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Words Fail Me category archive

Yippee Tie One Down! 0

The country slants to the southwest. Everything loose rolls to California.

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Primary Colors 0

Field discusses primaries and colors.

What he has to say about primaries is, in my opinion, right on.

What he recounts about colors is pretty damned disgusting.

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Texas Board of Education Wants To Disappear the Slave Trade 3

Emphasis added.

Tempers are flaring in Texas over controversial proposed changes to the US state’s public school curriculum.

The changes, put forward by the Board of Education’s conservative members, include referring to the slave trade as the “Atlantic triangular trade”.

Jesus.

Words fail me.

No, they do not. But I shan’t use those words here.

Afterthought: They won’t be satisfied until they put them darkies back in their rightful place, goldurnit.

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Not Getting It 0

Jeez. Some people object. Wonder why.

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Pat Buchanan Plays the Jew Card 0

Beyond disgusting.

I have a friend, my once and again best friend, whose father was saved from Auschwitz by Raoul Wallenberg. She still has copies of the paperwork that saved her father’s life.

Had his life not been saved, she would not have been born and I would have missed her friendship.

Is she one too many for Pat Buchanan?

Is there a depth of bigotry and prejudice that the Republican Party and its supporters are not willing to plumb?

I’ll stop now. Another sentence leads to language I prefer not to use in this forum.

Pah!

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Suffer the Children 0

And the children suffer (emphasis added):

The head of education for the Boston Archdiocese offered Thursday to help find a different Catholic school for a boy denied acceptance at a Hingham Catholic school because his parents are gay.

I am continually amazed at how persons keeping missing the point of the whole “love thy neighbor as thyself” thing. They keep interpreting it as “love they neighbor as long as he’s like thyself.”

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The Wild Well 0

Video from Waterkeepers. It is difficult to watch it all the way through.

Via Facing South.

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I Get Mail 0

The usual line up of positive thinkers (they positively think I’m going to pay to listen to them) attracts a new member.

Motivational Seminar

I positively think no wisecrack can do this justice. This is its own one-liner.

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To Paraphrase What the Old Man Back Home Said about Our State Senator, “It Calls Itself a University” 0

(What the old man actually said was, “He calls hisself a lawyer.”)

What could more indicate that Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University is about neither liberty nor learning than this?

Words fail me.

Full Disclosure: Mrs. State Senator was my boss for three years of summer jobs.

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Greater Wingnuttery XLVI 0

But what if I don’t have a chicken?

Aside: The time in which we can pack over the ridge into the next valley, establish a homestead, dig a privy, and feed ourselves off the land while making our own buckskin clothes is long gone.

Furrfu.

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Banksta Rap 0

Oh my goodness.

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Oh, My 0

(—!—)

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has 42 more animals in its care after a woman in Fredericksburg gave up 93 of the dogs and cats she had been keeping in a single-wide trailer.

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Bumpered Sticker 0

He apparently doesn’t like Mr. Obama.

The other driver, identified by police as 70-year-old Nashville retiree Harry K. Weisiger, allegedly accelerated and bashed into the bumper, directly over the Obama sticker. Duren tried to calm his frightened daughter as he pulled to a stop and prepared to get out of the car and deal with what he thought was a routine fender bender.

But the other driver wasn’t finished. He rammed the car again and started pushing it off the road, while the little girl inside screamed in terror. After a few more pushes, the SUV accelerated away, leaving a shaken Duren to call 911 and try to reassure his daughter.

Afterthought:

No doubt the defense will plead temporary in-Hannity.

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Wilding 0

From the Newport News Daily Press politics blog:

Details are just starting to trickle out about the FBI investigating a cut gas line at U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello’s brother’s house in the Lynchburg area, after tea party activists posted his address following Perriello’s “yes” vote on health care reform.

Words fail me.

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True Colors 0

Why am I not surprised?

Civil rights hero Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) and fellow Congressional Black Caucus member Andre Carson (D-IN) related a particularly jarring encounter with a large crowd of protesters screaming “kill the bill”… and punctuating their chants with the word “nigger.”

When a party practices the politics of hate, hate is the harvest.

I’m too disgusted to write any more.

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May the Farce Be with You 0

Oh, my.

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Life under the Regency 0

Dick Polman:

It appears that Virginia voters have inadvertently elected a fringe character to serve as state attorney general. This was first evident in February, when Ken Cuccinelli filed a federal appeals court petition asking the Environmental Protection Agency to rethink its finding that global warming poses a threat to people; and it was evident earlier this month, when Cuccinelli sent a letter to public universities in Virginia, ordering them to roll back their policies that banned discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

(snip)

Either he cynically figured that he needed the nutcase vote in order to win, or he truly suspects that Obama might be from Kenya. Either way, yesterday’s spin can’t erase what he said. Keep an eye on this guy; he clearly sees an opening on the right flank.

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Seed Money 0

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Via John Cole.

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Prudescence 1

Honest to Pete, someone has a real problem, and it’s not the family that sculpted the snowwoman.

Words fail me, because this is too stupid for words.

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Words Fail Me 0

What Shaun Mullen said.

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