"Screw Us and We Multiply"

David Weigel has a collection of 11 Anti-Tea Party/Anti-Koch Brothers signs at his Slate.com site.  They're pretty damn good.  My favorite is of the Union Thug in pink.  The site is available here.

Apparently, this sign was necessary

I got this from stumbleupon, so I'm having a hard time linking to the original story, but still...

Too Funny not to post (NSFW)

Why I like America (Photo)

This is not to say that a similar sign wouldn't be found somewhere else in the world (it would, by the way). But the fact that it's here, the fact that someone thought it was important enough to do, thought it was important enough to sacrifice for, to help someone else out especially during these tough economic times, warms the heart.


By the way, in case you're wondering, Andrew Sullivan had it first, and the store is in Portland, Oregon.

Leave it to the tone deaf white guys II (Racist Toy Edition)

Yet another endearing image from the CPAC Convention:


I wish I could say I was surprised by this. But when people like this tell you who they are, listen to them.

For the record, I pulled this from Wonkette. Wonkette was one of the targets of Jonathan Chait's misplaced ire last week.

Well, Wonkette took a shot at him today:

Here, Jonathan Chait, add this to your files.

Leave it to the tone deaf white guys...

I've been enjoying Jonathan Chait's material recently, particularly on the Health Care Debate, where he's been enlightening and insightful.

But that doesn't mean he's insightful 100% of the time on all things.

Take this photo of the President talking to his (all white in this case) advisers while his feet are up on the Resolute Desk. It's gotten all the necessary umbrage from the Wingnut bloggers, about the President's "attitude"


Wonkette blasted right back, showing a photo of George Bush doing the same thing to the same desk (of course with different, but similarly colored, advisers), and said: "But don’t worry, it’s still okay if the white guy does it."


Jonathan Chait then decried accusations of racism.

It's a good slam. But why must it be accompanied by an accusation of racism? Oh, sure, it's entirely possible that many of the people forwarding this email have created a double standard based on racism. But isn't it more likely that they've created a double standard based on partisanship? It's not as if racial animus is the only explanation for wildly hypocritical right-wing attacks on a Democratic president. I could certainly imagine the same outraged emails being circulated if Bill Clinton were president.

Jonathan, I got some news for you.

You can call something racism, if it's actually racism.

I'm not at all surprised Jonathan Chait didn't pick up on this because...let's face it...he's a white guy who's never had to deal with racism at all, much less the subtle knife in the back kind that...frankly, I deal with every damn day of my life.

Even Keith Olbermann pointed this out a couple of weeks ago, and mad props to him for doing so. In speaking about Black men in particular, when they, in this case the wingnuts, say "arrogant" or decry "attitude" they are really decrying the fact that this Black man does not know his proper place. And black people know what they're really trying to say, all without saying it.

Chait's ears are not tuned. Mine are. My Dad's are. Every black man or woman you know has their ears tuned to @#$% this.

When you say "arrogant", or "uppity", we know you mean "n----r".

We've been listening to white folks for three-hundred years. For us, it's been a matter of survival. We know what you mean, when you say it. We have to.

More racism...yay!

Courtesy of TPM. Looks like a new Tea Party Emailer just got sent out:


Chris Matthews may have forgotten he was black. I sure as hell didn't, and neither did these clowns.

In case you doubted it... (PHOTO)

This is who they are...

The following is intentional. I have collected a small smattering of images from today's Teabaggin' Parties from the Washington Independents' Aaron Weiner and David Weigel, as well as some stuff from Daily Kos.

These images, of course, show the worst of the worst. Protestors advocating violence, or racism, or toeing that fine line.

These images do not show all protesters. There were those who merely wanted to protest taxation and the deficit. I merely find these people deluded, not dangerous. And it is danger of which we speak here.


Yeah, let's link our deadly enemy, the one we might have to go to war with, with the duly elected President of the United States.

And yes, the sign says "While Some Kenyan tries to Destroy America". Forget the "In Living Color" quote.


Anything to make the President look alien and foreign.

And of course, my "favorite" for the day...

Apparently, it was from Chicago.


Are you sure you want to go there?

Obama Celebrating Veteran's Day...

President-Elect Obama took a moment to honor our veterans in Chicago with Tammy Duckworth, Secretary of Veterans Affairs for the State of Illinois (and my own choice for the Cabinet position of the same name). Here are the photos from the Transition website.