BARREL OF MONKEYS: "GENESIS" in Reverse


I consider myself a Democrat. Been called a Socialist. Definitely a bleeding heart liberal.


As a child from a traditional southern family, playing Barrel of Monkeys on the floor, church every Sunday, doing well in public school, learning a trade; in every sense privileged .........


Comfortable in middle age, an avid news reader, on learning the tragic story of a full grown chimpanzee destroying the face of a woman who offered a toy, only trying to help it's owner coax her surrogate child back into his cage......


Today being confrontational, ribald, offensive, restless, rebellious.......


How did I get here from there?


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Thursday, January 13, 2011

The Associated Press: On shootings and politics, Palin has her own rules

The Associated Press: On shootings and politics, Palin has her own rules: "'Especially within hours of a tragedy unfolding,' she said, 'journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn.'
The term 'blood libel' raised eyebrows. While the phrase 'has become part of the English parlance to refer to someone being falsely accused,' said Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League, it is 'fraught with pain in Jewish history.'
The term is associated with centuries-old claims that Jews killed Christian children for rituals. Some Jewish lawmakers felt Palin's comments were especially ill-advised because Giffords is Jewish."
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