Well I got my first “hate call” — from some delightful idiot who wanted to say: “fuck you, get the fuck out of philly, get the fuck out of this country”

All lowercase because he seemed like the type who wouldn’t be able to find the shift key. This is the kind of thoughtful and constructive message you’d expect from a racist. I hope his “holidays” were extremely unhappy.

Virgil Goode, expressing his white-man fear and hatred of “Muslims” (aka “colored people”)… I’m almost ashamed to be from Virginia. Well, no. I’m ashamed that he’s from Virginia. All those good “Southern” boys (racists Allen and Goode) just want to turn the US into a Nazi state.

I hate Republicans.

Follow-up: Apparently some people (deleted the comments because, er, it’s my blog) don’t get that this is a joke. I don’t hate all Republicans, just most of them. I’m simply mirroring their hysterical and ignorant whining and I’m not afraid of (these) Republicans whereas they are terrified of me. )

A quote that pretty much sums up how I’m thinking about this Iran-denies-the-holocaust thing:

I don’t understand. The western world accuses multiple countries in the Middle East of lacking democracy and free speech, which many of them do. Yet when Iran holds a conference, not to deny the holocaust ever happened, but to investigate whether all we know of the Holocaust was true, we are up in arms. What happened to the concept of free speech we were thinking is the best thing in the world? Does that only apply on all things except when it comes to criticizing Israel? Any criticism of the conference is sheer and utter hypocrisy.
Omar Yassin, St. Paul, MO, USA

Jerry Klein is the token liberal on WMAL and I finally got around to listening to his “Tattoo Their Foreheads” show (download here). Old news, maybe, but gold. He did a great job of exposing bigotry.

… about Israel and Palestine? President Carter does.

The many controversial issues concerning Palestine and the path to peace for Israel are intensely debated among Israelis and throughout other nations — but not in the United States. For the last 30 years, I have witnessed and experienced the severe restraints on any free and balanced discussion of the facts. This reluctance to criticize any policies of the Israeli government is because of the extraordinary lobbying efforts of the American-Israel Political Action Committee and the absence of any significant contrary voices.

It would be almost politically suicidal for members of Congress to espouse a balanced position between Israel and Palestine, to suggest that Israel comply with international law or to speak in defense of justice or human rights for Palestinians. Very few would ever deign to visit the Palestinian cities of Ramallah, Nablus, Hebron, Gaza City or even Bethlehem and talk to the beleaguered residents.

Further..

The book describes the abominable oppression and persecution in the occupied Palestinian territories, with a rigid system of required passes and strict segregation between Palestine’s citizens and Jewish settlers in the West Bank. An enormous imprisonment wall is now under construction, snaking through what is left of Palestine to encompass more and more land for Israeli settlers. In many ways, this is more oppressive than what blacks lived under in South Africa during apartheid.

That’s what I call speaking frankly.

Errm… yeah.

I’ve never had a job before. Now, at 23, I can finally put it off no longer. I was sort of set for a life of no-job, no-kids, no-worries… But an opportunity came along and I accepted it.

Since my name is on the website, I guess I can say that I’m working for CAIR, Philadelphia branch…

I had to make my first phone call yesterday. Not just a simple one, but one to a prominent anchor of a very big local news show. I just know I sounded like an idiot although I hope I didn’t. [”This is a child, pretending to be an adult…”]

So now I’m part of the big Muslim conspiracy to take over America. Just kidding. But if it’s “with us or against us” and the “with us” includes people like Glenn Beck and Dennis Prager …