Yep, some Jews on the New York subway say, “Happy Hanukkah, and a bunch of young toughs decides that that this merits beating the hell out of them.
Of particular note is that the hero who jumps to their aid, one Hassan Askari, is a Muslim student from Bangladesh.
God bless America, Huh? This really is what Falafel Boy, aka the Long Island Klansman, really wants.
Please, play hardball. The national church can take the property and bank accounts, and it should.
The New York Times reposts that this appears to be the case:
The Episcopal Church has said that people can depart, but they must leave their property, which, it contends, is held in trust for the church. If the diocese sticks to its position, the church would likely vacate the diocese and reconstitute it with the congregations that choose to remain and a new bishop. The church and loyalist dioceses are already involved in several lawsuits against breakaway congregations that have insisted on keeping their property.
This is a game of chicken, and one wonders who blinks first.
My guess is that it will be the non-bigots, who are concerned about civility, as opposed to the bigots, who don’t care.
We’ve now had 4 people confirm that he will not put any Muslem in in his cabinet.
So Mitt Romney thinks that it’s appropriate to rule out someone for public service based on their faith.
He just put his being a Mormon on the table…Not for me…My problem is that he’s an insincere lying reactionary bastard…and he’s a Republican…but I repeat myself.
They are having riots once again in France. This is a product of a number of things, but one of them is racism, and the unenforceable nature of anti-discrimination laws in France.
France has a policy that no official records are kept regarding racial or ethnic origin by the government. The idea is that everyone is French, not hyphenated French.
Ward Connerly, a Californian Uncle Tom who has become wealthy by being an uncle Tom, and from being the front man for faux minority contracting*, has been pushing the removal or racial and ethnic status from California state records for years.
You see the natural consequences of such actions in France: a permanent underclass living in slums who are destined never to be hired by bigots, because these bigots will never be caught.
*Cognitive dissonance: Required for the mental illness known as “Republicanism”.
He said it should rather be focusing on global problems such as Aids.
“Our world is facing problems – poverty, HIV and Aids – a devastating pandemic, and conflict,” said Archbishop Tutu, 76.
“God must be weeping looking at some of the atrocities that we commit against one another.
“In the face of all of that, our Church, especially the Anglican Church, at this time is almost obsessed with questions of human sexuality.”
Barak Obama has chosen to attack Hillary Clinton on inaction on what he calls “the social security crisis”. He does not get it.
While people have some legitimate concerns about Social Security in the (very) distant future, the problem facing the US is that health care is eating us up.
What’s more, not only do the vast majority of Americans find the Republican meme of a “Social Security Crisis” to be pathetic and stupid Republican double talk, so does an overwhelming majority of the Republicans out there.
In fact, the only people who are selling the crisis meme about social security besides corrup partisan Republican hacks like Grover Norquist and Bush and His Evil Minions™ are the Very Serious People inside the beltway, the Fred Hyatts, the Charles Krauthammers, the Bob Novaks, etc.
The very serious people in the beltway are wrong about EVERYTHING, and he seems determined to please him.
When Krugman titles today’s OP/ED, “Played for a Sucker, he is more right than you can possibly imagine.
The American people don’t care about bipartisanship. They want a government that works for them. They do not care how it is accomplished, but they want a rising standard of living, and to stop living in fear and uncertainty that the next illness can wipe them out, and Barak Obama, like the rest of the Very Serious People inside the beltway, don’t care about that.
All they care about is that they can go to each other’s cocktail parties and have a nice time. They do not care about the government working for them.
To quote the future Nobel prize winner in economics:
I don’t believe Mr. Obama is a closet privatizer. He is, however, someone who keeps insisting that he can transcend the partisanship of our times — and in this case, that turned him into a sucker.
Mr. Obama wanted a way to distinguish himself from Hillary Clinton — and for Mr. Obama, who has said that the reason “we can’t tackle the big problems that demand solutions” is that “politics has become so bitter and partisan,” joining in the attack on Senator Clinton’s Social Security position must have seemed like a golden opportunity to sound forceful yet bipartisan.
But Social Security isn’t a big problem that demands a solution; it’s a small problem, way down the list of major issues facing America, that has nonetheless become an obsession of Beltway insiders. And on Social Security, as on many other issues, what Washington means by bipartisanship is mainly that everyone should come together to give conservatives what they want.
This position on Social Security, much like his despicable use of dog whistle anti-gay bigotry in his South Carolina campaign, is something that the Very Serious People inside the beltway appreciate. They think that the rest of us are stupid. They think that we are bigoted rubes.
They want nothing to do with the people who live in America and make things work, and they don’t want to make things better, because they are doing fine right now, and having to work for a living is beneath them.
It’s very similar to Marc Anthony’s speech in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, “So are they all, all honorable men”.
Was Reagan a racist? We’ll never know. He was at his core a cypher to almost everyone around him. That being said, it’s clear from his actions that he actively and aggressively courted racists for political gain.
Well, Whiskey Fire has the scoop on the latest offense against common decency by the forces of Jihad, it appears that noble Judeo-Christian warrior Nonie Darwish is being target by Hamas. How do we know? Because noble Judeo-Christian Phyllis Chesler warrior tells so in her essay, The Heroic Nonie Darwish Faces Muslim “Mean Girl” Power at Wellesley.
It appears that Nonie was giving a talk at Wellesley, and some girls showed up in hijab*, rolled their eyes when they disagreed, whispered to each other, and some of them went to the bathroom in the middle of her talk.
It appears that Nonie is right, and that these “mean grllllzz” are “are Hamas-trained“. In fact, they are likely an al Queida cell, and I’m getting on the phone to homeland security. If we don’t stop them now, they may mock David Whorowitz!
David Whorowitz, Nonie Darwish, Phyllis Chesler and the rest of his ilk are a bunch of whiners and wankers.
*Islamic head scarves.
It turns out that not only did Donnie McClurkin sing, but he also unleashed an “I’m a former gay tirade in the last half hour of his set. CNN has reported it, saying that McClurkin said that, “he has been ‘vilified’ and declaring that ‘God delivered me from homosexuality.'”
As to the white gay preacher that they included, they buried him:
Sidden is the white, gay pastor added to the concert bill as a last minute compromise by the Obama campaign. Sidden’s appearance was notably brief and anti-climactic: He said a short prayer to the auditorium at the very beginning of the program, when the arena was only about half full, and then he left.
The New York times subtly suggests that this was dog whistle politics, i.e. that he was trying to tell the largely socially conservative audience that he was uncomfortable with gays without alerting anyone else:
Still, canceling Mr. McClurkin’s appearance might have created more problems. Mr. McClurkin’s support for Mr. Obama could signal to some black evangelical voters that race and religion are more important than Mr. Obama’s support for gay rights.
The campaign has tried to turn the situation into a demonstration of the candidate’s big-tent acceptance. It did bring together some supporters from the gay community and the black religious community who wrote a joint letter a few days ago saying that Mr. McClurkin’s statements had been “deeply hurtful and offensive to many Americans, most especially gay Americans.”
At the same time, it said, “a great many African Americans share Pastor McClurkin’s beliefs” and “their religion prevents them from fully embracing their gay brothers and sisters.” It lauded Mr. Obama “who speaks truth in love to both sides.”
I would agree. The Obama Campaign’s response is nearly identical to that of creationists, and the ACLU arguing for the right of Nazis to march in Skokie.
The ACLU was right, but they were talking about demonstrations, not literally on a campaign’s stage.
As Matt Stoller so eloquently put it, Progressive Campaigns to Do Not Gay Bash.
I’m probably not as angry as John Aravosis about this, after all, I’m straight*, but I am convinced that this was deliberate, and sophisticated message of bigotry to the Socially conservative black Evangelicals in South Carolina.
*Or maybe I haven’t met Mr. Right…Whatever.
David Whororitz admits it in an interview with the George Washington University Hatchet, the Student Newspaper.
“I’m a prominent conservative but no one is inviting me to speak at their campuses,” Horowitz said in an interview with The Hatchet. “I had to create an event.”
Ummm…No, you are an obnoxious lying fascist clown, who jumped from one extreme to the other, and have since been trying to milk that for all it’s worth.
You have less credibility as a speaker than Mahmoud Ahmadinejad*, who at least believes the crap spewing forth from his mouth.
*And DAMN you for forcing me look up his name.
Barack Obama is doing a gospel music tour called the “Embrace the Change” tour with three dates in South Carolina.
I understand that this is a part of his message of inclusiveness, but review the highlighted portion:
As religious conservatives gather in Washington this weekend for the “Values Voters Summit,” Senator Barack Obama’s campaign announced its latest effort to attract people of faith to the campaign: a gospel concert tour.
All three of the dates of the “Embrace the Change” tour are in South Carolina, where Mr. Obama is locked in battle with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton for black voters.
Gospel acts including Mary Mary, Donnie McClurkin and Hezekiah Walker, Byron Cage and the Mighty Clouds of Joy are scheduled to appear.
It seems innocuous enough, until you dig into the statements and actions of Donnie McClurkin in this 2004 article:
Gospel singer Donnie McClurkin, who has detailed his struggle with gay tendencies and vowed to battle “the curse of homosexuality,” said yesterday he’ll perform as scheduled at the Republican National Convention on Thursday, despite controversy over his view that sexuality can be changed by religious intervention.
He is also claiming that he was “made gay” by being raped by an uncle.
Unless McClurkin has recanted these views, he is a messenger of bigotry and hypocrisy, and no Democratic candidate should have him sing as a part of their political campaign.
Washington posts notes Al Wynn has raised more money than Donna Edwards, though the difference is almost entirely PAC money.
Ever a class act, the Wynn campaign has decided to play that lovely bigotry card, and strongly implied that Edwards is taking “Jew Money”
The vast majority of our money comes from individuals in our district, in Maryland,’ said Wynn campaign manager Lori Sherwood. She said Edwards’ money seemed to come from ‘individuals and organizations she’s been affiliated with’ as executive director of the Arca Foundation. ‘Our opponent has special interest. She’s receiving money from Barbara Streisand, Hollywood money and New York money. I’m not sure if Barbara Streisand knows what the policies are in the 4th district.'”
(emphasis mine)
Go the link for my Act Blue page, and show Ms. Edwards that you do not approve of this.
This is not a condemnation of Ron Paul, but of a small> segment of his supporters.
Specifically, Paul has become the “it girl” on the (literally) Neo-Nazis and White Nationalists. My guess is that his generally isolationist foreign policy appeals to him.
I have no doubt that Paul is horrified about this, and he needs to do something.
I’m not entirely sure what, maybe giving a speech at a synagogue and having pictures taken with a Yamulke on.
Needless to say, the Neanderthal Bigot in one of the, if not the, most important Republican constituencies.
Captain Albert Dreyfuss arrested on false charges of espionage.
That is all you need to hear to understand why seven boot camp guards and one nurse at the Bay County boot camp were acquitted following the videotaped beating and death of Martin Lee Anderson, a 14 year old black child.
An autopsy found he had a previously undiagnosed blood disorder. The defense argued that is what caused his death. The all-white jury agreed.
The “blood disorder” in question is Sickle Cell trait. This means that he carried one Sickle Cell Anemia gene. The effect of this condition is much like carrying one gene for Cystic Fibrosis: there are no significant effects. (Being heterozygous for Sickle Cell will increase resistance to Malaria and decrease oxygen carrying capacity by much less than 1%, and being heterozygous for CF protects against Diphtheria). The Air Force does not consider Sickle cell trait to be a reson to exclude someone from being a pilot, for example.
“You kill a dog, you go to jail,” Crump said on the courtroom steps just after the verdict was delivered. “You kill a little black boy, nothing happens.”
Welcome to Bay County, Florida.
The prosecutor (yes, the racist cracker who trumped this all up in the first place), and fellow traveller Judge J.P. Mauffrey that this entire mess is a parole violation.
I believe that the charge is “being an uppity n*****”. This is disgraceful, and Al Sharpton is right when he calls this “revenge”.
Disgraceful.
Unfortunately, under the Bush administration, there is no realistic chance of any of these folks being taken down for civil rights violations.
It appears that folks like James C. Dobson of Focus on the Family, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, and Richard A. Viguerie are threatening a 3rd party bid if Guiliani gets the nod.
This is an empty threat. The religious right’s attachment to the Republican party is based almost entirely on hostility towards non-whites, and Rudy has the best bone fides in this area of any of the Republicans. The right wing Christo-Fascists’ followers will follow Guiliani because he has made an implicit promise to keep the black and brown man down.
The religious right’s entry into politics did not begin with Roe v. Wade, but rather it began with rulings that segregated religious schools could not be tax exempt 501(c)3 institutions.
That being said, that racist cracker DA still has to be dealt with.
Read his article, The Ugly Side of the G.O.P. – New York Times.
Here is an excerpt:
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Dr. Carolyn Goodman, a woman I was privileged to call a friend, died last month at the age of 91. She was the mother of Andrew Goodman, one of the three young civil rights activists shot to death by rabid racists near Philadelphia, Miss., in 1964.
Dr. Goodman, one of the most decent people I have ever known, carried the ache of that loss with her every day of her life.
In one of the vilest moves in modern presidential politics, Ronald Reagan, the ultimate hero of this latter-day Republican Party, went out of his way to kick off his general election campaign in 1980 in that very same Philadelphia, Miss. He was not there to send the message that he stood solidly for the values of Andrew Goodman. He was there to assure the bigots that he was with them.
“I believe in states’ rights,” said Mr. Reagan. The crowd roared.
In 1981, during the first year of Mr. Reagan’s presidency, the late Lee Atwater gave an interview to a political science professor at Case Western Reserve University, explaining the evolution of the Southern strategy:
“You start out in 1954 by saying, ‘Nigger, nigger, nigger,’ ” said Atwater. “By 1968, you can’t say ‘nigger’ — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things, and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites.”
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