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Fun Friday
Author: wickedpam    Date: 09/23/2016 12:49:45

This week Joss Whedon (creator of Firefly, Buffy, Dollhouse, Avengers and more) returned to Twitter. Big news in the pop culture geek world. After perusing the Great British Bake-Off hashtag he posted this -





Launching the Hillary Super Pac Save The Day. Which also promises to get Mark Ruffalo naked (aka "Full Markie) if/when she wins.

"It's not about attacking because Donny's real good at attacking himself," says Whedon. “It’s about getting people to vote, because it’s frightening the apathy that people are treating the most crucial election of their lifetimes with.”
Source: Avengers Assemble! Whedon launches Super Pac

How does Mrs. Clinton feel about this?

“For the record, I was planning to vote anyway. That said, Mark’s a true patriot, I’m sure he won’t let America down.”
Source: Clinton Approves

Whedon is right, our side isn't excited about voting this year. Which I don't get, the chance to elect an amazingly qualified woman as President should be lighting fire to our butts. Has 30 years of corporate and right-wing media damaged her image and made us so jaded about her that we're just going to shrug this away? I hope not. The alternative is truly horrifying.

Mala
 
 

22 comments (Latest Comment: 09/23/2016 22:18:29 by Will in Chicago)
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Comment by wickedpam on 09/23/2016 13:13:14
Morning

Comment by Raine on 09/23/2016 13:31:27
Good Morning!


I that PSA!

Comment by Raine on 09/23/2016 13:33:32
I also love Clinton's response!

Comment by Mondobubba on 09/23/2016 13:37:31
"Just a shit ton of famous people."

Comment by wickedpam on 09/23/2016 13:42:53
We have the best famous people "lol"

Comment by Mondobubba on 09/23/2016 14:07:19
Quote by wickedpam:
We have the best famous people "lol"


They are yuuuugely famous.

Comment by BobR on 09/23/2016 14:23:29
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by wickedpam:
We have the best famous people "lol"


They are yuuuugely famous.

everyone is saying that...

Comment by Raine on 09/23/2016 14:26:54
Another great Clinton ad:


Comment by Raine on 09/23/2016 14:36:51
Fugelsang's contempt for HRC is really getting ridiculous --

Comment by Scoopster on 09/23/2016 14:51:06
Mornin' all.. <- bagel!

Comment by Raine on 09/23/2016 14:58:49
Quote by Raine:
Fugelsang's contempt for HRC is really getting ridiculous --

add John Melendez to that contempt.

Comment by wickedpam on 09/23/2016 15:13:55
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Raine:
Fugelsang's contempt for HRC is really getting ridiculous --

add John Melendez to that contempt.



I could do without John being on the show - not really sure he adds anything.

Comment by Scoopster on 09/23/2016 17:00:18
Hey what's this shit I'm seeing about most of the protestors/rioters in NC being from out of state? It's only showing up on no-name propaganda outlets so I don't have a valid link..

Comment by Mondobubba on 09/23/2016 17:20:13
Quote by Scoopster:
Hey what's this shit I'm seeing about most of the protestors/rioters in NC being from out of state? It's only showing up on no-name propaganda outlets so I don't have a valid link..



Smells like bullshit to me, Scoop. Southern white people have been blaming "outside agitators" for rustling the jimmies of the local black folk for hundred of years.

Comment by Raine on 09/23/2016 18:11:45
I really had not considered this, and I am glad that ThinkProgress published it.

It reminds me of certain parts of Philadelphia and the south Bronx, both of wich were devastated due to the building of interstates -- and

Anacostia here in DC.

Comment by Mondobubba on 09/23/2016 19:56:36
Quote by Raine:
I really had not considered this, and I am glad that ThinkProgress published it.

It reminds me of certain parts of Philadelphia and the south Bronx, both of wich were devastated due to the building of interstates -- and

Anacostia here in DC.


Washington, South Bronx, Charlotte, Baltimore, Jacksonville, Philly, Newark. Los Angeles. Pretty much anywhere they dropped an interstate through the middle of the city.

There is a great chapter in Robert Caro's book on Bob Moses about the CBE and how it went right through the heart of what was then a mostly Jewish neighborhood in the Bronx, effectively cutting it in half. The people who lived there, many of them worked in the garment business, cutters, sewers etc. The apartment blocks they moved into weren't the best, but they were big units 3, 4 rooms with rents that working people could afford in reasonably quiet part of town. I recommend you pick up "The Power Broker" and read this one chapter. It will make you weep.


Comment by Raine on 09/23/2016 20:02:58
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by Raine:
I really had not considered this, and I am glad that ThinkProgress published it.

It reminds me of certain parts of Philadelphia and the south Bronx, both of wich were devastated due to the building of interstates -- and

Anacostia here in DC.


Washington, South Bronx, Charlotte, Baltimore, Jacksonville, Philly, Newark. Los Angeles. Pretty much anywhere they dropped an interstate through the middle of the city.

There is a great chapter in Robert Caro's book on Bob Moses about the CBE and how it went right through the heart of what was then a mostly Jewish neighborhood in the Bronx, effectively cutting it in half. The people who lived there, many of them worked in the garment business, cutters, sewers etc. The apartment blocks they moved into weren't the best, but they were big units 3, 4 rooms with rents that working people could afford in reasonably quiet part of town. I recommend you pick up "The Power Broker" and read this one chapter. It will make you weep.
Exactly.

That was what I was getting at. I saw the movie and I think it did the story justice.

American Experience also covered the Moses thing.


What I liked about this piece was how detailed and researched it was.


Comment by Raine on 09/23/2016 20:12:11
Cruz has searched his soul and found that his soul is empty enough to endorse Donald Trump.

Comment by Mondobubba on 09/23/2016 20:53:58
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by Raine:
I really had not considered this, and I am glad that ThinkProgress published it.

It reminds me of certain parts of Philadelphia and the south Bronx, both of wich were devastated due to the building of interstates -- and

Anacostia here in DC.


Washington, South Bronx, Charlotte, Baltimore, Jacksonville, Philly, Newark. Los Angeles. Pretty much anywhere they dropped an interstate through the middle of the city.

There is a great chapter in Robert Caro's book on Bob Moses about the CBE and how it went right through the heart of what was then a mostly Jewish neighborhood in the Bronx, effectively cutting it in half. The people who lived there, many of them worked in the garment business, cutters, sewers etc. The apartment blocks they moved into weren't the best, but they were big units 3, 4 rooms with rents that working people could afford in reasonably quiet part of town. I recommend you pick up "The Power Broker" and read this one chapter. It will make you weep.
Exactly.

That was what I was getting at. I saw the movie and I think it did the story justice.

American Experience also covered the Moses thing.


What I liked about this piece was how detailed and researched it was.


Here, 95 went right through the heart of Black Jacksonville. It was definitely one of the things that killed the LaVilla neighborhood, which was as vibrant Sweet Auburn or the U Street areas were in their respective cities.


Comment by Will in Chicago on 09/23/2016 22:18:29
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by Raine:
I really had not considered this, and I am glad that ThinkProgress published it.

It reminds me of certain parts of Philadelphia and the south Bronx, both of wich were devastated due to the building of interstates -- and

Anacostia here in DC.


Washington, South Bronx, Charlotte, Baltimore, Jacksonville, Philly, Newark. Los Angeles. Pretty much anywhere they dropped an interstate through the middle of the city.

There is a great chapter in Robert Caro's book on Bob Moses about the CBE and how it went right through the heart of what was then a mostly Jewish neighborhood in the Bronx, effectively cutting it in half. The people who lived there, many of them worked in the garment business, cutters, sewers etc. The apartment blocks they moved into weren't the best, but they were big units 3, 4 rooms with rents that working people could afford in reasonably quiet part of town. I recommend you pick up "The Power Broker" and read this one chapter. It will make you weep.
Exactly.

That was what I was getting at. I saw the movie and I think it did the story justice.

American Experience also covered the Moses thing.


What I liked about this piece was how detailed and researched it was.


Here, 95 went right through the heart of Black Jacksonville. It was definitely one of the things that killed the LaVilla neighborhood, which was as vibrant Sweet Auburn or the U Street areas were in their respective cities.


You may also want to check out this article from WBEZ in Chicago on how Interstate 290 (the Eisenhower Expressway) displaced many neighborhoods in Chicago, including the Jewish neighborhood on the West Side. (One of the few remnants of that neighborhood is Mount Sinai Hospital which now serves a very impoverished area.)


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