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NYTIMES:Steele says "fo shizzle we need rizzle"
“We want to convey that the modern-day G.O.P. looks like the conservative party that stands on principles,” Mr. Steele said. “But we want to apply them to urban-suburban hip-hop settings.”
Yesterday, the NY Post ran a cartoon of police shooting a chimp with the caption "they'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill".
Um, what does Travis the chimp have to do with the stimulus bill? Did he have some input into it? I must've missed that memo. Or are they trying to say that the stimulus package was written by a chimp? Can chimps even write?
OR are they insinuating that our President is a chimpanzee? Is he hairy? Does he like to swing from trees? I did not notice- maybe I missed that memo, too?
OR is the NY Post staffed by a bunch of hillbilly racists? I think thats the most likely reason this piece was ran and it makes me SICK. I am sick not only that someone would draw such an offensive cartoon but also sick that it got approved by the editors and publicists and anyone else who saw it before it hit the presses.
Yes, racism is alive and well in the United States and it makes me sick to my stomach and embarrassed to be an American.
Am I wrong? Can this "cartoon" be anything other than racist? Is there some correlation between Travis the Chimp and the stimulus bill????????????????
IS THERE ANY OTHER EXPLANATION????
Mr Bold adds-
The NY Post is a Rupert Murdoch rag, and he can't give that crap away. No really. I get hit up for a free month of daily propoganda from these people at least once a week.
The cartoonist, Sean Delonas, has a history of tacky cartoons that only racists and homophobes could love.
GLAAD:NY POST PUBLISHES YET ANOTHER GRATUITOUS VULGAR ANTI-GAY CARTOON
And this might be a good time to review "How To Tell People They Sound Racist."
Bored? Have a lot of questions about the economic crisis we're living through?
*pops popcorn*
Frontline:Inside the Meltdown
I just read a good comment at SadlyNo! and thought I'd share:
Seriously, and this goes for every two-bit “comedian” who pisses and moans about “political correctness” when no one laughs at their fag jokes, if it’s too hard for you to work around basic human decency - which is still a fairly new concept - maybe you should move into a new line of work. Fuckin’ crybaby.
You can rant and rave about whatever you want to here.
Suggested topics for discussion-
Was Hitler really breast fed past toddler stage?
What's the most effective way to get a teenage boy's mind off of sex and into school work?
These are just some of the burning topics demanding discussion. Goofiest comment should get a reward.
It should...didn't say it will.
Here's an article with some age on it, but it is still relevant to understanding the Conservative mentality-
CommonDreamsStudy of Bush's Psyche Touches a Nerve
This was written before I started really surfing the web.
Kit Bond on 02/10/09-
“Unfortunately, this bill stimulates the debt, it stimulates the growth of government, but it doesn’t stimulate jobs,” Bond said. “More important, it doesn’t provide the basic need we have in this country to deal with the problems we have in the home industry and the credit market.”
“This is the type of emergency stimulus spending we should be supporting – programs that will create jobs now and help families,” said Bond."
Here he is with "Here Comes The Hotstepper." Feel free to shout out whatever artist you want to share next.
Did any of you hear this story?
BELFAST, Maine — James G. Cummings, who police say was shot to death by his wife two months ago, allegedly had a cache of radioactive materials in his home suitable for building a “dirty bomb.”
Cummings grew up in California and lived in Texas before moving to Maine in August 2007. Although Robbins said Cummings told him he made his money in Texas real estate, it appears that the actual source of his wealth was a trust fund established by his father, a prominent landowner in the Northern California city of Fort Bragg. An Internet search of the James B. Cummings Trust indicated that it has an annual income of $10 million.
200 years ago today Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury England. His idea, that nature through selecting of mutations for reproduction is responsible for the biodiversity we see today, has become the foundation for modern biology. And he managed to piss off the people I like to piss off, the Xian fundies, for a hundred years.
From the BBC-
When the RNC picked former Lt. Governor Steele from Maryland to head the RNC, I thought, "Hey they did something smart for once!" Out of all the choices they had running, Steele came off as the most sane and nicer of the candidates. I've seen Steele on Bill Maher, where although wingnutty, he seemed good natured.
Well I don't think being good natured can overcome this kind of wingnutty:
STEELE: You've got to look at what's going to create sustainable jobs. What this administration is talking about is making work. It is creating work.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But that's a job.
STEELE: No, it's not a job. A job is something that -- that a business owner creates. It's going to be long term. What he's creating...
Let's hope so. Because like every sitcom that Ted McGinley shows up on, Joe's patrons seem to get canceled too.
Joe showed up for McCain. Canceled.
Joe showed up for PajamasTV as a war correspondent covering Gaza. Gaza over. PajamasTV sucking and shedding viewers fast.
Joe just signed on for spinning the stimulus package for the GOP. Will that mean the end of the GOP is nigh?
Here's the story of a wingnut who went on a hunger strike because of Obama-
bjkeefe: no-one-could-have-predicted
The last two weeks has pretty much removed any doubt that the man is certifiably insane.
I thought I'd share this one because it's Mr. Scruff and because it has donkeys partying. I like the visual. Enjoy!
In case you hadn't heard, Coleman has taken Franken to court over the recount. Yesterday Coleman's legal team turned in evidence that had been written on, redacted and edited without the changes even being noted.
TPM: minnesota-election-judges-toss-colemans-faulty-evidence-tell-him-to-try-again
Looks like the tax cutters have won. I guess we should have seen that coming. Honestly it's all they seem to know. They cut taxes in good times and bad times. It's like they don't actually care about the affects of tax cuts on our budget and economy. They just want more tax cuts.
As thereisnospoon noted at DailyKos there are 3 types of Republicans left:
Residual racists uncomfortable with any portion of their tax dollars going to blacks or Hispanics, and desirous of indiscriminately killing any ethnic or religious group around the world who makes them fear for their safety;
Religious fundamentalists furious that women may be having sex without the appropriate "consequences", and terrified that gay people might "recruit" their children if allowed to live out their lives in open happiness; and
Super-wealthy families desperate to keep their 8-figure incomes untouched by the nasty hands of the same "big government" that provides the services and protections upon which they so heavily depend.
