Georgia man guns down immigrant after GPS sends him to wrong driveway | The Raw Story
Whacking material for Wayne LaPierre.
GOP candidate: ‘My opponent believes in global warming and has been to other countries, he is basically a monster’ | Grist
This is where we juxtapose.
From the state that once gave us George McGovern, but more recently considered a legislative measure making it legal to murder abortion providers.
Once again, dear friends: Stupidity Is Not a Civic Virtue.
Alberta roadside gunman fails to fit manufactured narrative | #media #journalism #islamophobia
Oy.
I wonder how this story would read if this guy had been a Muslim …
(h/t buckdog)
@Torontoist on the provincial election, and my response | #onpoli
Can’t really put it any better than this:
In this election there’s really no voting for; there’s only voting against.
I wouldn’t honour this bunch by referring to them as Tories. When you say Tories, I think of people like Joe Clark, Bill Davis, Flora MacDonald, and even John Diefenbaker — people on the Progressive side of the Progressive Conservative tradition, people with a social conscience, people who despite their identification as “conservatives” carry a nice streak of red in them. As a matter of fact, I wouldn’t even debase the honourable tradition of conservatism by applying it to this lot.
Hudak’s so-called contribution to the conversation consists of little more than smudged photocopies from the Rove/Luntz playbook. Homophobia? Bigotry? Manufactured resentment? Insults to our intelligence? Misrepresentation? Cultivated stupidity? Thuggish behaviour? If you’re looking for evidence of teabaggery’s northward creep, you needn’t look much farther than this.
Other than that, what Torontoist said.
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On this week’s provincial election | #onpoli
I’ll admit I haven’t been as engaged in this campaign as I should have been. Mea culpa.
And in all honesty, none of the three main parties has really grabbed my attention or even come close to inspiring me.
But there’s one campaign that really stands out for its cynicism, its misrepresentation, its transparent appeals to bigotry, homophobia, and intolerance, and its disingenuousness. It’s been pretty hard to argue that anyone’s gone too far in insulting voters’ intelligence, given recent voting patterns, but I think this particular campaign’s managed to cross that line.
When you do things like this, it says something about your view of Ontario voters. It’s not flattering, either to you or to them.
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