Be careful what you wish for: Bagger edition
Daily Archives: May 3, 2011
A New Yorker’s Take on bin Laden’s death
Comedy Central video link
Tavis Smiley: What did birthers give us? Ignorance
No clearer words on the matter than what Smiley says here.
Even judging by the comments, some people continue to embrace lies and stupidity. You cannot prove anything to them. Facts are just more meaningless fluff to them. So, let us ignore them and move on. Leave them to die with other dead ideas. There are Darwin Award nominees who haven’t yet chewed on the power line. Screw ’em. We don’t need them.
Kenneth Branagh: From the Bard to Thor
I have always enjoyed Kenneth Branagh’s work. I might even watch Thor in theaters because he directed it. Here in an interview from Sunday.
Plan would require foster children to shop for clothing in thrift stores | Michigan Radio
Your compassionate conservatives are at it again. We give farmers money not to grow stuff. We give oil companies billions and trillions in tax breaks to fleece us at the pump, if not to ruin our coastlines.
But poor people? Let’s screw with them. In Michigan, the baggers and bastards want to mandate that those fostering children ONLY buy those kids clothes at thrift shops .
Hey, it isn’t enough that these kids need a home and have shaky foundations for life. Let’s let it be publicly known their garments are hand-me-downs at best.
That won’t make them feel unworthy of a society’s love and respect, now will it?
Meanwhile, here in Minnesota, the new pack of Rethugs wants to make it illegal for folks on public assistance to have more than $20 cash in their pockets.
People need to open their eyes and see these people for what they are.
Pooches that protect the public
As most of you know, I have my issues with some police forces. Then again, I’ve never had a problem with K9 units, neither dogs nor handlers. Here are some of the elite of those units.
Tim Wise » Trump Card: White Denial, Racial Resentment and the Art of the Heel
While I don’t always agree with Wise – and it’s likely more my hangups than his theory – he is spot on in this assessment of Trump and other self-deluding bigots.
He Won | The Agitator
Here is a very strong argument that, while Osama bin Laden is dead at the bottom of the ocean, he got most of what he wanted.
Granted, he was up against a dolt in Bush and a society that apparently likes to be afraid and more racist and violent than our enemy’s worst pre-9-11 misconceptions of us, but he still had to have died with some form of smug satisfaction.
I mean, he had six years of living in a mansion while we were debating whether or not we should let TSA agents molest our children. If that isn’t winning, what is?
Identifying Osama Bin Laden’s DNA | Inside NOVA | PBS
Here’s my take on this. If baggers don’t believe in science in the first place, why do we care whether they complain about the particulars of a DNA test on Osama’s corpse?
Jim Wallis: How Should We Respond to the Death of Osama Bin Laden?
Then read it again. If the face of Christianity in America was Jim Wallis, I’d probably start going back to church.
Instead I hear stuff about how my dog is going to hell because he is microchipped and that Catholics are Satanists. And that was just the last sermon I heard – and ever will allow myself to hear – in my mom’s Baptist church.