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Via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.

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Via BartCop.

The racism is never far from the surface, is it?

A white Ohio landlord is calling on a state civil rights commission to reconsider its ruling that she discriminated against a black girl when she posted a “White Only” sign at the pool of one of her Cincinnati properties.

“I’m not a bad person,” Jamie Hein told ABC News Thursday. “I don’t have any problem with race at all. It’s a historical sign.”

A relative of a tenant, who has since moved in reaction, visited the pool. Then the sign went up.

I think that’s enough history.

Aside:

I have known a number of good persons who think of themselves as bad, or, at least, as not good enough.

I have never known bad persons who thought of themselves as bad persons.

Nothing says “Christmas” like an AK-47.

At Comically Vintage.

Listen to one callow opportunist talk about another callow opportunist.

There’s not enough hate on television.

The Florida Family Association wants to remedy that.

Meanwhile, on aisle five:

Garrison Keillor* is on the radio telling me that this is the anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights, honored by today by its abrogation.

Afterthought:

I don’t want to hear whiny lefties blaming the President. He didn’t have the votes to sustain a veto.

A lot of lefties really need to grow up and live in the real world.

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*I did not turn on the radio. Frankly, the old boy’s gone stale.

Warning: Mild language.

Via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.

It’s not about where you’re from. Really and truly, no.

It’s about what you look like. Really and truly, yes.

A growing number of United States citizens have been detained under Obama administration programs intended to detect illegal immigrants who are arrested by local police.

In a spate of recent cases across the country, American citizens have been confined in local jails after federal immigration agents, acting on flawed information from Department of Homeland Security databases, instructed the police to hold them for investigation and possible deportation.

Americans said their vehement protests that they were citizens went unheard by local police and jailers for days, with no communication with federal immigration agents to clarify the situation.

Via Atrios.

I suspect that Mitt the Flip is truly enchanted to know he’s cast his spell on Christine O’Donnell:

Christine O’Donnell, once the darling of the tea party, took aim Tuesday at members of the movement that made her a political household name by endorsing Mitt Romney for president.

Not in a good way. Steve M. explains.

Addendum, Later That Same Day:

Hanlon:

Really, no matter who ends up running against Obama, it’s going to come down to one difference: they think Americans are only certain types of people, we don’t.

To the right, there are vast swaths of people in this country (Hispanics, Muslims, gays, atheists, liberals) who aren’t “American” and must be eradicated.

The reality is that Sarah Palin is soooooo ooooover.

. . . the Fox News contributor is having some trouble selling a follow-up to the Mark Burnett-produced “Sarah Palin’s Alaska,” her TLC show that bowed in November 2010 to a record-breaking 5 million viewers.

The Hollywood Reporter reports Palin and Burnett are pitching another reality series, this one more focused on Palin’s husband Todd and his career as a championship snowmobile racer.

Sounds like someone is running low on ideas.

But for now, TLC owner Discovery Communications has passed, say sources. And A&E Networks, which entered into a bidding war with Discovery for “Sarah Palin’s Alaska,” also is not interested.

Via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.

Via BartCop.

Thomm Hartmann tangles with rightwing bloviators about several issues; watch the clash of fact and propaganda. The description from the website:

Heather Cirmo, Conservative Strategist & Neil McCabe, Human Events Online joins Thom Hartmann. Why are firefighters watching homes burn down in Tennessee? I’ll ask my panel of Conservatives if this is what a Libertarian Paradise looks like in tonight’s Lone Liberal Rumble.