Good grief, what is it with lefties like Pat Buchanan?
Leading White Nationalist To Speak At Pat Buchanan's American Cause Conference This Month
The Southern Poverty Law Center reports that MSNBC's Pat Buchanan has invited the editor of a white nationalist, anti-immigrant website to speak at the upcoming conference for his group, the American Cause.
...It's no surprise that Buchanan would invite such a hatemonger to his conference. Buchanan himself has appeared at least twice on a neo-Nazi radio show; one appearance was streamed live on Stormfront, one of the most prominent white supremacist online forums....
We know Pat Buchanan's a lefty because he doesn't like neocons:
As our right-wing friends have so helpfully explained to us, anyone who dislikes neocons is a liberal.
Add to that Mr. wishy-washy Obama trying once again to please the minority party, and Democrat Max Baucus pleading with Obama to break a campaign promise in order to achieve bipartisanship.
The Washington Post tells us that so many of us are either unemployed, broke, or so worried about being unemployed and broke that we are growing our own food more than at any time since World War 2.
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The quality of mercy
From the Toronto Star 
"After almost eight years of captivity, each step of Khelil Mamut's freedom is a little overwhelming.
The ocean, which he could hear only on windy days when the waves crashed beyond Guantanamo's razor wire rimmed fence, is now something he can wade into.
People call him by his name, not 278, his internee serial number.
Then there was the horse he saw while walking one of the island trails on Thursday, the day he and three other Chinese citizens of the Muslim Uighur minority arrived in Bermuda. The animal made him stop suddenly, just to stare.
"How can I express it," he said yesterday, describing the new tropical home where he now lives with the three other former Guantanamo detainees. "It is so great, so beautiful."
"This may be a small island," added Abdullah Abdulqadir. "But it has a big heart."
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Although I take everything the CIA says with a very large grain of salt, I just don't think Leon Panetta's all that far from the truth when he says it's almost like Dick Cheney is hoping we'll be attacked again to prove his point.
The only area in which Panetta is mistaken is that there's no "almost" about it. Dick Cheney's power was always contingent on a frightened, traumatized population. As more information came out about how Cheney and his puppet frontman ignored screaming evidence that an attack was about to happen, thereby allowing almost 3000 people to die in the name of amassing political power, most Americans are sadder but wiser now. The idea of a former Vice President wanting this country to be attacked no longer seems as ridiculous as it did eight years ago. And with the PNAC neocons with whom Cheney is associated openly gleeful at the prospect of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad prevailing in Iran, it's perfectly legitimate to ask ourselves with just whose side Dick Cheney is aligned.
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Bibi finds yet another way to say "over my dead body." "Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Whatayahoo has announced he will back a Palestinian state - but only if it is completely demilitarised. He said a Palestinian state must have no army, no control of its air space and no way of smuggling in weapons. In a landmark speech, weeks after the US president urged him to agree a two-state plan, he said the Palestinians must accept Israel as a Jewish state. Palestinian leaders reacted angrily, accusing him of sabotaging peace plans."
Jimmy Carter: "Stop treating Gazans like savages"
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A congressional panel is pressing the Dept of Veterans Affairs to disclose on Tuesday whether non-sterile equipment that may have exposed 10,000 veterans to HIV and other infections was isolated to three Southeast hospitals or is part of a wider problem.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/14/va-may-have-exposed-10000_n_215400.html
Congressional hearings are worthless. Why can't cases like this go straight to criminal court?
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Yesterday at Utah's GOP convention, the state's two U.S. senators — Orrin Snatch (R) and Bob Bennett (R) received only "polite receptions," compared to the boisterous applause received by some of the state's representatives. From the Deseret News:
Hatch, at one point in his speech, appeared upset when some delegates applauded as a way of blaming national Republicans, himself included, for the deficit and other problems of the Bush years.
"Don't you believe that B.S.," Hatch said loudly. But some of the 1,800 delegates clearly did.
While many delegates stood and applauded the longtime incumbents (Hatch 33 years, Bennett 15 years), others sat on their hands — not booing, but showing their disapproval through silence.
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Your latest racist anti-Obama GOP Facebook outrage
A buffoon out of South Carolina thought it would be a good idea to post some thing on Facebook comparing Michelle Obama to a gorilla, proving once again why Republicans should not have access to dangerous electronic devices such as computers, which they employ for the sole purpose of embarrassing themselves.
[...] Trey Walker, an advisor to S.C. Attorney General Henry McMaster, posted an innocuous Facebook update about this morning's escape of a Western Lowlands Gorilla from Columbia's Riverbanks Zoo.
Walker's harmless update, however was followed by a highly-questionable comment from longtime SCGOP activist and former State Senate candidate, Rusty DePass.
"I'm sure it's just one of Michelle's ancestors — probably harmless," DePass wrote.
DePass later helpfully explained that he was just making an innocent joke about the First Lady's remarks on evolution (which nobody can seem to track down), and he was sorry "if" he offended anyone.
I love that: Hey it was a Joke. And it's her fault, anyway.
Eight months after a decisive election and six months after President Obama's swearing-in, it is still sort of astonishing to see just how enraged these various GOP operatives are at the notion that a black family is living in the White House. It still blows their minds that such a terrible thing could happen, in America, and that they would have to apologize for making sincerely good-humored racist jokes on the internet.
As rikyrah at Mirror on America stated in commenting on this story:
they are who we thought they were. Plain and simple.
Yes they are. Nasty, racist, hateful, dangerous idiots. And because our media lets them get away with it, they grow more emboldened by the day. And don't tell me this has nothing to do with the increasing violence and threats of violence against liberals, minorities, gays, etc. This is precisely the dehumanizing, demonizing speech which creates a climate which encourages the fringe elements of the right wing to take matters into their own hands, literally by pulling the triggers of guns aimed at people they have been told are subhuman, unworthy of their respect. The implicit message, the subtext of all this ugly language being thrown around by the representatives of the Republican Party and the conservative movement is that rage, hatred and yes, even violence, is an acceptable tactic to employ to fight back against Democrats, and especially President Obama and his supporters.
I remember a time when The Republican Senate Majority Leader was forced to resign for his comments praising Strom Thurmond's run for President as a Dixiecrat. I guess Republicans and conservatives feel less shame now that they are out of power and a Black Man is President. Now it's anything goes. They call him a Marxist. A Muslim. A Terrorist. A Fascist. A Dictator. A man out to destroy America. A man who isn't a real American, who wasn't born in America. Who wants to take away all your Guns. The Anti-Christ in brown colored flesh.
And now his beautiful wife's a gorilla. Aren't Republicans such charming, courteous, civil people?
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In case you didn't know: Iranian election = Obama's fault.
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