Another offensive sign from Chicago’s tea party
12 comments April 16th, 2009
 Yesterday, we showed you THIS.
 Today, we have this:
 (Hat-tip to Huffington Post)
Archive for April 16th, 2009
Taxation without representation?
10 comments April 16th, 2009
Dave Ross wonders if the tax protestors are “undocumented”:
By implication, neo-secessionists mock Pledge of Allegiance
2 comments April 16th, 2009
 The last time I recited the Pledge of Allegiance, it went like this:
 ”I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands: one Nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all.”
 In light of the rhetoric I’ve been hearing lately from some right-wing extremists, I had to double-check the text of the pledge the other day to make sure the words hadn’t been changed. They hadn’t.
 The pledge still refers to the United States as “indivisible,” which means, as I interpret it, that no state or states or parts thereof can rightly secede from the whole. Abraham Lincoln saw it that way, too, although the pledge had not yet been written when he led the cause against a secessionist movement.
 This seems not to matter to Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who FLIRTED WITH THE IDEA OF SECESSION at a so-called tea party yesterday in Austin.
 To be sure, Perry didn’t call for secession, but some in his audience did. And he said Texas would be within its rights to do so:
 Texas is a unique place. When we came into the union in 1845, one of the issues was that we would be able to leave if we decided to do that. My hope is that America and Washington in particular pays attention. We’ve got a great union. There’s absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, who knows what may come of that.
 Poor Rick. He’s probably just embarrassed that America now finds itself in a mess created in great part by a president from his state — so embarrassed and so eager to distance Texas from that mess that he’s forgotten at least one of the words in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Limbaugh sympathizes with Somali pirates, faults Navy Seals and Obama for killing them
15 comments April 16th, 2009
 
 Rush Limbaugh, co-leader (with Glenn Beck) of the Republican Party, showed his patriotism the other day with this tirade:
They were kids. The story is out, I don’t know if it’s true or not, but apparently the hijackers, these kids, the merchant marine organizers, Muslim kids, were upset, they wanted to just give the captain back and head home because they were running out of food, they were running out of fuel, they were surrounded by all these US Navy ships, big ships, and they just wanted out of there. That’s the story, but then when one of them put a gun to the back of the captain, Mr. Phillips, then bam, bam, bam. There you have it, and three teenagers shot on the high seas at the order of President Obama.
 You’re not likely to hear any Republican leaders accuse El Rushbo of having crossed the line with this screed. You see, if any of them did, they would then have to apologize to him or face the wrath of the GOP base.
Hooray for Susan Boyle!
5 comments April 16th, 2009
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 Ordinarily, our focus here is purely political.
 We’re making an exception for this uplifting video of a homely, middle-aged British woman who turned snickers into cheers with her singing.
 For reasons I don’t understand, I can’t embed the video in this post, but here’s a link:
