Motley Moose – Archive

In an article in The Washington Post this morning covering the arrest of  domestic Christian terrorist suspect (my term) Scott Roeder I found this paragraph:

As news of Roeder’s arrest traveled, Kansas City activist Regina Dinwiddie remembered the day a dozen years ago when Roeder hugged her in glee after trying to frighten an abortion provider by staring him down inside a Planned Parenthood clinic.

“He grabbed me and said, ‘I’ve read the Defensive Action Statement and I love what you’re doing,’ ” Dinwiddie said in a telephone interview. She was a signer of the 1990s statement, which declares that the use of force is justified.

George Tiller shot to death at Wichita church

George Tiller, the Wichita doctor who became a national lightning rod in the debate over abortion, was shot to death this morning as he walked into church services.

Tiller, 67, was shot just after 10 a.m. at Reformation Lutheran Church at 7601 E. 13th, where he was a member of the congregation. Witnesses and a police source confirmed Tiller was the victim.

No information has been released about whether a suspect is in custody.

Homicide detectives and Sedgwick County District Attorney Nola Foulston have arrived at the church.

Members of the congregation who were inside the sanctuary at the time of the shooting were being kept inside the church by police, and those arriving were being ushered into the parking lot. Witnesses are being transported downtown for interviews and other members of the congregation are slowly being released from inside the sanctuary

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I thought first that “Cons” was short for convicts but it turns out to be for “Conservatives”.  Behold the new face of the Republican Party youth outreach, a la Michael Steele. “Rap” from two young guys from Dartmouth College.

(put your coffee down and swallow before viewing, or your keyboard will be drenched)

Sigh.  Epic fail for wingers who are now spewing hate speech at a fairly staid group of NAACP types, and managing to offend nearly every Latino in America, but more importantly in that subset of Mexican-Americans.  There are members of Congress, and members of state legislatures across America, who are members of the National Council of La Raza. I also wonder why they haven’t mentioned guilt by association and attacked the fundors of this insidious group?  We all know they love guilt by association.

So lets talk about the associations. For those of you who don’t know much about the history of NCLR, now’s a good time for a review.

For those of you who haven’t been paying attention to non-political news, I’d like to applaud a recent op-ed The Big Black Lie in the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the opinions of several Philly columnists.  

They address the most recent News Flash – yet another white female accusing a scary black male of being her abductor.  

(My apologies for writing a second diary today, but this got too long for a comment)

Well we should have known it was coming.  

In the twisted logic of wingnut non-thinking un-analysis (is there such a word?) at the National Review online, Wendy Long, of the Judicial Confirmation Network states:

Sotomayor for the Court  [Wendy Long]

Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written. She thinks that judges should dictate policy, and that one’s sex, race, and ethnicity ought to affect the decisions one renders from the bench.

Okay folks.  I’m biased. She’s a Boricua (Puerto Rican), from Da Bronx.  She grew up in the projects.  Anyone who knows the projects and the daily lives of po’ folks in the Big Mango (aka the Big Apple) gets a gold star in my book.

She is really smart.  Saavy. Gutsy.  Has a sense of humor.

take a listen.

Military service to this country has been a tradition on both sides of my family. My dad was a Tuskegee Airman in WWII.  His white forebears fought in the Civil War on the side of the Union, in the Mexican War and the War of Independence. But I am named for my mom’s great uncle, who childless at the time of his death left his land in the hills of Loudoun county VA to the women of my family, and it is passed down to the oldest daughter to maintain.

His name was Dennis Weaver, he was a slave who ran off to fight for the Union as “a colored soldier” and in his honor I was named Denise. My grandfather was named Dennis for him as well.  

Lieutenant-Colonel Yvonne Bradley is an attorney.

She is a life-long Republican.  She is a Christian conservative (her description of herself)

Though her name is probably familiar to readers of the British press, where she took London by storm a few months back, her recent interview on CNN will probably make a lot of waves in the US, if it doesn’t get buried.  So pass it on.

I am not a paleobiologist, or a physical/biological anthropologist, but as a cultural anthropologist trained in a four fields approach (cultural anthropology, archaeology, linguistics and physical anthropology) and as a teacher of introductory courses in anthropology on the undergraduate level, I teach evolution.  

As an observer of things cultural, I find it hard to believe (shaking my head) that in a world filled with scientific marvels, right here in the USA, a world leader in science, that a percentage of our population insists on resisting evolution, and that a leading political figure who was a Vice Presidential candidate became a poster child for absurdist ideations about humans romping with dinosaurs.