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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 [...]

move along, nothing to see here

NEW YORK (AP) — Three detectives were acquitted of all charges Friday in the 50-shot killing of an unarmed groom-to-be on his wedding day, a case that put the NYPD at the center of another dispute involving allegations of excessive firepower.

Bell, a 23-year-old black man, was killed in a hail of gunfire outside a seedy [...]

the mentally ill prosecuting the mentally ill

In what sane country would you prosecute a straight-A student with no prior arrests, an obvious psychological problem and a 10-lb. bag of fertilizer for “attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction”?
CHESTERFIELD, S.C. (AP) — An 18-year-old accused of planning to bomb his high school will be charged with attempting to use a weapon [...]

what was that about guns in the home protecting your family?

On Sunday, a 3-year-old boy killed himself with his father’s service weapon in Sacramento:
A Sutter County family with deep roots in law enforcement is facing heartbreaking tragedy after the 3-year-old son of a deputy accidentally shot himself with his father’s service pistol.
The boy, Tyler Whiteaker, died Sunday night in his Yuba City home of a [...]

giving whitey a bad name

Pat Buchanan, sick fuck extraordinaire:
America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.
So, Jews should [...]

sympathy for the devil

For John Roberts, there’s nothing playful about being the devil’s advocate:
Chief Justice John Roberts was pained.
Exxon Mobil, the giant oil corporation appearing before the Supreme Court yesterday, had earned a profit of nearly $40 billion in 2006, the largest ever reported by a U.S. company — but that’s not what bothered Roberts. What bothered the [...]

close guantanamo now

The ACLU is hosting Close Guantanamo Day today; please write your congressperson and Senators - and even your presidential candidate - and demand that this insult to human rights and democracy be closed forever.
I am in the middle of reading The Eight O’Clock Ferry to the Windward Side by human rights attorney Clive Stafford Smith [...]

how about this:

When professed heterosexual, monogamous Christian men stop getting caught soliciting gay sex in restrooms and porn shops, then you can have a vote on who gets the right to marry.
On second thought, no. No one, least of all a bunch of tightassed homophobes, should have any say in who a person can love or [...]

on healthcare, iraq, soldiers returning with ptsd, and so much else

Sometimes to find hope for the future we have to look to the past. In the excellent book Jewish Travellers, you can read the travelogue of Rabbi Benjamin ben Jonah of Tudela in Navarre, the most famous of Jewish travellers in the late Middle Ages. He finished the travels he describes in 1173:
[The [...]

A Simple Film about Rights

Found this video over at the Question Authority group on the Mondo Globo social network site as originally pointed out to me by Rich in an earlier post.  The video is definitely simple, but done very well.  It is a reminder about our individual rights and the responsibilities that ensue from them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z1buym2xUM

“Free people do bad [...]

this oughtta confuse gop voters

From the ever on-point Mr. Fish:

Mr. Fish’s doppelgänger, Dwayne Booth, has an unusual interview with Dennis Kucinich here.

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