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Posts Tagged ‘rhetoric’
October 12th, 2015 - 4:14 am § in Politics
Chavez Goes to Heaven on Columbus Day
CHaVEZ NUESTRO QUE ESTaS EN LOS CIELOS capitulos I y II[...]
July 21st, 2015 - 5:35 pm § in The Ave Scene
The Faux Debate on Rent Control
The great debate over rent control turned out to be an amateurish production of the famous play “The Theater of the Absurd.” video The doors to Town Hall opened at 5 PM. By 6 PM the crowd overwhelmed the former church, extending out onto the sidewalk where I u[...]
January 22nd, 2015 - 7:29 pm § in America
Snipers: Cowards or Heroes? –by David Preston
David Preston: Special to The Ave Responding to last week’s blockbuster opening of American Sniper, documentarian and social critic Michael Moore suggested that the biopic’s subject, Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, was no hero. As support for this, Moore tweeted that his own uncle had been kille[...]
Where are the calls for Je Suis Badawi?
“… The most important lesson that we need to learn from the horrible massacre is that we must stand up more fiercely for India’s values. Tavleen Singh Calls for tolerance after the massacres in Paris are misplaced. Given the history of the Holocaust, America’s horrible history o[...]
January 5th, 2015 - 9:17 am § in America
GOP Allies With North Korea To Strike Against Net Neutrality
So much for the GOP’s belief in free speech.[...]
November 30th, 2014 - 11:42 am § in Misc.
The GOP: Convergent Evolution
Convergent evolution describes the independent evolution of similar features in species of different lineages. Convergent evolution creates analogous structures that have similar form or function, but that were not present in the last common ancestor of those groups.[1] The cladistic term for the sa[...]
November 17th, 2014 - 12:19 pm § in America
Facebook on Saul Alinsky
How to create a social state by Saul Alinsky (according to a right wing FB nut) There are eight levels of control that must be obtained before you are able to create a social state. The first is the most important. 1) Healthcare- Control healthcare and you control the people …̷[...]
CENSORSHIP: Why the UW Needs a blog
The only source of pubic discussion for UW faculty is a listserv run by the AAUP. That listserv is terribly important because of the historic devotion of the AAUP to free speech. The AAUP listserv is an antique. Many faculty think the listserv is private. That is not so. Since the list[...]