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| Commercial spaceship takes flight Virgin Galactic's spaceship, VSS Enterprise, has made its first solo test flight in California. bbc.co.uk |
Satellites fly tight space waltz Two German radar satellites move to within 350m of each other as they prepare to make the most precise, seamless 3D map of the Earth's surface. bbc.co.uk |
And then there's this sort of thing | Michael Tomasky The pc language police may overdo it sometimes, but then it's worth remembering that there's this, too. From TPM:A group trying to register voters in Houston received threats and emails containing racist slurs after being targeted by a local tea party group accusing it of "voter fraud." In emails obtained by TPM, the group Houston Votes was accused of being "a bunch of white guilt ridden assholes, NIGGERS and greasy mexican spics," "fraudulent Marxist pigs," and "American hating A-holes."The, uh, enthographic email is particularly interesting and worth reproducing in full:"You liberial scumbags should be hung by the neck in public ! We are on to your voter fraud. Keep it up you MOTHER FUCKERS and you will soon be put down for a long dirt nap! Your nothing but a bunch of white guilt ridden assholes, NIGGERS and greasy mexican spics! The WAR is comming and we are going to dispose of each and every one of you while we take OUR (White) nation back."What makes people think they can write things like that to total strangers? I've received my share of these over the years, and they've long since quit hurting, but I still always do wonder.The real issue here, of course, is voter intimidation, which is our American euphemism for Republican efforts to suppress the black vote (and recently the Latino vote) by doing things like sending out anonymous fliers around black communities before election day warning that if you have any unpaid parking tickets or are behind on your gas bill, you can't vote. And more ominous things. There will likely be more of this than usual this election day, charged as it with racial politics.And I was too nice to Sharron Angle in the previous post. Commenter LonB nailed it:She is not having problems because she used the wrong term for an ethnic group. She is in trouble because her response to hispanic children challenging an ad fear mongering using hispanic actors was to question whether they were being honest about their ethnicity. It is hard to think of a good explanation of why her thought processes ran in that direction.It's a reasonable guess that she doesn't really know any actual Latinos or Asians. Here are two pages of photos from the official web site of her campaign, of her posing with potential constituents. Find the black or Latin or Asian face. Hint: that was ironic.That is not me being pc. In a state that is 35% nonwhite, her photo choices are a clear and straightforward statement about whom she plans to represent.US midterm elections 2010TexasMichael Tomaskyguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
Typhoon Kills 12 More in Taiwan Typhoon Megi, which earlier killed 28 in the Philippines, caused 12 more deaths in Taiwan before moving up to China's Fujian province, where it was downgraded to a strong tropical storm. online.wsj.com |
Costas and Commercials Outweigh Action An analysis of NBC's 3 ½-hour program Friday night showed that there were 56 minutes, 41 seconds of commercials over 24 breaks—that's three more minutes than actual event action that was showed. online.wsj.com |