Hannah’s Blog

July 3, 2009

The race “problem” is white

Filed under: another perspective — Hannah @ 6:33 am

While I agree with Robert Jensen that we have to look at white people, if there’s a race problem, I put the word “problem” in quotes because the people who want to live in a stratified society don’t consider it a problem that there’s inequality and some people are valued less. That’s the way they like it. Indeed, as some of the comments on the Youtube site suggest, they reject equality–not just as a good thing, but that it should even exist. They don’t want to be equal.
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July 2, 2009

Some relationships are not the same…..

Filed under: Hannah's views — Hannah @ 7:05 am

During the nineteen eighties, at the height of urban redevelopment (at least in the South–the North had it’s boom earlier), I eventually got clued into the fact that the enthusiasm for cost/benefit analysis, which was supposed to make it possible to separate “good” projects from “losers” ahead of time, was not as objectively motivated as it seemed. Because, while one might assume from the pairing, which had been transitioned from traditonal business accounting practices and was part of the program to “make government more like a business,” that the entity bearing the costs and enjoying the benefits would be the same, closer analysis of the projections revealed that was not the case. Urban redevelopment routinely relied on long-time residents and owners of marginal property bearing the cost (in time, energy and disruption) of relocating so the development community could enjoy the benefit of acquiring real estate on the cheap and, if they were really lucky, pocket a subsidy to boot.
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July 1, 2009

Vultures, vultures everywhere

Filed under: Funnies — Hannah @ 9:32 am

In Durham, NH they nest in caves on Don Harrod’s land. In Kingsland, GA, they’ve found a home with Robert and Hattie Garrett.
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The moral argument for right behavior is weak.

Filed under: Hannah's views — Hannah @ 7:05 am

That’s the conclusion reached by a diarist on KOS in response to the Jon Stewart effort to repudiate government sanctioned torture because “we’re better than that.”

To which I respond:
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June 30, 2009

More About Rights and Obligations

Filed under: Hannah's views — Hannah @ 6:04 am

We keep talking about a citizen’s rights, but many people rightly understand that there are obligations (to serve on juries, pay taxes, approve bond issues) that they’d rather not assume. Ditto for some of the people who oppose marriage (the 59% of our adult population who aren’t married). They reject the obligations of being tied to someone else and, very possibly, resent gay enthusiasm for such an arrangement as an effort to rub their noses in their own preference–i.e. selfishness. (more…)

June 29, 2009

Joy to Iraq–the occupation forces are going, going……?

Filed under: another perspective — Hannah @ 7:21 pm

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June 27, 2009

What is it about Argentina?

Filed under: Funnies — Hannah @ 5:47 pm

What is it with Republicans and Argentina? First there was George Herbert Walker Bush and his “don’t cry for me, Argentina” in January of 1992, a year before he was replaced by William Jefferson Clinton, and now they’ve got Mark Sanford, who recently spent FIVE days crying in Argentina. It would make sense, if we could blame it on retread script-writers from Hollywood.

Wallywood on the Potomac! But, South Carolina isn’t even close.

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June 26, 2009

Stonewall

Filed under: another perspective — Hannah @ 9:09 pm

Where was I that I missed this? Ah, yes, a month away from giving birth to our third and getting ready to move to another state–

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Of Rights and Obligations

Filed under: Hannah's views — Hannah @ 9:58 am

Some recent commentary on public health has referred to health care as a right. And, perhaps that’s what prompted Justice Clarence Thomas to come out of his shell and question the very concept of “rights.” Presumably, he’s sensitive because some people seem to expect that, as an African American, he’d be more focused on rights and the failure to respect them than he is.
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Allergic to Public

Filed under: Hannah's views, another perspective — Hannah @ 6:55 am

Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa has stated bluntly that he’s opposed to a public option health insurance program and bi-partisanship means it won’t even be considered as a legislative item. This should not come as a surprise. It’s long been apparent that Republicans are allergic to public anything. They oppose public education, public hearings, public records, public transit, public water fountains, and, of course, they despise the expectation that politicians should be public servants. They can’t even say the words “public officials” and call them bureaucrats instead.
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