Is there a competition for "Most Blatant Politically and Racially Charged Comment" underway in the national discourse? Swear to god, the stupid is being turned up to 11.
The latest yokel terribly upset and angered by the fact that there’s a black man sitting behind the desk in the Oval Office is failed Presidential candidate and alleged man of God, Mike Huckabee. In a tirade on Fox News ostensibly about the death of journalism, Huckabee very publicly heaved himself up on the jug-bandwagon by letting slip this little beauty:
On Van Jones, Huckabee said that when the former Obama adviser was “caught with bright red lips making outrageous statements about Republicans, police officers, and it being discovered of his belonging to numerous radical groups, the media was incapable of so much as a notice of his record and only mentioned him at the time of his resignation.”
Coming on the heels of last Saturday’s "Million Moron March" and this exemplar of the typical neuron-deprived cracker’s tweets about assassinating Obama, I’d say that the Megaphones of Wingnuttia have done an excellent job of not just stirring the pot, but scraping the hardened, nasty crust off the burner, as well.
I wonder — does the antebellum, Reconstruction-denying segment of our society believe that, now that we have a "minority" President, they have license to let the race hate out for everyone else to see? Do the willfully ignorant teabaggers consider the ramifications of alienating a majority of the country . . . or can they even spell "ramifications"?
State and local tourism officials are being flooded by emails and calls from people across the country, saying they won’t vacation in South Carolina because they’re upset by GOP Rep. Joe Wilson’s outburst at President Barack Obama.
Maybe, at some point, the media will actually pick up (and hold on to) the real story that this uptick in race-baiting isn’t about health care or taxes. It’s about the Other wielding the power. The lunatic fringe that is the Right these days has convinced itself that regardless of whether or not they are personally affected, someone with more melanin (and greater intellect) than themselves is making the big decisions. And they just can’t accept that.
An now, an administrative note: starting this week, Wednesday late night will be the new Thersday. I’ll be taking over Thers’ spot on Thursday nights. I hope this doesn’t traumatize too many of you. I know how hard change can be.
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No change! Tea Party at Watertiger’s!
Have to say that a number of us have been predicting this since before the election. Dave Niewert in particular has been tracking the rise of this racist rhetoric over the past couple of years. It is going to get worse and it is going to get violent.
Breaking: FauxNews viewers demur, give racist-tool-winger -Talibangelical™-fuck_wit a pass.
Just keep your feet off the couch.
I swear that the teabaggers are using daturia in their tea. It gets the head banging against the wall.
The only news there would be if they didn’t.
You call that news…?
Nah, that is just from when their mama dropped them on their heads as babies. From the third floor window. Repeatedly.
someone with more melanin (and greater intellect) than themselves is making the big decisions.
I suspect that either, or both of these attributes irk particular teabaggers. Having a mind that works seems to be an affront to many in this country, particularly on the Right.
This is my new favorite teabagger sign.
Let that sweet race hate run in the streets. It’s the modern GOP: the Teabag Party, whites only please.
I liked this one, too. BTW, thanks for the Look At This Teabagger link.
Has Huckajeezus ever used the term “with bright red lips” before? Such a an odd phrase. What a whore. No shame. No fahculty foah embarrassment.
“I mean, golly, with brott raid leps he sed that stuff!” – Mike Hucklebee
Anti-intellectualism is a deep seated and long established tradition in America, going back to the founding of the republic. Despite the large number of highly educated, brilliant scholars among the founding fathers, the average yeoman farmer of the era was none to sure about all that fancy book learning.
I’ve realized that all of the crap that we’re hearing from the Republican party and it’s minions can be summed up in one “shorter:”
I’m beyond ill, but not particularly surprised, given where I live.
I would hazard a guess that they aren’t too fond of the Rainbow Flag neither.
Mike Huckabee…bless his heart!
Sent this letter to the local paper. Be sure to check out the comments.
The nativism has a megaphone now called Fox News, so the hate gets disseminated much more far afield.
Possibly more common in the southern areas?
I mailed that same sign to all of my friends and relatives today.
That sign is a thing of beauty. So clarifying.
Perpetual ignorance is the path of least resistance… and the path most often followed.
“I would like to extend a laurel and hearty welcome to our new…”
It had many of them in the 19th century, which fed the well named Know Nothings and other rabid nativists. IIRC Hearst was big on fanning the hate that way.
I used to be a corpulent man. Then Jesus sucked all that fat right outta me. Hallelujah. – Mike Huckabee
This attitude has been there under the surface for a long time. I suspect that there really aren’t as many racists as there once were, but there are still quite a few. Obama’s election does seem to have drawn them out. I think the reason is that they’re frightened. A lot of their self-identity seems to be tied up in their Northern European ancestry, and they see themselves losing power as other ethnic groups gain it. It’s an odd view, I think, and certainly a very parochial one, but they’re scared, and they’re lashing out.
Talking Points Memo | Fried Squirrel: I’m Loving It!Jan 16, 2008 … Mike Huckabee explains how he’ll appeal to SC voters by explaining how he and his crew ate fried squirrel made in a popcorn popper in …
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/063883.php – Cached – Similar
wow. I just found another stunning example of just how race-obsessed, craven and depraved these wingnut bigots are. I glanced at a Faux comment blog about the Annie Le murder investigation and, after straddling through a number of disgusting but not unexpected and utterly baseless insinuations about the victim’s sexual activities, I stumbled on a jewel of an exchange.
A bunch of wingnuts were concocting elaborate theories about the identity of the killer. Now bear in mind that at the time police had released zero information on possible suspects. One group said that the killer must be a Vietnamese male jealous that one of their own nationality was marrying a white guy. Another group managed to dig up a list of Yale personnel and actually identified the killer by name as a person with a Chinese-sounding name, apparently because it was the only person they could uncover with a foreign sounding name. And then, the climax: the admitted that all these unabashedly racist theories are baseless. Instead, they pointed out that the most likely killer is a Black guy! cause, they said, New Haven has a lot of angry Black males who would love to get their hands on someone like the victim! The whole discourse was beyond unbelievable. Everything’s about race with these peope.
oh, and the next headline was entitled: “Mainstream Media Ignores the ACORN Threat”
Nope. It is decidedly not regionally specific. Some of the worst nativist riots were in NYC. Today it may be more concentrated there, but that is largely a product of endemic poverty and isolation.
Like Blazing Saddles.
He is a nig nig nigggg …
I left the south because of this kind of shit. I am due to go back for a visit soon and am trying to steal myself against the level of bullshit I will hear.
He’s beefed up again. I guess the staples didn’t hold.
It is a steep and well greased slide into hell.
That’s awesome. Bad spelling is common in most demographics but it appears to be mandatory for wingnuts.
I see that the folks who subscribe to your daily paper are just as intelligent and well-informed as most of the writers, editors, and folks who write letters to the editor of the Savannah Daily Disappointment. Mr. Marion in Savannah and I look on the editorial page as the second page of funnies… If only it weren’t so terribly important…
haha. found it.
Corpulent Christi.
Whoa nellie. That’s an instant classic!
Speaking of “morans,” Terry strikes again and most likely births a new Repub/BigMedia storyline that’ll be here for years:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…..86623.html
(note how HuffPo is happy to oblige with a large frontpage cover with this?)
Anyone remember Terry Moran condescendingly refer to Shrub or Cheney as “Presidential” when they made their many, many off-color and ridiculous remarks, and usually ON the record even? Didn’t think so…
Perhaps God chose BO to be president over Huckelberry.
Didn’t know that dashboard Jeebus as a Yanomamo magically devouring the body fat of his enemies.
I’m out for the night, peeps!
I guess the red lips thing is code. I’d never heard it before.
Yes. Ten matches for Huckabee+”bright red lips” before August 1st.
SASQ.
Loo Hoo, the image above is un-retouched. That is how it originally appeared, red lips and all.
I’ll never forget that, ahem, tall tale that Huck spun on the campaign trail. Never mind that dorms don’t allow appliances and that a popper would smoke like crazy or that Huck would resort to cooking his own food, what’s a tall tale to throw out like so much chum? I can believe that he would do something depraved to a little creature…because his very own son fileted a dog just cuz!
AS someone who grew up with segregation and Jim Crow in Oklahoma in the 50s and 60s and who now studies and teaches about race and ethnicity, I can definitely say that the number of overt racists has declined dramatically over the past 50 years and they are now a minority. None-the-less, there are still large numbers of them (even 10% of 300 million people is a whole bunch of folks) and marginalization has made them more angry and prone to violence.
Oddly enough, I left Savannah in 2000 to live for a year in Covington, KY, just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. That’s the place where I ran into the most virulent racism I’ve ever been exposed to. YMMV…
Good night.
They certainly have some fascinating views of history. Not that they actually learned enough history to have a “view” so much as a “peep hole”.
The dweeb raises a son who hangs a dog with a noose from a tree, killing it, and for the fun of it, and Repubs just ignore it and let him be the voice of morality and reason. Disturbing. The Huckabee family is bunch of sick fucks:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/huckabee/dog.asp
nite doubleyou-tee
Ignorance is supposed to be bliss. Wingnuts should be a lot happier than they appear.
No different than killing frogs with explosives. We know how well that went over.
Maybe, absinthe.
Yep. That letter was written in response to the level of absolutely fact free brain dead stupidity revealed in the letters to the editor over the preceding few weeks. Some of these folks make the teabaggers look sane and coherent.
NIght, WT.
Nighters WT.
They are nothing if not inventive in finding new ways of not publicly saying the N-word.
Dog whistle? Hell, no. It has become a train whistle. And, it makes me want to sit and cry.
I guess I know that, but that looks like a white guy in blackface. Disgusting either way. But is that the kind of thing Huckabee thinks will win him 2012? Cuz if so, he hasn’t a prayer.
For me that was in Chicago.
Wait, I thought liberals were the angry ones. I don’t know what narratives to believe anymore.
They talk so tough, and tote guns to presidential events but don’t have the balls to say what they are really thinking. They might be inventive but they are cowards.
yep. it’s the unabated hypocrisy that continues to get my goat.
Don’t suppose Beck will shed any tears because Obama called Kanye West a jackass.
Fear is at their very core and is the whole basis for their movement.
Ah, the Midwest… How fitting that the Current Occupant is from there!
Good letter but you have some stupid people replying to it.
What is so strange about all this is that Obama is functioning as a Republican President policy-wise, not as ignorant/paranoid as Bush-Cheney, but more like GHW Bush. So it isn’t what he is doing. The criticism from the right is very much race based. That too is interesting because all the crises and fights we are having is exposing who is who and what is what in this country in a way that never occurred even under Bush. We are seeing that far from putting race behind us, it remains very much with us.
Hell, I won’t shed any tears, but then I do not give a hot goddamn about what some celebrity says or does. Most of them are lucky to have double digit IQs.
Of course, it would have been PERFECTLY APPROPRIATE to openly carry firearms to a Bush event… [puke]
Just out of curiosity, what do they do with your goat when they get it? How many times has your goat been gotten? Is it always the same goat, or a different goat each time?
I understand fear…
I fear what they would do, and what my children’s future will be if they get into power again any time soon.
Indiana is and has been for quite some time the largest center of KKK activity.
Remember Limbaugh, when the shipping captain was freed by snipers killing the Somali captors?
He said that Obama was obviously racist because he ordered 3 black men shot dead.
They will never quit, no matter the level of whack.
these manly men cry a lot too I’ve noticed.
Them’s the ones I was respondin’ to.
It’s going to take more than a year or two to shove the Overton Window back to where it was when I was young. It ain’t gonna happen this week.
I thought he was from the Mideast?
Maybe Huckabee didn’t “slip up.” Maybe he, like Wilson, decided to go ahead and take his hood off.
707!!!
Oh you don’t want to know, ratfood, you don’t want to know!
And I think Cantor was texting Wilson for his cue…
Not yet, not yet….now!
LOL!
Correction: No. Not Yes. Date errors on the pages, Huckabee is only linked to “bright red lips” in the rant.
There is little danger of the whackjobs gaining any real power, they are a relatively small, if decidedly dangerous, minority. There is a danger of the corporatist Republicans (Hi, John McCain) empowering and enabling them for their own purposes (which they have done for decades). There is an even bigger danger that they will resort to extremely stupid, futile, violent, and destructive acts (think OKC and Atlanta).
Get yourself a goldfish, put it in a bowl of water and then explain it to it. You will get the same result.
America, where really stupid people can become filthy rich peddling dreck to other stupid people. We are truly blessed.
It is likely to take almost as long as it did to push it this far to the right, 30-40 years.
Maybe Texas will succeed and all the hicks can move there and shoot each other.
I think you mean put his hood on in public.
I’m off to rest in the arms of Morpheus, and will be ready with breakfast in the morning. Sleep well, pups, with happy dreams.
Well as they say, absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.
Just so long as the goat is consenting.
Nothing succeeds like secession.
Larue here, I just got hacked thru FDL, with a warning message.
I lost ALL control of my keyboard, and the message was in multiple languages, in a black box with white text.
I was forced to shut down. And the warning message said I had to.
So.
Anyone else?
Scary shit . . . macs and apple are ’sposed to be immune . . . we ain’t, no mo.
They might as well secede while they’re at it.
No, the goldfish might actually be capable of understanding.
The “opinion leaders” did much the same thing when Clinton was President, even though Clinton was another Republican-lite, and lots of dittoheads fell in line. While there’s an additional incentive for some folks to hate Obama, many would be hating him anyway. It’s that he’s not one of them that’s the problem, and by that I mean he’s not a conservative demagogue, and he’s not a Republican.
This isn’t all about race. In fact, I’d say it’s mostly about power. Race is just making it easier to manipulate people into hating the guy.
You really need to listen to Huckabee’s little radio blurbs on talk radio.
He’s trying to be the new Paul Harvey. Harvey was an early wingnut so it’s an apt comparison, but his homespun “humor” is pretty lame.
He better news if you see earlier in the blog Rucker from Color of Change said that Beck has lost 50 percent of his revenue and 62 advertisers. Woot.
He said this:
Doesn’t this sound like what I’ve been saying and what I said about the KSFO hosts? This is what makes them crazy. Losing money. They lashed out like they lashed out at Van Jones because he was part of Obama and part of Color of Change.
I taught the same techniques to Hate Hurts America and it Michael Savage 18 advertisers and he just got pulled from KNEW, the San Francisco station was broadcast out of. Woot!
Focusing on the financial side is very powerful. It gives the media two things to report on. Business and “the issue”.
yeah… and an independent TX will no doubt make a few hundred crimes eligible for the death penalty too.
And it is the gift that just keeps giving.
Perhaps the real danger is that critical thinking, non-idiotic Republicans will allow the hatred by the fruit bats to continue unchallenged… never mind, that’s not dangerous- that would simply be the end of the Republican party.
Night Marion.
Or was that: Nothing secedes like sedition…?
‘Night, Marion.
Nighters.
Seems quite a few are in the congress.
Not happening here, running Firefox and Avast security.
Ah, we can’t wish that for our friends in Austin.
Race is also ratcheting up the intensity of emotion and potential for violence. There was not a 400% increase in threats against the president when Clinton was elected.
You were not hacked, I promise. I have been dealing with this all weekend, and it originated with an ad from the NYT.
No kidding, it’s not a Mac virus, but a spam message that locks up your browser.
Learn to dress, get blessed, try to be a suck-cess.
They are actively encouraging it now. They see it as key to regaining power. I never said that they were very smart. In fact I have repeatedly said that John Stuart Mill was far too generous.
And a second good night to all pups, but I saw the security thingy… REALLY off to snuggle with Morpheus now!
Ole’ Rupert has deep pockets, though. He’ll keep Beck on as long as Beck draws the viewers, and Beck will draw the viewers as long as he brings the crazy. If anything, I think Beck has more incentive to go over the top now.
I’ve had trouble with the last two Firefox upgrades freezing and requiring a “Force Quit.” Been using Safari the past couple weeks. It’s okay but the incessant unblocked ads are tiresome.
It is currently official Republican strategy, though they will deny it with their dying breathes.
Nite Marion.
Wow. Thanks for the newsflash. Perhaps Obama should be doing more with the bully pulpit and stopping it? He must be racist too! /s
Thing is, it’s great to have it bubble up and be so exposed. Much easier to scoop it away now. My teen and pre-teen kids and their friends talk very openly about these issues in ways my generation never did, except for a very small minority. It’s just common wisdom with them now, and they’re amazed by the actions of these adults. This bodes well for the future.
Alot of the racism will just have to die off. Sure, some gets passed on to their kids, but they seem so far outnumbered now in these younger generations.
You deserve a special award. It should be called the SPOCKO award for citizen awareness.
Until I see something different in the economy, I will hold to depression in 2011. Times of economic extremity can greatly accelerate social change in both good and bad ways. I don’t think reality will accord us 30-40 years to get this stuff right.
Really doesn’t matter since advertisers are just moving their buys to different slots. No skin off Rupert’s already ruddy nose.
I find that it’s probably much easier for folks to scapegoat Obama than blame a guy they’d have a beer with. much easier.
Over the top, or off the edge?
And as long as Beck stirs up the stew. He is actively pushing this craziness.
There are many differences between those situations that have nothing to do with race. Big Bush didn’t have us involved in a war, and was a comparative moderate. So, how much of that 400% was due to the rampant paranoia that was sweeping this country before we’d even heard of Barack Obama, and how much is due to his race?
You’re absolutely correct. I got warning from Avast twice over the weekend, and apparently the NYT had a comment regarding the problem. (What? You want a link? Just equate me with the Doughy Pantload…) I’m now, I promise, REALLY, TRULY, out of here! [poof]
Right after he smokes his breakfast.
;>)
Thanks for the update about your media fight.
Exactly. Rush could be off the air if anyone with money wanted him off the air.
But they don’t.
You want Rush off the air you hire three people 1) Me 2)A private eye 3) A forensic accountant.
The private eye would dig up the new drug use, evidence of the sex tourism and other unsavory stuff. The forensic accountant would find the stuff that the current IRS audit is finding but will not mention because it is “confidential.”
I’ll take it to the various news media (the ‘Drive bys’ as he calls them and the “state-run” media. And then to the DA.
I will also need something that is as disgusting as Michael Vick with dogs.
I think the sex tourism will do the trick.
Rush is protected by a multi-billion dollar industry. They will fight for his right to have sex with underage women in other countries. They will fight for his right to take drugs and cheat on his taxes. “Cheating on your taxes is as American as Apple pie!”
But nobody will fund this because they want Rush out there.
There has also been a huge spike in hate group recruitment and activity. Race is not the only factor, but it is an important part of the mix and should not be ignored.
True. Your kids will be dating people of all races soon enough. The young folks don’t have time for this kind of garbage.
They also couldn’t care less about who is gay and who is straight.
Speaking as a SoCal person, YMMV.
Go to Safari menu –> Preferences… menu item –> Security tab. In the ‘Web content:’ block, check ‘Block pop-up windows’. Close the Preferences dialog box. Enjoy untrammeled browsing.
Every day I hear some TV pundit (dumbit) refer to Obama as “liberal.” It always goes unchallenged.
I use the Noscript extension with Firefox, and I heartily recommend everyone use it. Misbehaving Javascript can make your browser stop working, and potentially your GUI as well.
Perhaps an intervention should be organized for Beck? I think one could find a few thousand people to sign the commitment papers.
Nah. He’s a racialist. big difference. /s
LOL.
I’d hope so, since that’s what their parents did! ;)
Exactly. He has nothing to lose. What we need to look for is the stuff that pisses off Rupert.
For example, I look for stuff that makes the BOSS of the host at KSFO crazy. I make sure to transcribe that stuff. Because he can NEVER fire these guys now, he just has to suck it up and eat the revenue loses and keep dealing with the pissed off money people and angry advertisers.
Does not always work.
some of the kids at wingnut protests kinda scare me…they think it’s fun to hate.
Huckabee V Palin might just be too funny for TeeVee …
Hi-dilly-ho-dilly, neighboreenos !
Thanks, I already have it checked. You don’t even have to open preferences, there is a command in the Safari menu. Still get the occasional pop-up. I’m complaining more about the ads on web-pages. They load fast but I’ve grown accustomed to Ad-Blocker in Firefox.
The intervention I would like to see is a long, intimate visit with the Secret Service and FBI in reference to the Alien and Sedition Acts.
Wow. I didn’t know savage was dumped (because my stomach can only take so much). Kudos!
So what would tick off mr murdoch?
Petro!!!
that would be hee haw larious!
Huh, I get very few pop-ups with that turned on. Oh well!
I think racism is dying off in large regions of the US, but in those areas where large numbers of wingnut parents homeschool their kids, immersing them in hate, I’m less optimistic. It’ll just make this country even more geographically divided in the future, as progressive cities increasingly will want nothing to do with Dixie and the Dead Zone. If the signs of the present remain unchanged, my guess is that in another generation or two this country will be pretty difficult to hold together.
O.M.G. !!!
What did Glenn Beck ever do to deserve this ?
Darn right, send ‘em all to Area 51… the aliens, that is.
Heading out, splendid evening to all.
I don’t get many but I get none with Firefox.
It may sound trite but it remains real. The whole debate over Obama’s citizenship was just a thinly masked standin for his race. The idea that John McCain was born in Panama didn’t seem to bother them at all. Race and racial issues don’t stay the same over time. So no we don’t have Jim Crow laws on the books, thanks to the Civil Rights Act and Title 7. But it was only a short while ago in the Ricci case where SCOTUS stood Title 7 on its head, negated disparate impacts, and used disparate treatment to defend the majority.
Yeah, some of the more recent Safari v 4.0x versions react badly, and sometimes fail to perform.
Hey, don’t forget my goat! nighters.
Is it mainly geographic? Or mainly social? Lotsa racists in California, not just rural. (I live in Oakland and lotsa folks crack black jokes when they hear that.)
Night, rf.
It doesn’t matter.
As long as they can derail policy debates (and there are a lot of people of good faith who are now confused and frightened), and the White House sits out the battle, they win.
Dosido !
Toss in the Mittster & Not.Joe.The.Not.Plumber and we’d have one heck of a Pie fight …
I guess the divide could be social too, but I think in the long term those divisions (where the wingnuts are a minority) can be overcome by education etc. It’s much more difficult when you have people like Perry, Inhofe, and Wilson running your states.. and the mere teaching of heretical ideas like evolution have been banned.
he is king douchebag.
So it’s my Browser ?!!
Whew … and here I thought I had ED … *g*
Thanks! I do wish that Color of Change would have used the phrase spockoed for what they did to Beck because boycott is not accurate when it is an advertiser alert program that let’s them decide.
Two new things I’m working on?
1) Audio clips from major religions describing their views on torture for “The education of Sean Hannity”
2) FEC violations of talk radio hosts that point out that they are not journalists, they don’t act like journalists and therefore they do not deserve the “press exemption” that is given to all right wing talk radio during the run up to elections. This is a massive corporate donation of time that needs to be recorded. If the Citizens United case might make this moot, but it is still something that has an “issue” and a financial cost associated with it. It will drive the RW media management nuts if they have to limit the guest only 2,300 worth of free air time.
he was born?
I recommend Netscape 0.94. Right thee now!
Thus, alot of folks who voted for BO wanting and expecting change are going to be pissed. This isn’t rocket science. I don’t understand what happens to people once they go to Washington D.C. that they don’t catch onto this. Or perhaps they just don’t give a rats ass…..
Racism is complexly patterned. It is more common among working classes and the poor, as well as in rural areas, and the South. It is also most common in areas with a significant minority population. Here in Montana, with less than 1% of the population, there is relatively little prejudice against blacks but lots of racism toward Indians and Mexicans.
My guess is that public tolerance for this type of obstructionism will decrease, as the country gets more and more ungovernable and that, in the long run, the obstructing regions will simply want to go their own way. This may take a few more generations, but I do think it’ll come eventually.
To make any real progress though, regardless of what the future holds – one America or several – we have to deal with the problem of growing corruption, which threatens everything from our schools to our healthcare system to our water supply. Corruption may be an even bigger issue than mere bigotry. The two together are a lethal combination.
Every once in a few billion years, there is a giant evolutionary leap and I believe we are in one of those periods now. The hate mongers will not adapt and evolve with the rest of us and they will die off, of natural causes… so basically, there’s no need to worry about them.
Why do you say women?
Check with your doctor just to be sure.
He’s a bad actor.
;>)
Dominican Republic is the destination of choice in the Americas for sex tourists seeking underage boys. (Did some research on human trafficking).
I dunno. Those evolutionary leaps usually involve asteroids or something. Pretty sure I don’t want to go through that.
I thought this was so when Chimpy told the country that being against the Iraq invasion was like treason, or that we are beating the shit out of ‘furiners’ because we have to protect A’Ker’ka. I am not very patient.
I know that comes off as harsh. I should dial it back, yeah.
Thought Limpballs found little boys appealing.
I don’t put that much stock in evolution making the “right” decision. Its invisible hand may very well decide that gun-wielding, moose-killing thugs have a breeding advantage….
Strange how four middle-aged, very wealthy men, with bottles of V#agra would charter a private jet and fly there then, isn’t it?
Surely there was nothing weird about that, and no reason at all to think twice about that little trip since they’re the “family values” crowd? And of course, it just that one time. They’d never do something like that multiple time. No siree!
Corruption may be an even bigger issue than mere bigotry.
I feel as though we’ve traded one for the other…
oh yeah… ;) Well in ten thousand years this will have all been ironed out… in the mean time: Speak Out! Nite all!
Hopefully it’s not survival of the most stupid.
Evolution does not “make decisions.” It is an entirely random process and not at all directional. Fitness in Darwinian terms simply means having more offspring that live to have offspring than others. Nothing else matters. The fittest creatures on earth are the bacteria. They have been around for billions of years, live in a vast array of diverse habitats, and outnumber everything else on earth.
I think where this comes to a head is when basic services stop working. Did you see those articles from this past weekend on water pollution cropping up all over the country, with corrupt officials gettin’ bribed by megacorps into allowing them to dump toxins into our water supply? That’s the future. So is a healthcare system that works for maybe 20% of the population, law enforcement that only provides protection to those who can pay for it, and coal companies that can seize your home and blow it up in a mountaintop removal operation.
Can’t imagine how that happened at all.
Isn’t it the most primitive who will be left after the cataclysmic whatever?
nite WordBloom
Just of the most fecund.
precisely.. hence my lack of optimism in that regard. And the wingnuts do love to breed…
No reason it can’t be. Evolution is all about who survives long enough to reproduce. There’s no push toward excellence, as some of the early romantics might have thought.
I agree.
But my tap water used to be drinkable, and I didn’t have to worry about eating fish so long ago.
It happens so gradually that we don’t perceive it, and as long as Inhofe’s are allowed any sway in policy matters…
Kind of back to the future?
Mother Nature is a cruel and capricious mistress.
Time for me to toddle off. I have to teach theory in the morning.
BTW, Speaking of corruption: I hope everyone will stay on top of this: http://www.openleft.com/diary/…..lic-option
We must keep the Democratic Leadership accountable too!
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Doesn’t bode well for those of us who tend not to have more children than we can afford.
Night DrDick.
Goodnight, and goodnight to anyone else I missed.
She is not my favorite…
nite doctor
Interestingly, most of those whom most people would consider to be more “fit” in some other sense (wealth, education, intelligence, etc.) tend to have fewer children. More on that, and why in social terms it does not matter (hint: predators have fewer offspring than herbivores) some other time.
HEY!!
Thanks! I so appreciate your intelligence.
“The Sheriff is a . . . .”
“But I shoot with THIS hand.”
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I checked in earlier, nothing new then. My reaction to the news:
Not one of my favorites, either.
Your piece is a very good demonstration of the flopping around Pelosi is capable of.
I expect her to shrug and say “Well, we gave our all” at the end.
If she gives her all she will NOT allow anything less than the public option on the floor for a vote.
Have you ever had good absinthe from europe, with a fairly high thujonis content???
If you had, you wouldn’t say that Absinthe leads you to wack your head against a wall.
And if Pelosi were an honest broker, she would not be nicknamed “off-the-table-Nancy.”
Bill Walsh, the late-great 49er coach, said about his quarterback Steve DeBerg in 1979, “He’s just good enough to get you beat.”
That IS Nancy Pelosi, IMO.
Glad to hear that. Hoping it’s a one time issue. All systems normal, so far.
Thanks NEwton, how’d you figger that out?
Hmm, don’t have any problems along that line . . . Safari wise.
Love my mac . . .
I am a Mac consultant. My clients called en-mass starting Saturday morning, and didn’t stop until this morning.
Thanks! I’ll see how this works out! N thanks again! *waves*
Thank you for putting “alleged man of God” up there. That’s much better than what a lot of people would have done- mocked the religion itself. Good work, there.
And as for change, eh, don’t worry! We be liberals, we do the change thing.
Reminds me of this, particularly the paragraph after the cartoon. Even were I still working on Linux or computer networking full time, I probably wouldn’t have known about that.
Ahh . . . thanks so much for your info.
*bows*
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Do I need to DO anything?
Let’s put it this way, I’ve never seen her win something she had no business winning. I imagine even Steve Deberg managed that once or twice.
Update Safari, if you are eligible, to 4.0.3, and don’t open email with an ‘e-card’ from ‘unknown sender and to ‘unknown recipient.’. It is sealed up tight.
That second part is good advice generally …
yep :-)
And I liked DeBerg. His performance in a particular Dolphins game when he played a huge game (and won) with a broken thumb on his throwing hand – legendary.
Yeah, and my clients, usually a well-trained and pretty savvy bunch, bit on this in large numbers.
It launches your default browser and makes you force-quit it to escape.
Bless ya, thanks! *waves*
And goes g’thud . . . zzzzzzzzz
I’m not much of a football fan these days, but I do have a soft spot for players who get where they are on grit and determination. DeBerg was one of those guys. Dave Krieg, who played for the Seahawks, was another.
Looks like Late Late Night is upstairs.
while the liberals and progressives whine and hide the repubs control congress and the white house
give credit where credit is due.
the repubs may be racists and dumbed down but they know how to control wash
they are still mad at the civil rights law and to see a black man and his family and even the mother in law in the white house is too much to take.
come on progressives quit letting the demo party take you for granted create a voting block sign up independent.
the demo party is spineless get off that boat
there is spineless and winners
one can guess which the demos are
Inner pedant warning –
Evolution is not teleological (i.e. it has no directed end), but it is far from random. The random variation of offspring (from genetic recombination and mutation) is vigorously culled by the mechanism of natural selection. The most important constraint operative in this selection is the cumulative ecological, morphological, and physiological specifics defining the organism. Even the most rapid changes (i.e. ‘punctated’ evolutionary events) take at least hundreds of millenia to play out.
My thought of absinthe was inspired by the remarkable poster specimen included in the blog depicting an era when consumption of absinthe was more common than it is today, tho, there’s a recent resurgence of interest, apparently.
I’ve lived in the South all 36 years of my life and I’ve never heard the phrase “bright red lips” used as a racial slur. In any case, trying to make Huck out to be a racist is ridiculous and silly. As a pastor he went against the grain (even threatening to quit) in trying to integrate Immanuel Baptist Church when a black man wanted to worship with them and was rejected by many church elders.
I would say that “bright red lips” is a “lipstick on a pig” reference. Van Jones is a communist and a 9/11 “truther” and that can’t be covered up by pretending that he is something else.