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AND HE WAS MAKING “SLANTY EYES” TOO

“Those Oriental people work like dogs. They work their hearts out. They are workers non-stop. They sleep beside their machines. That’s why they are successful in life. I’m telling you, Oriental people, they’re slowly taking over. … They’re hard, hard workers.”
—Rob Ford, Ontario city council

FOR DIPSOMANIAC CONSERVATIVES

Via email from the Republican National Committee:

Meet Maxine, the newest member of the Republican National Committee.
Embroidered with the official logo of the RNC, Maxine proudly shows off her allegiance to the Republican Party’s principles of lower taxes, a strong national defense, limited government and personal responsibility.
Maxine is a wonderful plush toy available for a limited […]

PRESIDENTIAL LOOT

An Indian lawmaker, Nirmal Deshpande, gave the US president perhaps the least expensive present of his time in office: The yellow linen scroll with Gandhi’s warnings, with an estimated worth of seven dollars — or one per sin.
They are “politics without principle,” “wealth without work,” “pleasure without conscience,” “knowledge without character,” “commerce without morality,” “science […]

SEND A GIFT TO BUSH

Sign this letter, and the Center for Constitutional Rights will send it to the White House along with a copy of the Constitution.
(Thanks, Daddoo!)

WAITING FOR FEMA

“In an instant all will vanish and we’ll be alone once more, in the midst of nothingness.”
When the actor Wendell Pierce spoke these words in performances of “Waiting for Godot” here last month, he really was in the middle of nothingness, or what looked a lot like it.
The performances, by the Classical Theater of Harlem, […]

GRAVEL ABANDONS SURREALIST CAMPAIGN

… for hippie rap:

Mike Gravel, “Power to the People/Give Peace a Chance” (YouTube, via Wonkette)
Previously ‘varked:

Ceci n’est pas une élection

THE GULABI GANG

They wear pink saris and go after corrupt officials and boorish men with sticks and axes.
The several hundred vigilante women of India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state’s Banda area proudly call themselves the “gulabi gang” (pink gang), striking fear in the hearts of wrongdoers and earning the grudging respect of officials.
The pink women of Banda shun […]

PROFIT!

BUT SCARED YANKS ARE EASIER TO MANIPULATE

In the extremely unlikely event that the mullahs are foolish enough to launch their unreliable missiles on Tel Aviv and/or Jerusalem (most likely killing tens of thousands of Muslims and destroying several major Islamic holy sites in the process), Israel will annihilate Iran. With their submarines, the Israelis can do so even if their entire […]

REMINDS ME OF GRADE SCHOOL

Ah, those were the days. </sarcasm>

FNC Guest Imitates Chinese People By Pulling At His Eyes (YouTube, via Angry Asian Man)
I wonder if kids are still doing this?:
I first realized I was APA when, starting in Kindergarten, white kids would ask me, “Are you Chinese? Are you Japanese?” Then they’d recite that little racist ditty, “Chinese, […]