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Racism Is at Home on the Right

Follow the link if you want to see a disgusting, stupid message from a bigot who serves Lush Limbaugh. Some will says this is just one guy; some will say this is made up by the Left or this guy is actually a marxist. Time and time again, the Right excuses or ignores the rabid racists in their midst, all the while prodding and coddling them. See for yourself by following the link. The racist imagery includes hints of dragging a lynched Obama behind a truck. Nice people, bedrock Amuricans. I’m sure the Founders would have loved them. (The Founders of the KKK.) It’s disgusting.

ThinkProgress » California Lawmaker Receives Racist Death Threat Warning ‘Rush Limbaugh Will Kick Your Ch-nk Ass’

Last week, California State Sen. Leland Yee (D) called on right-wing hate radio host Rush Limbaugh to apologize for mocking Chinese President Hu Jintao and the Chinese language by speaking gibberish “ching chong chang” Chinese on his radio program. Yee, who is Chinese-American and chairs the state Senate Select Committee on Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs, said Limbaugh owes the Chinese-American community an apology for his “pointless and ugly offense.” Naturally, Limbaugh did not apologize, and instead railed against Yee the following day on his radio, calling him out repeatedly by name.

Yee’s call for civility did not sit well with one Limbaugh fan, who responded by sending several racist death threats to Yee’s office this week. “Rush Limbaugh will kick your chink ass and expose you for the fool you are,” the faxes read, threatening him with “death” (warning, contains racial expletives):

ThinkProgress » California Lawmaker Receives Racist Death Threat Warning ‘Rush Limbaugh Will Kick Your Ch-nk Ass’

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“I blame the individual for the first 10 bullets. I blame the law for the next 21 bullets that he fired.”–Lawrence O’Donnell [Amen.]

ThinkProgress » Rep. Trent Franks Refuses To Admit That Fewer Bullets Harm Fewer People

Last night on MSNBC during an interview with Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ), host Lawrence O’Donnell noted that the alleged shooter, Jared Loughner, was subdued only after he stopped to reload his 31-bullet clip and argued that perhaps other innocents would have been spared if Republicans had extended a law banning larger magazine clips in 2004.

“I blame the individual for the first 10 bullets. I blame the law for the next 21 bullets that he fired.”

ThinkProgress » Rep. Trent Franks Refuses To Admit That Fewer Bullets Harm Fewer People

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What Guns Are Good For

The view that guns keep us free from government tyranny is insane. The Confederacy was well-armed but defeated by the hated Federal government. Well-armed citizens did everything they could to stop the freedom train time and again. This is a loony delusion, a mass-insanity. That said, revel in your rights. Buy all the fucking guns and ammo you want. Piss away your money on weapons. You won’t feel safe enough or freer, and you never will. Such is madness.

E.J. Dionne Jr. – Violent talk blocks sane gun laws

I came to realize, partly from e-mail exchanges with ardent foes of gun control over the years, that the real passion for a let-anything-go approach to guns has little to do with culture or hunting. It is rooted in a very peculiar view of how America has maintained its freedom. Rep. Ron Paul, as is his wont, expressed it as plainly as anyone.

"The Second Amendment is not about hunting deer or keeping a pistol in your nightstand," the Texas Republican declared in 2006. "It is not about protecting oneself against common criminals. It is about preventing tyranny. The Founders knew that unarmed citizens would never be able to overthrow a tyrannical government as they did. . . . The muskets they used against the British army were the assault rifles of that time."

And at a Washington rally last year on the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) linked this view to the current occupant of the White House.

"Fellow patriots, we have a lot of domestic enemies of the Constitution, and they’re right down the Mall, in the Congress of the United States – and right down Independence Avenue in the White House that belongs to us," he declared. "It’s not about my ability to hunt, which I love to do. It’s not about the ability for me to protect my family and my property against criminals, which we have the right to do. But it’s all about us protecting ourselves from a tyrannical government of the United States."

E.J. Dionne Jr. – Violent talk blocks sane gun laws

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Only Other Conservatives Can Deal with Lush Limbaugh

ThinkProgress » Fox News’ Chris Wallace: You Don’t Have to Call Everyone ‘Socialists’ or ‘Fascists’

A debate over tone, though a small-scale one, does seem to be emerging on the right. Wallace, in pleading for a more agreeable tone, may have been responding to Rush Limbaugh — who attacked Wallace and Charles Krauthammer this week for praising Obama’s speech in Tuscon. “They were slobbering over it for the predictable reasons,” Limbaugh said. “It was smart, it was articulate, it was oratorical. It was, it was all the things the educated, ruling class wants their members to be and sound like.”

Fox News actually played the clip for Krauthammer yesterday, and Krauthammer joined Wallace in gently pushing back against Limbaugh’s vitriol: “As one of the three slobberers…I find it interesting that only the ruling class wants a president who is smart articulate and oratorical in delivering a funeral oration,” he said.

ThinkProgress » Fox News’ Chris Wallace: You Don’t Have to Call Everyone ‘Socialists’ or ‘Fascists’

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Maybe those ATVers are all gun-totin’ left-wing progressives

The Right whines that the Left is “just as bad” when it comes to threats of violence. OK: Send me a link to a story in which a right-wing group is “wanted dead or alive.” Or, show me that ATVers are leftists and wilderness advocates are right-wingers.

The Durango Herald 01/08/2011 | ‘Wanted Dead or Alive’ posters target local conservation group

Under a skull and crossbones are the words: “Wanted Dead or Alive.” Beneath, in larger type, it reads: “Members of Great Old Broads for Wilderness are not allowed in San Juan County Utah.”

“We’ve run into hostility before but never so overtly,” Ronni Egan, executive director of the group, said Friday. …

The apparent reason: their involvement in trying to restore an area rich in archaeological treasures that has been invaded by off-road vehicles.

The Durango Herald 01/08/2011 | ‘Wanted Dead or Alive’ posters target local conservation group

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As a Constitutional Scholar, Harrison Schmitt is a Bang-up Engineer

New Mexicans should read Tom Cole’s quotations from Harrison Schmitt, Martinez’s proposed head of the state Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department. I’ll start with the end of Cole’s column.

ABQJOURNAL UPFRONT: Harrison Schmitt: in His Words

In one posting, he says a "philosophical wedge" has been driven between the government and its citizens, creating a divide that is wider than at any other time since just before the Civil War.

        It seems to me that Schmitt has been doing some of the hammering on that wedge.

ABQJOURNAL UPFRONT: Harrison Schmitt: in His Words

Schmitt on Anthropogenic Global Climate Change:

"There exists no true concern … about the true effects of climate change — only a poorly concealed, ideologically driven attempt to use conjured up threats of catastrophic consequences as a lever to gain authoritarian control of society."

Classic conservative paranoia: It’s all part of the totalitarian movement of the Left. (Just like the “Patriot” Act and DOMA.) I think Climate Change Deniers are part of a power grab by corporations that will destroy anything and everything for profit. Schmitt also supports endless corporate welfare in the form of “Cold War II” with China.

One more quote from Schmitt, who believes the Minimum Wage and Social Security numbers are unconstitutional:

"The Government violates constitutional equal protection most generally by restricting the land-related economic and recreational activities of residents of Western States when no comparable restrictions are possible in most Eastern States. …”

Yup, Western wilderness is unconstitutional because there aren’t comparable Eastern wildernesses. Apparently, engineers make lousy constitutional scholars. (BTW: I’m all for creating equally large wildernesses in the East. It’s only fair.)

A tangent regarding the endless ways in which abqjournal.com frustrates its users. When you select text to quote from the site, text is appended to that quote, such as this:

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Kudos to the Web designer who is so clueless about interface yet able to hack some JavaScript. Now, I know that some media sources object to the common practice among bloggers of quoting from those sources, even though every media source quotes other media sources – somehow, it’s wrong when bloggers do it. Like almost every blogger, I cite the sites I quote from. Still, abqjournal.com insists on tacking on this ugly bit of code. (Note the hideous URL.) I’ll bet this got the coder a pat on the head.

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Eugene Robinson – Guns and responsibility

No doubt, Robinson will receive death threats from freedom-loving patriots defending themselves against the violent rhetoric of the Left. Giant sarcastic air-quotes around each of those words.

Eugene Robinson – Guns and responsibility

By Eugene Robinson

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

We may not be sure that the bloodbath in Tucson had anything to do with politics, but we know it had everything to do with our nation’s insane refusal to impose reasonable controls on guns.

Specifically, the rampage had everything to do with a 9mm semiautomatic Glock pistol – a sleek, efficient killing machine that our lax gun laws allowed an unstable young man to purchase, carry anywhere and ultimately use to shoot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in the head. The weapon also was used to shoot 19 bystanders, killing six of them, including a federal judge and a 9-year-old girl. …

We do know, however, that Loughner reportedly had a history of drug use and bizarre behavior. Students and a teacher at a community college that Loughner briefly attended found him so erratic, confused, menacing and potentially violent that they persuaded college authorities to bar him from campus pending a psychiatric exam.

Yet on Nov. 30, he was able to walk into Sportsman’s Warehouse in Tucson and purchase the weapon that authorities allege was used in Saturday’s rampage. He apparently also bought extra magazines loaded with ammunition.

To buy the gun, Loughner was required to pass a federal background check – and he did, a store manager told reporters. It is against federal law to sell a gun to someone who is mentally ill, but there is no indication that Loughner was ever officially deemed to suffer from mental illness. Even if he had been, there is a good chance that his name would not have been properly entered in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. …

Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign, said in a statement that "if Congress had not allowed the ‘Assault Weapons Ban’ to expire in 2004, the shooter [Loughner] would only have been able to get off 10 rounds without reloading. Instead, he was able to fire at least 20 rounds from his 30-round clip."

Eugene Robinson – Guns and responsibility