Debt Ceiling

 

Watching Rep. King from Iowa and some other jerk congressman smirking as they taunt Obama about the debt issue and call him a flat-out liar. This is so outside of politics. It’s just race-baiting and setting up the black guy while calling him ignorant and inept.

Obama has more than a few flaws, but those are primarily issues between him and the disappointed left, myself included at times, but our differences, however strong, don’t bring about a failure of common decency.

This constant attempt at humiliation simply would never happen with a white President no matter how strongly partisan the opposition. The frustration of watching it brings me close to tears. Well… “Get up, stand up.”

Gaza Flotilla 2011

“Audacity” is part of a larger flotilla, all involved are at considerable risk. And with so much happening here and abroad it’s easy to lose sight of this.

Decisions, decisions…

 

Empire State Building Goes Rainbow!

Proud to be a native New Yorker.

Another nice touch…

Nelson Mandela Welcomes Michelle Obama

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First lady Michelle Obama paid a visit to Nelson Mandela on Tuesday on the first day of her visit to Africa, the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the White House said.

Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman Died on This Day in 1964

On this day in 1964 Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney were killed by a Ku Klux Klan lynch mob near Meridian, Mississippi. The three young civil rights workers were working to register black voters in Mississippi.

It is far too easy to forget that within many of our lifetimes Americans died for the right to vote in American elections.

Guernica / Michael Archer: Q&A with Alice Walker

Guernica / Michael Archer: Q&A with Alice Walker.

Harriet Hosmer


Harriet Hosmer: A Cultural Biography
by Kate Culkin

Just reviewed this for the May/June Women’s Review of Books. An interesting, informative read. We all need to know much more about pre-20th-cent. American women artists.