Sarah Palin’s July 18 tweet re. the “Ground Zero” mosque is a wonderfully concise (albeit disgusting) example of how Republicans use every trivial tempest du jour to exploit Americans’ barely latent (if it really is) racism and xenophobia for political gain: Peace-seeking Muslims, pls understand, Ground Zero mosque is UNNECESSARY provocation; it stabs hearts. Pls reject it in …
Category: Sarah Palin is a nimrod
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Jul 18 2010
Refudiating Muslims
Geoffrey Dunn’s HuffingtonPost post (is that redundant?) today: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-dunn/palins-bigoted-twitter-cal_b_650562.html or http://huff.to/a69dg9 or http://tinyurl.com/32dx5vc Palin’s Bigoted Twitter Calls on Muslims to “Refudiate” Echoing the bigoted and right-wing contortions of the National Republican Trust PAC and disgraced Tea Party leader Mark Williams, Sarah Palin has sent the world of Twitter on fire this afternoon, with a series of Tweets …
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May 21 2010
Relative to Albert Einstein…
Thanks to “my” crack team of researchers, here’s the letter by Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Sidney Hook, and others, first published in the Books section (page 12) of The New York Times, Saturday December 4, 1948: http://www.archive.org/details/AlbertEinsteinLetterToTheNewYorkTimes.December41948 or http://bit.ly/d5pUR7 or http://tinyurl.com/2av8cho (thanks Børre) …interesting that “terror” or “terrorist” shows up 7 times. And here is …
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May 10 2010
Sarah Palin is a Nimrod
And I thought I wrote long sentences: “I have said all along that America is based on Judeo-Christian beliefs and, uh, nobody has to believe me though, uh, you can just go to our Founding Fathers’ early documents and see how they crafted a Declaration of Independence and Constitution that, um, allows that Judeo-Christian belief …
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Nov 24 2009
It could be worse
Re. “Sarah Palin is a nimrod; spread the word…” After considering the etymology of my previous term of endearment for the lovely Sarah Palin, I find it deliciously ironic, especially when coupled with that other great shooter of fowl and friends, the Dark Lord himself. Have you been hearing the rumors? For those of you losing hope that …
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Aug 28 2009
Final proof…
…that the right wing of this country is certifiably, well, certifiable… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0OUXkZO8vE Still not convinced? Keep watching: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgSBumvA11M
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Sep 04 2008
POW
Labor Day has always had a double meaning for my family. Twenty-four years ago and two weeks earlier than expected, my wife went into labor on Labor Day, and the next day Jennifer was born. It was the last time my children were ever early for anything… We just spent the Labor Day weekend visiting my daughter …
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