no, I really dont like cops. or Nice White Ladies

In our new post racial america, white lady calls cops on black professor having trouble opening his 200 year old house's door. Cops arrests man after he identifies himself as home owner because he is being too "loud and tumultous" I proceed to hate the world a little bit more. Especially because various commenters seem to believe that the cops are entitled to arrest anyone who argues with them. Remind me again about democracy and free speech? And how the United States is the freest country in the world?


In the meantime, Ms. Maddow was pissed enough at racist jackass Pat Buchannan, to do some fact checking of his recent appearance on her show:

In which Mr. Gates called his highpowered lawyers and they showed the Police their teeth

They dropped the charges This was one bite that was too hard for the racist assholes to swallow. They will continue to stick it to the poor, of course. Cause WE can't afford those lawyers.

When you are poor, hispanic and to make maters worse, a lesbian?

The police can beat your ass up and your disorderly conduct charges aint getting dropped

Good news

Jimmy Carter leaves teh Southern Baptist Convention over sexism

In an opinion piece published last weekend, entitled “Losing my Religion for Equality,” Carter said that a “twisted interpretation of the word of God” taught by male religious leaders has been used to justify the oppression of women:

The truth is that male religious leaders have had - and still have - an option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or subjugate women. They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly chosen the latter. Their continuing choice provides the foundation or justification for much of the pervasive persecution and abuse of women throughout the world. This is in clear violation not just of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights but also the teachings of Jesus Christ, the Apostle Paul, Moses and the prophets, Muhammad, and founders of other great religions - all of whom have called for proper and equitable treatment of all the children of God. It is time we had the courage to challenge these views.

Although Carter severed ties with the SBC in a 2000 letter mailed to 75,000 Baptists, the former president “continued to serve as a deacon and Sunday school teacher at his local church” in Plains, GA, an SBC affiliate that in 2006 ordained former first lady Rosalynn Carter as a deacon. President Carter, a member of a group of retired statesmen formed by Nelson Mandela called “The Elders,” said last month that the group had concluded that religion has been “a basic cause of the foundational excuse” for “other dominant males to persecute or abuse or deprive women of their justifiable rights.”
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