Archive for the 'racism' Category
Scrapple News: Dateline January 31, 2012
This week in Scrapple News: Chris Christie is an ignorant racist fuck! Mitt Romney is a robot who wants to be a real boy! And, Joe Paterno is still dead. That and more!
Read More..>>Thoughts on Jesus and Joey Vento
Hot off the griddle from Scrapple TV. Please share with your xenophobic friends.
And now a thought on Jesus and Joey Vento. No, not Jesus Christ: if he really was Yahweh made flesh, then whatever He and Joey have to talk about is not my concern.
No, I’m talking about Jesus Ayala, who I worked [...]
Daily News Readers Call for Segregation, Daily News Editors Michael Schefer and Sandra Shea Only too Happy to Oblige
Some of the most shameful, and shamefully spelled, comments I’ve ever seen at the Daily News:
Ackerman needs to go. I am surprised anyone with kids in the schools would support Ackerman. Most of the bow tie wearing bros at the protest yesterday look like people who are profiting off of Ackerman. I doubt any of [...]
Things That Will Not Happen
All across the progressive blogosphere today, there are calls for the Obama Administration to give Shirley Sherrod her job back, including from Obama’s staunchest defenders.
Newsflash: it’s not going to happen. if there’s one thing I have learned, it’s that this administration (like the rest of the Democratic party) likes the money and energy that [...]
Right Wingers Hate Attractive Arab Women
Via Balloon juice, the right wing freakout over the new Miss USA, who’s Arab American, Muslim, and oh yeah, drop-dead fucking gorgeous has begun. It’s entertaining.
let’s start with Debbie Schlussel, who writes:
I don’t just wonder if this whole contest is rigged. I have a feeling that it is. Clearly, there is affirmative [...]
Thank You, Officer Escobar
Officer Martin Escobar is suing the Arizona state government for violating the civil rights of Latinos:
Officer Martin H. Escobar claims in the suit that the law will “seriously impede law enforcement investigations and facilitate the successful commission of crimes.”
He also says there are no “race-neutral criteria or basis to suspect or identify who is lawfully [...]
Boycotting Arizona in Philadelphia
Angry about Arizona’s fascist and racist laws? Here’s how to cause some pain for a racist police state: stop buying products and using services whose headquarters are based there. For example, we buy toys for our cats at PetSmart. Or rather, we did: I just called them and explained that, while their company wasn’t to [...]
Read More..>>“You Made Me Do It”
For about four years, I worked in an agency that provided shelter, counseling, police protection, and legal services to victim of domestic violence, and so I’m more than acquainted with many of the excuses batterers employ to deflect blame after they’ve given their partner another black eye or broken wrist.
One of them is “you made [...]
health care aftermath
I’ve been pretty busy with work, getting my FAFSA together, and prepping the house for spring/summer, so I haven’t done a lot of blogging recently. in the wake of health insurance reform, however, I wanted to make a few observations.
Although I have some extremely serious problems with the new law, there is one clear [...]
One of These Things is Not Like the Other
Via Wonkette, see if you can spot the difference between these two photos, and why the first picture is OFFENSIVE TO ALL THAT IS GOOD AND HOLY and the other is PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE?
OH. MY. GOD.
YAAAAAWN
And yes, the wingnut brigade is FLIPPING OUT, which makes it hilarious.
