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Although I don't frequent Free Republic very often (I prefer to indulge my voyeuristic tendencies via Pam Spaulding), I have a hard time believing it's any worse now than it ever was, so I'll just take their word for it. Anyway, if it's true that the anti-semites have overrun Freeper land and driven out all the "movement conservatives" who just want to purge the country of brown people, I am happy that in keeping with the holiday spirit Pach has provided a home for them here. Welcome. Everybody needs some place to go on Festivus.
Meanwhile, Howie Klein's adventures in South America needling Tom Tancredo supporters can be read on his travel blog. And it was nice that the General stopped by today to let us know what he gave Tancredo for Christmas. I don't want to give it away, but it was mighty white of him.
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Fitz!
Zed!
Esten!
whitey tighty, lefty loosy
Anti Semites? Does that mean one dislikes Palestinians and Jews? These peoples are Semites.
Bushco raised the bar. Give the whackos a president, congress, few trillion bucks and a crusade and they just want more.
Christmas is a feeling. It doesn’t have to mean religion.
Class? Does that have to do with poor kids?
I am outraged. So what’s new? Right? For the money we spend, that’s right, ‘we’, on Iraq each month, there would be no child “left behind” this Christmas. Or for that matter, any other time.
J-Ham said “flubbed” in her previous post — when did our blogmistress stop swearing? Is this the pernicious influence of Spotlight?
Are the children from dead American soldiers killed in Iraq having a Merry Christmas?
TeddySanFran @
11
Umm, that’s pretty fuckin’ easy to fix. :)
Thank the Festivus goddess for Pam, she’s my scout overthere in Creeperland. She goes so I don’t have to!
“To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the flub”
save some festivus for the rest of us.
TeddySanFran @ 14
Amen to that. Even a visit for the purposes of just a little mirth and cheering up one’s self turns depressing in short order….
montag @ 13
It was all so civil before then! First cat-vacuum blogging and now cussin’
What would Brian Williams and Dean Broderella say!?!?
*g*
Oklahoma kiddo @ 9
the freepers are busy rapping peasants.
montag @ 17
Unless I actually go over there, I can maintain the fiction, via Pam, that she’s made it all up for my amusement. Not so easy to keep those blinders on when visiting myself, when I realize all too quickly that not all Earthlings are good.
TeddySanFran @ 18
Nothin’ new. Just call us dirty filthy hippies…. That is, if Miss Dean can stop drooling long enough to spit it out.
Clusterfubber has made December the second deadliest month this year. 77 Americans won’t be home for Christmas.
Not to mention the dozens of Iraqis who’s bodies were found today.
-GSD
TeddySanFran @ 20
I blame L. Ron Hubbard. I think he was the secret founder of Freeperville. :) Talk about errant Earthlings….
punaise @
7
nice. I figured after “Give ‘em Enough Rope” it was Clash day.
How does some smart web geek set up a payment channel for donations to the Latinos who have been packing Christmas hams for the rest of us (and their families)?
Can anyone organize the work of the agencies and organizations serving America’s recent desaparecidos so that they can sensibly distribute the proceeds from such a link and do the support and legal defense and advocacy in a moderately coordinated way?
(For a great number of reasons, it isn’t me.)
This is an outrage to so many. We would all like to ante up to stop the BS.
TeddySanFran @
11
Yeah as new year’s worries go, that..uh…should probably not be one of them.
wow, I just went back to Pach’s post — Zorro’s like a dog chasing his own tail in the last five or six comments! grr-grr-grr. Or maybe a parakeet with a mirror….
Good to know I won’t be invited to hoist a brew with Bob W (relative of Bill W? probably not….) anytime soon either.
TeddySanFran @ 27
See! There’s a little silver lining in every cloud. Just think about how many awkward invitations you’ve been spared. :)
Jane Hamsher @ 26
you know where this is leading? a cuss Teddy battle.
TeddySanFran @ 27
No kidding, I just took a look back there. I wrote what I wanted and left. Now they seem to be trying to one-up each other to see who can say the stupidest thing.
TeddySanFran,
Yep quite annoying… And if you go back there you can meet another nice little troll who goes by the name of “A”…
Be my guest and guess what it could stand for.. the only things I can think of would probably get my post in moderation…
[Mod note; fire away. We’ve developed a kinder, gentler policy for the holidays]
punaise @ 29
I knew a batty, crusty Ted once.
By the way, it looks like Al Sistani is putting the kibosh on any new reconfiguring of the Iraq government…..SO much work, so little progress.
-GSD
BTW, when’s the next white sale?
TSF—siun and I were talking earlier about Zorro’s screeds from last night and I described them to her as blogsturbation. You gotta give the guy credit for staying power.
RBG @ 35
Can’t seem to come up with a blogical climax, huh?
Thanks Mod(erators) but most of the terms would be in Italian, at I am not sure that I would translate them correctly at this ungodly hour
(it’s 4.02 a.m. here in Italy from where I am typing.. :P )
Cujo359 @ 30
It’s fascinating to me how we higher life forms seem to intuit the rhythm of fdl quite quickly, while the underbridgers stay behind and fight amongst themselves over the dunce cap…
{{ waves to punaise }} — what’s shaking, mister?
Over the last year you all have been such a gift to my sanity. Merry holy days and a happy new year.
This my also be appropriate to the subject of the post.
http://www.motherjones.com/int…..vetta.html
TeddySanFran @ 38
It’s their notion of class warfare. :)
Per H2Okittie, the peers at MonkeyFister have made their Au Peer award to Desi.
Yeah, I know, even more fun time visiting yet another kewl blog. Your families can thank me tomorrow….
TeddySanFran @
39
kinda bored – no earthquakes since this morning…
Little Debbie Howell gives us, her readers, a one-year report on her services on our behalf at WaPo.
still. not. getting. it.
Jane – I am so glad you mentioned Howie and his Tancredo Tour par exellance! I laughed so hard when I read that … can you just imagine the look on that guy’s face!
God, what a good crew we have!
Cujo359 @
30
Ah already in the Festivus spirit. I love holiday company.
Siun @
45
It should be said that Siun brought it the post to my attention.
naaa Jane – I was just laughin’ so loud you heard me on that other coast!
Hope you’re having a very good holiday!
TeddySanFran @ 44
Little Debbie’s Fact Aches. Available in packs of ten everywhere.
montag @ 49
suppositories
punaise @ 50
Umm, sort of induces me to muse on where Little Debbie can shove her supposed stories.
Sorry if someone has already mentioned this but Billmon is Back!
Those non-Billmon weeks are killin’ me.
His Iraq Retrospective is a must read.
montag @ 51
you trying to up the ante?
My mom’s cake just fell. She ain’t happy.
But otherwise, it sure is nice to be here at the Casa del RexMama.
TRex @ 54
Hard to keep a cake from falling when there is a 60-foot theropod walkin’ about. : )
shooogarp @ 52
Yup, I caught that yesterday. And, he wasn’t saying, “I told you so.” :)
His having to mow the lawn was our loss.
shooogarp @ 55
I was out getting barbecue for the family. I had nothing to do with it.
Actually, I think it was my step dad setting down a big heavy bag of groceries.
montag @ 56
I don’t know who “Billmon” is, but I sure would like to buy him a beer.
TRex @ 57
I hope you have a great holiday with you family. Sorry ’bout the cake.
punaise @ 53
I wouldn’t gambol there for love nor money….
We’ll survive. And it’s great to be here. RexMama has really turned it out. The house looks awesome. Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Rex are in Indiana this Xmas with the Mrs. P-Rex family, which is a minor bummer, but it’s going to be a nice holiday here, I think.
TRex @ 61
Merrygregious, TRex!
one adavantage to having in-laws across the pond: the “who do we spend the holidays with” quandry never happens.
montag @ 60
straight flushWhy is it that, after all of the fine work we did in the year proceeding the elections, I can’t bear to read my favorite blogs anymore?
Of course my first stop is here. Then I browse my usual path of other favorites, then I try to watch Stewart and Colbert.
I get little joy from it anymore. The same brilliant commentary, snark, revelations. Always here and available. And yet…
Nothing ever changes. We see it, report it, call people on it, but nothing ever changes.
I know Teddy (Teddy!) feels like I do. Torches and pitchforks.
How do we make a difference now?
egregious, you will diagnose the sunlight deficit disorder and you will be correct. What else can I do?
See, I’m just getting so confused. Are we supposed to be beating up on the Muslims and whatever to save Israel so the end of the world can come? Or are we goodly fundamentalists aiming our mighty wrath at the Jews? I mean, that’s been tried. But we could have another go at it, I guess.
Just whom exactly do we hate this week? Yeah, brown people, but that’s a given. And mostly we go after ‘em if they are trying to come here to Amurrica. Unless they’re doing our lawns or cleaning our houses.
We would-be Rapture-rights need an up-to-date Hate-o-Meter. So many inferiors and infidels to persecute, so little time.
’s prolly OT but, here goes anyhow -
according to cnn http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast “The leader of an umbrella organization for Iraqi insurgent groups is offering the United States a one-month truce to withdraw all U.S. forces from Iraq and turn over its military bases “to the mujahedeen of the Islamic state.”/12/22/iraq.main/index.html
They have given chimpy 2 weeks to be a decider.
It’s the best deal we’ll be offered for a long time but our corrupt & stupid govt will pass it up.
Arghh
… i munged the link, here goes again:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/…..index.html
punaise @
62
And a merrygregious to you, sir! I wish I had a decent digital camera. I would post some photos of my mom’s house for you guys.
Late Nite is up, guys!
Balrog, this endeavor requires lots and lots of patience. The cliche that I like the most is that we progressives are running a race without a finish line.
Balrog @ 64
Get out into the sunlight for 10 minutes a day.
Eat one serving of protein and a multivitamin.
Clamp down on your anger and your despair, they will still be there in January to fuel your work. In the meantime don’t let them destroy you.
Call your mother and your siblings. It’s Christmas.
Vastly reduce your expectations. For me, I am thrilled that I can now solve a puzzle while looking at the answer; a couple of days ago I couldn’t even do that.
Be very open about how sick/different/disabled you are in December. When you make a mistake or can’t do something, explain: “It’s December, and I’m not thinking clearly because of seasonal depression.”
Eat rather than drink.
Hang on with your fingernails til the 27th, that’s the day that I can FEEL there is more light. ymmv
egregious @ 71
Good list, and hopefully we can all hang on. There’s not a lot of sunlight to be found in these parts, though. Exercise helps, too, BTW.
Apparently, the FDL person of the year is about to be crowned, fixed, whatever.
Jane Hamsher @
46
Did you see my Festivus carol a few weeks ago?
Balrog,
Many clinics have something akin to a tanning machine that provides UV treatment to people with seasonal affective disorder. It really works. Seriously, speak with your physician about it – you will be glad you did.
What you should do Jane Hamsher is resign your position at whatever it is you do and give that position to a “brown person”. This would enhance the diversity of wherever you are and show that world that you are not a hippocrate. There are a lot of people out there who are losing their jobs to brown people so why shouldn’t you? I have noticed that most liberals are for diversity as long as they don’t personally have to sacrifice for that diversity. As long as some other white person gets the shaft you’re O.K. with it. It’s very brave of you want diversity at someone else’s expense. I bet you even live in an all wjite neighborhhod. Very brave indeed.
Brad @ 76
First off, please dial down whatever stimulant you’re inhaling. You might be able to type coherently. I know that won’t help you learn to spell “hypocrite”, but it will at least help you in your struggles with the ‘h’ key.
Now, as to what Jane should or should not do. You clearly know nothing about her. Like most bigots, you instantly assume you know someone because you’ve seen one or two things she’s written that you don’t like. That you don’t even know what she does indicates that you haven’t done the least bit of checking about who she is or what she’s done before delivering your pronouncement. That you’re willing to say such things in complete ignorance of the person you’re addressing tells me that you’re not someone worth listening to on the subject of what anyone should do with his life.
Neither she nor anyone else here has advocated sacrificing the incomes of whites or any other ethnic group for the sake of another on these threads. If you’d done any serious checking on this site you’d find that’s an idea that most of us would find appalling. That you would think so seems to me to indicate that you’re the one with a sense of entitlement – that because you’re whatever you are you deserve a job or whatever it is you’re whining about more than those brown folks do. We’re just saying that’s not so.
WASHINGTON – While the military “quagmire” in Iraq was said to tip the scales of power in the U.S. midterm elections, most Americans have no idea more of their fellow citizens – men, women and children – were murdered this year by illegal aliens than the combined death toll of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan since those military campaigns began.
Though no federal statistics are kept on murders or any other crimes committed by illegal aliens, a number of groups have produced estimates based on data collected from prisons, news reports and independent research.
Twelve Americans are murdered every day by illegal aliens, according to statistics released by Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa. If those numbers are correct, it translates to 4,380 Americans murdered annually by illegal aliens. That’s 21,900 since Sept. 11, 2001.
Total U.S. troop deaths in Iraq as of last week were reported at 2,863. Total U.S. troop deaths in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan during the five years of the Afghan campaign are currently at 289, according to the Department of Defense.
(Story continues below)
But the carnage wrought by illegal alien murderers represents only a fraction of the pool of blood spilled by American citizens as a result of an open border and un-enforced immigration laws.
While King reports 12 Americans are murdered daily by illegal aliens, he says 13 are killed by drunk illegal alien drivers – for another annual death toll of 4,745. That’s 23,725 since Sept. 11, 2001.
While no one – in or out of government – tracks all U.S. accidents caused by illegal aliens, the statistical and anecdotal evidence suggests many of last year’s 42,636 road deaths involved illegal aliens.
A report by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Study found 20 percent of fatal accidents involve at least one driver who lacks a valid license. In California, another study showed that those who have never held a valid license are about five times more likely to be involved in a fatal road accident than licensed drivers.
Statistically, that makes them an even greater danger on the road than drivers whose licenses have been suspended or revoked – and nearly as dangerous as drunk drivers.
King also reports eight American children are victims of sexual abuse by illegal aliens every day – a total of 2,920 annually.
Based on a one-year in-depth study, Deborah Schurman-Kauflin of the Violent Crimes Institute of Atlanta estimates there are about 240,000 illegal immigrant sex offenders in the United States who have had an average of four victims each. She analyzed 1,500 cases from January 1999 through April 2006 that included serial rapes, serial murders, sexual homicides and child molestation committed by illegal immigrants.
As the number of illegal aliens in the U.S. increases, so does the number of American victims.
According to Edwin Rubenstien, president of ESR Research Economic Consultants, in Indianapolis in 1980, federal and state correctional facilities held fewer than 9,000 criminal aliens. But at the end of 2003, approximately 267,000 illegal aliens were incarcerated in all U.S. jails and prisons.
While the federal government doesn’t track illegal alien murders, illegal alien rapes or illegal alien drunk driving deaths, it has studied illegal aliens incarcerated in U.S. prisons.
In April 2005, the Government Accountability Office released a report on a study of 55,322 illegal aliens incarcerated in federal, state, and local facilities during 2003. It found the following:
* The 55,322 illegal aliens studied represented a total of 459,614 arrests – some eight arrests per illegal alien;
* Their arrests represented a total of about 700,000 criminal offenses – some 13 offenses per illegal alien;
* 36 percent had been arrested at least five times before.
“While the vast majority of illegal aliens are decent people who work hard and are only trying to make a better life for themselves and their families, (something you or I would probably do if we were in their place), it is also a fact that a disproportionat ely high percentage of illegal aliens are criminals and sexual predators,” states Peter Wagner, author of a new report called “The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration.” “That is part of the dark side of illegal immigration and when we allow the ‘good’ in we get the ‘bad’ along with them. The question is, how much ‘bad’ is acceptable and at what price?”
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CatelynK @
65
We welcome any color person here as long as they are legal immigrants.. so get off your soapboxes about hating brown people. You are all making this a race issue not us.