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Last edited Fri Nov 15, 2013, 08:11 PM - Edit history (2)
Talking about Thomas Thistlewood - a must read diary. The most cruel book I've ever read.
Link to Bashir's rant
http://www.msnbc.com/martin-bashir
Gothmog
(145,567 posts)Earlier this week, Jon Stewart had a panel including Keye and Peel vote on if various statements were racist. Initially, the panel thought that Palin was being racist but when they heard the full context of her comment they changed their vote to stupid
giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)I saw that also. Did you see when they were talking about their conversation with Obama about Luther the anger translator, and Obama said he needs him something serious?
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)They all screamed racist just hearing her name.
Gothmog
(145,567 posts)That was a great treatment of the race issue.
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)I don't have a TV service. What? What????
On edit: (sigh)
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Our free stuff today is being paid for by taking money from our children and borrowing from China, she said at the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalitions fall fundraiser at the State Fairgrounds Saturday night. When that money comes due and this isnt racist, but itll be like slavery when that note is due. We are going to beholden to the foreign master.
Sarah Palin invokes slavery, inappropriately of course
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/11/15/sarah-palin-invokes-slavery-inappropriately-of-course/
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)That helps a lot. That woman brings stupid to a whole new level.
Thanks again, pinboy.
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)No sense of perspective nor proportion, which actually describes the right wing pretty well.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)it is probably a good time to close your mouth
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Said what Thistlewood did to the slaves should be done to dumb as rocks Caribou Barbie! Wow, just wow! Of course this was said in the context of Palin stating that the U.S. debt was the same as slavery.
malaise
(269,182 posts)edited by Douglas Hall. That book shook me up for life.
http://www.questia.com/library/97884388/in-miserable-slavery-thomas-thistlewood-in-jamaica
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Thanks for the tip malaise! Sounds like a real winner. I did just order 12 Years A Slave.
malaise
(269,182 posts)Ignoramuses like Palin should stay away from anything linked to slavery.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Aren't you in Jamaica?
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Maybe someday!
malaise
(269,182 posts)Jamaica has lots of problems but damn she is beautiful.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)And I would too. We all went to the Caribbean in the summer and it was too hot. If we go to Jamaica, I think it should be in the winter. Is that the best time?
malaise
(269,182 posts)I'd say December to April for those who like cooler temperatures.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Maybe April or May is the best time.
malaise
(269,182 posts)but tourists find it warm.
Actually all rates go down between April 15 and December 15.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Control-Z
(15,682 posts)I don't know that I've ever heard anyone nail someone as perfectly and thoroughly!
malaise
(269,182 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,123 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,123 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)malaise
(269,182 posts)She insults idiots.
livetohike
(22,165 posts)Palin always sounds like a Chatty Cathy doll whose string got stuck. (Showing my age)
malaise
(269,182 posts)ignoramus as someone with a view worth seeing or hearing.
She's a circus performer.
livetohike
(22,165 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I miss Tina Fey's Palin spoofs!
malaise
(269,182 posts)ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)I suppose I could use "indebted," but I don't like the sound of it (for obvious reasons)!
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)especially one immersed in the literature of centuries past. It rubs off on a heavy reader, definitely.
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IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)I certainly didn't mean to imply that SP's any more than half literate herself or that you're old - even if you are, that's no insult. But I am dim enough to have no idea what might've upset you. Please feel free to PM me if it's too touchy for public airing.
ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)malaise
(269,182 posts)ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)I'll definitely read it before long but will have to choose the time carefully if it's as bad as you say. I've studied those times and basically know what went on, but reading a slaveholder's diary itself would be a hard row for me to hoe. I'll do it, though.
malaise
(269,182 posts)I always thought I was tough but I had to read that book in small doses.
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)Red Mountain
(1,737 posts)I'd like to see much more media exposure for him.