http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sat, 18 May 2013 15:14:13 Sat, 18 May 2013 15:14:13 While I'll agree with you that some of the language in the article was clumsy at best and rather ignorant in more than one place, I have to disagree strongly with your characterization of the $160,000 as less in value to Goodwill - and ultimately to those who truly need its services - than the cloth... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/southlandshari/13 Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:51:47 Ok. I get it.

I won't waste your time with my bullshit opinion any further. Heck, 75% of the people of Alabama disagree with me, after all.

Oh, the irony. Usually whatever 75% of the people of Alabama believe on any given issue or candidate or political figure is automatically the subject... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/southlandshari/11 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:57:03 You speak of trying to understand the religious mindset. One thing that may contribute to your frustration with that task is that there really isn't one monolithic and unified mindset among religious people in general, or even Christianity specifically. Forgive me if I'm stating the obvious here, ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/southlandshari/19 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:53:32 If we are this divided and - more importantly - this disrespectful and flat out ugly towards one another on the same side of the aisle, what does that say about us as mature adults, much less a group of people who ostensibly want to work together to defeat a common enemy in a few short months?

Ou... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/southlandshari/9 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:04:14 Many are talking about this case "falling down the memory hole". I guess what folks don't realize is that this case has been ignored for several years now, so the "memory hole" has been home for news on Don Siegelman. Until now.

Not one single national media outlet was interested in the mis... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/southlandshari/10 Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:35:06 No matter how bad the crimes of Bush, Cheney, Rove and others in this abysmal administration may be, we do ourselves a disservice to defend crooks like Siegelman with the argument that their criminals are worse than ours. Surely we are above that.

I see that some in the national media who haven'... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/southlandshari/7 Thu, 12 Jul 2007 04:58:50 To my friends here, who I drink beer - or Jack and coke - and watch college football with, take our kids to the county fair with, have girls' night out at the local Mexican joint with.... I'm a proud redneck woman, just like they are.

Play Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" when we're around, ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/southlandshari/4 Wed, 14 Dec 2005 19:05:38 But I have no problem being called a redneck, and I have no doubts about my progressive politics. My family has deep roots in Alabama, where I was born and raised. My grandfather and all three of his brothers were county agents, men who worked for the extension service, finding ways to support rur... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/southlandshari/3 Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:46:36 And I hope that means every last one of you will click on this sometime today!

:loveya:


I wanted to tell you about something that absolutely warmed my heart yesterday. I took my daughter and my nephew to my small town's annual Christmas parade. Truth? I didn't want to go. I rarely have a... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/southlandshari/1 Sun, 04 Dec 2005 15:25:56 I'm not trying to be confrontational here, I'm honestly asking whether or not you truly believe that most hotel chains would put a copy of the Quran or any other religious book in every room if a group volunteered to pay for it?

Because I just don't think they would. And it would be interesting ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/southlandshari/20 Mon, 28 Mar 2005 21:15:54 This was posted in the Lounge, but I have the green light from the OP to post a link here.

I, like many other liberal Christians on DU, find some of the posts lashing out against Christianity offensive and narrow-minded. But I found this thread to be very helpful in my understanding of where som... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/southlandshari/14 Mon, 28 Mar 2005 21:01:56 According to the 2000 U.S. Census, the African American population in my state, Alabama, is 26% While it is certainly more than the national percentage (12%), it is still far from a majority.

That said, that 26% of Alabama's population continue to give the vast majority of their votes to Democ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/southlandshari/15 Thu, 03 Mar 2005 01:42:08 I feel no guilt about slavery or any other event of the past. Unless it is an event that happened during my lifetime in which I played a direct role and in which my role involved actions that wronged another person - in which case, I have eliminated any feelings of guilt by doing whatever was in my... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/southlandshari/12 Thu, 24 Feb 2005 02:53:36 "The people" in Oklahoma do not think, vote or act with one unilateral brain.

Just f#$^ing stop with the generalizations. STATES are neither racist nor civilized, liberal nor conservative. People are. No one is arguing that states like Oklahoma, Texas or Alabama are really liberal hot spots an... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/southlandshari/2 Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:57:04 I used to live in that rose-colored world in which we (white folks of the liberal persuasion) could comfortably believe that racial differences really were all about the level of melonin (sp?) in one's skin. One good interracial potluck, a little Kumbaya, and everything could be right with the wor... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/southlandshari/16 Sun, 21 Nov 2004 00:41:27 I completely understand - I have many friends and family members who voted for Bush on Tuesday, and I respect them as much today as I did Monday.

I'm not friends with raving right-wing idiots, and have already disowned anyone in my extended family who fits that category. So I know we are kidd... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/southlandshari/5 Thu, 04 Nov 2004 13:41:52 My anger at this EXACT point has kept me up nights for a long time (about four years, I'd guess).

Stealing the election is an atrocity worth everyone's outrage.

But the complete and total lack of corresponding outrage at the underlying issue of marginalizing minority voters as a political ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/southlandshari/8 Tue, 02 Nov 2004 02:08:20 Because if we are honest, we must admit that Joanne's points are dead on with how angry we ourselves feel when we see self-righteous fundamentalist right-wingers in our towns use 9/11 as a rallying cry for Bush's war.

In my small Alabama town there are many more intelligent and thinking people th... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/southlandshari/6 Sat, 11 Sep 2004 13:24:34 right here, in everyone's favorite scapegoat of a state!

I'll admit that after high school I struck out to see the world, and that is exactly what I did. I've lived in urban and rural settings in the states, as well as abroad in Africa and the Middle East.

All those experiences have shaped wh... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/southlandshari/17 Thu, 09 Sep 2004 23:38:15 from an unlikely source:

"In Defense of Al-Jazeera"
from MSNBC's Mike Moran, Oct. 18, 2001

http://www.msnbc.com/news/643471.asp?cp1=1

I speak fluent Arabic, and I watched Al-Jazeera daily for the first six years it broadcast on satellite. This channel was a total breath of fresh air for m... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/southlandshari/18 Thu, 24 Jun 2004 13:33:39