Words Fail Me category archive

Oh, my.

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.

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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.

Via John Cole.

What Shaun Mullen said.

Yahoos with guns make us all safer.

(With apologies to Julie Newmar).

Snow is predicted. Polar bears return to their dens:

The 2010 Lewes Polar Bear Plunge to benefit Special Olympics Delaware and all related Plunge Festival weekend activities, including Saturday’s Run to the Plunge, have been postponed due to the impending nor’easter and accompanying high winds and heavy surf forecast to hit the state of Delaware.

As endorsed by John Roberts.

Field has commentary.

(Follow the image link to buy your own so you too can dress like a Congressperson.)

From the BBC:

Woman ‘found murdered’ by river

The river’s not talking.

Pat Robertson, mired in hate-fullness.

And ignorance.

Mr. Feastingonroadkill reports.

By harvesting themselves.

This sounds so much like an urban legend I’m having trouble believing it.

But I’m glad I don’t use cosmetics.

Four people have been arrested in Peru on suspicion of killing dozens of people in order to sell their fat and tissue for cosmetic uses in Europe.

The gang allegedly targeted people on remote roads, luring them with fake job offers before killing them and extracting their fat.

The liquidised product fetched $15,000 (£9,000) a litre and police suspect it was sold on to companies in Europe.

The Charleston, S. C., Republican Party has censured Senator Lindsey Graham (R–Benighted) for being too liberal.

Jamie Sanderson sums it up.

Charles Tyson, elected South Harrison Township’s first black mayor in 2006, said yesterday that he had been worn down by racism in the Gloucester County farm community and would resign as deputy mayor effective today.

Growing up in the town of 2,700 people, he never felt the sting of intolerance, said Tyson, 67, whose term of office was to expire in December 2010.

Soon after news spread that he would be the Democratic candidate for mayor, his tires were slashed, his campaign signs were defaced, and he was subjected to threatening phone calls and e-mails laced with racial epithets.

I must have driven through Harrison Township several dozen times over the years; it’s about 45 minutes east of here. It’s so small I didn’t notice it.

The man got hate phone calls from all over the country for being black and mayor of Nowhere, New Jersey. One caller, a Virginian, is in jail pending trial.

They drove him to resign the mayoralty, but he stayed on as deputy mayor. Now they have driven him out of office entirely.

Just because he’s Not White.

And, in San Jose, it doesn’t seem to be an “isolated incident.”

The Booman has the details.

In Delaware, a bogus Amber alert is circulating via text messages.

“I don’t know how to answer that that’s not a trap.”
–Beck the Feckless

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Afraid to stand behind his own statements. Feckless defined (emphasis added):

adjective 1. ineffective; incompetent; futile: feckless attempts to repair the plumbing.
2. having no sense of responsibility; indifferent; lazy.

Via Andrew Sullivan.

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They used to have more money than sense.

Then they spent it on a court case.