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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
They're idiots. Just because you patronize people who are morons doesn't make them not morons. Go ahead be as offended as you need to be. And make sure you buy those penis enlargement pills too. You can afford it now that the barrister representing the former defense minister of Nigeria has placed $4 million dollars in your bank account.
After Malcolm X returned from haj to Mecca, he renounced black seperatism. He spoke before representatives of the media and remarked that it was his intention to build black conciousness, not seperation. Whites were in fact invited to participate in helping to foster a new positive outlook on "blackness," they could participate and contribute, but X felt that blacks in America had to do the actual work themselves. Malcolm X didn't have that long to live as a new cosmopolitan mainstream, non-seperatist Muslim, before the Nation of Islam in all probability ordered his assasination.
And as for Michelle Obama's thesis, I give AKASmith the most credit, because much to her own inquisitive credit she actually read it, and remarked that it was pretty sleep inducing. Now that I know of a new cure for insomnia, I have a new hope for a good night's sleep.
Turkey has no official state religion, it's majority Muslim, and it's a democracy.
The same is true for:
Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Bangladesh
Bosnia
Burkina Faso
Indonesia
Kazakhstan
Kosovo
Kyrgystan
Lebanon
Nigeria
Tajikisan
Tunisia
And there are others, too.
James T. Kirk: "What's my opinion of people who are swayed by idiot spam? They're idiots."
That wasn't the question. The question is whether you think the political emails designed to perpetuate false information or perceptions about a candidate are wrong. That is what this article is about. I don't care if you think people are stupid for falling for it. I want to know what you think of the practice itself.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a sharp turnaround, Republican John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on Democrat Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential race and is seen as a stronger manager of the economy, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.
McCain leads Obama among likely U.S. voters by 46 percent to 41 percent, wiping out Obama's solid 7-point advantage in July and taking his first lead in the monthly Reuters/Zogby poll.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080820/ts_nm/usa_poll_politics_dc
Great line about Mrs. Obama in a previous post: 'Oh my god! She didn't party down with the Tri-Delts! That must make her dangerous!'
Liked the rest of your smackdown. Keep em coming.
Off-topic.
Next.
So is the A.R.E., which is where my mom is from.
What's your point, if any?
Paul: "Liked the rest of your smackdown. Keep em coming."
Thanks. Feel free to join in the game of whack-a-mole. Or not. It's kind of like trying to win against robots. Which is what half these people are.
A lot of the basic problem in this country boils down to Right Wing Republican Pundits who do the Republican parties bidding for them (Rush, O'Reilly and etc). They are the ones who generate a lot of this hate. They are not obligated by any law to tell the truth to their listener. They aren't required to have any ethic's either. So most of them don't. Most of their rhetoric is designed to put the listener into a frenzy of hate (in some cases to incite violence). In most cases to hate liberals who have been demonized for years. To lead the country round by the nose to where there master's (Republican Party) have complete control over the media and the people who listen to it. Over the years they have done their job well. There are now millions of American's who listen to the hate generated rhetoric daily. And what's worse believe every last word of it. Because Rush told them it has to be the truth. It doesn't make any difference if there is no basis of truth to it. Most don't bother checking to see how truthful it is before they repeat it. Most people like this don't really want to hear the truth! When faced with the truth they shrug it off like so much water. Just Rush's version of the truth is all they are interested in. They are like drug addicts who can't do without their daily fix of hate generated rhetoric. It makes their world go round. Until these people (the pundit crowd) are put back to the fringes of society where they used to dwell before it became fashionable to be obnoxious and rude. The problem isn't going to cure itself. American's are going to have to take the matter into their own hands and learn to quit listening. The sad part about it it's destroying this country. It's dumbed the population that listens to it down to where most can no longer think for themselves. They have to consult Rush before they decide what their opinion is. And until the average American learns to tune these venomous people out! And people start seeing them for what they are...Republican operatives. There is going to be a serious problem in this country. I have no doubts the e-mails will be successful in seeing to it that Obama loses. These people did it in 2004 with the Swift Boaters. Because to many people listen to this nonsense and thrive on it. It's tragic we have become such a sick country.
Boy, I love this line too: 'But sure, people should read the whole thesis if they want to know, first-hand, for absolute certain, that Michelle Obama is not advocating that white people all be rounded up and imprisoned and then turned into Soylent Whitey.'
Soylent Whitey!! I jsut about spit up my coffee on that one. I'm going to use that one myself when debating with the Repub dipshits at my office (hope you don't mind).
If Michelle's thesis is available, I'll read it, with the understanding that what a person writes at 2l may not be what they'd have written at 4l. There's an article in today's London Times on the rise of young politicians in the UK:"Our fortyish pretenders to power look nearer to 30 because they belong to a fortunate generation. No wars, better food and medicine, more exercise, financially unstressed lives, a bit of country living - these are the folk who will live to be l00". Although you might argue about "no wars", it's only the career soldiers that are caught up in the killing fields now- ten French were killed in Afghanistan yesterday. Michelle Obama has accumulated a lot of life-experience since she wrote her thesis as Michelle Robinson about a quarter-of-a-century ago so any reasonable person would judge her by her opinions today, assuming she's not calcified in time.
What George Walden has written in "The Times" about the new generation of aspiring leaders in the UK is equally true of the younger generation of American politicians who have not been tested by hardship or the draft. Michelle Robinson-Obama seems to have typically "bourgeois" values and whatever radicalism some have detected in her thesis is long gone. Life in America has been cushy for her so why should she hate the US?
I still don't understand why Princeton tried to keep her thesis "sub rosa" and I don't know if any explanation has ever been forthcoming. This was a very gauche move on the part of a university and was bound to make journalists question the motives behind it. There was a dust-up about it before the thesis was released. That's the sequence of events, I believe.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
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