links for 2007-11-30

7:24 am EST November 30th, 2007 | News | Comments Off

 

Henry Hyde Dies

10:53 pm EST November 29th, 2007 | News | 35 Comments

Clearly one of the leaders in the raping of the constitution will have plenty of time to discuss his youthful indiscretion with the Almighty in the after life. Do not let the door hit you, sir.

 

Arkansas’ Denny Altes: Today’s Republican Bigot Eruption

7:46 pm EST November 29th, 2007 | News | 4 Comments

Here we go again. They can’t help themselves.

image An Arkansas legislator apologized Thursday for an e-mail in which he wrote that "we are being outpopulated by the blacks" and "we are being overrun" by illegal immigrants.

But state Sen. Denny Altes insisted the comments in the e-mail he sent earlier this month to former Fort Smith Mayor Bill Vines were not racist.

"I apologize and I am sorry if it hurt anyone’s feelings. … I’m sorry if it offended anyone, but I didn’t consider it a racist remark," Altes told The Associated Press Thursday.

Altes, who is white, wrote in the e-mail that he was in favor of returning illegal aliens to their countries, but "we know that is impossible."

"We are where we were with the black folks after the Revolutionary War," Altes wrote. "We can’t send them back and the more we (anger them) the worse it will be in the future…. Sure we are being overrun but we are being outpopulated by the blacks also."

Altes is not apologizing. He’s using the weasel language "I’m sorry if it offended anyone". And his friend McQ is buying it.

What’s also funny is in this video where he backpedals to the tried and true racist trope of how his friends come from all races, sort of like Stephen Colbert’s "black friend".

Man, I just don’t know why more black voters don’t vote Republican.

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Tay Zonday Sells Out With “Cherry Chocolate Rain”

7:25 pm EST November 29th, 2007 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

In spectacular fashion.

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Why I’m Agnostic And Not A Christian

5:05 pm EST November 29th, 2007 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Too many of these guys and not sane people.

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Romney’s Abortion Flip Flops

4:58 pm EST November 29th, 2007 | News | Comments Off

Mitt Romney’s flip flops have gotta be responsible for like half of Youtube’s traffic nowadays. The least principled candidate in U.S. history is hit for his jumping and jiving abortion position.

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Giuliani Used Police Department As Limo For Mistress

4:05 pm EST November 29th, 2007 | News | Comments Off

Oh Rudy.

Well before it was publicly known he was seeing her, then-married New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani provided a police driver and city car for his mistress Judith Nathan, former senior city officials tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com.

"She used the PD as her personal taxi service," said one former city official who worked for Giuliani.

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links for 2007-11-29

7:23 am EST November 29th, 2007 | News | Comments Off

 

Audible Eyeroll, Michael Steele Edition

4:21 am EST November 29th, 2007 | News | 5 Comments

What do you do after 920,235 people vote against you, and 893,107 people vote against your boss Bob Ehrlich — putting you both out of office? If you’re a fool like Michael Steele you run to the sweet embrace of the loony Washington Times to write an editorial about what’s wrong with the changes Gov. O’Malley had to make to increase revenue to clean up the mess you guys left in Annapolis. I’m so glad the most power these idiots have anymore is to kill the very few trees the Washington Times prints on.

The shuckin’ and the jivin’ continues.

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Mitt Romney Opens The Door On Religion

1:18 am EST November 29th, 2007 | News | 2 Comments

On the CNN/Youtube debate, Mitt Romney said he believed everything in the King James Bible. He was clearly pandering to the conservative “Christian” base of the Republican party. But I think it is a fair follow up question to ask Romney if he believes everything in The Book of Mormon as well, which is a foundational text of his faith.

As a side note I think it’s funny that Mike Huckabee, a former minister, clearly said he doesn’t think everything in the bible is literal truth (an obvious point to anyone who has ever cracked it open – even if you’re the most devout Christian the Bible is not exactly a clear recitation of fact) but Romney couldn’t stop his pander gene from kicking in.

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