Stumble it!This I Not My Country: September
posted in TINMC by themaiden |Submissions for this carnival were near overwhelming– definitely not a bad thing. Strangely enough, most of them were relevant as well, which is a bit of a miracle. Thank you all for submitting. Largely due to the volume of submissions, I’ve adopted a very streamlined presentation this go-round and I’ve resisted the urge to comment on individual posts. I’ve also resisted the urge the flag my favorites.
Enjoy.
- David Hayes presents The Politics of Good Enough posted at Frozen Toothpaste.
- Howard Ditkoff presents What Michael Moore Really Teaches Us About Political and Social Change In America posted at SystemsThinker.com Blog, saying, “In his previous films, Michael Moore opened minds regarding injustices in deeply emotional areas including corporate responsibility, gun violence, 9/11 and the Iraq War. In Sicko, and his related appearances, he has pursued change in the American health care system. But Moore’s work and life embody two underappreciated themes even more central to social change in America – moral courage and campaign, election and media reform. In this eight-part series of posts, I explore the importance of these intertwined themes and their relation to Michael Moore. I then propose a formula for focusing influential individuals and organizations on these core leverage points to stimulate fundamental, sustainable sociopolitical reform in America.”
- Sean-Paul Kelley presents Thirteen Years Ago . . . posted at The Agonist, saying, “When you elect people who believe government is the problem, you get bad government.”
- Deb Serani presents Denying What’s Real: Misdiagnosing for Profit posted at Dr. Deb, saying, “This post looks at the deplorable way our veterans are being treated with regard to mental health.”
- SmallTownBS presents America - It’s a couple of continents. | Small-town Big-shot posted at Small-town Big-shot.
- Charles H. Green presents We’ve All Caught the Detroit Disease posted at Trust Matters, saying, “As the US car industry continues its inexorable decline it’s worth looking at why and asking if the rest of the country is also exhibiting the symptoms of the “Detroit Disease”.”
- Ned Cameron presents Smoking Ban and Aesthetic Fanaticism posted at 1 is A, 2 is B, saying, “Why do smoking bans do more harm than good? Why are smoking bans tearing us apart? This article is an examination of the smoking bans being put into effect in many states.”
- Ian Welsh presents Is The US an Operating Democracy Any More? posted at The Agonist, saying, “The elites in the country are doing what they want to do no matter what the majority opinion.”
- Charles H. Green presents Defining Trust by Defining Moments–Larry Craig’s posted at Trust Matters, saying, “The scandal is not that Larry Craig was wide-stance trolling for love in all the wrong places; it’s the lies he told, the secrets he kept, and the stunning hypocrisy of his political career that made his bathroom trip so devastating.”
- Tiffany Washko presents Liberals Stay Married Longer posted at Zen Mother.
- Holly Ord presents The Prejudice of Atheism posted at Menstrual Poetry.
- Gavin R. Putland presents John W. Howard’s Flowchart for Political Success posted at grputland.com.
- AllAboutVoting presents A predictable outcome posted at All About Voting, saying, “My blog is about election systems and reforms. The linked article gives a good explanation of just how bad the situation of gerrymandered single-winner districts is.”
- Blue Dog presents Can We Say, “AG Gonzales Held the Door Open For War Profiteers to Loot the Treasury?” posted at Blue Dog Thoughts.
- Rickey Henderson presents Your Monday Morning Schaedenfraude posted at Riding with Rickey, saying, “Rejoice! Alberto Gonzalez has resigned! But what hack will replace him?”
- Leon Gettler presents Military contractors and corruption posted at Sox First, saying, “A poll finds that most people believe handing over military operations to contractors creates more corruption.”
- Madeleine Begun Kane presents Why Is General Petraeus Letting The White House Write His Iraq Progress Report? (Poll) posted at Mad Kane’s Political Madness.
- Blue Dog presents Will China Show the Department of Homeland Security the Way? posted at Blue Dog Thoughts, saying, “Looks at the increase of federally funded videotaping and other forms of monitoring by the US government.”
- Madeleine Begun Kane presents Bush Growls; Dems Kowtow (Limerick and Poll) posted at Mad Kane’s Political Madness.
- Ian Welsh presents Jose Padilla, née Winston Smith, Found Guilty posted at The Agonist, saying, “Padilla’s trial was an Orwellian parody of justice. Finding guilty a man who has been systematically tortured to the point of delusion, to the point of being unable to cooperate in his own defense, is nothing to celebrate. It was the justice system and American ideals on trial here, and they tragically, tragically lost. We all lost.”
- Shaula Evans presents How We Create Our Own Crimes posted at The Agonist, saying, “Why does the US have such phenomenally high incarceration rates? Why are per-capita incarceration rates of African Americans so high? Here’s the answer.”
- Shaula Evans presents Kenneth Foster, Jr.: An Innocent Man Texas Will Soon Execute posted at The Agonist, saying, “Killing a man for a murder he didn’t commit isn’t justice. It’s senseless vengeance, a barbarism cloaked in the black robes of justice.”
- Lucynda Riley presents Americans unhappy about inflation and Bush is shocked!!! posted at The Traveling Man.
- Ian Welsh presents Reaping What You Sow: Hedge Fund and Housing Bubble Edition posted at The Agonist, saying, “What’s happening to the housing and financial markets right now is the entirely foreseeable consequence of past deliberate policy decisions by the Fed and the Bush administration. The reason a bail-out is finally occurring is because the people who matter to Bush are getting hurt.”
- Tiffany Washko presents The Lead Toys Fiasco posted at Natural Family Living Blog
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