Racism and the Evil Elephant in the Room

If you're curious...I posted this at kos and you can see what other people say too.

Fire Michael "Autism is a Fraud" Savage

What a disgusting individual he is.

Sign the Petition

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/petition/486739008

Sparrow, maybe you could have suggested an alternative topic. How about "Why can't Bubba think?"

Here is the protest video against FOX News, called "Sly Fox." Nas' new LP is "Untitled," a revision of the original title, the N word. Today at 2 PM ET ColorOfChange.org and MoveOn.org will hand deliver a petition with 620,000 signatures demanding FOX end its racist attacks against black Americans, including Senator Obama and his wife. They called her "Obama's baby mama," very disrespectful. Their pundit joked about assassination and their O'Reilly hyped his "lynching party."

"FOX poisons the country with racist propaganda and tries to call it news," Nas said. "When FOX talks about lynching the woman who may soon be our first lady and then refers to this wife and mother as a 'baby mama,' they are maligning not only the Obamas, but black women and black people across this country," said James Rucker of ColorOfChange.org.

It's sly Fox, cyclops We locked in an idiot box The video slots broadcasting Waco Dividian plots They own YouTube MySpace When this ignorant shit going to stop? They monopolize and lose your views And the channel you choose Propaganda, visual cancer The eye in the sky, number 5 on the down Secret agenda, frequency antenna Dr. Mindbender Remote control so controlling your brain holder Slave culture, game's over What's a fox characteristic? Slick shit, sins in, misinformation Pimp the station, over-stimulation Reception, deception Comcast digital Satan The Fox has a bushy tale And Bush tells lies and foxtrots So, I don't know what's real (what's real)

Watch what you're watching Fox keeps feeding us toxins Stop sleeping Start thinking outside of the box And unplugged from the Matrix stopped you But watch what you say, Big Brother is watching Watch what you're watching Fox keeps feeding us toxins Stop sleeping Start thinking outside of the box And unplugged from the Matrix stopped you But watch what you say, Fox Fire is watching

The Fifth Act that got you all riled up O'Reilly? Oh really? No rally needed, I'll tie you up Network for child predators, setting them up MySpace, pimps, hoes and sluts Y'all exploit rap culture, then y'all flip on us And you own the Post, and y'all shit on us What is their net worth? They're going to try to censor my next verse Throw them off the roof neck first While I'm clicking my cursor Reading blogs about pressure they put on Universal It gets worse While I'm clicking my mouse While they kick in my house They figured us out Why a nigger go south? It's either he caught a body Don't sleep, they're watching I watch CBS, and I see BS Trying to track us down with GPS Make a nigger want to invest in PBS (see BS)

They say I'm all about murder murder and kill kill But what about Grindhouse and Kill Bill? What about Cheney and Halliburton? The back door deals on oil fields? How is Nas the most violent person? Y'all wouldn't know talent if it hit you Bringing up my criminal possession charges with a pistol I use Viacom as my firearm Then let the living split you, who do you rely upon? Then shoot shells at Leviathon I'm dealing with the higher form Fuck if you care of how I write a poem Only fox that I loved was the red one Only black man that Fox love is in jail or a dead one Red rum, political bedlam Don't let the hype into your eyes and ear drum Murder our own fox Not A-Team with Baracus And he hates Barack cuz he march with the marches

I pledge allegiance to the fair and balanced truth Not the biased truth Not the liest truth But the highest truth I will not be deceived Nor will I believe in the propaganda I will not fall for the oke-doke I am tuned in... Watch because they're watching Watch what you're watching Better watch because they're watching Watch what you're watching M-m-media, misleading you Watch what you're watching

sparrow

Immigrants ARE a major problem.

And I am talking about those LEGALLY admitted to the US by the criminal W junta to further their agenda at the expense of everyone else in the US.

Does anyone know if BMW still advertises heavily and proudly on O'Reilly and Fox News?

Maybe I am asking a redundant question, because I'm never buying their fascist crap again anyway.

July 22, 2008
Op-Ed Columnist
Madness and Shame
By BOB HERBERT
You want a scary thought? Imagine a fanatic in the mold of Dick Cheney but without the vice president’s sense of humor.

In her important new book, “The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals,” Jane Mayer of The New Yorker devotes a great deal of space to David Addington, Dick Cheney’s main man and the lead architect of the Bush administration’s legal strategy for the so-called war on terror.

She quotes a colleague as saying of Mr. Addington: “No one stood to his right.” Colin Powell, a veteran of many bruising battles with Mr. Cheney, was reported to have summed up Mr. Addington as follows: “He doesn’t believe in the Constitution.”

Very few voters are aware of Mr. Addington’s existence, much less what he stands for. But he was the legal linchpin of the administration’s Marquis de Sade approach to battling terrorism. In the view of Mr. Addington and his acolytes, anything and everything that the president authorized in the fight against terror — regardless of what the Constitution or Congress or the Geneva Conventions might say — was all right. That included torture, rendition, warrantless wiretapping, the suspension of habeas corpus, you name it.

This is the mind-set that gave us Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo and the C.I.A.’s secret prisons, known as “black sites.”

Ms. Mayer wrote: “The legal doctrine that Addington espoused — that the president, as commander in chief, had the authority to disregard virtually all previously known legal boundaries if national security demanded it — rested on a reading of the Constitution that few legal scholars shared.”

- more -

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/opinion/22herbert.html

Don't know Ally.

Also, his speech was about 'illegal' aliens. His wife is a legal alien. She does not agree with him--or so she told me.

Thanks sparrow...

The only difference between an illegal alien and a legal alien is that the legals come from countries strategically important to the W junta, both on foreign policy level and on influencing domestic policies in its favor.

There is a reason why Cubans and Koreans get a free pass into the US, while Mexicans don't.

As a result, there is no point in carping about just the illegals, unless you are a Kool-aid drinker and benefit from the "legals" and their US presence.

BYW...what was initially disappointing and upsetting to me about this student...he's a middle-school teacher.

Frankly, I'm more inclined to believe his life is in more danger from those students than it is by some 'Muslim or illegal alien.'

I'm for any change in our immigration policy that would allow us to deport Rupert Murdock and Reverend Moon...

Hey sparrow,

Difficult call. Many schools would allow the presentation just for the sake of debate. In those cases, however, the other students would probably (maybe) be given a heads-up so they know what they are walking into. That way they can come prepared.

You might want to say that no one is allowed to use FOX news as a source, or any other such source.

Cyrano

I agree with you... BUT South Korea has no intention of ever taking Moon back. He's just too valuable for them.

Cyrano

Also, the US citizenship test should've been made much harder to keep the likes of Murdoch out.

Unfortunately, they are making the tests easier for the likes of Murdoch and harder for the honest-to-goodness immigrants.

If you see Kangaroo, I now have two kinds of Obama stickers and some funny Bush stuff that I'll send off on the weekend.

Anybody else see those T Boone Pickens ads about his plan for energy independence?

I'm still ticked off at Pickens for his support of the Sleaze Boat Veterans, but his effort demonstrates that Gore's plan actually could have bipartisan support.

Only people on Big Petroleum's payroll believe that we can drill our way out of this crisis.

On his radio show today, O’Reilly claimed that Gore was now associating himself with the most “hateful group in the country.” “And I’m including the Nazis and the Klan in here,” said O’Reilly.”

He then claimed that attending Netroots Nation was “the same as if he stepped into the Klan gathering”:

O’REILLY: Al Gore now is done. He’s done. Ok. He is not a man of respect, he doesn’t have any judgment. The fact that he went to this thing is the same as if he stepped into the Klan gathering. It’s the same. No difference. None. K, he loses all credibility with me. All credibility.

.... I was AT Netroots Nation and I came away with the impression that the South shall rise again! Slugbug

As Ben Smith at Politico says -

While talk radio and Fox News still thrive, and drive opinion and talking points, the right simply has no equivalent to left-leaning journalistic institutions like Huffington Post and TalkingPointsMemo which -- without concealing their perspective -- report, break news, and serve as hospitable channels for opposition research.

It's telling, as Jonathan notes, that McCain had to essentially insource this function and hire a blogger after it emerged that nobody on the outside was going to do it for him.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/12008.html
Read the whole article here - it's very good

http://www.silencedmajority.blogs.com

Hey Matthew...

I have seen those Pickens ads and they are powerful, I sincerely hope this gets through peoples thick thick noggins.

I too still hold a grudge for his SlickBoating.

Oh, and as for bi-partisan agreement, I had the great displeasure of flippin thru channels the other night, and good ol' Glenn Beck was doing his usual hatchet job on Al Gore for having the audacity to propose saving the world with his pie-in-the-sky plan and saying he had absolutely no way to pay for it.

I really dislike that dirtbag. Didn't F*CKSNews have any more timeslots to fill for ultr-right wing hacks?

Monkey, the deal on the right is that they ridicule, attack, rage - do anything but offer an intellectually honest argument one way or the other.

My take is that hard right has become so comfortable thinking of themselves as virtuous / morally superior to the left, that they are now incapable of responding in anything but hysterical fashion. They have become prisoners of their ultimately authoritarian-leaning ideology

Media Matters dot Org says:

ABC News/Wash. Post withheld results of poll favorable to Obama
Summary: ABC News and The Washington Post issued staggered releases of the results of their latest poll, withholding from their first release results favorable to Sen. Barack Obama, including the finding that 50 percent of registered voters would vote for Obama for president versus 42 percent for Sen. John McCain. The next day, the Post ran an article headlined "Poll Finds Voters Split on Candidates' Iraq-Pullout Positions," which did not mention Obama's 8-point lead over McCain. Later that day, ABC News and the Post issued a second release with additional poll results that stated: "Obama continues to hold most of the advantages in the presidential race."

WELL

MoveOn sent me another 100 bumper stickers accidentally, in addition to the 100 I already ordered, and I have about 25 from the campaign.

I'm headed to a meeting about registering voters at the remaining summer festivals and want to get out there and fire them up.

Also just watched Obama's Germany speech on YouTube.
see http://www.baracklikeme.blogspot.com especially.

Barack Obama Speech from Berlin, Germany

SHOCK. Three officers guarding nuke launch codes fell asleep on duty.

The Air Force said Thursday that it plans to punish three officers who fell asleep on July 12 while guarding a classified nuclear launch codes device.

The device contained codes that had been deactivated, but nevertheless their lapse of unconsciousness constituted a 'procedural violation' -- and one which the Air Force wishes to avoid in the wake of Minot Air Force Base's 5th Bomb Wing accidentally flying six warheads over the United States last August. The sleeping officers on July 12 were also from Minot.

"While waiting for permission to bring the device back to base, the three officers with the code component in their possession fell asleep," reported the Air Force Times. "The fourth officer was not present.

http://rawstory.com//news/2008/Air_Force_Nuclear_missile_crew_fell_0724.html

Obama Berlin Speech: US Foreign Service Workers Instructed Not To Attend

Although it appears most of Berlin is heading to Obama's speech today, US Foreign Service personnel will be banned from the event. And they are not happy. The American Foreign Service Association, a union of Foreign Service workers are opposing the rule. Read more from The Washington Post. And watch the speech live here.

The U.S. Embassy in Berlin has instructed Foreign Service personnel stationed there not to attend Sen. Barack Obama's public rally today, which the State Department this week labeled a "partisan political activity" prohibited under its regulations for those serving overseas.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/24/obama-berlin-speech-us-fo_n_114752.html

Iraqi Teams Banned From Olympics

BAGHDAD — Just two weeks before the start of the Olympics, Iraq was told Thursday it's not welcome in Beijing because of a political feud in Baghdad that angered the games' guardians and exiled a country that arrived to a roaring ovation at the opening ceremony four years ago.

The International Olympic Committee told Iraqi sports officials in a letter that it would uphold its ban imposed in June after the government in Baghdad replaced its national Olympic panel with members not recognized by the IOC.

The IOC had called the move unacceptable government interference.

In Iraq, it also smacked of the lingering sectarian bitterness between the new Shiite power brokers and the Sunnis who were once favored under Saddam Hussein _ whose son, Odai, ran the nation's Olympic committee as a personal fiefdom and was accused of torturing athletes who came up short.

"Clearly we'd very much like to have seen Iraq's athletes in Beijing," said IOC spokeswoman Giselle Davies. "We are very disappointed that the athletes have been so ill-served by their own government's actions."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/24/iraqi-teams-banned-from-o_n_114828.html

GOP Insider Eviscerates Bush And Party: Just "Phenomenal Arrogance"

There is wide-spread acknowledgment, even within the party itself, that the Republican brand is currently poisonous. Faced with massive losses in November, GOP leadership has green-lighted a save-yourself mentality, allowing its endangered members to go against the party line if it means helping their electoral chances.

But if the situation seems bad on the electoral level, insiders warn that it's even worse when you get down to infrastructure and machinery. Facing an avalanche of losses, the GOP is stuck with an antiquated system of fundraising, a tired leadership, and a president many Americans loathe.

"There is a phenomenal arrogance like a fog that has clouded people's thinking and ability to see what is real," said Nicole Sexton, a longtime Republican fundraiser and former Director of Finance for the National Republican Senatorial Committee. "We have to go down in history as some of the worst messengers. And President Bush has been horrible. Everything he does deems calculated and insincere. The same was true with Bill Clinton but he at least had the ability to seem sincere. With Bush, people are throwing stones and tomatoes at him [and he hasn't changed]."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/24/gop-insider-eviscerates-b_n_114737.html

Ahahahahaha

scouserinlondon
You've just made me think....... imagine being McCrumblies P.R. people today??? You would have to go home with a thumping headache and reach for the Scotch and the Valium , kick the cat out, take the phone of the hook and take to your bed.Oh Tee Hee.

Guantanamo testimony: U.S. let bin Laden's top bodyguard go

By Carol Rosenberg | The Miami Herald
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — Soon after Osama bin Laden's driver got here in 2002, he told interrogators the identity of the al Qaeda chief's most senior bodyguard — then a fellow prison camp detainee.

But, inexplicably, the U.S. let the bodyguard go.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/45505.html

McCain cancels trip to oil rig after spill, blames weather

Thursday, workers on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast will see clear skies, mild temperatures in the 80's and 90's, and feel only a slight breeze. However, John McCain's campaign says inclement weather caused the cancellation of his appearance there, aimed at promoting offshore drilling.

Perhaps a more likely cause is the 400,000 plus gallons of oil floating through the Mississippi, spilled yesterday after a barge collided with a tanker at New Orleans. As for inclement weather, at the time McCain would have been taking center-stage on the oil rig, Hurricane Dolly, a Category 2 storm, was making landfall at the Texas-Mexico border about 600 miles away.

John McCain's campaign is placing increasing importance on its emphasis of allowing offshore drilling and drilling in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge as a means to reduce US dependence on foreign oil, and public support has been increasing, finds a recent Wall Street Journal/Washington Post poll.

Yet yesterday, when a barge on the Mississippi river at New Orleans, was 'T-boned' an oil tanker -- snapping the barge in half on impact and causing a 419,000 gallon oil spill -- the GOP candidate became a bit shy of the issue.
http://rawstory.com//news/2008/McCain_cancels_trip_to_oil_rig_0724.html

Well McCain campaign calls its fundraisers "finance events" and that's all he has. & they have started something called "McCain Nation" on their website, copying Obama's internet style for house parties and grass roots work.

Republicans can't do anything original. Their t-shirts, their logos, their music - all borrowed (& lame.)

Did Rove threaten an Ohio voter fraud witness?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/24/23015/5286/690/556620

Did he ever come back into the country?

I've seen the Pickens add. I just want to say DON'T TRUST HIM!

This is the same guy who lost his OWN BET about John Kerry and now won't pay out even though the money is going to Veterans' care.

Nope. What that guy wants is probably not what he's showing on tv.

Also, if he really gave a crap, he'd have 'fessed up by now about his wrong-doing in 04 but instead he carries it even now--as stated above. He also would have had an environmental president in 2004 but he used his money to make sure one of the worst environmental presidents got back into the W.H.

Nope. The guy isn't going to do what he advertises. He's a liar. And he won't follow through. He's got a pattern of behavior that proves it.

There is no line in the sand. We create what is acceptable or not, based on the content and delivery within the medium.
we can joke about almost anything as long as its done in a tastefull manner. Richard Pryor said things that any other comedian would be vilified for, it was packaged to be acceptable.

If someone wants to write and research the muslim danger to the world, or illegal aliens effect to the culture...by all means go for it. They should research their little hearts out.
Find out where innoculations came from, astronomy, mathematics, modern medical pratices, engineering and construction. These all came from the muslim world and were introduced to Europe in the dark ages.
People should find out one of the most peaceful periods in Jerusalems history was when Saladin Ruled it. All could pray, all could practice religion, as long as you did not disturb the practices of another. If you did, you were executed. Problem solved.

The best method to remove prejudice is to shine light on it, the stronger and bigger the light, the better. In the course of researching terror that muslims pose, your 51 year old male would probably find value the muslim world represents.

Toolmaker

The Islamic world IS in the Dark Ages today.

Can't force "enlightenment" against their will, however... it only backfires (as Iraq demonstrates so well).

Just turned on MSNBC while eating my lunch. They showed Obama meeting with the French. Meanwhile, back at home, McCain's spokesman said that Obama is doing the easy part, meeting with foreign dignitaries, and that McCain is doing the "hard work" of going door to door in Ohio.

Gagged, then turned off the tv. Can't stand even fifteen minutes of it any more.

Back to work.

Yeah, and what's up with T. Boone Pickens advocating for alternative energy? I saw the ad too, but he reminds me of a snake oil salesman, maybe he is sincere.

Sparrow,

Just my 2 cents, but it might be a good move to take your situation to management. That way, your rear is covered no matter what. If you tell him to go ahead and he offends someone, then your head might be on the block. If you tell him he can't use that material, your head might be on the block.

I know!! You could make the assignment be about a certain subject, and only that subject, for everyone. You have a right to hone the assignment, right?

Glenn Beck says he is neither right nor left, to disarm people, but anyone with an ounce of brains can see he is well set up to represent the right. Real slick.

Rove Threatened GOP IT Guru If He Does Not 'Take the Fall' for Election Fraud in Ohio, Says Attorney

Letter Sent to Attorney General Mukasey Requesting 'Protection for Mr. Connell and His Family From This Reported Attempt to Intimidate a Witness' After Tip from 'Credible Source'

Karl Rove has threatened a GOP high-tech guru and his wife, if he does not "'take the fall' for election fraud in Ohio," according to a letter sent this morning to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, by Ohio election attorney Cliff Arnebeck.

The email, posted in full below, details threats against Mike Connell of the Republican firm New Media Communications, which describes itself on its website as "a powerhouse in the field of Republican website development and Internet services" and having "played a strategic role in helping the GOP expand its technological supremacy."

Connell was described in a recent interview with the plaintiff's attorneys in Ohio as a "high IQ Forrest Gump" for his appearance "at the scene of every [GOP] crime" from Florida 2000 to Ohio 2004 to the RNC email system to the installation of the currently-used Congressional computer network firewall.

Connell and his firm are currently employed by the John McCain campaign, as well as the RNC and other Republican and so-called "faith-based" organizations.

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6214

TSP

I have some news! My mom (she & her boyfriend will be 80 soon) is getting married!

Kangaroo

I am done with the camp I was at all week. I will find what I did with your address & send you some Obama & Bush stuff.

Toolmaker

You bring some of the most thoughtful posts .. one of my big resentments in life is that I may now never get to go to Isfahan.

I partially blame the ouster of democratically elected Mosadeq -
when I was small.

There was a time when the middle east was becoming quite modern and moderate/secular, with women not wearing veils. My friend from Iran never entered a mosque til after 9/11 - here!

We supported the Shah of Iran and when the people overthrew him and put in the Ayatollah, the extremists increased their influence.

The Shah's son even waits in the wings.

Meanwhile, we've allowed a Taleban concentration in the mountains that encompass the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan. What was long a drug route is now a weapons route as well.

TSP

"Neither right nor left"

That's what the car nuts who blame the environmentalist left for crippling their cars, always say.

Unfortunately, I am a car nut myself (I believe in self-maintenance for my vehicles), so I get tons of right-wing propaganda all the time through fellow car nuts.

The Democrats and other leftist parties get a FAILING GRADE on their pathetic attempts to court the sportsmen and the motorists! If they dare to resume the useless 55 speed limit nationwide again, BE ASSURED THAT I WILL VOTE FOR MCCAIN.

Seriously, bring the 55 speed limit back, and you can count on McCain winning California (where everyone is a motorist) and other "blue" states - and a Republican landslide in Congress that will make 1994 seem quaint.

slugbug

My mom (she & her boyfriend will be 80 soon) is getting married!

Congratulations!

Remember "Eve of Destruction" (if you are old enough)? The lyrics were:"The Eastern world, it is exploding, Violence flaring, bullets loading, You're old enough to kill, but not for voting, You don't believe in war, but what's that gun you're toting?" That was back in 1965. The Vietnam war was going on, as well as riots in the cities. The country was divided. It was controversial but the record went to the top of the charts. It was the first song to spell out specifics about the Vietnam War for the general public.

He recorded the song again, and with Mick Fleetwood, Roger McGuinn and my old high school friend Todd Smallwood. I knew him at the time of the first version, in Mitchell, South Dakota! It was released on July 21, on the 43rd anniversary of the original release.

Barry McGuire is now 72. He says, "the stupidity of armed conflict doesn't end. Vietnam, Korea, Desert Storm and now Iraq. How many people are still being murdered, slaughtered, blown to bits? If anything, we're on the Dawn of Destruction." McGuire was converted to Christianity but doesn't care much for organized religion. He follows Christ directly.

Same Old Song for Singer Barry McGuire.

Todd Smallwood site

I just bought it on iTunes. There are more great rumors but those have to wait.

http://www.silencedmajority.blogs.com

I put a longer version with more information on the main page. The only thing I don't have yet is audio for the new song other than at iTunes.

Hell All, Updates on where the hell I've been are in the next thread. Love you all.

80 year old, retired Methodist minister among those hauled away.

Iowans try to arrest Rove, end up in jail

Anti-war protestors try to confront long-time Bush advisor

http://www.radioiowa.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=5BE55AD6-D812-0713-D147340096DE7A1F&cache_refresh=1