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Tancredo, Palin, and the rest of the Tea Bagger Traitors want to disenfranchise minorities. Once again, they want to return us to a time when women stayed at home and went uneducated and anyone not white stay subservient. Bastards.

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Here's the earlier reporting:

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This cracks me up for some reason.

Gotta love this Saints-themed Tabasco ad.

While I've been posting positive and respectful homages to Howard Zinn, NPR has continued it's slide to conservative BS "journalism" with a biased and insulting interview concerning Zinn's passing.

At least this time at least one of their number understands that shitting on the dead is in poor form. Normal for conservatives, of course, but still the hallmark of a cretin.

For those not so up on football, a quick primer on some Colts and Saints details.

So, the person who wrote the "Kookaburra" song (who has passed on) either didn't see the similarity or didn't want to sue. But the corporation who didn't have anything to do with making either song only sees the opportunity to make a buck sues and is trying to rip off the 80s band Men at Work.

It's probably just a coincidence, at worst it's an uncredited homage. Either way, the suit is frivolous, the judge is an asshat, and the whole damn thing is ridiculous. I hope the final settlement is for, say, a dollar. Anything more is just insulting to any artist doing any kind of work.

(I)f I were to choose to use my full given name, I'd like to think it would be regarded as being equally as American as the millions upon millions of other immigrant names in the phone book. Speaking of the phone book, there are at least 100 "Glenn Beck" listings at the White Pages website. Probably hundreds more. Does that make his name more American than, say, Eisenhower? Or Petraeus?

Bob is pissed. And he should be. Hell, every decent sane American should be. Read this assessment of that assmunch Beck and then - if you are into masochism - check this rundown, including audio.

NPR had a good system on the problems of the bail bond system awhile back. I meant to post it and just plain forgot. So here you go.

Here is another story related to the series.

Yes, bail helps keep people from filling up the jails, but it appears to create way more problems than it solves. Check those stories out and I bet you too will believe the process really needs to be reformed.

Both Rachel and Keith focused on the polling that shows Republicans to be racist secessionist assholes.

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More on the recent passing of Howard Zinn, including some videos clip on this page plus an excerpt from his latest - and last - book.

"What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places-and there are so many-where people have behaved magnificently, it energizes us to act, and raises at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."

Bob Herbert wrote a very good article on Zinn. It really should be read as a personal homage to the man.

I have some more articles at home I'm hoping to link to. Hopefully I'll remember to do that soon.

Some good entries on this list and I mostly approve of it.

The actual title to this article should be: "Large Portion of GOP Are Inbred Pig Fuckers" or something to that effect.

Actually, I don't blame individual Republicans. Much. I mean, yes, it IS their fault for only listening to Lush Rimjob or Pat Racistson or watching FAUXNews. But the lies being fed to them from conservative Tea Bag wingnut sources are created by people who have enough brain cells to upload a webpage update and run a radio studio or TV camera. So, it's more the merchants of shit than the consumers of treason that are the problem.

Here are the actual poll results. To think these repressive cretins actually believe they embrace the spirit of America. Then again, slavers thought they were Americans once too I suppose.