Really Fester, both sides have easy pot shots to take, mindless drones that will repeat the other side's dogma. endlessly, without coherent thought. Taking these easy pot shots is a sign of fanaticism, doing what the extremists want you to do. This isn't football or any other professional sport, it is politics. It could effect people's lives in a very bad way. Well, it already does. Bringing out this detritus on the heels of the Republican icon of Wall Street having a horrible week is like something out of a war movie parody. Gonna stand out in the middle of the street yelling and shooting off the endless clip until one of the dying donkeys gets off a lucky shot.

Yeah, good luck with that.

The first of those links was horrible. What an idiotic thing to say.

The second...well, it was obviously tongue in cheek, but yeah. Cheap shot, and without any basis.

The third, I don't see the controversy. Of course, I have no idea who Rick Perry is, nor do I get the joke about "if he was black, Sarah Palin would **** him." The joke may be funny, but the punchline is lost on me. Still, Maher's usually pretty good. Religulous was very entertaining. I don't agree with all Maher's views, but then, I don't agree with all of many people's views. He is, at least, moderately economically conservative and socially liberal, which is my general place on the political compass, though i'm further to the economic right than he is.

Edit: Okay, I looked up the "horrified she **** a black man" scandal. That makes Maher's comment funny. I still haven't bothered looking up who Rick Perry is.

There is a new smear book out on Palin by the guy who rented a house right next door to her. A lot of baseless allegations including that Palin wanted to sleep with this black sports figure were made in it. The quotes I've seen from it are really disgusting. Thats where I think Maher is getting it. I figure this book will be a source for many liberal memes for the next year.

-Yeah, see, I don't care who she wanted to ****. Skin color is just another preference like hair color or eye color, what turns you on? If that's racism, here's my racist comment of the day - I usually don't find black women sexually appealling. There are exceptions, but yeah. Black men, on the other hand? Some of them I wouldn't kick out of bed for eating crackers... ...uh... ...ha! eating crackers? Like me!

Hey NF was that DFK posting in the comments section on that article? Looked like an avatar he used to use...haven't seen him around here since May.

Don't think so. The writing style doesn't fit, and I can't think of any reason DFK! would use Pennsylvania in his handle.

He's been absent since he got a new job that doesn't permit him Glading time. Couple that with weird hours, and you get his absence.

What makes the allegations "baseless?" Is it hearsay? (Not that hearsay is baseless, just inadmissible in court, which this is not.) Or did the author claim overhear her say something along these lines themselves? (Which isn't baseless, it just boils down to credibility. Which neither of them have...Palin's a politician, therefore she's probably lying with any given utterance she makes. But this person is profiting from a scandalous book, so there's good odds they are also lying.)

Robert Stephens graduated from Carleton College (average cost: $42,942/year) in 2010 and now studies law at The George Washington University Law School (average cost: $70,449/year). His father has a Ph.D. and two master’s degrees; his mother also has a master’s degree.

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Phone inquiries into the county property records & taxpayer services office reveal that the Stephens family home is not and never has been in foreclosure, that property taxes had been paid in full this year and the remaining balance on their mortgage for the half-million dollar home is less than one year’s worth of tuition+fees at their son’s law school.

The nail in this empty protest‘s coffin is a delightful phone conversation I just had with Robert’s mother, Marquita, where she admitted Chase Bank indeed was not “taking” their home from them. Instead, due to a recent “reduction in income,” they’ve decided to hold a “short sale.”