The word I'm getting is that someone at the UK public relations firm responsible for the Hasbro Monopoly promotion may have changed "Jerusalem Israel" to just "Jerusalem" in response to public (read, angry Muslim) reaction to yesterday's BBC story.
Higher-ups than I will be pursuing the matter once it's morning in the UK. By the time you and I wake up, maybe all will be well. We can hope.
Yes we can.
Do I sound like Michelle Obama, or what?
Michelle Obama has been feeling desperate, alone, frustrated and disappointed all her adult lifetime (about 26 years, given that she's 44) ... until now? Desperate, alone, frustrated and disappointed as she went to Princeton and Harvard? Got a law degree? Worked for Chicago Mayor Richard Daley? Married, has two children and her husband is running for President? Her American life sounds like a dream, not a nightmare. What's she talking about?
Oh, it's politics. I just heard some talking head on tv explain that what she meant was that she's never been proud of American politics. Not proud that we ended the cold War? Not proud that our country led a coalition against Saddam Hussein when Iraq invaded Kuwait? Not proud that we took down the Taliban in Afghanistan? Not proud that we closed down Uday and Kusay's rape rooms, or stopped Saddam's "police" from putting living human beings through industrial shredders?
This whole leftist shtik is really reprehensible. For more, see Paul Krugman in yesterday's New York Times: Poverty is Poison.
“Poverty in early childhood poisons the brain.” That was the opening of an article in Saturday’s Financial Times, summarizing research presented last week at the American Association for the Advancement of Science.As the article explained, neuroscientists have found that “many children growing up in very poor families with low social status experience unhealthy levels of stress hormones, which impair their neural development.” The effect is to impair language development and memory — and hence the ability to escape poverty — for the rest of the child’s life.
So now we have another, even more compelling reason to be ashamed about America’s record of failing to fight poverty.
Bullshit. If Paul Krugman wants to be ashamed, or Michelle Obama wants to be desperate, that's fine with me; I don't care how they feel. Their emotions bore me. It's when they LIE that I care, that I get angry. I don't care where you sit on the political spectrum, during the last 26 years you have had some opportunity to be proud of this country.
It's despicable, really, to be living one of the most privileged and elitist lives available on the planet, and present yourself to the public as some kind of victim.
The Mantra of the Left is that America Sucks. That's why we "hope" for "change." Because we're all so miserable and ashamed. What a bunch of crap.
As for the poverty thing, I'd just like to say that my brain is just fine, thanks Paul. I don't want to bleed my life story all over a public forum, but I grew up extremely poor, of "low social status," the whole bit, and nobody's ever told me - in my whole adult lifetime - that my language development was impaired.
I don't care what they feel, but when they lie about me personally, and they lie about my good country, it really pisses me off.
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