On Thursday night he told reporters in Orlando, Fla.: “We ought to have an immediate, very clear monitoring of our borders and particularly to make sure if there’s any unusual activity of Pakistanis coming into the country.”
The fuck does immigration have to do with this issue. This woman's assassination brings up a dozen issues that have SHIT to do with evil Mexicans terrorists.
Not to be outdone, Fuckabee added...
“We have seen what happens in the Musharraf government,” Mr. Huckabee said on MSNBC. “He has told us he does not have enough control of those eastern borders near Afghanistan to be able go after the terrorists. But on the other hand, did he not want us going in, so what do we do?” Those borders are actually on the west, not the east.
If you can't interpret major world events probably or read a fucking map, you don't need to be in office. The fact that this man has a chance at the presidency depresses me to no end.
Jim Watson, the scientist who helped unravel the mysteries of DNA, stirred up a shitstorm a few months ago when he stated he was 'inherently gloomy about the prospects of Africa," because Africa was stuck with all that inferior Negro DNA.
After a career of legendary work, followed by a string of prejudice comments, he finally got called out for one of them and had to retire in shame.
Willian Saletan, a hack at Slate.com tried to defend Watson's position, only to be owned when he realized that the people he cited were funded by a Segregation group. Whoops!
Then the New Yorker and NY Times pointed out that intelligence is environment and also related to nutrition and other obvious facts.
If European genes conferred an advantage, we would expect that the smartest blacks would have substantial European heritage. But when a group of investigators sought out the very brightest black children in the Chicago school system and asked them about the race of their parents and grandparents, these children were found to have no greater degree of European ancestry than blacks in the population at large.
A commenter on the NY Times blog said it best.
"Elementary genetic code, my dear Dr. Watson. Looks like it black-fired on you."
Jim Watson, your colored DNA is the Snitch of the Week.
If I had the time, I'd breakdown a different Republican candidate a week. But every week more and more shit leaks out that makes drinking my way out of an ocean seem more plausible.
The bullshit that we call our media was quick to jump on Huckabee a kind of innocent "Aww gee shucks" kind of candidate until it started becoming more and more apparent that Huckabee is even more of a naively ignorant Christian imperialist than Bush.
All we need is another president who doesn't understand the importance of recognizing evolution.
I can't wait until we are all controlled remotely by Chinese scientists because half the country still questions the existence of naturally observable phenomenon.
The particular instance of insanity that should have ended his campaign in a sane world was his effort to have a serial rapist released on parole, who then went on to rape and kill again.
Little Rock, Ark -- As governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee aggressively pushed for the early release of a convicted rapist despite being warned by numerous women that the convict had sexually assaulted them or their family members, and would likely strike again. The convict went on to rape and murder at least one other woman.
Confidential Arkansas state government records, including letters from these women, obtained by the Huffington Post and revealed publicly for the first time, directly contradict the version of events now being put forward by Huckabee.
You know, because Republicans are so tough on crime...
While on the campaign trail, Huckabee has claimed that he supported the 1999 release of Wayne Dumond because, at the time, he had no good reason to believe that the man represented a further threat to the public. Thanks to Huckabee's intervention, conducted in concert with a right-wing tabloid campaign on Dumond's behalf, Dumond was let out of prison 25 years before his sentence would have ended.
"There's nothing any of us could ever do," Huckabee said Sunday on CNN when asked to reflect on the horrific outcome caused by the prisoner's release. "None of us could've predicted what [Dumond] could've done when he got out."
It's really sad Republicans can't present a more respectable set of candidates. This "Us V. Them" dichotomy is only worsened when people have to chose a candidate out of the Mike Huckabee's of the world.
For pointing out the documents that link Huckabee to this crime, the Huffington Post is the Snitch of the Week.
The longer Hillary stays in this race the more the halo of the Bill Clinton's infallibility diminishes.
The most current issue is the Bill's statement that he was against the war from the beginning. Whoa, Mr. First Black President, let's check the facts here.
As Blair has said, in war there will be civilian was well as military casualties. There is, too, as both Britain and America agree, some risk of Saddam using or transferring his weapons to terrorists. There is as well the possibility that more angry young Muslims can be recruited to terrorism. But if we leave Iraq with chemical and biological weapons, after 12 years of defiance, there is a considerable risk that one day these weapons will fall into the wrong hands and put many more lives at risk than will be lost in overthrowing Saddam.
WRONG!
And then Clinton said,
Soon after the invasion (3/30/03), Clinton appeared on CBS's 60 Minutes with former Senator Robert Dole and endorsed the war, saying, "Senator, unlike some of your Republican friends during Kosovo, I support our troops in Iraq and the president."
You know, I have repeatedly defended President Bush against the left on Iraq, even though I think he should have waited until the U.N. inspections were over. I don't believe he went in there for oil. We didn't go in there for imperialist or financial reasons. We went in there because he bought the Wolfowitz-Cheney analysis that the Iraqis would be better off, we could shake up the authoritarian Arab regimes in the Middle East, and our leverage to make peace between the Palestinians and Israelis would be increased.
At the moment the U.N. inspectors were kicked out in '98, this is the proper language: there were substantial quantities of botulinum and aflatoxin, as I recall, some bioagents, I believe there were those, and VX and ricin, chemical agents, unaccounted for. Keep in mind, that's all we ever had to work on. We also thought there were a few missiles, some warheads, and maybe a very limited amount of nuclear laboratory capacity.
After 9/11, let's be fair here, if you had been President, you'd think, Well, this fellow bin Laden just turned these three airplanes full of fuel into weapons of mass destruction, right? Arguably they were super-powerful chemical weapons. Think about it that way. So, you're sitting there as President, you're reeling in the aftermath of this, so, yeah, you want to go get bin Laden and do Afghanistan and all that. But you also have to say, Well, my first responsibility now is to try everything possible to make sure that this terrorist network and other terrorist networks cannot reach chemical and biological weapons or small amounts of fissile material. I've got to do that.
That's why I supported the Iraq thing. There was a lot of stuff unaccounted for. So I thought the President had an absolute responsibility to go to the U.N. and say, "Look, guys, after 9/11, you have got to demand that Saddam Hussein lets us finish the inspection process." You couldn't responsibly ignore [the possibility that] a tyrant had these stocks. I never really thought he'd [use them]. What I was far more worried about was that he'd sell this stuff or give it away. Same thing I've always been worried about North Korea's nuclear and missile capacity. I don't expect North Korea to bomb South Korea, because they know it would be the end of their country. But if you can't feed yourself, the temptation to sell this stuff is overwhelming. So that's why I thought Bush did the right thing to go back. When you're the President, and your country has just been through what we had, you want everything to be accounted for.
This is the same weak argument Republicans have made and been ripped for. Bill Clinton shouldn't get away with it.
Bill Clinton spits a lot of centrist bullshit, in order to avoid stepping on any toes and balance the political seesaw and Hillary is an even less gracious practitioner of this same type of spineless politics. The more you look back on their time in office, the more shady corporate and financial ties start to pop up. And with Obama catching her in every early polling state, the Republican Swift Boat attacks are starting, but they're from Hillary, not the Republicans.
Every political season the topic of income disparity rears its head and receives the same treatment as other issues (evolution, failure of the War on Drugs, environmental neglect) that somehow have morphed into debatable issues despite their factual nature.
When Warren Buffet pays a lower tax rate than his secretary, something's wrong.
But Buffett, the second-richest man in America after Bill Gates, according to Forbes magazine, said recent tax law changes have tended to benefit people like him.
"Dynastic wealth, the enemy of a meritocracy, is on the rise. Equality of opportunity has been on the decline," Buffett said. "A progressive and meaningful estate tax is needed to curb the movement of a democracy toward plutocracy."
Buffett, the chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway questioned any effort to further cut taxes for the wealthy.
"Further shifting of this burden away from the super-rich is not the way to go," he said.
"In a country that prides itself on equality of opportunity, it's becoming anything but that as the gap between the super-rich and the middle class is widening."
I never understood how Republicans, who own the base of the rural poor voters, campaign for the hoarding of wealth by the megarich, with no political consequences. Amazing.
Rich people must hate Warren Buffet like rappers hate informants. Warren, for spitting that truth, you are the Snitch of the Week.
I'm riding hard with the Cowboys this year, as I have for many years, so it's particularly pleasurable to watch TO emerge as a team player, coach lover and overall good sport. It was also good to see him with my other favorite NFL player, Primetime.
Terrell Owens, unusually quiet this season, but never at a loss for words when the occasion required it, responded forcefully Wednesday to comments made last weekend by former Dallas Cowboys receiver Keyshawn Johnson, now an analyst on ESPN's "Sunday NFL Countdown."
On the show, Johnson said he believed former Cowboys coach Bill Parcells -- now also an analyst with ESPN -- deserves credit for what the Dallas team looks like now, with a 12-1 record.
I was part of the Bill Parcell's cult for a bit when he came to the Cowboys and I thought he was going to bring us back. What he actually did was hold us back with stuffy playcalling, unimaginative offense and old-world authoritarian coaching tactics.
Then I realized he became the Lloyd Carr of the NFL and lost touch with the game of football in 2007.
Wade Phillips came in and cut out all the petty bullshit, such as refusing to mention TO by name and scowling on the sidelines like a mean ass drunk uncle.
Week after week Wade Phillips continues to look like he's banging the baddest chick in town and doesn't even remember who he got her number.
His happiness is contagious and sure as hell did more for the team's chemistry and record than 4 years of Parcell's acting bitter. Keyshawn couldn't keep up with the NFL and bounced to the booth, just take your ESPN money and stay quiet.
UPDATE:
Keyshawn Johnson is officially a fucking idiot. Look at this godawful interview he had earlier this year with Chad Johnson.
Keyshawn, who was one of the league's most selfish and overrated players, has the nerve to criticize Chad Johnson while doing his best little kid impression of a "serious interviewer."
Keyshawn was washed up as a player and now he is taking out his bitterness of not being in the NFL anymore out on the game's top receivers. Chad may not be able to talk now because his team is bad but TO can and he put the fire on Keyshawn.
The intellectually dishonest and walking dinosaur of a columnist for the NYTimes, David "White Man's Burden" Brooks, had a column where he attempted to further whitewash the pathetic hagiography of Ronald Reagan's presidency.
Lionizing Reagan is as high on the Republican pasttime list as closeted gay sex and war-mongering, but Brooks actually tried to spin Reagan as pro-black.
My nigga on the trigga Bob Herbert and my Jew with a clue, Paul Krugman put Brooks' revisionism in check.
In reality, Reagan strategists decided to spend the week following the 1980 Republican convention courting African-American votes. Reagan delivered a major address at the Urban League, visited Vernon Jordan in the hospital where he was recovering from gunshot wounds, toured the South Bronx and traveled to Chicago to meet with the editorial boards of Ebony and Jet magazines.
So there’s a campaign on to exonerate Ronald Reagan from the charge that he deliberately made use of Nixon’s Southern strategy. When he went to Philadelphia, Mississippi, in 1980, the town where the civil rights workers had been murdered, and declared that “I believe in states’ rights,” he didn’t mean to signal support for white racists. It was all just an innocent mistake.
Indeed, you do really have to feel sorry for Reagan. He just kept making those innocent mistakes.
When he went on about the welfare queen driving her Cadillac, and kept repeating the story years after it had been debunked, some people thought he was engaging in race-baiting. But it was all just an innocent mistake.
When, in 1976, he talked about working people angry about the “strapping young buck” using food stamps to buy T-bone steaks at the grocery store, he didn’t mean to play into racial hostility. True, as The New York Times reported,
The ex-Governor has used the grocery-line illustration before, but in states like New Hampshire where there is scant black population, he has never used the expression “young buck,” which, to whites in the South, generally denotes a large black man.
But the appearance that Reagan was playing to Southern prejudice was just an innocent mistake.
Similarly, when Reagan declared in 1980 that the Voting Rights Act had been “humiliating to the South,” he didn’t mean to signal sympathy with segregationists. It was all an innocent mistake.
In 1982, when Reagan intervened on the side of Bob Jones University, which was on the verge of losing its tax-exempt status because of its ban on interracial dating, he had no idea that the issue was so racially charged. It was all an innocent mistake.
And the next year, when Reagan fired three members of the Civil Rights Commission, it wasn’t intended as a gesture of support to Southern whites. It was all an innocent mistake.
Poor Reagan. He just kept on making those innocent mistakes, again and again and again.
PS: It has been pointed out to me that Reagan opposed making Martin Luther King Day a national holiday, giving in only when Congress passed a law creating the holiday by a veto-proof majority. But he really didn’t mean to disrespect the civil rights movement - it was just an innocent mistake.
Andrew would not survive very long. On June 21, one day after his arrival, he and fellow activists Michael Schwerner and James Chaney disappeared. Their bodies wouldn’t be found until August. All had been murdered, shot to death by whites enraged at the very idea of people trying to secure the rights of African-Americans.
The murders were among the most notorious in American history. They constituted Neshoba County’s primary claim to fame when Reagan won the Republican Party’s nomination for president in 1980. The case was still a festering sore at that time. Some of the conspirators were still being protected by the local community. And white supremacy was still the order of the day.
That was the atmosphere and that was the place that Reagan chose as the first stop in his general election campaign. The campaign debuted at the Neshoba County Fair in front of a white and, at times, raucous crowd of perhaps 10,000, chanting: “We want Reagan! We want Reagan!”
Reagan was the first presidential candidate ever to appear at the fair, and he knew exactly what he was doing when he told that crowd, “I believe in states’ rights.”
Reagan apologists have every right to be ashamed of that appearance by their hero, but they have no right to change the meaning of it, which was unmistakable. Commentators have been trying of late to put this appearance by Reagan into a racially benign context.
That won’t wash. Reagan may have been blessed with a Hollywood smile and an avuncular delivery, but he was elbow deep in the same old race-baiting Southern strategy of Goldwater and Nixon.
Everybody watching the 1980 campaign knew what Reagan was signaling at the fair. Whites and blacks, Democrats and Republicans — they all knew. The news media knew. The race haters and the people appalled by racial hatred knew. And Reagan knew.
He was tapping out the code. It was understood that when politicians started chirping about “states’ rights” to white people in places like Neshoba County they were saying that when it comes down to you and the blacks, we’re with you.
And Reagan meant it. He was opposed to the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was the same year that Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney were slaughtered. As president, he actually tried to weaken the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He opposed a national holiday for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He tried to get rid of the federal ban on tax exemptions for private schools that practiced racial discrimination. And in 1988, he vetoed a bill to expand the reach of federal civil rights legislation.
Congress overrode the veto.
Reagan also vetoed the imposition of sanctions on the apartheid regime in South Africa. Congress overrode that veto, too.
Throughout his career, Reagan was wrong, insensitive and mean-spirited on civil rights and other issues important to black people. There is no way for the scribes of today to clean up that dismal record.
Historical white-washer David Brooks had very little to say after that. Please get him the fuck of the NYTimes Op-Ed page. Give Kristoff his column.
For clearing the record on Reagan's legacy and the context of his State's Right speech in Nebosha, Krugman and Herbert are the Snitch of the Week.
I blame myself,” she tells Life & Style Weekly magazine. “What mother wouldn’t?”
“I wish I’d been there more while she was touring,” Spears says. “But I couldn’t be. I had the other kids to look after.”
Spears, the mother of three children with ex-husband Jamie Spears, is writing a memoir about raising her family in the public eye. “Pop Culture Mom: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World” is set for release May 11, which is Mother’s Day.
Of course she probably just said that to promote her new memior.
Of course, like Michael Richard and Imus, Dog is not a racist and never heard of those words until they came out of his mouth.
"I did not mean to add yet another slap in the face to an entire race of people who have brought so many gifts to this world," he said. "I am ashamed of myself and I pledge to do whatever I can to repair this damage I have caused."
Chapman said, "My sincerest, heartfelt apologies go out to every person I have offended for my regrettable use of very inappropriate language. I am deeply disappointed in myself for speaking out of anger to my son and using such a hateful term in a private phone conversation."
Chapman said the clip was completely taken out of context.
"I was disappointed in his choice of a friend, not due to her race, but her character," he said. "However, I should have never used that term."
It turns out his son was the one who recorded the audio and sold it to the press to get revenge on his dad.
Damn Tucker Chapman.
Dog Junior, for blowing up the spot of the man who handed you the silver spoon, or at least a bronze spoon, you are the Snitch of the Week.
It looks great. The original graphic novel memoir about a free-spirited little girl growing up during the Islamic Revolution in Iran and her coming of age in Europe, made Start Snitching get some dirt in his eye. Ahem.
It's particularly important to witness these humanized stories of Persians/Arabs/Muslims, etc when our government spent 3 FUCKING YEARS lying about Iran's nuclear capabilities in order to demonize them and start another war.
I don't know why there is an explosion near Omar, but with David Simon writing I know it's for a good reason.
This season focuses on the media and why they fail to deliver the messages they are entrusted to deliver. With the 2008 Elections picking up steam and the media making all the same mistakes they made in 2000 and 2004 when they presented Bush and Gore as political equivalents, it will be a joy to watch Simon eviscerate the newspaper industry he worked in as he did with the public school system and political process.
The Wire duo of Simon and Burns also have an Iraq War miniseries, Generation Kill, due in 2008.
Raekwon recently had voiced his displeasure with 8 Diagrams’ musical direction. Are you happy with how the album came out?
That s**t is wack. I heard RZA was changing some of the beats around the last minute. I didn’t hear that. I don’t know what y’all listening to out there. I never heard it. I’m with Raekwon.
Ghost is right. Whatever RZA did to the album sucked. There is no cohesion or melody anywhere to be found. The album is just plain awful. I'm scared of the first week sales.
On the other hand, Ghostface's new album is better than I ever expected. Who'd think Ghost would have anything interesting to spit after dropping 2 albums in 2006?
Also, this Troutman/Bootsy Collins hybrid "Sensual Seduction" video from Snoop is creative, hilarious and surprisingly decent as a song.
When was the last time those 3 words appeared together with anything rap related or I wasn't shitting on Snoop for his ignorance?
Kudos Snoop.
Can someone please tell me what project this is off of?
A year and a half ago, when Ben Wallace left the Pistons to sign a four-year, $60-million contract with the Bulls, he said he almost immediately felt the target on his back grow larger, both on and off the court.
"If you sign a big contract, everybody knows," Wallace said. "They're going to print it in the paper. It's on ESPN. You can go online and check player salaries and all that. You're a target. We're all targets. You've just got to protect yourself the best way you can."
Even for the chiseled, 6-foot-9, 240-pound Wallace, a man who looks more like a bodyguard than someone who might need one, that could mean adding a security detail. Although Wallace said he doesn't currently have a bodyguard, he added that he "might have one tomorrow" after seeing what happened to Walker, Curry, Robinson and now Taylor over the course of the past six months.
"Professional athletes, most of us came from the streets. We feel like we know the streets and can pretty much protect ourselves," Wallace said. "But now we're in a position where we're being targeted, and the stakes are just too high. So, yeah, you might need that big guy standing next to you for a while."
During the initial confusion/reaction stage, Deion broke it down the best. Can Deion replace Sharpton? Please?
Not to mention tall stories of dude's gunning for him in Miami. Luckily, we won't hear anything else demonizing Taylor because it seems that he was killed by some dumb jigs he let cut his lawn.
Peep their pics below.
Eric Rivera, 17, Charles Wardlow, 18, Jason Mitchell, 19, and Venjah Hunte, 20, were charged with Taylor's slaying, home invasion with a firearm or another deadly weapon and armed burglary. Police said the suspects were looking for a simple burglary, but it turned bloody when they were startled to find Taylor home.
...The suspects all have prior arrests, according to Lee County Sheriff's Office records.
On Rivera's MySpace page, he posed for pictures lying in bed with $100 bills strewn atop him and fanning a wad of cash in front of his face. The page is wallpapered with images of money, the text atop it green. The 17-year-old sandwiches his alias, Mr. Florida, between dollar signs and lists counting money among his interests...
...Police remain tightlipped about how the suspects wound up at Taylor's home. The Miami Herald reported Mitchell cut the player's lawn and did other chores at the house and that Taylor's sister Sasha dates Wardlow's cousin. The Naples Daily News quoted a woman who identified herself as Jason Mitchell's mother as saying her son was at a birthday party at Taylor's home within the past two months.
Sharpstein said Taylor's sister had a 21st birthday party at her brother's home on Thanksgiving weekend.
That's why I don't fuck with people with MySpace pages...
This proves a gospel I have been preaching for a hot minute.
"When you have money, get the fuck out of the hood."
Start Snitching Bible 1:1
Not just in address, but in mentality and association. Don't let hood trash cut your lawn or in your house and put your machete away, this isn't the West Indies.
Imagine what that drops to without his salary. I'm definitely not trying to blame the dude, it's a tragic situation, but hopefully it inspires some athletes to let go of these foolish notions of hood loyalty and upgrade that zip code.
Star and Bucwild always ended their shows with this refrain,
"May your children speak proper English and the gates that surround your property protect you from common ghetto trash."
