Conservatives shouldn't worry, you need a brain in order to get brainwashed.

..than just KO's audience from last night. Interesting that its not featured on his show's web re-broadcast. I thought it should be on everywhere, especially in florida, this morning.
Calling teh STOOPID, Stuuuuupid, I love it,.

By the way: I thought this was Garry Trudeau's best Doonesbury strip ever: http://www.arcamax.com/doonesbury/s-606346-67...
Calling BS, BS and Stupid, Stupid!

On Monday Suzanne Malveaux was filling in for Wolfie. Holiday and all. So she has on (It think it was) Tony Blankley from the Moonie Times. He was saying that Obama's lesson plans that said that Obama wanted the kids to write him to tell Obama what they could do to help him. Then Malveaux showed a clip (I was not watching, I was listening on Sirius)of George H.W. Bush during his "chat" with the school kids asking the kids to write him and tell him how they could help him get is agenda through. Blankley was spell bound. It was the EXACT thing that Blankley was saying that Obama was trying to do. It was priceless.
About a 45 minutes later Malveaux interviewed that Greer freak and I was hoping she would show the clip again but she failed miserably when Greer was going on and on about the lesson plans. She should have shown that clip to shut the idiot's mouth. It was an epic fail on her part.
The point is that Bush #1 did the same thing that Obama wanted to do but the wingnut freaks thought it was too political.

This is off-topic but have you ever written about racism in graduate schools?

Macon D of stuffwhitepeopledo recently stated “whenever white people congregate these days, high concentrations of racial homogeneity are just pure coincidence.” …

I am a graduate student at a major biological “research institution” in New York City. You wouldn’t know this is a graduate/research program if you stumbled on campus. This exclusive, highly maintained campus feels more like Sandals resort with all of the young upper-middle class white or white male/asian female couples roaming around hand-in-hand during the evenings. Groups of white or white-and-asian students roam with tennis rackets on their way to the on-campus court. Or they congregate in packs at the on-campus student lounge with a personal bartender. Or the white and asian students have parties in the hotel-like student lounge of the dorms.

Most of the groups of people you see dotted around campus are all-white or white-and-asian. The campus is mostly white with a substantial number of asians but has a serious dearth of black or latino students–and I almost never see the other black students.

You wouldn’t believe the amounts of implicit racism I’ve experienced here. Twice while coming on campus I’ve been stopped in a hostile and condescending manner by newly-hired guards who, having seen my ID, told me that I am ‘ok’ since I was a groundskeepers or a day worker for the animal facility whose staff is mostly black and latino.

Coming to my dorm, almost every six months someone gives me a hostile look in the foyer as if I’m some intruder. When I attend lectures, I meet the same hostility until I ask a serious academic question of the lecturer.

When someone new comes to my lab, they’ll automatically either intentionally ignore me or attempt to condescend to me. Scientific sales reps will intentionally ignore me and proceed to the white guys who are also just students. Believe it or not, this one white girl who rotated in the lab would speak to me in a passive-aggressive/patronizing manner. And almost everyone in the lab, despite my being there for years and attempting to form working relationships with them, never come to me casually or attempt to have conversations (work or otherwise) with me unless I initiate the conversation and never at the casual or intelligent level they have with each other.

I noticed the other two black guys, who are accomodationists (and overrepresented with respect to the real dearth of black students on campus), also attempt to have conversations with the white people in the lab but they are always the ones to initiate the conversation.

After five years of being here, the only thing I’ve learned is that white and asian people are the only people competent enough to be scientists.

A maintenance staff guy wrote an article in the student rag praising the university’s president in light of the great hall of European philosophers like Kant and Hume and the great European scientific tradition. Additionally, the sense of ownership and privilege among other students is just incredible.

I’m beginning to think that biomedical science is almost a white supremist enterprise by default. Science is supposed to be a collaborative endeavor with a free collegial exchange of information and support, but when people are constantly patronizing or condescending to you, such is a psychological assault informing you that you are inconsequential, “tolerated” or unwelcomed. I read a report somewhere that around half of black graduate science students drop out of their programs. If they meet the same kinds of hostility or implied white supremacy I meet, small wonder.

I’ve especially felt a sort of patronizing attitude right off the bat from many of the white female students on campus. White women, with the help of affirmative action, have made great gains in both scientific student bodies and faculty, but you would still be wont to find black faculty and only a little more lucky in locating black students in scientific graduate programs across the country. That aside, most of my interactions with white females on campus has been unnecessarily hostile and patronizing.

There are two other black male students who happen to be in my lab; they’re very sycophantic towards the white male students, which surprised me. They’re always kissing up, laughing nervously, you know that trying to court your attention laugh, around these other white males who are just graduate students like them. They prick up their minds and attempt to engage the se white guys with crisp, intelligent conversation. They’ll go to the white guys equally whenever they have a problem as if they are the fount of knowledge, (I’ve never seen them approach any of the white girls or the Indian guy when they have problems, but they will approach them for prick-up-your-mind ‘casual’ conversation, more than they give me [or each other]). When explicitly in the company of the white guys (which never seems to be together with each other), they intentionally ignore me or will attempt to condescend to me. It’s irritating to watch white guys no better than the average black guy get their egos stroked day after day by white girls and sycophantic blacks while they also slap themselves on the back. It’s not like they’re especially brilliant or that this science is just so difficult that only superiorly intelligent white supremists like James Watson can do it.

I don’t even want to get into the student listserve conversation I had to observe in the wake of James Watson’s comments back in 2007. Some of them practically endorsed the man with statements like “science is about objective data, not political correctness” or “what does giving a writing prize for his autobiography have to do with him making statements that any old man would make”?

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Vote:

http://news.aol.com/article/protest-over-chen...

Juding by the ad banner on top, ann can't even give it away.

I see all the children who were left behind
They all got jobs at FOX.

It's obvious that Reslugs are scared and against any education for their children, so they just dumb them down with their lies, fears and terrorism.

beyond hypocrisy, beneath contempt.

It pained me to watch this. I saw it twice last night on KO's show; twice I got ill.

Just seeing the face of Beck or Malkin or Crowley or any of these asswipes makes me sick.

in an era where so many of us feel handcuffed by the present day political and economic climate, where we may not recall a time when we actually had a hand in dealing our personal future, where we cannot see past the day to day struggle to identify the long term fruits of our labor, it was refreshing to at least hear the elected identity of the United States remind us to ask ourselves what can we do to make our tomorrow better?

"Give them a few minutes and they will get even more screwed up."

Couldn't have said it any better !!!!! (But I don't think it will take them even a few 'minutes')!!!

really this stupid? Or do they just play this stupid for a paycheck?

Jeebus gonna get them.

I do NOT understand how these cretins can get away with the outright disinformation they are so well known for, especially at the heightened levels they have brought it to since Obama SHAMED THEM with his wonderful leadership. The right-wing are acting like spoiled children who are now throwing an organized hissy-fit because they are getting SMOKED in the popularity polls. THe right-wing did such a dismal and pathetic job when they had a stranglehold on this nation via super-majority. Then along comes a BLACK MAN who possessed more intelligence on the tip of his fingernail than existed in the right-wing collectively, and they are MAD AS HELL. I fear their promotion of left-wing hatred is going to result in an assassination. If it does, all hell WILL break loose. SOMETHING SHOULD BE DONE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE to curtail this runaway hatred machine we have on the right.

Anyone hear of this crap:

http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/09/school-refus...

If Monica Crowley used anymore hairspray in her bleached-out hair, the EPA would have to declare it a health hazard, and the fire department a fire hazard!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090909/ap_on_go_...

WTH?

Don't ever change. EVER.

Personally, I can think of nothing more Maoist/Dear Leaderish than the Pledge of Allegiance. to a flag? are you kidding me? under God?

Get the fuck out.

I saw this news item after President's health care speech was over and interestingly, the school-children were more respectful of the President than the Rep from SC, Joe Wilson, who shouted "Lier" during the speech.
It makes me wonder, who is more mature - schoolchildren or some of our Republican politicians?