April 26, 2010
— Ace As Gabe posted below, Obama is urging all Americans to turn out for the polls in November to create a historic level of participation among all colors, races and creeds.
Well, not so much, of course. He wants "young people, blacks, Lations and women" to show up at the polls. White men needn't bother.
Is this racist? If the liberals' typical definition of racism were applied consistently, of course it would be racist. But of course it's not applied consistently. Racism is something white people, and Republican white people in particular, do. Liberals and especially black liberals are incapable of being racist.
If Obama's exhortations for only some of the electorate to participate in democracy sounds racist to you, why, that's probably a defect in you character -- and, in fact, probably evidence of a deep-seated, subconscious streak of racism in you yourself.
But that's just the standard-issue double-standard we all know and loathe. There's another disturbing element to it -- the automatic presumption among the privileged class that wherever blacks and whites diverge in political thought, it must be whites who are in the wrong, and not only in the wrong, but almost certainly motivated by racism.
But if it's not racist or wrong for blacks to generally vote according to the perceived "black economic interest," why is it wrong for whites to do the same? This is rarely explained, and when it is explained, it usually amounts to little more than rationalized ipse dixit restatement of the double-standard. It's wrong for whites to vote according to their perceived economic interest because they benefit from "white skin privilege" and they are the "dominant social group," upon whom a greater burden of acting for the greater good is placed, etc. Asked to defend the huge assumption of the rightness of a racial double-standard, academics tend to simply dream up closely-related assumptions and assert them (and claim those assumptions, in turn, "prove" the assumption they were asked to prove in the first place).
Let's not be childish about this. We are instructed every day that blacks are poorer than whites. There is no lack of evidence for this fact. It is therefore no surprise at all that blacks should generally favor wealth redistributionist policies more than whites, as blacks, being poorer, will tend to pay less into such a regime and receive more benefits out of it. Nor is it any surprise that whites should generally oppose such policies, as whites, being richer, will tend to pay more into such a regime and receive less.
There is hardly any cause here for liberals interested in honest, civil debate -- which they all to a man assure me is all they care about lately -- to scream "racism" over differences in white and black opinions over Obama's wealth-redistributionist agenda. You can call opponents of it greedy (but then, how are poorer blacks who are to be favored under that system any less greedy than whites, given that both are acting according to the precise same factor -- perceived personal net-economic self-interest?), but you can hardly brand someone "racist" for wanting to have an extra two or three thousand dollars.
Everyone wants an extra two or three thousand dollars. Politics, famously played within the 40-yard-lines in America, is 90% about who shall have an extra two or three thousand dollars and from whom shall be forcibly extracted that "free" two or three thousand dollars.
It is only an intellectual thug or "hater" who could assert that someone's quite-rational and utterly-understandable desire to keep two or three thousand dollars that he earned in the first place is evidence of racism and a vicious animosity towards blacks, rather than just wanting a fucking Sea-Doo this year.
This is as clear-cut an example as possible of a political position having nothing at all to do with race, as a formal matter, nevertheless causing a sharp divide between the races.
Another example -- cutting government payrolls. If my experiences at the DMV are any guide, there are a lot more blacks, as a fraction of the black population, working government jobs than whites (again, as a fraction of the white population).
If everyone in America, say, cares enough about ten other people enough that they take those other people's economic situations into account at all when making political decisions, we would find (and I am just making these numbers up out of whole cloth for illustrative purposes) that the average white guy might have a 1.5 people in his group of ten that he cares about with a public job, whereas the average black guy might have 2.3 people in his group of ten.
And that causes big disagreements between the races on cutting government payrolls. For the white guy, it's more upside -- he gets to lower the costs of government for himself, and only 1.5 of the people he knows could be adversely affected by the cuts. For the black guy, on the other hand, while he too would get the benefit of a cheaper and leaner government, he now has to worry about 2.3 people in his circle of close friends who will be harmed by that choice. Black enthusiasm for slashing government payrolls will thus be dampened.
Again, at no point in this topic was race explicitly a factor. This isn't about civil rights or interracial marriage or affirmative action. It's about as non-racial a subject as you could think of, and yet the races will have, due to different circumstances, noticeably differing levels of support for the policy.
And, again, simple economic self-interest perfectly explains both the voting behaviors of whites and blacks on this issue. But even though whites' voting behavior is easily and completely explained by morally-neutral economic concerns -- "Hey, if I cut government's costs, I'll have more money for myself and my family" -- the left and the media (BIRM) insists on supplementing that explanation with the cry of racism.
And when it comes to explicitly racial policies like affirmative action quotas and "plus factors"? Forget about it. Obviously a white man who opposes affirmative action quotas is a racist. It's simply not possible that he could see affirmative action quotas as by design making it harder for him to get key things in the one life God has granted him -- a good job, a plum promotion, a slot in an elite college -- and therefore opposes it simply because it disadvantages him and, indeed, harms him.
No, the only possible explanation as to why he should not want his employers, colleges, and own government discriminating against him is his hatred of the black race.
Once upon a time, charges of "racism" would chiefly be expected to fly in issues which explicitly reference race, such as affirmative action, or, lately, illegal immigration. The left's major innovation in the past 15 years is to apply that exact same paradigm to issues having nothing superficially to do with race such as tax policy, heath care policy, and, Dear Lord, even environmental policy.
Now, regarding Obama: In my own mind, what he did here is not racist. There is a very simple reason he wants blacks, Latinos, and women to turn out to the polls in great numbers: those cohorts vote for him. The man doesn't have to be a racist to understand that the more minorities and women show up for the polls, the better the odds the Democrats avoid an electoral Chernobyl.
On the other hand -- imagine the reaction if a Republican specifically urged white men to turn out at the polls like they've never done before.
In both cases -- in Obama's and the hypothetical Republican's -- it would be a case of the men acting not out of any particular racial impulse but instead doing simple statistics and deciding that if a group votes more for you than your opponent, you want more of that group voting -- obviously! -- but in only one case, of course, would the charge of racism attach.
And Obama and the Obama-loving media will never explain why this should be the case, but friends of his like Louis "Skip" Gates -- last glimpsed in the vicinity of a white officer who was "acting stupidly" in the sage opinion of our president -- will offer you a bunch of jargonized just-because-I-said-so twaddle about why double-standards are not only acceptable, but morally obligatory.
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Posted by: Derek Jeter, Grant Hill, Halley Barry, Lenny Kravitz etc etc at April 26, 2010 02:11 PM (pLTLS)
Posted by: ccruse456 at April 26, 2010 02:11 PM (3pv79)
Posted by: Purple Avenger at April 26, 2010 02:11 PM (wVpp8)
Posted by: ed at April 26, 2010 02:11 PM (xbynn)
Posted by: stuiec at April 26, 2010 02:12 PM (7AOgy)
Wait, how am I supposed to vote again?
I'm confused by this litmus test.
Posted by: Derek Jeter, Grant Hill, Halley Barry, Lenny Kravitz etc etc at April 26, 2010 06:11 PM (pLTLS)
Umm, can I get back to you on that?
Posted by: Barack half & half Obama at April 26, 2010 02:12 PM (pLTLS)
The funny part of that, of course, was that affirmative action is racist policy and those opposing it were called "racists". Once they were allowed to get away with that outrageous turd of a thought, they knew there were no limits - and they more than got away, they had the idiotic federal courts making rulings that would get a dunce cap for a 5th grader who tried the equivalent sort of perverted reasoning. But what does the empathetic, wise Latina (who thought adjectives didn't exist in Spanish) have to say about it?
Posted by: progressoverpeace at April 26, 2010 02:12 PM (N49h9)
Posted by: Fish at April 26, 2010 02:13 PM (M5t+h)
Posted by: CDR M at April 26, 2010 06:12 PM (5I8G0)
Is it like that episode of Star Trek with Frank Gorshin, with the 90% black on one side and the 10% white on the other side? Or is it some specific part of each one that's white?
Posted by: stuiec at April 26, 2010 02:14 PM (7AOgy)
I think, or am I allowed to think?
Posted by: Pelayo at April 26, 2010 02:14 PM (C8qIl)
Dems? Medved is making the same Arizona is racist argument in the worst way that the more racialist Dems have been making.
The Hispandering immigration romantic wing of the GOP, which Medved squrely represents, just won't give up their cherished feel-good delusions.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at April 26, 2010 02:16 PM (ujg0T)
Posted by: Purple Avenger at April 26, 2010 02:16 PM (wVpp8)
Posted by: ed at April 26, 2010 06:11 PM (xbynn)
Medved and Frum and Brooks and Chris Buckley and their ilk are scared sh*tless of being labeled racists. Thus they will bend all of their principles -- into pretzel shapes, if need be -- to avoid coming off as anything less than completely racially sensitive and politically correct.
Posted by: stuiec at April 26, 2010 02:16 PM (7AOgy)
Posted by: Mr. Pink at April 26, 2010 02:17 PM (V/EYZ)
Posted by: 57 States at April 26, 2010 02:17 PM (HayMb)
24 Fuck Obama and anyone that voted for him that doesn't now regret it.
Now there's really a lot of racism in that comment Mr. Pink, but I like it too.
Posted by: 57 States at April 26, 2010 02:19 PM (HayMb)
Posted by: Mr. Pink at April 26, 2010 02:19 PM (V/EYZ)
Posted by: Pelayo at April 26, 2010 06:14 PM (C8qIl)
I was rasied in San Antonio in the dark years and many Mexican's either couldn't or wouldn't speak English. Somehow they became citizens without learning English, and living in the barrio, there was no reason to learn or speak the language. Ole!
Posted by: Fish at April 26, 2010 02:20 PM (M5t+h)
Posted by: David Brooks at April 26, 2010 02:20 PM (V/EYZ)
without black your blog posts are just a sea of pasty-whiteness with the occasional bit of lesbian pron.
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Posted by: BumperStickerist at April 26, 2010 02:21 PM (ruzrP)
Posted by: the Democratic plantation at April 26, 2010 02:21 PM (ocax6)
Posted by: margaret sanger at April 26, 2010 02:22 PM (ocax6)
Posted by: Mr. Pink at April 26, 2010 02:22 PM (V/EYZ)
I have noticed that at REMF and TRADOC posts as well. Every other one seems to have an Obama shrine in their cubicle too. I swear it looks like they pray to it at lunch too.
Same thing at the DMV, Post Office, County Accessor's Office, Court Clerk's Office, pretty much any government building here.
Posted by: mr crowley at April 26, 2010 02:22 PM (DlXP/)
8 Ogabe is the most divisive president this nation has had since the 1800's.
Most definately racist Purple Avenger. But here, let me FIFY:
Ogabe is the most divisive president this nation has had since the 1800's. EVAH
Posted by: 57 States at April 26, 2010 02:24 PM (HayMb)
When it comes to brevity, Ace is the Thomas Aquinas of political bloggers.
Posted by: Cicero at April 26, 2010 02:24 PM (QKKT0)
Posted by: Tif at April 26, 2010 02:25 PM (fPmeR)
Posted by: Mr. Pink at April 26, 2010 02:25 PM (V/EYZ)
Posted by: Dr. Spank at April 26, 2010 02:26 PM (I1/U/)
Posted by: Pelayo at April 26, 2010 02:26 PM (C8qIl)
10 About 90% of every single civilian worker at the base Pass and Tag office and Pay and Disbursing at this base is black. Coincidence?
I have noticed that at REMF and TRADOC posts as well. Every other one seems to have an Obama shrine in their cubicle too. I swear it looks like they pray to it at lunch too.
A guy named Steve Sailer had an insight into this. (Of course, he gets pilloried for it and other insights of his, by the leftists). His argument was that a good many blacks who enter the peacetime military are, or over time become, "lifers" looking for a civil service post. As opposed to a good many white recruits, who see the military as a way to play Rambo for a couple of years, get the GI Bill, and then go have their careers in the private sector.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at April 26, 2010 02:27 PM (ujg0T)
Vote, Black!
Vote, Wimmens!
Vote, Poor!
...a vote against Racist White Tea-Baggers is a Vote for ME!
Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama - Motor Voter in Chief at April 26, 2010 02:28 PM (/oz4L)
Posted by: JC at April 26, 2010 02:28 PM (kmuoQ)
Remember the Obama acceptance speech/love in? People in the crowd were chanting OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA ad nauseum. When conservatives get together, the refrain is USA USA USA. It is a very significant difference.
Not to the African Anti-American Left. To them, the USA is inherently racist and sexist and evil whatever the left wants to call-ist.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at April 26, 2010 02:29 PM (ujg0T)
Posted by: 57 States at April 26, 2010 02:29 PM (HayMb)
Oops. Meant 90% of the civilian work force is black. Not 90% of each one!
Posted by: CDR M at April 26, 2010 06:17 PM (5I8G0)
I knew that. I was just funnin' with ya.
Posted by: stuiec at April 26, 2010 02:29 PM (7AOgy)
Obviously, you were an Econ major.
I just wish every fucking democrat was required to take ONE semester of Econ. Even left Econ teaches money matters.
Don't get me started, I taught it.
Posted by: Kemp at April 26, 2010 02:29 PM (2+9Yx)
I'm dissapointed by Ace's lack of set asides for associate blogger positions here at AoSHQ.
He's got a gay man, an asshole (not always the same guy), and even some purple dude, but no blacks.
Obviously, his sinister intentions are obvious.
Posted by: Jim in San Diego at April 26, 2010 02:30 PM (F09Uo)
Posted by: stuiec at April 26, 2010 02:30 PM (7AOgy)
Posted by: Mr. Pink at April 26, 2010 02:30 PM (V/EYZ)
President Bahama failed to extol white males to vote for his party during the November election cycle, while calling upon Blacks, Muslims, welfare recipients, scumbags, druggies, and those sexually aroused by the Black Mamba to vote for Ba'ma and his progressive agenda.
He shouldn't concern himself with my vote or the votes of my conservative friends because we're going to spank him like a tatted up bleached blond hooker at a bondage & discipline convention.
Posted by: Fish at April 26, 2010 02:31 PM (M5t+h)
Posted by: angler at April 26, 2010 02:31 PM (SwjAj)
Great screed Ace, though you forgot to mention that there was a tacit promise by liberals in 2008 that if Obama were elected racism, or charges of racism, would be a thing of the past.
Posted by: Decaf at April 26, 2010 02:32 PM (NooBZ)
Posted by: Truman North at April 26, 2010 02:32 PM (3h3kv)
Another f#cked up thing about this crap is how when all those Rev. Wright tapes came out these same assholes were on TV defending him. The guy literally stood up at the pulpit and mouthed racial conspiracy theories about the rich white government inventing the AIDS virus to kill black people and these same fucks were defending him.
Of course they were. Deep in their Commiecrat hearts, they actually *believe* that.
At some point Ockham's razor kicks in and the most simple and direct explanation applies.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at April 26, 2010 02:32 PM (ujg0T)
Posted by: Unclefacts, AoSHQ Professional Debate Team at April 26, 2010 02:32 PM (erIg9)
Posted by: Mr. Pink at April 26, 2010 02:33 PM (V/EYZ)
but no blacks.
Pray tell, how would you know?
RACIST!
Posted by: Kemp at April 26, 2010 06:31 PM (2+9Yx)
How many times do I have to spell-out the OBVIOUS?
Posted by: Jim in San Diego at April 26, 2010 02:35 PM (F09Uo)
Posted by: SarahW at April 26, 2010 02:35 PM (Z4T49)
Now how long would it take for that guy to be ostracised from society where as Spike Lee is treated as a serious flimmaker still.
I said 'C' Mutha-Fucka'!
'C'!
Posted by: Black Guy in Asian run Bodega at April 26, 2010 02:36 PM (/oz4L)
I get why Obama wants Black voters to turn out.
I think I get why Obama wants Latino voters to turn out. (Though I am not sure what concrete achievements he can point to on their behalf.)
I'm not sure I get why Obama wants young people to turn out. There seems to be a lot of anecdotal evidence in the media about how young people have come to see Obama not for what they imagined him to be when they voted in 2008, but what he's actually turned out to be since, and are largely disappointed.
I don't get why Obama wants women voters to turn out. He's accomplished nothing for women voters and offers nothing to them. I guess he's just hoping that they will stick to their recent tradition of voting Democrat. I don't think they will -- I think the most motivated women voters are the ones planning to vote Republican.
I also note that Obama didn't call for Jewish voters to turn out. Either he's assuming they will and will vote Democrat, or he knows he's screwed up badly with them, or he doesn't want to offend the other groups by lumping them in with Jews.
Posted by: stuiec at April 26, 2010 02:37 PM (7AOgy)
The Precedent is not doing this for the reason you state. He's not doing it for racist reasons, either. What he's doing is trying to foment racial animus in this nation, to being this country to a boil. He's been pulling this every so often and he is going to move much more heavily into this tactic as he loses his useful idiot majorities in Congress and switches to more executive actions and stirring racial strife.
Now, he doesn't care about losing Congress, as he hates the dems as much as he hates most Americans, but he is preparing to finish his suicide run and blow the US up before he is tossed out of office and that will include getting the cities all whipped up and scaring whitey as much as possible.
This all comes back to the real intentions of The Precedent: He wants to exact revenge on this nation and take us down. That's it. For him, the racial edge is just one more tool of destruction he can wield against us. Make no mistake, he is pitting the races against each other as much as he is able, not looking to squeeze any votes out of anyone.
Posted by: progressoverpeace at April 26, 2010 02:38 PM (N49h9)
Except by having his dead grandma vote.
Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at April 26, 2010 02:38 PM (Y1eio)
The US government, run by Obama, deliberately sabotages the mine in West VA to kill white people.
You're kidding. He really did that? Now why isn't that making headlines?
Posted by: 57 States at April 26, 2010 02:39 PM (HayMb)
He shouldn't concern himself with my vote or the votes of my conservative friends because we're going to spank him like a tatted up bleached blond hooker at a bondage & discipline convention.
Posted by: Fish at April 26, 2010 06:31 PM (M5t+h)
I must treat my bleached blonde tatted up hookers way too well.
Posted by: Jim in San Diego at April 26, 2010 02:40 PM (F09Uo)
71 My cracka ass is votin' come November. Can't take that away.
Except by having his dead grandma vote.
Problem is they'll let her vote twice to make sure her vote counts.
Posted by: 57 States at April 26, 2010 02:41 PM (HayMb)
Ooh! We're scared.
Posted by: Pelayo's shotgun and his 1911 A1 at April 26, 2010 02:41 PM (C8qIl)
Posted by: Gerald Rivera at April 26, 2010 02:42 PM (r7Zz6)
I must treat my bleached blonde tatted up hookers way too well.
Posted by: Jim in San Diego at April 26, 2010 06:40 PM (F09Uo)
That depends. Are you giving them the spankings they crave in the minimum recommended daily allowances?
Or are you leaving them all frustrated and longing? Because if you leave them frustrated and longing for too long, they'll just start spanking each other... and you wouldn't want that... would you?
Posted by: stuiec at April 26, 2010 02:44 PM (7AOgy)
Posted by: howcome at April 26, 2010 02:44 PM (A1x9z)
An honest position would be to thank God your ancestor made it to the United States, never mind the method. Just compare Barry and his Kenyan brother from another mother. Don't hold your breath waiting for a BET special highlighting the greatness of our nation.
Posted by: Atomic Roach at April 26, 2010 02:45 PM (Oxen1)
That Purple guy, is person "of color". Doesn't that count?
Posted by: Kemp at April 26, 2010 06:41 PM (2+9Yx)
Purple is not the right color. There are right colors and there are other than right colors.
Now if you will excuse me good sir, I must discipline my bleached blonde tatted up hookers.
Posted by: Jim in San Diego at April 26, 2010 02:45 PM (F09Uo)
Posted by: Rev. Al Sharpton at April 26, 2010 06:08 PM (r7Zz6)
Was that directed at iWon?
Posted by: soulpile at April 26, 2010 02:46 PM (afWhQ)
Left-wing policies can all be summed up as robbing Peter to pay Paul. The arguments for these policies go as follows:
1. "You're Paul. You'll benefit." (When this doesn't work ... )
2. "Paul deserves to be paid." (When this doesn't work ... )
3. "Peter deserves to be robbed." (When this doesn't work ... )
4. "You're not Peter, so it shouldn't matter to you." (But I'm always Peter.)
What you're describing, Ace, is and old argument that combines #2 and #3. As you said, #1 makes sense when it applies -- and by implication, so does #4 if I'm going to be pragmatic and calculating in my politics.
If I'm not a Paolo or a Paulina, then #1 doesn't apply to me. But I have to fit somewhere demographically, so #4 can't apply either. That leaves the propositions about someone "deserving" something. Though these are the weakest positions, it's all they have, so they argue these points with everything they've got.
Posted by: FireHorse at April 26, 2010 02:47 PM (cQyWA)
Great screed Ace, though you forgot to mention that there was a tacit promise by liberals in 2008 that if Obama were elected racism, or charges of racism, would be a thing of the past.
Posted by: Decaf at April 26, 2010 06:32 PM (NooBZ)
That was the great error of the Obama-voting middle and right. They ASSUMED that the liberals would make that bargain. No one ever got that promise from any liberal. No liberal organizations made that offer. So when the election was over and the middle and right Obama-voters continued to hear accusations of racism flying as thick and fast as before, they were flummoxed, and their confusion has turned to hurt and resentment.
Posted by: stuiec at April 26, 2010 02:48 PM (7AOgy)
That depends. Are you giving them the spankings they crave in the minimum recommended daily allowances?
Or are you leaving them all frustrated and longing? Because if you leave them frustrated and longing for too long, they'll just start spanking each other... and you wouldn't want that... would you?
Posted by: stuiec at April 26, 2010 06:44 PM (7AOgy)
I duct tape them to the toilet. One of them I'm afraid I'm going to have to put down. Her Hep-C is acting up and she has turned a ghastly shade of Asian.
Posted by: Jim in San Diego at April 26, 2010 02:49 PM (F09Uo)
Now if you will excuse me good sir, I must discipline my bleached blonde tatted up hookers.
Posted by: Jim in San Diego at April 26, 2010 06:45 PM (F09Uo)
Good man. They'll thank you for it, IYKWIMAITYD.
Posted by: stuiec at April 26, 2010 02:49 PM (7AOgy)
I always wondered if it would be possible to start calling people a "dirty cubist" and see if it takes off.
Posted by: Guy of Gisbourne at April 26, 2010 02:49 PM (hA3Vp)
But then, I reject the whole notion that politics is most about a few grand a year; there is much, much more at stake for many people
Go to Washington; look at that giant tombstone on the Mall; sixty thousand men and eight women died because of a political decision.
Posted by: SantaRosaStan at April 26, 2010 02:50 PM (JrRME)
Then he can have illegals "serve" and do "community service" in his new faux-army as a "path to citizenship".
It creates new voters, gives illegals citizenship, makes a new batch of government workers and gains loyalty to him and not the country.
What more could a budding dictator want? A pool of millions of peasants with no loyalty to their new host country and everything to gain by doing anything Obama wants.
And it will be sold to us as a "path to citizenship through community service".
Posted by: sifty at April 26, 2010 02:50 PM (4Lhf9)
I duct tape them to the toilet. One of them I'm afraid I'm going to have to put down. Her Hep-C is acting up and she has turned a ghastly shade of Asian.
Posted by: Jim in San Diego at April 26, 2010 06:49 PM (F09Uo)
Sell her to Purple Avenger. They can go out together and pretend they're die-hard Vikings fans.
Posted by: stuiec at April 26, 2010 02:50 PM (7AOgy)
It is only an intellectual thug or "hater" who could assert that someone's quite-rational and utterly-understandable desire to keep two or three thousand dollars that he earned in the first place is evidence of racism and a vicious animosity towards blacks, rather than just wanting a fucking Sea-Doo this year.
Snort.
Posted by: rdbrewer at April 26, 2010 02:51 PM (mK4Ek)
All this racist Affirmative Action talk makes me concerned for Aunt Zeituni's health and welfare as she struggles in public housing, and her meager ration of food stamps doesn't allow for a meaningful existence.
America is better than just providing a basic subsistence, and my Aunt Zeituni should be rewarding for coming to America with all the racist southern hillbillies saying mean things, and the inability of most American's to accept a tribal African. SheÂ’s a good woman from a proud tribe, and in her youth was on the cover of Kenyan Vogue with war paint, exposed breasts, and a powerful spear.
Posted by: Barack Obummer, Pres for Life at April 26, 2010 02:51 PM (M5t+h)
And it will be sold to us as a "path to citizenship through community service".
Posted by: sifty at April 26, 2010 06:50 PM (4Lhf9)
I really hate that idea, but you might have something. I always thought that the best path to citizenship was to wait in a long assed line for half a decade after jumping through more than a few qualification hoops.
Posted by: Jim in San Diego at April 26, 2010 02:56 PM (F09Uo)
Posted by: SarahW at April 26, 2010 03:03 PM (Z4T49)
Sell her to Purple Avenger. They can go out together and pretend they're die-hard Vikings fans.
I don't think that the avenging that Purple Avenger does is sports related. Within the last ten years, the Ravens, Diamondbacks and Lakers were are purple and all champions at the same time. And the Avalance won the Stanley Cup. I know, they're burgandy -- but they're the closest non–L. A. Kings thing to a purple team in the NHL.
At the risk of starting a color-based feud, I think the rest of the visible spectrum should do some avenging against teh purple.
Posted by: FireHorse at April 26, 2010 03:05 PM (cQyWA)
Hey, I finally watched "Gangs of New York"
Did you all know that people back then (eleventy years ago when there were only a couple or for states), that people used to sell their votes based upon how much they could get for it? And, even more important, voting based on racial and ethnic backgrounds.
S'True!
So...
Is okay as this has Always been going on, right?
"course, teh quelling the draft riots was kinda messy. literally...
Also, in this movie EVERYONE was so dirty and greasy like they never bathed. I was so disappointed that Cameron Diaz was dirty (and not in the good way that word means now.) but I digress....
Posted by: newguy40 at April 26, 2010 03:06 PM (kduZC)
Posted by: Monty at April 26, 2010 03:08 PM (O3eFQ)
Another untruth the media is fomenting is the implication that the loser of the Camp Rock vs. Camp Star showdown this summer gets shut down. In reality, it becomes the first re-education camp.
(Just a little teaser for any moron who'd like to see Nick Jonas be forced to earn his citizenship.)
Posted by: FireHorse at April 26, 2010 03:12 PM (cQyWA)
69
stuiec,
Because young people are stupid. And they're the worst kind of stupid - the kind of stupid that doesn't think it's stupid, so it doesn't shut its mouth and try to improve itself. Fortunately, with age, the productive ones will eventually become conservative, after they've been taxed to the point where even stupid people wise up.
Posted by: Ted K. at April 26, 2010 03:17 PM (fCNkA)
I once heard that voting are gotten using both carrots and sticks.
Someone claiming to to do research would call a home with a union member in it to do a survey. The researcher would swear secrecy, etc., but if the respondent gave the wrong answer, the union guy would get harassed at work.
Has anyone else heard of such tactics?
Posted by: FireHorse at April 26, 2010 03:18 PM (cQyWA)
WTF?
Not all of us took classics at university, you elitist asshole!
Posted by: Waterhouse at April 26, 2010 03:21 PM (/HOp+)
Posted by: Monty at April 26, 2010 03:22 PM (O3eFQ)
Ipse dixit is a Latin phrase meaning he himself said it. The term labels a statement asserted but not proved, to be accepted on faith. Usually from a person of standing; a dictum.
(Or did you mean stuff like Iron Butterfly and Bread when you said "classics"?)
Posted by: FireHorse at April 26, 2010 03:26 PM (cQyWA)
Obama's a bitch
he's a skinny little bitch
he's the biggest little bitch in the whole wide world
he's a stupid bitch if there ever was a bitch
he's a bitch to all the boys and girls
On Monday he's a bitch
On Tuesday he's a bitch
On Wednsday through Saturday he's a bitch
Then on Sunday, just to be different,
he's a superkinkamayamayabeeatch
Have you ever met Barack Obama?
he's the biggest little bitch in the whole wide world
he's a mean 'ol bitch and he has stupid fuzzy hair
he's a big big big big big big skinny little bitch
Big big big big big big big skinny little bitch, he's a stupid bitch
Barack Obama is a bitch and he's just a dirty bitch
Posted by: fgdfgdf at April 26, 2010 03:28 PM (Tfuib)
Posted by: Crusty at April 26, 2010 03:31 PM (qzgbP)
Latin is dead (racist)
As dead as can be (thanatist)
It first killed the Romans (prejudiced against Italians. Can you believe that? In this day and age?)
And now it's killing me. (good thing for you that we got healthcare done)
Posted by: FireHorse at April 26, 2010 03:35 PM (cQyWA)
Posted by: Downtrodden on da dole at April 26, 2010 03:36 PM (d7Px0)
Ace! Hey, Ace! In #108, someone said you were elitist!!
Posted by: FireHorse at April 26, 2010 03:37 PM (cQyWA)
Posted by: Liberal Twit at April 26, 2010 03:44 PM (G60Nl)
A girl name Anna and her friends went camping one weekend, but she unfortunately sat on an anthill, got bitten, and had an allergic reaction. She was sent to the hospital. This was back in the days when the only way of quickly communicating was to send a telegram. They had very limited funds and could only afford a few words. Here is what the sent:
ANACIN HOSPITAL ADAMANT BITTER ASININE PLACES.
Posted by: Pelayo at April 26, 2010 03:49 PM (C8qIl)
The teeth.
Posted by: the peanut gallery at April 26, 2010 03:52 PM (NurK6)
Posted by: Monty at April 26, 2010 03:57 PM (O3eFQ)
I don't think that the avenging that Purple Avenger does is sports related.
Posted by: FireHorse at April 26, 2010 07:05 PM (cQyWA)
You're overthinking. He's purple, she's yellow: Vikings.
Posted by: stuiec at April 26, 2010 04:00 PM (W+GYq)
Obama left out gays.
Funny because apparently the Democratic party has done the same thing here in the Inland Empire- every gay and lesbian person I know is either a) staying home or b) voting ENTHUSIASTICALLY for the Republicans.
FABULOUS development there
Posted by: CAC at April 26, 2010 04:00 PM (Gr1V1)
You're overthinking. He's purple, she's yellow: Vikings.
Nah, just drunk. Purple + yellow = Crown Royal.
Posted by: FireHorse at April 26, 2010 04:06 PM (cQyWA)
Posted by: fbgcxbxc at April 26, 2010 04:22 PM (Tfuib)
He'll get the votes of unmarried mothers raising their brood on gov't largesse and other single women who want the gov't to care for them in their old age. They love Obamacare, promises to steal from evil corporations and working people for redistribution to themselves--and they're not all black and Latina.
There's still lefty married women who love the idea of Obama stealing from me and their neighbors to redistribute to aforementioned women, but I think a lot of women are seeing their husbands demonized and passed over, and their childrens' futures in jeopardy. As a single woman in an uncertain occupation, the more money gov't takes from me the harder it is for me to care for myself. Bah.
Posted by: HeatherRadish at April 26, 2010 04:26 PM (OkT2m)
I'm Gay for Palin
White People are Pissed
Generic Angry Slogan
I asked the young lady holding the Generic Angry Slogan which one was she?
Angry white or oppressed woman?
She looked at me as though I spoke to her in a foreign language she did not know; totally lost the irony of of it all.
Posted by: Highly Educated Whites=Liberal's Useful Idiots at April 26, 2010 04:27 PM (OewfB)
Posted by: MlR at April 26, 2010 05:04 PM (v18zq)
They're pulling out this racism meme for 2 reasons:
1) They think we'll shut up. How's that working out these days?
2) They think it'll distract from the fact that all this wealth redistribution is theft plain and simple. It also absolves a lot of Black people from taking any responsibility for their own lives and choices so it keeps them on the plantation too. But we already knew that did'nt we?
Posted by: martha at April 26, 2010 05:48 PM (kFsTd)
Good one Ace. Seems a midday rise suits you. IÂ’ve got this pasted into a doc along with selected responses from the Morons.
Posted by: bverwey at April 26, 2010 05:55 PM (f//uF)
Posted by: JohnJ at April 26, 2010 06:05 PM (04CCu)
No Whyte Crackaws is gittin past me an mah homies to vote at mah polls dis November. An you cans take dat to da Bank dat my homie Obamas bailed out.
WERD.
Posted by: New Black Panter with Sharper Creases at April 26, 2010 06:15 PM (o0R2E)
Posted by: Laura Castellano at April 26, 2010 10:14 PM (fuw6p)
Posted by: Thorvald at April 27, 2010 04:51 AM (LIHLw)
Every time this shit starts I think to myself we should just go ahead and have a race war. Last race standing gets it all. As whites outnumber everyone in North America and as blacks and latinos hate each other, I am sure white folks will be last man standing.
But then...
I think of all the great folks I know who also happen to be black, chicano, oriental, etc.
While I would gladly take up a shooting position at the souther border and pop anything that tries to cross, or go down to the ghetto and pop gang bangers for fun, I cannot bring myself to even consider harming the great bunch of non-whites I have known - not one.
[ARRRRGH... mental gridlock, oh what will I do? (/sarc)]
Posted by: chuck in st paul at April 27, 2010 08:30 AM (adr25)
Posted by: SicSemperTyrannus at April 27, 2010 10:28 AM (JSetw)
It is not just the 'economic' argument of voting for one's self interest that is hypocritical. What of the political? Ninety some percent of blacks voted for Obama in the 08 Presidential election. Do 90+% of blacks agree with the far-left, progressive, statist, racialist, pro-gay, pro illegal immigration views of Obama? Certainly not. Then why NO news stories, MSM or otherwise, to analyze the fact that many blacks voted for skin color, to the detriment of other considerations? I was taught that considering skin color, above all else, was the very definition of racism. But ONLY if you are white, they tell me now!
The fact is, and if you deny it you are either stupid or in denial, that blacks are taught that it is OK to act in consideration of their skin color, and that this is completely acceptable conduct; while whites are instructed, nay, hammered with the narrative that such considerations are vile and unthinkable. Voila! The double standard, no irony intended, like Charles Blow-or any other black person-wearing a Che t-shirt( Che loathed black people, if you don't get the joke ).
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