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Saturday, November 21, 2009

It seems that the Brett Favre-Green Bay Packers saga is such a worldwide phenomenon that it's being used by detainees in American military camps. According to a military official, detainees at a Wisconsin National Guard camp in Iraq are using Brett Favre as a manner of getting at the guard troops there. "They know Favre by name," said First Lieutenant Tim Boehnen, who is from New Richmond, Wis. "One of the big words they know now is shenanigan. They'll constantly talk about 'Favre shenanigans,' 'He's so good for the Vikings,' and 'The Packers have got to really feel bad about that one.'"


The human capacity for self-delusion never ceases to amaze me, so it shouldn't surprise me that so many Republicans seem to genuinely believe that they are the party of fiscal responsibility. Perhaps at one time they were, but those days are long gone.

This fact became blindingly obvious to me six years ago this month when a Republican president and a Republican Congress enacted the Medicare drug benefit, which former U.S. Comptroller General David Walker has called "the most fiscally irresponsible piece of legislation since the 1960s."


Friday, November 20, 2009

A woman who claimed she was raped in 2005 while working in Iraq for a former Halliburton subsidiary has been awarded nearly $3 million by an arbitrator to settle her case. Tracy Barker had sued U.S. contractor KBR Inc., its former parent company Halliburton and several affiliates in May 2007, claiming she was sexually attacked by a State Department employee while working as a civilian contractor in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. A federal judge in Houston had dismissed Barker's lawsuit in January 2008, ruling she had to abide by an employment agreement she signed that said any claims she made against the companies would have to be settled through arbitration and not the courts.


A 15-year-old boy who was killed by his father in an execution style killing spent the last moments of his life pleading, "No, Daddy! No!" Jamar Pinkney Jr. was shot in the head Monday by his 37-year-old father, Jamar Pinkney Sr., who allegedly made the teen strip his clothes off and kneel in a vacant lot before he was killed by a single bullet. The boy's mother, Lazette Cherry, told the Detroit Free Press that Pinkney Sr., showed up at her Highland Park, Mich., home after she told him that their son had made a startling confession. According to Cherry, the 15-year-old had admitted to having "inappropriate contact" with his 3-year-old half-sister.


Thursday, November 19, 2009

Police in Michigan are investigating after an irate reader of the Port Huron Times-Herald reportedly called in a threat to the newspaper after it criticized a local House representative's participation in the anti-health reform Tea Party protest two weeks ago. "A 60-year-old Port Huron woman threatened to take a gun to the newspaper and 'do what they did at Fort Hood,' according to police," the paper reported on Tuesday.


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US Representative Lynn Jenkins shared that the GOP was looking for "a great white hope" to counter President Obama and the republicans.

Mississippi Republican State Senator Lydia Chassaniol was the very special guest of the Conservative Citizens Council, an organization that has called African-Americans "a retrograde species of humanity" and that has referred to America's increasing diversity as a "slimy brown mass of glop". Chassiol concluded her remarks to the organization (even CPAC called it racist) by saying "seeing you all here today gives me hope".

In the midst of her campaign for Chair of the Young Republicans Organization, Audra Shay, cheer-led racist comments on her Facebook page. Of course, her subsequent election indicates that the concept of racial harmony will be just as foreign to the current generation of republican political operatives as it was to the last.

Michelle Bachmann led other republican politicians in blaming the entire financial meltdown on you guessed it racial minorities when she stated that the mortgage debacle that ignited the global crisis was caused by loans "being made on the basis of race and little else".

Republicans in San Bernadino County published a newsletter that included "Obama Bucks", a food-stamp with pictures of watermelon, fried chicken, ribs and Kool-Aid surrounding a picture of the President.

A republican mayor in California distributed e-mails featuring a watermelon patch in the foreground of the White House.

A South Carolina republican activist shared on his Facebook page that an escaped gorilla was an ancestor of First Lady Michelle Obama.

The United States Commission on Civil Rights issued a report detailing numerous incidents of racially targeted action against African Americans on the part of Florida republicans, many in violation of the Voting Rights Act and Florida law.

The Tennessee Republican party distributed a collage featuring pictures of Presidents of the United States, depicting President Obama as two eyes peering out of a black background.

The GOP chairman of New Mexico's Bernalillo County said "The truth is that Hispanics came here as conquerors," he said. "African-Americans came here as slaves" and that "Hispanics consider themselves above blacks. They won't vote for a black president."

A republican City Councilman enjoyed racist e-mails regarding the President and the First Lady so much that he thought everyone should have the same fun he was having. So he distributed and forwarded "jokes" that compared Obama to O.J. Simpson while others suggested that "@!$%# rigs" should now be called "presidential solutions."

Chip Saltsman, former chair of the Tennessee republicans and candidate for Chairman of the Republican National Committee, distributed a CD containing the song "Barack the Magic Negro".

In an ode to racist hostility to miscegenation, the Tennessee Republican Party ran ads against Congressman Harold Ford featuring a scantily-clad white woman saying "call me Harold".

Republican Senator Trent Lott stated that the country would have been better off had virulent racist Strom Thurmond been elected President.

In the republican primary, the Bush (W) campaign engaged in push polling to imply that opponent John McCain's adopted Bangladeshi daughter was his illegitimate black child.

George Bush (H.W.) ran ads featuring the sinister visage of black convict Willie Horton in his campaign against Michael Dukakis.

In his campaign against Harvey Gantt, Senator Jesse Helms ran ads featuring a pair of white hands balling up a job application stating that the person lost the opportunity in favor on an unqualified racial minority.


Here's Dubya once again embarrassing the US by dressing like a clown while begging President Hu to keep funding his twin quagmires.

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