Big Ol' Smitty

So, hows about that gas tax holiday?

The Kentucky boy nails it, as usual.

No, most people can't agree on this: This is bullshit. Racist pseudoscience fueled what the Nazis were doing, not anything approaching real science. Ben Stein uses the death camps and the Zyklon-B gas chambers to push modern day pseudoscience and to smear real, actual science. He should be a national laughingstock.

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Are we just linking random shitty partisan op-eds and blog links now?

deez nuts

Daryl knocked it out of the park on this one. Newsies.

Bachelor party coming up there. What do we do?

Something more restrained & polite. The groom likes strippers. I will find out where we're going to be & seek more info from thee, Jingus.

yup

Return of Mittens? http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/04/...short_list.html

5 Years Ago:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/...modern-history/

The fact that these exist: http://www.freebooknotes.com/page.php?link...e/&book=421

Stein: When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers [i.e. biologist P.Z. Myers], talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed … that was horrifying beyond words, and that’s where science — in my opinion, this is just an opinion — that’s where science leads you. Crouch: That’s right. Stein: …Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place, and science leads you to killing people. Crouch: Good word, good word. http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=N...zFiZDE2NjM3NWE= (The Stein is Ben Stein, of Ferris Bueller fame, and the guy who just made this anti-evolution movie.

My congressman came out as a superdelegate for Obama yesterday: http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/040...sing_Obama.html

Guess I should have added this as well: RE: the new mayor of Rome

Sorry, source here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/30/italy

No one can be prejudice, you fucking tools, because prejudice is an abstract idea (and a noun). That would be like someone being racism. You can be prejudiced, which is an adjective.

Doesn't asparagus make your pee smell really bad? Fuck that shit. Also, my votes reveal me as some sort of strange hybrid Southern good ol' boy/yuppie when it comes to taste in side dishes.

Marvin, ladies & gentlemen!

He'll do this. Find a thread a couple months back when he and I were going back & forth regarding Social Security.

Someone with the American chronicle did a survey with 300 black voters who supported Obama. When asked whether they would vote for Clinton 292 said No because they'd feel she stole it from Obama. Obviously, some of them may come back into the fold but a lot of them won't. You can say 'they'll get over it' but a lot of them won't. Blacks have been the cornerstone of the democrat party for decades, they've stuck by every candidate (Gore, Kerry, Clinton) and to suddenly turn around and say that while Obama has played by the rules, has gotten the most delegates, most states and most of the popular vote, but it's going to someone else because they don't think a black man can win...you don't realise how catastrophic that would be? It doesn't matter if Hillary's a democrat. If Britney spears had a D by her name, does that mean people are still going to vote for her because she's not a republican? Mccain knows this. That's why he went to new orleans. He knows if Hillary wins, the republicans could potentially garner a lot of the AA vote. but even if blacks stayed home, how would that affect the electoral college outcome? they help in the south & urban areas, but i can't think of any big battleground states where they would sway the vote. it's not like if they stay home the democrats will lose california. Michigan? Florida? Ohio? Missouri? Arkansas?