crosshairs
"We're on Sarah Palin's targeted list. But the thing is that the way that she has it depicted has the crosshairs of the gun site over our district, and when people do that they've got to realize that there are consequences to that action." --Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, March 25, 2010
money and votes
My friend Beth Wellington has an op-ed piece in The Guardian.
basil marceaux . . .
. . . is running for Governor of Tennessee. It's hard to pick just one star from Basil's galaxy of wisdom, but let's start with these:
- "See why dental is not in most plans a tooth aches hurt more than a back aches and no teeths depresses people"
- "I would introduce a bill to make all the state vacant land that are open field and along the high way a farm and this farm will plant corn products and other plant life that can be use for alterative fuel"
- "Free the slaves at traffic stops from false arrest and jury fixing"
- "Education ,let us put phonics back in school if you can not read you can not do History, Math, English. And that where we are now. Let make it mandatory in high school to read the minutes to the U.S. Congress , the Congressional Globe the real history of the U.S."
You can read all of Basil's thoughts and get a look at his spiffy uniform at his website here. And here's a YouTube video of Basil. (I hope.) "Hi, I'm Basil Marceaux.com." I wish I lived in Tennessee!
(Thanks to Jason in Gardner, the Chair City)
I was wondering if Sarah Palin had already endorsed or "fudiated" Basil, so I checked her Facebook page, and read this: "Todd, Willow, and I are headed out to Kodiak and Afognak to meet with logging families on the forested islands. As we work and sightsee on America’s largest island we’ll get to view more majestic bears . . ." Sarah must have been out sick the day the geography class studied American Islands. Hawaii, the Big Island, is larger than Kodiak. Could it be she doesn't consider Obama's birthplace as part of the U.S.?
howard zinn
Howard, activist, historian, professor, voice of the Left, Howard Zinn has died. The Guardian takes note. And so does Daniel Ellsberg.
sounds like a plan
"Second, I'm going to report to the FBI any white person I overhear saying, in seriousness or in jest, anything of a threatening nature about President Obama." (Thanks to Jason in Barre, MA)
senator al franken
The Minnesota Supreme Court has declared Al Franken the winner in the state's disputed Senatorial election.
rotten tomatoes
Dania Beach, oldest city in Broward County, was once the "Tomato Capital of the World." Salt-water incursion put an end to that dream.The tomato industry has moved west to Immokalee. Nearly all the tomatoes available in national supermarkets in winter come from here in South Forida.Those tomatoes are generally thick, dry, and tasteless. In fact, I haven't had a decent tomato in twenty years. But that's not the real problem. Gourmet magazine's March issue features a story on slavery in the tomato fields of Immokalee. It's well worth reading about the inhuman working conditions endured by migrant workers. "Workers who pick the food we eat can't afford to feed themselves." And then find out how you can be assured that you buy slave-free fruit by checking the Coalition of Immokalee Workers Campaign for Fair Food here.
religion builds character
Mule-fucking Georgia gubernatorial candidate and director of security for the Creator's Rights Party says he'd kill his son to overturn Roe v.Wade and secede from the Union. "When you grow up on a farm in Georgia, your fist girlfriend is s mule."
wanted
The city of Brattleboro, Vermont, seeks an indictment of Bush and Cheney.
let the dirty tricks begin
Karl Rove may be in hiding, but his tactics are alive and well. GOP student leader forwards a racist email accusing Obama of being a Muslim terrorist, his mother of being an atheist--one could only hope.
yes we can
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you know whom
(via BoingBoing)
how the dems can lose again
Frank Rich on Hillary, Barack, and Bill. "In a McCain vs. Billary race, the Democrats will sacrifice the most highly desired commodity by the entire electorate, change; the party will be mired in déjà 1990s all over again. Mrs. Clinton’s spiel about being “tested” by her “35 years of experience” won’t fly either. The moment she attempts it, Mr. McCain will run an ad about how he was being tested when those 35 years began, in 1973. It was that spring when he emerged from five-plus years of incarceration at the Hanoi Hilton while Billary was still bivouacked at Yale Law School. And can Mrs. Clinton presume to sell herself as best equipped to be commander in chief “on Day One” when opposing an actual commander and war hero? I don’t think so. "
huckles
"Sometimes we talk about why we're importing so many people in our workforce," the former Arkansas governor said. "It might be for the last 35 years, we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our workforce had we not had the holocaust of liberalized abortion under a flawed Supreme Court ruling in 1973." --Mike Huckabee
huckenfreude
"Pleasure derived from the outrage of prominent conservative pundits over the rising poll numbers of Mike Huckabee."
