Update:
They’re coming out with Lego Lord of the Rings now after all the others – Lego Harry Potter, Lego Indiana Jones, Lego Star Wars.
Lord of the Rings. Huh. I hope they have LEGOlas the elf in there.
Honest. I am not making this up.
(h/t to Inscrutable Half-Breed)
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Gingrich:
Today, we’re announcing the 2012 launch of White Americans for Gingrich.
There’s no better time than now to consider the tremendous progress we’ve made through the sacrifice of so many—or a better time to commit to meeting the very real challenges we face right now.
Visit whiteamericans.newtgingrich.com for more information about all the ways you can get involved—from attending PWCU† organizing workshops to becoming a Congregation Captain—and say you’re ready to keep making history. Thanks, and see you out there.
Well that’s just what you expect a racist old cracker like Gingrich to say, isn’t it?
Sure it is, step on the black man, that’s the way of it, isn’t it?
But Gingrich never said it. He may have displayed spectacularly bad grooming and judgment this election year, but he’s not that stupid.
What sounds repulsive if Newt were to have said it seems perfectly acceptable to the president. If a white candidate said what Obama said I’d drop him like a rock – and I’m white. Said Obama:
Today, we’re announcing the 2012 launch of African Americans for Obama.
There’s no better time than African American History Month to consider the tremendous progress we’ve made through the sacrifice of so many—or a better time to commit to meeting the very real challenges we face right now.
Visit africanamericans.barackobama.com for more information about all the ways you can get involved—from attending HBCU organizing workshops to becoming a Congregation Captain—and say you’re ready to keep making history. Thanks, and see you out there.
Non-African-Americans need not apply.
The expectation is that it should be allowed and never commented on as I’m doing here because “Gosh-darn-it, it’s obvious that 75% of the whites out there just hate blacks.”
I don’t feel that way at all. But I’m sure tired of the idea of a “we blacks have to stick together” club, that somehow there’s some deeper sharing going on because of skin color, or that any failure on the part of someone who is black must be because of racism and oppression, rather than admit to the possibility that some bad life decisions might have been made.
And I certainly don’t feel especially close to any other whites because they’re white, too. I don’t know a stranger off the street from Adam. Sure we might be friends but we might absolutely hate each other’s guts, too. There’s no sense of shared brotherhood there.
You go look at white trailer trash sometime and no one says “Oh, there’s a lot of people there because they’re beaten down.” No one says that. They just look at them and say “Well that there is one sorry-ass sonofabitch.”
† Predominantly White Colleges and Universities
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This is enough to really piss me off. Georgia students using food stamps.
“With me being a senior and living on campus for the past four years, I honestly got tired of paying that amount of money per semester just to eat,” student Taylor Smith told the paper. “I did not even know that I was applicable for food stamps until someone told me about the site and to apply to see if I would get it.”
Added Smith, “Since then, I have saved a ton of money.”
“I got tired of paying that amount of money.” Not, I wasn’t able to get enough food, but she got tired of paying that amount.
“I have saved a ton of money.”
This isn’t a program so you can save some bucks, kid. It’s so you can eat. I ate lots of ramen noodles and worked outside of school. I don’t know where the idea came from that supplemental food programs were so you could go to school and eat for free. Take less classes if you cannot afford it.
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He’s on a roll today, folks.
“And so when I talk about our financial institutions playing by the same rules as folks on Main Street, when I talk about making sure insurance companies aren’t discriminating against those who are already sick, or making sure that unscrupulous lenders aren’t taking advantage of the most vulnerable among us, I do so because I genuinely believe it will make the economy stronger for everybody. But I also do it because I know that far too many neighbors in our country have been hurt and treated unfairly over the last few years, and I believe in God’s command to ‘love thy neighbor as thyself.'” – Obama Lovin’ Himself
Suddenly he cares about college student tuitions, homeowners who never should have been given loans are on his list of people to save, and he’s polishing his christian (yes, I used lowercase) image.
Gotta give him credit – he knows who to bribe and cozy up to. He’s got no sense of the word disingenuous, however.
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Really on a roll…
Agent Dead, Cover-Up Alleged, No Punishment — Holder? It’s ‘Political’
It’s probably racist, too.
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Courtney Love might not be the best parent after all? Dang, that one caught me by surprise.
Have you seen the ad with the black woman who was a police chief in Law and Order?
It’s about some deal about missing black children.
In it, she talks about “Our people…”, meaning blacks.
All I could think of was Kirk Lazarus saying, “What do you mean “you people”?”
And then Alpa Chino saying, “What do you mean “you people”?”
It’s funny how only white people can be racists.
Back in the first couple of months of Hannity and Colmes, when I watched it occasionally, they had this white college girl on talking about racism.
Hannity asked, “What, do you think only white people can be racist” as they were cutting to commercial.
She got this totally confused look on her face and started saying, “Of course…” and it cut out as the commercial came on.
It was pretty darn funny.
Unrelatedly, Soylent Green was asking why I was the only one blogging at DPUD, have you talked the cob loggers into boycotting DPUD?
You dastard!
I would actually never ask them to boycott DPUD. Back when I first got interested in blogging I lurked at A&A:McGoo and DPUD.
Well of course only whites can be racist. Because only whites do things to make the world be a less nice place.
Mentioned somewhere else I can’t remember, but found inciteful as a fix for food stamps: Foodloaf. Served to violent and abusive prisoners at present. Nutritionally complete but tastes pretty terrible I understand. Grocery stores stock a shelf of Foodloaf. Anyone who needs food can take what they need. No stamps, no money, etc. real incentive for the individual’s to find a way to buy something more appealing.
Families with infants are given cards for purchasing formula, juice, or baby food ONLY.
Everyone else gets Foodloaf.
I agree, racism isn’t just confined to white people. We just happen to be the current majority of the population and a nice easy target for the phrase. Two words: La Raza (The Race).
Holder? Unspeakable things come to mind. Not fit for print.
How’s the neck doing?
Ringo’s book, “The Last Centurion” has something like Foodloaf.
It’s an energy type bar chock full of vitamins, minerals and whatnot, enough to keep you alive.
It just tastes like crap so you only eat it to keep from starving.
In that book, Clillary Hinton (or some other such thinly veiled name) is President and her gov’t is acting like global worming is GOING TO KILL US ALL!!!! as the glaciers come down across Canada so there’s famine because farmers are told to act as if it’s warming as it’s coldening.
Hmmmm. Will have to see if that’s for Kindle. Just the thing for an upcoming flight home.
It’s pretty good, except he spends literally half the book explaining stuff that you probably already know.
It’s more or less like reading DPUD or the angrier parts of Ace.
The story sequences are very good and much of the side stuff is good.
The first time I read it I was bored a lot, the second time I skipped a lot of pages as he explained conservatism to me.
verse, the idea of feeding people foodloaf is so awful, so awful, so degrading… I love it.
I firmly believe that people should be able to ask for help, when they have been hit with hard times they ought to be able to ask if they can be given the means to survive – but only at the local level, where their neighbors and community can determine if they truly need help or are just lifelong f*ckups who need to get their sh*t together.
There are many people who have been hit by hard times, myself included, and I received help from my family. At the time I was so depressed after six months of looking for work that I was nearly ready to give up but my family had the guts to say “suck it up and take the lesser jobs that are out there and quit bellyaching”. As it turned out that whole scene was the best opportunity of my life.
More folks need to hear that and be pushed into taking responsibility for their lives. Yes, there are those who are in straights where they don’t even have that option, and I don’t advocate letting them hang but many people should toughen up and do what needs to be done rather than hold their hands out their entire lives while they make a poor showing for themselves.
Big federal government programs are helping no one.
With her being a senior, this offends me as much as her use of food stamps (which is quite a bit offended): “I was applicable for food stamps…” “Applicable?” Really?
And if you give people an entire month to themselves, it’s only natural they start feeling exempt from other social niceties the rest of us feel constrained by, like not being a racist sh*theel. It helps when the media is totally on your side, too, and will never, ever call you on it.
You couldn’t make that stuff up if you tried, couldja? “Applicable” is sheer poetry.
Gawd…. and people still think it’s a great idea to send one’s kid to college.
I will be getting those Legos, just for Legolas 😀
Holder…why in hell’s ring has he not been arrested?? I mean, he won’t get fired, after all.
You seem a mite peeved LK. Is there something you want to get off your chest?
LotR legos eh? I’m guessing they will have sets to build Barad-dur & Orthanc. Gondor too perhaps? I’m drawing a blank on what else they could have.
Got it all off my chest right there.
More than tired of either making responsible choices or living with the consequences of my bad ones and having a certain portion of the population that at a minimum pays no taxes and at a maximum milks the rest of us for all they’re worth.
Half the population votes democrat because half the population pays no taxes. What incentive to vote in true conservatives if it costs you more?
They appoint SCOTUS candidates for life so they will not be influenced by political pressure. So why is it that voters get to stuff their pockets the way congressmen do? Ought to be that tax cuts always apply immediately but entitlements only kick one election cycle later.
Mount Doom and Sauron’s Eye, of course!
Definitely have to have Mount Doom and Sauron’s Tower. Isengard, definitely. Maybe part of Gondor, like one of the prominent buildings. Also, Bag End. Definitely have to have Bag End. And the Inn Of The Green Dragon. Complete with a big mug o’beer, for those old enough.
I took my son to Legoland in Florida in the last couple of weeks, and he noticed the advertisement there for the upcoming Lego LOTR. He began salivating right away, hoping they would have Isengard.