Daily roundup

This post is going to be a random collection of things I saw today on the Internet.

First, a quote from Rand Paul, son of Ron Paul and GOP Senate candidate from Kentucky:

I like the Civil Rights Act in the sense that it ended discrimination in all public domains, and I’m all in favor of that. … [but] I don’t like the idea of telling private business owners—I abhor racism. I think it’s a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant—but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership. But I absolutely think there should be no discrimination in anything that gets any public funding, and that’s most of what I think the Civil Rights Act was about in my mind. (#)

So basically he thinks that private business should have the right to segregate? Classy. Oh, good job to Kentucky for making him their candidate for Senate. And to top it all off, apparently the scumbags at Stormfront support this guy. (Did I really just link to LGF? Again?)

In slightly less absurd news, apparently Jemaine Clement is going to be the enemy in Men in Black 3. Really? Him? That will be.. a thing.

And lastly, a roundup of Awfulvision: this guy‘s song about hating Jesus is pretty funny. But this video made me throw up in my mouth a bit.

May 19th, 2010 - Posted in links, politics |

Buchanan and politics

Ha, wow. Now that I have the site actually done, I have to fill it. That didn’t seem as daunting before as it does now. I have a few things that I’ll write about eventually, but I don’t want to start in on them just yet.

I know – let’s talk politics. Clearly everyone has gone crazy in the past year. Like, really crazy. Just today, Pat Buchanan asked:

Indeed, of the last seven justices nominated by Democrats JFK, LBJ, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, one was black, Marshall; one was Puerto Rican, Sonia Sotomayor. The other five were Jews: Arthur Goldberg, Abe Fortas, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan.

If Kagan is confirmed, Jews, who represent less than 2 percent of the U.S. population, will have 33 percent of the Supreme Court seats.

Is this the Democrats’ idea of diversity?

Now, I know that I’m giving a platform to what Buchanan has to say, but come on – the Jews? Really? We’re back to good old-fashioned anti-Semitism, I suppose.

It’s nice to know that, despite the fact that people everywhere are trying to outdo the last person to do something really ridiculous, there are still some glimmers of sanity. Consider LittleGreenFootballs. Pre-9/11, it was just one guy’s blog about biking and random crap. After the towers fell, though, he sort of went off the deep end and became fairly anti-Muslim, and his readers followed. Since then, though, he’s really pulled it together: he’s very against the teabaggers, Creationists, Glenn Beck, Glenn Beck fans, and homophobes. I actually got the link for the above quote from glancing at LGF earlier in the day. Obviously I don’t condone everything he writes, but some of the stuff he publishes, like a set of pictures of stupid teabagger signs – referred to as Teabonics, is actually pretty good.

And if nothing else, it makes me happy that there are still some people who haven’t permanently descended into this anti-government rhetoric that’s become so strong as of late. Finally, I’ll leave you with a quote from the President. Here he’s talking about the Republicans:

After they drove the car into the ditch, made it as difficult as possible for us to pull it back, now they want the keys back. No! You can’t drive! We don’t want to have to go back into the ditch. We just got the car out.

May 14th, 2010 - Posted in politics |

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