Justin Schaeffer apologized for his incredibly offensive Facebook page, but the apology lacks merit. Maybe if the only offensive thing on his page was the “Slavery gets shit done” poster the young man could be considered simply misguided. The Photoshopped caricatures of Barack Obama only add to the flavor of incredible hatred. Make no mistake about it, Justin learned hatred of minorities and liberals in his father's home. Bob Schaeffer brought up his son to conduct cultural warfare against anybody different than them. The stupidest part of this story is that Justin apologized. Nobody believes it. Nobody is going to believe it. It's ridiculous, and he should have stuck to his guns. Rush Limbaugh would have. Now Justin looks even more pathetic than his Facebook page made him out to be.
Jackie Mahendra today discussed the new policy from Immigration and Customs Enforcement. I am astonished nobody turned themselves in on the first day of the program. Given the wonderful, happy atmosphere surrounding immigration detention centers and deportations, one can only shake their head in disbelief that illegal aliens turned down such a fantastic opportunity. In case anybody missed it, far too many immigrants have died in detention, considering that one unjust death is too many and we're talking about 66 deaths that we know of. The new ICE “strategy” takes governmental incompetence to an all new level. Perhaps the CIA and military intelligence should inform Osama Bin Laden that he is welcome to turn himself in. Or the FBI could invite members of the California branch of MS13 to turn themselves in and confess their crimes. Yeah, that would work.
The lovely and talented actress Scarlett Johannson yesterday talked about the ridiculous media frenzy surrounding the email Barack Obama received from her and responded to.
I was merely trying to express my delight at Obama's commitment to his campaign in every aspect and his interest and his support (in) his surrogates and his staff and his fellows, and how wonderful and refreshing that is. And it was manipulated into such an unfortunate media frenzy of kind of a non-story.
The frenzy over a married man responding to an email from Scarlett Johansson boggled the mind then, and still doesn't make any sense. Email correspondence does not equate to cheating on your spouse, even if the message came from such a beautiful and talented source. She was apparently embarrassed about the bluster. She must never have considered the slimy way most broadcast journalists think these days, because she doesn't think that way. Nevertheless, I must thank the sleazy members of the media for telling me about her kiss with Penelope Cruz. Now I know the next must see movie of the year.
The story of P Z Myers, Rod Dreher and other reactionary Catholic extremists brought a smile to my face early this morning. The issues surrounding the overblown reaction of the Catholic community weren't the funny part. Evidently one Catholic “investigator” discovered Myers had been posting to his blog at all hours of the day and night. They took it as proof that Myers slacked off at work and stayed up all night. Myers pointed out that professors work far more than forty hours per week, and insisted that the “investigator” should probably not take that tact when approaching the University of Minnesota, Morris (because they don't need reminders of how the faculty is underpaid). The punchline is that the Catholic “investigator” doesn't understand that computer software can be used to schedule actions well in advance (that's one intelligent individual). Yep, it's true, computers can be programmed to do what you tell them. It's shocking, I know. Maybe the Devil is responsible for the technology, but I hope not. I'd hate to think I am going to hell for telling my computer to download concerts all night while I am asleep.
Update to the story on McCain's racism, and the racism of many members of his campaign and party as a whole:
On the campaign trail, Senator John McCain’s staffers are being accused of racial profiling after ordering an African American reporter to leave the media area outside McCain’s bus. Stephen Price of the Tallahassee Democrat was removed during a McCain stop in Florida. A McCain spokesperson says Price was told to leave because the area was reserved for national reporters. But Price says several journalists from other local papers were allowed to remain.
Like I said in my blog about the racists, they don't want African Americans anywhere near McCain's speaking engagements (except for the handpicked token few). Source: Democracy Now
I am sure there will be many more stories of sheer stupidity in our government and society as the day goes on, but this concludes the roundup for now. The other stories of morons and incompetents will have to wait for the next small bus to Ignoramusville. The rest of us can only talk about their sadness for so long in one sitting.
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