Maybe it could be a series of billboards and skywriters, or sound trucks blaring, or a daily TV spot, but it’s necessary. People in my country are arguing about the most ridiculous things right now — particularly in an election year, but just generally — and while we all have this big food fight there’s a ghost at the party.
It’s the war. Nothing comes before stopping it. Please remember that.
Streaming video of nauseating violations of the Constitution: http://qik.com/video/249011
The background to the video: http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/30/police_raids/
Thanks to The Enchanted Porkfist
It’s official; we’ve broken the stupid barrier now. I just read about 10 different opinions about the U.S. election and each one made my head hurt worse than all the rest. Identity politics, personality politics, talk radio victims, Orwellian doublespeak, fuck all of it.
I have my vote made up and the rest is just noise now. I’m not going to pay attention to anything anyone says, including what I say to myself. As St. Jack Rebney said in the Book of Winnebago:
I DON’T WANT ANY MORE BULLSHIT ANYTIME DURING THE DAY. FROM ANYONE, THAT INCLUDES ME.
Americans!
Who do we hate more: Black people, or women?
This is a horrible flashback to the first two elections of my voting career: Mondale v. Reagan and Dukakis v. Bush Sr.
Preparing my absentee ballot and ordering a case of Maker’s Mark, here.
THE SENATOR THEN DIED
If you’ve protected your friend’s rapist son while you’re sheriff, given out guns to all your buddies, and got yourself indicted for corruption charges involving the same rapist’s dad, there’s nothing like a new tape showing you n-wording. Because that’s what we want in a Sheriff:
I mean, we’re bigots here, but you aren’t supposed to SAY IT LIKE THAT.
“You’re right, I’ve had a life that’s been absolutely blessed,” he tells Haidl. “I’ve met millionaires, billionaires, I’ve traveled on personal airplanes, and I never shook anybody down for any s***, so. … Not that I haven’t, you know, drank some great wine, and had great booze and … got some, you know, phenomenal (sex) along the way…”
This Is Just To Say I have taken the Jews Communists and trade unionists that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast. And Niemöller you are next
by metafilter user sixswitch in this thread
“I think it’s time we had a national conversation about gloom. We need to get past all the stale lemon bars and recognize that we are our own best hope for overcoming terrorist fist jabs. We need hot, fresh cookies, not packs of wild dogs. Hot, fresh cookies are our empowerment. And we need to have change in gloom.”
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