Posted on January 17, 2010 by bostonboomer
I can’t believe this.
In February, David Bahati, the mover of the controversial Anti-Homosexuality Bill is expected to attend a prayer breakfast in the American capital of Washington DC.
Mr. Bahati, according to reports, may speak at the event where President Barack Obama – a gays-tolerant liberal president, is also expected to attend. On Friday, [...]
Filed under: Barack Obama, Foreign affairs, Human Rights, Politics | Tagged: anti-homosexuality bill, Barack Obama, David Bahati, homophobia, prayer breakfast, The Family, Uganda | 88 Comments »
Posted on January 11, 2010 by bostonboomer
Last May I wrote a post called Just One of Thousands of Reasons Why I’ll Never Fly Again. Now, I have three more reasons: 1) whole body scanning machines, 2) diffraction-enhanced X-ray imaging or DEXI scanners, and–are you ready for this? 3) mind-reading scanners.
WHOLE BODY SCANNING MACHINES
in the wake of the panic over the foiled [...]
Filed under: Health, Human Rights, Politics | Tagged: ACLU, DEXI scanners, Electronic Privacy Information Center (ERIC), homeland security, mind-reading scanners, privacy, R-Utah, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, Technology Review, terrorism, Transportation Safety Adminitration (TSA), whole body scanners | 112 Comments »
Posted on December 14, 2009 by bostonboomer
That Hillary Clinton–she just keep on truckin’–doing her best to make the world a better place. In a speech at Georgetown University this morning, Clinton announced a new human rights agenda for the U.S., putting the emphasis on “principled pragmatism.”putting the emphasis on what she called “principled pragmatism.”
Just days after President Barack Obama accepted [...]
Filed under: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Human Rights, LGBT rights | Tagged: AIDS, Barack Obama, Georgetown University, GLBT, Hillary Clinton, Human Rights, human trafficking, Uganda | 36 Comments »
Posted on October 12, 2009 by bostonboomer
Today is Columbus Day. That’s an important holiday here in Massachusetts, so I don’t have to teach today. Of course that doesn’t mean I don’t have work to do, but it’s still a nice break from my regular routine. But should we be honoring Christopher Columbus with a holiday?
Parades span the country [...]
Filed under: Clinton Derangement Syndrome, Health Care Reform, Hillary Clinton, Human Rights, broken promises, foreign policy | Tagged: Columbus Day, GLBT rights, Media, Morning News Links, Nobel Prize for Economics | 88 Comments »
Posted on October 6, 2009 by dakinikat
This is one of those stories I offer up not because I really know much about the subject at hand but because what’s
being talked about doesn’t pass the smell test for me. Policy on terrorism was one of those issues where we were supposed to see a distinct difference between the Dubya/vpResident Evil administration and [...]
Filed under: FISA, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Human Rights, Justice, Law Enforcement, Media, Patriot act, Worst President Ever, government | Tagged: Salon, terrorism, Howard Kurtz, Media Matters, Glenn Greenwald, Zazi, incarceration of terror suspects, Ann Kornblut, The Washington Post | 85 Comments »
Posted on September 30, 2009 by Steven Mather
America isn’t easy
Building and sustaining a diverse community is not easy.
What should we celebrate?
Celebrate: to perform (a sacrament or ceremony) publicly and with appropriate rites; to honor by solemn ceremonies and refraining from ordinary business; to hold up or play for public notice.
What should we tolerate?
Tolerate: to endure or resist the [...]
Filed under: Democracy as a form of liberal goverment, General, Human Rights, Politics, culture | Tagged: blogophere, citizenship, civics, ethics, free speech, Politics, rights and responsibilities | 95 Comments »
Posted on September 21, 2009 by Steven Mather
Gay-Lussac
The pressure of a fixed mass and fixed volume of a gas is directly proportional to the gas’s temperature.
This relationship is known as the Gay-Lussac’s Law and a pressure cooker is an example of the law in practice. Cooking under pressure creates the possibility of cooking with high temperature liquids because the boiling point of [...]
Filed under: Bad Bank, Barack Obama, Blogosphere, Campaign Finance Reform, Clinton Derangement Syndrome, Cost of Sexism, Democracy as a form of liberal goverment, Economy, FISA, Financial Meltdown of 2008, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Gender Equity, General, Health Care Reform, Human Rights, Justice, LGBT rights, Liberalism, Politics, Recession/Depression 2008, Single Payer, Social Media, astroturf, big pharma, broken promises, choice, collective action, corruption, culture, feminism, financial bailout, foreign policy, government, racism | Tagged: bailout, civic virtue, civil liberties, civility, ethics, Health Care Reform, moral hazard, morality, Politics, recession, Single Payer, TARP | 18 Comments »
Posted on September 19, 2009 by Steven Mather
O’Keefe and Giles, in their portrayal of pimp and prostitute, reek of puerile classism. Were it not for the overwhelmingly noxious fumes emanating from the handful of ACORN employees who were apparently willing to enable a child prostitution ring exploiting illegal immigrants, the stink of the ill-informed moral superiority of O’Keefe and Giles would [...]
Filed under: Cost of Sexism, Gender Equity, General, Human Rights, Media, Politics, culture, domestic violence, feminism, sexism and misogyny | Tagged: Fox News, Obama, Democratic Party, US Senate, ACORN, Republican Party, prostitution, child prostitution, illegal immigration, James O'Keefe, Hannah Giles, Cotton Mather, Puritan, Puritanism, documentary, US Congress, Big Government, sting | 183 Comments »
Posted on September 15, 2009 by Steven Mather
Is it beyond our ken to maintain a noble purpose as we guide our battered ships of state through the dark shadows of this mild squall of an economic crisis? Whom of us will risk life and limb to keep the ships afloat? Who will cast away possessions for the same purpose? [...]
Filed under: Economy, Financial Meltdown of 2008, Health Care Reform, Human Rights, Hurricane Katrina, Justice, Liberalism, culture, going forward, government | Tagged: absurdity, Cap and Trade, carbon emissions, civic virtue, clean air act, climate change, CO2, cultural dynamics, energy, environmental collapse, environmental degradation, environmental responsiblity, EPA, ethics, extinction, food crisis, global warming, gorilla poaching, greenhouse gases, honeybees, intersex fish, mafia, morality, nuclear waste, Politics, sacred cow, sacrifice, starvation, world development report | 103 Comments »
Posted on September 11, 2009 by Steven Mather
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. – Abraham Lincoln
There’s a sucker born every minute. – P.T. Barnum
We, the People, are born every minute. The last ten [...]
Filed under: American Society in Flux, Barack Obama, Democracy as a form of liberal goverment, Economy, General, Health Care Reform, Human Rights, Politics, Single Payer, big pharma, choice, corruption, government, healthcare | Tagged: anti-liberty, Barack Obama, big brother, Big Insurance, big pharma, conservatives, founding fathers, Frater Magnus, Glenn Beck, Glenn Greenwald, GOP, health care, Health Care Reform, HMOs, liberty, neo-feudalism, Politics, private healthcare, Single Payer, tea parties, U.S. Constitution, Washington | 46 Comments »
