Alphabet Antics

Dolla Dolla Bill Y'all

Sen. B. A. Barackus is spending a lot of his drug campaign money in Texas in an attempt to knock Sen. Thundercunt out of the race with a decisive victory on March 4:

Taking advantage of his financial edge, Senator Barack Obama is buying large amounts of advertising and building extensive get-out-the-vote operations in an effort to end Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s candidacy with twin defeats Tuesday in Ohio and Texas.

Mr. Obama, campaign officials said, has spent about $10 million on television advertising in Texas from early in February through Election Day; Mrs. Clinton has spent just less than $5 million. Mr. Obama has spent about $5.3 million for television advertising in Ohio, compared with just under $3 million for Mrs. Clinton, the officials said.

Most polls show both the Ohio and Texas races too close to call.

via NY Times and Real Clear Politics

West Virginia Railroad Culture

From boingboing:

My uncle Kevin Scanlon has snapping photos of Appalachian life for as long as I could form sentences -- actually, no, longer. When I was young, his photos taught me to appreciate the modest, mostly overlooked beauty surrounding the old railroads that snake through West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and neighboring states. His photographs document what is now a dying culture.

Brilliant photos.

via boingboing

Weekend Roundup

Some guy named Ralph Nader says he swears you know him.

Hillary Clinton hates children.

The world's largest growhouse is open.

Judy Whitis invites you to go to her church this Sunday.

Larry Craig has an opening.

Rep. Don Brown hates black people but loves MLK.

Theodore Roosevelt hates Juan McCain.

BREAKINGS NEWS: Hef is a Dirty Old Man

From Gawker:

Though now ancient and doddering, Hugh Hefner is still the same old lovable lech he always was. The Playboy founder would like, in addition to Lindsay Lohan, the Jim Henson-fashioned Olsen twins (still acting Mary-Kate, who the fuck knows Ashley) to do a nude pictorial for the magazine because, according to an anonymous source, "Hugh thinks the twins are every young man's fantasy." Wait, really? I thought we'd moved on from that bizarre period of 18th birthday countdowns (Hef had originally courted the pair around then) and furtive, shameful New York Minute viewings. It seems that Hef may be a bit out of touch on this one. Am I wrong? [Showbiz Spy] After the jump, video documentation of the two sexpots Hef so pruriently craves.



via Gawker

WALNUTS!' New BFF

Elderly Juan McCain has a new friend. And it's someone who loves Baby Jeebus. Not like one of his many other Pagan liberal baby-eating gay Messican friends.

Pastor John Hagee has endorsed Pawpaw McCain!!!

Let's get to know him:




Um, okay. But what does he think about when he's not busy hating Nazi/Anti-Nazi Popes?

From the DNC:

Hagee on Hurricane Katrina
"All hurricanes are acts of God because God controls the heavens. I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God and they were recipients of the judgment of God for that." [NPR Fresh Air, 9/18/06]

Hagee on Islamic Beliefs
Fresh Air host Terry Gross asked if Hagee believed that "all Muslims have a mandate to kill Christians and Jews," to which Hagee replied, "Well, the Quran teaches that. Yes, it teaches that very clearly." [NPR Fresh Air, 9/18/06]

Hagee on African-Americans
The San Antonio Express-News reported that Hagee was going to "meet with black religious leaders privately at an unspecified future date to discuss comments he made in his newsletter about a 'slave sale,' an East Side minister said Wednesday." The Express-News reported:

"Hagee, pastor of the 16,000-member Cornerstone Church, last week had announced a 'slave sale' to raise funds for high school seniors in his church bulletin, 'The Cluster.'

"The item was introduced with the sentence 'Slavery in America is returning to Cornerstone" and ended with "Make plans to come and go home with a slave." [San Antonio Express-News 3/7/96]

Hagee on Catholicism
"Most readers will be shocked by the clear record of history linking Adolf Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church in a conspiracy to exterminate the Jews." [Jerusalem Countdown by John Hagee]

Hagee on Women
"Do you know the difference between a woman with PMS and a snarling Doberman pinscher? The answer is lipstick. Do you know the difference between a terrorist and a woman with PMS? You can negotiate with a terrorist." [God's Profits: Faith, Fraud and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters, Sarah Posner]

"[T]he feminist movement today is throwing off authority in rebellion against God's pattern for the family." ["Bible Positions on Political Issues," John Hagee]

Hagee on LGBT Americans
"The newspaper carried the story in our local area that was not carried nationally that there was to be a homosexual parade there on the Monday that the Katrina came. And the promise of that parade was that it was going to reach a level of sexuality never demonstrated before in any of the other Gay Pride parades. So I believe that the judgment of God is a very real thing. I know that there are people who demur from that, but I believe that the Bible teaches that when you violate the law of God, that God brings punishment sometimes before the day of judgment." [NPR Fresh Air, 9/18/06]

Hagee on Iran
"The coming nuclear showdown with Iran is a certainty," Hagee wrote [in 2006] in the Pentecostal magazine Charisma. "Israel and America must confront Iran's nuclear ability and willingness to destroy Israel with nuclear weapons. For Israel to wait is to risk committing national suicide." [The Nation, 8/8/2006, http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060814/new_christian_zionism]

WALNUTS! needs new friends. What about that nice mocha man, what's his name, Powell?

No?

Well, Hagee can't be that bad........



Oh.

via ABC
DNC
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Election

via BraveNewFilms

Bill Clinton Endorses Obama

The People's Mario

Fun stuff.



via terminal71

Charlie and the Fudge Factory

Now that Florida Gov.Charlie Crist is rumored to be on Juan McCain's short list for veep, people are starting to talk about the gay thing again.

This time it comes from a Broward-Palm Beach New Times.

Some dude talked to the owner of a bar called the Green Iguana. The owner claims that back in the 90's, Crist used to frequent the bar, hang out with gay dudes, and totally flame out after his 3rd Mint Julep:

When I got Rick Calderoni, the bar's well-known owner, on the phone, I expected him to stonewall me about it.

He didn't.

Calderoni, who is gay, confirmed that Crist came into his bar quite often and that the two of them became friends.

Getting to the point, I asked him if he knew Crist to be gay.

"Yes," he answered bluntly. "I just wish he would come out and admit it. That would be a great thing if he did."

I asked Calderoni if he was certain that Crist is gay. He told me that Crist socialized with a gay clique of friends but conceded that he'd never actually seen Crist become intimate with another man.

So how can he be sure Crist is gay?

"The way he acted," Calderoni said.

How did he act?

Calderoni laughed and said, "Very feminine."

The rest of the story kinda gets boring. I started paying attention again when the writer actually called Bill Clinton a poonhound. It still makes me giggle.

Anywho, if Crist really is gay, then he's a fucking Judas.

via Wonkette

Michelle Deals with the Name Thing

Worst. Black. History. Month. EVER.

February has always been that time of year where black people and white people come together in the spirit of pretending they care about black history.

Let's reflect on the Black History Month that, even with an extra day, went to soon:


Ray Nagin proves you can pretty much do whatever you want when holding a gun and ranting like a madman.

People flipped out because Michelle Obama wrote something a long time ago about being black.

Bill O'Reilly talked about lynching Michelle Obama.

Bill Clinton hit a black man.

MyChurch.org used Obama's African heritage as a smear tactic.

Rep. Don Brown introduced a bill to put the Confederate Flag on Florida license plates.


March is actually Women's History Month. I can't wait to see what happens then.

Church of Obama Releases New Hymn

She Got Served

Barry answers Thundercunt.

Betty White is a Gem

via Towleroad

Bill O'Reilly is Officially Fucking Nuts

via BraveNewFilms

Oh, so it's all good now?

Two days ago, we reported on Rep. Don Brown's racial sensitivity bill. Now, Grand Wizard Brown wants to throw some chitterlings to the help:

Two days before filing a bill to create a specialty license plate honoring "Confederate Heritage," state Rep. Don Brown introduced another one seeking to name a road after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Rather than quitting while he was behind, Brown continued:

He did say that he has no intention to advocate for the license plate. That duty falls on the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the group that wants the tag produced, he said.

"Now that we’re in the brier patch, it’s time for them to make their official case," he said.

If you missed that, here's a clip for for enlightenment:



I guess it could've been worse. Atleast he didn't say tar baby.

via NWF Daily News

Hillary's New Ad

Boo.

Senile Juan McCain Slips Up

The GOP Shuffleboard Champion had a senior moment and called himself a liberal.

Somewhere, Mittens' is sobbing.

Myers Returns

The Love Guru

Russian Bird Boy Found

A social worker in Russia found a 7-year-old boy living in a 2 bedroom apartment whose mother treated like a bird:

Pravda said the boy's 31-year-old mum did not talk him and treated him like a bird, forcing him to learn avian language.

...Volskaya said: “When you start talking to him, he chirps."

And she added that the boy becomes frustrated at not being able to communicate and flaps his arms.

The boy is now in a medical facility where nurses charge people 30 rubles to gawk at the sideshow.

via The Sun

Obama's Letter to teh Gayz

Here's a passage:

As your President, I will use the bully pulpit to urge states to treat same-sex couples with full equality in their family and adoption laws. I personally believe that civil unions represent the best way to secure that equal treatment. But I also believe that the federal government should not stand in the way of states that want to decide on their own how best to pursue equality for gay and lesbian couples — whether that means a domestic partnership, a civil union, or a civil marriage. Unlike Senator Clinton, I support the complete repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) – a position I have held since before arriving in the U.S. Senate. While some say we should repeal only part of the law, I believe we should get rid of that statute altogether. Federal law should not discriminate in any way against gay and lesbian couples, which is precisely what DOMA does. I have also called for us to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and I have worked to improve the Uniting American Families Act so we can afford same-sex couples the same rights and obligations as married couples in our immigration system.

via Towleroad

Bush in Africa

Bob Geldof traveled with President W on his recent trip to Africa. The resulting article is a brilliant look behind the scenes at the man salvaging his legacy before time runs out.

Will people listen?

Here's some great excerpts:

"No, that won't happen," Bush insists. "We're still working on what exactly it'll be, but it will be a humanitarian mission, training in peace and security, conflict resolution ... It's a new concept and we want to get it right." He muses for a while on the U.S. and China, and their policies on Africa — Africans are increasingly resentful that the Chinese bring their own labor force and supplies with them. Then, in what I took to be a reference to the supposed Chinese influence over the cynical Khartoum regime, Bush adds, "One thing I will say: Human suffering should preempt commercial interest."
It's a wonderful sentence, and it comes in the wake of a visit to Rwanda's Genocide Memorial Center. The museum is built on the site of a still-being-filled open grave. There are 250,000 individuals in that hole, tumbled together in an undifferentiated tangle of humanity. The President and First Lady were visibly shocked by the museum. "Evil does exist," Bush says in reaction to the 1994 massacres. "And in such a brutal form." He is not speechifying; he is horror-struck by the reality of ethnic madness. "Babies had their skulls smashed," he says, his mind violently regurgitating an image he has just witnessed. The sentence peters out, emptied of words to describe the ultimately incomprehensible.

..."Mr. President, please. There are things you've done I could never possibly agree with and there are things I've done in my life that you would disapprove of, too. And that would make your hospitality awkward. The cost has been too much. History will play itself out." "I think history will prove me right," he shoots back. "Who knows," I say.

It wasn't awkward. It wasn't uncomfortable. He is convinced, like Tony Blair, that he made the right decision. "I'm comfortable with that decision," he says. But he can't be. The laws of unintended consequences would determine that. At one point I suggest that he will never be given credit for good policies, like those here in Africa, because many people view him "as a walking crime against humanity." He looks very hurt by that. And I'm sorry I said it, because he's a very likable fellow.

Read the whole piece. Good stuff.

via Time

In Memoriam

No joke here. We at brickbat would like to extend our condolences to the family of 1st Lt. Ali Jivanjee. We thank him for his service to our country.





via NWF Daily News

Walton County Commission Hates 911

The Walton County Sheriff had a simple request: Give me $311,431 for 911 equipment.

The freedom haters on the county commission denied the request unanimously. Why?

Probably because, if you're asking for that kind of money, you might want to show up for the hearing.

Sheriff Ralph "Iron Chef" Johnson was at a cooking school at the time:

Johnson was at Freeport High School at WZEP’s 14th Annual Taste of Home Cooking School when the County Commission unanimously denied his request for $311,431 for 911 equipment.

WZEP co-owner Marty Dees said the Sheriff’s Office is one of the event’s sponsors. It’s unclear when Johnson committed to attend.

...Dees said Johnson was one of about 700 people who attended the cooking school when the doors opened at 4:30 p.m. That was about the time that the County Commission denied the Sheriff’s Office request for the money.

Sheriff Johnson may try to appeal the commission's decision, this time bringing a delightful Grilled Bruschetta with Rosemary-White Bean Purée & Heirloom Tomatoes.

via NWF Daily News

Today's Hilltard Video

Thundercunt has just snagged the endorsement of the King of Fancy Pants!!!

Elderly Panamanian Juan McCain Ineligible to be President

The NY Times has once again proven they hate freedom. In an article published today, they bring up the question of whether or not WALNUTS! is eligible to be our 44th great-great-grandfather president:

Mr. McCain’s likely nomination as the Republican candidate for president and the happenstance of his birth in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936 are reviving a musty debate that has surfaced periodically since the founders first set quill to parchment and declared that only a “natural-born citizen” can hold the nation’s highest office.

...Mr. McCain was born on a military installation in the Canal Zone, where his mother and father, a Navy officer, were stationed. His campaign advisers say they are comfortable that Mr. McCain meets the requirement and note that the question was researched for his first presidential bid in 1999 and reviewed again this time around.

Is this the miracle Subway dude has been waiting for?

via NY Times

What's in a Name?

Given that the Right wants to concentrate on Barack Obama's middle name, it might be wise to take a look back at some of the great Western heros of our time. Juan Cole explains:

I want to say something about Barack Hussein Obama's name. It is a name to be proud of. It is an American name. It is a blessed name. It is a heroic name, as heroic and American in its own way as the name of General Omar Nelson Bradley or the name of Benjamin Franklin. And denigrating that name is a form of racial and religious bigotry of the most vile and debased sort. It is a prejudice against names deriving from Semitic languages!

Christian, Western heroes have often been bequeathed Middle Eastern names. Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, the medieval Spanish hero, carried the name El Cid, from the Arabic al-Sayyid, "the lord."

Barack and Hussein are Semitic words. Americans have been named with Semitic names since the founding of the Republic. Fourteen of our 43 presidents have had Semitic names (see below). And, American English contains many Arabic-derived words that we use every day and without which we would be much impoverished. America is a world civilization with a world heritage, something Cunninghamism will never understand.

Good stuff and worth the read.

via Sully

It's This Guy

Nader announced his running mate will be Matt Gonzalez, San Fransisco Supervisor and Board President, which is just a fancy way of saying "some guy that ran for mayor and lost."

Gonzalez was born to a Mexican mother and Mexican-American father. This fact will ensure that Tom Tancredo and Lou Dobbs will not rest until they track him down and deport him to Guantanamo.

via USA Today and Wiki

Home School Science Fair

February has been the unofficial Science Fair Month here at brickbat. Keeping with that tradition, we bring you the winner of the 2008 Home School Science Fair:

...The blue-ribbon winning project on dinosaurs and people roaming the earth together, with the color photos and the perfectly cut lettering, probably had parental help. The one explaining how a broken motor disproves Darwin's theory of evolution, with the roughly cut pieces of paper and the penciled in chicken scratches, probably did not.

2nd place went to a thesis entitled "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Sunday School."

via boingboing

Nader to Announce Fellow Loser Shortly

A couple of minutes from now, Ralph Nader will announce who will be his running mate for the 2008 election.

Please be Ross Perot. Please be Ross Perot. Please be Ross Perot.

via votenader.org

A History of Evil

Brilliant.

From boingboing:

[An] animated Documentary-Mockumentary about Evil in western civilization from Ancient Greece to present day. (...) This was a student project, hence the "unfinishedness" and abrupt ending. I ran out of time. I might update it later. It was animated frame by frame in flash and composited and textured in AfterEffects.



via boingboing

BREAKING NEWS: Candidates Debating Issues

Did you know there are other things to talk about than black babies and funny hats in this election cycle? I know, I'm shocked as well.

Yesterday, Juan McCain and Barry Hussein got in to a back and forth about the 100 year war in Iraq. It started with this from Tuesday's debate:



Then WALNUTS! hits back with this:

"When you examine that statement, it's pretty remarkable," McCain told a crowd in Tyler, Texas.

"I have some news. Al-Qaida is in Iraq. It's called `al-Qaida in Iraq,'" McCain said, drawing laughter at Obama's expense.

Obama responds later that day:

Mr. Obama, in Columbus, responded soon after. "I have some news for John McCain," Mr. Obama said at a large rally at Ohio State University. "There was no such thing as Al Qaeda in Iraq until George Bush and John McCain decided to invade Iraq."

Mr. Obama mocked his potential Republican rival as he answered Mr. McCain's charge that he lacks sufficient foreign-policy experience for the presidency.

"I've been paying attention, John McCain," Mr. Obama said, speaking to a crowd of 7,000 in the St. John Arena on the Ohio State campus. "So John McCain may like to say he wants to follow Osama bin Laden to the gates of Hell, but so far, all he's done is follow George Bush into a misguided war in Iraq."

Booooooooooring. Since when do the American people care about these so called issues?

Don't worry. I have a feeling that by the end of today, we'll be back to discussing what really matters: Terrorist middle names and sit-and-spin playtime with lobbyists.

via HuffPo

Today's Hilltard Video

Set to Thundercunt's official "New Hispanic Theme Song"

Selected Reading from Ron Paul Forum

It's time to see what Paultards are chattering about, when they're not playing WoW or yelling back at their moms from the basement. Today's selection comes from the thread entitled "The smear campaign worked and that's why we lost all those states":

The primary in Ct. was on Super Tuesday but I had an encounter today that crystallized the reason we lost this state and many others. I was in the school talking to the school nurse about my step son when the vice principal said something to the effect of "Ron Paul for president, huh?" and chuckled. I responded with something to the effect that the joke will be on us come November. Then he explained (after I asked) why he laughed about Ron Paul. First - "He's crazy". I said - what's crazy about the constitution? He said something to the effect of it should be amended with the times. I, of course, don't have a problem with that and told him that Ron Paul was fine with that. Why wouldn't he be? Then he mentioned the racist bullshit. I told him how the letters weren't written by Ron Paul, etc... but let's face it - the damage has been done. The media and the Republican party painted him as crazy and racist and it worked and THAT is why we lost all these states. So - congrats to the establishment for slandering one of the greatest statesmen to live in the past century. You losers.

I don't think it was the media painting L. Ron Paultard as a crazy racist.

It was more of Ron Paul being a crazy racist.

Let's put on our tin foil hats and read some replies:

As the educator he is supposed to be, you should have shamed him. Tell him to stop getting his facts from a TV. When they start laying off teachers and administrators in his district as they are doing now in our school district, make sure you let him know he blew his chance.

Do you think being an educator makes him any less of a lemming? If anything, it makes him MORE of a lemming because he works for the government. The point is - they managed to ruin the name of a truly great man and it worked. The fact that this particular gentleman is an educator is really not pertinent to the story I was imparting. This is what happened in America to people from all walks of life. They listened to the MSM and RP got railroaded.

Right. The media manufactured perception that RP was a long shot became the reality. If I ever see George Stephanopoulus's sorry mug in public I'll be hard pressed not to deck him for his 'interview' with RP when that insipid punk told RP to
his face he could not win.

I'm really gonna miss these guys :(

via RonPaulForums

Today's Godtube Moment

Bethlehemian Rhapsody.

Yet again ruining a song I like.



The comments are on the page are fucking gold. ie:

"I would just like to point out, that this song was written by a flaming homosexual."

via Godtube

The Incredible Inedible Egg

King-elect of American Christians/thorn in Juan McCain's side Mike Huckabee has endorsed an amendment in Colorado that defines personhood beginning at a fertilized egg:

"This proposed constitutional amendment will define a person as a human being from the moment life begins at conception," Huckabee said in a statement.

"With this amendment, Colorado has an opportunity to send a clear message that every human life has value," Huckabee said. "Passing this amendment will mean the people of Colorado will protect the sanctity of life from conception until natural death occurs."

Huckabee also proposed another piece of legislation: the Save teh Sea Monkeys Amendment. This bill would require cities to set up depositories at wastewater plants to collect and preserve the trillions of unborn babies produced by skeet.

via denverpost

Corporate Bias Against IT Techs

Basline explores the gaffes that keep "geeks out of the board room":

Like it or not, a person's fashion choices can have a definite effect on how far they move up the corporate ladder. Those who fail to portray success in the clothing they wear tend to get pegged as someone without "executive potential." Unfortunately, many geeks looking for a ticket away from help desk duty and into the board room tend to hamstring their chances by ignoring this unspoken rule of business. Here's some advice to wean you off these practices.

Some of those are ties with short sleeved shirts, tight black jeans, oversized Hawaiin shirts, and yes....socks with sandals.

via Baseline

What to get the Dodge Charger Owner who has Everything

Florida State Rep. Don Brown is a man of many passions. He enjoys fishing and woodworking. Oh, and he luuuuuuuuurvs him some Confederate flags.

So intense is his passion for old Dixie, he wants to put it on license plates in our fair state:

He is sponsoring House Bill 1007, which would approve a license plate paying homage to “Confederate Heritage.”

The very idea has already spurred passionate discussion.

“It sounds like they’re going to make a mountain out of a molehill on this one,” said Brown, R-DeFuniak Springs.

Nah. Not something as seemingly innocent as Dixie.

Under the bill, motorists would pay $25 for the tag. The money collected would support education and cultural activities sponsored by the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

The organization shelled out $60,000 to file an application for the plate’s consideration and collected 30,000 signatures from people willing to buy a tag.

Brown, who in his fourth term, has a reputation as a maverick in the House and has sometimes been harsh in his criticizing Gov. Charlie Crist. He said he had no idea his Confederate Heritage bill would create controversy.

Little known fact: This is the second bill Brown has introduced concerning license plates.

The first? A plate that read "Welcome to Florida. Now go home" with a flaming cross in the center.

via NWF Daily News

Larry Craig has the Perfect Position for You

The Idaho Bathroom Goblin is accepting applications for summer interns:

'"Interns have the chance to be an essential part of a working congressional office," said Craig. "They participate in the legislative process as well as ensure that constituent services run smoothly. For those interested in politics, it is an incredible opportunity to get a behind-the-scenes look at how our government functions while serving the people of Idaho."

And by "behind-the-scenes look" he means peeking through a glory hole.

via craig.senate.gov

Highlights from Last Night's Mindnumbing Debate

If you didn't watch it, I'm jealous. I wish I hadn't. That's what the Youtubes are for.

First, yes. Hillary did go there:



Here's the opening remarks. Watch how she won't shut the fuck up. Ever:



Barry discusses Hillary's experience:



Here, Hillary explains why she won't release her tax returns or personal schedule from when she was First Manimal. Then Russert asks Barry why he hates Jews. Barry says that he condems Farrakhan and his actions. Then Hillary jumps in to get the gold star (or Star of David) and says that she would Kung Fu kick Farrakhan right in his Mooslim face.



Closing remarks. Hillary finally kinda sorta apologizes for the Iraq vote. Listen to Barry's answer:

Mommy Dearest

Bill Cunningham: Douchebag of the Day

Not to be outdone, Bill Clinton called Barack the N-word.

Yeh, Another One

This one's pretty good though.

Acid Flashback

Today's paultard video kinda makes me sick, but not in the usual way. More like somebody put a wallet in my mouth sick.

Today's Hilltard Video

I have no idea what's more offensive. The images used in the video, or the music itself.

The Clothing of His Country?

He was born in the United States, twat.

Jesus.

What Would Judy Do?

She'd insist you love Baby Jeebus just as much as she does, lest you incur her superbitch wrath.

Judy Whitis is the City Manager for Callaway, FL. And she doesn't play well with others. Turns out she was kind of a bitch to other city officials that didn't go to her church or pray with her during city business. Here's what the Florida Commission on Human Relations found:

“In particular, the city manager favored city employees that attended her church and prayed with her during city business and penalized Ms. (Janice) McDonald and others who wished to attend church on their own or who did not subscribe to the city manager’s idea of religion,” McDonald’s attorney, Cecile Scoon, stated in a news release Monday. The release included the commission’s ruling, issued Jan. 18.

The commission said in its determination that “it appears that Ms. McDonald was subjected to an adverse action when she was forced to resign in lieu of termination on Jan. 14, 2005.” The commission adds that McDonald was qualified to do her job and was the planning director since 1998, during which time she received “sterling evaluations up until she spoke out against her supervisor’s religious views in July 2004.”

Also, back in 2004, Whitis responded to an official's objection to prayer at a city meeting by "yelling at McDonald, crying and slamming things around."

You know, just like Jesus would.

Mrs. Whitis, who can be contacted here, still serves as city manager.

via Panama Shitty News Herald

Doomsday Vault Opens / Crazies Panic

Apparently Darth Cheney has donated one of his many underground bunkers to help save mankind:

A vast underground vault storing millions of seeds from around the world is scheduled to open this week in a mountain on a remote island near the Arctic Ocean.

Dubbed the "Doomsday Vault," the seed bank is considered the ultimate safety net for the world's seed collections, protecting them from a wide range of threats including war, natural disasters, lack of funding or simply poor agricultural management.

Predictably, this has set nutcases off in a tizzy:

Now the Svalbard Seed Bank begins to become interesting. But it gets better. ‘The Project’ I referred to is the project of the Rockefeller Foundation and powerful financial interests since the 1920’s to use eugenics, later renamed genetics, to justify creation of a genetically-engineered Master Race. Hitler and the Nazis called it the Ayran Master Race.

The eugenics of Hitler were financed to a major extent by the same Rockefeller Foundation which today is building a doomsday seed vault to preserve samples of every seed on our planet. Now this is getting really intriguing. The same Rockefeller Foundation created the pseudo-science discipline of molecular biology in their relentless pursuit of reducing human life down to the ‘defining gene sequence’ which, they hoped, could then be modified in order to change human traits at will. Hitler’s eugenics scientists, many of whom were quietly brought to the United States after the War to continue their biological eugenics research, laid much of the groundwork of genetic engineering of various life forms, much of it supported openly until well into the Third Reich by Rockefeller Foundation generous grants.

So, if you kinda skimmed over that last really long Ron Paul forum-esque ramble, this so called "seed bank" is nothing more than a cover to genetically produce Nazi clones that will kill us all.

Ah, the intertubes.

via CNN & Global Research

Dick Gregory at State of the Black Union

As promised, here's the full speech. It is GOLD.

He goes from railing Walmart to railing Bill Clinton to Dr. Pepper to Manganese.

The 4th video is where he really brings teh crazy. If you don't have time to watch all 4, skip to the last one.









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They'll be Fine

Remember this?



Turns out the Clintons will be just fine.

From The Memling Index:

Just how is it that the three years of speaking gigs before January 1, 2004 had little effect on the Clinton’s net wealth while the three years of speaking gigs after January 1, 2004 caused it to multiply by more that 15 times?

Perhaps there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for all this but I think the subject certainly merits some more scrutiny by the press, if for no other reason than confirm or put to rest Dick Morris’s conspiracy theories.

The links under the graph below show that the MSM is starting to take a closer look at Bill Clinton’s recent business activities. However, the question of how, or if, these activities have contributed to the Clinton's post-2003 exponential growth in wealth still remains unanswered. The fact that the Clinton campagn is now starting to tap into this recently-created fortune, makes the question all the more pertinent.



via Sully

Dodd Endorses Obama

Some old man claiming to have run for president as well has just endorsed Barry Hussein:

A former adviser for Dodd said the timing of the Connecticut senator's endorsement "works pretty well" given that foreign policy has become a key issue of the campaign.

"With Clinton on the attack, a recognized leader on foreign and military affairs is vouching for Obama's readiness," the Dodd adviser told CNN.

via CNN

Best Documentary Short Subject

From Sully:

It won an Oscar last night for best documentary short. It's about a married couple fighting to allow a New Jersey cop's pension to go to her wife after her impending death from cancer. But gay couples are deemed beneath respect and equality and support by social conservatives; and so it was a struggle. I really wish the social right was actually pro-family, don't you? Btu even when it comes to public servants and cops, it is somehow more important to punish a couple's commitment to each other than to celebrate it.



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A Look at Hillary's "35 Years of Experience"

From newsday:

Hillary Rodham Clinton often invokes her "35 years of experience making change" on the campaign trail, recounting her work in the 1970s on behalf of battered and neglected children and impoverished legal-aid clients.

But there is a little-known episode Clinton doesn't mention in her standard campaign speech in which those two principles collided. In 1975, a 27-year-old Hillary Rodham, acting as a court-appointed attorney, attacked the credibility of a 12-year-old girl in mounting an aggressive defense for an indigent client accused of rape in Arkansas - using her child development background to help the defendant.

The case offers a glimpse into the way Clinton deals with crisis. Her approach, then and now, was to immerse herself in even unpleasant tasks with a will to win, an attitude captured in one of her favorite aphorisms: "Bloom where you're planted."

It also came at a crucial moment in her personal life, less than a year after she followed boyfriend Bill Clinton down to Arkansas - a time when she struggled to gain a foothold in a new state while maintaining her own professional identity.

"Bill was out front," said Tim Tarvin, one of Rodham's student assistants at the University of Arkansas Law School legal aid clinic. "But Hillary was running just as hard behind the scenes, battling just as hard for acceptance."

In May 1975, Washington County prosecutor Mahlon Gibson called Rodham, who had taken over the law clinic months earlier, to tell her she'd been appointed to represent a hard-drinking factory worker named Thomas Alfred Taylor, who had requested a female attorney.

In her 2003 autobiography "Living History," Clinton writes that she initially balked at the assignment, but eventually secured a lenient plea deal for Taylor after a New York-based forensics expert she hired "cast doubt on the evidentiary value of semen and blood samples collected by the sheriff's office."

However, that account leaves out a significant aspect of her defense strategy - attempting to impugn the credibility of the victim, according to a Newsday examination of court and investigative files and interviews with witnesses, law enforcement officials and the victim.

Rodham, records show, questioned the sixth grader's honesty and claimed she had made false accusations in the past. She implied that the girl often fantasized and sought out "older men" like Taylor, according to a July 1975 affidavit signed "Hillary D. Rodham" in compact cursive.

via newsday

But I Thought They Like teh Gayz

Last night's Oscars were really really boring. It almost seems as if the controversies the day after ware more interesting than the Hollywood Autofellatio awards show itself.

Case in point: When Scott Rudin won Best Picture for No Country for Old Men, he thanked his partner, John Barlow. Then this happened:

You'll recall when Scott Rudin, whom viewers might have recognized from the classic Goya portrait "Producer Devouring One of His Assistants," closed his Best Picture acceptance speech with a special mention to "my partner, John Barlow. Without you, honey, this is just hardware." His spouse appeared nowhere on the screen--we pictured much mayhem in the control booth, with Gil Cates barking into a headset at a camera operator, "Not Travolta, you fool! Barlow! Check the legend! CHECK THE--oh never mind,"--but it was a tender moment nonetheless. Good As You now notices that the mention has been stricken from the official Academy transcript:

[C]heck out this official press transcript from the Oscars website and see how they chose to present Rudin's words:
CATEGORY: BEST MOTION PICTURE OF THE YEAR SPEECH BY: SCOTT RUDIN, ETHAN COEN AND JOEL COEN FILM: "NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN"
======BEGIN TRANSCRIPTION======

Scott Rudin:
This is an unbelievable honor and a complete surprise. [...]

I want to thank my friend, Sydney Pollack, who taught me that with the responsibility -- with the opportunity to make movies comes the responsibility of making them good. This for him.

======END TRANSCRIPTION======

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Hillary Clinton's New Strategy

Nice.



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Wondercon Brings the Crazy

At this year's annual event for comic and sci-fi fans, the crew from the X-Files admitted to wondering whether or not they hate America:

A fan asked asked about the X-Files and 9/11 controversy. (For those who don't know, the pilot episode of X-Files spinoff The Lone Gunmen is about a plot to crash a hijacked plane into the WTC.) Carter passed the question to Spotnitz, who said:

"We were really upset, and worried that somehow we had inspired the plot. But we were relieved to discover that the plot pre-dated The Lone Gunmen, and that 9/11 had nothing to do with our work. And then once we realized that, my next thought was how the government hadn't known about this plot. There have been a lot of conspiracy theories about the connection between 9/11 and The Lone Gunman, but none of them are true."

Wow.

via io9

Thundercunt Sets Limbo Bar Dangerously Low

Hillary Clinton has really lost it. The above is a photo was emailed to the Drudge Report by Clinton staffers:

With a week to go until the Texas and Ohio primaries, stressed Clinton staffers circulated a photo over the weekend of a "dressed" Barack Obama.
The photo, taken in 2006, shows the Democrat frontrunner fitted as a Somali Elder, during his visit to Wajir, a rural area in northeastern Kenya.

The Obama camp responds:

Plouffe said in a statement: “On the very day that Senator Clinton is giving a speech about restoring respect for America in the world, her campaign has engaged in the most shameful, offensive fear-mongering we’ve seen from either party in this election. This is part of a disturbing pattern that led her county chairs to resign in Iowa, her campaign chairman to resign in New Hampshire, and it’s exactly the kind of divisive politics that turns away Americans of all parties and diminishes respect for America in the world," said Plouffe.

I'm amazed. I did not expect these kinds of tactics until the general election. By Republicans.

Here's a clip from a couple of days ago where Senator Thundercunt accuses Barry of using "tactics right out of Karl Rove's playbook."



Really, Thundercunt? Mailers about healthcare are more Rovian than smearing a black man with a funny name, using a photo that preys on the xenophobic fears of the weak minded?

Furthermore, another of your new strategies is the use of sarcasm?



Shame on you, Hillary Clinton. You are truly America at it's worst.

I look forward to the day that Clinton, Inc. is relegated to the dustbins of history.

UPDATE:
The Clinton campaign puts out a response from Maggie Williams, which doesn't respond to the question of whether a staffer was circulating the photo of Obama in Somali garb, but takes issue with the Obama campaign's embrace of the issue:

Enough.

If Barack Obama's campaign wants to suggest that a photo of him wearing traditional Somali clothing is divisive, they should be ashamed. Hillary Clinton has worn the traditional clothing of countries she has visited and had those photos published widely.

This is nothing more than an obvious and transparent attempt to distract from the serious issues confronting our country today and to attempt to create the very divisions they claim to decry.

We will not be distracted.


via Drudge Report / Politico

Ralph Nader and Ego Announce Presidential Run

As announced earlier, Ralph Nader is once again going to lose a presidential campaign. He sat down on Meet the Press to bore us about shit we've heard the other candidates prattle on about for over a year.

He touched on a wide array of subjects: Juan Mccain is a warmonger. Barack Obama is lazy. David Letterman hates the elderly. Democrats are whiney bitches who lost 2000 because Katherine Harris is a satanic twat. (okay, maybe he's right about that one)

Enjoy:

Dick Gregory: Hero for the Day

Here's a clip of Dick Gregory from Saturday evening's State of the Black Union forum. (Yes, I watch C-Span on Saturdays. Showtime doesn't start their soft porn until about midnight.)

I'm still trying to find the whole speech. He really brought teh crazy. Until then, enjoy Dick ripping Bill Clinton a new one.

Local Paper Wants in on McCain's Many Non-Morman Wives Story

Usually I read my local paper just for the funny stories about goat fuckers or how Baby Jeebus should teach science classes.

Not today, my friends.

We've got a real scoop about Solomon Juan McCain's many many wives:

That McCain divorced his first wife in 1980 and shortly thereafter married into money and launched his political career isn’t news to anyone who’s followed his rise to the expected GOP nomination.
But the fact that the Arizona senator’s divorce occurred in Okaloosa County might surprise some people.

Okay, but I haven't read anything about donkey punching lobbyists or black babies so far. How does this relate to me?

McCain’s divorce is likely to become fodder for discussion following a story last week in The New York Times that suggests McCain may have had an inappropriate relationship with lobbyist Vicki Iseman during his first presidential campaign in 2000.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. So you just mention the lobbyist's name in the story, making a perfect segue.

Carry on:

McCain, 71, has never denied that he was involved in an extra-marital affair when he filed to divorce his first wife, Carol, in January 1980. McCain was a U.S. Navy officer stationed in Jacksonville at the time.
Carol McCain, Internet reports state, had been disfigured in an automobile accident while McCain was a prisoner of war in Vietnam. Their marriage did not survive long after his return.
He met Cindy Hensley, a former cheerleader whose family ran one of the country’s largest Anheuser-Bush distributorships, at a reception in Hawaii in 1979, according to numerous accounts.
Fort Walton Beach attorney Bud Day, a Medal of Honor recipient and a prisoner of war with McCain in North Vietnam, drew up McCain’s divorce papers.


OMGEEZ!!! MIKANE DEVORSUD N MY SITTY!!!!

Thanks, Daily News!!!

You can read the divorce settlement here. If it matters that much to you.

I'll just stick to making cheap black baby/white lobbyist sexy time jokes.

via NWF Daily News

She's Good Enough. She's Smart Enough. And, Doggonit, People Like Her.

Atleast that's the logic Thundercunt used yesterday at The State of the Black Union.

When asked about superdelegates, she explains that voters may not know her well enough. So that's why her bff's, teh superdelegates, are probs a little more important than mere mortals.