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1nickhoonaloon
Redigeret: jul 17, 2007, 6:04 am

I`m a total philistine. I have no blog, and rarely if ever look at anyone else`s.

However, a nice man called Alan has sent me links to a couple of his and I thought they might be of interest. there are a couple of useful links to others as well, though I can`t say I`ve looked at them myself yet.

Here they are anyway -

http://socialistbanner.blogspot.com/

http://mailstrom.blogspot.com/

Now let`s see if I`ve managed links that work for once !

2Jim53
jul 6, 2007, 9:33 am

I look at Daily Kos and Atrios every so often when my sense of outrage is getting fatigued:

http://www.dailykos.com/
http://www.atrios.blogspot.com/

3nickhoonaloon
jul 7, 2007, 5:26 am

#1

Sorry people, I`m a bit rubbish at doing links - possibly because I have quite a low `computing threshold` these days - the longer I`m on the computer, the more I wish I was outdoors.

If anyone can make the links work, I`d be grateful.

Thanks to Jim for those additions, hope there are more to come.

5Jim53
jul 7, 2007, 9:19 am

Nick, try this: edit your message and add a blank space before each of your links.

6teelgee
jul 7, 2007, 10:23 am

I'm partial to Crooks and Liars.

7quartzite
Redigeret: jul 7, 2007, 11:43 am

My faves are Talking Points Memo and No Comment done by Scott Horton on the Harpers site http:harpers.org/subjects/NoComment

8nickhoonaloon
jul 17, 2007, 6:04 am

#4, #5

Thanks, chaps !

9rowmyboat
jul 23, 2007, 10:49 am

bitchphd.blogspot.com

10gborchardt
Redigeret: jul 26, 2007, 1:10 pm

For the scoop on progressive science, see: http://thescientificworldview.blogspot.com/

11Jesse_wiedinmyer
jul 26, 2007, 3:32 pm

"Progressive Science"? I'm a bit confused...

12geneg
jul 27, 2007, 10:36 am

That's as opposed to right-wing Christian magic.

13Jesse_wiedinmyer
jul 27, 2007, 3:16 pm

And here I thought that you Christians were supposed to be rather solidly opposed to most of the occult arts...

14dchaikin
jul 27, 2007, 3:40 pm

15geneg
jul 27, 2007, 5:46 pm

Jesse #13 We are. Science is all magic. Science is all witchcraft. Notice climate change, only God or a witch can make the climate change. Satan came up with evolution to make God look stupid. Science moved the earth from the middle of the universe to the outer arm of a distant galaxy to make man unimportant after God made him important. It didn't even take a lever. Everyone knows science is magic. Do you see anything coming out of the back of a car (not countin if it needs a ring job or not)?

16maggie1944
jul 27, 2007, 6:11 pm

huh? I thought this was the progressive (progress) and liberal (liberty) group? Did I get lost in the hallways?

17Jesse_wiedinmyer
jul 27, 2007, 6:16 pm

I'm a bit confused, Maggie... Are you saying that Christians can neither be progressive nor liberal? I know quite a few of them that would disagree.

It's an interesting point that someone has brought up in the Political Conservatives thread, though. They find it interesting that I, who am more Liberal than not by most metrics, would be allowed to post in their thread without being a member of the group. Yet the Progressive/Liberal thread has greater strictures on who can post...

18maggie1944
jul 27, 2007, 10:12 pm

I'm a bit confused also. I was referring to #15 "Satan came up with evolution to make God look stupid". "Science is all witchcraft." I have no confusion with Christian progressives, or Christian liberals...some of my best friends, you know. But I do have confusion when one is explaining evolution by referring to illogical name calling. I think considered, thoughtful, conversation can be had about evolution and how a Christian might include scientific evolution in their world view. Sorry if this is a bit of a ramble, but I sincerely found post #15 surprising.

19geneg
jul 27, 2007, 10:36 pm

Please forgive me maggie1944, I was just avin' a laff. I would wish not to confuse you or Jesse . Although, I suspect Jesse was somewhat less confused by my previous post than you.

20Jesse_wiedinmyer
jul 27, 2007, 11:16 pm

>I suspect Jesse was somewhat less confused

Mayhap the first and last time that phrase will ever be used.

21nickhoonaloon
jul 28, 2007, 5:56 am

I was quite confused as well (though that`s nothing new).

Anyway, assuming that`s now sorted (if it is ?), back to the blogs ?

22maggie1944
jul 28, 2007, 9:39 am

I am less confused and interested in "back to blogs". Thank you, all.

23tropics
jul 30, 2007, 3:12 pm

Not a blog, but an excellent progressive radio talk show - The Ed Schultz Show: http://www.bigeddieradio.com/EdInTheNews/more.asp?ID=113

24wyrdchao
Redigeret: aug 20, 2007, 2:42 am

Denne meddelelse er blevet slettet af dens forfatter.

25wyrdchao
Redigeret: aug 20, 2007, 2:53 am

Yarghgh, having trouble with external links, too. Got it this time, tho.

Here's my list:

http://www.motherjones.com/
http://www.prospect.org/
http://www.thenation.com/
http://thinkprogress.org/
http://www.alternet.org/

All these are news sites, but they all have good blogs.

26wyrdchao
aug 22, 2007, 12:22 am

...and Crooks and Liars also has a HUGE list of blogs on the left-hand side of the home page, underneath the search and calendar thingys...

27tropics
aug 24, 2007, 12:10 pm

I've grown very fond of The Rant by Tom Degan : http://www.tomdegan.blogspot.com/

28nickhoonaloon
feb 7, 2009, 5:24 am

Not blogs but UK-based websites sites that might be of interest to some of you -

www.mothersagainstguns.net

www.mothersagainstviolence.org.uk

admittedly, we`ve not yet reached American levels of violence over here ! But these are still very interesting sites.

And for history buffs -

http://sylviapankhurst.gn.apc.org/sylvia.htm

www.gn.apc.org/sylvia pankhurst

29nickhoonaloon
feb 14, 2009, 3:45 pm

not to monopolise this thread, but one thing that I`m sure will be of interest to many will be the formation of Charter 08 in China (inspired by the Czech Charter 77).

For details, if you go to the website for the UK`s Unlock Democracy, then on the right hand side of yr screen some way down you`ll find the link "In Solidarity - Charter 08" - click on that and you get links to the Charter 08 supporter`s Facebook site and an English language version of the charter itself, from the New York Review of Books.

30nickhoonaloon
dec 22, 2009, 2:34 pm

My original message starting this thread is now incorrect - I`m still something of a Luddite, but I have embraced the blog concept, albeit tentatively.

If anyone`s misguided enough to want to savour the Nick blog experience, you could do worse than check out these two ;

The W E B DuBois Blog at http://webdub.blogspot.com

and

Masses 2 Mainstream at http://masses2mainstream.blogspot.com

Season`s greetings to all !

32daschaich
jan 30, 2010, 5:17 pm

The Socialist WebZine is more of a magazine than a blog, a companion to The Socialist magazine proper. I'm not really involved with either, though I have provided some technical assistance to the WebZine, and have offered to help set up a more appropriate url for it.

33nickhoonaloon
Redigeret: sep 19, 2010, 12:33 pm

A couple of interesting ones from the UK ;

http://disgruntledradical.blogspot.com

and

http://norfolkblogger.blogspot.com

I have also started one called Angel Pavement (http://angpav.blogspot.com), which is less of a personal blog than the two just mentioned, more of a newsletter type of thing, mainly centred around preservation and conservation issues, with a leaning towards community groups in the Midlands and the North.

34JNagarya
sep 19, 2010, 7:19 pm

#11 --

It's also dangerous to term genuine science as "progressive" because it plays into the hands of those who religiopoliticize "science" in pursuit of their regressive know-nothing anti-intellectualism.

35JNagarya
Redigeret: mar 17, 2011, 8:45 pm

#17 --

Stealth "conservatives" such as yourself are unpersuasive. The fact is that if a "liberal"/"progressive" posts in a "conservative" forum, he is vilified and his voice silenced, because such "conservatives" don't want the "purity" of their view "contaminated" by views other than their own. Exactly as one sees in "conservative" publications, as contrasted with "liberal": a "conservative" newspaper editorial page (two examples being "Wall Street Journal" and "Boston Herald") will include only "conservative" columnists (a constant harangue in which is the alleged "intolerance" of "liberals"). So-called "liberal" newspaper editorial pages, such as those in "Washington Post" and "Boston Globe," will also include "conservative" columnists (such as George Will, and the intellectually dishonest stench that is plagiarist Jeff Jacoby -- who constantly rails against "liberal" media and its "liberal bias" -- which "liberal" media provides him the very platform from which he spews that false rant).

The reverse is not the fact: "conservatives" exploit the "liberal"/"progressive" tolerance of different views in order to overwhelm, subvert, and disrupt -- destroy and prevent -- discussions of the "liberal"/"progressive" in "liberal"/"progressive" fora by spamming them with "conservative" idelogical harangues. They don't discuss "liberal"/"progressive" ideas; instead they reject those out of hand and substitute their ideological spam therefor.

That includes the interjection of "religion" -- specifically, only, and chauvanistically the "Christian". That "Christian" arrogance of knowing what's better for everyone else regardless the views of everyone else -- which arrogance is antithetical to the professed, requisite Christian humility -- is a wholly obvious stench.

Moreover, the "liberal"/"progressive" view both respects and adheres to the standard: separation of church and state. And, in this context, separation of "religion," on one hand, and on the other evidence-based science. It is a genuine conservatism which adheres to the fundamental standards instead of denying them, and endeavoring to subvert and destroy them.

What such "Christians" need to learn -- and apply in their behaviors -- is to distinguish between public politics, which includes everyone, on one hand, and on the other their personal, individual preferences as concerns the various available unevidenced subjective speculations called by their adherents "religion".

The Founders expressly and explicitly, and repeatedly, separated "religion" from politics and public policy because they knew first-hand that the former is poison, a disruptive distraction from that which concerns all rather than only this or that professedly "religious". And they separated them in clear, forceful, unequivocal terms based upon their recognition of that which "Christians" ignored -- and persist in ignoring -- about their own obnoxious and toxic behaviors. From the first Constitution of Georgia, framed by convention at Savannah October 1, 1776; unanimously agreed to February 5, 1777.
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. . . .

Article LVI. All persons whatever shall have the free exercise of their religion; provided it be not repugnant to the peace and safety of the State; and shall not, unless by consent, support any teacher or teachers except those of their own profession.

. . . .

Article LXII. No clergyman of any denomination shall be allowed a seat in the legislature.
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Constitution of North Carolina, Adopted July 11, 1835:

. . . .

XXXII. That no person . . . who shall hold religious principles incompatible with the freedom and safety of the State, shall be capable of holding any office or place of trust or profit in the civil department within this State.

. . . .

XXXIV. That there shall be no establishment of any one religious church or denomination in this State, in preference to any other; neither shall any person, on any pretence whatsoever, be compelled to attend any place of worship contrary to his own faith or judgment, nor be obliged to pay, for the purchase of any glebe, or the building of any house of worship, or for the maintenance of any minister or ministry, contrary to what he believes right, or has voluntarily engaged to perform; but all persons shall be at liberty to exercise their own mode of worship:--Provided That nothing herein contained shall be construed to exempt preachers of treasonable or seditious discourses, from legal trial and punishment.
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Any "Christian" who claims that the US was or is based upon the "bible," or was originally a "Christian" nation, is either ignorant of that actual legal history, or is lying about it in the face of, and in spite of, their own professed "religious" standard:

"Thou shalt not lie." -- "God".

"Thou shalt not lie against others." -- "God".

36nickhoonaloon
feb 16, 2011, 12:20 pm

An American blog I like is Lost Highway Times ( www.losthighwaytimes.com ) - I find it a refreshing change from the tired political point-scoring and would-be punditry that so many bloggers go in for.

37thejazzmonger
mar 15, 2011, 5:44 pm

I read several. A good I have gotten into, lately, is:

http://www.boomantribune.com/

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