Ya gotta jump down-HOOH! turn around-HOOH!...

[captainsblog]

I know. Somebody probably thinks that's racist.

Whatev. Within a half hour of my posting this graphic this morning-



- thigs did turn around and began getting better.  A usually reliable 5 a.m. deposit from Wegmans showed up shortly after 6; by day's end. I'd received two of the larger missing payments from clients that will keep us out of a world of hurt; and my 4 p.m.Rochester appointment canceled, which got me home earlier, for which I am always grateful.

Closer to 3 p.m. once the 4:00 canceled,  I made a call on some folks who actually called me before I took judgment against them, and I was prepared to issue formal subpoenas to compel their cooperation. No need; they were pleasant and cooperative with me merely in the room, and when I saw the one objet d'art on the walls in the place-



-I found myself implicitly taking them at their word.

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As for the real racists out there in the world, say buh-bye Breitbart:

"Andrew passed away unexpectedly from natural causes shortly after midnight this morning in Los Angeles," a post on Breitbart.com said.

Mr. Breitbart oversaw a stable of websites including bighollywood.com, biggovernment.com and bigjournalism.com. In 2010, he posted a video of an address that Shirley Sherrod, then an official with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, had given to the NAACP. In the clip, Ms. Sherrod, who is black, appeared to express bias against whites, and she was dismissed from her job as a result. After the full version of the speech showed that the edit Mr. Breitbart posted had distorted her remarks, the White House apologized and offered Ms. Sherrod a new position, which she declined. Mr. Breitbart has said the video came to him edited.

Yeah. Edited by his own minions to provide plausible deniability after he destroyed the career of an activist.

The man had young kids, so I refrained from my preliminary online wishes for his immortal soul, but since I'm sure he would have been a believer in the inventor of so many Republican tactics (Southern strategy, dirty tricks, etc., etc.), I limited my post-mortem oppobrium to these kinder, gentler words:

Bye, Breitbart. Say hi to Nixon for me.

Comments

[bktheirregular]

Bye, Breitbart. Say hi to Nixon for me.

And ask Joe McCarthy (the senator, not the Cubs/Yanks/Red Sox manager) how it's working out for him.

[headbanger118.livejournal.com]

Forgive my ignorance...what is Southern Strategy?

[bktheirregular]

I know it's not my space, but the "Southern strategy" was the GOP's plan to take advantage of JFK and LBJ's support for the Civil Rights Movement by pandering to segregationists and like-minded people with race-based prejudicial opposition. (LBJ expected this to happen; he's reported to have commented that support for civil rights would cost the Democrats their Southern support base for a generation ... and he went ahead and threw his support behind it it anyway.)

For reference, also see Lee Atwater and dog whistles.

[headbanger118.livejournal.com]

I can totally seeing that work with the abortion issue, as most Southern Catholics (and many Southerners in general -- including myself) are pro-life. I can also see it working in the Deep South for racial issues, but I don't see the race card being AS effective in the "hillbilly South" (VA, TN, KY, NC) these days. Interesting....I had never heard of this. Perhaps it is discussed more in the Deep South where Catholics and segregation (not to equate the two, of course) are more common.

[headbanger118.livejournal.com]

Nice to meet you! Thanks for the info.

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

Yeah, what he said. It was also coordinated with the first real effort to bring Catholics (traditionally a Democratic base) into the Republican movement by playing to the abortion issue, which, as recently as the late 60s, Republicans had always been more pro-choice on.

[murrday.livejournal.com]

I feel sorry for the bigot's children.