He just couldn't leave it alone .... Perhaps the most racist point of all in the tea parties is their demand that government "stop raising our taxes." That is outrageous! How will we Colored People ever get a wide screen TV in every room if non-coloreds get to keep what they earn? Totally racist! The tea party expects coloreds to be productive members of society? Astounding. TPM says it best: Again, for the record: this how an official ...
Oh this is fantastic . The NAACP has passed a resolution condemning racism in the Tea Party movement. The resolution was approved in a vote by more than 2,000 delegates at the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Kansas City. Versions of the resolution condemned "explicitly racist behavior" in the Tea Party movement and called on people to "repudiate" what it described as racist elements of the...
Downloadsquad : Other Windows XP users are not as fortunate; these are mainly people sitting in gray, depressing cubicles, with restrictive IT departments and massive corporate-wide Windows installations. Up until today, these cubicled masses had some hope for a friendlier computing environment. After all, XP wasn't going to be supported forever, right? Wrong. Today Microsoft announced Windows 7 users will be able to downgrade to XP at any point during Windows 7's life cycle. For...
TDB : Meghan McCain: I told my father that you made a comment about Obama’s tanning-booth tax, and he knew who you were, and I was like, “Well, you should Twitter her.” So what did you think when he did that? Snooki Polizzi: I thought it was pretty frickin’ awesome because I voted for McCain. So the fact that he actually acknowledged like what I was saying about the tanning booth… It was crazy because I never thought, like, what I was saying on the show, that he...
Something else I came across in my efforts to figure out the anti-unemployment angle. Pretty brutal : First taking a big bite out of Barry O: The good news is we have avoided another Great Depression. But it seems ill-advised for Barack Obama to stand up on a Friday morning in early July and say that the economy is "headed in the right direction" (even if, as he said, "we are not headed there fast enough") and to highlight "the sixth straight month of job ...
Huffpo's front page right now has a gigantic picture of Steele with a link that says "War Within the GOP". Link goes to this : Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) the beloved libertarian, former presidential candidate and longtime skeptic of foreign military entanglements, put out a statement on Sunday congratulating Steele for having the courage to, as he put it, tell the truth on the Afghan war: I would like to congratulate Michael Steele for his leadership on one of the most...
Originally discussed here . My oh my, what a black eye. For starters: -There's a rumor floating around that only 500 were sold . As much as I would have laughs at a phone with that kind of marketing only selling 500 units, that seems a bit low. Maybe in one market they only sold 500, maybe they only sold 500 in the first week, but more jitterbugs have been sold than that. Just in 'walk in, my contract is up, I need a new phone' traffic, Verizon should have been able to sell more than 5...
Via Salon : The latest Steele gaffe, you might have heard by now, involves the war in Afghanistan. In an amateur video posted on YouTube, the RNC chairman calls it "a war of Obama's choosing" and "not something the United States had actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in." (Apparently, Steele wasn't paying attention to the news back in, say, October 2001.) He also says that history has shown that "the one thing you don't do is engage in a land war in Afghanistan...
Oh dear. Breitbart: I’ve had $100,000 burning in my pocket for the last three months and I’d really like to spend it on a worthy cause. So how about this: in the interests of journalistic transparency, and to offer the American public a unique insight in the workings of the Democrat-Media Complex, I’m offering $100,000 for the full “JournoList” archive, source fully protected. Now there’s an offer somebody can’t refuse. The American people, at least half of whom are the obj...
LGF : Tea Party wacko Rick Barber, who’s running for Congress in the GOP primary in Alabama’s 2nd District, was last seen at LGF when he posted a video calling for President Obama to be impeached and openly inciting anti-government insurrection. Well, he’s lovingly fondling his Revolutionary War pistol again, ranting about a “tyrannical health care bill,” having psychotic conversations about slavery with an actor playing Abraham Lincoln, and comparing taxe...
One of the most iconic trophies in sports at Chicago's Pride parade. Linky : Recently traded Blackhawk Brent Sopel took part in Sunday's Pride Parade to honor his friend, Toronto GM Brian Burke and Burke's late son, Brendan. 21-year-old Brendan was killed in an auto accident in Indiana on Feb. 5, three months after the Miami (Ohio) university senior and hockey team student manager made news by telling his parents and team members that he was gay. Wingn...
You may, or may not have heard about the WaPo ditching blogger David Weigel for saying some mean things about some conservatives . I've been sort of ignoring it. I try to at least. Generally, I try to avoid spending much time with a story if it's the media being the news. Helen Thomas is one thing---because she's basically an American institution. Weigel? A twenty something who's fiscally to the left, socially to the right, a penchant for ripping social conservatives and recognize...
Oooooo ourage of outrages ! Here’s the Thomas More Center’s press release, which notes that there was trouble at last year’s Dearborn Arab festival too. Evidently the cops were worried that the presence of Christian lit at a mostly Muslim event might produce some “excitement,” so they solved the problem by punishing the party that tried to peacefully exercise its rights. Note to the defendants: Don’t forget to ask for damages. A lot of damages. The hysteria in the comments is quite ...
Matt Miller in the WaPo does a good job of pissing in everybody's wheaties . The fascinating thing is that both groups are correct about the obsolescence of the other side's key premises, yet blind to the staleness of their own. What partisans on neither side seem to sense is that events are poised to consign many traditional priorities of both conservatives and liberals to the ash heap. You'd never know this from the phony way public life is conducted. While independents a...
Ouch. A humdinger from EJ Dionne. Read the whole thing. But, a money shot: But conservatism is a diverse movement with many philosophical threads and tensions. Successful conservative politicians such as Ronald Reagan (and George W. Bush in his first term) kept the peace among economic, social and big business conservatives while moderating the movement's public rhetoric. In opposition, conservatives often manage to bury their differences. But conservatism has flown apart when its compone...