Joseph Msika, who died on August 4 aged 85, was vice-president of Zimbabwe and a central figure in his country's headlong rush to ruin.
A foul-mouthed, embittered man, much given to swearing in public and delivering foam-flecked speeches, Msika was perhaps the only Zimbabwean who could outdo President Robert Mugabe when it came to verbal vitriol. The targets of his bile included journalists, farmers, all young Zimbabweans -- who had allegedly failed to match his standards of patriotism and devotion -- and white people in general.
During a rally in Bulawayo in August 2001, Msika took racist rhetoric to a new level. Mugabe would routinely refer to white Zimbabweans as "greedy exploiters". But Msika bluntly declared: "Whites are not human beings." Even his audience from the hardened rank-and-file of Mugabe's Zanu-PF party was taken aback.
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Not a bad article, thought they were talking about me. This guy is a kaffir like all the kaffirs, but doesn't explain why we let these go and didn't hang them.
It does go some way to explaining being only the second country to declare UDI from Great Britain, though.
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And we wonder why we have trillion dollar deficits.
You can't study global warming by visiting places. You study global warming by reviewing satellite data, and other aggregated data. Visiting individual places proves nothing.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
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As many have said, what we experience is "weather". "Climate Change", or "Global Warming", are supposed to be the identification of trends over long periods of time. Taking a vacationtrip to these places is a good look at weather (at the ordinary citizen's expense), but it has nothing at all to do with climate, change or no. They need to be forced to refund every dime.
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U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, D-Boulder, was swarmed by people Friday morning when he dropped by the Vic's coffee shop in north Boulder, expecting a friendly chat with a couple dozen constituents. But the event, the first of a series of meetings dubbed "Congress on Your Corner," drew hundreds of people, many with health care issues on their minds. Rantburg Fun Trivia Fact(tm) #1,246: Jared Polis is the son of Susan Polis Schutz, the "Colorado Sappho," who wrote all those kitschy and cloying Blue Mountain Arts greeting cards and dorm-room posters in the 1970s.
"The idea is that it's so hard to get your average constituent to make it out to a public meeting, that the congressman goes out to where the people are," said Lara Cottingham, Polis' press secretary. "Usually it's 12, maybe 30 people who show up." "And they just sit there and nod approvingly."
"Obviously," continued Cottingham, turning to look at the crowd spilling into the parking lot, "all bets are off today."
Polis spent nearly two hours dug in behind a table set up on the sidewalk outside the popular morning coffee shop, and a crowd of people jostled around him, waiting to ask a question and straining -- hands cupped to their ears -- to hear his answers. "He basically hid from us," said Richard McCurdy, who had given up on talking to Polis. "He passed out cards and didn't let us speak out in a real town hall." As Jared's mom might have put it in her trademark style of non-rhyming verse:
The Congressman hides
afraid
in fear
as the storm
breaks
over him
his poll numbers heart
broken
Cottingham said that the event wasn't meant to be a town-hall style meeting; it was designed, instead, to allow people to speak to Polis one-on-one. And, she said, anyone who filled out a card -- and who didn't get a turn to speak -- will get a personal phone call from the congressman in the coming days.
"This is what democracy is all about," Polis said as he left, already late for his next appointment. "Grumble, grumble, bloody peasants! grumble grumble."
"I did a lot of listening, a little bit of talking, and it's great to see this kind of engagement." "No lemmmee outta here!"
La Raza member Sonia Sotomayor will make history Saturday when she is sworn in as the nation's first Hispanic Supreme Court justice.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts will swear in Sotomayor twice at the Supreme Court. The first ceremony will be private. A second ceremony will be held in front of Sotomayor's friends and family as well as the media. It will also mark the first time the oath-taking ceremony will be open to television cameras in the court's history.
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Affirmative action. The gift that keeps on giving.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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I'm of the opinion it couldn't have worked much better for conservatives. Obama was gonna appoint a lefty to the Court, and a minority as well. Because she has been spectacularly indiscrete in her bleatings, she had to reverse Obama's "empathy" standard and virtually all her previous positions. She also pledged fealty to the constitution, and NOT as a "living document". She'll backslide on those, but will catch teh shit when she does. We all knew she lied to get through the confirmation. She is also a dim-intellect, and will not get others to her side with her limited powers of persuasion over her intellectual betters. It could've been a LOT worse
my $.02
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Yeah, what Frank said plus the fact that she has been overturned on appeal so often you could do better by flipping a coin. A Magic 8-Ball would make a better judge.
"I expect to be held responsible," Chavez Zelaya Castro Ortega Kim Obama said. "But I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. I don't mind cleaning up after them, but don't do a lot of talking." Translation: See title.
The "Greatest Deliberative Body", among others, will have to do without deliberation from now on. Civil, well-reasoned discourse is probably off as well.
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While it's disheartening to think we have another 3.5 years of this pig and his gang, it's comforting to know at least that doofus has poked a hornets nest. As long as the opposition remains sustained, there is hope for us.
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But I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking.
Well, that explains it. Congress which has obstructs tort reform. Congress which has mandated a never ending and expanding bureaucracy to oversea medical care. Congress which has mandated unfunded mandatory emergency medical care. That explains why he doesn't want Congress to doing a lot of talking.
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It was franks, dodd, and YOU who made this mess.
Don't you ever talk down to me you little punk ass. You work for me, do you understand that f*cker? Do you understan me?
Now shut YOUR pie hole and listen to all of those who DID NOT elect you, and get some sanity into that government before we decide to destroy it.
You do not konw ANYTHING about anything, and none of your plans will ever work.
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Why don't you try learning about why things are the way instead of looking through your corrupt communist prism?
Better yet, why not move to europe to live under the system you want to create?
You protect yourselves from the very system you want to create for us. Afterall, some animals are more equal than others, right Mr Lord of the FLYS?
You better stop dictating and quick, we are on edge here in "flyover" country.
I seen your type before, deposed them actually.
you want to be a dictator, and you are a quizziling fool who has no experience. You overreached in all you have done and now you have no right to tell me to can it.
The democrat party is to blame for this mess, none other. The republicans just followed your stupid lead like fools.
Dont worry Ill do it I might as well I do every other fuckin thing around here. And whats the thanks that I get? I mean I work my fingers to the bone day in and day out and all you do is sit around and complain. And another thing would it kill you to vacuum once in a while? Oh and do you think those dishes are gonna wash themselves? The least you could do is take out the trash...and pickup your dirty underwear and...
But while we're at it, its you, Mr. Public Servant, and Congress which are the blame, with your finger-in-pie, pork belly, ego self fallaciating, pay to play crookland bullshit...so you and congress just shut the fuck up and let us real taxpayers fix your fucking mess. There are a ton of highly talented people out of work because of government intrusion into the private sector, perhaps in that number some new politicians can be found, people who have a clue, care about country and neighbors, can read a bill, and know first hand that big gov costs jobs and hurts the general welfare.
Work my ass off for a year, y'all blow that money on appetizers for guests one night, give that money to unions, kiss my ass.
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I want a deck of cards (like Iraq), with this guy and Nancy Pelosi as the jokers, and the rest of the corruptocracy in DC on the "lesser" cards. It would be an overnight success for the first entrepreneur to come up with them. Then we need to do what we can to end the corruptocracy. Pitchforks, tar, feathers, and a stout pole wouldn't upset me one little bit - not just for "the One", but for the majority of Congress, including Waxman, Markey, and whoever is pushing this sh$$ sandwich called "national health care". Harry Reid, Chris Dodd, Ted Kennedy, and some 40 other members of the "upper" house also need to go - assisted or otherwise. That includes both donks AND trunks (can you say John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Olympia Snowe?).
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Old Patriot, it may be cheaply done at cafepress.com.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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