Bush at it again

[Coda]

Bush Fails To Prevent Buffalo Blizzard

Minorities Hit Hardest

As President Bush and his staff sit comfortably in the White House, the snow continued to pile up on the many poor and victimized in the Buffalo area who could not afford to get out of town or to safety in Florida. Crucial supplies of blankets, hot cocoa, popcorn, gold jewelry, plasma TVs,
Colt 45, and dark rum - so essential to surviving the stress of any major snowstorm - lay in stores undelivered.

"Where is the government? I need my sidewalk shoveled so I can get out to buy my danged lottery tickets!" said one Buffalo resident from his living room. "Why are we wasting money in Iraq when we could be spending it here on me?"

Progressive blogs blasted the President for his inaction. "We find the timing terribly suspicious - just as the Domestic Spying hearings kick into high gear, what happens? A major northeast Blizzard. Why now?" wrote one blogger.

Hearings into the Blizzards' effect on hearings are almost a certainty. Howard Dean has suggested he will call for an investigation once his new medications kick in and John Kerry took a break from his winter ski vacation in Aspen to call for new legislation outlawing snowstorms. "The Republican Congress has dropped the ball once again. I have always been a staunch supporter of anti-snow legislation, except for certain locations where I ski. Snow has no business on our roads and the President and Congress knows that."

Calls for impeachment over "SnowGate" as some are calling it already are mounting as deeply as the snow itself, and what will be discovered underneath will prove to have a truly chilling effect on the Republicans, as
the inevitable thaw proceeds.

This just in...

More breaking news...Jesse Jackson wants an investigation as to why snow is ALWAYS white.

It is reported that Dick Cheney has stock in Tru-Value Hardware. Do you have any idea how many SNOW SHOVELS they sold today to the unsuspecting consumer?

The American people will demand to know why FEMA has been so late in reacting to this storm. THEY KNEW IT WAS COMING! And yet they failed to have crews in place to fix the electricity as soon as it went off. It just shows that Bush and the Republicans just don't care about the people in the northeast. The Senate needs to investigate this with administration personnel under oath.

We speculate that the great junior senator from N.Y. has opened the doors of her Long Island mansion to all of the heatless poor of her neighborhood and is busy baking cookies for them while her husband applies body heat and massage oil to nearly frozen teen-aged girls.

[Craven]

You're right, Coda. I wonder if Bush had anything to do with the blackouts in St. Loius, too. You know, he isn't a jazz fan, and I'm sure he's heard that Miles was born just across the river.
Craven

[Rob C]

Golly, I hope Fox's "conservative Daily Show" is just as hilarious as this. Colt 45? Lottery tickets? Oh, man, that's just comedy gold, right there.

[Coda]

I was trying to be funny. Oh well.

[Al in NYC]

(Edited for the uselessness of posting on threads started by pricks like Coda.)

[Coda]

(Edited for the uselessness of posting on threads started by pricks like Coda.)

Real nice Al; mature too.

[Al in NYC]

Originally Posted by Coda

Real nice Al; mature too.

The pot calling the kettle...

[Coda]

I don't take cheap shots at folks on this board. Well in all fairness, I may have a few times but I've always apologized for my inappropriate comments. I know I've not had an outburst in quite a while and I've never been asked by a moderator to tone down my rhetoric.

You sir need a time-out.

[Coda]

I do remember about 1.5 years ago making an inappropriate comment to one of the women on this board, and it still haunts me to this day. Unfortunately I forget who that was.....but I owe her a huge apology.

We were battling about something, can't remember what. She called me a sweetie and I responded by calling her a broad. It was classless and I'm ashamed of having said it, but I did.

If you're out there and do read this, I am terribly sorry as they were words that I never say to anybody.

[walto]

coda, FWIW, the idea of your piece is--at least in my opinion--prettyfunny (if not entirely original). My sense is that if you hadn't thrown in the racial stereotype stuff (which is only a few words and certainly could have been omitted without harm to the humor), I don't think you'd have gotten any flack--even from the libs.

[rollhead]

Me too. I remember once, a couple of years ago, I might have said something that a person on this board thought was vaguely offensive if totally taken out of context. Of course, as is my wont, being the gentleman that I am, I apologized effusely for it, and all was forgiven. In fact that person -- who I have forgotten about now because I was so haunted by the incident (I even suffered PTSD because of it) -- is now my best friend.

[Dr Dave]

Originally Posted by Coda

I was trying to be funny. Oh well.

Right. You were trying to be funny.

[Dr Dave]

Originally Posted by walto

coda, FWIW, the idea of your piece is--at least in my opinion--prettyfunny (if not entirely original). My sense is that if you hadn't thrown in the racial stereotype stuff (which is only a few words and certainly could have been omitted without harm to the humor), I don't think you'd have gotten any flack--even from the libs.

I'm not a liberal. Just ask Rollie.

[Pete C]

As long as we're on the subject, I apologize to anybody I may have offended at any time.

[Gordon B]

Originally Posted by Dr Dave

I'm not a liberal. Just ask Rollie.

You're a corned beef, sauerkraut, swiss cheese, Russian dressing liberal in my book.

[Gentle Giant]

Originally Posted by Gordon B

You're a corned beef, sauerkraut, swiss cheese, Russian dressing liberal in my book.

You've just defined a Reuben. You talking about me?

Jason Rubin

[Al in NYC]

Originally Posted by Coda

I don't take cheap shots at folks on this board.

Nope, only at entire races of people.

[LennyH]

Originally Posted by Virgina Hotpod

Bush is bad. Let's get rid of him.

What would you propose?

[Gentle Giant]

He's essentially telling the Iraq panel to go fuck themselves, so I think it's time for a coup d'etat.

[Al in NYC]

Bush is the result of what was essentially a coup d'etat... so why not another one to topple him?

[Craven]

Originally Posted by Al in NYC

Nope, only at entire races of people.

‘Kramer's’ apology opens the door for others

By Larry Elder







http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Here's my holiday wish list:


Dear Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton,


Please accept my apology for launching into a racist tirade against two black hecklers at my comedy show. Because I attacked two blacks in particular, I know this means I harbor deep-seated racist feelings about all blacks. While, in return, I heard words like "f - -ing white boy" and "cracker-ass motherf - -er," I know those epithets were directed toward me, as an individual, and not at the entire white race.


Again, please accept my deepest apologies.

Michael Richards, aka "Kramer" of "Seinfeld"


Dear Anti-Defamation League, Once again, please accept my apology for calling Jews "Hymies" and referring to New York City as "Hymie-town." As I said at the time, "Charge it to my head . . . not to my heart."

Sincerely, Rev. Jesse Jackson


Dear NAACP, Urban League and Congress of Racial Equality, Please accept my apology for, during concerts in which I sang my song "Gold Digger," giving whites permission to sing along and use the "n-word." Perhaps Michael Richards attended one of my concerts and left not realizing his license had expired.

Kanye West, hip-hop artist/rapper


Dear Jewish Defense League, Korean-American Grocer Association and Council on American-Islamic Relations,


Please accept my apology for, while serving as a Wal-Mart spokesperson, condemning Jewish, Korean and Arab inner-city merchants for "overcharging" blacks. I also inexcusably said that these merchants sell "stale bread and bad meat and wilted vegetables." Charge that to my head, not my heart.

Sincerely yours, Andrew Young, former U.N. ambassador for the United States, former mayor of Atlanta and former colleague of Martin Luther King, Jr.


Dear Democratic National Committee,


During the recent election cycle, the Republican Party ran a number of blacks - among them Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele for Senate, Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell for governor, and Lynn Swann for governor in Pennsylvania. So please accept my apology for saying Republicans have a "white-boy attitude," which means "I must exclude, denigrate and leave behind."

Sincerely yours, Donna Brazile, former Al Gore 2000 campaign manager


Dear White Community,


Please accept my apology for my statement during the 2002 "Millions for Reparations" rally: "I just might walk up to the nearest white man and say, 'You don't understand this, this is a black thing,' and slap 'em, just for my mental health. If they don't pay us reparations now, we're talking about scorched earth." There goes my head!

Sincerely yours, Charles Barron, New York City councilman


Dear Anti-Defamation League,


Please accept my apology. I lost my temper during my husband's unsuccessful 1974 congressional campaign. Bill's campaign adviser, Paul Fray, and his wife publicly claim that I called Fray a "f - -ing Jew bastard." I don't recall this, but assuming I did, what was I thinking? It wasn't my heart.

Sincerely yours, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton


Dear Jesse Jackson and local Little Rock, Ark., black activist Robert "Say" McIntosh,


Former Arkansas State Trooper Larry Patterson publicly claimed I referred to the two of you as "n - gers." Ditto what Hillary just said.

Sincerely, Former President of the United States Bill Clinton


Dear Ward Connerly and anyone in an interracial relationship,


When you led the successful campaign in California to end race-based preferences, I criticized you, a black man, saying, "He's married a white woman. He wants to be white. He wants a colorless society. He has no ethnic pride. He doesn't want to be black." My bad.

Sincerely, Rep. Diane Watson, D-Calif.


Dear Republican National Committee, Please accept my apology for saying, after the Republicans took over Congress in 1994, "It's not 'spic' or 'n - ger' anymore. They say 'let's cut taxes.'" Also, I apologize for, following Katrina, publicly saying, "George Bush is our Bull Connor" - referring to the former Birmingham, Ala., police commissioner, who turned water hoses and dogs on civil rights workers. My head and heart were clashing.

Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., incoming House Ways and Means Committee chairman


Dear Anti-Defamation League and White Community,


Please accept my apologies for calling whites "interlopers" and referring to Jews as "diamond merchants," and, during a conflict between Jews and blacks, saying, "If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house." They were mistakes of the head, not the heart.

Rev. Al Sharpton, civil rights activist and former host of "Saturday Night Live"


Dear Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and other minority members of the Bush administration, Please accept my apology for, while co-hosting a radio show in 2001, calling Bush's minority appointees "Uncle Tom types." I made a mistake of the head, not of the heart.

Sincerely yours, Gloria Allred, attorney at law, currently representing the black "victims" of Michael Richards' racist rant


Now, don't we all feel better?

[Noj]

Don't let me down...

[rollhead]

Originally Posted by Pete C

As long as we're on the subject, I apologize to anybody I may have offended at any time.

You might have offended me had I paid attention to your posts, which I don't. But since I want to be a gentleman about it, I will graciously accept your apology. Thank you.

In Ernest,

Rollie