THIS IS BOLD AND GENEOUS MOVE, DR TAITZ. OBAMA WILL BE REMOVED BY HUMAN RIGHTS TRIBUNAL AND WE CAN HAVE NEW ELECTION WITHIN 6 MOS. WE NEED UN TO FORCE THIS DICTATOR TO OBEY CONSTITUTION AND TO STOP HIM FROM LETTING FOREIGN INTERESTS UNDERMINE OUR GREAT NATION.
I’M PRAYING FOR YOU TO WIN THIS ULTIMATE BATTLE EVERY DAY. YOU ARE OUR LADY LIBERTY, ORLY. DON’T LET ANYONE TELL YOU OTHERWISE.
I don’t know about you but I remember being 17 all too well. I remember thinking I was the smartest person in the world. And I remember thinking my parents were complete idiots who didn’t understand me or any of the teenage turmoil, tension and occasional trauma I was going through.
It turns out I was wrong. No big surprise there.
Sure my parents weren’t always right. But they did their best while I was at my worst and I really regret putting them through all of that stupid drama. In the end we all got through it though. Primarily because my parents and I were able to face these problems together, as a family.
And that’s exactly what Rifqa Bary and her parents need to do, and exactly what state and county officials in Florida and Ohio are trying to facilitate.
Unfortunately a bunch of hate-mongering, religiously-intolerant fuckwits like Pam Geller keep trying to get in the way by turning an everyday family argument into a tool to promote their own anti-Muslim agenda.
I really don’t know too much about Pam Geller and her past. But I have a feeling that her early family life and her childhood were pretty fucked up. I hate to make general assumptions like that but I can come up with no other plausible reason for Pam’s complete and total disregard for the health and wellbeing of Rifqa Bary.
To say Pam Geller has an agenda is a massive understatement.
Pam Geller has a deep seated hatred of Muslims that infects everything she does, says and writes. As a result, Pam Geller has become everything that she claims to be against. She is waging her own personal Jihad against anything and everything Muslim and she’s more than willing to sacrifice a young teenage Ohio girl in order to achieve her goals.
Don’t believe me?
Here’s a word cloud of her last few posts:
Allah, God, Muslims, Fight, Terrorist, Attacks, Jihad… etc.
Anyone remember that idiot “praying” for God to send a big rain storm on top of Mile High Stadium during Obama’s speech? Well, seems God has other thoughts…see what happens when you pray for bad things to happen to other people! God, the universe, whatever you call “it” decided instead to remind us all – during the Republican Convention – of how the Republican administration treated poor Americans during/after Katrina:
NEW ORLEANS — Fear and foreboding gripped this still-mending city Thursday as a potential Category 3 hurricane whirled toward the Gulf Coast on the eve of Hurricane Katrina’s three-year anniversary.
Tropical Storm Gustav, which was lashing Jamaica after Haitian officials said it had killed 51 people there, was still almost five days away from the Crescent City, according to the National Hurricane Center. Projections varied greatly, putting its path anywhere from the Florida panhandle to southeastern Texas by Tuesday.
After years of getting free public education and, most likely, ripping off the American health care system for tons of cash- the son of illegal Mexican immigrants just won a gold medal in wrestling for the US.
I say we arrest him and his seven siblings – along with their dead beat illegal immigrant mother – and send them back to Mexico where they belong.
We’ll keep the gold medal to help pay for some of that lost stolen education and healthcare money.
I got the sense today that Barack Obama was tired. Tired of the hatred and fear-mongering insanity that has gripped not just Republicans, but Democrats as well. I know I get tired when I have to endure the same types of slurs I saw used against blacks in the south now retooled to attack anyone of a Middle Eastern heritage or having a name that is not familiar to the average Anglo-Saxon Caucasoid. I get tired when I see the same type of fear and ignorance used against blacks in the south retooled to attack two men or two women who happen to fall in love and have the audacity to want to live their lives in the same way other Americans do. I get really tired when I see this country become bastardized into something that it was never intended to be.
I’m tired too. Tired of Democrats trying to slyly blow the old racist Southern Strategy dogwhistles in a way that would have made George Wallace proud. Tired of right wing attacks perpetrated on fear and loathing – and tired of some Democrats co-opting that message. I’m tired of the right-wing blogosphere manufacturing lies out of whole cloth, even while staring evidence against those claims square in the face. I’m tired of being called a “cultist” because I prefer one candidate’s message and policy positions over another’s. I’m tired of people taking a statement of clear facts (Clinton’s support from racist voters was greater than her margin of victory in Ohio) and turning it into the fabrication “all Clinton supporters are racist.”
I’m tired of responding to attacks intended to leverage racism being called “playing the race card”. I’m tired of encouraging the poor and downtrodden to stand up for themselves in the face of massive exploitation being called “fomenting a class war”. I’m tired of assholes and jerks who will say anything in order to protect their privilege, or the privilege of others.
I’m tired of people ignoring plain facts in favor of discredited and disproven dogmatic ideology.
I’m tired. Worn down. Like an old millstone.
And then Obama steps up, and gives a speech that reminds me of the stakes. That reminds me that the struggle to fight thru the fatigue is worth it. We can overcome. We shall overcome.
So while we still live in a world scarred by racism and sexism, homophobia and islamophobia, where the evisceration of worker’s rights is called a “right to work” and it’s your fault your job was outsourced to another country and you are on public assistance, we can, and will build a better, stronger America. I’ll get on that rope and pull; but I can’t do it alone. It will take people of all faiths – and no faith. It will take people of all colors, sexes, genders, and orientations. It will take people of differing beliefs but common purpose; perhaps even with different concepts of how to achieve the goals of equality. It will take Obama supporters, Clinton supporters, and heck – even McCain supporters.
So what say you? Do you embrace hate and divisiveness? Or do you embrace hope for equality? As we’ve seen, nearly 50 years after the civil rights movement, and nearly 150 after the Civil War, we still have a long ways to go towards a world where race really doesn’t matter, and you are judged purely by the content of your character. But we can take an important step right now; not by electing Barack Obama, but by refusing to leverage his race against him (or Clinton’s gender against her), and refusing to stand silently by when others do the same. For while I strongly feel that Obama is the best candidate for the Presidency, I will not begrudge him losing a fair election decided on the merits of the positions of the candidates involved. That is democracy. What is going on now is not democracy – it’s crass fear mongering. We like to claim we are the world leader in freedom and democracy. Now it’s time to back up that talk with some action.
Psst. Somebody wanna remind these guys who has been in control of the country for 2/3 of the time between the year 2000 and now? Anyone?
I’m really not sure you want to make this point too loudly with the American people or “conservatives” would get their asses handed to them – as they will anyway, but you know. A Republican preaching fiscal discipline is pretty funny in this day and age.
Gotta love how Sanford tosses in the vague religion reference. I call that Republican Tourettes Syndrome.
“John Kerry is a close friend of mine. We have been friends for years,” McCain said Wednesday when pressed to squelch speculation about a Kerry-McCain ticket. “Obviously I would entertain it.”
How much fun is this gonna be? Hillary, come on. Step aside already so we can get the REAL party started!
It may have flown under the radar with all of the election hullabaloo, but William F. Buckley Jr. died last week. He’s often been viewed as a paragon of conservative thought. And to some extent, this is true – this is half of an interesting debate he had with Noam Chomsky in 1969, and it shows an intelligent, witty, and even charismatic man.
However, as often seems the case with retrospectives of prominent conservatives, it’s more hagiography than biography. Buckley, and his magazine National Review, were staunch opponents of the civil rights movement. While it’s often said that he’s changed his views, he had as recently as 2004 put lipstick on a pig when talking about Westbrook Pegler, who died in 1969. Hat-tip to the excellent Anti-Neo-Confederate blog, who has his own take on Mr. Buckley, including a link to a terrific article by white supremacists extolling the virtues of William F. Buckley Jr.
Hagee has offered some highly provocative views on a variety of subjects.
For instance, he linked Hurricane Katrina to the gay rights movement: ” … All of the city was punished because of the sin that happened there in that city.”
He has also denounced the Roman Catholic Church as “the great whore of Babylon” and “a cult.” He blames it for the Holocaust and predicts its imminent demise.
“This is the apostate church,” Hagee said. ” … this false religious system is going to be totally devoured by the anti-Christ.”
“It was the disobedience and rebellion of the Jews, God’s chosen people, to their covenantal responsibility to serve only the one true God, Jehovah, that gave rise to the opposition and persecution that they experienced beginning in Canaan and continuing to this very day….
How utterly repulsive, insulting, and heartbreaking to God for His chosen people to credit idols with bringing blessings He had showered upon the chosen people. Their own rebellion had birthed the seed of anti-Semitism that would arise and bring destruction to them for centuries to come…. it rises from the judgment of God upon his rebellious chosen people.”
It should be clear that his militant support of Israel is about getting Jews to their position so Jesus can return and bring the Rapture, not about actually supporting Jewish people. What was McCain’s response to earning the endorsement?
Mr. McCain, who has been on a steady search for support among conservative and evangelical leaders who have long distrusted him, said he was “very honored’’ by Mr. Hagee’s endorsement. Asked about Mr. Hagee’s extensive writings on Armageddon and about what one questioner said was Mr. Hagee’s belief that the anti-Christ will be the head of the European Union, Mr. McCain responded that “all I can tell you is that I am very proud to have Pastor John Hagee’s support.’’
Of course, the “liberal” talking head shows on Sunday barely even mentioned this, despite Russert hammering on Obama at the debate in Cleveland.
Now, as I’ve mentioned before, this is a free country; Hagee is free to endorse whomever he wants, and frankly I don’t care who he endorses. What is potentially alarming about this that McCain welcomes that support.
I have give McCain a great deal of credit for handling this swiftly and also hold him to something. Asshat wingnut radio personality Bill Cunningham apparently went all wingnutty and McCain doesn’t want any part of it.
CINCINNATI, Ohio (CNN) — A supporter of John McCain, speaking at an official campaign event in Ohio attended by the Arizona senator, called Barack Obama a “hack, Chicago-style Daly politician,†and told the crowd “all is going to be right with the world when the great prophet from Chicago takes the stand, and the world leaders who want to kill us will simply be singing Kumbaya around the table of Barack Obama.â€
“At some point in the near future the media, the stooges from the New York Times, CBS (The Clinton Broadcasting System), NBC (The Nobody But Clinton Network), The All Bill Clinton Channel (ABC), and the Clinton News Network at some point is going to peel the bark off Barack Hussein Obama,†said controversial conservative commentator Bill Cunningham, an Ohio native.
McCain was spot on in his quick rebuttal:
“I absolutely repudiate such comments, and again I will take responsibility it will never happen again. It will never happen again.â€
In addition to this website being blast-emailed to hundreds of thousands of addresses that Stone and [another GOP operative] have accumulated over the years (working off over 170 different email lists of everyone from opinion-makers to political activists to industry associations), Stone is counting on T-shirt sales to further serve as “billboard education.” He figures the whole thing will end up taking on a viral nature, thanks to the yuks factor….
“The more people go to the site, the more people buy the T-shirts,” Stone explains…. “The more people buy the T-shirts, the more people wear the T-shirts. The more people wear the T-shirts, the more people are educated. Consequently, our mission has been achieved.” Though neither the word itself nor even the acronym is ever mentioned, “it’s one-word education. That’s our mission. No issues. No policy groups. No position papers. This is a simple committee with an unfortunate acronym….”
Oh god, this is terrible. I’m not even sure I should be sharing this, it’s so bad.
By squeezing a piece of musical excrement like this out into the world, I feel fairly certain that La MalKKKin is in violation of international codes governing the disposal and handling of toxic waste, and probably a few of the Geneva Conventions as well.
Lots of videos, I know, but they’re just too good not to share. Lawrence Lessig outlines two new movements in America; Change Congress and Lessig for CA-12… maybe. This really is a fantastic video.
Yes, the right wing believes – and I think this is sincere – that Obama is trying to put the US government under control of the UN and issue a global tax. Here’s the specific claim, courtesy of Cliff Kincaid at GOPUSA.com.
A nice-sounding bill called the “Global Poverty Act,” sponsored by Democratic presidential candidate and Senator Barack Obama, is up for a Senate vote on Thursday and could result in the imposition of a global tax on the United States. The bill, which has the support of many liberal religious groups, makes levels of U.S. foreign aid spending subservient to the dictates of the United Nations.
Senator Joe Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has not endorsed either Senator Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton in the presidential race. But on Thursday, February 14, he is trying to rush Obama’s “Global Poverty Act” (S.2433) through his committee. The legislation would commit the U.S. to spending 0.7 percent of gross national product on foreign aid, which amounts to a phenomenal 13-year total of $845 billion over and above what the U.S. already spends.
Turns out, this claim is completely untrue. But wait, there’s more. [click to continue…]
You people are going to ruin your little daughter and make her burn in hell like the two of you. You think you are clever and so does the devil. Only God has the answer for you. God or G. Bush.
Apparently being vegan is against God. Oh, and God and Dubya are indistinguishable.
No, seriously. This is supposed to be “funny”.
The long, hard slog
by Brian on March 18, 2008 · Comments
Eric wrote this earlier today in reaction to Obama’s speech about race.
I’m tired too. Tired of Democrats trying to slyly blow the old racist Southern Strategy dogwhistles in a way that would have made George Wallace proud. Tired of right wing attacks perpetrated on fear and loathing – and tired of some Democrats co-opting that message. I’m tired of the right-wing blogosphere manufacturing lies out of whole cloth, even while staring evidence against those claims square in the face. I’m tired of being called a “cultist” because I prefer one candidate’s message and policy positions over another’s. I’m tired of people taking a statement of clear facts (Clinton’s support from racist voters was greater than her margin of victory in Ohio) and turning it into the fabrication “all Clinton supporters are racist.”
I’m tired of responding to attacks intended to leverage racism being called “playing the race card”. I’m tired of encouraging the poor and downtrodden to stand up for themselves in the face of massive exploitation being called “fomenting a class war”. I’m tired of assholes and jerks who will say anything in order to protect their privilege, or the privilege of others.
I’m tired of people ignoring plain facts in favor of discredited and disproven dogmatic ideology.
I’m tired. Worn down. Like an old millstone.
And then Obama steps up, and gives a speech that reminds me of the stakes. That reminds me that the struggle to fight thru the fatigue is worth it. We can overcome. We shall overcome.
So while we still live in a world scarred by racism and sexism, homophobia and islamophobia, where the evisceration of worker’s rights is called a “right to work” and it’s your fault your job was outsourced to another country and you are on public assistance, we can, and will build a better, stronger America. I’ll get on that rope and pull; but I can’t do it alone. It will take people of all faiths – and no faith. It will take people of all colors, sexes, genders, and orientations. It will take people of differing beliefs but common purpose; perhaps even with different concepts of how to achieve the goals of equality. It will take Obama supporters, Clinton supporters, and heck – even McCain supporters.
So what say you? Do you embrace hate and divisiveness? Or do you embrace hope for equality? As we’ve seen, nearly 50 years after the civil rights movement, and nearly 150 after the Civil War, we still have a long ways to go towards a world where race really doesn’t matter, and you are judged purely by the content of your character. But we can take an important step right now; not by electing Barack Obama, but by refusing to leverage his race against him (or Clinton’s gender against her), and refusing to stand silently by when others do the same. For while I strongly feel that Obama is the best candidate for the Presidency, I will not begrudge him losing a fair election decided on the merits of the positions of the candidates involved. That is democracy. What is going on now is not democracy – it’s crass fear mongering. We like to claim we are the world leader in freedom and democracy. Now it’s time to back up that talk with some action.
{ 3 comments }