Merry KKKristmas

The American Family Association isn't really known for their tolerance, but surely even they know that this is completely inappropriate. And are people actually buying it from their website?



Or is this one of those "we didn't realize a burning cross in the yard was considered bad" kind of moments? Then again, this is the American Family Association. "How to Build a Flame Free Burning Cross" is probably in the handbook.

Wassup

Elitism

Hate

Is anyone really surprised by this? They've discovered that the church shooter in Tennessee has three of the biggest hatemongers in the US as his role models: Michael Savage, Sean Hannity, and Bill O'Reilly.

"Inside the house, officers found Liberalism is a Mental Health Disorder by radio talk show host Michael Savage, Let Freedom Ring by talk show host Sean Hannity, and The O'Reilly Factor, by television talk show host Bill O'Reilly."

Granted they aren't the ones who pulled the actual trigger in this case, but with the amount of hatred these three spew on TV, radio, and through their books I'm surprised they haven't incited incidents like this before now.

This story is now going to quickly disappear and be forgotten. It was already in danger of that once it was announced it happened at a Unitarian Universalist church. If it's not Xtian then the sheep don't think it's a "real" church and therefore the heathens deserve anything that happens to them (Jesus would be so proud of that kind of thinking). But now that the Big Boys of Hatred's names are linked to the story?

... time to plaster what Ryan Seacrest's favorite color is on the front page.

Fail

From Failblog.org.

Heh

Unfuckingbelievable

Yay for fascism!

First Amendment? Free speech, as long as we can secretly listen to what you're saying.

Fourth Amendment? Heh, that was just meant to be a suggestion. That whole requiring warrant thing has gone on long enough.

But then, what do you expect from a President whose opinion of the Constitution is that "It's just a goddamned piece of paper!"?

22.016

This was a fun little game. I'm not too sure why they said 18 seconds was "brilliant" though. Felt more like a low average time to me.


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In another post about the increase in the minimum wage, I wrote:

""Barack Obama will raise the minimum wage"...from the Obama website.

Free market indeed. Nothing more free about a market than dictating labor cost. Excuse me, comrade, while I read the latest dispatch from the Politburo. Businesses have to pay their employees, right? When the cost of doing business increases for a company due to increased labor costs, they have to do one of two things - cut the workforce or raise prices. Just which of these two options helps the American worker? When a "mom and pop" small business suddenly has its' labor cost rise, through no choice of their own, what will they do? Who is more suited to withstand an increase in labor cost, Mega Corp or Mom and Pop's General Store? Goodbye, Mom and Pop's.

I'm sorry. I forgot - we are "hoping" for a "change" in the economy. If your idea of "change" is the government deciding labor cost in a "free" market, then I "hope" you are not the worker who loses your job."


Well...

This is what I was talking about.

Hope and Change, indeed.

Concert

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss will be performing at the Asheville Civic Center this Saturday night. I didn't know anything about it until I saw it in today's paper, or I might have tried to get tickets and go.

Talent

It's not quite as impressive as the Paul Potts video, but the kid's got some talent nonetheless.

Not A Chance

El camino del Rey - Brightcove

Thought The Beacon would add a nice article

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08125/878966-85.stm

Celebrate Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irZmknvOB4I

Celebrate

Don't forget, Earth Day celebrations in Asheville are happening tomorrow (Saturday, April 19, 2008) in Martin Luther King Park. I'm sure you all have plans to attend. Be sure to drive your hybrid vehicles and wear your hemp clothing.

Gov't Mule is playing at AMJam (Asheville Music Jamboree) this year over Memorial Day weekend, May 23-25. I'm not sure how long this Jamboree's been around, but it looks like they have quite a few artists lined up this year.

I'm the mother flippin'

I'm only about halfway through the season of the Conchords, but my favorite song so far has got to be the Rhymnoceros and the Hiphopopotamus.

Tainted Blood

Apparently Mariah Carey has surpassed Michael Jackson's step daddy for the most #1 hits, 18 number ones for her. As a side note Madonna also surpassed the tainted blood one's number of top ten hits with 37. Rough week for the man that likes 15 year olds.

For the True King of Rock and Roll, the man that got it all started.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEq62iQo0eU

Clinton

Former President Bill Clinton is going to be in Asheville this evening, campaigning for Hillary. He'll be at Asheville High School around 8:00 this evening and admission is free and open to the public.

Sadly, I won't be able to attend but I assume Rob will be there to snap pics, get an autograph, and enjoy the speech so I'm expecting a full report here this weekend.

An Inconvenient Truth...

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23411799-7583,00.html



Man...

Now global warming REDUCES hurricanes, after being told that warming of the oceans will INCREASE hurricanes

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22790698/

But wait - are the oceans warming?

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88520025

Since the oceans have cooled, does that mean we are experiencing global cooling? So it would seem...

http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Worldwide+Global+Cooling/article10866.htm

Buy parkas!! Stock up on firewood!! We're doomed!!!

And what about the arctic ice? Well, take a look...

http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=332289

That's it. I'm going to buy an SUV. For the health of the planet. It's the right thing to do. Think of the planet.

Man, with all of this conflicting data, I think it is the perfect time to pass legislation that will hamper the economy based on conflicting reports, inconclusive data and shaky computer models.

But at least Al Gore got his Nobel Prize.

Helicopter Game

http://www.hurtwood.demon.co.uk/Fun/copter.swf

Mappy

http://www.nintendo8.com/game/115/mappy/

Improv Everywhere

Improv Everywhere is the group that gets a large number of people to go into public areas and do things out of the ordinary. Their latest mission is to perform a spontaneous musical at a food court in a mall.



Pretty nifty, and would be very cool to be one of the people who got to experience this in the audience. I think I like their Frozen Grand Central Station video better, but the musical's pretty cool.

Mitch Hedberg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBiNriy87OA&feature=related

JD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWU8XWksg_0

Annie

Just heard on the radio that "Annie" is being performed at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium on March 19th. I'm thinking it sounds like a great place for The Beacon to meet the Beaconette. You can even get tickets online at Ticketmaster for it!

Godwin

Bush is holding a news conference today to pressure Congress to pass an intelligence bill that'll make it easier for the government to spy on its citizens suspected of being involved in "terrorism". In other words, he wants the government to be able to listen to your phone conversations and read your emails whenever they feel like it, without having to go through legal channels and obtain a warrant for doing so. And this isn't a new thing, this is a renewal of a temporary bill that has expired which had already given them this legal immunity.

Fascism is spreading through this country in the name of homeland security and all the people do is roll over and accept it thinking it's somehow related to protecting us from "terrorism". We've got to stop accepting these breaches of our civil liberties and let them know we won't stand for it. I'm sorry, I thought this was America and the Fourth Amendment afforded us a bit of privacy from Big Brother.

Excerpt from a famous recorded interview of Hermann Goering at the Nuremberg Trials by Gustave Gilbert, a German-speaking intelligence officer and psychologist:

"Why, of course, the people don't want war," Goering shrugged. "Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship."

"There is one difference," I pointed out. "In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars."

"Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."

Heh

Have no fear

The voice of reason is here. Here to combat the far right rantings of a man that thinks he is always right and the socialist views of a man who has dropped off the deep end.

I'm sorry, I thought this was America.

"I believe that America's free market has been the engine of America's great progress. It's created a prosperity that is the envy of the world." B. Obama

"Barack Obama will raise the minimum wage"...from the Obama website.

Free market indeed. Nothing more free about a market than dictating labor cost. Excuse me, comrade, while I read the latest dispatch from the Politburo. Businesses have to pay their employees, right? When the cost of doing business increases for a company due to increased labor costs, they have to do one of two things - cut the workforce or raise prices. Just which of these two options helps the American worker? When a "mom and pop" small business suddenly has its' labor cost rise, through no choice of their own, what will they do? Who is more suited to withstand an increase in labor cost, Mega Corp or Mom and Pop's General Store? Goodbye, Mom and Pop's.

I'm sorry. I forgot - we are "hoping" for a "change" in the economy. If your idea of "change" is the government deciding labor cost in a "free" market, then I "hope" you are not the worker who loses your job.