Rachel Maddow, MSNBC's rising star, who is never at a loss for words was just that the other night. Here is Rachel attempting to respond to Keith Olberman:
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Saturday, February 28, 2009
The watermelon roll. . .
The mayor of the Orange Conty town of 12,000, Los Alamitos, is under heavy national under fire for an e-mail he sent out "No Easter egg hunt this year," showing the White House lawn planted with watermelons.
"I have had plenty of my share of chicken and watermelon and all those kinds of jokes," Keyanus Price, a local business owner told The Associated Press. "As a black person receiving something like this from the city-freakin'-mayor - come on." She wants a public apology.
The Orange County Register reported the email earlier this week.
"I have had plenty of my share of chicken and watermelon and all those kinds of jokes," Keyanus Price, a local business owner told The Associated Press. "As a black person receiving something like this from the city-freakin'-mayor - come on." She wants a public apology.
The Orange County Register reported the email earlier this week.
the almost ex-mayor
Mayor Dean Grose confirmed to the AP that he sent the e-mail to Price and said he didn't mean to offend her. He said he was "unaware of the racial stereotype that black people like watermelons. "
On Thursday The Mayor announced he would resign at a City Council meeting on Monday.
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Ed Anger on Bobby Jindal
In an opinion piece this week in the Weekly World News, Ed Anger writes:
"Bobby Jindal says he’s from Crapistan or one of those hellholes, but do we know that for sure? Maybe he’s really a Terminator from the future, except instead of laser beams, he can kill you just by talking. At least that Cheney robot we had for eight years didn’t go on TV and bore you to death, and that Romney one’s programmed to smile once in a while."
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Friday, February 27, 2009
Governor Bobby Jindal's Dr. Faustus Bargain?
An update from the weekly world news tells that Senator Bobby Jindal’s talks with Satan appear to be working, since not long after, he was picked to deliver the official GOP response to President Obama’s State of the Union. Unfortunately, it was an unmitigated train wreck. . .
It looks like the wheels may be coming off his deal with The Devil.
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Poem: Evil Konks Out
1
The sun, and that sweet, sweet moon, cling to heaven.
Bugs, fish, animals, trees, and people
Cling to earth.
Power is like stapling
A target to your back.
Play dumb, play slow, play luckless.
2
Difficulty surrounds
You like a moat,
You persevere.
Spoof, lie, mislead, and spin.
Be a smiler.
Don't awaken their enmity.
3
In the end, evil konks out
Like a squid simmered in its own ink,
Because evil fails the moment
It overcomes good--
Consuming the energy
To which it owed its duration.
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The sun, and that sweet, sweet moon, cling to heaven.
Bugs, fish, animals, trees, and people
Cling to earth.
Power is like stapling
A target to your back.
Play dumb, play slow, play luckless.
2
Difficulty surrounds
You like a moat,
You persevere.
Spoof, lie, mislead, and spin.
Be a smiler.
Don't awaken their enmity.
3
In the end, evil konks out
Like a squid simmered in its own ink,
Because evil fails the moment
It overcomes good--
Consuming the energy
To which it owed its duration.
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
Talking Heads video: Burning Down The House
A video of one of my favorite Talking Heads tunes from the Jonathan Demme film Stop Making Sense...
Is the AG deranged? And by extension are the rails coming off the obama juggernaut fast
By Jack Brummet, Publisher
By Pablo Fanque, National Affairs Editor
This week, Attorney General Eric Holder described the United States Wednesday as a nation of cowards on matters of race, saying most Americans avoid discussing unresolved racial issues.
In a speech we just watched, he explained there were two Americas. One in the workplace, and another one on weekends. . .where the various races largely slip back into their ethnocentric cocoon, with each ethnic group largely separated.
In a speech to Justice Department employees during i Black History Month, Holder said the workplace is integrated but Americans still self-segregate on the weekends and in their private lives.
"Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards," said Holder, nation's first black attorney general.
Holder said, but "we, as average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about race." We don't know who he hangs out with, but that is flat wrong. At least in the circles we run with, it is discussed often. And then, what could the AG possible know about average Americans? As it turns out, not much.
"It is an issue we have never been at ease with and, given our nation's history, this is in some ways understandable," Holder said. "If we are to make progress in this area, we must feel comfortable enough with one another and tolerant enough of each other to have frank conversations about the racial matters that continue to divide us."
Attorney General Holder, as Dante asked in Grandma's Boy, "Where do you get your weed?"
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WTF??--> Gary Locke, Ron Simms, and Gil Kerlikowske
Ron Sims
Gary Locke
Gil Kerlikowske
By Pablo Fanque
All This Is That National Affairs Editor
Man, if this is the cream of the crop. . .we're in for one rocky four years.
President Barack Obama's third pick for Commerce secretary is former Washington Gov. Gary Locke, a senior administration official said Monday. This office is starting to look like the piano player's slot in the Grateful Dead--a ticket to oblivion.
Locke, a Democrat, was the nation's first Chinese-American governor when he served two terms in the Washington statehouse from 1997 to 2005. Obama's choice of Locke arose less than two weeks after his most recent pick, Republican Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, backed out. Just over a week after Obama named him and he accepted, Gregg cited "irresolvable conflicts" with the policies of the Democratic president. And after Bill Richardson bailed out early on, mired in some sordid money scandal. Gary also served as the King County Executive, a slot that the newly appointed Deputy Secretary also held.
Ron Sims - couldn't get elected Senator or Governor. But Obama wants him. I like Ron. I voted for him a few times. But would I have made him deputy Secretary? Probably not.
President Obama's choice to head the Office of National Drug Control Policy — otherwise known as the country's "Drug Czar" — is reportedly Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske. Having served in law enforcement for more than 30 years, Kerlikowske is "known as an innovator and fierce defender of community policing principles that emphasize relationships with citizens over force." He got the Seattle Police Chief job when Norm Stamper (a pretty cool guy, and now an activist for relaxed drug laws) presided over the WTO riots in Seattle.
Seattle appears to have a bizarre lock on high profile jobs in the new administration. Hey, BHO, if you can come up with something for our governor. . .!
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Poem: Tethers
Your tenuous hold on earth
Is disguised in your shadow,
Tethered to the ground
By the soles of your feet
And a theory of gravity.
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Video: The Beatles play Please Please Me, warts and all
I am always fascinated by The Beatles live performances, using PAs and guitar amplifiers far less powerful than what we see in 100 person clubs now. They couldn't usually overmatch the screaming. When I saw them in '66 in their second to last show, it was a murky jumble of sound, and the girl's screams won. And yet, it is amazing how good they were live, with the deck totally stacked against them...
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