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"I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I’m with the blacks, because we’re white trash. We’re going across the field.... They’re singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, ‘I tell you what: These doggone white people’—not a word!... Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues.”Phil Robertson’

“At least the bus driver, who ordered Rosa Parks to surrender her seat to a white person, was following state law,” Jackson said in a statement, according to the Chicago Tribune. “s statements were uttered freely and openly without cover of the law, within a context of what he seemed to believe was ‘white privilege.’”Jesse Jackson

Pope Francis, celebrating his first Christmas as Roman Catholic leader, on Wednesday called on atheists to unite with believers of all religions and work for "a homemade peace" that can spread across the world.

Pope Francis is leader of 1.2 billion Roman Catholics all over the world. There are three times as many Catholics in the world than there are citizens in the United States. Like it or not, what he says makes a difference.The Advocate

Jerry Pippin hosted our special presenation of Christmas 2013.

He looks at Christmas past of his youth in 1940s and 50s.

And a not so Merry Christmas for 40 million Target customers that loss their credit card information and ATM pin numbers.

A Christmas Poem by Maya Angelou

Thunder rumbles in the mountain passes

And lightning rattles the eaves of our houses.

Flood waters await us in our avenues.

Snow falls upon snow, falls upon snow to avalanche

Over unprotected villages.

The sky slips low and grey and threatening.

We question ourselves.

What have we done to so affront nature?

We worry God.

Are you there? Are you there really?

Does the covenant you made with us still hold?

Into this climate of fear and apprehension, Christmas enters,

Streaming lights of joy, ringing bells of hope

And singing carols of forgiveness high up in the bright air.The world is encouraged to come away from rancor,Come the way of friendship...

Merry Christmas from Jerry Pippin

Washington Confidential a book set in the 50s by journalists Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer  calls Lobbying Washington's Oldest Profession.  "Lobbying is as old as Magna Charta, which first granted people the right to petition their sovereign. Ever since, those who wanted something have hired someone to speak up for them. Washington is full of these huckster" Washington Confidential.

You’d think that the market for Washington-bashing would be saturated by now. Not counting the nightly Comedy Central duo, four anti-Washington television shows were showered with Emmy nominations last month. Apocalyptic anti-Washington books with titles like It’s Even Worse Than It Looks and Throw Them All Out have become our daily bread in the Obama years. Frank Rich

National Security Agency arranged a secret $10 million contract with RSA, one of the most influential firms in the computer security industry. Reuters

Morning quarterback is a person who passes judgement on and criticizes something after the event (the Oxford Dictionary).

 

We take a look at the Sunday talk shows and more

The past week's political events that help shape the American  politics.

Acontecimientos políticos de la semana pasada que ayudan a conformar el cuerpo político estadounidense.

The political magazine with a full cup of Coffee and a few polling numbers in between the refills.

La revista política con una taza llena de café y algunos números de las encuestas entre las recargas.

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"Michelle Obama is able to bring a “passion and a perspective” to the issue that transcends the “partisan bickering” of both Washington and talk radio". Dr Al Sharpton

"When Sasha was about four months old, you know, we were blessed with healthy babies, I had a healthy pregnancy, you know, Malia was, you know, issue free.  But I will never forget, it was a day when, you know, one hour she was fine, she was normal, she was happy, doing everything I was used to her doing, and the next hour she was crying inconsolably.  And that just wasn’t like her.  And I did everything I tried to do, I tried to feed her, I tried to walk her, I tried to burp her.  Finally I just thought I need to call my pediatrician"Michelle Obama.

The answer is the Right-wing from Henry Ford to Peggy Noonan“Last Christmas most people had a hard time finding Christmas cards that indicated in any way that Christmas commemorated Someone's Birth,”Henry Ford

What they now want to put over on the American people is simply this: Department stores throughout the country are to utilize UN symbols and emblems as Christmas decorations.”John Birch Society

"I put out a two-foot-high plaster statue of the Blessed Mother. It was as if I'd summoned the forces of hell. Maybe I had. One neighbor started putting flyers under my door explaining that idolatry and Mary-worship consigns its unfortunate devotees to hell."(the statue was no doubt made in China)Peggy

Noonan“Santa Claus is Santa Claus to everyone, I’ve never given it [any] thought,” she said.“I would imagine he’s white, yellow, black — every colour.” Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer

Richard J. Leon of Federal District Court for the District of Columbiae order  the National Security Agency(NSA) program that is systematically keeping records of all Americans’ phone calls most likely violates the Constitution's Fourth Amendment, calling the technology as “almost Orwellian” and adding that James Madison would be “aghast” to learn that the government was encroaching on Liberty in such a way.

“I acted on my belief that the N.S.A.’s mass surveillance programs would not withstand a constitutional challenge, and that the American public deserved a chance to see these issues determined by open courts,” Mr. Snowden said in his statement. It was distributed by Glenn Greenwald, a journalist who received leaked documents from Mr. Snowden and wrote the first article about the bulk data collection. “Today, a secret program authorized by a secret court was, when exposed to the light of day, found to violate Americans’ rights,” Ed Snowden praised the ruling in a statement from Moscow

Morning quarterback is a person who passes judgement on and criticizes something after the event (the Oxford Dictionary).

 

We take a look at the Sunday talk shows and more