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POU Comments Of The Week

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For the Week Jan 8 – Jan 14

 
The campaign season for 2012 is in full swing for the Rethuglikkkans. So that means more contrived bullshit and outright lies from all sides will be coming forth. So we’ve got to stay on our game via blog sites, twitter, facebook, whatever means we individually and collectively have, to make sure that the truth gets out there. The phrase “Speak Truth To Power” begins with us….here…….NOW.
 

“Stuntin Like His Foolish Daddy” Comment of the Week
 
Gobrooklyn, Monday Open Thread
via David Frum tweets I see that Rand Paul was on CNN defending his father’s racism again. Using the tired line of ‘we’re true friends to minorities because we want to legalize drugs’. Frum retweeted a sarcastic tweet I sent about minority communities desperately needing legal crack and unregulated drugs (Paul wants to gut the FDA) also. In no time I had 4-5 responses about Black people being locked up and ‘oh look at what this Black person has to say about Ron Paul’. We know all the numbers but our communities need jobs, safer streets and good schools first. Ron Paul has no intention on making any of that happen. Told these people that Ron Paul doesn’t give a shit about the welfare of minorities. Its just a cover.

I also tweeted this to those who pushed back on Paul comments; “@tanehisi: For the record “I’m against the drug war” has officially replaced “I have a black friend.” 

 
” About those *cough cough* Progessives touting Ron Paul” Comment of the Week 
Nepat, Tuesday Open Thread
Ron Paul has inadvertently been the catalyst to a fascinating trend: exposing charlatan “progressives” for what they actually are (and probably have been all along): libertarians! Is anyone really surprised that Matt Stoller, Sirota, Greenwald, Jane Hamsher, etc. have emerged as among the strongest Paul supporters. At the same time, bona fide liberals find Paul repellent. Hmm. How is that possible? Are liberals wrong? Nope. The actual answer is that “progressives” were never really liberal at all. Just anti-war zealots who found themselves aligned with liberals merely by an accident of political platforms. I find this Paul-initiated trend to be extremely useful. Let them keep waving their libertarian freak flags high. Makes them easier to spot. And to ignore. 
 
“Why he got a piano, I aint got no piano” Comment of the Week

So this mofo believes the DoJ is biased against white people – conveniently he believes this after he wasn’t promoted, as he EXPECTED to be, but instead a black woman was promoted over him in 2000. Yeah.

Town, Wednesday Open Thread
TRANSLATION: He mad b/c he felt entitled to that job promotion back in 2000, over a black woman he felt should be sweeping floors and answering phones. So he blames the Obama administration (2009-2017) for a job he lost out on under the Clinton Administration (1993-2001) and has decided to make Obama and the rest of the blacks/blahs/plives pay.

“While Y’all Prognosticating and Pontificating and Signifying, We Working” Comment of the Week

GN, Wednesday Evening Thread
Very quietly, the EEOC under President Obama has been doing this: companies (which use criminal and credit checks as barriers to employment where the data reveals that these checks have zero predictive value re: the employee’s productivity and trustworthiness) are being challenged.

Crickets from the sole patrol.

Keep on keeping on, Obama administration!



“Here’s Your Angry Black Woman Right Here Bitch” Comment of the Week

Oh Jodi……oh dear Jodi……….did  Soledad make ya cry?

JojoRaze, Friday Open Thread
I’m doing the running man off of this interview. Soledad got Kantor good. How you gonna be describing feelings, thoughts, worldviews–internal stuff–off of someone you haven’t interviewed since 2009??!! People are gonna call shenanigans!! I loved that Soledad called her out on using Laura Bush’s memoir as an example of how first ladies feel and that it was appropriate to extrapolate from that to Mrs. Obama. She said “Hold up! That’s Laura Bush’s memoir, her feelings, how are you going to use one woman’s personal opinion about the WH to justify talking about another woman of a different race and generation and temperament.” Two snaps and a circle! LOVED IT!! Finally a woman of color on TV is calling shenanigans.

Soledad is like, “I don’t know Michelle, I only interviewed her once, but you ain’t gonna talk about Michelle when you ain’t her or her friend.” Jodi just fount out, yeah I said “fount”, that it’s not a game to talk about Michelle. Folk will cut you! This is why I’m glad, even though I hated she had to do it, that Michelle came out and said this book was bogus. And it is dumb for an author to claim that this is some intimate portrait and not get the protagonists’ approval or interview them for the book. They will disown you like a red-headed step child. 

 
Tweets of the Week!!
LOLGOP

 
Rick Perry is holding another big prayer next week. This is when God is going to break it to him: “Those footsteps on the beach. Not me.”
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Tim Wise

 
I’m done with white liberals and leftists who think Obama=Bush=Paul=Reagan=Clinton=Gingrich=McCain. Seriously, shut the fuck up
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LOLGOP

 
Michele Bachmann is now in a very vulnerable place. Herman Cain knows she needs a job.
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Matt Osborne

 
CONSPIRACY THEORY: Mitt Romney’s dog was actually Rick Santorum. Discuss.
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LOLGOP

 
Enjoy watching Newt Gingrich’s heart break as his party leaves him for a younger and hotter candidate.
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Shoq Value

 
See that there? The New England Patriots came with a few surprises for Tim Tebow. Among them, a cross and a bag of nails.
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Conan O’Brien

 
The Tea Party is still looking for the “anti-Romney.” They’re so desperate, they’re starting to look at President Obama.
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Andy Borowitz

 
Pat Robertson: ‘God is Punishing Any Denver Fans Who Might Be Gay’