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Palin did not know Africa is a continent

esme — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:34:00 +0000

I can’t believe this is true but read the article and watch this video. She thought it was a country. Someone please send this woman a map of the world.

Panic in GOP land: blacks are voting!

esme — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:49:54 +0000

Ah yes, there’s nothing like the upcoming elections to bring racists out of the closet. Check out this article about an email from the GOP in Florida to supporters which said:

“This is their chance to get a black president and they seem to care little the he is at minimum a socialist and probably Marxist in his core beliefs . . . After all he is black- no experience or accomplishments but he is black.”

Read more here and download the GOP letter in all its racist glory (note the “let’s pray” at the end of the letter).

Brits burn effigy of Palin on bonfire

esme — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:26:25 +0000

The Bonfire Night effigy will be loaded with explosives and torched at the site of the Battle of Hastings in East Sussex Photo: KENT NEWS AND PICTURES

“The Republican Governor of Alaska has been made into a giant effigy, with a tiny Barack Obama sitting behind her in a tin hat peppered with bullet holes with ‘O’Blimey’ written across it. The pit bull with lipstick will be loaded with explosives and torched at the site of the Battle of Hastings in East Sussex. The annual bonfire, hosted by the Battel Bonfire Boyes, on Nov 1 will be topped off with the 20ft effigy of the ‘hockey mom’ dressed as Rambo, complete with bulging muscles, a machine gun and with bullets draped over her neck.”

[From telegraph.co.uk]

Colin Powell endorses Obama

esme — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:46:59 +0000

McCain-Palin racist rallies

esme — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:27:52 +0000

Welcome to the 16th century: religion dominates US presidential primary

esme — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:39:01 +0000

I was hoping human brains would have evolved after four hundred years but alas, it might take another 100,000 years for that to happen and by that time, there may not be a human race *to evolve*.

This article in Le Monde is far too depressing for a jolly holiday such as Christmas: God dominates American presidential elections (loose translation from French). I am not anti-God or anti-religion, but I believe that one’s religious beliefs are a PRIVATE matter and imposing them on someone else is a recipe for violence and disaster as Europeans discovered over the course of 200 years, between (roughly) 1560 and 1715.

Quiet spirituality, working on your own salvation (whatever that means to you) is the key to living harmoniously with neighbors. Requiring politicians to prove they deserve five stars in the religious sweepstakes is unworkable. A politican’s response should be: none of your bloody business! And it should be everyone’s response when asked to prove oneself more “religious” or spiritual or whatever.

I can think of more pressing problems in this world, problems which we don’t know how US politicians plan to tackle because Americans are too busy making them talk about religion:

- global warming

- wars in a lot of places

- starvation, lack of clean water

- refugees

- AIDS

- illiteracy

- nuclear weapons in the hands of unsavoury people

The world has, so far, looked to the US to solve a lot of problems since it’s been unofficially designated the World’s Policeman. But the Policeman seems to have left his post, if one is to believe the Le Monde article.