Democrats are people who work for a living?

Hm....

Republicans, by contrast, could crudely be seen as people belonging to a party that doesn't want to help people find work.

An article on the Roma and special schools.

Here.

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Now what did I tell you?

I'm going to copy and paste this.

( Autism? Cancer? What's the difference? )

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why I don't point out how offensive people are anymore. Actually, I never did, but that's because I'm a born cynic.

Anyway, l33tminion, want to try again? Maybe this time you can make it clearer (how, I'm not sure) that you thought the comparison was insulting to autistics, not to people with cancer (though I'm confident that it's not a fair comparision to them either).

Oh, and the author of the original wince-inducing article has written the second part...

In which she describes Rain Man as a movie about a man with Asperger's. No, Rain Man was about somebody diagnosed as HFA. Whether or not this distinction is valid is an exercise left up to the reader, but please, let's stop saying "hey, they can talk, they must be aspie".

And this article, where the number of autistics with average or above average intelligence (whatever that means) is a paltry 10 - 15%. That can't be right....

On anti-Semitism. What it is and isn't.

I don't think I'm anti-Semitic. I could be wrong, though. Let's lay out the reasons why I don't think this:

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Edit: I'm not sure I was called anti-Semitic by Jewish people, (which is what makes it even more annoying). I'm also somewhat confident that I've never been accused of anti-Semitism by Jewish people for my belief that Israel isn't a shining palace of virtue in the middle east. I'm sorry, but I think *all* groups being violent about Israel are wrong, both on an ethical level (don't kill people) and on a policy-level. It's not getting them what they want. And the situation appears to be more like a multi-faceted gem than a simple yes/no Jews/Palestinians thing anyway.

Just sayin'.

Edit again: Yes, I realize I left out gay people, Jehovah's Witnesses, Communists, and possibly Catholics. I also didn't mention the number of blond children snatched by their parents to be "Germanized". If anybody can provide links on these, or other atrocities, I'd be much obliged.

Sorry that my journal's been so depressing lately.

I should make it all black and dark grey, and rename it something "meaningfully dark".

In the real world (that is, the world outside of wars and prejudice and discrimination, which is more accurately termed "the sheltered world"), it's bright and sunny, and I'm babysitting tomorrow, and there's birds and kittens around and all.

Oh, and I'm trying out the new digital camera tomorrow. See if I can take some pictures of Ana.

Several articles from Buzzflash

Not cheery ones either. Really, I should break this trend, but.

One on fear, and voting.
One on the apparent vulnerability of chemical plants.
One (good news!) on the sales of hybrid cars.
One on the value of a soldier's life.
One on Marla Ruzicka's claims that the Pentagon hides the number of civilian deaths in Iraq.
One on torture.
One on young girls being forcibly brought into armed groups.
One on the NSA.
One on filibusters.
One on blogs and mainstream media.
One on the US and Sudan.

So, griffen needs some help.

I know you all have spent your time studying the Bible, so... use that knowledge wisely!

Taken from thirdunity

Whatever this is (and I assume it's psychosomatic, but hey, I've been wrong before), it is not good.

Oh, and an article about a rape, taken from feminist. Can we say Kitty Genovese, everyone?

Random linkies, post if they're yours.

One on evolution and non-evolution. Lovely.
One on an online petition that actually worked! Some of you will be happy to read this.
One on schizophrenia.

Oooooooh!

We've had a head of garlic around so long, it was sprouting. I hate eating onions and garlic when they start doing that, it's like eating cute veggie-babies, so I took apart the head of garlic and stuck the sprouted cloves in a bowl with some water.

Not a day later, and you can see rootlings. So I tried it with some nearlysprouted cloves, and a few hours later - baby rootlings! SOOOOOOO COOOOOOOL! I could, like, watch the garlic grow!

How long until I can plant them, do you think? Garlic likes roses, right? So planting it near the rosebush from hell would be a good choice, right?