Today's Eternal Sadness

...and today's quote:

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Coupla New Podcasts

Show About Race:



Death Sex & Money from WNYC:
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Labor Day Music

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Sixteen Tons --Ernie Ford

Bread And Roses (cover) --Bronwen Lewis

3 Miles Down --Gil Scott Heron

More Than A Paycheck --Sweet Honey In The Rock

Back On The Chain Gang --Pretenders

Workin' In The Coal Mine (cover) --Allen Toussaint

Can't Wait For Movie Night

Today's Pix

Today's Lesson In Snake Oil Scams

Erick Erickson (via Media Matters):

What we are learning now is that Republican leaders have no inclination to fight this evil. They have for years been protected by a Washington pro-life establishment that has worked damn hard to keep Bart Stupak listed as a pro-life warrior as he sold out the cause on Obamacare. The pro-life establishment in Washington puts their Republican affiliation ahead of children who are being ripped apart.

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If Republicans and the Washington Pro-Life movement, when confronted by the evil documented on unedited tape, are not willing to defund Planned Parenthood, we should destroy them all, level their organizations to the ground, and spread salt on the remains (metaphorically speaking, of course).

Republicans in Washington have spent more time avoiding their constituents over the August recess than they have fighting for anything in the past several years. Now here is a perfect opportunity to stand up for smaller government, fight evil, and put the left on defense.

Already there are voices on the right saying no, but then they always say no. Already there are voices on the right saying they can't, but then they always say they can't. Already there are voices on the right saying the President will veto it, but the President will always veto it.

And the babies continue to die -- ripped from their mothers wombs and their organs harvested.

If the Republicans will not fight this evil, they should be destroyed.

Every Republican Presidential candidates should be on record on whether they think the GOP should hold the line against funding Planned Parenthood no matter what.

If Republicans in Washington will not stop this and defund Planned Parenthood, Republican voters should take any and all action to destroy the party at the ballot box. If this party will not fight this evil, it will fight no evil and should itself die.

Metaphorically speaking, of course.

Here's the thing: If we lose Planned Parenthood, it's all but certain the number of abortions will go up.  

("Planned Parenthood" - as in not becoming a parent until you actually want to become a parent.  Ya do some planning, and then ya don't get pregnant, and then ya don't need no stinkin' abortion.  Get it?  Kinda what that whole "planned" thing's all about, y'know?)  

Anyway, Erick Erickson needs to kill Planned Parenthood because Erick Erickson needs more abortions so that Erick Erickson can stay famous and powerful and go on making fat stacks by being in the business of railing and wailing about abortion.

It's not really very different from the basics of the God-Knobber Scam.  To wit: "I'm here to convince you that you have an imaginary disease so I can sell you an imaginary cure."  

Ever wonder why the God-Knobbers always seem to be big-time Fetus Pimps too?  Same game, but with a really shitty twist: "I'm gonna make it more likely for you to have a very real problem, so that I can talk the rubes into buying me another house."

The numbers on Erick Erickson's W-2 are directly proportional to the number of abortions in USAmerica Inc.  Can we stop pretending this jagoff has any intention of working himself out a job?

Today's Scary Black Dude

This one's bouncing madly about in the Echo Chamber:

I don't know much about this King Noble guy, and I should prob'ly hold off on making this call, but - c'mon, really?  

He's indulging himself with a little Revenge Fantasy.  Is that really all it takes to frighten all you big strong hyper-macho types?  Y'know, it suddenly occurs to me that the scary black guy says "boo!", and your tiny little pecker gets very shy and even smaller than usual - is that why you immediately grab for your big steel substitute penis(?)  Just guessing.

I saw this on a coupla sites (Breitbart and Truth Revolt)...

...and it just fits too neatly into the standard play that the Right Radicals have been running and perfecting for a good 30 years.

Thousands of Americans killed by cops over the years. 

A cop is gunned down (by a guy who was found Non Compos Mentis in 2012, so where's the "isolated incident / our mental health system sucks" crowd?)

but no matter because now it's all even.

Hate crime for hate crime.

A little False Equivalence goes a very long way.

And let's not ignore the Mother Of All Obviousness here: This scares the fuck outa crackers because their worst nightmare is the thought that if given the chance, black people will start treating them exactly as badly as they've been treating black people for as long as anybody can remember.

Today's (Belated) Justice

I'll file this one under "Well-It's-About-Fucking-Time".

Going to the chapel: Will Smith & James Yates get a marriage license in Rowan Co from deputy clerk Brian Mason. ^JC pic.twitter.com/JPUOdepzxi

— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) September 4, 2015

Today's Jay Smooth

Trying to play catch-up on everything that's been pushed off the radar by all the Kim Davis bullshit.

This is the best line I've found today - talking about putting a woman on the 20-dollar bill:

The dollar is history's measure of the distance between power and virtue.

I'm not down with the Reparations thing - not fully anyway.  But I'm willing to say it makes some sense to see what we can do to pump lotsa money into an economy that desperately needs it.  So if we can get a giant boost in circulation, and get something of a fix for Slavery, and pull 20 million Americans outa the poverty suck hole - we should prob'ly be talking about it anyway.

Kids Who Die

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