...For listening to this retarded cunt, Michelle Malkin (who said that the WWII internment of Japanese Americans was a great idea)
And caving in to her most recent screed. According to Michelle Malkin, Rachel Ray's scarf in the Dunkin Donut ad below was "too Middle Eastern" and made it easier for Dunkin Donuts to suicide bomb delicious confectioneries in the stomach's of America (I made that last part up.)
So it was with some dismay that I learned last week that Dunkin' Donuts spokeswoman Rachael Ray, the ubiquitous TV hostess, posed for one of the company's ads in what appeared to be a black-and-white keffiyeh.
The keffiyeh, for the clueless, is the traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad. Popularized by Yasser Arafat and a regular adornment of Muslim terrorists appearing in beheading and hostage-taking videos, the apparel has been mainstreamed by both ignorant (and not so ignorant) fashion designers, celebrities and left-wing icons.
Here is Rachel Ray's pic from the ad with Dunkin Donut's apology.
‘‘In a recent online ad, Rachael Ray is wearing a black-and-white silk scarf with a paisley design. It was selected by her stylist for the advertising shoot. Absolutely no symbolism was intended. However, given the possibility of misperception, we are no longer using the commercial.’’
Why do conservatives, after nearly a decade of social, economic and foreign policy failure still have this kind of power?
If I was Rachel Ray I'd tell DD to eat my fucking donut hole.
As Obama begins to shed the filth that was Hillary and the Democratic primary and heads towards the general, he continues to be evaluated through his "problems" with various demographics.
Obama's women problem
Obama's working class problem
Obama's rural problem
The truth is these group's have problems with Obama because of their own fucking ignorance.
Women believe that Hillary failed because she's a woman and not because she's a spineless, war-mongering self-obsessive. They think McCain won't overturn abortion because he's a "maverick."
Working class people who think Clinton, being a $100 millionaire who can't use a coffee machine or a gas pump really gets them deserve four more years of being chewed up and spit out by our capitalistic machine.
And
I won't even touch rural whites.
And now the newest bullshit issue is Obama's Jewish problem.
Email smears going around questioning Obama's committment to Israel have forced him to adopt a more hard-line love for Israel with less of the nuance he seems to bring to other issues.
Some Jewish voters are turned off by his willingness to negotiate with countries like Iran and Syria. Others reject Obama because of e-mails spreading false rumors about him.
You know, the same shit every President ever has done is now a problem because Black Madrassa, my brother's nickname for Barack Obama, is the candidate.
Pssst. Have you heard? I have. I heard that Barack Obama once said there has to be “an end” to the Israeli “occupation” of the West Bank “that began in 1967.” Yikes!
Pssst. Have you heard? I have. I heard that Barack Obama said that not only must Israel be secure, but that any peace agreement “must establish Palestine as a homeland for the Palestinian people.” Yikes!
Pssst. Have you heard? I have. I heard that Barack Obama once said “the establishment of the state of Palestine is long overdue. The Palestinian people deserve it.” Yikes! Yikes! Yikes!
Those are the kind of rumors one can hear circulating among American Jews these days about whether Barack Obama harbors secret pro-Palestinian leanings. I confess: All of the above phrases are accurate. I did not make them up.
There’s just one thing: None of them were uttered by Barack Obama. They are all direct quotes from President George W. Bush in the last two years. Mr. Bush, long hailed as a true friend of Israel, said all those things.
It took months of liberal digging and prodding until they forced Hagee's record out into the open and made McCain reject Hagee's endorsement after actively seeking it.
But what can you expect in this country when white radicalism is the norm. This is a country that had picnics around bodies of black men swinging from trees. Fuck a MySpace, killing blacks was the original social network.
Thomas Friedman had another point,
Personally, as an American Jew, I don’t vote for president on the basis of who will be the strongest supporter of Israel. I vote for who will make America strongest. It’s not only because this is my country, first and always, but because the single greatest source of support and protection for Israel is an America that is financially and militarily strong, and globally respected. Nothing would imperil Israel more than an enfeebled, isolated America.
THANK YOU. Hyphen-Americans should care more about America and less about the hyphen. Why is it that Israel gets its own unique fucking consideration as a foreign policy issue?
Why do Jewish/Israeli-AMERICANS worry first about Israel?
I'm Carribean/American and no one has explained their jerk chicken/shrimp roti policy to me yet. Can I get a free trip to Trini Carnival in 2009? Can John McCain do the dutty wine with a Red Stripe in hand/ And we make Machel Montano's "Craziness" the national anthem?
Also, what do politicians think about Nigeria, Iceland or Australia? Oh what's that? Nobody gives a fuck.
I understand that Israel is in a geopolitical shit zone that needs constant monitoring and support but they are not our perfect and holy ally.
Our blind support of and refusal to seriously criticize Israel does more harm than good. Israel is a country that has been exposed as a nation that SPIES ON AMERICA.
(Worth watching)
Think of another Middle Eastern country that could do that and still receive more foreign aid than any other nation in the world.
Yet Jewish people still insist on supporting candidates that enrage the Middle East and give Israel carte blanche.
If you care more about Israel than America did George Bush really make your country safer? Is that region of the world better off now than it was 8 years ago?
I understand Obama's need to fight double standards and ignorance at every corner he turns but these smears on his real record force him to take positions that alienate him with those who realize that Israel is flawed, like every country in the world.
But the resistance toward Mr. Obama appears to be rooted in something more than factual misperception; even those with an accurate understanding of Mr. Obama share the hesitations. In dozens of interviews, South Florida Jews questioned his commitment to Israel — even some who knew he earns high marks from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which lobbies the United States government on behalf of stronger ties between the U.S. and Israel.
“You watch George Bush for a day, and you know where he stands,” said Rabbi Jonathan Berkun of the Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center.
Many here suspect Mr. Obama of being too cozy with Palestinians, while others accuse him of having Muslim ties, even though they know that his father was born Muslim and became an atheist, and that Mr. Obama embraced Christianity as a young man. In Judaism, religion is a fixed identity across generations.
Anyone that thinks Obama has any racial advantage in his run for presidency needs to peek out their window.
From his first day at Morehouse College — the country's only institution of higher learning dedicated to the education of black men — Joshua Packwood has been a standout.
His popularity got him elected dorm president as a freshman. His looks and physique made him a fashion-show favorite. His intellect made him a Rhodes Scholar finalist. His work ethic landed him a job at the prestigious investment banking firm Goldman Sachs in New York City.
But it's his skin that has made all of this an anomaly. This month, Packwood is set to take the stage and address his classmates as the first white valedictorian in Morehouse's 141-year history.
For all the hope and excitement Obama's candidacy is generating, some of his field workers, phone-bank volunteers and campaign surrogates are encountering a raw racism and hostility that have gone largely unnoticed -- and unreported -- this election season. Doors have been slammed in their faces. They've been called racially derogatory names (including the white volunteers). And they've endured malicious rants and ugly stereotyping from people who can't fathom that the senator from Illinois could become the first African American president.
I'm trying to avoid this election since it's giving me an aneurysm, but this video is the first thing that actually made me laugh out loud in regards to this whole debacle. Watch the whole thing.
Sure this is sad in a very vague and fleeting way, until you think of all the real suffering in the world, but what really gets me is all the horse-racing apologists on the ESPN comment page who try to ignore the fact that horse racing is destructive and unnatural to horses.
"Cruelty is an inherent part of the horse racing industry. Thousands of horses are produced annually, from which a few racers are chosen, the rest blown away like chaff in the wind. The big money is in racing the 2 and 3 year olds, for whom training begins at 1½, before their bodies are fully developed and their growth plates have closed. Unnatural weight is put on their backs, concussive stress on their bones, and they are forced to submit to an overly strict training regimen. Nightmarish injuries like on-the-track fractures leave them finished by the age of 4–6, when they are barely mature. Decisions about their fate are made in the interest of the bottom line dollar, not their health. Injured animals are loaded up on drugs to run one more race.
"The unnatural stresses inherent in competing so aggressively and at such a young age also engender problems such as gastric ulceration and pulmonary (lung field) bleeding, not observed in horses worked at reasonable levels. These health and injury problems once again necessitate — economically — the use of drugs to maintain the horse’s racing value (but not well-being).
I hate Jeremiah Wright. Not because I like Obama, but because he represents the selfish, useless, backward looking, blame whitey, anti-accountability, short-term solution thinking of old guard black institutions.
I think I saw some people burning dollars by the soup kitchen in my hood.
Fucking disgraceful. I think it's time we all stop pretending that rap speaks to everyday black people anymore than a board meeting at Exxon speaks to the everyday white person.
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