White Power!! (take 2)

A whole lot more ridiculous unicorn tattoos here.

(h/t Chemist)

I'd better find me some black friends!

Sheesh.

Help me figure this out

This is a "rising star" in the Republican party.


This is who Republican voters, and frankly some Democratic voters, called the nigger.


'Scuse, please?

I take it Jindal's color/ethnicity is OK because he's a loony-tunes wingnut?

You don't look right

Fucking classic!

“I saw a couple that had been escorted out and they were confused as well, and the girl was crying, so I said ‘Why are you crying? and she said ‘I already voted for McCain, I’m a Republican, and they said we had to leave because we didn’t look right,’” Elborno said. “They were handpicking these people and they had nothing to go off of, besides the way the people looked.”

Even McCain voters are potential troublemakers.

O. M. FSM.

Own it, Republicans, own it. See you in 2024. Maybe.



Maybe the FBI should be paying a few people a visit?

All hail the General

Courtesy Jesus' General.

South Park: still the best show on television

I don't know where this fits into the top-10 episodes list, but it definitely jumps in there somewhere.

Indiana Jones/Lucas/Spielberg, our Chinese overlords, racism & xenophobia (and the ignorance associated with such), dick dick dick dick dick dick, rape in movies, the destruction of childhood innocence, and who knows what else.

Hello, please.

White privilege

My wife sent me an e-mail forward a few weeks ago and I meant to post about it, but before I did, I wanted to track down the original. You know how all those e-mails fly around claiming to be written by Carlin, or Ebert, or some other semi-plausible author. Well, yeah, I didn't want to just blindly cut and paste. Of course, work went nuts again, so I left it there in the inbox until time presented itself.

Anyway, here's the source.

A couple representative snippets:

White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents, because “every family has challenges,” even as black and Latino families with similar “challenges” are regularly typified as irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay.

White privilege is when you can call yourself a “fuckin’ redneck,” like Bristol Palin’s boyfriend does, and talk about how if anyone messes with you, you'll “kick their fuckin' ass,” and talk about how you like to “shoot shit” for fun, and still be viewed as a responsible, all-American boy (and a great son-in-law to be) rather than a thug.

White privilege is being able to say that you support the words “under God” in the pledge of allegiance because “if it was good enough for the founding fathers, it’s good enough for me,” and not be immediately disqualified from holding office--since, after all, the pledge was written in the late 1800s and the “under God” part wasn’t added until the 1950s--while if you're black and believe in reading accused criminals and terrorists their rights (because the Constitution, which you used to teach at a prestigious law school requires it), you're a dangerous and mushy liberal who isn't fit to safeguard American institutions.


White privilege is being able to go to a prestigious prep school, then to Yale and Harvard Business School (George W. Bush), and still be seen as an "average guy," while being black, going to a prestigious prep school, then Occidental College, then Columbia, and then Harvard Law, makes you "uppity" and a snob who probably looks down on regular folks.

Tons more at the link. Read it.

Full of hate and ignorance

And damned proud of it.

The McCain/Palin campaign in Ohio.



Read the background to this video here.

(h/t Shakesville)

Watch this

I can't find an embed link (fuckers), but this needs to be seen.

Sing it!

YES!!!

(xkcd)

YouTube is the cesspool of all comment cesspools. I remember some commercial using a song I liked, so I googled the lyrics and found the artist, then went to YouTube to see the whole song.

The top (most recent) comment at the time was: "Another nig asking for money."

Yeah. I don't read YouTube comments any more.

It's black and white

This has been going around:

If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic, different."
Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers -- a quintessential American story.

If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track -- you're a maverick.

Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
Attend five different small colleges before graduating, you're well grounded.

If you spend three years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a constitutional law professor, spend eight years as a state senator representing a district with more than 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.
If your total resume is: local weather girl, four years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with fewer than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive.

If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising two beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.
If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.

If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're very responsible.

If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner-city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America's.
If your husband is nicknamed "First Dude," with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.

How convenient

Katrina allowed the government to evict New Orleans blacks from public housing, even the buildings that survived the storms.

Among the miles and miles of devastated houses, rubble still there today in New Orleans, we found dry, beautiful homes. But their residents were told by guys dressed like Ninjas wearing “Blackwater” badges: “Try to go into your home and we’ll arrest you.”

These aren’t just any homes. They are the public housing projects of the city; the Lafitte Houses and others. But unlike the cinder block monsters in the Bronx, these public units are beautiful townhouses, with wrought-iron porches and gardens right next to the tony French Quarter.

Raised up on high ground, with floors and walls of concrete, they were some of the only houses left salvageable after the Katrina flood.Yet, two years later, there’s still bars on the windows, the doors are welded shut and the residents banned from returning.

What are the odds that those apartments become upscale condos?

Or, to quote someone more eloquent:

They wanted them poor niggers out of there and they ain’t had no intention to allow it to be reopened to no poor niggers, you know? And that’s just the bottom line.

(h/t litbrit. Thanks, I think. Now my head hurts even more.)