Archive for the 'racism' Category
“You Made Me Do It”
For about four years, I worked in an agency that provided shelter, counseling, police protection, and legal services to victim of domestic violence, and so I’m more than acquainted with many of the excuses batterers employ to deflect blame after they’ve given their partner another black eye or broken wrist.
One of them is “you made [...]
health care aftermath
I’ve been pretty busy with work, getting my FAFSA together, and prepping the house for spring/summer, so I haven’t done a lot of blogging recently. in the wake of health insurance reform, however, I wanted to make a few observations.
Although I have some extremely serious problems with the new law, there is one clear [...]
One of These Things is Not Like the Other
Via Wonkette, see if you can spot the difference between these two photos, and why the first picture is OFFENSIVE TO ALL THAT IS GOOD AND HOLY and the other is PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE?
OH. MY. GOD.
YAAAAAWN
And yes, the wingnut brigade is FLIPPING OUT, which makes it hilarious.
Rush Limbaugh Thinks Obama is Going to Cut Off His Penis
I’m SO not kidding.
Paging Dr. Freud, paging Dr. Freud….
Read More..>>Philly.com Comments
Comments on an article about pool closures in Philadelphia.
You can email philly.com about this bullshit here.
or here, apparently at twitter.
Wendy Warren, (http://twitter.com/WendyWarren)
Editor
215-575-6410
Yoni Greenbaum, (http://twitter.com/yonigre)
Executive Producer
215-575-6475
Bob McGovern,
Managing Producer
215-575-6481
Tell them to get a moderator.
Meanwhile, Racist Glenn Beck Continues to Hemmorage Advertisers
In response to last week’s Daily Kos post urging a boycott of Glenn Beck:
Ever since the boycott of Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity’s shows, I’ve been DVRing Beck’s show regularly, fast forwarding through the show but jotting down a list of the advertisers on the shows, and calling, writing, and emailing the companies expressing my [...]
Light Blogging Continues, But for a Comment
Light blogging continues today and through the weekend as daddy-duty takes precedence, but I want to make an important observation about the racist morons at the Valley Swim Club, which yesterday denied a bunch of black and latino kids access to their pool and refunded the $1900 their camp had paid for membership.
The accusations are [...]
Michael Steele IS The Blizzard
SLIWA: Because he is — when guys look at him and young women look at him — they say oh, that’s the slumdog millionaire, governor. So, give me some slum love.
STEELE: I love it. (inaudible) … some slum love out to my buddy. Gov. Bobby Jindal is doing a friggin’ awesome job in his state. [...]
“No Brown Bowling”
I’ve been meaning to post this for days.
The lovely and talented Phillygrrrrrrrrrrl got a faceful of the old-fashioned bigotry this past Sunday at Thunderbird Lanes on 3081 Holme avenue:
[I]f you walk into Thunderbird Lanes with a group of brown kids from your church’s youth group on a Sunday and they tell you all the lanes [...]
RACIST PA SENATOR SPECTER OPPOSES AFRICAN AMERICAN CANDIDATE FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL
During the 2008 election, PA’s senior senator Arlen Specter exposed himself as the racist he is:
It was hard to believe he was actually saying it, but the words were really coming out of his mouth. Arlen Specter’s, that is, at an afternoon rally for John McCain in Perkasie, Pa., a small town north of Philadelphia. [...]
