Note for future reference: Democrat =/= Socialist

Gotta hand it to ClownHall's Erika Johnsen for taking a risk. Whenever someone from the motherlode of dumb paleo-conservative websites quotes real news from real sources, they take a risk that one of their readers may actually read the material and jump ship before it flushes down its twirly toilet.

But she knows her audience. They are not passengers on the shi*; they ARE the shi*.

And her article on the Day of Rage (a large protest against business meddling in the people's interest that took place in NYC but was underreported because it's not labeled "Tea Party", or "Sarah Palin" or "scary looking Muslim") is the quintessence of the dumbness of political games. She quotes a lengthy passage on the Day of Rage from the IBTimes, quoting the phrase where they are crowd-sourcing their specific agenda. And that they're anti-corporate-interest, and largely anti-capitalist.

Abruptly, she forgets what she wrote, throws up into her lunch bucket, and gets back to her bread and buttaball: Acting as if every librul wuz a Democrit:

Did none of these enlightened Day of Rage organizers happen to notice that Jeff Immelt, the CEO of GE, was an honored guest of President Obama's at his 'jobs' speech to the joint session of Congress?

Yeah, that's kind of the point. I'm pretty darned sure they ALL figured that out.

Alas, Johnsen can't tell the difference between a socialist and a Democrat. Neither, apparently, can  she tell the difference between unions and corporations. Or pina colatas and beer. Or beer and bears.

http://blog.despairbear.com/?p=26

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ftr, on its website, the DoR organizers proclaim that,

We have had enough.Legitimate government is born of the self-interest and will of the people expressed by its citizens in free and fair elections. It does not spring from a tyranny of special interests, patronage, or a system or ideology that runs counter to the aims of life. 

The institutions of government were designed to protect the principles of our democratic republic and to serve the will of citizens. 

Corporations, even those owned by foreign shareholders, use money to act as the voices of millions, while individual citizens, the legitimate voters, are silenced and demoralized by the farce.

Free and fair elections inspire good citizenship and public service, because they engage the intelligence and genuine good will of the American people.

Yeah, that's unabashedly praising Obama...

Fear and Loathing of a Brown Planet, Pt MMCIV

New York's leading disgustocrat is at it again, in case you haven't heard.

The Daily Show - How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sharia?
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Shorter Peter King (R, Dipstickophobia):

If we embarrass them personally in front of tv's, they will LOVE us!

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Peter King is a disgusting hypocrite. Why does he have an office, again? Oh yeah, because it's okay if you hate and suspect brown people because other brown people may want to violently disrupt and even kill white people.

But, uh, white people who violently disrupt and even kill other white people (that we may disagree with), now that's justifiable.

When Does Free Speech Become Hate Speech?

When can you, as an television executive, tell a television personality, "No, seriously. STFU. You're endangering lives and we don't want this kind of heat on us"? You'd think that Fox News - part of a multinational media superconglomerate - would play a little more conservatively around this guy. After all, he doesn't have any real advertisers anymore (of course he got angry about that and took it out on Van Jones. Who, according to him, is some sort of communist child molester or something).



But I wonder what would happen if we did the same thing with him? If we took his words out of context and then inflamed them with some secret code-language to say that the things that he is really saying are not what he is saying, but that he's alluding to something quite sinister and dire. He has an atomic bomb in his pants, and when he takes a dump, our water supplies will become radioactive. We will all become mutated zombies, ready to fight for his Emperor Hitler Zorg.

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Achtung! Babies!

But would it really matter? Not that his detractors don't have a propensity for being gullible or prone to violence. But will it illustrate anything other than what his followers believe all along: Beck is God.

Post-note:
I'm thinking we need to catalog what people like Beck are saying and what effect it is having in the real world. REal neat-like. Charts and graphs and pictures and numbers and lines and all that presentable presenting stuff.

And then we need to present that to News Inc's stockholders.

Somebody give me a chalkboard.

The Purple Tissue of Horror

Gay Muslim bear-lovin' freakin' Bryan Freakin' Fischer - he of the "Christian" group the American Family Association - is at it again, chickenpeeps!

We now award [the Purple Heart] only for preventing casualties, not for inflicting them.

So the question is this: when are we going to start awarding the Medal of Honor once again for soldiers who kill people and break things so our families can sleep safely at night?

I would suggest our culture has become so feminized that we have become squeamish at the thought of the valor that is expressed in killing enemy soldiers through acts of bravery.

Are we reading this right, Gaybear Bryan? Is it the Christian and American thing to not save lives, but to kill our enemies as ruthlessly as possible?

The bigger question, Fischer, is when you're going to enlist? Sure, you're all types of crazy behind the computer screen. Sure, you get your jollies, kicks, and elongations from thinking about "boys storming" your "beaches" and "lobbing grenades" into your "pill boxes." But now, when is all that wet-dreaming going to become a reality?

Or are you too feminized?

Prayer Circles, Clean Spirits, and Scary Voodoo Chiles!

Shorter "The Christian Investigator":

We don't know what Michelle Obama meant by saying the phrase "Keeping the spirits clean*" on the Tom Joyner radio show, so we're going to have to assume that she's a witch doctor, shaman, or - at the least - a voodoo practitioner.

Shorter Michelle "Bitter Witch" Malkin, "Bitter Half Watch: Mrs. O needs you to clean the “spirits” around her"

Why is anyone praying for Obama at any time anyhow? The fact that she is asking for prayers for her husband shows that she's arrogant and hates America!

Shorter Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, and Glenn Beck:

I've never heard such phrases from Christians before. I'm not saying she's not a Christian, but she can't be.

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*It's a phrase used by some Pentecostal churches. To suggest that it is syncretistic and therefore not Christian is to not understand Christian history or even the working of Christianity within one's own culture. For people to not understand that may be forgivable, but then they should do some research before they make press releases. Unless they're so blinded by their racist politics that they can't. But to question the meaning of a 'prayer circle' is just plumb ridiculous.

What's just as infuriating is how these nut-jobs take swipes at Ms. Obama for saying similar things (just in different garb, which they interpret their their racist lens) that Bush II's supporters said all the time for their beloved one.

Mark Kirk Is Worried about the Voting Jiggers

But only in Black neighborhoods. Since they're susceptible to vote foolishly for the people who may actually represent them...

But of course this can all be cleared up if only African Americans are allowed to lurk around predominantly wealthy, white polling places where it is well-known that votes are crackered with.

Reagan's a Kenyan Marxist Sissie

Actual Quotes from Ronald "Evil" Reagan (or, Reagan Re-Fox'd):

Pro-Socialism:
Karl Marx was right... We are witnessing today a great revolutionary crisis – a crisis where the demands of the economic order are colliding directly with those of the political order...
The years ahead will be great ones for our country, for the cause of freedom and the spread of civilization. The West will not contain Communism, it will transcend... human history
Socialism... works in... Heaven

Regulation:
Let's... go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards.

Sabotaging America:
We are trying to get unemployment to go up.
I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.
I intend to go right on appointing... individuals who understand... disenfranchising the people through judicial activism.
Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things.

His career:
What does an actor know about politics?

Anti-War and Nukes:
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
I don't believe in protect[ion].
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
No arsenal!
A nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
There's purpose and worth to each and every life.
Cannot swords be turned to plowshares? Can we and all nations not live in peace?
The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor.

Taxes:
We... have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough.
I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead... If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Atheist intent:
Without God.

Indoctrination:
We will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children... facts are stupid.
Everyone... is for abortion
We need your youth.

And, finally:
I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.

Resisting Americans II: The Seated Fury Continues

"Is your dog on welfare?"
- What??

"This is one of them girlie men."
- I like girlie men. They go well with manly girls.

"I'd just like for everybody to have affordable health care."
"No, but what you see British is doing, their medical care, it don't work, man."
- I know some British who'd beg to differ, I say young chap.

- I agree with the lady about Cap'n'Trade. It is a hoax. Unlike, say, global warming. But much like the idea that Obama is deliberately destroying the economy.

"We've lost honor several years back. Problem with the inception of... social security."
- Yes, I know. Inception of Social Security. That movie confused me too... Did you see the part where the elderly man with his walker flies his balloon-lifted house up to a zeppelin to rescue the little Asian boy... Wait, that was Up. Sorry.

"United we stand and divided we fall."

- And lawn chair we sit until we tipsy.

"There are rappers who say the word "n****r." If I went to Chicago and said the word "n****r" I would get shot. Because I'm (points to nose) not black. How'd that happen?"

- Well, there once was a word used to denote, then define and subjugate black people based on negative stereotypes of them held by the white power structure. That word was further used to dehumanize its objects and as a means of predatory violence against them (the word often being used in the context of a threatened or immediate lynching). After the Civil Rights Movement and at the beginning of the Afro-centric movements, black people began to own that word in order to rob it of its racist power, to subvert it of its historical and damaging power. But that only happens as the historical object uses it within the context of other shared historical objects. When the purveyor of the term (read: white people) use the term, it goes back to its former usage - that of subjugation, exploitation and violence against the black man or woman done by white people.

Does that satisfy your curiosity? If not, you can always do some more reading on it, because it's obvious you don't talk to real live black people...

"You sure they call you "racist" because you criticize Obama? Not because you say the 'N' word?"
"I've been pretty good about not saying the 'N' word on tv, until now... 99% of the time I don't use it."
"It's that other 1% that gets you in trouble."
"...It's the double standard..."
- It's not a double standard just because you so desperately want to call every black person around you a 'n****r'. That's just you being a racist idiot.

"I am an American citizen... We are allowed to have our rights. Nobody can stand and tell us that we believe is wrong..."
- My head just exploded. But maybe she didn't mean it that way. Maybe there's still hope that she was just misunderstood. Maybe, just maybe.
"They are stepping on my toes... by infringing on my rights to speak as I will, as I believe... When I can't stand or sit here and tell you about Jesus Christ and how he died for your sins, and somebody comes up to me and tells me that I'm wrong and that God doesn't exist... that's when they start infringing on my rights."

- *click* goodbye - BOOM!

Standing Next to the Black Guy

I really wish we had a conversation with the Beckpaloozer group standing next to the Black Guy at 1:53 on in this video here*.



I imagine it would sound something like (*stroking double chin*) this:

"See? We are standing next to a Black Guy and even willing to take pictures with him. Thus, by proximity to a Black Guy, we show that we aren't like those real racists who've never, ever been NEAR a Black Guy before."
"No. It takes a real not-racist person to stand next to a Black Guy like he's not diseased or something and not look him in the eye."

[Pause]
"I'll tell you what. Afterwards, I didn't even check my wallet."
"Ihat's right. I noticed that. Good job."
"I wanted to, but I didn't... Oh, still there."
"See? Ain't racist at all."

*A group of about four (if memory serves) white men are standing shoulder-to-shoulder on either end of The Black Guy, two of whom on either wing holding up signs that ask, "Do I look racist?**" while two women are taking pictures like tourists (apparently, when it comes to interaction/sightings of Black Guys, this is the Ninth Wonder of the World).
**Don't need to answer that question, by the way...

Resisting Americans

- Or -

I Can Haz Dreemz? LOL!

"We wanna... show the people: We're not crackpots."
- Lady wearing US Flag button down

‎"The last bastion of hope."
There are no other free democracies in the world. this is it! omgb!!!11ty!!!
- "You don't consider Canada a bastion of hope?"
"No. You're not listening. This is it. This is the last bastion of hope. [ad infinitum]"
Repeating it makes it truey.

Al Sharpton owns the Black Panthers? Why didn't anybody tell me this??

‎[On Beck calling Obama a racist with deep-seated hatred for white people] "Glenn Beck would never say something disrespectful to the president."
They're not real fans...

"If I heard that, I'd agree with him [Beck. As he hadn't heard Beck say that about Obama]. Well, he is a bit of a racist, and a bit of an elitist."

Way to think for yourselfs!

"If he's gonna take the time to write all this stuff down, and put it into historical record, then something's wrong."

Alternate: BHO's dad hated white men, which is why he had sex with a white woman and Obama took the time to write about his dad, who is black, which means that Obama hates White people IT'S SO OBVIOUS!!

"And I am an American and I have freedom of speech."

But you just don't know what to do with it. That's okay, you continue sitting in your awned lawn chair and practicing it, you'll get it soon.

T-shirt sighting: "I'm the extremist Homeland Security warned you about."

We'll put you on the first flight to UAE right away, sir!

T-shirt sighting no 2: Protecting white cracker babies.

Well, I'm glad somebody finally is! Lord knows we don't our fair share of Amber Alerts.

"Do you want to be slapped in the face like that?"

Careful what you ask for in this crowd...

"Muslims are sticking a thumb in our eye and saying, 'There! What are you gonna do about it?'"

Dang those Muslims and their Islamic thumbs!

"By taking down those towers, they showed that they had victory over America and over the Devil of the West."

But we'll show them who's the Devil!

"I learned all I needed to learn about Islam on 9/11."

So did this guy!

[On immigration] "It's a health risk. On Ellis Island... they went through a screening. We have no idea, no idea, what's... how safety of our general population."

Your tired, your poor, your teeming masses of malaria to the triage area, please...

And finally, the coup de tat:

"All I know is what my sister told me. And she lives in Arizona. And she says she has seen women waiting in parking lots. Pregnant women waiting in hospital parking lots. Just to have their babies. And that's sad."

Not as sad as that lawn chair...

- "But wouldn't there be pregnant women waiting in hospital parking lots to have their babies even if they were legal."

"But that's different. 'Cuz they're legal."

Has absolutely NOTHING to do with faulty insurance rules that kick moms out after two days...

Fear of a Brown Planet

From the Onion's Facebook feed:

BREAKING: Freedom Of Speech, Assembly Exercised To Denounce Freedom Of Religion

I only need to say: Spot-Flippin-ON!

The charge is made, the swords drawn, the victimization strong, the bullshit flies, the pigs cry, children lie, OMYGUY...

And somewhere some nutcase (probably that piece of sh*t, N00t Gangrene) is mounting the argument that those arguing on behalf^ of the Muslim Cultural Center are squelching the xenophobes' right to speech. But that's not the case. As with "Dr." Laura, you have the right to say stupid, repugnant crap all you want. But you should be expected to be called out on your racist, stupid, fear-mongering bullsh*t.

^There's not as many of us as there should be, that's for sure. The usual defenders of the repressed - progressives - are torn on this one because 1) many of them belong to the New Atheist camp which is basically a secular fundamentalism (quite a few of them are ironically arguing across the board that we should be practicing freedom from religion without recognizing that they've basically established their own religion) and 2) many of us on the left have yet to face our own hidden racism.

From the C0ns3rv@p3di@ files

Talking Points Memo strikes out in trying to ridicule Conservapedia, so it makes a snide remark about the Bible too. TPM readers and writers, check out this table:

Counterexamples to the Bible	0
Counterexamples to Evolution	60
IQ of Atheists	0 divided by 60

I kid you not. This was of course in reply to a Talking Points Memo article pointing out the absurdity of such topics in Conservapedia as trying to debunk such "liberal" ideas as the Theory of Relativity. And Black Holes.

The theory of relativity is a mathematical system that allows no exceptions. It is heavily promoted by liberals who like its encouragement of relativism and its tendency to mislead people in how they view the world. Here is a list of 24 counterexamples: any one of them shows that the theory is incorrect.

Read that again: Any one of them shows that the theory is incorrect. Any one. Any one. Any one. Andy Won...

Among those any and ones are these inconvenient proofs against the ToR:

• The theory predicts wormholes just as it predicts black holes, but wormholes violate causality and permit absurd time travel.
• The action-at-a-distance by Jesus, described in John 4:46-54.

And the Footnote Of Fortune?:
"Virtually no one who is taught and believes relativity continues to read the Bible, a book that outsells New York Times bestsellers by a hundred-fold."

In the interest of fairness, I was taught relativity. But I don't understand it, so I'm not sure if I believe it, or if I'm supposed to believe in it. But I more or less accept that it is true until something more accepted comes along to replace it.

Yet, I still read my Bible. And I'm pretty sure that I helped it to outsell NYT bestsellers. But I've yet to buy it a hundred times for every NYT bestseller that I've bought. If only I wasn't taught that dreaded theory!

Leave Poor Natalie Out of Your Fantasies, Please

The new Glenn Beck=Jane Austin tome is priming up for itz awesomeness!!

And its heroine looks a lot like a certain Queen Padme. Of course, since the hero is just a stand-in for the "author," I'll leave it to the reader to guess who so easily arouses the Beckster's Panther.

This via Media Matters:

Near the climax of the book, Noah and Molly must escape New York City and head to Las Vegas. Since Molly is on the terror watch list at this point, they need to find a way to get her on the plane. Noah unveils what the narrator describes as an "absolutely brilliant idea."

Noah's master plan involves buying an entire row of first class seats on a flight out of La Guardia and using his wealth and powerful name to bypass normal security procedures. But how will Molly make it through, you ask? Well, by dressing up as Natalie Portman, of course. No, really. She dresses like Natalie Portman -- complete with Noah's disturbingly accurate recollection of where to draw beauty marks on her face to complete the disguise.

But won't airport security recognize her? And what about her not having identification? Noah brilliantly gets around the fact that Molly isn't, in fact, Natalie Portman by having her wear a hooded sweatshirt and sunglasses. And he explains that "Natalie" lost her purse during a wild weekend. See, airport security will often let you walk right through as long as you vaguely resemble a celebrity and inform them that you lost your purse.

Unfortunately, the plan hits a snag when the snoopy TSA agent is revealed to be a Star Wars fan-boy who would undoubtedly recognize one of the franchise's stars. Uh-oh! How do they get out of this one?

She turned to the officer, pulled back her hood and let it settle onto her shoulders, removed the baseball cap and let it fall to the floor at her feet, and then slow and sure, began to walk toward him.

"The Force is strong with this one," Molly said, as calm and smooth as a Jedi master. Her accent was gone, and her voice was just breathy enough to obscure any other identifying qualities of the real McCoy.

The TSA man's cheeks began to redden slightly. A power shift was under way, and as Noah had learned firsthand, when this girl turned it on your never knew what was about to hit you.

Yes, she quotes Star Wars to disarm the geeky guard. She later explains that she "wrote a midterm paper on the first two movies in college."

Sorry, but this barely qualifies as geeky enough to justify the SW's reference. I think it was more about wanting to chastely sleep with Portman.

Noah and Molly find themselves in bed together early in the book after a harrowing experience at a Founders' Keepers rally. They agree to sleep in bed together because Molly is too scared to sleep at home, but Molly insists that nothing sexual will take place. Noah agrees, on the condition that she "not do anything sexy." She presses her cold feet against his legs, and Noah responds:

"Suit yourself, lady. I'm telling you right now, you made the rules, but you're playing with fire here. I've got some rules, too, and rule number one is, don't tease the panther."

Consider my panther thoroughly un-teased.

Raghead, Towelhead. Same Diff.

See what having an *uppity* black man sitting in the Oval Office will do? Emboldens people to march for 'taking our country back,' challenging that firreener's birth status, turning an entire state into a Whites Only establishment, getting a famous US senatorial candidate to openly question that oh-so-silly rule about serving teh Blacks and teh Messicans in OUR restaurants. I mean, people get to question his intelligence without a single slice of evidence simply because he's... you know... doesn't have teh capasitee of the soopeareeor race.

And in one single sentence we get to defame not just one person and one entire religion, but two distinct people and two distinct religions (neither of which person practices either religion):

This evening in an interview with Pub Politics, state Sen. Jake Knotts (R-SC) — who is supporting a different candidate — slammed Haley by using a racial slur:

We already got one raghead in the White House, we don’t need a raghead in the governor’s mansion.

Nikki Haley is a Christian convert from the Sikh faith. Knotts - of Don fame, presumably - is a Beck convert from the Civil Rights ages. So that would presume why he thought his *joke* was *funny.*

But don't worry kids. The Republican Party of South Carolina is on it. They won't stand for such brazen racism in the age of Jan Brewer and Tea Parties!

The South Carolina Republican Party has issued a statement condemning Knott’s remarks, saying, “Senator Knotts should apologize for his inappropriate comments, so that we can put this unfortunate incident behind us and focus on issues important to moving our state forward.”

Oh, why even bother?

Tony Perkins was in the Navy. Insert obvious joke here.

Shorter Tony Perkins* FRC, "My Take: Ending 'don't ask, don't tell' would undermine religious liberty"

I am really, really gay. Super-de-duper-de gay. And you could tell that by a non-veiled reference in the first sentence. Oh please, someone send the military to my door to recruit me from my beard family! I wanna be in the N-a-v-y! I hate my life....

*Hatist-Supreme for the Family Research Council. Which, ironically, cares not one iota for families, research nor counsel.

Illegals Go Home (to Europe)

I love this guy and his boyish subversiveness!

Using some modicum of rationality... (II) [The Joystick is Stuck in 1952]

Can someone please explain to me how writing a thesis paper in undergraduate college about the Socialist Party USA amounts to said author being a Communist or even a Socialist or even anything at all except perhaps a person with an interest in something interesting?

Are we still in the 1950's? For pete's sake, finally, Erick Erickson Ericssonny-Sunny Deelite, have you no sense of learning? At all?

I mean, dayum. Teh Stoopid Hurts.

I don't give a flying rip about Kagan. I don't care if you or your hatemonger monkeys compare her to a dude, or Kevin James (although I'm sure that's a compliment in your world - but it'd be a much bigger compliment if she looked more like Larry the Cable Guy or Lt. Hauk's Frenchie the Sock {"Oh, French." "Oh ho ho, mais oui!"}, acerbic wits they are). I don't honestly care. Politics are beyond screwed and every vetting process is a flippin slunk down mule drivin square wheeled cart on a muddy road. I. Don't. Care.

If we're not gonna get a great SCoTUS any time soon, at least don't make us waste time going after your little ghosts when there's actual adult work to do.

Can't believe CNN vetted YOU, ee cunning. Did they at least see your college thesis on "How I Plan Counter-Soviet Aggression by A2S Missiles"? The one where the Russkies form a slow left-to-right then right-to-left top-to-bottom attack on the US from the sky. But you, Ericsahn, have them right where you want them, deploying tactical Air-to-Space missiles as they are in range. And you, and you alone, are able to knock them all down out of the sky and obliterate them all one-by-one. And you will do it, too, as long as the joystick doesn't get stuck again.

Fortunately for us, Lookforitoverhere.com has a screen copy of your college thesis.

Look familiar?

Using some modicum of rationality... (I)

Will someone please explain to me this common thread of "thought"?

If they're here legally, then they should be pleased and proud to carry around extra ID and show it whenever asked to prove their US citizenship!

My first question - besides who "they" are (because I kind of already know. "They" = "Darkies." Obviously.) - is, "Who the 500K gave the racists the keys to the pride parade? What is this, Being Juan Garcia-vic, only instead of John Cusack and Cameron Diaz, now Real Amurikan Heroes can mess with the protaganists' heads, telling them how they should feel whenever they meet up with Johnny Bootstrap Law. As long as it doesn't, you know, have to happen to them.

But as long as we're playing imaginary scenarios:

Every time you go outdoors, make sure you bring your papers with ya. Your genealogy papers, that is. Because every time that I see a mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging white male outside, I will personally pull him over and ask for that Long Form Birth-Rite Certificate. Just to make sure that his ancestors raped, pillaged, stole, displaced, mass murdered, intentionally spread fatal diseases to, and/or enslaved "they." After all, he will be only to proud to show this side of his familial history and how much better he is than "they" are.

Follow @sarahpalinchina. It's the same thing.

Friend of the blog* and one-time political aspiring tyrant Roguemonger Sarah Palin is chillingly close to Chicago right now. In Arena Town's Rosemont Theatre. Where she lectured a school that decided not to bring its multicultural girls basketball team to a state that is willfully and brazenly anti-non-White cultures. The state has become so anti-non-White, so Aryan, in fact, according to the school, that it is not 'boycotting' (SP's word), it is declining to go for safety reasons.

In an earlier e-mail to Pioneer Press, school district assistant superintendent Sue Hebson said the decision is not a political statement, but rather for the safety of students.

"District 113 boasts a diverse student population and, as a school district, we believe in equal opportunity for each of our students," she said. "We cannot commit at this time to playing at a venue where some of our students' safety or liberty might be placed at risk because of state immigration law."

In other words, the girls themselves probably don't feel safe thinking about going down there. That's what you learn when you actually spend years listening to the fears and aspirations of young women, instead of using them to further your career or hiding them to keep from curtailing your career, Talking A$$ Palin.

But, alas, for Ms. Hokesome Pokesome Buysome Sellsome Drillsomemore Palin, everybody else, including cartoons making fun of her, her children, her husband's charm and good looks, aides, an Arizonan's carcassing political career, her own perceived sexiness (skin crawling. must. resist. urge. to. bllllleeeeeeeeeerrckkhhhhhh. gag. ill. i think it's ove--------blllllllleeeeeeeeckkkkkhhhh) - whatever or whoever is in play is fair use for her political game.

So she has no qualms about continuing with the accusations, ratcheting up the insane rhetoric to an 11ty.

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No, Sarah, there's not really a comparison. I don't think anyone's gonna confuse a bunch of basketball players for pre-borns...

Idiot. cf.

*Not really.

Reagan's Zombie Is Turning Around in His Graveyard

How does the argument go?

Make the walls larger.
With barbed wire.

Electrify that wire.
And establish a no-go zone.
Flesh-eating dogs.
Put guard towers in it.
Give the guards guns and authority to shoot on site.
Lazers!

That's how we establish security from all dem invading Messicans!!!!11!!eleventy!!

Mr. Paranoid, Tear Down This Wall!

I'm all for securing our borders. It's a lengthy debate however, but I think we make our nation MORE secure by not being such imperialist and isolationist jerks.

Sum Up

Her: The Tea Partiers are fully aware of their historical underpinnings in Boston Harbor.

Me: That's pretty hilarious. Even back then they were blaming the dark-skinned for their actions.

How prescient....

Representative John Lewis is a highly respected member of Congress and an icon from the Civil Rights era. He don't just make stuff up. He's not, nor ever was, a race-baiter. But he and several other black (and one white) congress members (and some other witnesses) clearly hear Tea Party demonstrators call out "ni**er" as they pass them by.

How do the TP Express deal with these charges? Do they apologize for that fringe element? Do they say, "Oh my Gad! We can't allow this in our movement!" Do they chide and correct and rein in their crowds?

Hell-to-the-naw! They chide Lewis and the others. "Oh, yeah. He must have made that up! We can't believe that OUR people would say that!" So says Andrew Breitbart*.

In other words, they don't trust Lewis' testimony because he's BLACK.

And farting** fascists like this multimillionaire gubernatorial candidate (for New York state, no less) go around sending out racist, sexist, et. al emails and there we go again. As if they're isolated incidents. As if their policies don't collude with their inherent actions. I call bullsh#t.

*The same idiotic blowhard that helped to bring down a class act social services crew for poor and minorites by supporting a criminal in hyped-up, fabricated charges against ACORN. He's already shown that he's a racist, but if you didn't believe before...

*Not that there's necessarily anything wrong with farting. I've got a case of the moojoos right now...

Just when you thought that Blech was done with his learnins...

Shorter Glenn Beck: Do You Know What Your Kids Are Learning?

Neither do I, so I'll just make up some conspiracy crap and try to scare the livin' words out of you. Marxists! Mao! Commies! Mmm mmm Obama! Hispanics! Illegals! Al Gore*! Global learning! Learning! Books! BURN!!!!

And, worst of all, your CHILDREN!1!!!

*This whole piece is filled with Teh Stoopid. Hurts your eyes, it's so stoopid. But, the part about Al Gore takes the cake.

It's not enough to simply indoctrinate them with the progressive agenda, they're also being told that they know more than you, their parents. We've shown you that progressives like Al Gore have pitted children against their parents. This is Gore telling thousands of teens and preteens at an inaugural youth conference in Washington last year not to listen to their parents:

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

FORMER VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE: There are some things about our world that you know, that older people don't know.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

I'm sure those parents appreciated Al telling their impressionable kids that they know more about life than they do.

You know, things like using MySpace. Or finding actual research online, instead of having to go to idiots like Beck for their infomayshon. Hell, my parents don't know how to use email yet. It's not that I'm smarter or wiser than them, certainly not when I was in school (in fact, if I were as wise as them, I'd probably never learn how to use email either. Or read crap like Beck. Or start this website out of sheer frustration). It's just that there're some things about our world that I know that older people don't know. Ie, Glenn Beck is an idiot and he'd like it very much if we were all as ignorant and hateful as him...

Blech in the USSR

Shorter Glenn Beck America's Flirtation with Extremists

Nazis, or so-called "progressives" want to burn you and eat your children. They are doing this through a steady diet of so-called "social justice." And this socialist idea called "democracy." It's all here in the 1936 Constitution of the USSRRRRRRRR.*

*This nefarious "Constitution" guarantees such eveeLL and unAmerican ideas as:

Freedom of religious worship
freedom of speech;
freedom of the press;
freedom of assembly, including the holding of mass meetings;
reedom of street processions and demonstrations.
These civil rights are ensured by placing at the disposal of the working people and their organizations
Equality of rights of citizens, irrespective of their nationality or race, in all spheres of economic, state, cultural, social and political life, is an indefeasible law.
The right to education. This right is ensured by universal, compulsory elementary education;

And now for the Decemberists:

John Bolton really wants a spanking!

As a new parent and slightly older teacher, I've been thinking a lot about child rearing the last few years. Fifty years ago or so it was completely legitimate to spank a child as an act of discipline. In fact, it was one of the only understood means of disciplining a child. Then began the era of Dr. Spock and this idea that violent discipline leads to more violence - that what a father teaches his child through the acts of force is that the bigger, stronger person wins - leading by bullying.

So spanking is considered - in some communities at least (not in the ones many of my friends and I grew up in) - forbidden.

Of course there was a lot of push-back to that. Some groups specifically arose out of retaliation to these non-traditional ways (Focus on the Family being a prominent one). More importantly, though, a number of parents merely left a void in discipline, not knowing how else one could possibly train a child without physical coercion. So kids are raised without discipline. That's led to a host of problems in middle and upper-class communities where homogeneity is the only real social order that counts with adults. Lower class whites and minorities look at this child-rearing without the rear-ending and laugh. Can't blame them. If the only results you see are some snotty kid talking back to adults without fear, you'd mock the whole process too - that is if you don't already.

Compound this with some heavy Oedipal reflexes and you've got some people hankerin' for a good ol' fashioned spankerin'. For some adults, a little bit of S&M just ain't doing the trick.

For people like John Bolton and Dick Cheney, the US is big, bad mama and Iraq, Iran, North Korea are the bad, bad little boys who need a spanking and need it bad.

Of course, if Bolton and his adherents (which include Sarah Palin) believe that the US is this parent nation, that pretty much sums up their racist, condescending worldviews. To have a fetish to be human, I suppose. To allow your fetish to destroy countless lives is to be a miserable sub-human pig.

Oink, oink, John Bolton. Oink. Oink indeed.

Disemvoweling Facebook Group

Just started a new group on Facebook. It's called Disemvoweling Srh Pln, Rsh Lmbgh, and Glnn Bck. I like to think that we're gutting stupidity one vowel at a time...

From the About:

To 'disemvowel' text is to take all of the vowels out of the words, to in effect rob it of its usefulness and render it powerless. We seek to disemvowel hateful and hurting speech done by hateful and polarizing people.

Hatred's biggest accomplice is inaction. We desire to act out of love for those whose voices are being silenced by current polarizing factions. Certain media personalities claim to represent 'Real Americans,' yet only spew hate at anybody who doesn't look like them, think like them, act like them, speak like them, or have sex like them.

As a token act of empowerment over and against these loud voices, we shall disemvowel their hateful text.

The first disemvoweled post is Limbaugh's "Retard" transcript. Join and enjoy.