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"Republican senators on Wednesday blocked an effort to debate a bill that would prevent credit card companies from raising interest rates ahead of new regulations coming into force next year."

Fuckers.

"It's the norm, not the exception, for people to be preoccupied with their own suffering and supremely uninterested in hearing about the oppression others face. This lack of empathy is one of the biggest roadblocks we face in dismantling racism. If we're serious about social justice, we need to recognize that when one of us is discriminated against, it's an affront to us all."




A lovely platitude. How many people who are not preoccupied with themselves take this to heart? This doesn't just apply to racism; throw in gender issues, social issues, and educational and economic differences and you have a whole slew of crap to discriminate against.


This is one reason some people have a 'problem' with Obama: they simply cannot put themselves in the other person's shoes. They do not understand the concept of empathy. According to President Obama, his mother expected him to swim in empathy until his fingers got wrinkled. I think he does a good job of this. A lot of people just don't "get it", however.


Regarding the original blog: if the "white woman" who is raising an adopted child from Africa is as racist as she is presented as being, I cringe for her adopted child. Unless, of course, the child is also "white". If that's the case then everything is peachy.

Psst: It's sarcasm .....

Definitely a post I can agree with.

Jeez.

The first thing I would do in the morning [if I were you] is CHECK YOUR SPELLING before you post your blog!!!!!

I didn't make it past the second error ... no thumbs up from me.

I would not have posted this, except that I don't "get" most of the SU comments/reviews.

Really good letter to the Washington Post [wish I had written this]:

"The single largest defect of modern conservatism is that it has ruined the nation.

Conservatives do not have ideas; they have interests.

Conservatives are not "thinkers"; they are rationalizers who give an intellectual gloss to their belief that an alliance of predatory businesspeople and religious extremists should rule the rest of us.

The wreckage caused by modern conservatism lies all around us, and speaks for itself: If conservatism isn't dead, it should be.

~ DANIEL ROSEN"


Lovely.