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  4. Well, thanks for that. There went an hour looking through those great comics.

  5. Jebus panty sniffing Kripes. You guys are angry about something that wasn’t actually a huge deal that happened 40 YEARS AGO!
    Jim Crow laws had literally just been lifted about 7 years earlier, and Blacks were still 2nd class citizens in much of the US, so yeah. People were pretty angry and rightfully so. And clearly they still are for many conservatives.
    http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/03/cpacs-trump-race-card-panel-derailed-actual-segregationist/63173/

  6. Today–on CBC`s French network–I watched the PM and a class of school students speaking to astronaut Chris Hatfield.
    Both the PM and the kids spoke to the space station that was equipped with live TV. At the end–they had to mention that the PM did not want to speak to the media.
    Why would he??

  11. Thank goodness for those strict Chicago gun laws or this could have gotten right outta hand:
    On Monday afternoon, Watkins was changing his daughter’s diaper in his minivan near 65th and Maryland when a gunman opened fire. Both Watkins and his 6-month-old baby were hit by bullets. Jonylah died the next day after doctors struggled for hours to try to save her life.
    Baby hit with 5 bullets.
    http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=9028527

  13. BTW accordig to Wiki the above class act kind of has a Pulitzer (“LeDuff is best known for his contributions to the 2001 Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times series How Race Is Lived in America”), and has been milking his 1/8th Ojibway-ness as deftly as Fauxcahauntas herself*.(“LeDuff was hired by the New York Times on a ten week minority scholarship”. Also he’s “a member of the Sault Ste. Marie Chippewa tribe of Michigan” for some reason.)
    *He’s also supposedly got a tiny amount of black Creole background, but he only “discovered (this) as an adult”, so I don’t think it can have been holding him back too much.

  14. I love it when reporters decide they’ve got to be a part of the news. Whether it’s too boring for them at the moment and they feel need to jack it up a bit or don’t know when to step back from the fray. But biting? Black Mamba?
    From the sometimes underestimated side panel at Ace’s site, and because Detroit is sometimes underrated too:
    http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/Wayne-County-lays-off-26-Prosecutor-s-Office-employees/-/1719418/19337206/-/v7ogp1/-/index.html

  15. A couple of photos from Venezuela of the Chavez march to the grave, unraveling as was expected I suppose. He’s rotted too much to be embalmed so after awhile more in the warm Venezuela spring… With the state of electrical generation in the country, it’s not really a good idea to keep him simply refrigerated under glass. There’s rarely a month that doesn’t have a few days of intermittency in this department. So off to the museum for a bit, then the dirt.
    *no alcohol has been for sale in the country since the death announcement. Not even with dinner in restaurants. Daniel wasn’t certain if this was to show respect for the recently departed or to quell the celebrations.
    http://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.ca/2013/03/first-week-campaign-round-up-chavez-to.html#more

  17. “You guys are angry about something that wasn’t actually a huge deal that happened 40 YEARS AGO!”

    The post itself is a lighthearted, almost negligently offhand introduction to a humorous satirical song from National Lampoon, and none of the four comments before yours showed even the first, tiniest hint of anything even remotely resembling anger.
    The song is poking fun at the mindset of self-righteous, well-off white Liberals. Do you actually think it’s a serious song about some race-riot in Oakland (was there one?) 40 years ago?
    Your complete tone-deafness, didacticism, and proclivity to erect straw men is a particularly bad combination, John.
    Wowee.

    “Jim Crow laws had literally just been lifted about 7 years earlier, and Blacks were still 2nd class citizens in much of the US, so yeah. People were pretty angry and rightfully so.”

    Umm, listen to the song, John. If the singer sounds “angry” and “rightfully so” to you then your tone/humor-deafness makes you the un-self-aware target of a piece of satire that goes completely over your head, all these years later. The singer isn’t “angry”, let alone “rightfully so”, she’s self-righteous, hypocritical, disengaged from reality, and, even as she’s usurping the corporeal struggles of others and rubbing the blood on her own tres special belly, ultimately cowardly, inasmuch as she announces to the white liberal world at large, more than to the putative objects of her concern, that she is “with them all the way / just across the bay”.
    Get it? She could easily join the black folks in their struggle by simply crossing a bridge, were she so inclined, but she instead enjoins them from her safe (but close) distance to “pull the trigger” on the unidentified, emblematic white folk who live across the bay from her.
    Getting a few larfs from a classic piece of satire ≠ anger, John.

  18. I think it’s funny EBD. Results may vary but… being 12 in 1972 sure helps, and laughing at most anything these days is a plus. John’s clearly not drinking enough, and appears reaching too far in his recent (anti) Glenn Beck link.
    Don’t hurt yourself John.

  19. You know ,back in the day,Nat lamp (and Mad and Cracked) made fun of EVERYTHING. No political correctness,no strict adherance to Party lines…Everything was up for poking at. And boy I wish I still had my stacks of NatLamp’s from back then.

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