WE ALL HAVE OUR FAVOURITES AS BLACK SHEEP IN THE GOOD OL’ US OF A –THE LAST YEAR WITNESSED MANY CHICKENS COMING HOME TO ROOST, AS WELL AS MANY MORE FOUL (SIC)–YES, OK, UNFAIR TO BIRDS….
TOMASKY HEADS UP GUARDIAN AMERICA, AND HE IS PRESCIENT….AND INSIGHTFUL/INCITEFUL (DEPENDING UPON YOUR IDEOLOGICAL PREFERENCE)
I LOVE HIM….
FROM THE GUARDIAN
Michael Tomasky […]
FROM THE LA TIMES…..
COMMENTS?
Obama the ‘Magic Negro’
The Illinois senator lends himself to white America’s idealized, less-than-real black man.
By David Ehrenstein
L.A.-based DAVID EHRENSTEIN writes about Hollywood and politics.
March 19, 2007
AS EVERY CARBON-BASED life form on this planet surely knows, Barack Obama, the junior Democratic senator from Illinois, is running for president. Since making his announcement, there […]
FROM THE WIRES……OMG, YOUBETCHA!
Palin’s daughter gives birth to son named Tripp
Monday, December 29, 2008
(12-29) 19:30 PST Anchorage, Alaska (AP) –
The daughter of former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has given birth to a son, a magazine reported Monday.
Bristol Palin, 18, gave birth to Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston on Saturday, People magazine reported online. He weighed […]
GOT TO HAND IT TO THE GOP….NEW LOWS EVERY WEEK…….
Republican contest marred by Obama song
Ewen MacAskill in Washington
The Guardian, Monday 29 December 2008
An offensive, racially tinged song entitled Barack the Magic Negro has become an issue in the battle for the leadership of the Republican party.
The song was included in a CD distributed by Chip […]
FROM THE LA TIMES, A SMILE OR TWO, EH, ALL YOU EX-SMOKERS OUT THERE?
Opinion
Obama and smoking
Take it from one ex-smoker: Now is not the time to quit.
By Amy Goldman Koss
December 28, 2008
Rumors persist that President-elect Barack Obama is trying to quit smoking. I hope they aren’t true.
The nation is too precariously balanced right now […]
POOR WOMAN, GLAD THERE WAS NO KID…..
updated 2:10 p.m. EST, Fri December 26, 2008
Police: Woman faked missing baby story to win back ex
STORY HIGHLIGHTS (FOR THOSE WHO CAN’T READ)
Baby was described as having one tooth, mohawk and temporary tattoo
“Riley Buchness” was subject of Christmas Day missing child alert
Meagan McCormic, 22, is in custody, accused of […]
JOEL STEIN IN THE LA TIMES–A THOUGHTFUL BLOG…..
Republicans are blinded by love
Lefties just don’t have the same feeling about America as the hard right does.
Joel Stein
December 26, 2008
I don’t love America. That’s what conservatives are always telling liberals like me. Their love, they insist, is truer, deeper and more complete. Then liberals, like all people […]