July 04, 2012
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Who commented with that WWI or maybe II quote the other day, something about how the Brit and French troops sang, while the US troops killed everything, including the trees in dead quiet. That pretty much sums it up. America. We kill everything, including the bunnies and trees.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at July 04, 2012 09:26 AM (Gk3SS)
Posted by: LaZrtx at July 04, 2012 09:26 AM (bK81x)
Before I get yelled at, the focus of the picture is the group of wounded vets she is talking to, which is by far more important.
But she looks nice.
Posted by: grognard, team dagny at July 04, 2012 09:28 AM (NS2Mo)
Posted by: toby928© at July 04, 2012 09:29 AM (evdj2)
(CBS News) Two days after his top adviser insisted otherwise, Mitt Romney on Wednesday told CBS News chief political correspondent Jan Crawford that President Obama's individual mandate - upheld last week by the Supreme Court - is "a tax."
"The Supreme Court has spoken, and while I agreed with the dissent, that's taken over by the fact that the majority of the court said it's a tax, and therefore it is a tax. They have spoken. There's no way around that."
"I said that I agreed with the dissent, and the dissent made it very clear that they felt it was unconstitutional," Romney continued. "But the dissent lost - it's in the minority."
Allemande right then Promenade.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at July 04, 2012 09:30 AM (kdS6q)
Dear General Washington.
We're sorry, but your upcoming attack on Christmas is not authorized under the current Rules of Engagement.
You did not ask the home country for permission for this night attack.
You are attacking an area where there are civilians.
And you are showing cultural insensitivity by attacking on a day Holy to the opposition.
We are also informed that you do not have enough Women or Minorities in the Ranks, and therefore must question your adhearance to the Primary Mission, of Multicultualism.
Sincerely, American High Command
Posted by: If the Current Pentagon had run the Revolution at July 04, 2012 09:31 AM (lZBBB)
Now you get taxed on your email or if you don't send one.
Nevertheless, the next Hessian I see is going down.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 04, 2012 09:33 AM (EtuU3)
Posted by: Ruby at July 04, 2012 09:35 AM (QAUe4)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at July 04, 2012 01:26 PM (Gk3SS)
Note... Europeon Heroes were all Leading Charges....
American Heros... like Sgt. York.. just quietly kill the enemy... then go home...
Posted by: If the Current Pentagon had run the Revolution at July 04, 2012 09:36 AM (lZBBB)
Posted by: toby928© at July 04, 2012 09:36 AM (evdj2)
There's a key lime tree in the backyard covered with limes.
It's the 4th of July.
Food is overrated.
See you all next week sometime.
Maybe.
Happy Independence Day!
Posted by: Clutch Cargo at July 04, 2012 09:37 AM (Qxdfp)
Posted by: If the Current Pentagon had run the Revolution at July 04, 2012 01:36 PM (lZBBB)
DOH! Major sock Fail!
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 04, 2012 09:37 AM (lZBBB)
Posted by: The Pakistani High Command at July 04, 2012 09:38 AM (IoNBC)
Posted by: small town girl at July 04, 2012 09:38 AM (H1od7)
Posted by: toby928© at July 04, 2012 09:39 AM (evdj2)
"I said that I agreed with the dissent, and the dissent made it very clear that they felt it was unconstitutional," Romney continued. "But the dissent lost - it's in the minority."
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That statement is both encouraging and ominus.
Posted by: Soona at July 04, 2012 09:39 AM (3VM0k)
The New Hotness -- A new DHS memo instructs Border Patrol agents to run and hide if someone shoots at them.
Posted by: GnuBreed at July 04, 2012 09:41 AM (ccXZP)
It's so hot that people are coming in from the pool to sit and watch the history channel and getting so involved there's a crowd forming.
Posted by: lybor tee at July 04, 2012 09:41 AM (oZfic)
Prudence is a virtue.
Posted by: Brave Knight Sir Robin at July 04, 2012 09:42 AM (6j180)
We saw that "Jihadi Training Camp" video and believe it has valuable lessons for our men.
Posted by: The Border Patrol at July 04, 2012 09:44 AM (tqwMN)
Posted by: grognard, team dagny at July 04, 2012 09:45 AM (NS2Mo)
Shameful: Aaron Sorkin, Left celebrate Independence Day by slamming
America; Update: Chris Rock joins in; Don Cheadle laughsalong
http://tinyurl.com/7b7jbta
What happens when Europe goes tits up and celebrities can't count on European fans to keep their coke dealers happy?
Posted by: kbdabear at July 04, 2012 09:45 AM (Y+DPZ)
Posted by: ChampionCapua at July 04, 2012 09:46 AM (KZi9D)
Posted by: Brave Knight Sir Robin at July 04, 2012 01:42 PM (6j180)
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Especially at this juncture.
Posted by: George HW Bush at July 04, 2012 09:46 AM (3VM0k)
Posted by: lybor tee at July 04, 2012 09:47 AM (oZfic)
Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny solidarity) at July 04, 2012 09:49 AM (7S+Ho)
Posted by: Leftist Hollywood Twits at July 04, 2012 09:49 AM (3s6kl)
Posted by: Jaimo at July 04, 2012 09:49 AM (KWKOC)
30 - and Will Smith tweets 'Happy white people's Independence Day'.
So clever. A multi-millionaire that has had an extremely successful career in this "racist" country can't get over the victim mentality.
Posted by: Cheri at July 04, 2012 09:50 AM (Ojgzr)
Happy Independence Day, everyone!
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at July 04, 2012 09:51 AM (3yCFy)
Posted by: Leftist Hollywood Twits at July 04, 2012 09:52 AM (+YfNZ)
Posted by: thx and happy bday at July 04, 2012 01:51 PM (HOOye)
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You forgot to post your address and what time we should arrive.
Posted by: Tami at July 04, 2012 09:52 AM (X6akg)
Posted by: Cheri at July 04, 2012 09:53 AM (Ojgzr)
So clever. Amulti-millionaire that has had an extremely successful career in this "racist" country can't get over the victim mentality.
Posted by: Cheri at July 04, 2012 01:50 PM (Ojgzr)
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Like I said in the last thread, I want a t-shirt made up that says: The US had slavery once. Now we don't. Get over it, bitchez.
Posted by: Soona at July 04, 2012 09:54 AM (3VM0k)
Posted by: moki at July 04, 2012 09:55 AM (dZmFh)
Posted by: Ruby at July 04, 2012 09:55 AM (QAUe4)
Posted by: Soona at July 04, 2012 01:54 PM (3VM0k)
Thank the white people.
Posted by: buzzion at July 04, 2012 09:55 AM (GULKT)
Posted by: ChampionCapua at July 04, 2012 09:56 AM (KZi9D)
and Will Smith tweets 'Happy white people's Independence Day'.
I heard that it was Chris Rock that tweeted that. Maybe Will Smith did, too.
They sure don't mind alienating a large segment of the public do they?
Posted by: Mark at July 04, 2012 09:57 AM (fEXaF)
Posted by: Cheri at July 04, 2012 09:57 AM (Ojgzr)
Posted by: Oprah Winfrey at July 04, 2012 09:58 AM (IoNBC)
I'll bet he doesn't even know the name of the first slave under English law in North America.
In fact, the story of how slavery came to America is briefly covered in my Twitter timeline (@TheAmishDude). Jamestown was founded in 1607 but there wasn't slavery until 1654. How did that happen?
Posted by: AmishDude at July 04, 2012 09:59 AM (J5tI6)
Posted by: Alex at July 04, 2012 09:59 AM (rjeWV)
Posted by: Infidelswine at July 04, 2012 10:00 AM (nByYG)
That's what I thought, too. It doesn't sound like Smith, anyway. It's Rock who's angry, what with being not funny anymore.
Posted by: AmishDude at July 04, 2012 10:01 AM (J5tI6)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at July 04, 2012 10:01 AM (5PkZK)
They sure don't mind alienating a large segment of the public do they?
Posted by: Mark at July 04, 2012 01:57 PM (fEXaF)
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When the SCOAMT loses in November, the Chris Rocks, the Sharptons, and the Jacksons will be stirring up trouble. Bet on it.
Posted by: Soona at July 04, 2012 10:02 AM (3VM0k)
Posted by: 360,222 Dead Union Soldiers at July 04, 2012 10:02 AM (evdj2)
Posted by: ChampionCapua at July 04, 2012 10:03 AM (KZi9D)
Posted by: Infidelswine at July 04, 2012 10:05 AM (nByYG)
Posted by: Albie Damned at July 04, 2012 10:06 AM (Yhu4q)
Posted by: Tonestaple at July 04, 2012 10:07 AM (EMRvP)
Talking politics is a sure sign of jumping the shark.
Posted by: AmishDude at July 04, 2012 10:08 AM (J5tI6)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/86323cs
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at July 04, 2012 10:09 AM (3yCFy)
Posted by: Janeane "Cheesy Loins" Garofalo at July 04, 2012 10:09 AM (IoNBC)
Since they were making most of their box office overseas, they were getting rewarded for it
What happens when Europe goes tits up, and Germany can't keep the lights on to show their movies?
Posted by: kbdabear at July 04, 2012 10:10 AM (Y+DPZ)
Er, that's a damn good point grognard.
Posted by: GnuBreed at July 04, 2012 10:10 AM (ccXZP)
Posted by: Tonestaple at July 04, 2012 02:07 PM (EMRvP)
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That's when Chris goes gangsta and celebrates by going outside his luxury home and fires of a few rounds from his little pussy .22 revolver.
Posted by: Soona at July 04, 2012 10:10 AM (3VM0k)
>>In fact, the story of how slavery came to America is briefly covered in my Twitter timeline (@TheAmishDude).
Thank you for that.
Posted by: Mama AJ at July 04, 2012 10:11 AM (SUKHu)
Posted by: Chris PaperScissors at July 04, 2012 10:13 AM (KZi9D)
Talking politics is a sure sign of jumping the shark.
Posted by: AmishDude at July 04, 2012 02:08 PM (J5tI6)
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Past tense. It's a sign they've jumped the shark. He knows he's past his peak and going downhill fast.
Posted by: Soona at July 04, 2012 10:14 AM (3VM0k)
Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny solidarity) at July 04, 2012 10:15 AM (7S+Ho)
Posted by: Mama AJ at July 04, 2012 10:15 AM (SUKHu)
He no doubt uses the idiotic "gangsta grip" too
Posted by: kbdabear at July 04, 2012 10:17 AM (Y+DPZ)
There's still slavery in the world, such as in the Sudan. Guess the religion...
Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny solidarity) at July 04, 2012 02:15 PM (7S+Ho)
Fucking Methodists.
Posted by: ErikW at July 04, 2012 10:17 AM (eZ05x)
Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny solidarity) at July 04, 2012 02:15 PM
Haven't you heard? I CARE about it so it's fixed
Posted by: George Clooney at July 04, 2012 10:17 AM (Y+DPZ)
Link in nic.
Posted by: GnuBreed at July 04, 2012 10:18 AM (ccXZP)
Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny solidarity) at July 04, 2012 02:15 PM
But the Sudan ranks 22nd in slavery!
Posted by: Aaron Sorkin at July 04, 2012 10:19 AM (Y+DPZ)
Posted by: Miss80sBaby at July 04, 2012 10:19 AM (d6QMz)
Posted by: Anna Wintour at July 04, 2012 10:19 AM (IoNBC)
Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny solidarity) at July 04, 2012 02:15 PM (7S+Ho)
Fucking Methodists.
Hey, those Nilla Wafers won't pay for themselves.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at July 04, 2012 10:19 AM (Gk3SS)
Posted by: joanne loves July 4th at July 04, 2012 10:21 AM (VNFBf)
Democrats aren't against slavery, they just don't like it when it's privatized.
Posted by: AmishDude at July 04, 2012 10:21 AM (J5tI6)
Posted by: Miss80sBaby at July 04, 2012 10:22 AM (d6QMz)
That's 34 years. What happened? What happened was the story of Anthony Johnson, an Angolan man who was an indentured servant.
Anthony Johnson was freed of his indenture in 1635, married and was by all accounts a successful farmer.
Johnson was so successful that he could afford an indentured servant of his own. Like Johnson, his name was changed: John Casor.
Casor worked for Johnson for a time, then asking for his freedom so that he could work for a white farmer. Casor was also African.
Anthony Johnson took John Casor to court to keep him permanently. He argued that English courts could not prevent this.
Johnson's argument was that the English could not tell a black man that he could not own slaves: slavery was part of his culture.
Yes, @chrisrock, slavery was started by a black man who won a court case based on an argument of multiculturalism.
Posted by: AmishDude at July 04, 2012 10:26 AM (J5tI6)
Surprised his tweet wasn't peppered with colorful metaphors.....
Posted by: Palookaville Peasant at July 04, 2012 10:27 AM (szPD/)
Hey, those Nilla Wafers won't pay for themselves.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD 2012 at July 04, 2012 02:19 PM (Gk3SS)
They do make a damn fine Banana Pudding although I don't know if it's haram.
Posted by: ErikW at July 04, 2012 10:27 AM (eZ05x)
Posted by: Miss80sBaby at July 04, 2012 10:28 AM (d6QMz)
Posted by: Barak Obama at July 04, 2012 10:28 AM (oN9n5)
Funny she's in san antonio texas...per her twitter feed...
Posted by: lybor tee at July 04, 2012 10:29 AM (oZfic)
Posted by: Bob's Country Bunker at July 04, 2012 10:31 AM (Bxm/r)
Mine is Wikipedia. If it were more than a Twitter screed, I'd look more deeply.
http://tinyurl.com/2ctrajb
Posted by: AmishDude at July 04, 2012 10:33 AM (J5tI6)
Obama's very good at making stupid and vain people think that they're important while he laughs at them behind their back.
Posted by: AmishDude at July 04, 2012 10:36 AM (J5tI6)
Posted by: Chuck at July 04, 2012 10:36 AM (dSkY8)
Posted by: toby928© at July 04, 2012 10:36 AM (QupBk)
Posted by: Cheri at July 04, 2012 01:53 PM (Ojgzr)
We used to use FUBAR, but that is one of those "lawn care" phrases.
Posted by: Vic at July 04, 2012 10:39 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: Vic at July 04, 2012 10:40 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: Just Call Me Tom At This Point You Scre at July 04, 2012 10:41 AM (waJ+2)
Only 30% Say America Better Off Today Than Four Years Ago
(via Weaselzippers.us)
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at July 04, 2012 10:41 AM (famk3)
Posted by: toby928© at July 04, 2012 02:36 PM (QupBk)
I just told my MIL that I have never been able to fix ribs correctly. She just came by with a rack from Bi-Lo.
Posted by: Vic at July 04, 2012 10:41 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: toby928© at July 04, 2012 02:36 PM (QupBk)
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Toby, what brand?
Posted by: Tami at July 04, 2012 10:42 AM (X6akg)
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at July 04, 2012 10:43 AM (famk3)
Posted by: Captain Hate (dagny solidarity) at July 04, 2012 10:43 AM (7S+Ho)
Posted by: Voluble at July 04, 2012 10:43 AM (Ub+ky)
Posted by: Scobface at July 04, 2012 10:44 AM (IoNBC)
Posted by: Vic at July 04, 2012 02:41 PM (YdQQY)
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MIL's really are a hoot sometimes.
Posted by: Soona at July 04, 2012 10:44 AM (3VM0k)
My earliest memory is from Independence Day, a couple weeks before my fifth birthday. I remember watching Arthur Fiedler conduct the Boston Pops on TV on July 4, 1976.
Anyway, as far as pinko elites and guttersnipe "entertainers" making snide comments today are concerned, they should simply leave and try to maintain their standard of living somewhere else. We should encourage them by refusing to fund their miserable existence.
Posted by: Reggie1971 at July 04, 2012 10:46 AM (qOFr+)
Posted by: nickless at July 04, 2012 10:47 AM (MMC8r)
(via Weaselzippers.us)
If Obama sold their children to Turkish Pirates they would be of the same opinion
Posted by: Beto at July 04, 2012 10:48 AM (BAnPT)
Trenton's a little different these days.
Posted by: Albie Damned at July 04, 2012 10:49 AM (Yhu4q)
One guy talked about the nasty past and present of the Democrat party, but he said something that has always stuck under my craw: that white men made black men free. Here is my response:
A gentle correction: God made us *all* free. When the Founding Fathers created this country on that Truth, they built the basis on which all men--and women--would be free. A slave populace in a country which does not have that foundation is subject to the whim of the majority (see: the Democrats of old and not-so-old, as you spelled out). I am grateful that our Founders listened to God, but not all of their progeny did. Else there would have been no Civil War, nor the 100 years that black Americans existed in a quasi-citizenship.
However, in the Civil Rights Era, America again turned to her Foundation--God and his gift of Freedom. But, conversely, we *all* turned away from Him at nearly the same point in time.
Now the question remains: will we turn to our Rock and Foundation again in sufficient numbers? If we do not, I, like many others, fear that the New Slavery will be far worse than the old version. And, for certain, it will be color-blind.
Happy Independence Day and God bless.
Posted by: baldilocks at July 04, 2012 10:49 AM (6kWFm)
Posted by: toby928© at July 04, 2012 10:49 AM (QupBk)
Posted by: DaveA at July 04, 2012 02:47 PM (864A5)
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Then on to NYC. Yes, California. We're coming for you too.
Posted by: Soona at July 04, 2012 10:51 AM (3VM0k)
Posted by: toby928© at July 04, 2012 10:52 AM (QupBk)
Was about to say, "Well, by the same standard, neither is Obama."
Saw the fucking local Dems at the 4th of July Parade.
Bit my tongue instead a telling them, "You know, you're not just wrong: You are the problem."
Fuck. I'm in a pissy mood.
The piss-yellow coward Roberts may think I don't deserve freedom, but, while I'm alive I'll take what God gave me and no less.
Posted by: RoyalOil at July 04, 2012 10:54 AM (kSaUf)
Posted by: rickl at July 04, 2012 10:55 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Michelle Obama at July 04, 2012 10:56 AM (IoNBC)
Posted by: toby928© at July 04, 2012 10:56 AM (QupBk)
Posted by: TiminAL at July 04, 2012 10:58 AM (TGVnq)
Posted by: toby928© at July 04, 2012 02:49 PM (QupBk)
Reminds me of the time I was sitting at the pool out back drinking beer and this black came by trying to sell cleaning supplies. I told him I didn't need any but he could have a beer.
We sat there for hours drinking beer until he got really drunk. He gave me some directions on how to do ribs but I never could get them right. So much for stereotypes eh?
BTW, the folks who dropped him off to walk the neighborhood came by and picked up, not too happy.
Posted by: Vic at July 04, 2012 10:59 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: Vic at July 04, 2012 11:00 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: Charles Gibberingson at July 04, 2012 11:00 AM (Usk3+)
Posted by: Michelle Obama at July 04, 2012 02:56 PM (IoNBC)
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Moochelle. I hate to burst your bubble. But your skanky little hubby has already created them. They're called "government jobs".
Posted by: Soona at July 04, 2012 11:01 AM (3VM0k)
Posted by: Sonnyspats at July 04, 2012 11:03 AM (Qr9Rc)
Re: TU and FUBAR
TU and FUBAR are both good adages....both useful.
But they differ, in that, TU is usually used to describe a fatal situation...while FUBAR, though it is an extremely unfortunate condition, is not necessarily a fatal one.
Something, or someone, can be FUBAR without being TU.
.....As in....still have a pulse.
Something, or someone, can be TU without being FUBAR.
.....As in....still recognizable.
So, while our beloved country is quickly reaching FUBAR levels....we still have a little time left, to rescue it before it becomes TU.
Posted by: wheatie at July 04, 2012 11:03 AM (MbB0O)
Posted by: Scobface at July 04, 2012 11:03 AM (IoNBC)
No. 1619 for Virginia. It's in your Wiki cite.
Posted by: comatus at July 04, 2012 11:03 AM (ZOlM3)
Posted by: d_fitz at July 04, 2012 11:06 AM (RwjXq)
But they differ, in that, TU is usually used to describe a fatal situation...while FUBAR, though it is an extremely unfortunate condition, is not necessarily a fatal one.
Something, or someone, can be FUBAR without being TU.
.....As in....still have a pulse.
Something, or someone, can be TU without being FUBAR.
.....As in....still recognizable.
So, while our beloved country is quickly reaching FUBAR levels....we still have a little time left, to rescue it before it becomes TU.
Posted by: wheatie at July 04, 2012 03:03 PM (MbB0O)
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I like the term we used in the Cav at Ft. Riley, KS. When something was going wrong or not working, we said it was "broke dick".
Posted by: Soona at July 04, 2012 11:06 AM (3VM0k)
Posted by: Soona at July 04, 2012 02:51 PM (3VM0k)
That invasion can't come soon enough.
Posted by: baldilocks at July 04, 2012 11:07 AM (6kWFm)
Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at July 04, 2012 11:07 AM (csi6Y)
Posted by: eman at July 04, 2012 11:08 AM (ejmiE)
Oh, and just wanted to say happy 4th to ya'll. I can't miss the fireworks tonight, as they pretty much go off right above where I live.
So have fun, be safe, and blow some sh*t up.
Posted by: HH at July 04, 2012 11:08 AM (v+ExF)
So, while our beloved country is quickly reaching FUBAR levels....we still have a little time left, to rescue it before it becomes TU.
Only one thing to do that I can see: Vote every single Dim out of office. Every. Single. One. Send them not a message, but a mandate. Make the 2010 Midterms just the beginning.
Sort of a "nuke 'em from orbit" thingy, only politically.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 04, 2012 11:08 AM (d0Tfm)
No. 1619 for Virginia. It's in your Wiki cite.
Posted by: comatus at July 04, 2012 03:03 PM (ZOlM3)
That says the practice of Importing Africans. Not slaves. His point is that prior to 1654 they were treated as indentured servants that would eventually become free men vs. what we now consider to be slaves in the US.
Posted by: buzzion at July 04, 2012 11:09 AM (GULKT)
Happy Independence Day and God bless.
Posted by: baldilocks at July 04, 2012 02:49 PM (6kWFm)
And to you as well. This day doesn't quite have the same "oomph" that it usually does, for obvious reasons.
It seems like we've come full circle and are being tested again.
Only 125 days to Election Day.
Posted by: ErikW at July 04, 2012 11:09 AM (dZvHM)
Posted by: eman at July 04, 2012 11:11 AM (ejmiE)
146....When something was going wrong or not working, we said it was "broke dick".
I've heard this one, Soona.
It conjures up visions of a most painful and messed up situation.
Posted by: wheatie at July 04, 2012 11:12 AM (MbB0O)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at July 04, 2012 11:12 AM (DGIjM)
Indentured servant. Does that mean they had nice teeth?
Posted by: Soona at July 04, 2012 11:13 AM (3VM0k)
(I'm not counting Eisenhower; he was raised Jehovah's Witness, but he never believed in any of it and formally converted to Presbyterianism in office.)
The closest President to Obama appears to be Lincoln. Lip service to Christianity, Deist sympathies, and a trust in the Federal Government as closest on Earth to holiness.
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at July 04, 2012 11:14 AM (QTHTd)
Of course the Caribbean islands were already using massive amounts of slave labor, mostly Africans to grow sugar cane.
But slavery in this era was the normal state of things all over the world. You can not measure the people and what went on then by today's standards.
Baldilocks has a great post over at her place on what was going on over on the east African side with the Muslims. All should take a few minutes and go over find it, and read it.
Posted by: Vic at July 04, 2012 11:15 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: eman at July 04, 2012 11:15 AM (ejmiE)
146....When something was going wrong or not working, we said it was "broke dick".
I've heard this one, Soona.
It conjures up visions of a most painful and messed up situation.
Posted by: wheatie at July 04, 2012 03:12 PM (MbB0O)
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Ya' gotta stay away from those gingers, wheatie. They'll steal your soul. 
Posted by: Soona at July 04, 2012 11:15 AM (3VM0k)
Posted by: Vic at July 04, 2012 11:16 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: Palookaville Peasant at July 04, 2012 03:13 PM (szPD/)
Hopefully with TSA agents at the gates to make sure nothing is being 'smuggled' out...
Posted by: HH at July 04, 2012 11:16 AM (v+ExF)
Althouse I believe is drunk blogging. But Meade? Not sure.
Posted by: Scandia at July 04, 2012 11:17 AM (WzLTm)
Posted by: eman at July 04, 2012 11:17 AM (ejmiE)
Then what?
Posted by: eman at July 04, 2012 03:11 PM (ejmiE)
Learn to play accordion in 5 easy steps.
What do you mean "what?"
Posted by: ErikW at July 04, 2012 11:18 AM (dZvHM)
Posted by: ErikW at July 04, 2012 03:09 PM (dZvHM)
And/or being judged. Interesting that the biblical number of judgment is...wait for it...44.
On the slavery topic, indentured servants were black and white.
Posted by: baldilocks at July 04, 2012 11:18 AM (6kWFm)
I have never believed this. God made us all helpless and dependent on our parents; then we grow up and live lives "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short" unless banded together.
God made us all slaves. We can only hope to have a beneficent master, or (in a democracy) a faction of masters.
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at July 04, 2012 11:18 AM (QTHTd)
And then 75 more days until the Grand Eviction.
And that vision of Moochelle hanging from the landing gear of Marine One as they try to take off without them, screaming, "NOOOO!" is still giving me a chuckle.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 04, 2012 11:18 AM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: eman at July 04, 2012 03:08 PM (ejmiE)
Well said.
I think people from now on should celebrate Chris Rock's birthday by pointing out his transgressions and imperfections.
Posted by: Reggie1971 at July 04, 2012 11:19 AM (qOFr+)
The first enslaved Africans arrived in what is now the United States as part of the San Miguel de Gualdape colony (most likely located in the Winyah Bay area of present-day South Carolina), founded by Spanish explorer Lucas Vásquez de Ayllón in 1526.
Posted by: Vic at July 04, 2012 11:20 AM (YdQQY)
151....Only one thing to do that I can see: Vote every single Dim out of office. Every. Single. One. Send them not a message, but a mandate. Make the 2010 Midterms just the beginning.
Yep.
No one likes to think of themselves as....foolish.
We must forward the idea...throughout the land...that voting for a Dem...
...is like a prisoner voting for their jailer.
...Like a slave voting for their master.
...Like a Thanksgiving turkey voting for the turkey carver.
Perhaps my fellow Morons can help me out....and think of a few more examples of such foolishness, to describe voting for a Dem.
Posted by: wheatie at July 04, 2012 11:20 AM (MbB0O)
Posted by: ErikW at July 04, 2012 03:09 PM (dZvHM)
Then what?
Posted by: eman at July 04, 2012 03:11 PM (ejmiE)
We celebrate on the 126th day, natch. Then we all gear up again to hold those accountable who won.
Posted by: joanne loves the 4th of July at July 04, 2012 11:21 AM (VNFBf)
Posted by: baldilocks at July 04, 2012 11:21 AM (6kWFm)
Posted by: eman at July 04, 2012 11:21 AM (ejmiE)
Posted by: Vic at July 04, 2012 11:23 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 04, 2012 03:18 PM (d0Tfm)
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Either that or she'll chain herself to the bedpost in the presidential bedroom of AF1 coming back from her last taxpayer funded vaca.
Posted by: Soona at July 04, 2012 11:24 AM (3VM0k)
Posted by: GW McLintock at July 04, 2012 11:25 AM (3uLaE)
And three days after that the GOP tells us they need a few more votes and start handing out GOP2014! badges.
At which time we should be telling them to get their asses back to work, they got some repealin' to do.
Sorry, but the time of being nice to these people is over. It's time we start demanding that they start doing what we want them to do and absolutely nothing else. Things like undoing everything teh SCOAMF has done, shutting down the EPA, opening up drilling and some other very active deregulation.
Or else get fired. Like your power, do ya'? Then start using it for us for once.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 04, 2012 11:25 AM (d0Tfm)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at July 04, 2012 11:26 AM (DGIjM)
Posted by: Daybrother at July 04, 2012 11:27 AM (BDj4t)
The first enslaved Africans arrived in what is now the United States as part of the San Miguel de Gualdape colony (most likely located in the Winyah Bay area of present-day South Carolina), founded by Spanish explorer Lucas Vásquez de Ayllón in 1526.
Posted by: Vic at July 04, 2012 03:20 PM (YdQQY)
Yeah but were those slaves in the sense of what we consider to be indentured servants that would eventually be freed, which tended to be the standard practice of Europe at that time, or were the what we usually think of as slavery in America which is permanent slavery for them and their descendants.
Posted by: buzzion at July 04, 2012 11:27 AM (GULKT)
Posted by: t-bird at July 04, 2012 11:28 AM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at July 04, 2012 03:18 PM (QTHTd)
SCOAMF is that you? 
BTW, Paul refers to himself as the dulos (sp?) of Christ--the slave of Christ. A voluntary servitude to be sure, though, in Paul's case, God made him an offer he almost couldn't refuse.
Posted by: baldilocks at July 04, 2012 11:28 AM (6kWFm)
Posted by: baldilocks at July 04, 2012 03:18 PM (6kWFm)
I'll take Judgment Day too. That's not necessarily a bad thing.
I think we'll be okay but half the time, while I'm listening to the radio or whatever, I'm thinking, "WTF did we do to ourselves?"
Posted by: ErikW at July 04, 2012 11:28 AM (dZvHM)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at July 04, 2012 03:26 PM (DGIjM)
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Also taking down the velvet painting of Cee Lo in the Lincoln bedroom.
Posted by: Soona at July 04, 2012 11:29 AM (3VM0k)
Posted by: eman at July 04, 2012 11:29 AM (ejmiE)
We're sorry, but your upcoming attack on
We are also informed that you do not have enough Women or Minorities in the Ranks, and therefore must question your adhearance to the Primary Mission, of Multicultualism.
Sincerely, American High Command
Posted by: If the Current Pentagon had run the Revolution at July 04, 2012 01:31 PM (lZBBB)
I doubt the PC twats would mention Christmas'd it for you
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 04, 2012 11:29 AM (2AJvN)
Indians kept slaves as a matter of routine as well and were kept as slaves by the colonials as well in the early days.
And as my last word on this subject, Chris Rock can kiss my ass. If he doesn't like the USA he and those scrunt Dixie Chicks can pack their bags and head to Europe while it still lasts.
And take about 3/4 of Hollywood with them.
Posted by: Vic at July 04, 2012 11:30 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: The Political Hat at July 04, 2012 11:30 AM (XYqoq)
Actually, I'm pretty sure that's a Richard Pryor routine--from his old TV show, IIRC--though I wouldn't be surprised if Rock stole it from him.
Posted by: baldilocks at July 04, 2012 11:31 AM (6kWFm)
188...and think of a few more examples of such foolishness, to describe voting for a Dem.
Unfortunately, it is also like a child voting for a bowl of chocolate frosting for dinner.
Good one.
Also....like a child voting for the guy who is luring him with candy, into a van.
Posted by: wheatie at July 04, 2012 11:31 AM (MbB0O)
Posted by: Daybrother at July 04, 2012 11:32 AM (BDj4t)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at July 04, 2012 11:32 AM (DGIjM)
I mean the thing not yet identified.
Posted by: eman at July 04, 2012 03:21 PM (ejmiE)
Victory, my brother! Dancing in the streets!
Posted by: ErikW at July 04, 2012 11:32 AM (dZvHM)
Posted by: Daybrother at July 04, 2012 11:34 AM (BDj4t)
And plenty of Europeans came as indentured servants. Their contracts were more ironclad, of course, but they did work for one particular contract holder for a fixed length of time.
Posted by: AmishDude at July 04, 2012 11:34 AM (J5tI6)
Not those slaves. They were intended to be permanent slaves. As far as I have seen the Spanish did not do indentured servants. Those slave did escape into the woods and joined up with the indians though.
The Spanish were hard, cruel taskmasters to anyone they ruled be it natives, Africans, and their own citizens and serfs. That is part of the reason South and Central America has always been so screwed up.
Posted by: Vic at July 04, 2012 11:34 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at July 04, 2012 11:34 AM (DGIjM)
There's a PBS video series on ancestry in which famous people find out about theirs. Don Cheadle, of all people, found out that he has a considerable amount of American Indian ancestry due to--get this--the fact that his black American ancestors were owned by them.
Posted by: baldilocks at July 04, 2012 11:35 AM (6kWFm)
Posted by: steevy at July 04, 2012 11:36 AM (Xb3hu)
Posted by: The Congressional Black Caucus at July 04, 2012 11:36 AM (IoNBC)
The hangover should be epic. Damn the Hessians, full speed ahead.
Posted by: tcn at July 04, 2012 11:38 AM (eFcVx)
Doesn't really matter.
Posted by: Daybrother at July 04, 2012 03:34 PM (BDj4t)
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Is Pryor still alive? Haven't heard anything of him in a long time.
Posted by: Soona at July 04, 2012 11:39 AM (3VM0k)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 04, 2012 11:39 AM (2AJvN)
I want one of these fucking Black Activists to notice that my ancestors, my family went to war against each other and killed each other for years to help stop slavery. This makes me a racist? Fuck that.
Posted by: Daybrother at July 04, 2012 03:27 PM (BDj4t)
It's interesting how they always forget about the Civil Fucking War.
It probably never actually happened, just like the Holocaust.
Posted by: ErikW at July 04, 2012 11:39 AM (Dam08)
Posted by: Soona at July 04, 2012 03:39 PM (3VM0k)
December 10, 2005.
Posted by: buzzion at July 04, 2012 11:40 AM (GULKT)
Posted by: baldilocks at July 04, 2012 03:35 PM (6kWFm)
LOL, had to Bing him up to see who he was. Oceans 11 is the only movie I have seen he is credited with.
But the thing that gets me is that you NEVER hear about any of this stuff. NEVER, it is just not in the meme that the liberals like to pump out.
Posted by: Vic at July 04, 2012 11:40 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: John Lewis at July 04, 2012 11:41 AM (IoNBC)
"Cab Vomit Fee: Blowing Chunks Could Cost You Big Bucks"
[Linky to article, in my sig.]
Starting tomorrow....Cabs in Chicago will be charging a $50 fine for vomiting inside the cab.
Sounds like this has been a big problem.
Hmm....I wonder if they'll be selling barf bags, as a way to avoid having to clean up the mess?
Posted by: wheatie at July 04, 2012 11:41 AM (MbB0O)
Posted by: baldilocks at July 04, 2012 03:35 PM (6kWFm)
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This is new to me. Blacks were slaves to indians? The black man couldn't catch any kind of a break back then, huh?
Posted by: Soona at July 04, 2012 11:43 AM (3VM0k)
Posted by: Soona at July 04, 2012 03:39 PM (3VM0k)
No, he had some kind of accident doing "freebasing" IIRC.
Posted by: Vic at July 04, 2012 11:43 AM (YdQQY)
I like the music, but hey. What about us whites and white hispanics?
Posted by: TheLittlShiningMan at July 04, 2012 11:44 AM (PH+2B)
Posted by: Michael Bloomberg at July 04, 2012 11:44 AM (IoNBC)
I think the MS he had would make freebasing difficult. He died of a heart attack.
Posted by: buzzion at July 04, 2012 11:44 AM (GULKT)
Posted by: Soona at July 04, 2012 03:39 PM (3VM0k)
December 10, 2005.
Posted by: buzzion at July 04, 2012 03:40 PM (GULKT)
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Thanks. I didn't know that. (Yeah, I was too lazy to google it.)
Posted by: Soona at July 04, 2012 11:45 AM (3VM0k)
Posted by: eman at July 04, 2012 11:45 AM (ejmiE)
Posted by: TheLittlShiningMan at July 04, 2012 03:44 PM (PH+2B)
NPR might be a tad liberal, just saying.
Posted by: Velvet Ambition at July 04, 2012 11:46 AM (mFxQX)
Slavery was already being practiced here....long before Europeans came here.
Warring Tribes traditionally took prisoners, and kept them in slavery.
While the Indians did apply the concept of "ownership" to land, per se.....they did apply it to human beings.
Posted by: wheatie at July 04, 2012 11:47 AM (MbB0O)
Posted by: Vic at July 04, 2012 03:43 PM (YdQQY)
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I remember the accident, but he lived through that, although badly burned and scarred. He even joked about it in one routine I saw.
Posted by: Soona at July 04, 2012 11:47 AM (3VM0k)
Posted by: Vic at July 04, 2012 11:47 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: Daybrother at July 04, 2012 11:48 AM (BDj4t)
Posted by: eman at July 04, 2012 11:48 AM (ejmiE)
Unitarians are not the same as today's Unitarian-Universalists. Unitarians rejected the trinity but not much else. Whatever Jefferson aligned himself with in one sense or another, he was certainly not a Christian.
And I don't understand what the big deal is that Obama's not a Christian. So what? Certainly if one is orthodox, one can determine who is one's compatriots and who is not. I think it's entirely reasonable for people to conclude that (a) Wright's church is not Christian and (b) Obama's a liar and is simply a secular progressive.
What about Nixon, the Quaker?
The closest President to Obama appears to be Lincoln. Lip service to Christianity, Deist sympathies, and a trust in the Federal Government as closest on Earth to holiness
Lincoln's rhetoric -- analogies and phrasing -- was dripping with the Bible. He was enmeshed in a sort of generic western Protestantism. It wasn't just "lip service".
Posted by: AmishDude at July 04, 2012 11:48 AM (J5tI6)
Posted by: Vic at July 04, 2012 03:46 PM (YdQQY)
Well he did have a freebasing incident. It just was a bit earlier in his life and only almost killed him.
Posted by: buzzion at July 04, 2012 11:48 AM (GULKT)
Pryor caught on fire doing freebase. He once said he could have bought Peru with all the money he spent on coke.
Posted by: Velvet Ambition at July 04, 2012 11:49 AM (mFxQX)
This is new to me. Blacks were slaves to indians? The black man couldn't catch any kind of a break back then, huh?
Yep, blacks were slaves to everybody, including free blacks. A significant portion of the free black and creole population were slave owners, I believe, and a few even traded slaves.
A decade or so ago there was a big fight among the Cherokee about whether the descendents of Cherokee-owned slaves should be counted as members of the Cherokee nation today for casino money purposes, At the time they were not considered Cherokee, and there was quite bitter resistance to the idea that they should be. I don't remember what the eventual decision was.
Posted by: Grey Fox at July 04, 2012 11:49 AM (cPqhM)
He's very disabled and rarely makes public appearances. I don't think he can really speak anymore unassisted.
Posted by: Blue Falcon in Boston at July 04, 2012 11:49 AM (KCvsd)
Off to make gallons of jam and preserves.
Happy 4th, all!
Posted by: Palookaville Peasant at July 04, 2012 11:50 AM (szPD/)
Posted by: Taxpayer on a Leash at July 04, 2012 11:50 AM (bxiXv)
Posted by: eman at July 04, 2012 11:51 AM (ejmiE)
Posted by: Blue Falcon in Boston at July 04, 2012 11:51 AM (KCvsd)
Posted by: Grey Fox at July 04, 2012 03:49 PM (cPqhM)
The decision was to not let them be members.
Posted by: Velvet Ambition at July 04, 2012 11:51 AM (mFxQX)
Yes VERY disabled. He died December 10, 2005. (heart attack)
Posted by: Vic at July 04, 2012 11:51 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: Michael Bloomberg at July 04, 2012 11:52 AM (IoNBC)
Posted by: Vic at July 04, 2012 11:53 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: eman at July 04, 2012 11:53 AM (ejmiE)
Posted by: Social Studies Graduate Student at July 04, 2012 11:54 AM (XYqoq)
@237, Grey Fox
I think the flap happened, when the Cherokee Nation took the black decendents off their roles.
They had previously been included....but then, they voted, and the vote was to remove them.
Posted by: wheatie at July 04, 2012 11:54 AM (MbB0O)
or the biggest tax increase on the middle class in the history of the US,
either way I will grant waivers against it on day WON and work with the house and Senate to repeal it in its' entirety!
Why doesn't he just say dat!
Posted by: ConcealedKerry or SubMitt at July 04, 2012 11:54 AM (nonzP)
Posted by: Blue Falcon in Boston at July 04, 2012 03:51 PM (KCvsd)
You're thinking of the right comedian, just circa 7+ years ago before his death.
Posted by: buzzion at July 04, 2012 11:54 AM (GULKT)
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at July 04, 2012 11:55 AM (hgSh3)
Posted by: Some Inspector General who mysteriously vanished at July 04, 2012 11:55 AM (BAS5M)
Posted by: rickl at July 04, 2012 11:55 AM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Grey Fox at July 04, 2012 03:49 PM (cPqhM)
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Ah, yes. I remember this. I think mostly in discussions about our most distinguished Cherokee mama, Lizzy Whatshername.
Posted by: Soona at July 04, 2012 11:56 AM (3VM0k)
Posted by: Blue Falcon in Boston at July 04, 2012 03:49 PM (KCvsd)
You might be thinking of Muhammad Ali.
Posted by: baldilocks at July 04, 2012 11:57 AM (6kWFm)
Posted by: TheLittlShiningMan at July 04, 2012 11:57 AM (PH+2B)
231No, he had some kind of accident doing "freebasing" IIRC.
Posted by: Vic at July 04, 2012 03:43 PM (YdQQY)
I remember Pryor while doing a stand-up routine talking about a joke everyone was doing after he caught himself on fire. He asked someone in the front row for a match, lit it, bounced it up and down, and asked the audience what it is was....
It's Richard Pryor running down the street!
Posted by: Reggie1971 at July 04, 2012 11:58 AM (sxl80)
As somebody here said once before, it took the first black president to bring back slavery. What else is this healthcare tax other than debt slavery? It's a tax for existing within the borders of the USA.
Posted by: Boots at July 04, 2012 11:58 AM (neKzn)
Posted by: eman at July 04, 2012 11:58 AM (ejmiE)
Posted by: Daybrother at July 04, 2012 11:58 AM (BDj4t)
Posted by: baldilocks at July 04, 2012 11:59 AM (6kWFm)
>>Slavery was a normal part of the human condition from time immemorial.
...
As baldilocks said, today's version of slavery truly is color-blind.<<
Black slaves are only a part of the history of slavery. One of the most enslaved groups were ... Slavs (enslaved by those fun-loving Muslims). Their very name derives from this fact.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at July 04, 2012 11:59 AM (XqJhh)
It appears that slavery isn't confined to any particular race, creed, or nationality, but is a decidedly human failing.
It also appears safe to say that we've "progressed" from control of the body to control of the mind as today's form of it.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at July 04, 2012 11:59 AM (d0Tfm)
I just looked on Amazon. $46 for vinyl. It has become a collector's item and no MP3 version or CD.
Posted by: Vic at July 04, 2012 11:59 AM (YdQQY)
Posted by: eman at July 04, 2012 12:00 PM (ejmiE)
Pryor got a writing credit for Blazing Saddles. Which is why it's so damn funny.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 04, 2012 12:01 PM (BAS5M)
Oh yeah, most African cultures are hotbeds of "alternate lifestyle" tolerance, all right! Or not.
Posted by: baldilocks at July 04, 2012 12:01 PM (6kWFm)
Posted by: Velvet Ambition at July 04, 2012 03:51 PM (mFxQX)
Surprise, surprise, surprise. Having read some online discussions about ethnicity and identity between members of our First Peoples, I notice that they get away with what would be considered outright racism if found among whites. In any case disagreements regarding the distribution of free money don't encourage selflessness.
I think the flap happened, when the Cherokee Nation took the black decendents off their roles.
They had previously been included....but then, they voted, and the vote was to remove them.
Posted by: wheatie at July 04, 2012 03:54 PM (MbB0O)
You may be right - my memory is fuzzy.
Posted by: Grey Fox at July 04, 2012 12:01 PM (cPqhM)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at July 04, 2012 12:02 PM (bxiXv)
The ancient Romans were color-blind about slavery, too.
They took slaves in all the lands that they conquered.
Greek slaves were highly prized....and were used as teachers, accountants and political consultants.
Celtic slaves were valued in brothels.
Nubian slaves were considered a fashion statement....and were often placed at the doorway to a Roman household, as a decorative element of wealth.
Russian slaves were often put into the military....because of their fighting prowess.
Posted by: wheatie at July 04, 2012 12:02 PM (MbB0O)
Posted by: Scobface at July 04, 2012 12:02 PM (IoNBC)
Posted by: eman at July 04, 2012 04:00 PM (ejmiE)
Yep! And the German Shepherd comes over to comfort him after the monkeys die. "Damn! Ah was gon' eat them, too."
Posted by: baldilocks at July 04, 2012 12:04 PM (6kWFm)
http://is.gd/ocu2hE
Posted by: Vic at July 04, 2012 12:04 PM (YdQQY)
Posted by: eman at July 04, 2012 12:05 PM (ejmiE)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at July 04, 2012 12:06 PM (bxiXv)
The beautiful brutality of the caption is almost too much to bear.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at July 04, 2012 12:06 PM (piMMO)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at July 04, 2012 12:08 PM (bxiXv)
Posted by: Vic at July 04, 2012 12:08 PM (YdQQY)
When you're running down the street and you're on fire, people will get out of your way
In the penitentiary, I talked with some of the brothers, and what I got to say is THANK GOD WE GOT PRISONS !! Like I asked this one: "why did you kill everyone in the house?" and he says "cause they was home"
I met a guy in there doing double life! How the hell do you do double life? I think that means if you die and come back, you go straight to the penitentiary
Posted by: kbdabear at July 04, 2012 12:08 PM (Y+DPZ)
Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at July 04, 2012 12:11 PM (qkuN+)
Posted by: baldilocks at July 04, 2012 04:01 PM (6kWFm)
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I do admire the Zulus, though. They were some bad-ass warriors.
Posted by: Soona at July 04, 2012 12:12 PM (3VM0k)
Posted by: moki at July 04, 2012 12:13 PM (dZmFh)
Posted by: eman at July 04, 2012 04:05 PM (ejmiE)
When that album came out, I was a teenager. At a party, my parents actually let me stay in the room when they played it--which explains my affinity for Morons in all your glory. People were darn near having seizures laughing, including me.
RIP, Mr. Pryor.
Posted by: baldilocks at July 04, 2012 12:13 PM (6kWFm)
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I can hear his voice as I read that.
His was the first I had ever heard of what burn recovery entails and it still sends a shiver up my spine.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at July 04, 2012 12:14 PM (piMMO)
Abortion Activists Attack & Vandalize Pro-LiferÂ’s Home
http://tinyurl.com/7arzj58
Posted by: kbdabear at July 04, 2012 12:15 PM (Y+DPZ)
Posted by: Social Studies Graduate Student at July 04, 2012 12:16 PM (XYqoq)
Hahaha! I was going to post this one too.
Posted by: baldilocks at July 04, 2012 12:16 PM (6kWFm)
Hey, girlie! Thanks. It was inspired by some cretin who referred to me as a "House Negro" because I opposed the Ground Zero mosque. Many black Americans are miseducated into believing that Islam is home-grown in Africa and that it's, therefore, "our" natural religion. Before the Internet, there was an excuse for this sort of ignorance. No longer.
Posted by: baldilocks at July 04, 2012 12:21 PM (6kWFm)
I do admire the Zulus, though. They were some bad-ass warriors.
Posted by: Soona at July 04, 2012 04:12 PM (3VM0k)
Have you read The Washing of the Spears?
Posted by: Ed Anger Issues at July 04, 2012 12:21 PM (7+pP9)
Posted by: moki at July 04, 2012 12:24 PM (dZmFh)
Posted by: baldilocks at July 04, 2012 04:21 PM (6kWFm)
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I truly wish some of these people could travel to some of these places. Even traveling to Europe nowdays will give one a better appreciation of how special it is living in the US.
But going to less than 2nd-world countries would be the big eye opener. They just think some live in poverty here in the US. They just think they're oppressed in the US. Let them live in some of these places. They'll be clamoring to get back to this country.
Posted by: Soona at July 04, 2012 12:28 PM (3VM0k)
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Murphy made a joke of himself but, for quite a while, he was one funny mutha.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at July 04, 2012 12:28 PM (piMMO)
My favorite Eddie Murphy:
Dark and lonely on the summer night.
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord.
Watchdog barking - Do he bite?
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord.
Slip in his window,
Break his neck!
Then his house
I start to wreck!
Got no reason --
What the heck!
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord.
C-I-L-L ...
My land - lord ...
Def!
Posted by: Ed Anger Issues at July 04, 2012 12:29 PM (7+pP9)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at July 04, 2012 12:33 PM (0xqzf)
Eddie Murphy had Mr Robinson's Neighborhood back when SNL was funny
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His Buckwheat bits were funny too.
Posted by: Soona at July 04, 2012 12:33 PM (3VM0k)
Posted by: baldilocks at July 04, 2012 04:21 PM
Arab muslims were slave brokers who bought slaves from villages in the interior and force marched them to the ports of West Africa and sold them to western slave ships.
From my understanding of history, the path to colonial era slavery was capture and imprisonment by an enemy tribe, imprisonment by your own tribe, sale by tribal leaders to Arab slave traders. Then a force march to West African ports and auction to American, French, Spanish, British, and Portugese slave shippers. Journey in chains to Caribbean, Latin American, or American ports. Sale of slave lots to brokerages. Sale to plantations and other buyers wanting labor
By the 19th century, the purchase of African born slaves in America was almost gone, as births supplied all they needed at none of the cost or assimilation problems, and Britain had outlawed the commerce of slaves over the high seas and the Royal Navy enforced it vigorously, especially on America bound ships
Posted by: kbdabear at July 04, 2012 12:38 PM (Y+DPZ)
Posted by: baldilocks at July 04, 2012 02:49 PM (6kWFm)
God bless you too, my brother.
Posted by: LGoPs at July 04, 2012 12:40 PM (eQfqS)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 04, 2012 12:44 PM (C8mVl)
Posted by: Mark at July 04, 2012 12:50 PM (fEXaF)
Seriously you need to read some of the shit the Spanish conquistadors did in South and Central America.
Posted by: Vic at July 04, 2012 12:51 PM (YdQQY)
Posted by: rickl at July 04, 2012 12:55 PM (sdi6R)
Americans, we'll cross a frozen river in the middle of the night to kill you in your beds, on Christmas!
:-)
Proud to be an American. Proud to be one of Ace's morons.
Posted by: Greg Q at July 04, 2012 01:02 PM (y88kw)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 04, 2012 01:03 PM (C8mVl)
Posted by: lybor tee at July 04, 2012 01:28 PM (oZfic)
Posted by: lybor tee at July 04, 2012 01:40 PM (oZfic)
Posted by: Boots at July 04, 2012 03:58 PM (neKzn)
Axum was cool kingdom. They were even making a bit of a comeback when the Italians wiped them out with chemical weapons.
Posted by: Invictos at July 04, 2012 01:43 PM (OQpzc)
Responding to Douglass today about the meaning of and reason to celebrate Independence Day, we ought to proudly stand tall and respond: We have everything to celebrate — for we played a big part in the independence in this great nation." http://tinyurl.com/762u8fq
I shared with my friend how upset I was by Chris rock's comments. He said to me, "it's because he is ignorant". He told me to post. I bet chris rock would be shocked by how many black conservatives there are out there, my friend being one of them.
Posted by: lybor tee at July 04, 2012 01:47 PM (oZfic)
Posted by: Yehudit at July 04, 2012 01:48 PM (3NLeo)
But only if you:
a) are a "citizen"
b) aren't sucking the public teat
c) earn at least minimum wage, full time
were one of 2008's 48%
back to the cherries........needed a break
Posted by: Palookaville Peasant at July 04, 2012 01:56 PM (szPD/)
Posted by: lybor tee at July 04, 2012 02:18 PM (oZfic)
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Good one, nickless. Anyone with a twitter acct should tweet that to that stupid ass, Chris Rock.
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 04, 2012 02:18 PM (vOMX+)
Abortion Activists Attack Vandalize Pro-LiferÂ’s Home
http://tinyurl.com/7arzj58
What is more likely? That this will be prosecuted as a hate crime by Eric withHolder, or that Kim Kardashian will develop a process for cold fusion?
Posted by: Reggie1971 at July 04, 2012 02:41 PM (7Z+0v)
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