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Via Kos.

Via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.

One can imagine the comment were the colors reversed.

• Victim courageously defends self . . .
• Last desparate battle . . .
• Zimmerman’s* last stand . . .

Furrfu.

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*Remember, I said “reversed.”

Via Delaware Liberal.

Foreclosure filings picked up in Hampton Roads in April as lenders repossessed and auctioned an increasing number of homes with delinquent loans, according to a report to be released today.

Lenders issued 809 foreclosure-related notices in the area last month, up 2.4 percent from the 790 issued in March but down 21 percent from the 1,023 reported in April 2011, according to RealtyTrac, a foreclosure-monitoring service based in Irvine, Calif.

For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing.

No doubt it will be a typically constructive and even-handed comment.

Also, pigs, wings.

In other news, Jay Bookman anticipates the fuss.

Aside:

One characterization that I have settled on for white privilege as it has affected my white life is this: White folks (like me) define the norm; others (not-white folks) define the “diverse.”

Estimates ranged from 360,000 to 375,000. The Labor Department revised the previous week’s figure up to 370,000, from an initially reported 367,000.

The four-week moving average, a less volatile measure than the weekly figures, fell to 375,000 last week from 379,750.

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The number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits rose by 18,000 in the week ended May 5 to 3.27 million.

The continuing claims figure does not include the number of Americans receiving extended benefits under federal programs.

It was not Democrats who held the economy hostage in a manufactured debt ceiling crisis that caused the nation’s credit rating to be lowered for the first time in history.

It was not Democrats who voted down their own deficit reduction resolution, apparently because they didn’t want the president to share credit.

It was not a Democratic leader who declared defeating the president his top legislative priority.

No, it was Republicans who did all that. And it is not Democrats who have seen a steady trickle of condemnation and defection by their own appalled members.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.