27 April 2007
24 April 2007
Karl Rove
Courtesy of Josh Marshall and the guys at Talking Points Memo. Rove is in it big time. Let's see how the White House spins this.
17 April 2007
Virginia Tech
What happened at Virginia Tech, as tragic as it was, can only be seen as anticlimatic. A talented young man who fell prey to America's glorification of violence and and guns. Everytime I hear of these things, I cannot help but wonder how the NRA and anti-gun control advocates can say that "Guns don't kill. People kill." but stay silent when tragedies like these break out.
12 April 2007
I dedicate this entry to Kurt Vonnegut. May he rest in peace.
Well, Don Imus did it again. Last week , he referred to the RU Lady Scarlet Knights (the 2007 NCAA women's basketball runners-up) as "nappy-headed ho's". What steams me about this is how he can say that he's sorry when he has been saying shit like this for decades, and this is but the latest in a series of outrageous comments that he and his ilk on the right have made. In September 2005, William Bennett, Reagan's former Secretary of Education and George H.W. Bush's Drug Czar, said that if you want to see a reduction in crime, we should "abort black babies." A few weeks after last year's midterm elections, Glenn Beck asked the Representative-elect Keith Ellison (D-MN) "to prove that he wasn't working with our enemies." (Ellison is the first Muslim to be elected to the House of Representatives. He is also Minnesota's first black congressman. Beck would go on to say that the word faggot is a "naughty word", not a true epithet. Ann Coulter a few weeks ago at the American Conservative Union's CPAC referred to presidential hopeful John Edwards as a "faggot". While I am glad that MSNBC is no longer doing the simulcast of his show, I want CBS and WFAN to cut their ties with him as well, and send a message to those like Hannity, O'Reilly, Limbaugh, Beck, and Boortz. You are free to speak as you please, but be prepared to take responsibility for your actions.
Well, Don Imus did it again. Last week , he referred to the RU Lady Scarlet Knights (the 2007 NCAA women's basketball runners-up) as "nappy-headed ho's". What steams me about this is how he can say that he's sorry when he has been saying shit like this for decades, and this is but the latest in a series of outrageous comments that he and his ilk on the right have made. In September 2005, William Bennett, Reagan's former Secretary of Education and George H.W. Bush's Drug Czar, said that if you want to see a reduction in crime, we should "abort black babies." A few weeks after last year's midterm elections, Glenn Beck asked the Representative-elect Keith Ellison (D-MN) "to prove that he wasn't working with our enemies." (Ellison is the first Muslim to be elected to the House of Representatives. He is also Minnesota's first black congressman. Beck would go on to say that the word faggot is a "naughty word", not a true epithet. Ann Coulter a few weeks ago at the American Conservative Union's CPAC referred to presidential hopeful John Edwards as a "faggot". While I am glad that MSNBC is no longer doing the simulcast of his show, I want CBS and WFAN to cut their ties with him as well, and send a message to those like Hannity, O'Reilly, Limbaugh, Beck, and Boortz. You are free to speak as you please, but be prepared to take responsibility for your actions.
03 April 2007
Well, April is here. Warm weather, baseball, and all that fun stuff. And of course the showdown in the White House. The Chimp has already said that he will veto any bill to bring the troops back, and with 150 House Republicans backing him, The Dems in the Senate, led by Reid and Feingold, have a plan B, which Kerry and presidential longshot Chris Dodd have backed, calling for an end to funding the war. This is what I am talking about.
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