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VEEPSTAKES CZAR QUITS IN YET ANOTHER OBAMA MISJUDGEMENT
Jim Johnson who was to have vetted Obama’s VP suspects but, embarrassed him because of his tawdry use of sub market loans, involvements with Countrywide, and other matters has reigned his volunteer slot as VEEPSTAKES CZAR, and is still bouncing down the road behind the Obamanation Bio-Fueled Bandwagon.
June 8, Another Big Day at hypocrisy.com and Wikipedia
Per the biggest wiki in the world, we know that June 8, in the leap year 2008 and other leap years is the 160 day in the Gregorian Calendar. In other years it is the 159 day.
On this date in 1861 Tennessee seceded from the Union. For other events on June 8 per The Wiki, click here.
Another Big Day at hypocrisy.com.
Score another undeserved victory for the disseminators of hatred and bigotry
It doesn’t get any more ridiculous than this. Apparently the right-wingers, led by conservative commentator Michelle Malkin, have succeeded in getting Dunkin’ Donuts to pull a Rachel Ray ad for their iced coffee because the scarf she is wearing looks like a kaffiyeh. In case you don’t know what that is, it’s a traditional Arab headdress.
In her syndicated column, Malkin wrote “The kaffiyeh, for the clueless, is the traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad.” But her rant didn’t stop there. She continued on with her brand of misinformation. “Popularized by Yassir Arafat,” she continued, “and a regular adornment of Muslim terrorists appearing in beheading and hostage-taking videos, the apparel has been mainstreamed by both ignorant (and not-so-ignorant) fashion designers, celebrities and left-wing icons.”
The only ignoramus in this equation is Malkin and those who think like her. Amahl Bishara, an anthropology lecturer at the University of Chicago who also happens to specialize in Middle East issues, said in a phone interview that kaffiyehs “are worn every day on the street by Palestinians and other people in the Middle East — by people going to work, going to school, taking care of their families, and just trying to keep warm.”
In cowardly fashion, Dunkin’ Donuts pulled the ad rather than stand up to the right-wing oppressors that so dominate the discussion in print and on the airwaves. This is exactly the kind of slide into fascism that I spoke about in the first part of my article about America becoming a fascist state.
It’s time to stand up to these reactionary oppressors whose brand of bigotry is rarely based in fact, but almost always based in ignorance. Dunkin’ Donuts is giving Michelle Malkin and her ilk way too much credibility. They ought to bring the ad back.
Another Example of the Separation Created by Organized Churches
Each religion believes certain things. Included in those beliefs are things that can do nothing but create separation from someone who does not believe and understand that certain belief in the same way. Wars have been and are still being fought over the tensions that that separation creates.
Will the current televised spectacle that some label as occurring in the American Black Church (as if there really is such an institution) during an American Presidential campaign when an articulate and thoughtful half black really had a shot at the Democratic candidacy and indeed then the Presidency given the disappointment of the Bush years, cause all religious leaders to look at this serious issue? Will they look at their beliefs and try to reinterpret and represent some of their beliefs in ways that does not cause true believes to have to suspend beliefs or live a lie or fight a religious war?
That is my prayer.