ALOHA HOMOPHOBIA

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HAWAII COACH TOTALLY F*GGED OUT:
FOOTBALL IDIOT INSULTS ALL GAYS

AND THE NAME OF HIS TEAM: THE RAINBOWS

Actually, It Was The "Rainbow Warriors," But They Changed It Because It Sounded "Too Gay"

*In reaction to this news story:

Here in Hawaii, we have a long history of coaches behaving badly. One took his HS team out for strippers & hookers in Vegas after a big win. All under age. Another one totaled his car on the freeway, completely whacked out, and never got a ticket. They're just that special.

Polynesians have a long history of acceptance of third & fourth-sexers, or males who choose to live as females and females who chose to live as males, way before reassignment surgery was a possibility. They're called mahu's, which is now a pejorative applied to all gays, though it used to be just another gender label. "Mahu's" themselves are very much a part of "Local" life today here in the Aloha State. Everybody has a "mahu" Auntie or cousin. The modern attitudes are a bit schizophrenic toward them, part tolerant traditional Polynesian and part Western "Christian" homophobic. It doesn't help that we have a whole political family demonizing gays in general. And they're closet-Hare Krishna's. You'd think they'd understand the need for tolerance, but they're at war against it. It's an interesting place, Hawaii. Sometimes.

The worst of it is, they were allowed to switch from Rep to Dem, despite all their homophobic BS. The local Dems really are schizy. They claimed to be pro-gay marriage, and then they stifled the new law with procedural horseshit.

I suspect it has to do with fund-raising. Like the pot issue, most people say, "Who cares? Legalize it." But the pol's seem to fear doing it anyway. It can only be money that causes that. Rich old families don't ever want anything to change. Why would they? And new money just enjoys the thrill of abusing power to f**k with the powerless. In terms of real nitty-gritty politics, gays are not well organized here. Simply being in the right isn't enough. You have to have leverage, like powerful supporters, which Hawaii gays evidently do not. Not enough, anyway.

*In response to this comment:

Filipinos in Hawaii probably have the most cross-dressing kids. I don't know what their status is, but unlike the comparatively homey & conservative Polynesian mahu's, the TV/TS/TG Filipina's cruise turista & military bars as females, livening up the local scene. Yet they live with their big extended families out in the 'burbs, exactly how I don't know.

As to religion, I think the small but mighty local Mormon church has a lot more to do with the strictures against gambling, gay marriage, pot, etc. The Filipino's really don't have anywhere near the clout in proportion to their numbers as the Mormons do here in Hawaii.

Until the dominant local Japanese are finally outnumbered by the Fil-Ams, they will be the ones calling the shots, and they are mostly not Catholic or Mormon, but Protestants and Buddhists. So, if you want to slice & dice local politics religiously, try a Ginzu knife.

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As to The Next Generation, maybe it's just the kids who are out & about that one sees, but it seems there is a fair number of gay kids, in addition to the Local Honda-racers and the hoochie-mamma's. I think the gay kids own the local Starbucks franchise. No idea what their home lives or interactions with straight kids are like. The older generation, I'd have to agree that those who are "out" tend to be white and from the Mainland. But even they stick close to a pretty small area: A couple of bars in Waikiki. The scene is pretty anemic since they bulldozed Hamburger Mary's, once the center of local nightlife, along with Hernando's, Pink Cadillac & The Wave, all gone. Nightlife here has never been the same.

*In response to this personal anecdote:

Yeah. Ya gotta wonder...
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Where does a 10-yr-old kid even pick up words like "dyke"? His mom? My parents never used any sort of slurs, other than good old-fashioned Anglo-Saxonisms. I was always kind of shocked as a kid when I did hear them. I don't recall ever hearing any anti-gay slurs anywhere until maybe junior high school, when the word "queer" came into limited use. I don't think most of the kids knew what it meant.

Of course, now we have the Internets, and, even worse, "conservatives" screaming about oral and anal sex on the freakin' news and all their horrible talk-radio shows. I could almost side with Tipper Gore on this one: But leave the record labels (etc.) alone, just tell those bloody vulgar Repukelickin's that KIDS ARE LISTENING!!! They really don't need to hear all this sexual stuff at age six or eight.

On the other hand, they're amazingly knowledgeable and blase about stuff I didn't even hear about until I was an adult. We've gone from virginal bobby-soxers to the hook-up generation in half a lifetime without all that much of a fuss these days, after the initial upheavals for sexual freedom in the 50's, 60's & 70's.

You'd think that the kids coming up would be pretty gay-friendly by now, but there is all this "mildly" negative stuff in the entertainment media that sort of nets out to "gay is not quite kewl." In fact it seems to be a synonym for unkewl. I blame so-called liberal writers & producer/ directors going for the cheap laugh and trying to be hip, even openly gay creators. If there were more movies about real people who happened to be gay and acted like movie heroes, it might help.

It took years of Hollywood pounding away at positive Irish, Catholic, Jewish, Italian, black and Latino stereotypes to help make expressions of prejudice against those groups unkewl. I suppose it'll take longer for gays because even successful "out" writers present negative gay stereotypes in the movies & shows. It's kinda like a movie featuring "Jew jokes" or seriously Steppin Fetchit characters in this day & age. But the creative types don't seem to realize that.

And, of course, these phony-macho sports a-holes don't help. Now THERE'S a sick culture.



PAM's HOUSE BLEND
"Weekend This & That: Open Thread"
Totally WAC.

' University of Hawaii football coach Greg McMackin drew sharp criticism for using a gay slur repeatedly during a Western Athletic Conference media day Thursday in Salt Lake City. The WAC football coaches are in Utah for the football season preview. McMackin was referring to last season's Hawaii Bowl when he said Notre Dame University's team did a "little f-----t dance" for Hawaii. That was during the banquet the night before the game when UH Warriors performed their haka. '

**MORAL FAILINGS AND OTHER ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIORS
"On the word "dyke" and stupid mothers"
What's in a name? A fat lip?

' I had placed my order and was waiting for it when a mother with two children came in; the little girl looked around 4, the boy around 9. They were talking, laughing, doing what kids do when they are about to get Jamba. I saw the little girl point at me and heard her say, "Mommy, why is that lady wearing boy's shorts?" Her brother piped up with, "Cause she's a dyke." '

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BOMB, BOMB, BOMB, BOMB BOMB IRAN

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REPUBLICAN CONSERVATARDS WANT WWIII FOR NO PARTICULAR REASON

YOUTUBE: JOHN MCCAIN
"Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran"
Sing it, McNuts! This COULDA been your PRESIDENT!! Yaaaay Republicans!!!


HEY, THEY VOTED FOR MCSAME, RIGHT?

YOUTUBE: MSNBC
"Republicans Call Obama "Weak" on Iran"
Those who ignore history are Republicans.


They Prob'ly Wish They Could Vote For Kim Jung Il

People who look forward to the world coming to an end in their own lifetimes should probably not be consulted on matters of national security. For one thing, they're f'ing crazy. For another thing, they're really f'in' stoooooopit!

Seriously, how many times have the wingnuts gathered together to share Kool-Aid, stare at comets, and pray for Armageddon? Every few years, right? And does their Lord & Savior co-operate by smashing us all like bugs, just cuz it's the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh year of the seventh millennium? NO, G-DD-M HIM!!!

Yet, there they are again, a few years later, begging an imaginary being to roast their own children in "cleansing" Hellfires, selling off their recreational vehicles and stocking up on batteries. What was it Einstein said? Repeating the same action over and over and expecting a different result is the definition of what, class? And I hear tell he was a pretty smart feller, for a liberal.

The wingnuts want us to do SOMETHING, ANYTHING about Iran. Why? They didn't demand that we do anything about our own obvious election problems in 2000 or 2004, right here at home. Iran has been ruled by one cleric or clerical puppet since they kicked the CIA out of there in the 70's. What's the rhubarb about now, all of a sudden? Oh, yeah, Barack "the Magic Negro" is in charge now. Boy, it really burns their grits that the President of the United States is black! And a Helluva lot smarter than them, too, thank Gawd!

Cuz, what exactly would some wingnut do, if there were a wingnut in charge at the White House this Wednesday? Nuke Iran? Invade them? Give them a sterner talking-to? You know, I don't think the Ayatollahs much give a damn what we have to say, since they got rid of OUR puppet governments over there.

Invading them would mean cranking up the whole war machine again, just as we're trying to wind down the Mess-O-Potamia the 'Pukes got us into for oil, er, uh, I mean, um, no reason at all. Ya think Joe Sixpack wants to get called up again? Or his kids? Think the Iranian people will welcome us like Frenchwomen in 1944? BWAHAWHAHAHAAAAAHAWHA!!! Think the Moon is made from green cheese? Then you must be a redneck, uh, a Republican. Same diff.

OK, so that leaves nuking them. Except for this local phenomenon known as "wind." Yeah, it's like a airy kinda thing that moves around? Carries dust and radioactive stuff all over the place? Might get the Israeli's or the Pakistani's or the Greeks or the Russians, all of whom are currently not on our hit list, and might object to being poisoned en masse. Y'know?

So, tell us, wingnuts. What EXACTLY would you have us do that could actually contribute anything positive to the current situation in Iran? You know, like if we EVER trusted you with power again? Seriously, what's on your tiny minds, conservatards? Cuz here's what all we can actually do, since anything we do will play into the hands of the worst of the Ayatollahs, thanks to our long history of meddling in their affairs, and f**king them up: NOTHING. That's exactly all we can do for those poor bastards right now, thanks to you, you murdering Repukelickin' a-holes. You've pretty much ruined our credibility in the world as the ultimate impartial defender of freedom and democracy, which is what we were before your Messiah Dubya started slaughtering random Ay-rabs for fun and profit, you IDIOTS!

So, here's what we can do, and what you can do about Iran, Pukeys: STFU!!!!!!


BBC NEWS
"Iran 'will not yield' over poll "
Maybe the conservatards are TRYING to screw Iran's liberal democrats! "More war! More war! More war!" they chant.

' Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said the nation "will not yield to pressure" over a disputed presidential election. Iran has also said it is "reviewing" whether to downgrade relations with the UK, as diplomatic tensions increase. The UK has moved to expel two Iranian diplomats in response to Tehran's decision to order two UK diplomats to leave Iran, following allegations UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown called "absolutely without foundation". The British prime minister's spokesman said Downing Street was monitoring the situation. "Iran's decision to try to turn what are clearly internal matters for Iran into a conflict with the UK and others is deeply regrettable and without foundation," he said. '

YAHOO NEWS
"Obama condemns violence against Iran protesters"
Gawd, how the idiot Repukelickin bullies hate an intelligent response! Perhaps because they are incapable of one?

' The past 10 days in Iran have posed the strongest challenge to that nation's clerical rule since the system was established 30 years ago in the 1979 Islamic revolution. Before Tuesday, Obama mostly kept to a modulated response, calculating that, given Iranians' distrust of American involvement in their country, anything viewed as internal meddling from the White House would do the demonstrators more harm than good. He also is deeply interested in preserving his promised policy concerning Iran and the threat its nuclear program poses: He contends the danger has only grown through decades of ruptured diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Tehran, particularly in the past eight years under President George W. Bush, and it is time to try to change that by re-establishing direct talks. But Obama has been taken to task by some Republicans, accused of being too passive. Even with Iran's blackout of foreign press and attempted communications shutdowns, chaotic images of riot police beating and shooting protesters have seized the world's attention. At least 17 people have been killed. With an array of U.S. sanctions already in place against Iran, there are few options at Obama's disposal other than withdrawing his offer to talk. Regardless, Obama said it's too early for him to be more specific. "We are going to monitor and see how this plays itself out before we make any judgments about how we proceed," he said. Asked if his stronger language was influenced by pressure from Republicans such as Graham and Sen. John McCain, Obama scoffed: "What do you think?" And he shot back at GOP critics: "Only I'm the president of the United States." Advisers realize the new tone poses a risk that the U.S. president will become a scapegoat for Iran's leaders — just what Obama has sought to avoid. Administration officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to describe a sensitive strategy, said the disturbing images of the past few days warranted the tougher stance. '

LA TIMES
"Israel's top leaders voice support for Iran demonstrators"
Yeah, that'll help! You STFU, too!

' Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been a convenient bogeyman for Israel. So the early claim of his reelection as Iran's president brought quiet sighs of relief to many Israeli leaders, who figured it would be easier to rally Western pressure against Iran as long as the Holocaust-denying hard-liner remained in power. Now, after more than a week of massive protests by defiant Iranians alleging electoral fraud, sentiment in Israel is shifting. Its leaders have joined the Israeli public in openly applauding the demonstrators and asking aloud whether the theocratic regime feared by the Jewish state as a threat to its existence might be crumbling. '

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HE WHO SMELT IT DEALT IT

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CRUDENESS, RUDENESS & RACISM AMONG THE REPUBLICANS

ILL-BRED CONSERVATIVES JUST CAN'T KEEP THE STANK INSIDE




No Wonder They're Not Welcome In Polite Society. Or In The Submarine Service. Or On A Crowded Elevator. Or Anywhere.

"No, we're not racists! THEY are!!!"

Racists are, by the racists' own definition, people who accuse racists of being racist, or anyone who might do so. Pre-emptive racist accusations are important: Timing is everything. It's like surreptitious farting. It's important to accuse someone before they accuse you.

The problem is, the rest of the room is just sitting in shocked silence, wondering, why in the name of God is this idiot even talking about race, much less pointing out another person's race, or, worse yet, accusing THEM of racism!

It's just really bad manners in any circumstances today, thank Gawd. Of course the few remaining actual racists will refer to such manners as "political correctness." This hateful phrase refers to the fact that all the old pathological habits that racists have always enjoyed are now considered very bad manners by everyone else, worse than farting loudly in church, or malodiferously in an elevator.

That's really all the Republicans would be is a few cranky old farts, if they weren't serving as an inspiration to arsonists, bombers and murderers. Not to mention landlords, employers and authority figures who need an excuse to mess up somebody's life because of their skin color. So it's a bit more of a problem than farting. But it still makes everybody else sick.

Somehow, I don't think the Gingrich crowd quite gets this. They just squat there in their own vile stank while America holds its nose. The stench gets worse every time they open their mouths, though their little crowd never seems to notice: Except when one of them suddenly starts screaming that somebody else stinks. But of course it's just them again. Pffft. He who smelt it dealt it.

Ugh! Such rude, awful, vile, disgusting, ill-mannered people. That much has become obvious to everyone. From the smell, it won't be long before they rot away completely.

All this is, ultimately a problem for THEM, an opportunity for us.

What they don't get is that even people who don't make the connection between the more "subtle" forms of hate speech and actual racial (and sexual, homophobic, sectarian, nativist, etc) violence and discrimination still find all such speech to be as rude, crude and unacceptable as casual obscenity used to be in "polite society."

Laws and political positions are one thing, customs and manners are quite another. Outlaws and rebels are still romantic figures in this country, and we all have a right to our boring old political opinions, hoo-rah. But rudeness, crudeness and offenses against manners and customs are viewed very negatively and so will their perpetrators, their Parties and their causes be. Just as the Democrats were at one time associated with the rude and disrespectful behavior of some on the far Left, causing liberalism to become a bad word, conservatism is becoming a very bad word thanks to the really awful and unrelentingly rude and disrespectful behavior of some on the far right who are associated with Republicans. Call it a meme or a trend or a demographic shift, but it is seismic, and it could take generations to reverse once it gets going. Personally, I hope Newt, Rush et al. keep Right on farting.

I'd call it the Mom Effect. It used to be true that there were certain words and deeds that you would never say or do around your Mom, no matter how old you were. Or anybody else's Mom, for that matter. Obscenities were not to be uttered around Mom's, although words like sp*c, k*ke and n*gger were not considered obscene by everyone. That has pretty much been reversed. I hear almost every one of the Seven Dirty Words all the time every day everywhere, even from Grannies. No biggie. But you rarely hear those racial terms any more, thankfully. Just think of the kinds of things you would not say in front of your Mom, or mine, and you have a pretty good idea of what society regards as socially unacceptable and alienating.

Apparently, the Republicans don't have Moms. If they do, their Moms are in the Klan. These Republicans are like really badly raised kids who don't seem to have ever been taught any manners. Among themselves, and even in "polite society," they seem to take delight in belching forth the worst racialisms and stinking up the room with their noxious notions. They don't seem to notice that everyone else is disgusted by their behavior. They don't seem to mind that everybody is leaving the room. They actually triumph in having the room all to themselves. It doesn't bother the Republicans that the room is empty, that everyone has gone somewhere else. They're used to excluding everyone who is not like themselves. It doesn't matter to them how anyone else feels about it.

It'll matter next election day, if the Democrats don't royally screw up. You can't fight the Mom Effect. Those rude-ass Republicans are in for another spanking.


OPEN LEFT.COM
"Newt's New Racist Two-Step"
The cock-eye of Newt.

' In the good old days, white men could get away with this sort of shit every day of the week and twice on Sundays. No wonder conservatives look back longingly to the golden age of yore! '

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LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL

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HATE CRIMINALS HAVE CREATED A SPECIAL KIND OF CRIME

YOUTUBE: US CITIZENSHIP CEREMONY
"Pledge of Allegiance"
Some people get it. But they're not Republicans.


A SPECIAL LAW WAS REQUIRED IN ORDER TO DEAL WITH THESE SPECIAL CRIMES

Conservatards Quake With Fear That They Might Be Caught Thinking Criminally.
We'd Like To See Them Thinking At All.

Ironically, it is the law & order types who dream of technology that can read people's minds and discover criminal intent. They love good old torture for the same reason: They think it exposes the inner thoughts and intent of criminals and terrorists. But the idea that the same logic might be applied to them has them pissing in their Depends, the old fools.

In America, we insist on the absolute freedom to think anything you want. We defend the right of free expression to the death, from avant garde art to rebellious polemics, from nude dancing to Ku Klux Klan rallies. There is no such thing as "hate speech" in the law here. Hate all you want in the good old USA. As long as you don't act or incite others to act criminally, it's all good. But once you do commit a criminal act, your intent becomes a matter of interest under the law. Under the new hate crimes legislation passed by the US House of Representatives, those who commit crimes motivated by hatred and prejudice against real or perceived groups will find judges and juries most attentive to the messages they were trying to send by committing their crimes. As well they should.

"Intent" is always considered in criminal cases. That's the difference between First and Second Degree Murder, and between Murder and Manslaughter, or Manslaughter and Accidental Death: Did the accused mean to kill? What was his or her state of mind? Was he or she drunk, high, crazy, terrified? Did they act "with malice aforethought"? Did they show any remorse, or did they try to cover up their crime? Do they show remorse now? Is it genuine?

These are the kinds of questions we ask judges and juries to decide. That's why they're there: To exercise their judgment, and try to understand the motivations of an accused person. Maybe they killed in self-defense, or by accident. Maybe they killed for money, or to cover up a crime. Motive matters.

The fact is, it's the perpetrators themselves who have created this special class of crime. The new law simply recognizes an old fact. In many cases, the perpetrators have no connection to their victims, don't even know them, had no reason to do anything to them, not even robbery. They chose to make a statement of their ideas, attitudes or feelings about another "kind" of person or perceived group of persons by committing what is, in any circumstances, a crime against them. They committed a crime against another person BECAUSE of that persons' actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.

Who and what the victim was provided the motivation for a criminal act. The perpetrator chose to break the law for the purpose of striking out against a whole group of people, an act of extraordinary anti-socialism. They chose to use crime to make a statement to all of society, to hurt and terrorize an entire class of human beings. They chose to move from thought to action, from thinking to doing, from abstract to concrete, from ideal to real. They forced this issue by moving beyond symbolism to actual crime. The new law does not criminalize thought, nor does it criminalize behavior that was not already criminal under the law: Assault, battery, rape, murder, arson, and other crimes of violence with intent to cause bodily injury: Crimes without a doubt, since time immemorial.

Under all of our laws, once a crime is proved, the punishment must always hinge on intent. We've already singled out for special punishment our convicted cop-killers, kiddie-porn producers, schoolyard drug-dealers, thieving traitors-for-money, etc. They are punished more severely because of the intent and the special circumstances behind the crime. Hate-criminals have chosen to commit crimes solely, initially or primarily out of hate. If this motivation is not recognized by the law, then how are police and prosecutors to collect evidence and prepare cases? How are judges and juries to proceed? What criteria are they supposed to use to determine the type and severity of the crime, and of the punishment? The logic of the law and the imperatives of justice cannot allow for ambiguity. Without a law like this, justice cannot be done in cases like these, either from a legal, philosophical, moral or emotional point of view. You would be leaving the police and prosecutors without legal guidelines, and judges and juries without a lawful standard by which to judge. In order for our system of justice to work, tools like this new law are required.

Determining intent is a vital part of what the law is all about, and it's why we have a criminal justice system, and trial by juries. We trust juries to make these determinations as they make every other determination in the thousands of criminal cases across the country every day. The system is not perfect, but it is the best we have. If the right-tards don't get that, they don't get America. "With Liberty and Justice for ALL," it says in the Pledge of Allegiance that they themselves insist schoolchildren recite every day. Don't they mean it?

The victims and the perpetrators of crimes motivated by hatred and prejudice deserve justice. Now they will get it. This new law is long overdue, and it reaffirms a simple fact: We are one nation indivisible, where all men and women are created equal, and we demand that people be treated as such. This not Serbia or Rwanda, Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia. The days of the Bund and the Klan are over. We are a great melting pot, and our diversity is our strength, always has been. Now we have a law to preserve, protect, ensure and defend that diversity. Let those who cannot abide it go somewhere else. Their hateful acts will no longer be tolerated, even though their hateful speech continues to be protected.

Rest easy, Republicans. We real Americans are not like you: We value, honor and uphold freedom & justice, in our deeds and not just in our words. Hate all you want, you sick bastards. But act on that hate, and we will bust you.


Thanks to Pam's House Blend for bringing this up.

OPEN CONGRESS
"HR 1913 Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009"
The Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Act

' Sec. 249. Hate crime acts

`(a) In General-

`(1) OFFENSES INVOLVING ACTUAL OR PERCEIVED RACE, COLOR, RELIGION, OR NATIONAL ORIGIN- Whoever, whether or not acting under color of law, willfully causes bodily injury to any person or, through the use of fire, a firearm, a dangerous weapon, or an explosive or incendiary device, attempts to cause bodily injury to any person, because of the actual or perceived race, color, religion, or national origin of any person--

`(A) shall be imprisoned not more than 10 years, fined in accordance with this title, or both; and

`(B) shall be imprisoned for any term of years or for life, fined in accordance with this title, or both, if--

`(i) death results from the offense; or

`(ii) the offense includes kidnaping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill.

`(2) OFFENSES INVOLVING ACTUAL OR PERCEIVED RELIGION, NATIONAL ORIGIN, GENDER, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY, OR DISABILITY-

`(A) IN GENERAL- Whoever, whether or not acting under color of law, in any circumstance described in subparagraph (B), willfully causes bodily injury to any person or, through the use of fire, a firearm, a dangerouse weapon, or an explosive or incendiary device, attempts to cause bodily injury to any person, because of the actual or perceived religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability of any person--

`(i) shall be imprisoned not more than 10 years, fined in accordance with this title, or both; and

`(ii) shall be imprisoned for any term of years or for life, fined in accordance with this title, or both, if--

`(I) death results from the offense; or

`(II) the offense includes kidnaping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill. '

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CONSERVATIVES BURN DOWN AMERICA

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TAKING THEIR CUES FROM THIRD WORLD DICTATORS



CORRUPT, INCOMPETENT, VIOLENT, LUNATIC REPUBLICANS HOLD MAD TEA PARTY

YOUTUBE: FOX NEWS
"Glenn Beck Pours "Gas" On Guest Over Spending - Obama why don't you just set us on fire"
Nuts on fire!



Rupert The Mad Hatter Offers You Tea Bags, While The Queen Screams "OFF WITH OBAMAS HEAD!!!"

As Thailand burns, so burns our nation. If you want to see where corporate-sponsored astroturf "revolution" leads, just watch the news from Southeast Asia. Arch-criminal Taksin, the former Thai Premier removed for thievery, is now broadcasting from corrupt, incompetent, violent, lunatic China or Cambodia or some other Asian cess-pool, and sending money to impoverished Thai hillbillies to tear up the streets of Bangkok and force out their legitimate Prime Minister. People are now being killed, and the Thai army is in the streets of Bangkok dealing with the "Tea Party" there.

This is exactly what arch-criminals llike Australian billionaire smut-peddler & corporate propagandist Rupert Murdoch and his cabal are trying to do to the United States of America. They even have nut-jobs like Glenn Beck lighting people on fire as they scream for bloody rebellion nationwide. While 80% of the nation are happy with the Democrats so far, the nutso 20% that is the Repukelickin Party is out for blood over, well, they're never quite sure. The economy THEY f**ked up? The TRILLIONS Bush-Cheney & Co stole? The Wall Street Republican cash machine? The tax dollars we'll all be paying to REPUBLICANS forever to bail them out of the mess they left behind?

Of COURSE the "conservatives" want to overthrow the United States government by force or violence! If the Right Wing nut jobs don't bring our country to a grinding halt soon, indictments will begin of all their favorite Republican war-criminals, war-profiteers, and traitors to the Constitution that are still skulking around Washington trying to sabotage Obama. The only answer to this is to indict the leaders NOW, and lock them away out of sight of the tame corporate media's propaganda machine. Lock up a few of those "journalists" calling for violence on the tee-vee, too, beginning with their big boss, illegal alien Sir Rupert Murdoch. Otherwise, we can expect the level of violence to escalate from silly stunts to actual deaths before long.


RT NEWS
"Bangkok Turns Into Warzone"
Astroturf in action.


LA TIMES
"Thailand violence claims two lives"
Here's Sir Rupert's mentor.

' Reporting from Bangkok, Thailand -- At least two people were killed and nearly 100 injured across the Thai capital today as soldiers and neighborhood militias fought to dislodge red-shirted protesters from the city's administrative center and Bangkok's famously congested alleyways. The dead were members of an armed and hastily formed militia that fought protesters and then retreated through the streets of Bangkok's Nanglaeng area. The deaths follow days of protests against the government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva by supporters of his archrival, Thaksin Shinawatra, a former prime minister now guiding and bankrolling the protesters from points unknown. Protests turned violent after the government imposed a state of emergency and moved troops into the capital over the weekend. In places, downtown Bangkok had the look of a war zone: an abandoned public bus, choked with flames; patrolling Humvees mounted with .50-caliber guns; angry mobs answering tear gas grenades with Molotov cocktails and homemade bombs. '

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REPUBLICAN JOKES FOR THE JOHN

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A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO WARSHENDEN DEE-CEE

JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT THE REPUKELICKIN'S COULDN'T GET ANY MORE RIDICULOUS...





We Laugh Because It Hurts Too Much To Cry


1. Two Republicans go into a gay bar. The bartender says, "What'll ya have?" The first Republican says, "I'll have what he's having," pointing to his friend. His friend says, "Let me check with Rush. I don't think we're supposed to be in here," noting suspiciously the beefcake beer posters, the complete lack of female customers, the rainbow flag and the guys making out on the pool table. He takes off his tin-foil hat, spits on it and points it toward Miami. A bolt of lightning crashes through the ceiling, killing him instantly. The first Republican says, "I guess I won't have what he's having."


2. A conservative and a liberal are arguing about global warming at the International House Of Pancakes. The liberal is wearing shorts, sandals, a Hawaiian shirt and a coconut hat. The conservative is wearing mukluks, a heavy snowsuit with big mittens attached and a great big Russian fur hat. The waitress comes to take their order and the liberal orders something liberal. The waitress turns to the conservative and asks him why he's wearing all the polar expedition gear in an IHOP in the middle of the summer. "IHOP? I thought this was the UN!"


3. Newt Gingrich is at his sixth wife's death-bed. She's pale and weak and he has no trouble removing all her jewelry, and getting her to sign a new will. "What's this, for, Command Master, dear?" his wife asks feebly. "Well, b*tch, I mean, babe, I need your as--mm-- anus," the Speaker responds gruffly. "Your wish is my command, Master. But why?" the poor woman replies. "Aw, Hell, I can't get the librul media to chew me a new one no more! And I can't hardly talk out of the old one atall!"


4. Bobby Jindal is out jogging alongside a swamp somewhere in Louisiana. A gigantic alligator lunges out of the bayou and blocks the Governor's path. "Heck! What do y'all want, alligator?" "I'm going to eat you all up unless you grant me three wishes, Governor," the alligator hisses. "I don't know that I can do that. Are you a contributor?" "My PAC gives heavily to State Senate races. All Republicans, of course. They understand reptiles." "OK. OK, What can we do for you this fine morning?" "First off, you've got to outlaw alligator shoes." "All right, I guess we can do that." "Second, I want to be designated an endangered species." "Well, I'm against that in principle, but it's Federal, so I guess I could bump it up to them. Sure, OK, as long as it's just you." "Third, when you run for President, I want to be your Vice-President." "Aw, I don't think I can do that. It might cost me the fundamentalist vote. How about Secretary of State?" The alligator lunges at the governor, snaps him up and swallows him whole. From deep inside the giant saurian, a tiny voice emerges. "Is this Jimmy Swaggart in here? DEAL, MR. VICE PRESIDENT, YOU GOT YOURSELF A DEAL!!!"


5. Ann Coulter is having "relations" with a giant venomous snake. She finally gets off, and disgorges the python. The reptile slithers off into a corner and starts crying hysterically. "What the f**k is the matter with you?" Ann asks the snake. "My condom came off!" the python wails.


6. John Boehner is addressing a group of young schoolchildren when little Johnny pops up from the back of the class and asks him a question: "How come your name is 'BONER'???!!!" The Congressman explains that his name is pronounced 'BAYNER,' "It's from the German. It's not pronounced the way it looks." Little Johnny puzzles over this and then demands, "Well how come my Mom says you're such a big dick then?"


7. A Republican and a monkey are shipwrecked together, the only two survivors left in a lifeboat in the middle of the ocean. Their supplies consist of two oars, one shiny waterproof thermal blanket, one bottle of water, one box of rations, one flare and one Bible. Both survivors eye all the gear, which plainly is enough for only one of them. The monkey picks up the Bible and tosses it overboard. The Republican jumps in after it and manages to rescue the Good Book. When he tries to get back in the boat, the monkey smacks the Republican's hand with an oar repeatedly. The man struggles, but the monkey won't let him back in the boat, and the man won't let go of the Bible. Finally, the Republican cries out in panic and frustration, "Why are you doing this?" The monkey leans right into the man's face and says, "Still think evolution is just a theory?"


8. A mullah, a rabbi and a televangelist are shot into space together in a new philosophical initiative by NASA. The plan is to set an example of religious tolerance on Earth and to bring evidence of Man's spirituality out into the Cosmos. They're headed for Alpha Centauri, and it's a long trip. Mostly, they spend it in suspended animation, but every few years, the unmanned robotic ship brings them out of it automatically, so they can get some exercise while their cryogenic coffins are serviced. The three clerics each address themselves separately to Allah, Jehovah and Jesus, sh*t shower and shave, and sit down together for a nice meal of salty protein sticks and glucosed mineral-water. After dinner, the rebbe breaks out a deck of cards, shuffles them and deals them out to his shipmates. They're traveling light, so there is nothing physical to wager. The televangelist suggests that they play a game of truth or dare. The loser of each hand has to admit some uncomfortable truth about himself or accept any sort of a dare from the winner of the hand. The Jew loses the first hand, and admits he once tasted ham, just out of curiosity, but only one small bite. The Muslim loses the next hand, and confesses that he once "accidentally" ate some baby-back ribs at a backyard barbeque, but he spit it out when he found out what it was. The Christian loses the next hand and says that he ate Pig all the time back on Earth, and he loved it. The other two are disgusted, but the Rabbi objects, "But, for you, it's not a sin! It doesn't count as an uncomfortable truth in this game." "You don't understand," the minister objects," 'Pig' is what me and my cousin called his little sister."


9. Q: What's the difference between a Republican and a c*nt?
A: Let's not split hairs.


10. Rupert Murdoch arrives at last at the Pearly Gates of Heaven. When he gets to the front of the line, Saint Peter asks the media mogul whether he thinks he should go to Paradise or the Inferno. "Paradise, of course, mate," Sir Rupert says. "Really? And why is that," asks St. Peter. "Well, I've given tens, maybe hundreds of dollars to charity and I've been in church more than twice. And I wouldn't mind doing a good deed, if I ever had the time," says Murdoch, squinting hopefully at the Saint's Golden Book open before him, trying to read it upside down. "Is that all?" Peter says. "Crikey, I've brought goodness and light into the lives of millions with Fox News, the Sun newspaper and the New York Post." "Oh, THAT Murdoch!" the Saint exclaims, and slams his book shut, grabbing the lever that will open the trap door over the chute to Hell, right under Rupert Murdoch's feet. "But wait, there's more!" Murdoch objects. As he yanks the lever, sending the publisher straight down into the fiery furnace, St. Peter shouts down at Murdoch, "You know, we get the Post up here!"


(All of these original attempted witticisms are the sole responsibility & property of Cosa Nostradamus)
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HELP REBRAND THE GOP

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"REPUBLICAN" IS A BAD WORD, THEY FINALLY REALIZED

THE PARTY OF LINCOLN??? NOT SO MUCH...

So, What Should We Call A Disoriented Group Of So-Called Conservatives?

Pick your favorites. Here's my list. I'd love to see yours. Post or email one, please! Comments are now open to all. We'll see how that goes...

1. Assholes
2. The Grand NEW Party!
3. The Party Formerly Known As Prince
4. Nazi-Lite
5. Venti Soy Mocha Fascisti
6. Zzzz
7. Democratnot
8. NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
9. The Confederacy
10. The Greys
11. Old White Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuudes
12. McRepublicans
13. Mallwalkers Anonymous
14. I'm Spending My Childrens' Inheritance, or "ISMyCI"
15. New Coke
16. Libertarianish
17. KKKMart
18. The Rush Limbaugh Fan Club
19. Free Lunchers
20. Torii's (with hearts over the "i"'s)
21. Anger, Inc.
22. Haters Anonymous
23. Likud
24. FoxNews
25. Management
26. The Senior Chamber of Commerce
27. The Board of Directors
28. HWA (Honkies With Attitude)
29. HezbaJesus
30. Party Of God (POG)
31. USAUSAUSA
32. Your Father's Oldsmobile
33. Wifebeaters Anonymous
34. Fetal Positions
35. No Gurlz Alowd
36. Let Somebody Else Fight Club
37. UnAmerican Legion
38. Veterans of No Wars
39. The Wall Street Auxiliary
40. Unintelligent Design
41. Notaxachusetts
42. The Deadbeats
43. Hypocrites Much?
44. Closet Queens
45. Liar Liar & Liars
46. Nixonism
47. Bushco
48. Cheney Enterprises
49. The Bull Shit Party
50. Everythinggate
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NEW WEBSTERS DICTIONARY DEFINES REPUBLICANS AS "ASSHOLES"

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TERM "REPUBLICAN" IS NO LONGER IN USE

150-YEAR-OLD PARTY LABEL CHANGED FOR THE FIRST TIME



Webster Editor Says "It's A Sign Of The Times"

In recognition of the increasing use of the term "assholes" to describe members of the G.O.P., the world's most popular dictionary has dropped the definition of the word "Republican" as a political Party, and is now referring readers to the word "asshole." A photograph of Republican, er, Asshole Louisiana Governor "Bobby" Jindal now appears next to the word "asshole" in all of Webster's dictionaries.

The Governor was not available for comment at blog time.

Democrats in Congress have also switched the designation of GOP Senators and Congressmen & women. Terms now in use include: "The distinguished asshole from the great State of South Carolina." "Asshole Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky." "House Asshole Minority Leader Boehner."

Asshole Boehner declined to comment for this blog entry. Assholes have protested this change in nomenclature, "But we gotta go with reality here," said Webster Editor-In-Chief Daniel Webster XXIX. "No one calls them "Republicans" any more, and when you hear the word "asshole," you automatically think 'G.O.P.' A picture of Newt Gingrich or Sarah Palin just pops up in your mind. In everybody's mind."

Webster's medical dictionaries now differentiate between the use of the word "asshole" as a political term versus a synonym for the clinical terms "anus," "rectum," and "brown-eye." A picture of Asshole "Bobby" Jindal had to be removed from the medical dictionary after it was mistakenly placed next to the word "anus." "We might have accidentally given somebody a radical Jindalectomy," the Dean of the Harvard Medical School stated in comments on the changes before the AMA's annual convention.
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DRACULA IS DEAD

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AT LEAST, WE THINK HE'S DEAD

ROMANIAN NAZI OILMAN BURIED IN TRANSYLVANIA

Family Requests Mourners Send Donations Against Charity, Rather Than The Traditional Garlic Wreaths

Iosif Constantin Dragan, Romania's richest man, passed away quietly in the Spanish resort of Mallorca, where he had lived luxuriously for many years on his profits from World War II. Dragan was a Fascist, a member of the Romanian Iron Guard, and a corporatist entrepreneur who supplied gas and oil to Mussolini's military in the 1940's.

After the war, Romania fell to the Communists, and Dragan set up shop in Italy, where his Fascist activities during the war did not preclude his increasing his fortune in the petroleum industry. Toward the end of the Communist era, Dragan allied himself with dictator Nikolai Ceausescu. Dragan managed to survive Ceausescu's overthrow, and went on to become Romania's first billionaire under the re-established capitalist regime.

Dragan was an unrepentant Rightist fanatic, and founded Liga Mareşal Ion Antonescu after the fall of Ceausescu. Antonescu was the Nazi collaborator who ran the Bucharest government during WWII, with disastrous effect upon the Romanian people and their neighbors. He built the "labor camps" and the "trains of death" responsible for the "ethnic cleansing" of much of Romania's Jewish and Roma population. Able to support all this, yet continue doing business with all parties, Dragan was a survivor, adapting to his environment like a man turning into a bat at the full moon.

Dragan's old organization, the Romanian Iron Guard, were considered by the Nazi's to be too violently and unscientifically anti-Semitic: Unprofessional mass-murderers. The Guard, or Legion of the Archangel Michael, conducted pogroms and slaughtered Romanian and Ukranian Jews wholesale in orgies of violence that made even the Germans cringe. All together, the Romanian Fascists killed over 300,000 Jews and Gypsies outright, second only to the Germans in the Holocaust.

Unique among extreme Rightist ideologies in Europe at the time, the movement was based upon elements of Orthodox Christian theology, and thus appealed to religious conservatives among the peasantry in the Romanian countryside. Their symbol was the Triple Cross, similar to the "Pound" or "Tic-Tac-Toe" sign on modern telephones. The Iron Guard's founder, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, started out in the National-Christian Defense League, which succeeded the National Christian Union founded by A. C. Cuza, who based much of the group's political philosophy upon Romanian Orthodox Church doctrine, and raw anti-Semitism.

Cuza also founded the Universal Antisemitic Alliance in Bucharest in 1895, pre-dating Hitler by over thirty years, and The League Against Alcoholism, a sort of prehistoric private "War on Drugs." They also considered abortion to be a sin, homosexuality to be a scourge, and demonized liberalism. American Republicans will find much to admire in the Romanian fascist movement. They even controlled the legislature for a time, under the Conservative banner. They also founded private militia's, like America's Pinkertons, Wackenhut and Blackwater. Ultimately, violence and intimidation in the name of the established order of wealthy individuals, giant corporations, and powerful government entities was their hallmark.

In addition to raking in cash, oilman Iosif Dragan devoted his life to rewriting and distorting history, to which end he built up a media empire that might have been a model for Italy's Berlusconi, or Australia's Rupert Murdoch. In all but name, Dragan was a modern American Republican.

Villagers drove a stake through his heart before burying him. "Just a precaution. We don't believe the legends, so much. Just a precaution," the priest said, and hurried away before the sun set behind the Transylvanian Mountains.


THE CANADIAN PRESS
"Ex-Nazi Romanian billionaire Iosif Constantin Dragan dead at 91"

' Iosif Constantin Dragan, a billionaire businessman who supported Romania's pro-Nazi movement during the Second World War, died Thursday. He was 91. Dragan died in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, where he lived, Romanian news agency Agerpres reported, citing a family statement. No cause of death was given. Dragan was banned from Romania after the war by the communist government because of his support for the Nazi Iron Guard movement. He moved to Italy and in 1948 founded petroleum products company Butan Gas. He had an estimated wealth of $1.6 billion in 2006 making him Romania's wealthiest man, Romanian Capital magazine reported. After the communist government was overthrown in 1989, he backed far-right politicians and newspapers in Romania. '

BALKAN INSIGHT.COM
"Romanian Billionaire Buried in Transylvania"

' Thousands of people from the Transylvanian town of Lugoj in central Romania have attended the funeral ceremony of billionaire Iosif Constantin Dragan. Dragan, who was 91, died last week in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Reports in the local media show that in 2006 Dragan had a wealth of around $1.6 billion, making him Romania's wealthiest man. Dragan was mainly involved in business dealings with oil and gas. A close friend of former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, he was a promoter of the Latin origin of Romanian people. After the end of communism in Romania in 1989, he founded a university in Lugoj and set up several newspapers, including a hardline nationalist weekly magazine. '

ADEVARUL
"Ms. Milliard"

' At the age of 35, Veronica Gusa de Dragan became the richest Romanian woman. She administers the 1,5 billion dollar belonging to his dead husband. After the death of her multi-millionaire husband, Veronica Gusa de Dragan (35 years old) became the richest woman in Romania. She will administer a fortune equivalent to approximately 1,5 billion dollar. Iosif Constantin Dragan’s widow has lived for 13 years by "Ceausescu’s multi-millionaire" side. Now, she will be in charge of managing ButanGas, company whose turn-over this year will reach 86 million dollar. Actual Ms. Dragan is the only daughter of General Stefan Gusa, former head of the Romanian Armed Forces and the key-character in December 1989 events. The general mysteriously died in April 1994, four years after the Revolution. Veronica married the businessman, former congenial with Iron Guard and, subsequently, with Ceausescu, in 1995. She was 22, he was 78. Yesterday, at her husband’s funeral, the widow behaved like "an iron lady". She denied the access to funeral of the approximately 800 people who wanted to say good-bye from the most popular man in Lugoj. '

WIKIPEDIA
"Iosif Constantin Drăgan"

' Drăgan was involved in a series of controversies, including some alleged deals with the Securitate, his admiration of Romanian Fascist leader Ion Antonescu and being one of the main figures in the Protochronist current of Romanian historiography. Born in Lugoj, he graduated from Law School at the University of Bucharest in 1938, and earned in 1940 a scholarship at the University of Rome, where he studied political science and economics, earning a Ph.D. in law. At the time, Drăgan was attracted to fascist ideals and the Iron Guard, representing a corporatist trend inside the latter. In 1941, he started a company which exported Romanian petroleum products to Fascist Italy. After World War II, in 1948, he established a gas distribution company in Italy, Butan Gas.[6] After the war, with the Romanian Communist Party gaining power in Romania, he was not allowed for 30 years to return to Romania. '

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