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Hollow Detroit

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The most recent census figures have been released. The City of Detroit lost 25% of its population from 2000 to 2010, and now has a total population of only 713,000.

It was the largest percentage drop in history for any American city with more than 100,000 residents, apart from the unique situation of New Orleans, where the population dropped by 29 percent after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, said Andrew A. Beveridge, a sociologist at Queens College.

 

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The 50 most loathesome

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[via Balloon Juice]

Apparently The Beast has published their definitive list of the 50 most loathsome Americans of 2010.

I am not sure I can disagree with any list that begins with Paula Deen and moves on to Rick Sanchez. That alone drove me on. This is a true must read.

50) Paula Deen

Charges: The A.Q. Khan of the culinary world, her secret recipes are demonstrably more dangerous to America than a nuclear armed North Korea. When not delighting delusional hicks on “Huckabee,” she’s cooking up coronary-clogging treats like the “Luther”—a bacon-topped cheeseburger served between two glazed donuts—whose purported inventor Luther Vandross suffered from diabetes and died of a massive heart explosion. Make no mistake, this insane, evangelical pumpkin-face is trying to send you into the arms of Jesus.
Aggravating factor: “I’m gonna start with my normal ingredient, y’all: one stick of butter.”

Sentence: Steamed and served over a healthy bed of greens.

By the way, if you want to see Sanchez get his, check this out. No one died.

Local color

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Gabrielle Gifford’s opponent in last November’s Congressional race was a man named Jesse Kelly.  Here is an announcement of one of his campaign events:

And the one below is pretty awful too. Click the image for full size. Click here for the referenced news article.

(via TalkingPointsMemo)

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Home grown attack

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If it turns out that the attacker of Gabrielle Giffords and the killer of US District Court Judge John Roll (and others) is a right wing domestic terrorist, as appears to be the case, watch the GOP and especially the Tea Party, try to distance themselves from their steady spewing of violence-inducing rhetoric over the past two years. Representative Giffords herself noted the implicit threats of the right in March of last year:

And here is a copy of the campaign literature of the paragon of the Tea Party Right Sarah Palin. Note the fourth gunsight target in Palin’s list from March, 2010:

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For the last time, Obama is not a Muslim

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This is really incredible to me. But it appears that the number of Americans who believe President Obama is a Muslim continues to grow.

The number of Americans who believe — wrongly — that President Obama is a Muslim has increased significantly since his inauguration and now account for nearly 20 percent of the nation’s population.

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Shameful quote of the day (updated)

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Yeah, we water-boarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. I’d do it again to save lives.

–Former President George W. Bush, speaking in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Wednesday.

It is amazing to me that a former president of the United States can speak so openly and proudly of violating US law, US treaty obligations, and general human decency.  It is far past time for the Obama Administration to open a full review of the treatment of prisoners by the United States during the prior administration (and this administration as well).

Update: More from Jonathan Turley and Think Progress.