Sometimes I despair

[nontacitare]

I've been meaning to blog about political issues, but the more I put it off, the more bad things kept happening. So I bring you a belated round-up

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[wishesofastar]

Don't forget the Iranian election debacle. Christ, now I'm even more depressed.

[nontacitare]

Don't forget the Iranian election debacle.

There's that, and the murder of a 7-year-old girl and her father by Minutemen (anti-immigration extremists), and the rise of white supremacists in the army, and the incredible shrinking right to health care in this country, and the drug violence in Mexico, and the rapes in South Africa, and the genocide in Darfur, and the ubiquitous carcinogen Bisphenol A, and...

Welcome home from Washington. Glad to have you back. :-)

[wishesofastar]

I hadn't heard about the army white supremacists thing. What's that about? Actually, I'm not at all surprised; isn't the army already mostly rednecks anyway?

[nontacitare]

Here's a link; basically, white supremacist groups are encouraging their members to join the army to get training for the "coming race war:"

http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2009/06/war-on-terror-training-domestic.html

isn't the army already mostly rednecks anyway?
Actually, there's a fairly high percentage of African-Americans and Hispanics in the army.