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2007-05-10 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

'Times-Picayune' To Receive Honorary Degree

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Posted by Seafarious 2007-05-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Julian Bond a music legend?
Not in my memory.
Not in wikipedia.

Hmmm...

Posted by 3dc 2007-05-10 01:07|| 2007-05-10 01:07|| Front Page Top

#2 How did the Rantburg Times-Picayune come to have the same name as my little home town paper?

The New Orleans version actually did a remarkable job maintaining information flow following Katrina, and is a considerably better-than-average newspaper too. Surprisingly so for a city like New Orleans (way below average in so many ways).

The financial news has been grim recently for the newspaper business in general. They could take a lesson from the Rantburg T-P - a good picture of Jayne Mansfield or Marilyn Monroe on the cover every day ought to give circulation a nice boost (it does wonders for MY circulation.)

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-05-10 07:13|| 2007-05-10 07:13|| Front Page Top

#3 3dc the musician is Marsalis. Bond's is for civil rights.

Posted by Jacko 2007-05-10 07:57|| 2007-05-10 07:57|| Front Page Top

#4 ahhhhh yes, Julian Bond:

At an event in North Carolina to mark Black History Month last February (2005), Julian Bond, the chairman of the NAACP, unleashed a blistering attack on the Bush administration and the Republican Party. Among other discourtesies, he compared President George W. Bush's judicial appointees to the Taliban and described former Attorney General John Ashcroft, not for the first time, as ``J. Edgar Ashcroft."

"The Republican Party," Bond was reported as saying, ``would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side." (A slightly different version has Bond saying that the GOP's ``idea of equal rights is the American flag and the Confederate swastika flying side-by-side.")

Such partisan bigotry from the chairman of a supposedly nonpartisan organization makes it easy to understand why for five years Bush refused to attend the NAACP's annual conventions. More of a mystery is why he changed his mind this year -- and why, rather than attempt to refute Bond's venomous caricature of his party, he seemed to accept it.

Julian Bond, the Harry Belafonte of Civil Rights ~~Assholes~~ Activists. Partisan poison using skin color as cover

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-05-10 08:04|| 2007-05-10 08:04|| Front Page Top

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