If Only White's Minds Were As Open As Their Mouths

Because Sarah knows, better than blacks, what dead Civil Rights leaders would think

I see this every time I even glance at the comments on Althouse:

 "Yes, we will develop strong emotionally laden opinions, but they will not be informed opinions. Our socialization renders us racially illiterate."

It's just white folks reinforcing each other's history-free racism,...

The Right-Wing Finally Proves Why It'll Never Get MLK

Bayard Rustin, the Civil Rights Movement's very-gay Chief Strategist, and MLK

Wow: Sarah Palin's ignorant ramblings about how "our original civil rights freedom fighters are rolling in their graves over the backward steps we’ve taken lately" have probably turned out to be true, now that Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum and the Duggars reportedly got together to sign a Rick Scarborough petition - advocating anti-gay discrimination "in the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King." How that works (in the minds of Palin and/or the rest) is anybody's guess, but I do know what exists as a conservative affliction: Those representing King's opposition - in contemporary times - imagining, and proclaiming, he'd be on their side. 

Look, lying's in the Right's blood. It's left over from slavery. It's how they rationalized the horrors they were committing to themselves. And they still need justifications for what they do today - though they don't have niggas. 

Don't be surprised if they all start claiming they're black soon,...

Sarah Palin, You're An Ignorant Dingbat (Plus A Racist)

It's always a wonder to me how conservative whites will speak on MLK's "character" comment, without understanding American history - something "our original civil rights freedom fighters" understood well - or the fact it's white's character that's also being judged. And all that unmentioned theft, lynching, discrimination, forced segregation, etc., by whites are only part of it:

 "Ok, I’m sorry. I shouldn’t laugh… this hard. I know this isn’t a victimless crime, what this white chick perpetrated. But it’s a most crystal clear picture of so many screwed up things we’ve let society adopt as the norm. Namely, the practice nowadays of judging someone not based on character, but on skin color. Our original civil rights freedom fighters are rolling in their graves over the backward steps we’ve taken lately."

So, what "backward steps" have "we taken" when "passing" has been done, both ways, many times before without comment?

 "Pioneering rhythm-and-blues singer, songwriter, drummer, bandleader and disc jockey Johnny Otis made the kind of conscious life choice early on that few people have the inclination, or circumstance, to carry out. Born white, the son of Greek immigrant parents, and raised in a predominantly black neighborhood in Northern California in the 1920s, Otis decided as a youth that he'd rather be black,..."

Sorry, Goofy Lady, but you shouldn't be laughing, because whites who speak on that which they don't understand are - by example - showing extremely bad character,...

Sarah Palin: They Scream 'Racism' - Well Don't Retreat!

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That's right, white America - stay racists to spite the blacks:

That's the perfect way to change your image.

And continue to lose elections,....

Sarah Got Drunk & Said A Black President Can't Holder

Sarah Palin's been irrelevant for a while now but, today - maybe after nipping a little too much at the cooking sherry - she went on (what seemed to be) such a tipsy tirade against the president, Attorney General Eric Holder, and their perception of racism in America, TMR's re-setting her 15 Minutes Of Fame Clock.

It's quite the sight, this woman - who's shown no insight or aptitude on the subject of race - lecturing two black men that they are, not just wrong but, trying to be deceptive by bringing it up. And naturally, she'd rather pivot to impeachment, because (even she has to know) we're aware there's no substance to her claim of understanding their motivations, making her whole rap a sieve.

Only the most ignorant of whites will get sucked into it,...

Forget Obama: The Republicans Want A Strong Leader

This past week Fox News strategic analyst Ralph Peters was effusive in praising Russia he asserted “has a real leader, while our President is incapable and unwilling to lead.” Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani could barely contain his enthusiasm for Putin and said “Putin decides what he wants to do and does it in half a day. He makes a decision and executes it quickly and everybody reacts. That’s what you call a real leader.”

Another conservative pundit praised Putin because “he likes to hang out with his shirt off and tells the West if you mess with me I’ll kill you all.” Even half-term, half-wit Sarah Palin compared the conservative’s hero with President Obama and said,  ”people look at Putin as one who wrestles bears and drills for oil, and our President wears mom jeans and equivocates.” Another Fox analyst said, “In Putin, you’ve got a big strong guy, muscular and shirtless on a horse who wrestles tigers, while the President wears mom jeans.”

Sarah Palin Said Putin Would Invade Ukraine (In 2008)

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And she said it would be because of Obama: 

The best thing for the Tea Party Meme Machine in a while?

 

The Tea Party Addresses Slavery (Never Sees Blacks)

Tea Partiers are far ahead of everybody else on race, precisely because they don't see it. 

Why, they're so far ahead - by the time the rest of us catch up to where they are - they'll probably have been out of business for a long, long time,...

Dog Whistle! Dog Whistle! (Sung Like Queen's "Bicycle")

Come on, can you get more disingenuous? She has to know how credible this message is, coming from her - a stupid play for racist attention and applause. Like she's ever said anything viable about slavery, or racism, in her career. She's proven - with her life's work - that blacks, freedom, and liberty are not her concern, yet she has the nerve:

"Palin To Obama: Honor MLK By Not Playing The 'Race Card'"

Yeah, and what's she going to do?

Conservatives are sinking deeper in the swamp: 

 It's hard to grasp, that she was viable as a national candidate,…

 

This Message Is All Mixed Up (Like The One I'm Getting)

“Pew shows the following things are true about bosses, as compared with the average workers:

-They are happier with their work lives.

-They are happier with their home lives.

-They are happier with their financial situation.

-They make more money.

-They are more likely to be white.

-They are more likely to be male.

-They are more likely to be Republican.”

“Gov. Palin Proves Christians Can Do Yoga”

“Amiri Baraka—author, cultural critic, revolutionary, professor and intellectual—passed away today in New York City after a long illness.”

"What can Madison [Wis.] do about its race problem? Address its privilege problem.”

“Work that does eventually transcend time and space usually emerges from the highly specific circumstances of a place where art is of immediate and urgent concern. That at least is the story of New York, Paris and Florence. Why not Detroit?”

FACT: Real Men Don't Engage In This Type Of Behavior

"Ho ho — huh?

The family of an African-American high school student in New Mexico says he’s crushed after a teacher questioned why he was wearing Santa garb during a school holiday dress-up day last week, CNN affiliate KOAT reported.

The teacher told Christopher Rougier, a freshman at Cleveland High School, that he couldn’t be Santa because Santa is white, the student’s father, Michael, told KOAT.

'He was embarrassed,' he told the station.

Now, his son doesn’t want anything to do with Christmas."

Thank you, Megyn Kelly - and remember, this is what Ann Althouse called "less than nothing,” with she and Glenn Reynolds (with his hair totally on the most exquisitely delusional fire) imagining it's a Christmas anti-white jihad or something equally preposterous:

"[Megyn’s] a big deal now with her own show. They have to Palinize her fast, or women might listen to her and see another way."

Ooooh - Megyn Kelly - as deeply influential?

That comment - like most of Glenn's - is just too stupid for words, except:

Good luck with that one, Genius!

I'd think Ann would stop this nonsense by now - it must be the stupid feminist notions she finds attractive:

Surely, Glenn's political track record is starting to speak for itself,...

 

The Daily Show: Racist Or Not Racist?

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Taking To The Streets (Only To Discover You're Toast)

"What I think, when I see that memorial closures are the thing that gets conservatives in the streets, is that movement leaders and rank-and-file activists alike cannot be counted on to identify and take on the most serious issues facing veterans, or the most serious threats to liberty. Instead they spend their time seizing on symbolic issues that promise to result in the best optics for a given news cycle—World War II veterans traveled to Washington and can't visit the memorial dedicated to them! Think what victory would mean in this instance: The barricades would come down, which will happen anyway as soon as the government reopens. In other words, there's no substantive upside for this particular rally, whether you're concerned about benefitting veterans or safeguarding liberty. It was held so that Cruz and Palin could aggrandize themselves, so that conservatives could revel in their self-image as liberty loving patriots who honor veterans, and so that the Obama Administration would look bad. Protests are nothing more than political theater for these people. Or if they actually intend to effect change, their strategy verges on nonsensical."

It Don't Change: You Can't Save The Planet With Magic

Three things, real fast, and I'm gone:

1) I don't quote The New York Times much anymore, but our morons have flipped the script enough that even the NYT can crow:

  “Sarah Palin finally got her death panels — a direct blow from the Republican House. In shutting down the government, leaving 800,000 people without a paycheck and draining the economy of $300 million a day, the Party of Madness also took away last-chance cancer trials for children at the National Institutes of Health.

And now that the pain that was dismissed as a trifle on Monday, a “slimdown” according to the chuckleheads at Fox News, is revealed as tragic by mid-week, the very radicals who caused the havoc are trying to say it’s not their fault. It’s too late. They flunked hostage-taking,...

...Politically, the shutdown is terrible for a party trying to rebrand itself. When Bobby Jindal said Republicans have to “stop being the party of stupid,” he swallowed a teaspoon of common sense. That’s been washed away by a river of stupid.”

2) Here's what I just wrote at Lem's a little while ago:

   I'm assuming, though it's awful to do, that somebody hasn't seen that episode of Star Trek with the blob that gets stronger every time you shoot at it.



Or they've never been outnumbered and knocked down in a fight, or a "hazing" (or, Ladies, possibly being raped) and the attackers are getting off on the victim struggling to get free. What is the victim to do? Answer:



Look your attacker in the eyes and STOP FIGHTING.



Look, guys, this one is un-winnable. There is no - NO - upside. All you can do now is stop the bleeding.



The Right read too much Alinsky. We've got a million tacticians (listen to Cody talk) but no strategists. And, right now, we're screwed for it.



Dana Loesch is part of the problem. Every one of these pricks that have led us to this Dead End is responsible for us being here.



All you can do is demand Ted Cruz end this now.



It was the wrong fight, at the wrong time, for the wrong reason.



And everybody gets that but the people doing it.

3) And, if we don't get serious about killing the West's cult problem, we will have a bigger one on our hands - grey emphasis mine:

   The Devon cult that canes tiny children to ‘cleanse their sins’: As social services launches an investigation, a mother’s shocking testimony lifts the lid on the mysterious commune squatting on a farm

• 'Vicki' has lifted the lid on the commune she escaped from in 2005

• Then a vulnerable, single mother, she was ordered to beat her son

• The commune is linked to the controversial US Twelve Tribes cult

• Forty children were taken in to care at two German branches recently

• The NSPCC has now raised concerns with Stentwood Farm in Devon

We can do this,...

 

Choice - Who's Smarter: Sarah Palin Or Thomas Sowell?

Sarah thinks Ted Cruz is Syria and worth defending:

"Sarah Palin is actually right about something. 

...Former Governor [Sarah] Palin (R-AK) tweeted, on Sunday, that [Chris] Wallace ought to reveal which sources had sent him the dirt on [Ted] Cruz. She tweeted “@FoxNewsSunday Keep it TRULY fair & balanced. Release the GOP names encouraging you to trash @SenTedCruz. No more anonymous sources.”

Thomas Sowell sees Ted Cruz as the Republican's Vladimir Putin:

"What could possibly rescue Barack Obama from all these political problems and create a distraction that takes all his scandals off the front page? Only one thing: the Republicans. 

By making a futile and foredoomed attempt to defund Obamacare, Congressional Republicans have created the distraction that Obama so much needs. Already media attention has shifted to the possibility of a government shutdown. 

Politically, it doesn’t matter that the Republicans are not really trying to shut down the government. What matters is that this distraction solves Barack Obama’s political problems that he could not possibly have solved by himself. 

The time, effort, and credibility that Republicans are investing in trying to defund Obamacare is a high-risk, low-yield investment."

So who's right for the Right? You know my views:

I'm leaving this one for you,...

 

Ready! Aim! Fire Everybody Associated With This Crap!

Follow me, sharp shooters:

A few days ago, Glenn Reynolds' message was clear:

"I think the GOP can win even by losing,…"

But today's message is linked to JIM TYNEN:

Why the Republicans Can’t Give Up Now. 

“They would be like Obama and his red line in Syria. They have drawn a red line; to go back is to look feckless and weak. And, worse, ridiculous. Whether the time is right, etc., is irrelevant. Folding would give them no credit; their only recourse is to win. And victory is closer than ever.”

So, are Tynen and I right - winning is still "winning" - and Glenn's experimenting with Charlie Sheen's Tiger Blood? 

Drudge has got Sarah Palin screaming, Bomb's Away!" 

But AP's got Rand Paul admitting to her it's all a delusion.

What to do?

Well, who's right is the wrong question - it's a losing campaign to begin with - so we at least need a lesson for the rest of us.

I'll give it to you.

Get some leaders from this century:

Because, when you're as confused as Glenn and Sarah, bringing down a moose - and bringing down a elephant - are pretty much the same operation,...