Mitt the ‘Milquetoast Massachusetts Moderate’ May Not Be Nominee Material

For those who want a quick and easy re-election for Barack Obama, the ideal outcome of the Republican primary race is see the president’s supposedly most formidable rival, Mitt Romney, suffer a slow and painful (and scandalized and mortifying) defeat at the pudgy hands of the GOP’s “pneumatically overstuffed” chief narcissist, Newt Gingrich.

#romneystumpspeechfail

And don’t act like you haven’t pictured it: Newt on stage at the GOP convention in Tampa Bay, swiveling his tractor-tire hips as only a fat man can as “Dancing Queen” blares over the loud speaker; his wife, Jackie Battley Marianne Ginther Callista Gingrich standing next to him, the skin on her face stretched back and tucked neatly under her bullet-proof platinum blonde helmet, eyes aglow like polished silver dollars placed over the shrunken sockets of a corpse bride, bleached teeth clenched around an invisible key to her husband’s glitchy chastity belt loving heart in a smile that only the editors of Cosmetic Surgery Magazine could say with a straight face was “natural.”

Hanging behind the podium, a red, white, and blue banner spells out the core of this estranged congressman’s presidential platform—“Big Ideas, Child Slavery, No Blacks”—as Gingrich humbly accepts the Republican Party’s 2012 presidential nomination, his supporters cheering like drunk pedophiles at a “Little Miss Sunshine” pageant.

Is it that impossible a scenario?

If you look at each candidate’s pros and cons, it’s more than possible.

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Xin Nian Kuai Le, Bitchez

"I'm dancing in the streets!"

Happy New Years, Angry Black Readers.  It’s an ABLC tradition for me to write a Taiwanese New Year post*, so I would be remiss if I didn’t pen one this year.

It’s the Year of the Dragon in Asian people world, and no, I’m not late because the celebration goes for five days.  I have it on very good authority**, I’ll have you know.  Besides, Asians are late for everything, so in Asian People Time, I’m actually early with this post!

The Year of the Dragon is a very auspicious year in which to start up any major project.  The boldness of the dragon represents the boldness in which you have to approach the new year.  Remember, it is better to dream big and fail spectacularly than to dream small and succeed miserably.

In addition, the dragon is the symbol of the emperor.  This does not mean to live in a regal manner, however; it just reemphasizes the point that anything you do this year must be ambitious and worthy of an emperor.  The Year of the Dragon is not a year in which to wait or be indecisive.  If you have a dream that you’ve thought of accomplishing – this is the year.  No more excuses.  No more, “But but but but” sputtering.  Anything you want to do, do it now!

This includes romance, my dear Angry Black Readers.  If you have your eye on someone, now is the time to profess your love.  Again, don’t be timid about it.  Be confident and go up to your beloved, and say, “You, me, you, me, you, me!” while gesturing back and forth between you and your beloved.  I gotdamn guarantee that it’ll work. *** The sky is not a limit this year – it is merely a suggestion!
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Fleet-Footed Chronicles: Ron Paul Signed Off on the Racist Newsletters After All

I, for one, am shocked! SHOCKED, I say!

In news unsurprising to anyone with two brain cells to rub together, The Washington Post reports that Ron Paul knew about those newsletters and that he’s been lying about it for years. SURPRISE!

 

The Republican presidential candidate has denied writing inflammatory passages in the pamphlets from the 1990s and said recently that he did not read them at the time or for years afterward. Numerous colleagues said he does not hold racist views.

But people close to Paul’s operations said he was deeply involved in the company that produced the newsletters, Ron Paul & Associates, and closely monitored its operations, signing off on articles and speaking to staff members virtually every day.

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Waiting for the great leap forwards – Fridays with Billy.

Billy pretty much re-writes this one on an as-needed basis — this is the 2011 version (video after the jump), performed this past November at Keele University in the UK. Verily, he is the wisest of men!

Sample lyric:

Things have not been this bad
since the days of Margaret Thatcher
So stay calm, carry on
and watch X Factor

The World Wide Web is wonderful
if you’ve got something to sell
but opinions often summon up
a focus group from hell.

It’s best not to get distracted
and stay focused on your goals
and take my advice, don’t feed the trolls
(their mum’ll bring them, you know, milk and biscuits before they have to go to bed).

And some of you wonder why I love this man so much. How could I not?

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Keystone XL Pipeline — The “Drill, Baby, Drill” of 2012!

Our “liberal media” at work!

The Republican Party is picking up where they left off in the last election and helping to define themselves as the party “of and for” corporations – especially big oil.

In 2008, they had “Drill, Baby, Drill” and all the money that came along with that. This election year, they’ve chosen the Keystone XL pipeline to show how they plant their lips on the ass of big oil.

Once again, they have the media on their side in this endeavor. Media Matters for America did a study of media coverage from August 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011 on the Keystone XL pipeline.  The results aren’t a surprise to anyone who pays attention to reality. This chart tells the story pretty clearly.

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The simple truth is that I fear for the President’s life.

Lately, I’ve been slacking off.

Was a time, I worried constantly about the President’s safety. This President’s safety. The safety of Barack Hussein Obama, our first African-American Commander in Chief. Indeed, I’ve been worried about him since he declared his candidacy — particularly after I wrote a letter to the editor in support of said candidacy and got in return for my trouble a letter threatening both my life and his.

But, you know. One gets lulled by the Secret Service’s success at keeping the President alive. A little numb to the endless drumbeat of hate. There’s a constant hum of noxious rhetoric, but if one were to be constantly attuned to it, one would lose one’s mind. So one has let down one’s guard.

But you know what? Guard? Back up.

It was Arizona governor Jan Brewer who did it for me, by announcing to the world that she felt “a little bit threatened” by the President when he visited her fair state the other day. Because at a certain point, you realize that they’re not even using dog whistles anymore — they’ve moved on to fog horns and disco balls.

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Live-Tweeting the #CNNDebate because… ::shrug::

I don’t know anymore. There’s a debate every other hour. I can only take so much.



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Who’s Afraid of Saul Alinsky? The Man, His Work, and His Influence

Be afraid! Alinsky’s gonna getcha if you don’t watch out!

Actual screenshot of Glenn Beck's chalkboard (see lower right)

The American political right has done its best for decades to turn the name “Saul Alinsky” into a potent unifying symbol of evil leftie radical theory and practice, and oh did you know he was one of them Jews? And to be clear, he was and remains a great influence on some of the best-known political organizers of the 20th and 21st centuries.

But before he was a code-word and a dog-whistle, he was a man who did a great many things, and wrote about them with style, clarity and wit.

We here at Angry Black Lady Chronicles are conducting a book chat on Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. (Links to purchase or download the book are included at that post, and a reader provided a link to a .pdf of the text.) Reminder: we will begin this weekend with the preface as the topic of our first discussion.

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Greedy Medicine Practices Put Patients At Risk

When is recycling not a good thing? When it’s pharmacies doing the recycling.

Medicines from deceased patients have been recycled, repackaged and resold to disabled or elderly patients, according to recent allegations. This has allowed them to benefit from the death of patients, resell expensive drugs at the risk of other customers, and allow the businesses to double-bill government aid for the full cost of the medicine. Some cancer drugs are so expensive they have been diluted or altered by unscrupulous staff. Some other rare drugs are so costly that it is still profitable to pay employee wages to sort and repackage them. Due to the large number of elderly and disabled who depend on aid, they are the most affected by this.

No charges have officially been filed, but drugs were found labeled “reuse” and computers were seized as well.
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