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2008-10-02 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Deacon Blues 2008-10-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 no wonder the dems want to make sure mental health coverage is in the bailout bill.

Posted by Betty 2008-10-02 01:54|| 2008-10-02 01:54|| Front Page Top

#2 This could literally be news from an alternate universe.

Almost this exact scenario occurs in Harry Turtledove's alternate history The Victorious Opposition, the eighth installment of his Great War series.
A black character living in Georgia hears disturbing rumors that black prisoners are being massacred in Louisiana and their bodies dumped in swamps. The nominal source is an escaped prisoner who allegedly helped with this work. In the novel, the rumors turn out to be true.

To further the parallel, here in the real world McKinney blames the "prison industrial complex" for the alleged killings "in the wake of Hurricane Katrina." In the Turtledove novel, a prison camp warden initiates the mass shootings after the nazi-style leadership sends him more prisoners than he can possibly house or feed. Even the number, 5000, is initially the same,though it goes much higher later in the novel.

One big difference: In the novel, this occurs in 1940, in the Confederate States of America. In Turtledove's alt-history, the Confederacy won the Civil War but by the 1930s it had fallen under the control of a Hitleresque dictator.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2008-10-02 06:01|| 2008-10-02 06:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Moonbat crazy, racist, America-hating, tinfoil-hat wearing...

none of it is as bad as the fact that this is one UGLY bitch. She's damned tough on the eyes.
I think even the most desperately horny Arab teen would walk right past a buck naked McKinney if he knew there was an old goat available within the next ten miles.

Posted by Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-10-02 06:44|| 2008-10-02 06:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Plus, given the mouth she's got on her, in the real world I can easily see her getting the Crenshaw McDonald's knuck sandwich on a regular basis from any male unlucky enough to spend much time around her.

Posted by Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-10-02 06:46|| 2008-10-02 06:46|| Front Page Top

#5 McKinney always has that wide-eyed crazy ready for the asylum look. However, there may never be enough therapy provided in the mental health add-on to straighten out things. Oh well, it can be added into the next bailout bill.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-10-02 08:03|| 2008-10-02 08:03|| Front Page Top

#6 You'll be seeing more of her as she (and hundreds more like her) solicite support from Obama and the CBC of the American National Congress (ANC) for high administrative appointments.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-10-02 08:11|| 2008-10-02 08:11|| Front Page Top

#7 Joyful thought this a.m., :( :( :(

Posted by JohnQC 2008-10-02 08:30|| 2008-10-02 08:30|| Front Page Top

#8 Sorry John, I'm a bit depressed this morning. Both of our Georgia senators voted for the bailout last evening.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-10-02 08:35|| 2008-10-02 08:35|| Front Page Top

#9 Both of our Tennessee Senators also voted "Yes."

Posted by JohnQC 2008-10-02 09:24|| 2008-10-02 09:24|| Front Page Top

#10 I mailed Durbin before the vote.
After the vote only Obama would take it..
Illinois state elected pols suck...
However, my Rep Roskam voted no in the house.

Posted by 3dc 2008-10-02 09:49|| 2008-10-02 09:49|| Front Page Top

#11 We really need to start re-institutionalizing people.

Posted by DarthVader 2008-10-02 09:52|| 2008-10-02 09:52|| Front Page Top

#12 Kentucky had one yes, one no. Bunning voted no, McConnel voted yes.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-10-02 09:56|| 2008-10-02 09:56|| Front Page Top

#13 besoeker, does it really surprise you?

Posted by sinse 2008-10-02 10:58|| 2008-10-02 10:58|| Front Page Top

#14 GrouckyOldCripple Blogger refers to his ex-conress critter as Cynthia McCommie.

Posted by Whineling Untervehr1272 2008-10-02 11:42|| 2008-10-02 11:42|| Front Page Top

#15 Yeah, 3dc, it was a bad night all the way round. Cubs looked like they forgot how to play, on the same night, after that grandslam. Never seen Wrigleyites so quiet. Curses. Sure hope Big Z comes out of his trance tonight. And, hope the House stands pat. I wonder? Course, if the Wicked Witch of the West would just come out with another little diatribe prior to the next vote, who knows ?

Posted by Woozle Elmeter 2700 2008-10-02 12:25|| 2008-10-02 12:25|| Front Page Top

#16 I disagree. I think that number is closer to 5 bajillion. And you can take that to the bank.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2008-10-02 16:26|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2008-10-02 16:26|| Front Page Top

#17 There 5 bajillion thugs and looters in New Orleans? Maybe.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-10-02 17:15|| 2008-10-02 17:15|| Front Page Top

#18 Atomic Conspiracy, it's probably not a coincidence, that is how rumors start. Two guys talking about a book are partially overheard by someone who passes it along. Along the way details are added as most storytellers are won't to do to fill in the blanks and such.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-10-02 17:19|| 2008-10-02 17:19|| Front Page Top

#19 Too bad it's not true.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2008-10-02 20:04|| 2008-10-02 20:04|| Front Page Top

#20 The beauty of this rumor is:
- it fits with the "Bush hates black people" meme
- it's unprovable -the bodies are somewhere in the swamps, the perpetrators are sworn to silence, nobody knows just how many were executed

Of course, if even a few people came forward and said "My husband/boy friend/son went to prison for a 2 year sentence, and he never came out", with names, dates and proof, it would lend a lot of credence to the story.

Moonbats don't need no stinkin' proof.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia">Rambler in Virginia 2008-10-02 20:13|| 2008-10-02 20:13|| Front Page Top

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