Author: Trish
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Republicans think they’ll be able to blame a shutdown on Democrats based on their experience of blaming 9/11 on Saddam Hussein.
— @LOLGOP
She Hates to Say It, But Yeah, the Tea Party is Racist
I also think, you know, just calling it, that some of this tea party anger is racist, and that having a non-black person on the ticket will diffuse it to some degree.
Cokie Roberts, pundit, backing into the most soft-peddled indictment of tea party racism ever, on the Morning Joe show.
Dry Tortugas?
I want Mitch McConnell to read “Yertle the Turtle.”
Pensito Review’s own Jon Ponder, reacting on Facebook to Sen. Ted Cruz’s reading of the Dr. Suess classic, “Green Eggs and Ham.” Another FB friend dubbed the C-Span broadcast, “Tea Party porn.”
Home Prices Rising, Mostly
7.1%
The rate at which home prices have risen over the past quarter, but not all markets are doing well. “Walkable urban” is hot, while “drivable suburban” lags. Overbuilding in the latter category was largely responsible for the recent mortgage meltdown.
Might as Well Laugh: Indian Comedy Video About Rape
AIB, an Indian sketch comedy group, put together this video that settles once and for all who is responsible for rape.
It only hurts when you laugh.
A High School Named for a Klansman?
Boy, white people did some wacky stuff during the Civil Rights era. Here’s one example.
In 1959, after being compelled by the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Topeka Board of Education to stop maintaining separate “but equal” public schools, the Confederate Daughters of America (CDA) in Jacksonville, Fla. exacted revenge. They led a successful drive to name a public high school after none other than Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
Spiteful and childish move, amirite? I bet you’re thinking it didn’t take long to correct that little work of malice. Well, you’d be wrong. Because to this day, students in Jacksonville continue to graduate from Forrest High.
Sure, over the years, there have been various attempts to have the name changed. After all, Forrest, a Tennessee native, had no relationship with Jacksonville. In fact, he never even visited the town. The CDA just looked around for the worst example of a white guy they could find, and there, like a shimmering star, was Nathan Bedford Forrest.
A Rose is Not a Rose If FOX Calls It Obamacare
5 points
How much Republican approval of health care reform increased when FOX News survey administrators changed the question from asking about “Obamacare” to the “Affordable Care Act.” Democratic support only jumped 1 percent, while Independents improved by 4 percent. To clarify, Obamacare and the ACA are the same thing.
Guns in America: “There’s Something Wrong Here”
“This is not America. This is not Washington, D.C. This is not good.”
