When “skinny” means “black”
MickC @ August 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
When “skinny” means “black.” - By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine
Where do you even start with this? Is it now 6 Degrees of Racism? Is that the new standard for determining if an adjective is racist?
Maybe that’s how John Wiley Price got “black hole” to be a racist term.
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When “skinny” means “black”
MickC @ August 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
When “skinny” means “black.” - By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine
Where do you even start with this? Is it now 6 Degrees of Racism? Is that the new standard for determining if an adjective is racist?
Maybe that’s how John Wiley Price got “black hole” to be a racist term.
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I’d Better Get a Heavy-Duty Tire Gauge
MickC @ August 5, 2008 # 2 Comments
So, The Word I am hearing is that John McCain is somehow an idiot for taking issue with Barak Obama’s insistence that we need to properly inflate our tires and get tune-ups to save as much gasoline as “all the oil that they’re talking about getting off drilling.”
Think Progress follows up the ridicule with a [...]
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I’d Better Get a Heavy-Duty Tire Gauge
MickC @ August 5, 2008 # 2 Comments
So, The Word I am hearing is that John McCain is somehow an idiot for taking issue with Barak Obama’s insistence that we need to properly inflate our tires and get tune-ups to save as much gasoline as “all the oil that they’re talking about getting off drilling.”
Think Progress follows up the ridicule with a [...]
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Obama: Bush & McCain made the same mistake I did on “the surge”
MickC @ August 4, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Obama admits drop in Iraqi violence was more than he had anticipated - Los Angeles Times
Earlier Sunday, in an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Obama acknowledged that he had failed to anticipate the sharp decline in attacks in Iraq, but he contended that President Bush and McCain had made the same mistake.
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Addressing what has [...]
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Obama: Bush & McCain made the same mistake I did on “the surge”
MickC @ August 4, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Obama admits drop in Iraqi violence was more than he had anticipated - Los Angeles Times
Earlier Sunday, in an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Obama acknowledged that he had failed to anticipate the sharp decline in attacks in Iraq, but he contended that President Bush and McCain had made the same mistake.
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Addressing what has [...]
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Time for Some Campaignin’
MickC @ July 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Time for Some Campaignin’ — this year’s JibJab election video.
Quite funny.
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Time for Some Campaignin’
MickC @ July 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Time for Some Campaignin’ — this year’s JibJab election video.
Quite funny.
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Let the Debates Begin!
MickC @ June 4, 2008 # No Comment Yet
John McCain has challenged Barak Obama to “at least ten town halls once a week with the first on June 11 or 12 in New York City at Federal Hall until the week before the Democratic Convention begins”.
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Let the Debates Begin!
MickC @ June 4, 2008 # No Comment Yet
John McCain has challenged Barak Obama to “at least ten town halls once a week with the first on June 11 or 12 in New York City at Federal Hall until the week before the Democratic Convention begins”.
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