Republicans Run Avowed White Supremacist In NY-18

Of course, the same national media that fell all over itself to broadcast Breitbart’s bullshit attacks on ACORN won’t even think of noticing the scandalous fact that a fricking avowed white supremacist, Jim Russell, is the Republican challenger for Nita Lowey’s congressional seat in New York state’s Eighteenth District.

The Albany Project’s Adama D. Brown has the story:

Russell wrote an essay entitled “The Western Contribution to World History,” which was published in the 2001/2002 issue of the magazine “Occidental Quarterly,” which has been described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as “racist” and whose “editors and advisory board members have constituted a ‘Who’s Who’ of the radical right, and its regular publication of extremists’ articles has made it a favorite among academic racists in America.”

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[Russell's essay] lauds efforts of “scientists” like Arthur Jensen and others who have spent years trying to “prove” that whites are genetically more intelligent than black people. It describes an “optimal society” by quoting T. S. Eliot: “reasons of race and culture combine to make any large number of free-thinking Jews undesirable.” It was so bad that it was republished with pride on the website of no less than David Duke, former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

Below, you’ll find some of the other money quotes from Russell’s “essay.” Emphasis mine. Have a barf bag ready.

It has been demonstrated that finches raised by foster parents of a different species of finch will later exhibit a lifelong sexual attraction toward the alien species. One wonders how a child’s sexual imprinting mechanism is affected by forcible racial integration and near continual exposure to media stimuli promoting interracial contact. The most serious implication of human sexual imprinting for our genetic future is that it would establish the destructiveness of school integration, especially in the middle and high-school years. One can only wonder to what degree the advocates of school integration, such as former NAACP attorney Jack Greenberg, were conscious of this scientific concept. It also compounds the culpability of media moguls who deliberately popularize miscegenation in films directed toward adolescents and pre-adolescents. In the midst of this onslaught against our youth, parents need to be reminded that they have a natural obligation, as essential as providing food and shelter, to instill in their children an acceptance of appropriate ethnic boundaries for socialization and for marriage.

The sociobiological warfare that our youth is subjected to is likely to be even more diabolical since it appears to deliberately exploit a biological theory of sexual imprinting at the critical period of sexual maturity. Movies like this past year’s spate of miscegenationist titles, Save the Last Dance, Crazy / Beautiful and O, a parody of Othello, appear deliberately designed to exploit the critical period of sexual imprinting in their target audiences of white pre-adolescent girls and adolescent young women.

There is now afoot a conscious effort to de-Europeanize and to re-Judaize Christianity, through scriptural revision, internal treachery and external pressure.

The importance of applying eugenic measures in the West becomes evident from Richard Lynn’s recent work on Dysgenics and his just-released seminal work Eugenics: A Reassessment.

Remember, this is not somebody who’s running as a Republican in Alabama, Georgia, or Mississippi. This is someone who’s running in a district that is a bedroom community to New York City. And someone who ran for this same congressional seat (and lost badly, thankfully) in 2008.

But look! Over there! Breitbart’s got another video!

Yet Another Excellent Tarryl Clark Video

Tarryl Clark’s media people are doing a fabulous job.

Their “Real Jims” response to the “Jim the Election Guy” ads succeeded in driving them off the air, forcing Bachmann’s camp to retool. For the meantime, Bachmann’s backers are settling on running a generic cut-and-paste national ad called “Your Economic Leaders?” wherein the name and face of whichever Democrat is being targeted is slapped into the center square.

Well, guess what? The Clark team has a response to that one, too:

Exxxxxcellent!

Avert Your Eyes, Wege

I have long held that Twins skipper Ron Gardenhire is the best manager in baseball. Now here’s ESPN writer Rob Neyer directing my attention to a really good defense of Gardy by Joe Posnanski:

I go through all that to show you that this year — for the first time in a very long time, I think — the Twins put some financial backing behind their efforts to win. They have a new stadium now, so I’m sure that helped. They also have perhaps the single most valuable property in baseball in Joe Mauer, and they re-signed him. For the first time in my mind they gave Gardy a team that is NOT small market, a team that has been given the balance sheet talent to win games and playoff series. Of the American League playoff teams only the Yankees (or, in a miracle finish, the Red Sox) have a higher payroll than Minnesota.

So this year’s different. Only then, it wasn’t so different. During spring training Nathan was lost for the season. How valuable is a closer? It’s a topic we’ve discussed here more than once … and I don’t know if we came to a consensus. But it’s fair to say that $11.25 million of that payroll was worthless for 2010, and a lot of people around the game thought that Nathan’s injury could be a death blow to the Twins chances.

And as if to prove the point, the Twins were a blah 45-42 on July 10. And it was right around then (July 7 to be precise) that they lost Justin Morneau, who had a strong argument as American League MVP when he suffered a concussion. He has not played a single game since then.

And where are the Twins right now? Exactly: First place, the American League Central is all sewn up, the Twins are only a half game behind Tampa Bay for the best record in all of baseball. They are 43-16 since hitting that low point — staggeringly awesome baseball. Gardenhire is about to take the Twins to the playoffs for the sixth time.

And, no, I don’t know if the Twins will do any better this time around — the Twins under Gardy have lost their last nine playoff games and have only won one playoff series — but on paper, to me, they at least seem in better playoff shape. They have the ace — Francisco Liriano has pitched as well this year as any pitcher in the league. They get on-base (second in OBP) and are fourth in the league in runs. Their bullpen, even without Nathan and with a couple of closers through the season, has been strong. We’ll see.

But I guess my point remains … I think Ron Gardenhire is the best manager in baseball. I think that not based on what we see but what we can’t see. I base this not on what I think a manager should do but on success. I base this not on individual moves but on the basis that the Twins are there on top one more time.

Indeed.

Who Michele Bachmann (and every other GOP congressman) is fighting for

Minnesota 6. The lady who makes stuff up, Michele Bachmann vs. the lady who tells the truth, Tarryl Clark.

The tax choices. Extend tax cuts for everyone (including the very wealthy) on the income up to $250K/year married filing jointly ($200K filing singly), but not the additional cut on income over $1M per year. People with income less than $250K would pay no more in taxes than they paid this year. Even people earning $1M per year still enjoy a $26,932 tax cut over what would happen if we did nothing. That’s the Democratic plan.

Or, do that but give the very wealthy a special tax cut on income above $250K/year at a cost of $700B. This gives the million-a-year people an additionall $41,800 tax cut. That’s the Republican plan. Cost difference: $700B (!) over ten years, 80% of it going to people earning a million per year or more.

Now, a word of explanation. If you earn between $250K and $1M per year, your taxes don’t go up very much over what they are presently. That’s because your income below $250K is getting a tax break. If the Congress is gridlocked and unable to agree on a tax plan, your taxes will rise from what they are this year to what they were under Clinton.

Who is affected. In district 6, 2.2% of taxpayers would be affected, since they have incomes above the threshold. But only 0.2% of taxpayers, those earning over $1M/year would be significantly affected. This is because the amount of the tax cut is much less than the amount of taxes they are paying.

But if nothing gets done, the taxes on people earning $50,000 per year will jump $900 from where they are today. For all too many families, an unexpected bill of that size could put them on the street.

The entire district has about a half a million people. Michele Bachmann cares about 1,000 of them. The other 499,000 can go to hell for all she cares.

If you’re not from Minnesota 6, this still matters, because the same story is being played out in district after district. You can look it up. The fears of middle class voters are being exploited so that a thousand people or so in each district can siphon more money out of the treasury. The ultimate cost of government debt is borne in higher interest rates on cars and homes and credit cards… and, of course, taxes.

The choices could not be clearer. The lady who tells the truth vs. the lady who will tell any lie for the thousand people in her district who want to enrich themselves even if it means the country fails.

Friday Cat Blogging

“It’s getting cold. You do that every year, when you know I don’t approve. Make the warmth come back, please.”

Polling, Governor’s Races, And KSTP

The following was posted, exactly as written, at the website of Republican-owned-and-anchored local TV station KSTP concerning a recent poll of theirs on the Minnesota governor’s race. We’ll see if it gets past their site moderators:

There has also been a concerted effort to treat Emmer with kid gloves lately. No local media outlets have done any examination of the truth about his family’s failed lumber and dairy businesses — we have to go to The Awl for that (http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/real-america-tom-emmer-minnesotas-last-sovereign-individual). No discussion in the daily papers or the radio and TV stations of the actual scandal behind the Tripp Emmer booze busts and underage drinking photos (namely, the young woman who was set upon while unconscious, humilated by penis pictures drawn all over her face and body, and then had to put up with her photo being posted on Tripp Emmer’s Facebook: http://www.mncampaignreport.com/diary/7135/emmer-understands-bullying-because-of-his-kids)

And of course the fact that Mister Fiscal Conservative’s made-up-on-the-fly budget will actually RAISE the state debt is just mentioned in passing; if Emmer were a Democrat, the local press would be squawking day and night if he tried to get away with that.

Gee, I wonder if this might be connected to the tendency of KSTP owner Stanley Hubbard to vastly favor Republicans over Democrats (as shown by his campaign donations: http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/stanley-hubbard.asp?cycle=08 and http://minnesotaindependent.com/8006/kstps-rare-endorsement-of-rnc-cops-came-from-top-gop-donor-station-owner)?

I’m not holding my breath.

Minnesota’s Rich: Tax Freeloaders

In news that surprises absolutely no one, the same insanely rich people who can afford to set up big-budget radio and TV media shops like MN Forward dedicated whining that Mark Dayton’s going to raise their taxes, don’t actually pay their fair share of taxes anyway. As MN Publius’ Jeff Rosenberg says:

According to the 2009 Tax Incidence Study [PDF], Minnesotans pay 11.2 percent of their income in state and local taxes. The top 10 percent, though, only pay 10.6 percent, and the top 1 percent only pay 7.4 percent. In fact, the more money you make in Minnesota, the less we ask of you.

But you’d never know that from all the slick and pricey ads MN Forward’s running on Tom Emmer’s behalf trashing Dayton.

The Hamster Wheel

Or, a big reason why journalism is sucking more and more, and is more easily controlled by outside interests.

The Paradox of the Wheel is that, for all the activity it generates, the Wheel renders news organizations deeply passive. The greater the need for copy, the more dependent reporters are on sources for scoops and pitiful scraps of news. In a 2000 study in the British academic journal Journalism, researchers analyzed news articles about a hostile takeover that would involve a massive restructuring in the hotel and leisure business to demonstrate that almost everything printed about the event was drawn from competing P.R. campaigns aimed at a few institutional shareholders, while the interests of individual shareholders, 80,000 employees, millions of customers, and British taxpayers (big tax subsidies were involved) were ignored. The press was, in effect, “captured” on a Hamster Wheel of press campaigns. The author, Aeron Davis, made the commonsense observation that P.R. dominance “worked to block unwelcome mainstream coverage, exclude non-corporate voices, and helped to define the boundaries of corporate ‘elite discourse networks.’”

In other words, if news organizations don’t set the agenda, someone else will.

(Of course, corporate control is another factor.)

Big Night All Around

– Christine O’Donnell, the teabagger’s choice, won the Republican primary for Senator in Delaware, beating incumbent Mike Castle. She now faces Democrat Chris Coons, who is far more popular with normal humans (including Castle voters) than she is. The NRSC has already said that they will not support her and are pulling their money out of the race. Say hello to Senator Coons.

– Teabagger doofus Carl Paladino beat Rick Lazio in the Republican primary for Governor of the State of New York, thereby earning the right to lose to Andy Cuomo in November.

– A real Democrat and actual progressive, Ann McLane Kuster, beat Joe Lieberman’s presidential campaign co-chair Katrina Swett in the New Hampshire Democratic primary for the state’s second congressional district. If Charlie Bass loses the Republican primary, Kuster faces Jennifer Horn, who is a much weaker candidate.

– My Minnesota Twins won the first of three games in Chicago White Sox territory. They’re now seven games up on the White Sox and will almost certainly cruise to an uncontested pennant in a couple of weeks. Meanwhile, the Yankees and the Rays are still beating each other up much as the Twins, White Sox and Tigers spent the 2007, 2008 and 2009 seasons beating each other up. Life is good.

Paul Ryan is, too, very insane

Instaputz made the claim that “Paul Ryan, [...] may be “reasonable” compared to his compadres, but is still totally insane.”

Paul Ryan is not less insane than his compadres. He just knows how to narrowcast his crazy better.

In a recent issue of Hillsdale College’s Imprimis, he writes that the goal of progressivism is to “reorder society along lines other than those of the Constitution.” As examples of these dangerous radicals, he lists not only Senator Bob LaFollette, but President Theodore Roosevelt.

Teddy ^%$#ing Roosevelt a dangerous radical? This is not just insane. It’s very insane.

Just in case you did not understand how insane Paul Ryan is, he says that “healthcare reform of the kind promoted by the Obama administration and congressional leaders [is] part of a crusade against the American idea.” I guess the “American idea” is that people in government ought to let problems fester until solutions the out-of-power party doesn’t like are enacted. Otherwise, what Paul Ryan is saying is just ludicrous.

This Constitution, he says, guarantees every individual a right to health– just not a right to be able to afford it. He tells us that “fraud has proliferated” in Medicare and Medicaid… which, of course, are largely administered by private companies and which spend substantially less per procedure than purely for-profit insurance. A sane statement would be “there’s a lot of corruption in healthcare.” An insane statement would be “there’s a lot of corruption in government-adminstered healthcare [e.g., the VA]” A very insane statement is to blame the government for fraud in a program largely administered by private companies.

He says that there are serious problems with the healthcare system, but the solutions do not require “nationalizing one-sixth of the economy.” The very insane part of this statement is that the Republicans had five years of absolute power in which to achieve these solutions to very serious problems and did nothing.

But the most insane thing is that Paul Ryan voted for the biggest expansion of Medicare in history, Medicare D, even as he calls it un-American.

I want to see Paul Ryan’s birth certificate. If he’s serious about government engagement in healthcare, and he’s not outright lying, then he must be Kenyan.