Atticus Chaos

She'll be forced to. Don't you know he intends to enslave the white race by then?

As noted earlier, a person by the name of Matthew Randazzo plans on writing a book on WWE called "Ring of Hell." It will be released in July by Phoenix Books. The book will chronicle the use of racial slurs on the part of WWE executives in the workplace. One WWE writer told Randazzo: "Brother Love and Michael Hayes would also routinely make racist jokes. I heard them use the 'n' word a few times." Randazzo also claimed that a WWE production member asked him to release the following statement anonymously: Michael Hayes 60-day suspension for allegedly making racist comments comes as no surprise to anyone who has ever worked with him. Since Stephanie took over the reigns of Creative, bringing him on-board after Russo and Ferrera left for WCW, Hayes has been a racist boor making n-jokes at every writers' meeting -- until one day that he was shocked and offended that Stephanie hired an African-American Writer's Assistant in 2003. Stephanie called this talented young man in for an interview while Hayes was on holiday since she knew that Hayes being on the interview panel would have led to Hayes saying something racist and causing a lawsuit even before the African American candidate for the job was hired (every potential writer is interviewed by every sitting member of the writing teams of all shows in a panel format, prior to meeting with Stephanie). He was eventually hired. When Hayes found out that an African-American was hired for the job, he thought that he was being ribbed. He said to someone who used to work at the WWE at the time who wishes to remain anonymous: 'Hired WHAT as a writer? I didn't know those boys can even write their name. Let's take bets on how long he will last here.' Needless to say, the African-American writer lasted less than 4 months at WWE Creative, with Hayes constantly burying him to Stephanie; and he actually made racist jokes in front of the said writer. The writer never made a formal complaint, which boggles the mind, and it allowed Hayes to continue on in his position. Since the African-American writer, at least two other visible minorities have been hired by Stephanie, and always when Hayes is on vacation. Only one has survived more than 6 months, and that is current writer Dave Kapoor, who is of East-Indian descent. For the record, Hayes has made fun of him constantly whenever Kapoor isn't around, calling him and The Great Khali 'Our two resident sand-[n-words].' Several other people within WWE backed up this and other stories regarding Hayes this past week. lop.com

I thought Nash Mcabe at the ABC debate was the best example of that. She's had an incredibly tough life: she's unemployed, her husband 's hurt, and with the healthcare bills piling up, she has to borrow money from her parents to keep a roof over their heads....and when she gets to ask the possible future president of the united states any question whatsoever, she asked him about a flag pin. What?!

I've been reading this thread quite a bit, but not posting much, and your last few posts have been the stupidest thing in here since Marvin stopped posting. Yes, saying it's understandable for the oppressed to be angry at their oppressors...that's so out there.

I understand. And I'm not saying that no black person can ever be racist. But in any society where there is an oppressed minority it's debatable whether their negative reaction to the majority is racism or a reaction. It's not okay, but it does mean you have to cut guys like wright some slack. If anyone here had lived through what he had, you might be angry too.

There's a difference in racism from the oppressive majority and racism from the oppressed minority is what I'm saying. It's not okay for a black person who grew up being called names, being threatened..etc to hold it against every white person they meet..but you can understand how they got to that point. It was a reaction to how they were treated. However, a white person who has never been oppressed in any way, is likely just being racist for the sake of it. They have no good reason to be that way. That's not a reaction to anything.

Well that's not true. A lot of blacks with negativity towards whites are usually reacting out of their own expereinces. The fact is, blacks have been victimised by whites, not vice versa. Say a black man is driving through Kentucky, and gets nervous anytime he sees a white man or a group of white men. Is that rasicm? Or a natural reaction?

I disagree. Middle America's support for the war would have plummeted quickly if it was there kids going over. Most of the kids going over and dying are poorer and/or minorities. That's why four more people can die and the press don't care. If wealthier people were going over, I guarantee each death would mean a lot more and get at least some amount of coverage. I don't think their children could avoid it with as much ease as you claim. It's not like the sixties where people quietly ensured their kids wouldn't go. This is 2008, everything gets reported one way or another. And if it became well known congress kids weren't going (which it would) the war would become even more unpopular. And, even if, congress kids did manage to avoid service, what about their nieces/nephews, neighbour's kids...etc. When people they know and love are losing children it might be a different story. As it is, the people that voted for the war...don't live in poor neighbourhoods, likely don't have any family members serving (this was only true for one senator in 2002) and are safely distanced from the casualties of war. It might sound extreme, and I wouldn't support it unless it had the non combat option, but considering what the situation is now, people dying in Iraq and no fuss whatsoever, and two presidential candidates who seem almost excited about the idea of starting a war with Iran, something to stop all this and give the decision makers some sort of personal stake.

It would hold decision makers more accountable. You really think someone like Hillary Clinton would have voted yes on such flimsy evidence if she thought Chelsea was going over? And when I say 'the draft' I don't neccessairly mean everyone would have to see armed combat to fufill their duty. There are other ways they could, that don't mean actual action (civilian government service) so anyone really determined not to see active duty wouldn't. I have no doubt If there was a draft , this war wouldn't be happening.

This to me is one more reason to bring back the draft. See how the upper classes and people in government like it when their kids, and kids from their communities are going off to war and dying. As it is, its mostly people from poorer families dying who no-one cares about.

Crazy, white preachers may be fucking racist, hateful, ignorant nutjobs, but they love America. Crazy, black preacher Rev. Wright is a racist, hateful, ignorant nutjob AND he hates America. There is a big difference there when the person associating with them is running for said country. Sad but true. I don't know if you could even call Wright a racist. Arguably, a black person in America can never be racist, because any negative feelings they have towards whites is a reaction, not racism. The negative reaction from the oppressed can't fully be blamed on them. However, a lot of White racists aren't reacting to any sort of oppression, they just dislike blacks for the sake of it. I'm not defending Wright but just the idea that poor, white America (who only make up 75% of the population after all) are under attack from the crazy black preacher is laughable to me.

Polling leads me to conclude that your assertion is incorrect. Truth is now based on number of believers. Gotcha. Truthiness!

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.

I have to think Obama's one of these guys who always knew he was going places...so with that in mind why is he going sit and listen to his preacher spew racial hatred for 20 years, knowing full well it could come back to haunt him later in his political career? I really think he would have been too smart for that. Anyway I'm still wondering why the crazy black preacher is so much worse than the crazy white preachers the christian right have associated themselves with over the years. You know, the ones that blame gays for natural disasters and terrosist attacks on abortionists.

This to me is why Hillary is a lot more unelectable than Obama at this point. A democrat can lose the white vote (while staying within 42-43%) but win because of overwhelming black support (Bill Clinton). Obama may have a problem with working class whites, but he can possibly win them over by November, or at least ensure he doesn't lose them by that wide of margin to Mccain. However, Hillary has completely blown it with black voters with her behaviour and blatant race bating. And if she does get the nomination it'll be because she argued the black man couldn't win, which won't go down well with AAs, who have stuck with the democrats for decades. If even 30% of the blacks who usually vote democrat either sit at home or vote for mccain on election day becuase they're mad at Hillary, that's around 6 million votes. While Hillary may have reinforced her whiteness to get votes, she's also alienated black voters, who she needs. I don't know why this hasn't occured to her. Possibly she's so determined to win she hasn't thought about it.

The problem with wright is that 90% of the things he says are somewhat reasonable, but 10% of it is just plain crazy. And it's that 10% that keeps getting played on all the cable shows.

Who said she can't wrestle again? There's been a lot of talk that her collarbone injury is almost certainly career threatening. Once you break it, it's even more likely to break again (which is what happened in her first match back) and again after that.

So, now that Candice's injury looks likely to end her career, will she got back to foot porn?

Isn't a good enough wrestler? In the last year, he's contested terrific matches with Edge, RVD, Cena, HHH, HBK and Jeff Hardy. I remember him even making Hogan look half decent. He might have been jobbed out prior to his title run, but he looked damn good while doing it. Anyone trying to claim Orton is a bad wrestler after years of top quality matches is, frankly, too blinded by their own hate to be objective.

And that's exactly what happened.

So, Baltar is Jesus now? I wonder if Roslin is going to make it to the end of the season, since they seem to be playing up that she's getting really sick (why can't they use the hybrid blood again?). Also, I have to hand it to Tricia Helfer: she's been great this season, especially in those scenes with Tigh. She's played 3 or 4 different characters and managed to make each one them unique. Considering she was a model before she started BSG she's been very impressive. I have to think the end of this half of the season will be finding earth...since they can't really drag out Kara and the crew being on the ship for the next 18 or so episodes. As soon as Adama told her he was giving her a ship, I figured they'd find it sooner than we'd think. I thought she'd have to spend 5 or 6 episodes trying to convince them all. Any guesses on what earth it'll be?

Wasn't high youth turnout the reason Bill Clinton won in 1992?

I think the press are doing with Obama what they did with Howard Dean, and just screaming 'unelectable' to scare off voters. The main reason Kerry won in 2004 is because people decided he was more electable. Problem is, unlike Dean, Obama has the nomination wrapped up. If Hillary and her freinds in the press had been doing this two or three months ago, it would have made a difference but, for better or worse, this guy is going to the GE.

But running a country into the ground, tallying up a multi trillion dollar debt, ruining our foreign policy, etc etc etc etc etc etc, in my mind, qualifies me to call him a pretty stupid leader. Bill Clinton's IQ is reportedly in the 140s. And he was still dumb enough to get caught with an intern half his age.

I have a feeling the democratic nomination race is coming to a close soon. As well as Hillary's finanical woes, a lot of people in the party have started turning on her. James Clayburn(one of the most respected men in congress) even voiced the fear many have, that she knows she can't win, but is trying to sabotage Obama so she can run in 2012. She's also been holding meetings with uncommitted superdelegates all week, and I'm guessing what she heard wasn't favourable. Carl Bernstein was on Anderson Cooper and said people in her campaign think her next move might be demanding the VP spot.