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October 21, 2008
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Posted by Van Helsing at October 21, 2008 7:58 PM
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Found on Drudge:
'Socialist' label called 'old code word for black'...
I guess it hit too near the truth, so now "Socialist" will be added to the "Big List of No-No Topics".
Posted by: NudeGayWhalesForJesus at October 21, 2008 8:38 PM
Found on Drudge:
100 Students Involved In Black-on-Hispanic Brawls At NY School...
I'm sure that somehow, some way, I, as a white male, am responsible for this.
Posted by: NudeGayWhalesForJesus at October 21, 2008 8:41 PM
And my last 'found on Drudge' post of the night:
The BEST reason to vote against Obama...
Posted by: NudeGayWhalesForJesus at October 21, 2008 8:44 PM
I'm paraphrasing my favorite author, P. J. O'Rourke here....
We owe a great debt to France, as every great society need a moral lodestone, an "ass-end", if you will, to the national moral compass. Whichever way France is pointing, whether it be to collaboration with the Nazis, The EU, turning a blind eye to the Muslim "reconquista" of Spain and even their own country, the ridiculous socialist/labor laws that virtually *force* them to take in foreign labor to pay the taxes for all of their "free" shit, unquestioning support of the UN, sucking up to Saddam a while back....
...or the worship of Jerry Lewis as the Messiah of Comedy....
...we, as Americans, can go in the diametrically opposite direction with a clear conscience, knowing that if France is for it, it's wrong.
Except for the Nuclear Power thing.
Posted by: hiram at October 21, 2008 9:11 PM
Yep, it was only a matter of time before being against socialism made you a racist. I was waiting for that one.
Posted by: mega at October 21, 2008 9:38 PM
Totally off topic, off thread, off base, off blog...
just thought I'd mention that there are worse songs you can have stuck in your head for 4+ days...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuyS9M8T03A
"...ain't your average Huckleberry Hound... why must I feel like that? OHHHH why must I chase the cat?"
Posted by: hiram at October 21, 2008 10:00 PM
Obamaphiles will likely use the 'Palin does it all the time' excuse
Police and wildlife officials are investigating the discovery of a dead bear cub draped with a pair of Barack Obama campaign signs outside a university in the US.
The Obama signs were stapled together and placed over the bear's head, Ms Tvedt said.
The bear had been shot in the head.
"Western Carolina University deplores the inappropriate behavior that has led to this troubling incident," she said.
"We cannot speculate on the motives of the people involved nor who those people might be. Campus police are cooperating fully with authorities to investigate this matter."
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Socialist = Black = Racist to be anti-Obamunism
The "socialist" label that Sen. John McCain and his GOP presidential running mate Sarah Palin are trying to attach to Sen. Barack Obama actually has long and very ugly historical roots.
J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI from 1924 to 1972, used the term liberally to describe African Americans who spent their lives fighting for equality.
Those freedom fighters included the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who led the Civil Rights Movement; W.E.B. Du Bois, who in 1909 helped found the NAACP which is still the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization; Paul Robeson, a famous singer, actor and political activist who in the 1930s became involved in national and international movements for better labor relations, peace and racial justice; and A. Philip Randolph, who founded and was the longtime head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and a leading advocate for civil rights for African Americans.
Posted by: BURNING HOT at October 21, 2008 10:21 PM
Video: Ayers says everyone he worked with knew he was a radical
In this amazing new video, Bill Ayers says in 2002 that everyone he worked with knew he was a radical Marxist- that he didn't hide anything:
Posted by: BURNING HOT at October 21, 2008 10:22 PM
Ann Coulter Researches the Pro-Democrat Poll Bias Through 8 Presidential Elections
Reviewing the polls printed in The New York Times and The Washington Post in the last month of every presidential election since 1976, I found the polls were never wrong in a friendly way to Republicans. When the polls were wrong, which was often, they overestimated support for the Democrat, usually by about 6 to 10 points.
Summarized by Burning Hot:
1976
Jimmy Carter (D) vs Gerald Ford (R)
Poll predictions: Carter +15 over Ford
Election results: Carter +2.1 over Ford
Bias error: 12.9 points in favour of Democrats
1980
Jimmy Carter (D) vs Ronald Reagan (R)
Poll predictions: Carter +3 over Reagan
Election results: Reagan +10 over Carter
Bias error: 13 points in favour of Democrats
1984
Walter Mondale (D) vs Ronald Reagan (R)
Poll predictions: Reagan +4, +9 or +13 over Carter
Election results: Reagan +18.8 over Mondale
Bias error: 14.8, 9.8 or 5.8 points in favour of Democrats
1988
Michael Dukakis (D) vs George H.W. Bush (R)
Poll predictions: Bush +5 over Dukakis
Election results: Bush +7.8 over Dukakis
Bias error: 2.8 points in favour of Democrats
1992
Bill Clinton (D) vs George H.W. Bush (R)
Poll predictions: Clinton +15 or +12 over Bush
Election results: Clinton +5.3 over Bush
Bias error: 9.7 or 6.7 points in favour of Democrats
1996
Bill Clinton (D) vs Bob Dole (R)
Poll predictions: Clinton +22 over Dole
Election results: Clinton +9 over Dole
Bias error: 13 points in favour of Democrats
2000
Al Gore (D) vs George W. Bush (R)
Poll predictions: Gore +6 over Bush
Election results: Bush over Gore by a slight margin
Bias error: 6 points in favour of Democrats
2004
John Kerry (D) vs George W. Bush (R)
Poll predictions: Bush +1 to +3 over Kerry
Election results: Bush +2.4 over Kerry
Bias error: 1.4 points in favour of Democrats to 1.6 points in favour of Republicans
2008
Barack Hussein Obama (D) vs John McCain (R)
Poll predictions: Obama over McCain, insert own imaginary number
Election results: Less than two weeks to go
Bias error: As always, in favour of Democrats
Respected polling analyst Mark Blumenthal found that during the Democratic primaries this year, preliminary exit polls overestimated Obama's strength in 18 of 20 states, by an average error of 7 percentage points, based on leaked early results.
Posted by: BURNING HOT at October 21, 2008 10:26 PM
THE END OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AS WE KNEW IT
“And so, the end is near”, as Frankie long ago crooned. That’s not a prediction of Armageddon, it’s just a reference to the fact we are near the end of this bitter, divisive campaign which is finally drawing to a close, and none too soon.
Sinatra also sang about his regrets which, he oddly felt, were “too few to mention.” I, too, have regrets but they’re very worth mentioning.
What I regret most at this point is not only that Barack Obama may win the presidency of the United States but that America’s once great Democratic Party chose to nominate him in the first place.
And fellow Republican conservatives shouldn’t quibble over my calling the opposition once great. Like beauty, greatness is in the eye of the beholder but I would have to concede that, despite their many flaws and wrong-headedness on many issues, such Democrats as FDR, HST, and JFK had certain elements of greatness in their characters and achievements.
Contrasted with the current crop of Dems, they are virtual gods.
Roosevelt was able to inspire America during the deepest, darkest years of the Great Depression. He instilled hope in a people who had all but abandoned hope, and we survived.
Harry Truman ignored the naysayers and had the courage to end World War II with ”Fat Man” aboard the Enola Gay and ”Little Boy” aboard the B-29, Boxscar, and we went on to victory and unparalled prominence on the world stage.
Jack Kennedy revitalized the nation and stood toe-to-toe, eyeball-to-eyeball, with Khruschev over Cuba in October, 1962, and Nikita blinked. Americans exited their probably useless bomb shelters, rejoiced, and went back to church for a while.
True, those are only the high points. The Depression really didn’t end until FDR immersed us in World War II and his administrations were filled with Communists and fellow travelers; HST allowed the winless travesty of Korea under the auspices of the United Nations and he foolishly fired MacArthur; JFK made secret deals to end the Cuban Crisis, had a great deal of trouble keeping his zipper zipped, and called himself a jelly donut in German slang.
Nevertheless, all three did achieve some measure of greatness during their presidencies and, more importantly, they all loved our country, something which can’t readily be said of today’s Democrats.
Today, all three of those presidents would be, if not Republicans, then certainly pariahs in their own Democrat Party, much like Joe Lieberman. ...
(Read the rest of this article @ http://genelalor.com/.)
Posted by: Gene Lalor at October 21, 2008 11:27 PM
Michelle Obama pumpkin. Make scowling witches proud of their country for the first time.
Posted by: BURNING HOT at October 21, 2008 11:46 PM
http://minx.cc/?post=276242
Ehren "Douche" Watada may not be re-tried after mistrial
Posted by: mandible claw at October 22, 2008 12:53 AM
Stumbled across this the other day. Don't know if anyone has linked to it before; amusing though.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=75f_1224612320
Posted by: comet at October 22, 2008 2:02 AM
And as the old 70s antidrug ad would say WHY DO YOU THINK THEY CALL IT DOPE?
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at October 22, 2008 6:41 AM
Meanwhile, The Obama Regime to take Michigan's labor and tax policies nationwide. And we all know what a success they've been in Michigan.
Posted by: V the K at October 22, 2008 9:25 AM
Obama on tricycle image credit: http://theshavedape.blogspot.com/2008/01/huckabee-and-barack-hussein-obama-win.html
Not saying Moonbattery "lifted" the image without proper credit. Just noting the original creator, Don Long, of the image.
Posted by: david drake at October 22, 2008 5:44 PM
OBAMA on a tricycle kind of reminds you of LUAGH IN where the guy in the raincoast would ride a tricycle till he fell over
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at October 22, 2008 7:43 PM

