Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

[lurking wierdo]

they never miss an opportunity to crawl on down in the gutter

i love this comment...

He regrets that he chose the phrase 'tar baby,' rather than the word 'quagmire.'



cause you know tar baby and quagmire are so easily interchangable

The Tar-Baby is a doll made of tar and turpentine used to entrap Br'er Rabbit in the second of the Uncle Remus stories. The more that Br'er Rabbit fights the Tar-Baby, the more entangled he becomes. In modern usage according to Random House, "tar baby" refers to any "sticky situation" that is only aggravated by additional contact.

Nothing to apologize for. Proper usage. He should have let it stand on it's own.

Unfortunately, you seem to have failed to read, or comprehend the very next sentence in your Wikipedia article:

The Tar-Baby is a doll made of tar and turpentine used to entrap Br'er Rabbit in the second of the Uncle Remus stories. The more that Br'er Rabbit fights the Tar-Baby, the more entangled he becomes. In modern usage according to Random House, "tar baby" refers to any "sticky situation" that is only aggravated by additional contact. The expression tar baby is also used occasionally as a derogatory term for black people (in the U.S. it refers to African-Americans; in New Zealand it refers to Maori), or among blacks as a term for a particularly dark-skinned person. As a result, some people suggest avoiding the use of the term in any context.

Yeah, but that was absolutely not the context.

[rjs246]

Being intentionally obtuse about something that you know you're wrong about is really hippotastic neat.

[Munson]

they never miss an opportunity to crawl on down in the gutter

i love this comment...

He regrets that he chose the phrase 'tar baby,' rather than the word 'quagmire.'



cause you know tar baby and quagmire are so easily interchangable

The Tar-Baby is a doll made of tar and turpentine used to entrap Br'er Rabbit in the second of the Uncle Remus stories. The more that Br'er Rabbit fights the Tar-Baby, the more entangled he becomes. In modern usage according to Random House, "tar baby" refers to any "sticky situation" that is only aggravated by additional contact.

Nothing to apologize for. Proper usage. He should have let it stand on it's own.

Unfortunately, you seem to have failed to read, or comprehend the very next sentence in your Wikipedia article:

The Tar-Baby is a doll made of tar and turpentine used to entrap Br'er Rabbit in the second of the Uncle Remus stories. The more that Br'er Rabbit fights the Tar-Baby, the more entangled he becomes. In modern usage according to Random House, "tar baby" refers to any "sticky situation" that is only aggravated by additional contact. The expression tar baby is also used occasionally as a derogatory term for black people (in the U.S. it refers to African-Americans; in New Zealand it refers to Maori), or among blacks as a term for a particularly dark-skinned person. As a result, some people suggest avoiding the use of the term in any context.

Yeah, but that was absolutely not the context.

So you believe he uses the exact same words in the exact same situation if the president was white?

NEvermind....Rusty hit the nail on the head.

[lurking wierdo]

they never miss an opportunity to crawl on down in the gutter

i love this comment...

He regrets that he chose the phrase 'tar baby,' rather than the word 'quagmire.'



cause you know tar baby and quagmire are so easily interchangable

The Tar-Baby is a doll made of tar and turpentine used to entrap Br'er Rabbit in the second of the Uncle Remus stories. The more that Br'er Rabbit fights the Tar-Baby, the more entangled he becomes. In modern usage according to Random House, "tar baby" refers to any "sticky situation" that is only aggravated by additional contact.

Nothing to apologize for. Proper usage. He should have let it stand on it's own.

Unfortunately, you seem to have failed to read, or comprehend the very next sentence in your Wikipedia article:

The Tar-Baby is a doll made of tar and turpentine used to entrap Br'er Rabbit in the second of the Uncle Remus stories. The more that Br'er Rabbit fights the Tar-Baby, the more entangled he becomes. In modern usage according to Random House, "tar baby" refers to any "sticky situation" that is only aggravated by additional contact. The expression tar baby is also used occasionally as a derogatory term for black people (in the U.S. it refers to African-Americans; in New Zealand it refers to Maori), or among blacks as a term for a particularly dark-skinned person. As a result, some people suggest avoiding the use of the term in any context.

Yeah, but that was absolutely not the context.

So you believe he uses the exact same words in the exact same situation if the president was white?

NEvermind....Rusty hit the nail on the head.

Yes, absolutely I do. In the context he was speaking, it was the best choice of word.

[lurking wierdo]

[PhillyGirl]

and if you eat these candies little boy, you'll suck the gay away.

shut up.

[lurking wierdo]

You saying you are not disappointed in your guy?

[Diomedes]

Taliban are getting drunk in celebration tonight.

Yay war.

[Geowhizzer]

Taliban are getting drunk in celebration tonight.

Yay war.

Somebody oughta slip 'em some bacon vodka.

[Diomedes]

in related news:  Charles Graner out of jail.  Glad he's free to roam.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/sns-bc-us--abughraib-graner,0,937464.story

Yay justice.

[ice grillin you]

amerikkka rools dood

[ice grillin you]

its all definitely worth it

http://news.yahoo.com/afghan-president-31-americans-killed-crash-093236195.html

[Diomedes]

On top of the human loss, which is sad to be sure, each one of those SEALs had like 100 million dollars worth of training....and there are only so many of them anyway.  This is a huge victory for the Taliban.

[ice grillin you]

yup...good point...it makes me physically ill....even more than this

With Rally, Christian Group Asserts Its Presence in '12 Race

By ERIK ECKHOLM


TUPELO, Miss. — To its admirers on the religious right, the American Family Association is a stalwart leader in a last-ditch fight to save America's Christian culture and the values of traditional families. To its liberal critics, it is a shrill, even hateful voice of intolerance, out to censor the arts, declare Muslims unfit for public office and deny equality to gay men and lesbians because they engage in sinful "aberrant sexual behavior."

Broadcast on its 192 talk-radio stations, streamed over the Internet and e-mailed in "action alerts" to 2.3 million potential voters, the American Family Association's pronouncements have flowed forth daily from its sleek offices here in the Deep South.

But now it is doing more than preaching to the choir. This summer, the association has thrust itself into presidential politics by paying for and organizing a day of prayer to save "a nation in crisis" that Gov. Rick Perry of Texas is convening this Saturday. Several Republican presidential aspirants, including Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich and Tim Pawlenty, have appeared on a radio program on the group's American Family network.

The rally, at a stadium in Houston, is expected to draw dozens of the country's most conservative evangelical groups and leaders, and could burnish Mr. Perry's national profile and his appeal to religious conservatives as he considers entering the 2012 presidential race.

Mr. Perry invited his fellow governors but only one, Sam Brownback of Kansas, also a Republican, accepted the invitation to the explicitly Christian rally, and in recent days even his attendance appeared uncertain, with his staff stressing that if Mr. Brownback went, it would be in a private, not an official, capacity.

Some legal groups have accused Mr. Perry of breaching the separation of church and state by holding the rally, even though the governor's aides say no tax dollars are being used.

A federal judge in Houston last week dismissed a lawsuit brought by a group of atheists against Mr. Perry's participation.

"It's a plea to God to help our country," Donald E. Wildmon, the family association's founder and chairman emeritus, said of the rally, which he, like Mr. Perry, calls a nonpolitical appeal to God.

"We're at a crossroads," Mr. Wildmon added in an interview in the association's headquarters here about his decades in the culture wars, which he acknowledges have not always gone his way. "Either we're going to maintain a society based on Judeo-Christian values, or we'll have one based on whatever is popular at the moment."

In speeches and books, Mr. Wildmon has voiced a sense of siege that is widely shared among evangelicals, one he first expressed 34 years ago as sex and violence crept into television.

But the association has sharpened its edge over the years, moving from its well-known crusades for public "decency" to harshly opposing what it calls an anti-Christian "homosexual agenda" — not only same-sex marriage and the acceptance of gay troops in the military, but any suggestion that homosexual "behavior is normal." The association also campaigns against antibullying programs that teach tolerance and corporations (like Home Depot, a current target) that support gay pride parades.

Mr. Wildmon warns that if current social trends go unchecked, "homosexuals will become part of an elite class" and "Christians will be second-class citizens at best."

Mr. Wildmon, 73, has turned over management of the association to his son Tim Wildmon, 48, but the group's reputation for inflammatory statements rose after the hiring two years ago of Bryan Fischer, a former pastor from Idaho, as the director of "issues analysis" and the host of a daily two-hour afternoon show. Mr. Fischer, 60, silver-haired and a talk-radio natural, has become a public face of the group.

Perhaps most notably, Mr. Fischer trumpets the disputed theory that Adolf Hitler was a homosexual and that the Nazi Party was largely created by "homosexual thugs" — evidence, he says, of the inherent pathologies of homosexuality. Mr. Fischer has also said that no more Muslims should be granted citizenship because their religion says to kill Americans, and that welfare recipients "rut like rabbits" because of what he calls welfare's perverse incentives.

"I don't think we are exaggerating the dangers to the country, the culture, the American family," Mr. Fischer said in an interview. "The stakes are as high as they could be."

Peter Montgomery, a senior fellow at People for the American Way, a liberal group, says of the American Family Association's radio network: "Clearly a lot of Republican politicians want to reach the people who are listening to the American Family Association. Many Republican candidates see no shame in lending credibility to the extremism and bigotry on its radio shows."

A former Methodist pastor, the elder Mr. Wildmon first became nationally known in the late 1970s when he began urging advertisers to shun television shows with sex and violence, with mixed results. As he built a following, Mr. Wildmon, who then called his group the National Federation for Decency, used boycotts and protests to push convenience stores to stop selling Playboy and Penthouse, and he later tormented the National Endowment for the Arts for supporting work he deemed sacrilegious or obscene.

In 1988, the group renamed itself the American Family Association, and it has had a direct if unheralded hand in recent political battles, sending $500,000 to support the down-to-the-wire campaign for Proposition 8, California's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, for example, and sending a crack political organizer to Iowa last fall for the successful drive to unseat judges who had supported same-sex marriage. The group also sponsors "pastor policy briefings" around the country that seek to mobilize evangelical voters.

Though liberal critics call it a hate group, the association and Mr. Wildmon are widely revered in conservative circles. Working in the relative isolation of Tupelo and lacking a magnetic television personality, Mr. Wildmon is not as widely known as other titans of the religious right, like Pat Robertson or James C. Dobson. But last fall Mr. Wildmon was described as "one of the most effective Christian leaders of our time" as he received a lifetime achievement award at the Values Voter Summit, an annual gathering of top religious conservatives.

Mr. Wildmon, who has remained the association's guiding force, said the group would spend up to $600,000 putting on the Texas rally. The association has an annual budget of $19 million, raised mainly from small donors, and 128 employees.

Looking back, Mr. Wildmon acknowledged a mix of victories and losses — the campaign to stop Home Depot from supporting a gay rights group as part of a "diversity" initiative, for example, has been rebuffed by the company so far. Penthouse may be sold more discreetly, but television is more profane than ever, and same-sex marriage has gained a strong foothold.

Will a day of concentrated prayer, by tens of thousands of believers in Houston and untold numbers more who may participate from afar, turn the tide? "That remains to be seen," Mr. Wildmon said. "Anyone who wants to pray to Jesus to save our county is welcome."

"God didn't call me to be successful," he added, sounding more resigned than strident. "He called me to be faithful."

[PhillyGirl]

And can I just say, I've read 4 times this morning on my FB feed (all 4 removed now) that this was a set up by the US Govt to cover the fact that those Seals were lying about the death of Bin Laden. It was faked and they had to cover it up because they were going to come clean. So they had them killed.

You couldn't make this shtein up.

RIP.