March 09, 2009 08:30 PM
Open Thread
Context is everything: average people quoting Rush Limbaugh. [I had a hard time hearing the first guy, he's quoting Rush on Abu Ghraib.]
Open thread below...
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So, that'a what dittoheads look like. Did you notice that their eyes were closer together, like cave men and women?
Because they have had a Limbaughtomy.
drowned all the Republicans with the cement block that is Rush Limbaugh. I hope it works.
it seems counter intuitive to give OxyButterball any more publicity than he already has, perhaps the increased scrutiny will give more people a chance to hear the anal cyst's regressive bullshit. Maybe he'll become the punchline he deserves to be.
I heard him calling members of Obama's cabinet and members of congress, "butt buddies" of Obama. He must have said it 20 times. Oh, he also included some members of the press.
of the bloodthirsty, gung ho righties, El Rushbo, aka Jeff Christie, is a closet case. Anyone who is so obsessed with gay insults has a lot to hide. If they would just come out of the closet, they would spare the world a lot of grief.
Most men grow out of that once they leave high school, many like him peek at that bogey in the closet all their lives. Maybe he's himself gay. If so he should come out, it may be a revalation for him, once he accepts himself for what he is he'll stop hating everyone.
You never know.
Rush Limbaugh is a dumb ass, so that other dumb ass's can listen and get together and be dumb-assy.
They are asking for volunteers, not money.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/pledge...
Yes Michael Steele you are correct.........Flush Dimbulb IS an appropriate voice for your party.
Sometime in the future when you want to be a viable entity in American politics, you might want to tighten up your standards of representation.
'Talk to the hand'
Experts: Hate crime classification can be tricky
BY REID J. EPSTEIN | reid.epstein@newsday.com
8:26 PM EDT, March 9, 2009
Daryl Jackson, who police say was attacked by five men in Roosevelt, rests in a hospital room at Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow. (Photo by Peter Walden Sr. / March 8, 2009)
VIDEO: http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/?p=3079 CBS 2’s Jaw Dow reported that an NYPD officer is one of four men accused in a vicious beating on Long Island. The victim was attacked with a bat, fists and feet, and police say it may be a hate crime.
AND: http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-...
Classifying an offense as a hate crime can sometimes be tricky, experts said, because authorities have to determine the state of mind of those charged and consider the circumstances of the crime.
Details of the Sunday attack by three Hispanic men on a black man in Roosevelt, released Monday, paint a picture of a murky legal scenario in which police said there was little doubt that a "hateful act" with racially charged language took place.
But there was no evidence the assault happened because the victim, Daryl Jackson, is black. [That they called him a *n*****r is not evidence, these days - EAR]
"It underscores the difficulty of the hate crimes statute, trying to get into people's heads and seeing their motivation," said Eugene O'Donnell, a criminal justice professor at John Jay College in Manhattan. "Certainly when you get into fights and assaults, it's often hard to know what motivates people."
State law defines a hate crime as an offense "committed or intended to be committed in whole or in substantial part" because of the victim's membership in a protected class like race or religion.
Nassau Police Commissioner Lawrence Mulvey said that even though Jose Miguel Vargas told police that racial epithets were used during the assault on Jackson, evidence shows Vargas and the three other Hispanic men attacked Jackson, whom police said panhandles in the area, to get him off their property.
To file hate crime charges against Vargas, his brother Persio Vargas, his nephew Kelvin Vargas and Juan Nunez, a New York City police officer, Mulvey said, "a witness would have to come forward and say, 'I heard a discussion at the deli like, let's get this black man.' "
Mulvey added, however, that "the door is open" for hate crime charges to be added later. Nassau District Attorney Kathleen Rice is investigating the attack, said her spokesman, Eric Phillips.
Det. Sgt. Gary Shapiro, Nassau Police's bias crime coordinator, said the use of racial epithets alone does not make an attack a hate crime. "It depends on how the whole thing happens," he said.
Suffolk officials declined to elaborate on how they decide what is a hate crime. Suffolk Police Commissioner Richard Dormer issued a statement saying "Something that is obviously a hateful act may or may not be able to be classified as a hate crime under the narrow wording of the state hate crimes law."
{I had to edit that CoInTelPro. Sorry. I can't allow that word to be used here. Under any circumstances. SiteMonitor}
Some stuff you can't make up!
with f**king baseball bats. If it isn't a hate crime I don't know what else they could call it. It certainly wasn't a lovefest.
yeah now lets show the white guy being pulled out of the truck in la during the riots and getting his head squashed by a black guy with a fucking concrete block! while the other assholes stood around and cheered racisims a two way street!
...is a "two way street" in this nation's long, sad past, you absolutely don't know your own history...but no worries, you're not alone.
BTW, where are all of those nasty and disgusting comments that Meatbaugh made about Chelsey Clinton when she was a little girl?
I have not before or since heard anything so cruel on the airwaves.
'Talk to the hand'
the michael J. fox twitch, jiggle and shake
Some stuff you can't make up!
That was bad too.
'Talk to the hand'
"Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're trying to be so quiet." ~ Bob Dylan
remember, the Full Moon is almost here :)
Bob Dylan is the best!
"Girl from the North Country":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGrVK_EM78Y&fe...
I used to see these guys in a little neighborhood bar in Huntington Beach, CA years ago. Playing this week in Vegas.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Perqs?
An Ohio janitor job opening nets 700 applications. Buffet says unemployment will continue to go up. The health care system is short on nurses. The nation's levees may not be reliable right now. More Americans are becoming areligious. The UAW takes it up the ass to appease Ford. The banks are still insolvable. Iraqi forces are already planning for civil war for August 10. Obama remembers Superman. A paralyzed legislator is certainly glad about stem cell funding. Over 4,000 have died of cholera in Zimbabwe. SCOTUS make sures that states with large minority populations can't elect the next Obama.
Herbert Hoover Dike around Lake Okeechobee in FL when the state was in a severe drought last year and water levels were low, but noooo, not enough money then. Had to keep "rebuilding" Iraq...
BTW, am I the only one who is concerned about naming two major water-holding structures (HH Dike in FL and HH Dam in Nevada) for the second worst president in US history??
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Oh yeah. He was talking the talk with his black brothers and sisters on Tavis Smiley's "The State of the Black Union" alright, which aired on my npr station tonight and was taped probably a week and a half ago or so....before he went groveling at Rush Limbaugh's feet.
Well, I sure hope Tavis and his guests on next week's program call Steele out for not walking the walk.
The Republicans are doing a great job of proving their irrelevance!
... and should go on forever!! I love it!
Ah the GOP, Hoisted on their own RETARD!
For Tibetans. The Dalai Lama speaks.
The worlds most dangerous creature.
http://www.toilette-humor.com/cartoon.html
You are bad :)
Did it make you jump?
'Talk to the hand'
to be honest!
haha
Ewwwww! I smell something.
every time someone clicks on that picture a small amount of virtual methane is released into the atmosphere.
'Talk to the hand'
It was my Dad's fault. hehe
That actually got me in the mood for Joe Cartoon.
Joe cartoon is really bad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRhUoUeGpTc
You are really, really bad!
OK, I'm going to bed now. Really.
One in fifty who are homeless, in fact.
I get a rush when I listen to Rush! The kind you get when you look in the rearview mirror and see blinking red lights!
sick thrills in my stomach!
when I hear Rush. He's like a floater than won't flush.
Propane explosion. :(
Do u think I should get the propane bottle out of my van?
"Martha Stewart's chow puppy was one of 17 dogs killed in an accidental propane explosion at an eastern Pennsylvania kennel."
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Well, at least it was accidental...
Bummer about the dogs dying.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Sad news indeed. I hate stories like this.
Poor Michael Steel is getting completely schooled politically. I almost feel sorry for him. He got sucked into the big Limbaugh black hole and he is completely screwed no matter what he says now. . . .
It was his choice to join the Viper Party, his choice to accept the lead, and his mistake to get wounded. When you join a gang of thugs whose only creed is to conquer, wound and kill, you should accept the consequences.
Well put stranded.
am just now getting caught up with the crap that's been going on here, especially Limbaugh's crap. Unbelieveable what this jerk has been saying (then, again, knowing him, it really isn't unbelieveable.)
I think it was KO who showed a clip of him tonight at CPAC, jumping around, waving his arms.....think the idiot is on drugs again.
I cannot stand the man. He is the most dangerous man in America. As Al Franken once said, Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot!
What really pissed me off is that BillO the Clown actually was defending Limbaugh tonight....at least he was not criticizing the goon. But that's to be expected.
Looks like there's plenty of material from the past couple of weeks to get caught up on, and that will easily cause my blood pressure to rise!
rush limbaugh is the best thing the democratic party has ever had. bar none he's our best friend when it comes to wingnut pill poppin' assholes
That's true ... The Dems are basically... worthless... When o when can we get some real Congressional leaders? I am really getting sick of calling my elected officials!
Usually it is ... "Make them filibuster ..."
Pelosi continues to stab us in the back by letting the air polluters call the shots. Barry's educational stimulus plan.
The Money Masters - How International Bankers Gained Control of America
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5153...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN-6I4UHBd4
He's an embarrassment to your nation (your "brand"-- I hate that word). How do you think his popularity makes people view USA-Inc.? Anyone wonder why you all get lumped together as ugly Americans? This is what passes for enlightened discourse?
It's truly shocking to outsiders.
far left loon >.<
You turn on any media, and the representatives of the American people that are seen and heard are:
Rash Limpballs
Bill Orally
Michael Steel
Bobby Jindal
Nancy Pelosi
Harry Reid
Sean Hannity
Sarah Palin
Rahm Emmanuel
Is that really who the American people want in the media 24/7? Yikes.
Waxman makes climate-change mark - http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/197...
Worth Every Penny; During past decade, Wall Street spent $1.7 billion buying politicians and $3.4 billion on lobbyists
- http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/03/04/polit...
Wall Street spent $5.1 billion in political influence-peddling over the past decade as lobbyists won deregulation that led to the nation's financial collapse, according to a new study.
- http://www.bostonherald.com/business/general/...
'AIG, Where Taxpayer Dollars Go to Die' - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/business/08...
"Derivatives are dangerous." That simple sentence, written by Warren Buffett, begins an enlightening discussion in Berkshire Hathaway's most recent annual report. Mr. Buffett's views on derivatives, gleaned from his own unhappy encounters with them, should be required reading for all United States taxpayers.
Why? Because we own almost 80 percent of the American International Group, the giant insurer whose collapse was a direct result of derivatives it sold during the late, great credit boom.
Wall St. Bailout: Is A Massive Scandal About To Unfold? - http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/3/8/74...
WP: "The Obama administration is aggressively reworking U.S. trade policy to more strongly emphasize domestic and social issues, from the displacement of American workers to climate change."
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/...
USA #1? National Shame: More than 1.5 million children in the United States are without a home, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Center on Family Homelessness. Among the study's findings is that one in 50 children is homeless, and 42 percent of those kids are younger than 6.
- http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/10/homeless.chi...
'Light at the end of the tunnel': More Americans Say They Have No Religion - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/09/more...
A wide-ranging study on American religious life found that the Roman Catholic population has been shifting out o of the Northeast to the Southwest, the percentage of Christians in the nation has declined and more people say they have no religion at all.
Fifteen percent of respondents said they had no religion, an increase from 14.2 percent in 2001 and 8.2 percent in 1990, according to the American Religious Identification Survey. Northern New England surpassed the Pacific Northwest as the least religious region, with Vermont reporting the highest share of those claiming no religion, at 34 percent.
Still, the study found that the numbers of Americans with no religion rose in every state. "No other religious bloc has kept such a pace in every state," the study's authors said.
Supreme Court refuses to expand minority voting rights - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/...
"The Supreme Court ruled Monday that electoral districts must have a majority of African-Americans or other minorities to be protected by a provision of the Voting Rights Act. The 5-4 decision, with the court's conservatives in the majority, could make it harder for southern Democrats to draw friendly boundaries after the 2010 Census.
Obama's Lifting of Stem Cell Funding Ban is Victory for Science, Democracy, and Life - http://paullevinson.blogspot.com/2009/03/obam...
'We've just come out of a modern Dark Ages...'
Nurses Win Settlement Over Wages - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1236556158157...
"A health-care network in upstate New York agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that managers conspired to keep registered nurses' wages artificially low, in a move that could affect other defendants in the case and four related suits across the country. ...
The suit, brought by two Albany, N.Y., nurses, is one of five related suits filed in 2006, in which nurses alleged that hospitals agreed to enter into a conspiracy to keep nurse wages low and did so by sharing compensation information such as wage surveys."
Today Is a Great Day for Science and for Enlightened Faith - http://www.talk2action.org/story/2009/3/9/114...
Mother Jones: Why Biofuels Are the Rainforest's Worst Enemy - http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2009/0...
Forget petroleum. The next planet-destroying fuel is already here.
Even less education than normal? Oregon schools face last resort: a shorter year - http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/natio...
The A-word - David Sirota - http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/03/...
As wages stagnate in a nation whose median household income is $50,000 a year, one financial executive tells reporters that bankers "can't live on $150,000 to $180,000." Another bemoans efforts to restrict CEO pay by saying that "$500,000 is not a lot of money" -- and the New York Times chimes in by insisting that it’s true: "Half a million a year can go very fast."
Similarly, as lawmakers hand banks trillions of taxpayer dollars, Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., complains that Congress has gotten "very little done to help the financial sector," and Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., says America should be most worried that "we're running out of rich people."
Meanwhile, reporter Rick Santelli is billed as a populist hero for standing amid wealthy commodities traders and telling CNBC’s viewers that the people being thrown out of their homes are "losers."
Off the deep end: Chuck, this isn't one of your bad movies. Chuck Norris claims thousands of right wing cell groups exist and will rebel against U.S. government
- http://www.examiner.com/x-2071-DC-Special-Int...
Brad Blog: 'Big Boat, No Walleye': Franken Moves to Dismiss Coleman's U.S. Senate Election Contest in MN
- http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6972
Rove and Miers Won't be Testifying Under Oath - http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6966
Frank Schaeffer: Open Letter to the Republican Traitors (From a Former Republican) - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer...
The worsening economic situation is your fault and your fault alone. The Republicans created this mess through 8 years of backing the worst president in our history and now, because you put partisan ideology ahead of the good of our country, you have blown your last chance to redeem yourselves. You deserve the banishment to the political wilderness that awaits all traitors.
Federation of Canadian Municipalities asks members to ban bottled water. Got to love our neighors to the North. Bottled water is an enormous environtmental disaster and private profit from public water supplies
- http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrado...
http://www.thinkoutsidethebottle.org/
Someone who might benefit from a high-speed train from LA to Las Vegas: Sean Hannity, who spent time at the Moonlight Bunny Ranch -- legal prostitution in Nevada
- http://blog.windycitywatch.com/2009/03/sean-h...
Why Must We Be Forced to Listen to Right Wing Stupidity? - http://pleasecutthecrap.typepad.com/main/2009...
Has Sen. Harry Reid met Mr. Peter Principle? P.M. Carpenter Exclusively on BuzzFlash for Tuesday, March 10. The sad and brutally conspicuous part of the omnibus-bill battle is that Senate Dems, led by Mr. Reid, lost because once again they let Republicans win.
- http://buzzflash.com/articles/carpenter/332
U Oregon Offers Climate School for Local Businesses - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/03/u-ore...
PR Watch on the Heartland Conference: The Monkeys and Their Organ Grinders - http://www.desmogblog.com/pr-watch-heartland-...
We don't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children - Native American proverb
If being cold means there's no such thing as global warming, does being full mean there's no such thing as world hunger?
That story about Norris is bizarre. They'll do it too.
Kinda like that flick Red Dawn. Only they're turning on their own country. Cuckoo, Cuckoo, Cuckoooooo
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Arrest Norris NOW!
Anyone see Colbert's "Better Know a District" intrerview with Cynthia Loomis, House Representative from Wyoming, last night? It's a classic.
That shit is so funny. I think. He's a great guy. I hope he gets all districts done one day in the future. Very funny.
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/03/ap_obam...
... dittoheads in that clip, right?
Just regular folks showing how lame and stupid the Vulgar Pigboy's comments are?
In other words, snark and sarcasm ...?
(God, I hope those people don't agree with those asinine utterances ...)
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