Monday Open Thread
Hi everyone, did you miss me? Or did you even notice I wasn’t around? Right now I have some blessed alone time and I thought I’d write something. It looks like you’ve all been quite active lately. I guess political junkies don’t go on vacation?
Anyway, I caught this interesting statement from the GOP brain trust. This time it’s Rep. Peter King (R-NY):
Over the weekend Rep. Peter King (R-NY) weighed in on racial profiling in the wake of the attempted terrorist attack on Flight 253, saying there is “too much political correctness” and that “while the overwhelming majority of Muslims are outstanding people, on the other hand 100% of the Islamic terrorists are Muslims.”
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King said:
I think there are situations like this where we are afraid of being accused of profiling. The fact is while the overwhelming majority of Muslims are outstanding people, on the other hand 100% of the Islamic terrorists are Muslims, and that is our main enemy today. So while we should not be profiling people because of their religion, at the same time we should not be bending over backwards to somehow keep them off a list.
I’m convinced that 100% of idiots think they’re geniuses.
Not Pete Sessions though. Hours after Allen Stanford was charged by the SEC for swindling investors out of around $7 billion, the Texas congressman, and chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee, sent the following email, signed “Pete”:
I love you and believe in you…If you want my ear/voice — e-mail.
The message, sent at 11:31 a.m. on February 17, was obtained by McClatchy, which reports, without citing sources, that the Justice Department has launched an investigation into whether Sessions and numerous other lawmakers who received campaign funds or lavish Caribbean trips from Stanford did him any special favors in return.
What a touching love story.
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How not to parent . . . Mom turns 6-year-old into police for shoplifting.
http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/ohio-mom-calls-cops-on-her-shoplifting-6-year-old-17281504
When stealing an xBox, don’t play online using your victims username.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/12/28/incompetent-xbox-thief-busted-via-online-gaming/
Ha!
Very interesting article on how the Chinese sabotaged the Copenhagen talks.
Justice Dept. Transfers ‘Panthers’ Prosecutor Out of DC Office
The New Media Journal ^ | Dec 29, 2009 | The Washington Times
The veteran Justice Department voting rights section chief who recommended going forward on a civil complaint against members of the New Black Panther Party after they disrupted a Pennsylvania polling place in last year’s elections has been removed from his post and transferred to the US attorney’s office in South Carolina.
Justice Department officials confirmed Monday that Christopher Coates, who signed off on the complaint’s filing in federal court in Philadelphia in January accusing the party and three of its members of civil rights violations, would begin his new assignment next month.
The complaint, which accused party members of intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place while wearing black berets, black combat boots, black dress shirts and black jackets with military-style markings, and wielding a nightstick, was later dismissed by Obama administration political appointees at the Justice Department.
The incident gained national attention when it was captured on videotape and distributed on YouTube.