Nellcote wrote on Jan 18^th, 2010 at 8:03am:



that's a close one Nellie... I hope the seat goes to a republican, democrats don't know what a majority is anyway... so they really have no use for it...

Riffhard wrote on Jan 17^th, 2010 at 8:30pm:

History?  You wanna talk history?  Let's start by comparing Harry Reid's comments to Trent Lott's.  Reid simply stated a fact:  lighter-skinned blacks who use standard American English rather than BAE (Black American English; a linguistic term; Reid used an archaic form) are more acceptable to white Americans than darker-skinned, BAE-speaking blacks.  The fact on which he was commenting may be racist, but Reid is not racist for acknowledging it.  His comment may be characterized is descriptive rather than normative.

Lott, by contrast, made a normative comment.  He said that he was proud of the fact that Mississippi had supported the segregationist candidate for president, Strom Thurmond, in 1948, and that the country would have been better off ("We wouldn't have had all these troubles.") if Thurmond had been elected.  That was a statement of support for segregation.  Is the distinction clear now?

As for Robert Byrd's Ku Klux Klan membership in the 1930s or whenever, that was a long time ago.  His position has obviously evolved.  The great Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black was also a former Klansman, but he became a great voice for freedom on the Court.  What Riffy fails to recognize is that while the Republican Party was the force for emancipation, it changed beginning at the time of Barry Goldwater into the party of racial retrenchment and white resistance.  Nixon called it the "Southern Strategy."

The simple fact is, as I have explained at length previously, there has always been opposition to progress.  The Inquisition burned Giordano Bruno and frightened Galileo into denying the heliocentric theory of the solar system.  Scopes was tried for teaching evolution.  Emancipation, women's suffrage, civil rights, now gay rights; every movement for human freedom and progress since our ancestors came down from trees has been resisted by people just like Riffy.  They are called reactionaries and theirs is the way of oppression and stagnation.

I traded in my blackberry for a negroberry, my texting has gone from ebonics to the kings english...

LOL! Nice spin there BJ! It ain't playing too well in MA. though is it? No, and why not? Because people are fed up with this so-called progressive horseshit that is really only about class warfare and wealth redistribution. Notice how this crap president is always trying to get people to hate business? Be it "Big Oil", "Big Pharma", "Big Insurance", the list goes on, and on, and on....We are told to hate free market capitalism, and embrace "Big Government", and "Big Union Labor". Sorry pal! We ain't buyin'! Ever notice that blatantly obvious class warfare at play? That shit is taken directly from the pages of Saul Alinsky's- Rules For Radicals! It is a god damned blueprint for "social and societal change" ala Socialism/Marxism. That is not hyperbole either! He wants to grow government and shrink individual liberties, and people are rightly sick of it. 


As for Trent Lott. Give me a fucking break!!!! He never said any such thing! You have to actually go out of your way to infer that he meant something that he never actually said! He was trying to be kind to a man celebrating his 100th birthday FFS!! And for you to so readily excuse Robert Byrd his past sins while still maintaining that Strom Thurmond was segregationist is pretty fucking rich! What Reid said was blatantly racist, and you trying to play it off as truth is even more disgusting! That Reid would apologize to Obummer is beyond idiotic! He should apologize to every single African American in the country! I guess it's only racist if a Republican says it? That about right? Rush Limbaugh got crucified for saying something that was nowhere near as racist as what Reid said, but Rush Limbaugh? Does he get your liberal spin job? Of course not! It's such a double standard that I can't believe that you can keep a straight face when you try and spin that shit!!


You may not like it, but the FACT is that America, under a free market/capitalist society has liberated, and helped more people than any other country in the entire world. And it's not even close!! Do you how much assistance that Hugo Chavez (hero of the leftards) committed to Haiti? One fucking plane!! ONE!! Cuba? Two planes!!! America is not a leftist country! Deal with it! Obummer is a one and done chump! Just like I always said he would be!


Every fucking prediction that I made is coming true! This ideological Socialist lightweight is destroying the once great Democrat party. And the moron leftists in this nation have only themselves to blame! It sure as fuck ain't Bush's fault!

Happy MLK Day! You can thank Ronald Reagan for your day off!



Riffy

Pdog wrote on Jan 18^th, 2010 at 3:09pm:



I saw this too.

One ex-soldier commented that these scopes are really good quality, so they opted to go ahead and use them.

Really is pathetic though.

Pdog wrote on Jan 18^th, 2010 at 5:47pm:




Uhhh, Pdog I thought my point was pretty obvious. It was Ronald Reagan who declared that this be a national holiday in recognition of that great man, and great Republican-Martin Luther King.


And as far as Reagan goes? He is one billion times the president, and man, that the moron that currently occupies the position is.



Riffy

Barb had an interesting take . . .

In the midst of their ongoing jihad against health care reform, the Republican party took a moment today to note that it was Martin Luther King, Jr. Day:

    As we celebrate his legacy, I’m reminded that his message is rooted in ideals and principles that the Republican Party has advocated since its inception. Today, our Party and the nation honors Dr. King’s dream by continuing his fight — the fight for all Americans to have an equal chance at the American Dream."

This from the party that wouldn't even agree that poor children should have access to a doctor or that women should receive equal pay for equal work? Both would seem to be vital elements in getting an equal chance at the American dream.

But if the Republicans have really had a change of heart and want to honor Dr. King, perhaps they should remember what he said in 1965:

    Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.

I didn't think so.

Did Reagan sign MLK Day into law? Yes

Was MLK a registered Republican? Yes. He registered Republican in 1956.

http://www.nbra.info/index.cfm?fuseaction=pages.blackgop



Next.



Riffy

Riffhard wrote on Jan 18^th, 2010 at 10:09pm:

riffy....you made it sound as if reagan was pro MLK day. the wikipedia gods have proven you wrong. can't you come clean?

and while you're at it, if you could come clean about WMD and connections to al quaida, that'd be great. i'll hang up and take my answer off the air...thanks!

Riffhard wrote on Jan 18^th, 2010 at 4:16pm:


Actually that's not what you always said about Pres Obama, in fact, you ranted and flamed his supporters here for about a year claiming that he wasn't going to win the election in first place, as I recall it had something to do with him being

fuman wrote on Jan 19^th, 2010 at 1:25pm:


Reagan was against a holiday for King and famously agreed with Jesse Helms that it would eventually be proven that King was a communist. Despite this, Reagan signed the bill. I guess he was a closet communist too.

King said of Reagan, "When a Hollywood performer, lacking distinction even as an actor, can become a leading war hawk candidate for the presidency, only the irrationalities induced by war psychosis can explain such a turn of events."

King was a Socialist. Are you claiming that the GOP "tent" is big enough to include Socialists?

Jesus Christ wrote on Jan 19^th, 2010 at 2:59pm:


MLK was so socialist, I am still jaw dropped Riffy is calling him a great man and leader... Obama represents MLK's social agenda to perfection... In fact the only difference is Obama isn't a pacifist and has no problem with war or violence... I have no doubt or pause for a second, if MLK was alive today, riffy would hate him, and call him all the names he calls Obama... he hates every other living black leader inspired by MLK... this isn't even a stretch...
Really Riffy? Are you off your rocker... you hate equal rights, you do not like blacks having equal rights anymore than you like women or gays having them too... the exact same remarks you make towrds gays rights are the points used to oppose gay and womens rights... and your political and social idealogy is also in direct opposition to all the causes and movements... I don't even know how to put it into words how stupid you look saying MLK was great and asociating his cause to ronal Reagan, other than you seem hell bent on trying to associate yourself with something good, which is something you desperately need. Your beleifs and and those you support from Limbaugh/ Bush and Cheney/ Tee Party ect.. are all a bunch of people who basically promote suffering through hate and selfish, self centered ideals... You look so stupid making this association, that I actually feel sad for you... no one should be this lost, and definitely not a Stones fan... it does make sense why you would embrace a dead civil rights leader and not the living ones... There was a saying in the 60's during the civil rights movement used by rednecks and racists, they used to say "the only good nigger, is a dead nigger". I think you've brought the belief full circle, Bravo. Ignorance shines bright again with white males in North America in 2010. you have nothing to bitch about and you complain about everything, like it is doomsday. Unfuckingbeleivable!!!

Pdog wrote on Jan 19^th, 2010 at 3:26pm:



Yeah, this is just too weird  to figure out. Mr. Riffhard
REALLY needs to explain to us why he thinks the Rev.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a 'great man'.  

Is THAT what's been coming hard and fast all this time????  
Riffy becoming a black socialist????


Wow, we really DIDN'T see that coming!