A Commonplace Book
Maureen Dowd on Talking to Black People
According to MoDo, white America has been seized by a collective urge to talk to black people and revel in Barry O.’s victory.
She describes restaurant patrons congratulating Negress waitresses, hotel guests engaging gold-buttoned bell hops, cotton planters conversing with their field hands, and young ladies in hoop skirts talking politics with their mammies.
Now Obama on a Unicorn!
Early Color Photographs by Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
A glimpse into the mind of Barack Obama, Islamo-Marxist.
“I’m going to the Middle East,” Dramesi says. “Turkey, Kuwait, Lebanon, Iran.”
“Why are you going to the Middle East?” McCain asks, dismissively.
“It’s a place we’re probably going to have some problems,” Dramesi says.
“Why? Where are you going to, John?”
“Oh, I’m going to Rio.”
“What the hell are you going to Rio for?”
McCain, a married father of three, shrugs.
“I got a better chance of getting laid.”
Dramesi, who went on to serve as chief war planner for U.S. Air Forces in Europe and commander of a wing of the Strategic Air Command, was not surprised. “McCain says his life changed while he was in Vietnam, and he is now a different man,” Dramesi says today. “But he’s still the undisciplined, spoiled brat that he was when he went in.” READ MORE
Jörg Haider is dead...
And that’s a good thing. But the far right is definitely on the march in Europe. Economic crises are always good news for racists.
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Falsely accused by the Empire of having “hacked” Sarah Palin’s yahoo, David Kernell is now facing some pretty serious charges.