Which I guess means there is no such thing as an irish american. So why the hell do we celebrate St. Patrick’s Day? And I am going to miss Oktoberfest. and the Scottish Highland Games. How many white people get indignant if you ask where their ancestors come from? Do they get all huffy and insist on their Americanism? Or just say ‘German and Irish mostly but with a dash of Cherokee’

And I hope the hell the O in Greg’s name is a middle initial and not some racial dog-whistling signaling that he may be from the Emerald Isle. Cause by Greg’s logic we should be charging everyone wearing a “Kiss me! I’m Irish!” pin with sedition.

Plus it is not blacks that instituted racial laws on the One Drop of Blood theory. Or put the Whites Only signs up.

Re: #80. I don’t think any of us intends to give mr. v. a bye. Gnawing around the edges of his itty bitty conscience sounds just fine for starters. Will see what we can do. ;->

.http://www.oberlin.edu/envs/faculty_pages/orr.htm

She loved every minute…and they worked with us all the way.

I know very little about music but whenever I would visit I would sit outside the doors of students practicing at the Music conservatory and listen…and be transported and transformed

Quality school, nice town, great history

Let’s see the teabaggers shout down 2 or 3 million people.

Let’s see the MSM deliberately ignore 2 or 3 million people.

Let’s see Mike Ross lie to defend his position to 2 or 3 million people

He’d better watch it — at his age, and his overweightness, it’s gonna be fatal heart attack time real soon.

Physical confrontation with the baggers and birthers would be counter productive and only serve the interests of the Republicans and the status quo corporatists. The corporate media would have a field day.

Of course, you’re right.

My intent is not to exhort ‘our side’ to meet violence with violence, it is to point out that the teabaggers do not offer an opportunity for dialogue, but they do surface for us, clear evidence that progressives are now paying the price for complacency in the face of decades of deliberately cultivated ignorance.

I fear that we’re about to learn that many of those we disparaged as ‘Good Germans‘ in the Nazi era were not exclusively weak-willed people who sheepishly followed orders, many were people who did everything they could to stay the hell out of the way of the mobs.

The baggers only think their backs are against the wall, and that’s because they’re being told that it’s so by the propagandists. We, on the other hand, have got to understand that it’s very important to recognize when our backs are really against the wall, which is problematic because for most of our lives, we’ve never experienced a truly intransigent enemy, and the end of negotiations.

As for the corporate media, they’re already having a field day, and I fear it will only get worse.