So I don’t know if you’re aware of dirtypoliticsconfessions but now you are and it’s kind of weird.
You make the confession and they provide they create the graphic.
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Worse still, the Germans had developed a militaristic state in which eugenics figured prominently, taking ideas that had been developed in America and implementing them in their national policies. Wishing to give credit where credit is due., they acknowledged their debt to the American geneticist Harry Laughlin - Charles Davenport’s amanuensis and drafter of the model sterilization laws in effect in many American states and in the Third Reich - by awarding him an honorary doctorate from Heidelberg University in 1936. But by then Nazi policies were sufficiently scandalous that Laughlin was discouraged from accepting the honor in person and had to pick it up instead at the German Embassy.”
Why I am Not a Scientist: Anthropology and Modern Knowledge (p 67-68) by Jonathan Marks
The solution, argued Grant, was to restrict the immigration of Italians and Jews, and to sterilize the feebleminded poor who were already here.
Grant received fan mail for The Passing of the Great Race from political figures as diverse as Theodore Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler. Scientists were no less enthusiastic. The MIT geneticist Frederick Adams Woods lauded the book in the pages of Science, the leading scientific journal in America. A few years later, in the Journal of Heredity, Woods defended the book again, with the argument that the bulk of critical reviews had come from people of southern European ancestry, who would naturally not be disposed to its conclusions. (p 66)
Can Republicans go back to this type of rhetoric when addressing the issue of undocumented immigrants? I’m glad Bush Sr. said immigrants are “really honorable, decent, family loving people” and Reagan said undocumented immigrants should have a work permit where they pay taxes and can cross the border freely. I’m tired of all the racist immigrant bashing coming from current politicians.
Now compare these responses to the responses given during the most recent debates between Republican presidential candidates. Bush Sr. and Reagan wouldn’t have even made it to the nationally televised debates.
I don’t even know what to make of this Card at Hallmark. #USA #Immigration #Cotizenship #DreamAct (Taken with Instagram)
It’s certainly a very interesting card to sell.
And Then There’s This
Note from earlier: On the way to tonight’s fundraiser, the press van spotted a New Yorker giving the motorcade his middle finger. Unclear whether it was for the president, the press, the traffic jam or something else entirely.
White House Press Office, Fw: Travel pool report #8, July 30, 2012 8:30:59 PM CDT
I laughed because that’s just so New York, everyone’s so real in New York.
(via youngmanhattanite)
This one is called, Triceps on triceps on triceps on triceps etc…
![Mexican-American Joseph Díaz Jr., is the youngest member of the U.S. Olympic boxing team at 19 years old.
Related: London 2012: Joseph Diaz Jr. has a puncher’s chance to support his family [Washington Post]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7v0pzER0E1qzs6yjo1_1280.jpg)
Mexican-American Joseph Díaz Jr., is the youngest member of the U.S. Olympic boxing team at 19 years old.
Related: London 2012: Joseph Diaz Jr. has a puncher’s chance to support his family [Washington Post]
The first female boxer for the USA Olympic tea, and proud Latina, Marlen Esparza in the July 2012 issue of Vogue.
Image courtesy of Vogue, July 2012 | Photographer: Norman Jean Roy
