Hipsters Use Homeless as Hotspots

Hipsters Use Homeless as Hotspots: "This would be exploitation if the participants were forced into the work. This would be exploitation if it weren't an essentially free service--if the agency charged for access, took a cut, and didn't pay a wage to the hotspot operators. But it's all voluntary--providing the service, caretaking the hotspots, using the service, donating to the caretakers. And yet there are those who regard this rare case of everyone agreeing with the same horror they do the Chinese sweat shop labor that goes into the manufacture of their iPads.
The only exploitation going here is from the people using the homeless to beat their chests about how they know better than the poor."

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Forget evolution, climate science is the most controversial subject in school « Hot Air

Forget evolution, climate science is the most controversial subject in school « Hot Air: "It costs taxpayers over $10,000 per year to educate the average public school student. For zero cost to the state and under $1,000 a year to themselves, parents can educate their child at home and the child will probably have better academic test scores. Last month, USA Today analyzed a 2009 National Home Education Research Institute study revealing that homeschooled students score higher than public school students by an of average of 37 percentile points."

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What Media Does: Examining a Narrative Construct

What Media Does: Examining a Narrative Construct: "Of course there's an agenda here. The Democrat Media Complex is in full damage control. It is clear that the Obama / Bell relationship was downplayed in 2008 and now they're scrambling to keep the facade from crumbling down. Now, on top of protecting Obama, they are scurrying about trying to save their own credibility. They've gone back to their old tactics. But, to paraphrase Sean Connery in The Hunt for Red October:
"We know their tactics. We have the advantage."
They're relying on the belief that no one will call them out on it. Oops."

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Soledad O'Brien and CNN Fail to Challenge 'Separate But Equal'

Soledad O'Brien and CNN Fail to Challenge 'Separate But Equal': "Here is the exchange from the show (4:13 in the video below):
O’Brien: Would he have said that the civil rights movement was a sham? Or that Brown v. Board of Ed[ucation] was a sham?
Brown: He wouldn't say it was a sham but he has been very critical of civil rights cases like Brown v. Board of Education. And his argument, Professor Bell's argument was the solution did not get the children what the children needed, so perhaps the lawyers in the cases didn't spend enough time talking to the parents. So Professor Bell’s argument is, "You know, maybe if we had gotten fully funded separate but equal that might've been a better alternative to what we have today.”
You read that correctly — on national television, Prof. Dorothy Brown put forward Bell's idea that America would be better off with "separate but equal”, as long as it was "fully funded.”
At that point, Ms. O'Brien completely ignored the extraordinary and completely offensive offensive answer just given and went on to her next question."

Dumb as folk.

Obama: Communist-Recognized Congressman 'Shares Our Values'

Obama: Communist-Recognized Congressman 'Shares Our Values': "It seems the groundwork of Lozano and Davis that Barnett spoke of did indeed play a role in advancing Barack Obama’s political career. And in 1996, New Party News lists both Obama and Davis as members of the far left-wing branch of the Democrat Party, the “New Party.”"

Trevour Loudon had this in 2008!

Climate Coup — The Politics « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

Climate Coup — The Politics « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax: "The regulating class also attracts people who are not part of it for strictly economic reasons, but who identify with it because of similar backgrounds, or culture and beliefs. The regulating class does not try to hide its belief that it is cleverer, and morally superior too. Annoy a member of this class sufficiently to strip away their veneer of politeness, and soon you will be called an “idiot” and eventually a “racist”. Who has not at times felt the siren call and ego boost of feeling superior to one’s fellow man? Viewers can get a very real sense of superiority by watching the mainstream media, especially the government-owned channels, and adopting the trendy beliefs being pushed there. “Oh, I feel so superior to all those idiots and racists out there because I have these shiny new beliefs as validated by the superior regulating class with whom I now identify myself.” Share their beliefs, show them off to your friends, and you too can feel superior and of high status—even though your situation or remuneration may be modest. It is a cheap grab for status that costs almost no effort to earn."

I think this nails some of the psychology.

How Much Did Bell Influence Obama's Ideology?

How Much Did Bell Influence Obama's Ideology?: "It's seems the young Obama really took Bell's teachings to heart. He wasn't kidding when he said Bell had spoken "truth" to him in the now widely viewed video. Why did the media downplay the video in 2008? Why are they desperately trying to downplay it now?
Perhaps they didn't want people asking what else Obama learned from Professor Bell. Maybe they didn't want Bell's radical and controversial words to be used to analyze Obama's words as I did above. Did/does Obama believe that this country's laws are inherently racist and designed to perpetuate white supremacy, as Professor Bell believed?"

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