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Monthly Archives: May 2008

because everyone knows blacks are lazy and shiftless, right?

“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,” she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article “that found how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were [...]

Clinton’s not dead yet

Kudos to George McGovern for not helping her along.

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r.i.p. mildred loving

And many thanks for this simple truth:
“We loved each other and got married,” she told The Washington Evening Star in 1965, when the case was pending. “We are not marrying the state. The law should allow a person to marry anyone he wants.”
From Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967):
In June 1958, two residents of [...]

why?

Why do we allow speculators to raise the price of commodities like food and oil by betting on how expensive those same commodities are going to be in the future?
Doesn’t that seem a bit suicidal, like betting against yourself, doubling down each time?
India may be on the right track: India considers suspending trade in food [...]

fear and greed

There are some sick fucks in this country with some serious entitlement issues:
Officials are investigating the deaths of six sea lions who appear to have been shot Sunday after climbing onto traps in the Columbia River.
Wildlife officials said that the bodies of the sea lions were discovered at noon Sunday on two floating traps just [...]

Spotlight on Neo-Nazis and Anti-Immigration Activists

What is it with nativist nutbars and neo-Nazis? Anti-immigrant a-holes always pitch a fit when referred to as racists. Yet their knees turn to jelly for swastika-lickers, no matter how ancient or feeble the National Socialist.
Take 74-year-old Elton Hall. (Please, take him.) An Arizona organizer for the American Nazi Party back in the day, he’s [...]

Confessions of a Precinct Committee Officer (part 1)

I don’t believe we are practicing any recognizable form of democracy in this country and here is just another example.
Let me say at the outset that I don’t blame anyone for this mess besides perhaps a justice system that is more concerned about promoting a “dog eat dog” world than administering wise jurisprudence.
I am a [...]

The Empire Strikes Barack

The Empire Strikes Barack youtube video (collapsible)

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Chomsky on Iran (five parts)

why universal, single-payer, non-profit health coverage?

We all have stories like this:
My friend L. recently quit a high-pressure job after 20 years to help her husband out in his solo architecture practice. She had insurance for herself, her husband and the kids through her job, so after resigning she paid for COBRA while she waited for her family to be [...]

the lamest excuse

Q [Helen Thomas] How does the President intend to commemorate “Mission Accomplished” after five years of death and destruction?
MS. PERINO: What you’re referring to is the banner that ran — that was aboard the ship five years ago. President Bush –
Q I’m talking about the anniversary tomorrow.
MS. PERINO: Yes, I get — no, I understand. [...]

rally ’round the maypole

Hooray, hooray - the First of May
Outdoor f*cking begins today!
At least for the critters. Here in the Pac NW it’s still a bit too cold & wet.
Enjoy your May revels, wherever you are.

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