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Phil Jones, a loyal and long time friend of this blog, writes in:
just finished the first draft of my competitive networks paper. It’s
been phrased more in terms of commercial platform war type
competition, but may also be interesting if you’re thinking about the
spread of rule-sets etc.
Check out his new site, which contains both his paper and supporting documentation.
It looks like Phil’s paper is a spin-off of his site, Platform Wars.
Beyond Parody:
ABC News: Obama’s Pastor: God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11
Sen. Barack Obama’s pastor says blacks should not sing “God Bless America” but “God damn America.”The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s pastor for the last 20 years at the Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago’s south side, has a long history of what even Obama’s campaign aides concede is “inflammatory rhetoric,” including the assertion that the United States brought on the 9/11 attacks with its own “terrorism.”
In a campaign appearance earlier this month, Sen. Obama said, “I don’t think my church is actually particularly controversial.” He said Rev. Wright “is like an old uncle who says things I don’t always agree with,” telling a Jewish group that everyone has someone like that in their family.
Rev. Wright married Obama and his wife Michelle, baptized their two daughters and is credited by Obama for the title of his book, “The Audacity of Hope.”
An ABC News review of dozens of Rev. Wright’s sermons, offered for sale by the church, found repeated denunciations of the U.S. based on what he described as his reading of the Gospels and the treatment of black Americans.
“The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God damn America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people,” he said in a 2003 sermon. “God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.”
This is the “Black Value System” of Obama’s Church. I’m not sure when the last equivalently racist white President was in office, but my guess is 1921.
I’ve wondered before if Barack Obama is the Affirmative Action candidate… certainly his pastor would be.
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