Posts Tagged: communism

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Nov 09

Daily Links for November 1st through November 2nd

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  • A Pocket Guide to Social Media and Kids | Nielsen Wire – SUMMARY: When is a phone not a phone? In the hands of children and tweens, today’s cell phones are primarily used as text messaging devices, cameras, gaming consoles, video viewers, MP3 players, and incidentally, as mobile phones via the speaker capability so their friends can chime in on the call. Parents are getting dialed in to the social media phenomenon and beginning to understand—and limit—how children use new media.
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Oct 09

Daily Links for October 7th through October 10th

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  • There’s No Place Like Home, Americans are Returning to Localism | Newgeography.com – Thriving neighborhood restaurants are one small data point in a larger trend I call the new localism. The basic premise: the longer people stay in their homes and communities, the more they identify with those places, and the greater their commitment to helping local businesses and institutions thrive, even in a downturn. Several factors are driving this process, including an aging population, suburbanization, the Internet, and an increased focus on family life. And even as the recession has begun to yield to recovery, our commitment to our local roots is only going to grow more profound. Evident before the recession, the new localism will shape how we live and work in the coming decades, and may even influence the course of our future politics.
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Oct 09

Daily Links for October 7th

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  • Gore Vidal’s United States of fury – Americas, World – The Independent – When did this happen to Gore Vidal? When did he go from righteous – and right – opposition to atrocities carried out by his own government, to justifying any atrocity against it, no matter how extreme? When I ask him, his scowl turns to a sneer, and he says I am ignorant and clearly haven't read anything. I decide to try a different approach. I ask him – if there were more people like McVeigh, would that be a good thing? There is a crack in his hauteur, and he says: "It strikes me as a perfect nightmare. Of course I don't want more people like McVeigh. Since Americans refuse to think about anything, being incapable I suspect of thought, then they're not going to come to any conclusions except mistaken ones."
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4
Sep 09

Like Hitler? Morons, all.

Apparently Obama is like Hitler.  Or a communist.  Perhaps a socialist.  Or a fascist.  All of the these ideologies and comparisons have been thrown about.  Obama can’t possibly be all of them.

Hitler killed 7 million in the holocaust, excluding civilian and military deaths from the war.  Stalin killed three times as many in Russia.   Mao Tse Tung makes both of them look like rank amateurs, killing somewhere between 40 and 70 million.

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(Background on the video can be found at Knowyourmeme).

If everything is “like Hitler”, then those deaths and the historical comparison are essentially worthless.  Read more...

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Aug 09

Daily Links for August 13th

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  • Metro – Obama’s health plan socialist? Think twice – Health care is far from the only issue driving critics to chide Obama for wanting to turn America into a socialist nation. Since the beginning of the 2008 election, Republicans have been warning that Obama plans to institute über-liberal policies. Here’s a look at the policies of some of the world’s countries most rooted in socialism. The United States is a far cry from them.

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