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* Revised figures from Oklahoma are 5 dead and more than 70 wounded. Apparently the flooding made it harder for first responders to reach people last night.

* The man made disaster of sequester keep unfolding, but no one particularly cares as things are booming for the extremely rich:

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* Let's look at the massive economic damage happening to people who work for a living because of sequester cuts.:

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Don't worry, there are no plans to cut corporate welfare, so the super rich won't have to sacrifice even a mouthful of caviar. It's only the children of the working poor who are starving to pay for it all.

* Melissa Harris-Perry addresses Rahm Emmanuel on the topic of him having all this money to buy a stadium but not enough to run Chicago Schools:

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* If you have access to HBO, I suggest watching this week's Vice, as it has a piece on Global Warming that includes an interview with ex-President Nasheed of the Maldives.

* "Naming the Perpetrator: Language and “Violence Against Women”:" http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/05/27/naming-the-perpetrator-language-and-violence-against-women/

* "Where Were The 'Normal' Gays At Stonewall? Cowering In Their Closets:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/06/where-were-normal-gays-at-stonewall.html

* "What Part Of We Didn't Start The War On Transwomen Are You Not Comprehending?" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/06/what-part-of-we-didnt-start-war-on.html

* This contains so thoughts worth contemplating. "American exceptionalism is a dangerous myth:" http://www.salon.com/2013/05/26/american_exceptionalism_is_a_dangerous_myth/

* The Clutch:

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That Salon article does make some good points, especially in pointing out that the rest of the world doesn't need America to come along and save it. (Something the rest of the world have been trying to tell Americans for decades.)

However, the article lost me in the writing. The author tried too hard to sound educated, and occasionally poetic, but ended up forgetting the fact that the whole purpose was to communicate his or her point. If I gave that article to my father, who loves discussing similar topics, he wouldn't have made it past the second paragraph.

Of course, given that the article was an except of a book published by Yale University Press, my father and I aren't likely in the target audience.

I think there was too much hammering in of points and repetition, but I did think there were a lot of good points in there.

I did review our book on amazon. Good luck!

Thanks!