Rachel Maddow talks about the housing situation in New Orleans, and makes the point that the elimination of much of the subsidized housing for the poor was intended to reduce the availability of housing for the poor, and generally black, residents of the Crescent City.
John Aravosis references Naomi Klein’s “Shock Doctrine,” but there is a far uglier term for this: Ethnic cleansing.
Lockheed has a video pushing its VTOL Advanced Reconnaissance Insertion Organic Unmanned System (VARIOUS) fan in wing UAV.
It’s OK defense video pr0n, but what caught my eye were the tanks at about 1:22 in the video.
They are T-34 tanks, and I actually think that they are the T-34/76 variant, which ceased production around 1944, and has been out of service for decades, though could could see T-34/85s in service in Bosnia in the 1990s.
H/t The DEW Line.
And completely not safe for work.
I guess you would call what Cee Lo Green is doing here R&B, and while I am not an avid follower of the genre, I rather like this.
Case in point, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Basically, I think that the strategy to succeed here is not to be an evil lying sack of sh%$.
If you are a, “whacko, my parents are first cousins, X-Files wannabe, black helicopter, tinfoil hat wearing, stupid, dim-witted, thinks pro wrestling is real,” lunatic,* as well as a raving bigot, it’s probably not a good idea to allow yourself to be interviewed by a The Daily Show correspondent:
*Sorry, I think that I just channeled the comedian Denis Leary.
Courtesy of The Daily Show:
Funniest screen crawl ever!
This is an anti-Fascist film from 1947 or so produced by the War Department.
The echos are chilling.
It’s well worth the 17:25 to watch it.
I love Alan Grayson.*
*In a 110% purely heterosexual kind of way, of course, as the General would say.
Do not have anything in your mouth when you click play. (Marginally SFW)
Black people brunch Hard, son: (5:15)
I am left speechless.
I am also far less concerned about a remilitarized Japan:
I’ve never liked John Phillip Sousa
Are they Nazi zombies, or zombies who were formerly Nazis?
Heal the Bay has produced a video describing the migration of the common plastic bag.
And yes, that is Jeremy Irons narrating.
So completely not safe for work, except, perhaps if you work in a library.
Damn, he is good!
Dick Armey created an Army of Dicks.*
Jon Stewart does a good job teasing out the hypocrisy of the Congressman, former House Majority Leader, and über lobbyist Dick Armey casting himself as an anti-establishment foe of Washington .
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*The Teabaggers.
Texas’s (where else) own Louie Gohmert.
Play him off, Jon Stewart:
Seriously, the fact that Jon Stewart has so much material to work with makes me despair for the future of the Republic.
This sh%$ is not rocket science, and the idea that the press is not to call bullsh%$ over transparent bullsh%$ is not a mark of professionalism, it is a mark of cowardice, hypocrisy, and laziness.
In any case, on to the vid.
*Yes, my Geek Goddess, Rachel Maddow, is a close second.
But I have to note it that Bobby Thompson has died, he was 86.
Who was Mr. Thompson? He (on edit)is the Hall of Fame outfielder who (/on edit) hit the shot heard round the world:
If you are an American, you should know this one even if you don’t know jack about Baseball.
I have to guess that Olbermann will comment on this tonight, after all, how can he not?
I have not posted Jon Stewart’s take on the Lower Manhattan Islamic center:
And Wyatt Cenac’s expose:
I have to add Mr. Cenac to my list of People I Do Not Want to Piss Off.