First, someone should make a T-shirt with the title of this post. I don't care if they get rich and I don't. I did a search and I don't think there's such a t-shirt. It's partly inspired by a T-shirt I saw worn by the National Organizer of Sinn Fein Youth, which says "I Still Hate Thatcher."
During the last 2 months of the election, I followed the election VERY closely- unfortunately I wasn't doing so well and did basically nothing to help, but if I had had a popular blog at the time, Obama would have won by an additional point. Among the other things that he should have hammered McCain/Palin on was the rape kits in Wasilla. I'll asssume most of you have heard about, what I want to do is provide some evidence (which I don't think many Palin critics or the media mentioned) that effectively rebuts those who were trying to debunk the criticism of Palin on the rape-kits. There was an article in 2000, in the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, the paper for what is basically the County that Wasilla is in. In it, Palin's police cheif admits that the rape victims' insurance companies were being billed, and since he doesn't say otherwwise, I assume that when they didn't have insurance, the victim got the entire bill (odds are they had to pay a co-pay or something and also, this billing of their insurance might have an effect on their premium).
UPDATE 10/1/13 THE ARTICLE IN THE MAT-SU PAPER IS GONE FROM THE SITE BUT A SIMILAR ARTICLE IS HERE.
This blog is mostly about 3 themes- Irish Republicanism, Star Trek, and opposition to bigotry, primarily in America (racism, homophobia, anti-semitism, etc.). It is mostly about Northern Ireland. It will mostly be about these issues in general and past events and will only sometimes touch on current events. Feel free to comment on the earlier posts.
About My Blog
My blog is about history, popular culture, politics and current events from a democratic socialist and Irish republican perspective. The two main topics are Northern Ireland on one hand and fighting anti-Semitism, racism and homophobia on the other. The third topic is supporting the Palestinians, and there are several minor topics. The three main topics overlap quite a bit. I have to admit that it’s not going to help me get a graduate degree, especially because it’s almost always written very casually. But there are some high-quality essays, some posts that come close to being high-quality essays, political reviews of Sci-Fi TV episodes (Star Trek and Babylon 5), and a unique kind of political, progressive poetry you won't find anywhere else. (there are also reviews of episodes of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and reviews of Roseanne)
(my old blog was not showing up in Google search results AT ALL (99% of it wasn't being web-crawled or indexed or whatever) and there was another big problem with it, so this is a mirror of the old one although there will be some occassionnal editing of old posts and there will be new posts. I started this blog 12/16/20; 4/28/21 I am now done with re-doing the internal links on my blog) (the Google problem with my blog (only 1% of this new one is showing up in Google search results) is why I include a URL of my blog when commenting elsewhere, otherwise I would get almost no visitors at all)
(The "Table of Contents" offers brief descriptions of all but the most recent posts)
(I just recently realized that my definition of "disapora" was flawed- I thought it included, for example, Jews in Israel, the West Bank and the Golan Heights, and with the Irish diaspora, the Irish on that island. I'll do some work on that soon (11/21/20 I have edited the relevant paragraph in my post about Zionism))
(If you're really cool and link to my blog from your site/blog, let me know) (if you contact me, use the word "blog" in the subject line so I'll know it's not spam)
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