tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post8149468704199839554..comments2024-03-28T08:51:18.908-04:00Comments on the daily howler: TUSCALOOSA LIBERALS: Attempts to explain!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-31572795628762140162014-05-13T20:01:50.452-04:002014-05-13T20:01:50.452-04:00How To Get Your husband Back & Avoid Divorce,L...<br /> How To Get Your husband Back & Avoid Divorce,Love Spells That Really Work Fast<br /><br /><br /> My Name is Vicky Lorimer, I am From United Kingdom.i am hear to give testimony of how i got back my husband, we got married for more than 9 years and have gotten two kids. thing were going well with us and we are always happy. until one day my husband started to behave in a way i could not understand, i was very confused by the way he treat me and the kids. later that month he did not come home again and he called me that he want a divorce, i asked him what have i done wrong to deserve this from him, all he was saying is that he want a divorce that he hate me and do not want to see me again in his life, i was mad and also frustrated do not know what to do,i was sick for more than 2 weeks because of the divorce. i love him so much he was everything to me without him my life is incomplete. i told my sister and she told me to contact a spell caster, i never believe in all this spell casting of a thing. i just want to try if something will come out of it. i contacted Dr Brave for the return of my husband to me, they told me that my husband have been taken by another woman, that she cast a spell on him that is why he hate me and also want us to divorce. then they told me that they have to cast a spell on him that will make him return to me and the kids, they casted the spell and after a week my husband called me and he told me that i should forgive him, he started to apologize on phone and said that he still love me that he did not know what happen to him that he left me. it was the spell that Dr Brave casted on him that make him to come back to me today,me and my family are now happy again today. thank you Dr Brave for what you have done for me i would have been nothing today if not for your great spell. i want you my friends who are passing through all this kind of love problem of getting back their husband, wife , or ex boyfriend and girlfriend to contact bravespellcaster@gmail.com. and you will see that your problem will be solved without any delay.<br />Natasha Hayeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03946156926137605181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-21771009649190130262014-05-11T16:41:58.487-04:002014-05-11T16:41:58.487-04:00Dear black people,
If only you'd stop making ...Dear black people,<br /><br />If only you'd stop making James Byrd a role model (and stop paying attention to the fact that we're the successors to the Dixiecrats), you'd realize that your true hero is mathematician David Blackwell. And then you could learn from him to count the number of uses for the peanut that high-achieving black George Washington Carver found.<br /><br />Love,<br /><br />The Republican Party.<br /><br />PS We're making it harder for you to vote.deadratnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-77385661441673853582014-05-11T15:45:22.057-04:002014-05-11T15:45:22.057-04:00That whooshing sound you heard? It was the point ...That whooshing sound you heard? It was the point going over your head.deadratnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-62054727866855025322014-05-11T13:46:07.710-04:002014-05-11T13:46:07.710-04:00Deadrat's limited imagination leads him to gra...Deadrat's limited imagination leads him to grasp only two choices, selling problem children for food or permitting them to ruin the educations of children who aren't problems (and most likely raised by parents who didn't neglect them or push poisonous progressive defeatism on them).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-71250278151170381692014-05-11T00:44:32.009-04:002014-05-11T00:44:32.009-04:00I agree with you, to a degree Anon 12:58. But, I t...I agree with you, to a degree Anon 12:58. But, I think there are other reasons for black culture. First of all, for hundreds of years of slavery and Jim Crow, America viciously told Blacks that they were inferior. I don't know how long it takes for that message to be replaced with a positive one. <br /><br />What I saw is that during the 1950's and 1960's, people of good will focused on high-achieving blacks, such as George Washington Carver. Not nearly as famous, mathematician David Blackwell received a certain amount of publicity. However, the focus then changed to victims. The horrible murder of James Byrd certainly deserved the publicity it received. However, James Byrd isn't a role model. It would be healthier IMHO if black children growing up knew that a brilliant black man had invented a field of mathematics, Dynamic Programming.<br /><br />IMHO one reason for this shift is politics. E.g., James Byrd's death serves the Democrats. It helps focus black voters on racism, which encourages them to vote Democratic. OTOH David Blackwell's mathematical and economic research doesn't serve Democratic politicians. These politicians can't take credit for Blackwell's brilliance. In fact, Blackwell achieved his eminence before the various liberal education programs were in place. David in Calnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-75782229915962689172014-05-10T17:13:57.999-04:002014-05-10T17:13:57.999-04:00How about we remove "problem children" f...How about we remove "problem children" from classrooms and sell them for food?deadratnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-87698548222524948882014-05-10T13:08:17.714-04:002014-05-10T13:08:17.714-04:00What can and should our public schools do about th...<i>What can and should our public schools do about this?</i><br /><br />Nothing, and if government is going to be involved it should only be to remove those children from their neglectful parents and cut off child-producing incentives to them. Remove problem children from functioning classrooms and educate them separately as funds allow.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-76646749302098996552014-05-10T12:58:10.823-04:002014-05-10T12:58:10.823-04:00And as a group, white people as a group are more l...And as a group, white people as a group are more likely to care about affording public school tuition and Asians are more likely to care about academic performance than white people. As a group. Why? Culture. Who reinforces aspects of black culture that promote not caring about education? Negligent black parents and white progressives who make excuses for them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-1730384671466354062014-05-10T10:59:54.631-04:002014-05-10T10:59:54.631-04:00Not everyone wants to spend their spare time looki...Not everyone wants to spend their spare time looking up references for people who will never read them anyway.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-65411230272175992992014-05-10T05:03:52.062-04:002014-05-10T05:03:52.062-04:00"There are some studies . . ."
When a c..."There are some studies . . ."<br /><br />When a comment starts with these words without attributing the specific studies, you can rest assured that what will follow is more made-up bullshit.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-58788530559925220842014-05-09T19:57:09.833-04:002014-05-09T19:57:09.833-04:00Why doesn't Obama send his daughters to public...Why doesn't Obama send his daughters to public school? If he doesn't want to, why should we blame any other parent who chooses to send their kids to the best school they can afford?<br /><br />This boils down to white people are more likely to be able to afford good private school tuition than black people. Is that anything new? Why must it be attributed to race when black people too are sending their kids to private school when they can afford it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-12850409844409113612014-05-09T19:53:50.081-04:002014-05-09T19:53:50.081-04:00Some members of the underclass are more enterprisi...Some members of the underclass are more enterprising than others. What do we do about the kids of those people who cannot get their act together or do anything to improve their life circumstances? The kids are not responsible for their parents actions. They are also not being helped by their parents to the same extent as other kids. What can and should our public schools do about this?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-9214703191100725292014-05-09T19:35:08.218-04:002014-05-09T19:35:08.218-04:00Their now imprisoned, drug addicted, jobless paren...<i>Their now imprisoned, drug addicted, jobless parents who produced them and the privileged white liberals who established and promote the absence of expectations, standards, morals, and ethics deserve all the credit.</i><br /><br />Let's play "Troll or Republican." This is a tough one. Sure it seems like a parody, but there's no position so absurd that some Republican somewhere hasn't adopted a position more extreme. Especially when it come to telling the shoeless to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.deadratnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-60169308268737879342014-05-09T19:28:56.760-04:002014-05-09T19:28:56.760-04:00Anonymous @6:29P,
You won't be confused if yo...Anonymous @6:29P,<br /><br />You won't be confused if you actually read the comments in a thread. Here, let me help. Go to the comment by Anonymous @1:57P. Yes, yes, I know it's confusing when commenters are too lazy and impolite to pick a nym so there are lots of them who go by "Anonymous." You'll have to look at the timestamps. Now go to the second sentence of the second paragraph, which starts "You don't have the right to ask me to check my privilege, …."<br /><br />See how easy that was?<br /><br />You're welcome.deadratnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-37375800840391420972014-05-09T19:18:39.733-04:002014-05-09T19:18:39.733-04:00Another nitwit left behind @5:40P,
It's diffi...Another nitwit left behind @5:40P,<br /><br />It's difficult to tell from your tortured syntax, but I gather you've spun us a yarn about the mother-in-law and how pleased she would be about the efforts of her child and and child-in-law to provide for the "prosperous" lives of her grandchildren. Not like those excuse-making black people in the Atlantic story who wallow in their "victim mentality traps" and "blame slavery" for children they can't or won't support.<br /><br />The only "sound like" we can attribute to the lady in question are the echoes inside your head. You don't even know whether she exists.deadratnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-22035141925835297142014-05-09T18:29:37.615-04:002014-05-09T18:29:37.615-04:00what the...?
First deadrat sets something straigh...what the...?<br /><br />First deadrat sets something straight that no one was confused about. But that's typical. Then there is his baffling comment at 1:12pm, an attempt at surreal humor? Next, some daytime-talk-show-esque back and forth with another confused commenter. Reading through it is a bit like being a rat trapped in a maze with no cheese at the end. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-39072676042369382382014-05-09T18:20:06.085-04:002014-05-09T18:20:06.085-04:00Facts you're told neither there nor here: Afri...Facts you're told neither there nor here: African-Americans are 42% of the Tuscaloosa City population; African-Americans are 76% of the high school population within the city.<br /><br />Perhaps some of you might want to re-consider whether "resegregation" isn't a perfectly appropriate word to describe what has happened over the last 20 years. The reference point, obviously, is not the Jim Crow South of the 1950s but the high point of integration before the court orders were lifted -- or even the more recent past. As recently as 2001, Central High it had 15 National Merit Finalists. Last year, we may assume, it had none.urban legendnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-34317450978551660462014-05-09T14:56:29.319-04:002014-05-09T14:56:29.319-04:00Anonymous @1:57P,
Let's get some things strai...Anonymous @1:57P,<br /><br />Let's get some things straight.<br /><br />First off, I have the right to ask you any damn thing I please. Of course, you have the right not to answer or to take offense at the question.<br /><br />Perhaps you mean that I have no reasonable basis to ask that you check your privilege until I know about your life. Well, I have no reasonable way to know anything about your life, and that includes the touching tales of your fascinating biography that you contribute as part of this commentariat.<br /><br />But please note that I specifically did <i>not</i> undertake the fool's errand of asking you to check your privilege, since you evidently think that as the world works in your experience, so it must work for everyone else.<br /><br />When the irony fairy pays you a visit to smack you with her wand, ask her about how your whining that I don't know your life compares with your own judgments about D'Leisha's mother.<br /><br />The collection of poor people doesn't have a brain to misplace. That's because "poor people" is an abstraction, and as much as you may want to reify that abstraction, it's not the same as individual poor people.<br /><br />Your last two sentences are irrelevant to the conversation, right? I didn't mention race, and I don't and can't know yours.<br /><br />I pity your mother-in-law. For what shall it profit a poor single mother of three to move from Central LA to Monterey Park in the 1950's only to have her child marry a nitwit?deadratnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-69354002414769672972014-05-09T14:16:34.555-04:002014-05-09T14:16:34.555-04:00Slight progress for a small minority of the minori...Slight progress for a small minority of the minority at an unjustifiable cost for the rest of the minority and society at large. My father brought me up to go to work every day or if I was laid off, seek a job all day and every day. The third option would be to shoot myself in the head in humiliation having failed to meet instilled expectations that became my own for myself. Casting around for excuses and ways out of meeting those standards and expectations, and there were plenty to be made on our behalf by white liberals, didn't exist. In 2014 no excuses exist for creating further generations of dependent children. Their now imprisoned, drug addicted, jobless parents who produced them and the privileged white liberals who established and promote the absence of expectations, standards, morals, and ethics deserve all the credit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-59172774250150538392014-05-09T14:15:15.955-04:002014-05-09T14:15:15.955-04:00I wonder what rate of progress black students made...I wonder what rate of progress black students made before 1954, when they (mostly) had to attend segregated schools that were much worse than the white schools in many ways. It's an assumption that the rate of black academic progress speeded up after 1954, but I have never seen a comparison.David in Calnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-91751627015514207122014-05-09T14:01:16.981-04:002014-05-09T14:01:16.981-04:00Again, what is the evidence that the left has infl...Again, what is the evidence that the left has inflicted misery when there has been social progress over that same time period, including steady increases in school test scores?<br /><br />It makes no sense to me to blame the left for a culture of dependency that is so clearly related to a legacy of slavery in which people are defined as dependent and systematically punished for showing initiative of any kind.<br /><br />This is an article of faith among conservatives but I do not believe it stands up to scrutiny.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-10120125189060890582014-05-09T13:57:36.473-04:002014-05-09T13:57:36.473-04:00Most communities now have requirements for buildin...Most communities now have requirements for building and zoning low income housing along with higher priced developments. In the LA area, I have met many people who have moved out of gang-troubled areas into suburbs. If you look for housing, often slum-quality apartments cost as much as those in suburbs. Yes, there are transportation problems, and yes, you typically need a work history and reasonably good credit to move, but D'Leisha's mother has those (based on the report). You can mock me, but I have met many working class parents who saw the benefits to moving and did so -- enough to ask why more people don't do this. My own mother in law moved from Central LA to Monterey Park in the 1950's, while a poor single-mother of three. <br /><br />I have to ask why it is OK for poor people to misplace their brains. You don't have the right to ask me to check my privilege without knowing more about what advantages or disadvantages I've had in my life. Doing so solely on the basis of color is racism, as surely as discriminating against those with darker skin is. You must be aware that not everyone white is automatically advantaged, even in our society with its brutal racial history.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-13109353607608470292014-05-09T13:53:53.603-04:002014-05-09T13:53:53.603-04:00Yet African Americans did not make academic progre...<i>Yet African Americans did not make academic progress in their segregated schools. Why then do you claim that it is government dependence now that is holding them back? </i><br /><br />Because the best of intentions (in some cases) changed the culture, and not just for blacks. Better and integrated schools are a solution. Elimination of cultural standards and stigmas of dependency, absence of work ethic, and illegitimacy created dependency and destroyed the purpose of those victims of progressive enlightenment. It did make wealthy white progressives feel good about themselves.<br /><br />Nobody should abandon black American children or decide that they shouldn't be helped, but inflicting the same misery the left has inflicted for 50 years (eliminating cultural standards on the grounds of "they hurt feelings") is and always will be a failure.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-1210009060385912732014-05-09T13:12:59.704-04:002014-05-09T13:12:59.704-04:00The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the ric...The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. And as Tal Fortgang might add, allows both the rich and the poor "to live in better neighborhoods."<br /><br />I won't ask you to check your privilege. I'll ask you to check where you misplaced your brain. deadratnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-72960848749718020632014-05-09T12:28:52.573-04:002014-05-09T12:28:52.573-04:00African immigrants are also doing well, outperform...African immigrants are also doing well, outperforming Asian immigrant children academically. That does imply that it is not race per se (because these children and adults appear the same as African American children) but culture and our "brutal American history" that is at the heart of this problem. Immigrants are people who show the initiative, courage and wherewithal to leave their homes and start over somewhere else. That selects for certain personality characteristics that also correlate with academic performance. You have to ask how immigrants are different from their peers left behind in their home country. <br /><br />There was no "government dependence" during slavery or the 100 years afterward. Yet African Americans did not make academic progress in their segregated schools. Why then do you claim that it is government dependence now that is holding them back? Government dependence is a catchall term for the efforts to help improve the situation of African American children. It has resulted in considerable test score gains and the creation of an increasingly large African American middle class. I cannot see how "government dependence" is to blame for this situation. We need to increase government efforts to help African American children, but that effort needs to start during the first five years, not when kids start school already behind. It needs to work with adults who will become parents, helping them understand how to increase chances for their own kids. This is not the time to abandon African American children by deciding that the problem was that we have helped them at all, not that they need more help than we have provided.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com