.html" title="Washington Post reader"]Was... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pamela Troy/72 Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:21:08 A lot of liberals like to say that it’s okay with them if Texas secedes. Good riddance! they declare. We can do without that hatchery of bigots and redneck authoritarians. Who needs it?

I’m going to be charitable here and assume that these liberals are saying this unthinkingly, as a “joke.” Not a... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pamela Troy/71 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:54:25 On April 3rd, [a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/opinion/04blow.html" title="an editorial by Charles M. Blow "]an editorial by Charles M. Blow[/a] appeared in the [i]New York Times.[/i] Its title is “Pitchforks and Pistols.” Its subject is the increasingly violent rhetoric coming from the r... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pamela Troy/70 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:55:02 Limbaugh’s oeuvre is best described as “much of a muchness,” which is to say he embraces shallowness, incuriousness, and mendacity and wants his listeners to do the same. It’s not so much that Rush Limbaugh is lying to his listeners. It’s that he’s encouraging them to lie to themselves, showing them... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pamela Troy/69 Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:37:08 My apologies for the gap in my Klavan challenge entries. Rest assured that , while I may not have posted about Rush, I was dutifully listening to at least one hour of him yesterday morning, and will report tomorrow on what Rush said and why he says the things he says.

But for now, we’ll deal with... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pamela Troy/68 Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:42:26 So on April 1st, the second day of my taking the Klavan Challenge, I emerged with not so much a single quote from Limbaugh as a group of quotes. They logically cancel each other out but still, if you just kind of half listen without remembering what Rush said just a few minutes before, they do main... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pamela Troy/67 Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:45:38 (Recently, [link:www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-klavan29-2009mar29,0,5456892.story|Andrew Klavan], in a piece in the [i]Los Angeles Times[/i], challenged liberals to listen to at least an hour of Rush Limbaugh a day, for a week.)

Rush Limbaugh says that he wants me to listen for s... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pamela Troy/66 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:19:45 One of those patriotic, freedom-loving Americans at Free Republic offers us all a glimpse of one Freeper's vision of America:
[blockquote]"The day after the election I fired an employee who was an open Obama supporter. If more employers took this attitude we wouldn’t have a Communist in the Oval Of... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pamela Troy/65 Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:59:23 So here I am, up from the depths in my scuba gear. Don't get too close, because when you dive down as deep as I've been...well...It can get pretty rank when you get that close to the bottom. I was down in Freeperland a couple days ago, plucking slimy dainties from that thread in which various patri... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pamela Troy/64 Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:58:07 I’m an incurable bleeding heart. Always have been. Almost anybody having a bad day short of Charlie Manson gets at least some measure of sympathy from me. (And I even managed a wince for [i]him[/i] when I heard he’d been set on fire.)

There are times, however, when my sympathy contends with – wh... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pamela Troy/63 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:57:55 [blockquote]He has spent more than 29 months in solitary confinement over the past four years, allowed out of his narrow cell during some of that period only to stretch his legs, alone, for one hour a day. In solitary, he has almost no contact with other human beings. He is allowed no radio, no TV a... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pamela Troy/62 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:56:50 [a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBS6XpjdF_U" title="Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck"]Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck[/a] on the recent Bill Ayers interview on GMA.
[blockquote]O’Reilly: But when I go out on the street and I say, "William Ayers, does that bother you?" Just as many Americans say, ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pamela Troy/61 Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:21:07 A website that shows Obama and McCain supporters reaching out.

[blockquote]"Dear 52

We may not agree on everything. We picked differently. But we're one people and one country."[/blockquote]

We all need [a href="http://www.zefrank.com/from52to48withlove/" title="this. "]this[/a].... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pamela Troy/60 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:28:47 [blockquote]Dear Friend,

The spirit of Winston Churchill was alive and well on Tuesday night at Focus on the Family Action headquarters.
You may recall that in the most desperate days of World War II – when Great Britain was being pounded daily by Hitler’s Luftwaffe – that Winston Churchill call... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pamela Troy/59 Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:55:38 From the unspeakably bad timing department: Most of us have already seen the video of [a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c75OtUlWC0" title="Shirley Nagel"]Shirley Nagel[/a], the McCain supporter in Michigan who, on Halloween night, refused to give candy to the children of Obama supporters. To... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pamela Troy/58 Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:18:31 Meet Shirley Nagel, who hit on a unique way of "getting the message out" about McCain. She decided to deny Halloween treats to children whose parents voted for Obama.

I kid you not. [a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c75OtUlWC0" title="That's what she did. "]That's what she did[/a]. She pu... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pamela Troy/57 Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:20:22 Someone here has suggested that in honor of the day, we should post some ghost stories. Here is my own, true ghost story. It can be found posted in its original context [link:paft.livejournal.com/10320.html|here.]

The house on Bayou Desierd was where my father and uncles grew up. It was a shady, ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pamela Troy/56 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:12:48 I just saw this a few minutes ago. Rick Sanchez' entire conversation with McCain spokesman Mike Goldfarb, which is not included in this video is pretty revealing, but the way it ended... :

Sanchez: "I just need to parse this out from you the best I can, Michael. The fact that John McCain's organi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pamela Troy/55 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:22:53 As I’ve observed, every now and then I like to put on my scuba suit and mask, strap on a hefty supply of oxygen, and dive down, down, down into the depths of the right-wing blogosphere – Free Republic, Little Green Footballs, the comments sections of various wing-nut blogs, etc. Sometimes I’ll encou... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pamela Troy/54 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:18:11 [blockquote]“There is a cult-like atmosphere around Barack Obama, which his campaign has carefully and successfully fabricated, which concerns me. The messiah complex. Fainting audience members at rallies. Special Obama flags and an Obama presidential seal. A graphic with the portrayal of the globe ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pamela Troy/53 Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:25:04 I don’t know why so many supposedly well-informed commentators have been acting startled for the past week at Palin and McCain followers being whipped into a hate-filled lather, booing and shouting “traitor” and “terrorist!” when they hear the name “Obama.” You’d think, after reading the recent writ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pamela Troy/52 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:09:07 “Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1” reads the September 8th headline. I half expected to see a sub-head reading, “It’s not too late! Sign up for our family discount package TODAY and get a coupon for a free pedicure and massage in the comfort of your own stateroom!”

But this headline is from an... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Pamela Troy/51 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:20:36