tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post4485001967740849833..comments2024-01-02T22:01:12.976+00:00Comments on Avedon's Sideshow: VolunteersAvedonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04702100335744054401noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-71160493115541613432016-02-07T17:14:28.349+00:002016-02-07T17:14:28.349+00:00Here's a completely off topic 80 minute video....Here's a completely off topic 80 minute video. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6khZk6LCDUw" rel="nofollow">[LINK]</a><br /><br />Happy Chinese New Year, it is now the year of the Fire Monkey. I think Digby is a 1956 edition of one of those.CMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13481861530761114492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-61605900488886930332016-02-06T23:58:00.840+00:002016-02-06T23:58:00.840+00:00Jimmy Dore of The Young Turks makes two good point...Jimmy Dore of <i>The Young Turks</i> makes two good points here, the first on the potential for November general election voter turnout depending on who the Democratic candidate might be and the second as to whether Republican red-baiting is likely to sting if Sanders is the candidate. Dore then adds a couple additional comments. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/rdHLNkddVzc?start=1194&end=1423&autoplay=0" rel="nofollow">[LINK]</a>CMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13481861530761114492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-28660342598542285652016-02-06T09:18:50.335+00:002016-02-06T09:18:50.335+00:00I had read volume 7 from that Page Smith series [L...I had read volume 7 from that Page Smith series <a href="http://www.amazon.com/America-Enters-World-Peoples-Progressive/dp/0070585733/ref=la_B000APVYZK_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1454746589&sr=1-7" rel="nofollow">[LINK]</a> and was quite impressed with it but I never made it back to reading any of the others. His speciality was late eighteenth American history, if I recall correctly and it just so happens that I had been planning to get the volume from that era <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Glorious-Cause-American-Revolution-1763-1789/dp/019531588X/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1454748308&sr=1-3&keywords=oxford+american+history" rel="nofollow">[LINK]</a> from the series that features McPherson's <i>Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era</i> but now that you've reminded me of Smith's work maybe I'll get the corresponding volume from his series instead. <br /><br />Pressly's <b>Americans Interpret Their Civil War</b> made a great impression on me when I read it the first time. It came as sort of a shock to me but that book made it so clear that it's politics and the prevailing social norms which determine what the reigning historical narrative is- not the other way around as I had assumed at the end of my grade school years. (And of course, all those pasted "posts abut the history of revisionism" were taken from that Pressly book.)<br /><br />In the matter of which year, I had thought you were referring specifically to the Clintons getting race carded by the MSM when she ran against Obama.CMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13481861530761114492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-32594408748439219622016-02-06T02:47:04.760+00:002016-02-06T02:47:04.760+00:00Thanks for the links CMike. I listened to them and...Thanks for the links CMike. I listened to them and the section on A. Johnson. I first read Foner about ten years ago and it was his take on Johnson and reconstruction that I'm most influenced by.<br /><br />I enjoyed your posts about the history of revisionism.<br /><br />By the time I left Jr. High I'd stopped reading books filled with brave young Virginians riding with Mosby or Kansan farm boys working as Union spys. After taking freshman history class dealing with reconstruction in Louisiana I'd given up any idea of noble Southern gentility or the cause.<br />As Foner said in his lecture, once you've seen the source material the racist myths turn to smoke.<br /><br />If you have the time, "A People's History of the United States" by Page Smith is a good read. <br /><br />PS 2000 because of the media controlling the terms of discussion.Buzzcookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10466134753394910191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-19403395931438685392016-02-06T01:29:09.992+00:002016-02-06T01:29:09.992+00:00There was more than one "March for Bernie&quo...There was more than one "March for Bernie" - all organized on short notice but still pulling good crowds.<br />http://marchforbernie.com/list-of-marches/ksixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15406854618914127269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-85309595646369713582016-02-05T17:37:53.699+00:002016-02-05T17:37:53.699+00:00"I can't help feeling that if the caucuse..."I can't help feeling that if the caucuses had been held a week later, Bernie might have come out ahead." <br /><br />That's what I think too. In reviewing the polls since Hillary announced last March, I noticed something: she's gone down among what would seem to be every single group of voters there is. Old, young, male, female, poor, middle class, rich, Democratic, Republican, black, white, in the north, the south, the west, wherever and whatever. Some more than others, but I can't find a single group among which her support has increased. All down, down, down. Don't have the time or expertise to do a comprehensive analysis, but it seems that way. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00705741248756891564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-67080298150005810732016-02-04T21:48:14.278+00:002016-02-04T21:48:14.278+00:002008, and in this instance it's the second str...2008, and in this instance it's the second string media-industrial-complex doing the knee jerking but otherwise I think you got it exactly right and I'm a Sanders voter. As for the way this is taught after you get past 7th grade "I happen to have Mr. McLuhan right here, so, so, yeah, just let me..."<br /><br />The two great challenges to the Dunning School were first offered by W.E.B. DuBois (1935) and later, with more effect, by Kenneth Stampp (1965). The current reigning view on Reconstruction in the academy is most closely associated with the work of Eric Foner (1988). <a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/-34WrHqI_FU?start=00&end=111" rel="nofollow">[LINK]</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/-34WrHqI_FU?start=403&end=492" rel="nofollow">[LINK]</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/Ef3jk6A_yk0?start=00&end=684" rel="nofollow">[LINK]</a> (The anecdote in that first link is worth listening to, I think. The third link runs eleven minutes but it is a rather authoritative review of the field so it might be worth your time.)<br /><br />I cite Stampp, specifically, because of his priority in the Revisionist School. Likewise, I would point to the amateur historian James Ford Rhodes as the theorist who first launched the Dunning School interpretation. Here's Thomas J. Pressly in his <b>Americans Interpret Their Civil War</b> (© 1962, 1954 by Princeton University Press) on Rhodes. <a href="http://avedoncarol.blogspot.com/2013/02/makin-us-crazy.html?showComment=1361505957021#c43246538538503209" rel="nofollow">[LINK]</a><br />CMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13481861530761114492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-77789180203103269842016-02-04T18:24:39.759+00:002016-02-04T18:24:39.759+00:00In all the Sanders/Clinton links, none mention the...In all the Sanders/Clinton links, none mention the TPP. I wonder why. Clinton has a history of strong support for so-called trade deals, and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/chamber-of-commerce-lobby_b_9104096.html" rel="nofollow">the chief lobbyist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce </a>has said that Clinton will support the TPP after the election. Sanders has historically opposed the trade deals and has vowed to do everything in his power to stop it. It's a rather stunning omission from the arguments over the different effects of a Clinton or Sanders presidency.<br /><br />The other big omission is the Supreme Court, although I'll hand it to Clinton that she raised issue when she declared that she thinks Obama would be a good Supreme Court justice. We are told every election cycle that we must must MUST work for the Democratic nominee because of the Supreme Court. So here we have candidates who would likely appoint very different kinds of justices. Clinton has gone on record as liking the man who has claimed for the presidency the right to assassinate any person any where on his own determination that national security is involved. I think Sanders would make different choices. If it's as important as the DNC routinely claims around election time, why not more discussion now?nihil obstethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02336022385130880362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-61068610342566524132016-02-04T18:12:01.573+00:002016-02-04T18:12:01.573+00:00Its a leap to say Clinton's single use of the ...Its a leap to say Clinton's single use of the word reconstruction in answering a favorite president question is the same as endorsing a neo-confederate narrative.<br /><br />Reconstruction failed for many reasons, once the Freemans Bureau was canceled it all went down hill. Then the post war depression killed what will there was to continue it. <br />After congress passed strict conditions for returning the political rights to former confederate officials and officers, Andrew Johnson passed out pardons like candy at Halloween. So in many cases reconstruction was being administered in areas controlled by racist former confederates.<br />So saying reconstruction was one of the problems of the post war period is not the same as saying the dixiecrats got it right.<br /><br />The narrative is part and parcel of the media-industrial-complex calling Hillary Clinton a racist. It's 2000 all over again.Buzzcookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10466134753394910191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-26347293941760661452016-02-04T17:11:34.796+00:002016-02-04T17:11:34.796+00:00According to Wikipedia:
RAGBRAI is an acronym and...According to Wikipedia:<br /><br /><i>RAGBRAI is an acronym and registered trademark for the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, which is a non-competitive bicycle ride organized by </i>The Des Moines Register<i> and going from west to east across the U.S. state of Iowa...</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/editorials/caucus/2016/02/03/editorial-something-smells-democratic-party/79777580/" rel="nofollow">[LINK]</a>CMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13481861530761114492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-8082790514858443442016-02-04T10:24:21.507+00:002016-02-04T10:24:21.507+00:00Always good to have material we'd have missed ...Always good to have material we'd have missed except for the links here, and I have to see this;<br />'He would appoint tougher regulators and conduct a more cautious, dovish foreign policy than Clinton'.<br />A nice view, but out of kilter.<br />Bernie has no more prospect of his appointments and approaches/proposals being accepted than does Clinton, or did Obama - unless we can get a public oriented legislature.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17553541514560319083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-60547201286070845422016-02-03T23:23:34.712+00:002016-02-03T23:23:34.712+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.Raven Onthillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06634556869209594389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5598883894140893389.post-74684578754152130562016-02-03T20:53:23.836+00:002016-02-03T20:53:23.836+00:00Is an expert commission for Flint going to delay a...Is an expert commission for Flint going to delay a fix for three years?zhochakahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06653786360841345602noreply@blogger.com