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Take the color of ones skin out of the equation and please explain to me who in their right mind does something like this:

A black man from Mississippi has been arrested and accused of sending racist death threats over the Internet to three black students at Louisiana’s Nicholls State University.

The FBI in New Orleans said Dyron Hart, 19, was arrested Wednesday. He is accused of sending the messages by way of the students’ Facebook accounts. The messages contained racial epithets and death threats and were sent to two black women and a black man at Nicholls State in Thibodaux, La.

The author of those messages cast himself as a white man who intended to kill blacks because Barack Obama was elected president.

Hart told an FBI agent that he sent the messages to “get a reaction,” according to the agent’s sworn statement.

The criminal complaint was filed in U.S. District Court in New Orleans. U.S. Attorney Jim Letten’s office said Hart made his initial court appearance in Biloxi. It was unclear when he would be brought to New Orleans.

Although the case sprang from a probe into messages sent to the three Nicholls State students, the FBI agent’s statement said Hart also admitted sending the message to students at other institutions, including LSU, the University of Mississippi and the University of Alabama.

Is it hatred, stupidity, seeking 15 minutes of fame or is a person like this simply unstable? Whatever the answer, Mr. Hart has now received a “reaction” on which he no doubt did not plan.

HT:Sweetness and Light

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Keith Olberman is probably the most despicable person I have ever seen on television. He makes Dan Rather’s bouts with President Nixon look like a day in the playground when he goes on his daily rants about President Bush.

When was the last time you ever heard a television personality tell the President of the United States to “Shut the hell up”? This is the first and last time I’ve ever heard anyone so disrespect the office because of the occupant of the office. And we wonder why our country is split. It’s due in part to idiots like this.

Olberman should have kept his ESPN job where he could just read about sports jocks. The one redeeming factor is who really watches MSNBC anyway?

Now so you can hear his insanity for yourself I give you this video:

Olberman, shut the heck up!

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The San Francisco Chronicle should be ashamed to have a writer on their staff who produces an article entitled “Bush Death Watch: Countdown”.

This gentleman, (ahem), is well within his right to speak or write whatever he chooses. However, there was a time that a headline such as the one above would have drawn harsh criticism from not only a paper’s editorial staff but other journalists. That very well may have led to the piece being shelved. Not so today, as a matter of fact this behavior is championed by many.

Just look at the list at Texas Rainmaker (who also receives the HT for the above link), of those who have wished our President dead or that harm in some form would come to him.

The liberals just never seem to get enough when it comes to fantasizing about the death of the President of the United States. Whether it’s a liberal protestor fantasizing about murdering him or a political candidate favoring the death penalty for him or artists memorializing assassination in print or entrepreneurs trying to sell merchandise endorsing his assassination or the latest example… right from one of our own American newspapers, the San Francisco Chronicle:

I too am ready for this President to retire to Texas, but for none of the same reasons these individuals cite. I want a decent man and his family to finally have the peace they so deserve after almost eight years of venom and disgusting displays of immaturity and disrespect.

It would do us all well to remember one thing about this man and his so despised (in many corners) administration. It has been a little better than six years since those towers collapsed in NYC and you and yours have remained safe since. That, in my humble opinion, is no accident.

If that in and of itself does not deserve a little credit, then I do not know what does. But then again, these days when it comes to politics in this country, I really don’t understand much.

A few days ago, I wrote that I was swearing off anything but feel good stories, at least until after the Thanksgiving holiday, but this was one which I could not in good faith allow to pass.

We really need to stop it. We need to put an end to the hatred toward each other over idelogy, or nothing, and I mean nothing good will come of it.

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The Phelps Gang which claims an affiliation with an evangelical Christian denomination has finally been taken to court by a fallen Marine’s family.

This group gets pleasure from declaring people will go to hell except them.

In this case the funeral of Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder of Baltimore was disrupted by these thugs.

Reader David has been in the lines with the Patriot Guard, which tries to keep this group from the sight and sound of the mourners.

I don’t know if this group was at this particular funeral or not, but it was supposed to be a private funeral.

During cross-examination, defense attorney Jonathan Katz focused on obituaries and death notices and questioned Snyder on whether they said the funeral services were private. Snyder replied that the notices said friends and family were welcome, but admitted that he did not know all of the 500 or so people who attended.

The case tests the limits of the First Amendment right to free speech.

U.S. District Richard Bennett instructed jurors at the start of testimony Tuesday that the First Amendment protection of free speech has limits, including vulgar, offensive and shocking statements. Bennett said the jurors must decide “whether the defendant’s actions would be highly offensive to a reasonable person, whether they were extreme and outrageous, and whether these actions were so offensive and shocking as to not be entitled to First Amendment protection.”…

…Katz told jurors Tuesday the protests took place 1,000 feet away from St. John Catholic Church, where the funeral was held, down a hill and out of sight and hearing from participants.

Snyder said American military personnel are in Iraq fighting for freedom of speech “they’re not fighting for hate speech.” One photo showing a child holding a sign at the funeral protest was particularly disturbing, the father said.

“I pray for their children. Their children need help. To be brought up with that kind of hatred,” Snyder said.

“My God is loving God,” Snyder said, adding later “I don’t look for hatred in the Bible.”

The church’s founder and pastor, Fred Phelps, took the stand after Snyder and prompted a strong admonition from Bennett when the pastor said he had not considered whether children would see a sign carried by protesters with the words “Semper Fi Fags” and two stick figures that appear to be engaged in sodomy.

“No, it’s an irrelevancy,” Phelps said.

Bennett then interjected sharply.

“Just answer the question, sir. Don’t determine what’s relevant or not relevant. You just answer the question,” Bennett said.

I hope the jury is just as patient with these thugs as the judge seems to be. When all is said and done, I hope the father owns the building, property and treasury of the Westboro “Baptist” Church.

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Why would any adult, regardless of color, put a noose around a small child’s neck to show why nooses are important to their history and because some stupid rednecks put up nooses in Jena?

GRAMBLING, La. — Officials at Grambling State University were meeting Monday after the school newspaper ran photographs of adults at a campus-run elementary school putting a noose around at least one child’s neck.

Kindergarten and first-grade students at Alma J. Brown Elementary School were being taught why nooses are a symbol of racism, an article from the historically black university’s student newspaper said.

The article said the children also were being taught about the “Jena Six” — black high-school students who are accused of beating a white schoolmate. Court proceedings brought about 20,000 to 25,000 people to Jena, about 70 miles from Grambling, for a civil rights march in September.

A press release posted on the Gramblinite’s Web site said three photographs from the event were removed after a staff conference call. Ten others were re-posted to the site Monday after the university’s president ordered the removal of all the photos and the story over the weekend, according to the Gramblinite press release.

I can understand teaching children about racism, but this doesn’t help us to fulfill Martin Luther King’s dream of everyone working and playing together regardless of the color of their skin.

This is an outrage! What do the parents think of their child being put into a noose?

How much fear did they put into this little girl, all to prove a senseless point that could have been discussed and shown in drawings for illustration purposes?
Shame on the lot of them! The whites who did what they did with nooses and the African-Americans who did what they did to this little girl and how many others?

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This is a very small blog in the vast blogosphere, but our goal from the beginning was to try to cool down the hate-speech and politicization of every topic in our great country.

Yesterday Sue wrote a nice column telling of Sen. Tim Johnson’s remarkable recovery from his stroke and his being able to return to work soon.

We wished him well, and on most of the conservative blogs you will see that same wish if they published the story.

That’s why it’s disheartening to read the comments on the Huffington Post regarding Tony Snow’s announcement he is leaving before Mr. Bush’s presidency ends and he says it’s for financial purposes.

Why do people wish death and bad things on other people over politics? Is it because they are like this normally? If so, I pity them.

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I don’t know how many different ways I can give it to you. She didn’t say what you said she did. You’ve got to read the whole paragraph and not pick out what displeases you. It’s called taking things in context. Democrats and Republicans have a different way of looking at things. Get over it.

On the July 1 edition of Fox News’ Hannity’s America, host Sean Hannity played a clip from a May 29 speech by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) — in which Clinton said it is time for America “to reject the idea of an on-your-own society and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity” — and added, “This isn’t the first time Hillary has made her socialist views and intentions so apparent.” Hannity also characterized the speech as Clinton “blast[ing] the free market.” In fact, Clinton said in the same speech that “there is no greater force for economic growth than free markets.” As Media Matters for America has documented, other conservative commentators have similarly selectively quoted from Clinton’s speech in order to paint her as a “socialist.”

Hannity began the segment with a discussion of Clinton’s senior thesis at Wellesley College on community activist Saul Alinsky, and then went on to discuss Clinton’s May 29 speech outlining her economic vision for America, which he erroneously described as occurring on June 4. Hannity said that Clinton “blasted the free market, campaigned for redistribution of wealth for the common good, and compared the last six years in America to the era of the robber barons.” Hannity played a series of clips from the speech Clinton gave May 29 at a high school in Manchester, New Hampshire, which the Associated Press described as “outlin[ing] a broad economic vision” in its May 29 report. From Hannity’s America:

CLINTON: It’s time for a new beginning … time to reject the idea of an on-your-own society and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity. … The genius of the American economy in the 20th century was that it helped to counter that tendency for people to push as far as their own interests would take them.

But in accusing Clinton of embracing socialism, Hannity ignored that immediately after Clinton stated that it was “time to reject the idea of an on-your-own society and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity,” Clinton praised the free market system when it includes “rules that promote our values, protect our workers and give all people a chance to succeed.” Clinton asserted:

CLINTON: It’s time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few and for the few, time to reject the idea of an on-you-own society and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity. I prefer a “we’re all in it together” society.

Now, there is no greater force for economic growth than free markets, but markets work best with rules that promote our values, protect our workers and give all people a chance to succeed. When we get our priorities in order and make the smart investments we need, the markets work well.

Instead of airing that statement, Hannity followed it with a statement from 17 paragraphs earlier in the speech:

CLINTON: The genius of the American economy in the 20th century was that it helped to counter that tendency for people to push as far as their own interests would take them so that we created a leveler playing field that benefited everyone.

In addition, Hannity truncated remarks Clinton made in San Francisco at a June 28, 2004, fundraiser for Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) as further evidence of Clinton’s “socialist views and intentions.” According to Hannity, at that fundraiser Clinton told the audience of wealthy donors:

CLINTON: We’re not coming to you, many of whom are well enough off that actually the tax cuts may have helped you … we’re probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We are going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.

In fact, according to a July 2, 2004, correction to a June 29, 2004, AP report, Clinton said that “cut[ting] short” the tax cuts was probably necessary “for America to get back on track and be fiscally responsible,” implying that the tax cut reductions would be necessary to reduce the federal deficit. According to the AP, Clinton said:

CLINTON: We’re not coming to you, many of whom are well enough off that actually the tax cuts may have helped you, and say “we’re going to give you more.” We’re saying, “You know what, for America to get back on track and be fiscally responsible, we’re probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.“

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Considering recent events in England, this article makes one wonder how many are involved in this ring of terrorists associated with the medical profession.

45 Muslim doctors planned US terror raids

A group of 45 Muslim doctors threatened to use car bombs and rocket grenades in terrorist attacks in the United States during discussions on an extremist internet chat site.

Cyber-terrorists: Tariq Daour, Younis Tsouli and Waseem Mughal

Police found details of the discussions on a site run by one of a three-strong “cyber-terrorist” gang.

They were discovered at the home of Younis Tsouli, 23, Woolwich Crown Court in south-east London heard.

One message read: “We are 45 doctors and we are determined to undertake jihad and take the battle inside America.

“The first target which will be penetrated by nine brothers is the naval base which gives shelter to the ship Kennedy.” This is thought to have been a reference to the USS John F Kennedy, which is often at Mayport Naval Base in Jacksonville, Florida.

HT: Jules Crittenden

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Glancing at the blogs since the immigration compromise was announced reminds me of a hate fest for George W Bush.

With apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning I say “How do we hate thee? Let us count the ways.”

We hate you because we don’t like your swagger.

We hate you because you smirk.

We hate you because you’re in denial and delusional too.

We hate you because you allowed 9/11 to happen

We hate you because you’re a Republican.

We hate you because you’re not a conservative Republican.

We hate you because you’re too conservative.

We hate you because you stole the election—both times.

We hate you because you caused Katrina and didn’t do anything to help the victims.

We hate you because you have an aristocratic nose.

We hate you because you believe in God.

We hate you because you pretend to believe in God, but we know better!

We hate you because you have curly hair.

We hate you because your wife, children and extended family love you.

Most of all, real Conservative Republicans know for a fact you caused this immigration crisis when you were a boy and you didn’t single-handedly throw out all 12-20 million illegal immigrants. Therefore, we will never vote for you again.

Sound far-fetched? Go check the other blogs and you will at the very least see the immigration complaint coming from the rightest of right sites. Not all, but the ones who have jumped the shark.

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Karl Rove was attacked by about a dozen protesters who threw things at him and his car and lay down in front of his car so he couldn’t leave after giving a speech to the College Republicans at American University last night.

Such tolerance. Such good manners. Such foolish hatred.

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I came across this opinion piece from the San Francisco Gate last night, and I was so flabbergasted by it I decided to leave it alone until I had a clearer head. Unfortunately, I’m having allergy problems today, but I’m going to try to tackle it anyway.

Actually, I don’t even know where to begin because I don’t know if the writer is putting us on or serious, drunk or sober, crazy or sane.

I think he wants conservativism to die a slow, painful death as evidenced by his first two paragraphs:

Here’s the good news: The Republican party is dying. Slow, painful, twitching, secreting war and intolerance and desperation like a fetid gas, snarling and gagging like Jabba the Hutt being choked by the hard chain of progress and hope and relaxed social mores and an upcoming Generation Next that seems to sense that screaming about gays and women’s rights and Muslims and drugs actually doesn’t do much to move the human experiment forward in the slightest.

Is this not delicious? Is this not cause for rejoicing? According to Pew Research, the percentage of young ‘uns age 18 to 25 (a.k.a. Generation Next) who identify with Republicans has been in steady decline since the early ’90s, and now hovers around a meager 35 percent, down from a high of 55 percent in the Reagan-toxic early-90s, and is still dropping, whereas fully 48 percent of 18-to-25-year-olds now lean Democratic … and rising.

Do any of you conservatives think you are dying as a movement the way he describes it?

Slow, painful, twitching, secreting war and intolerance and desperation like a fetid gas, snarling and gagging like Jabba the Hutt being choked by the hard chain of progress

Do you scream about gays, women’s rights, drugs and Muslims all day? I admit to not being particularly fond of extremist Islamists and I talk about it whenever I get a chance because I see them as a danger to the world and our lifestyle, but women’s rights?

I do think marriage is ordained by God and is between one man and one woman, but I don’t talk about it out of the clear blue sky. It usually happens when it’s being jammed down my throat by the lesbian and gay communities. Otherwise I rarely think about it.

If I don’t run around in public making a spectacle of my husband and myself, declaring I am heterosexual why should I have to watch someone else make a spectacle of themselves telling me about their sexuality, about which I couldn’t care less except I know the act is an abomination to God? I mean, it’s not exactly dinnertime conversation in my house. How about you?

Drugs. Now that’s a topic I talk about to my granddaughter who is nine years old and about to enter middle school. Why? Because it is a problem and she will see it more and more as she progresses in school and in life.

No one wants a loved one to be on drugs and possibly die of an overdose or get some dreaded disease from dirty needles or even from taking drugs that ruin the liver. So, yes, I plead guilty to occasionally talking about drugs to my granddaughter.

Women’s Rights is so 70s. I know they want to get the ERA amendment up and running again, but I honestly don’t even know what they want from it that women don’t already have, so that’s not a hot-button issue with me right now at least.

Is this not delicious? Is this not cause for rejoicing? According to Pew Research, the percentage of young ‘uns age 18 to 25 (a.k.a. Generation Next) who identify with Republicans has been in steady decline since the early ’90s, and now hovers around a meager 35 percent, down from a high of 55 percent in the Reagan-toxic early-90s, and is still dropping, whereas fully 48 percent of 18-to-25-year-olds now lean Democratic … and rising.

Seems Generation Next tend to be more socially liberal and much less worried about the trembling “sanctity” of the failed nuclear family, and are overall less inclined to align with a particular religion. Indeed, it almost makes you want to weep and sigh and go buy a large grass-fed free-range organic hybrid vibrator.

Ah, but there is a flip side. A counterargument. A dark cloud of righteous bleakness and it looms like a giant synthetic cheesecake-scented Glade PlugIn of potential misery.

It is this: According to another set of data, for the past 30 years or so, conservatives — particularly those of the right-wing red-state Christian strain — have been out-breeding liberals by a margin of at least 20 percent, if not far more.

It’s true. The reason? Why, God loves babies, of course. White American babies, most especially. Also: issues of space, religion, sexual orientation and, of course, conscience. Or, you know, lack thereof.

One theory goes like this: Libs are generally more socially conscious and hence tend to actually give a modicum of thought to what it means to pop out a brood of children in this modern overstuffed age. Also, many other liberal bohos are (admittedly) happy selfish suckwads who want all the modern booty for themselves and won’t want to give up the Ducati and the plasma and the biannual trip to Cinque Terre for the sake of a pod of rug rats and 15 grand a year (each) for private kindergarten. Translation: Libs just aren’t procreating like they could/should be.

Conservative Christians, of course, have no such conscience. Among the right-wing God-lovin’ set, there is often little real awareness of planetary health or resource abuse or the notion that birth control is actually a very, very good idea indeed, and therefore it’s completely natural to worship at the altar of minivans and SUVs and megachurches and massive all-American entitlement and have little qualm about popping out six, seven, 19 gloopy tots to populate the world with frat boys and Ford F-150 buyers and food court managers.

I always assumed it might actually be a good thing that conservatives breed so mindlessly, because all those unhappy neocon kids, all those repressed misled tots grow up and eventually begin to (well, sometimes) think for themselves and ultimately do what any good kid does: rebel against their parents’ silly dogma and become a bit more open-minded and hopeful, right?

Not exactly. Apparently, according to the research, four out of five kids actually stick with the political affiliation of their parents, generation after generation, with religious conservatives far more unlikely than their liberal brethren to allow their kids to develop the capacity for independent thought (given how it’s so, you know, dangerous to America). Also, one word: homeschooling. I’m just sayin’.

Actually, research has shown 18-25 year olds are the least likely people to vote and by the time they start to settle down and pay taxes they begin to see a bit more responsibly regardless of how they vote.

He is right about most children voting the way their parents did. Tonto is the exception to that rule.

The rest of the above quote isn’t even worth discussing lest I descend into the depths in which the writer finds himself.

I have two children, my children each have two children, my mother had two children, my sister had two children, and my husband’s parents had two children. Hardly “popping out a brood of children.”

Liberals claim to be the tolerant people. Over the last 30 years or so I have listened to talk radio programs and always wondered why the liberals have been given that moniker. They seem tolerant so long as you agree with them, but very intolerant of your opinion if you disagree.

There’s a lot of hate, stupidity or comedy in this opinion piece. I’m just not quite sure which it is.

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As an example of what we don’t want to happen on this blog I would like to point you to this post at Politico. Pay particular attention to the comments on a post that states former Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld was hospitalized for some kind of heart procedure.

I will quote some of them:

f**k cheney, rove, and rumsfeld!

Posted By: wagman | March 15, 2007 at 10:14 PM

Why should any reasonable American care whether he lives or dies? Prisons are filled with the likes of Donald Rumsfeld.

Posted By: jjohnson | March 15, 2007 at 09:53 PM

May God forgive all of rummy’s followers, supporters, & peanut gallery crazies.

Posted By: JoannaOregon | March 15, 2007 at 09:35 PM
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Wouldn’t that require to actually have a heart ???

Posted By: jollyjoker | March 15, 2007 at 09:29 PM

What a pity that people wish other people ill health or worse.

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