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Protein Wisdom

by John Cole|  March 8, 20044:18 pm| 1 Comment

This post is in: Previous Site Maintenance

The best blog in the world has returned. All hail Protein Wisdom.

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Not In My Name

by John Cole|  March 5, 20044:47 pm| 33 Comments

This post is in: Outrage

Via Oliver, I find the most vile and disgusting post yet to grace the blogosphere. A sample:

But guess who it is almost every time, darlin? Yep. It’s the niggers going crazy again. Black leaders should be outraged by such behavior and they should be preaching AGAINST IT, not encouraging it or excusing it. But I’ll never live long enough to see such honesty from ANY goddam politician alive today.

I am becoming more comfortable with the word “nigger” since the 1960s. I had compassion for an oppressed people back then. But I watched them shit all over every opportunity handed to them for the last 40 years, and you know what we have now? Not a minority absorbed into our society. We just have a bunch of niggers running wild.

You can face the truth or you can run from it, but whatever the choice, it won’t change a damned thing. 49% of our prison population is black. Black wimmen have a 70% illegitmate birth rate. Only one in three black men (who AREN’T in prison) has a goddam job.

No people can continue down that track and ever hope to succeed in this country. That’s a fact, and I don’t give a shit what Maxine Waters and Jesse Jackson have to say about it. I’ve seen too many other people do it.

Read it again to let it sink in. My favorite part is “I am becoming more comfortable with the word “nigger” since the 1960s.”

It is 2004. It must kill him that a ‘nigger’ is Secretary of State and National Security Adviser. After all- they are all the same.

I don’t know whether to be happy or upset about this post. Why happy? I like being able to keep an eye on the klansmen- I like to know what unrepentant bigots like the Acidman are up to- otherwise they might start trying some crazy shit.

Why depressed? Other than the obviously deplorable bigotry, I might remind readers that the Acidman has a ‘bionic dick.’ He might be reproducing as we speak.

At anyrate, one piece of white trash gone from the permalinks.

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Martha Stewart

by John Cole|  March 5, 20044:18 pm| 25 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads

Lemme get this right:

The government had no case that Martha Stewart did what they actually accused her of, but was convicted of trying to keep the government from proving that she did nothing wrong, and for that she could spend the rest of her life in jail.

Gimme abreak. I am all for convicting finanacial criminals- but Stewart is getting screwed.

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Isn’t That Something

by John Cole|  March 5, 20043:58 pm| 49 Comments

This post is in: Democratic Stupidity

This should be filed under “Democrats Are Lying Hypocritical Bastards,” but I don’t have that category. At any rate, by now you have all probably heard the faux uproar about the Bush commercials, and you should make sure you read all about the wives who are whoring their husbands memories for political gain.

At any rate, if you have not seen or heard the Kerry commercial in which he invokes the memory of Vietnam and 9/11, and in a far more blatant way than what Bush has done, you need to make sure you check it out.

But, the best thing I have seen so far comes via the Rush Limbaugh show. I heard about this little thing on the ride home:

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The Democrats, as a party, are officially beyond hypocrisy.

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Gimme A Break

by John Cole|  March 2, 20043:15 pm| 55 Comments

This post is in: General Stupidity

I can’t even call this Democratic Stupidity, because it is so irresponsible:

The Bush administration Monday denied allegations by Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his supporters that U.S. agents and diplomats coerced him into resigning as Haiti’s president and spirited him out of the country at gunpoint.

“He went onto the airplane willingly,” Secretary of State Colin Powell said. “And that’s the truth.”

Powell also admonished two members of Congress for suggesting U.S. diplomats and troops strong-armed the Haitian into exile.

“It would have been better for members of Congress who have heard these stories to ask us about the stories before going public with them so that we don’t make a difficult situation that much more difficult,” Powell said, calling the charges “absurd.”

Powell made the remarks after Reps. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) and Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) said Aristide or his wife told them by telephone that American soldiers had forced him onto a plane eventually bound for the Central African Republic.

Aristide told The Associated Press and CNN he was “forced to leave” by Americans who warned that his life was threatened by rebels besieging the capital.

Powell said Aristide decided to resign and that U.S. forces helped protect him and his family as they boarded a private jet chartered by the State Department.

Rangel said Aristide told him on the telephone “he felt like he was being kidnapped.” Rangel said Aristide also claimed U.S. Embassy officials dictated the text of his resignation letter.

“They needed that resignation. Why? Because [without it] we would have been part of a coup, because it was a coup,” Rangel said.

Waters told CNN Aristide’s wife, Mildred, told her the exiled Haitian leader was “forced to leave his home,” after a U.S. Embassy official told him he “had to go now

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Hate Speech

by John Cole|  March 2, 20043:00 pm| 23 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads

For all the fools who said “It is ok to march in peace protests wit people who call Bush Hitler because we are not legitimizing their views, but we are all working for peace,” it is time for you to reap what you have sown:

If you want to hear “hate” coming out of the mouths of school kids, go to the schools of North Korea, as a Dutch television crew did, and you’ll hear hate from that country’s teenagers directed at the United States.

Western television reporters rarely get into North Korea, but remarkably they let a Dutch television crew in to see how they’re using Holland’s most famous book, “The Diary of Anne Frank.”

That diary, of her life in hiding during World War II, is now being studied in North Korea’s schools. But Anne Frank’s plea for peace and freedom got lost in translation.

North Korea is using her diary, not to teach how Anne suffered at the hands of the German Nazis, but to warn the students how they could suffer at the hands of those they call “American Nazis.” Correspondent Mike Wallace reports.

“After reading this book, I had a hatred for the American imperialists,” says one student.

“That warmonger Bush is just as bad as Hitler. Because of him we will always live in fear of war,” says another student.

Useful Idiots. We told you what your irresponsible speech helped to accomplish, yet you told us how patriotic you were. The name really says it all. Useful Idiots.

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A Protest We Can All Support

by John Cole|  March 2, 20042:56 pm| 11 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads

This has my complete support:

There’s a topless protest being planned this weekend in Daytona Beach, at the end of Bike Week.

Liz Book of Ormond Beach is among the organizers. She hopes to lead a thousand “top-free” women and men along a half-mile of Main Street from the pier to the bridge. The goal is to add Daytona Beach to the small but growing list of places that allow women to show their breasts openly, just like men.

Word.

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