Obama on racism, circa 1990

From Free Republic TEXT: (July, 1990) Photograph: Robert Lieberman,The Chicago Reporter,Issue 221 The last thing that Barack Obama will have to worry about next year when he graduates is job offers. Obama finished his second year at Harvard Law School this spring and has been elected to lead the Harvard Law Review, a prestigious position [...]

Made your travel plans for summer?

Lou Minatti has a suggestion: “Stay out of Denver this summer” On a national level, Obama’s political career is over. However, he may still go into the DNC convention in Denver with more delegates. These are delegates received before Obama’s close ties to racist hate mongers (what other word is there to describe Senator Meeks?) [...]

Best of Clapton

A cool half-hour of the best of Eric Clapton. Enjoy!

Breakthrough energy discovery?

Calling it “the ultimate recycling” project, a Georgia agricultural researcher says he has found the solution to the world’s energy crisis. Using a process of genetic modification and cloning of bacterial organisms that is capable of large-scale conversion of bio-mass into hydrocarbons, researcher J. C. Bell has enlisted the help of Sen. Saxby Chambliss, Sen. [...]

w00t: We got mail

Date: Tue 18 Mar 2008 08:29:00 AM EDT From: MUSA HUSAN (KILLER) To: nukegingrich@myway.com Subject: LIVE OR DIE Hello I am very sorry for you, is a pity that this is how your life is going to end as soon as you don’t comply. As you can see there is no need of introducing myself [...]

The Tuesday Obamagasm

Buckley F. Williams (who was on the Rush Limbaugh Laura Ingraham [ed: oops!] Show, btw) has uncovered the Top Nine Obama Campaign Slogans As Suggested By Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr…. 9. Defeat Racism, Kill A Cracker 8. There is nothing to fear but fear itself…and the bloodsucking moneylenders. 7. Ask not what your country can [...]

Official State Pickle of The Free State of Jefferson

Michelle Locke. Your secret is out. You read our blog. C’mon now, give. Here we are, minding our own bidness, having a little pickle naming contest, and deciding to admit Bend, Oregon into the Free State of Jefferson, and along comes AP doing a story on the Free State of Jefferson. A coincidence? I think [...]

Yemeni man yells, “I have a bomb” on Amtrak train

Lock him up, and throw away the key, please. … a 23-year-old Yemeni man named Basel Saleh Salem Kassem got into an argument with another man on the train and then yelled that he had a bomb.“Allegedly he was causing a disturbance on the train and the conductor attempted to move him to another part [...]

Market bottom?

Last week’s move by the Fed led to a strong, albeit unsustained, rally in the major indices. But investor confidence waned toward the end of the week, and outright panic at Bear Stearns, which lost 47% of its share value on Friday Carlyle (CCC), Citi, and Bear Stearns lead a list of troubled financials that [...]

Tryphorgettin

Now that Big Mo’ seems to be shifting away from Obama, it’s time to remind America why Hillary Rodham Clinton should not be the President. Here’s a Golden Oldie from the TruthBoating Files ……….

Red Letter Days in Nukedom

As I think back over my blogging career, several days stand out in my memory. Like the first time I got a tip in my pay-pal tip-jar. (Thanks Robert D.) Or, the time when we had a post picked up by BBC. And, who can forget the day “Nuke Gingrich” was ranked #1 by Technorati? [...]

My head’s in Mississippi

Web 3.0 is closer than you think, Part 2

Embrace the change. Resistance. Is. Futile. I’m still waiting on my flying car.

Obama: “I never knew it!”

The audacity of chutzpah. After 20 years of church membership, Senator Obama now claims he had no idea of the anti-American, leftist hate speech from his pastor, “None of these statements were ones I had heard myself personally in the pews,” Obama told FOX News. “Once I saw them I had to be very clear [...]

Crash and Burn

Awww Dang Both Eliot Spitzer and Dickie Scruggs crash and burn in the same week. Who’d a thunk it? Oxford lawyer Dickie Scruggs and his law partner Sidney Backstrom entered surprise guilty pleas today in a federal judicial bribery trial that has shaken the Mississippi legal community. Dickie Scruggs and Backstrom each pleaded guilty to [...]

Las Vegas Ricin case: man wakes from coma

LAS VEGAS — The central figure in a hotel ricin scare last month has emerged from a coma, FBI agents said Friday.Investigators found a vial of powdered ricin in Roger Von Bergendorff’s room at the Extended Stay America in February, along with some castor beans. His friends were called in to remove his belongings after [...]

WFFOT: In the news

Here are a few stories that have caught my attention today… The Airborne Laser Cannon — Ready to Deploy Creating a laser that can melt a soda can in a lab is a finicky enough task. Later this year, scientists will put a 40,000-pound chemical laser in the belly of a gunship flying at 300 [...]

See you in the funny papers

Alan Keyes Leaving Republican Party; Conservative “Leaders” Meet Secretly To Discuss How To Sell Out To John McCain; California Outlaws Home Schooling; Zastrow Writing New Column For Us, Yada, yada, yada; Right. I don’t know much about the secret meetings to sell out to McCain, or the rest of that stuff, but the blurb about [...]

Thursday nite and my mind is achin’

So, turn it up LOUD! Here is our very own ac/dc — open thread combo. Extra hot sauce please. The only thing better than that would be …….. some ac/dc with a bunch of attack helicopters blowing shite up. Heh

Carlyle Capital is insolvent

Tom Heath, writing in the Post, The high-profile downfall, part of the broad turmoil in credit markets worldwide, followed a week of frantic negotiations between the Carlyle Group and a number of lenders. Carlyle Group’s three founders as recently as Monday were considering injecting cash into the fund as a way to usher it through [...]

What’s past is prologue

So, what does John F. Kerry (who served in Viet Nam) have in common with the current crop of winter soldiers? From Obiter Dictum In May 2006 an IVAW member named Jesse MacBeth appeared in a video widely circulated on the Internet. MacBeth claimed to have been a Ranger in Iraq who had committed horrific [...]

Farewell F-117 ‘Til We Meet Again

The world’s first attack aircraft to employ stealth technology is slipping quietly into history. The inky black, angular, radar-evading F-117, which spent 27 years in the Air Force arsenal secretly patrolling hostile skies from Serbia to Iraq, will be put in mothballs next month in Nevada. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, which manages [...]

Hong King schools close amid flu fears

Update from ABC News …“Since March 6, health officials have recorded nine flu outbreaks,mostly at schools, affecting 532 people in the territory of nearly 7 million” also, NP’s amyjudd reports All kindergartens and junior schools in Hong Kong have closed early for their Easter holiday, after a flu-like illness killed three children. The Education Bureau [...]

Last Lamb of the Season (Knock on Wood)

SwampMan gently woke me this morning by picking up my foot and shaking my whole leg like a pit bull would shake one of those lil’ sissy dawgs. I startled awake. He’s lucky there wasn’t a gun within reach.“The alarm didn’t go off, we’re LATE!” he announced as he headed off to take a shower. [...]

“It wasn’t a bank robbery. It was a domestic situation”

Update 2:  Matt Williamson has more…“Family in shock”  Update 1: EJ’s John Surratt connects the dots in Thursday’s edition….. A recent divorce became public and violent Wednesday morning inside Regions Bank in downtown McComb, leaving four people dead, including the bank’s manager and a customer who tried to intervene. Police said Robert Lanham Jr., 35, [...]

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