Brief News Roundup

After that Afghanistan post, I just want to get a little spare blogging in before I run out to buy bloodworms for my carnivorous plant.

The Only Spanish Republicans Know is On the Menu at Taco Bell
Fred Thompson, sad-sack also-ran for the Republican nomination, has decided to fill the recent Tancredo void with a little extra hate mongering.

During what must've been a strenuous day of campaigning in Iowa, GOP candidate Fred Thompson told potential voters at his one-and-only appearance that immigrants deserve some of the blame for the mortgage crisis.

"A lot of them couldn't communicate with the people they were getting the mortgage from," the lagging Republican told an Iowa audience during his "Clear Conservative Choice bus tour," according to the Los Angeles Times.

Thompson's stop in Mason City, Iowa, allowed him to play on Republicans' fears of immigrants and riff on apparent frustration with hearing options in Spanish on recorded phone messages.

Janice Easley, one voter in the audience, was boiling with frustration at having to hear, "Para el español, prensa dos," whenever she called the power company.

"Everything is in Spanish," she said. "It's sickening."

"You are so, so right," Thompson said, calling for English to be made the national language, before placing the blame for the sub-prime mortgage crisis on non-English-speakers.

Oh God no! Press two? Next they'll have us pressing two for English! WHERE WILL THE MADNESS END?

Racist, half-wit fucktard. Yeesh.

Source: Raw Story

Mental Note: Avoid Idaho At All Costs

BOISE, Idaho - A state police academy leader has disavowed the slogan of the most recent graduating class urging one another to "go out and cause" post-traumatic stress disorder.

Each class at the Idaho Police Officer Standards and Training Academy is allowed to choose a slogan that is printed on its graduation programs, and the class of 43 graduates came up with "Don't suffer from PTSD, go out and cause it."

Source: Yahoo News

Bat Theatre, Na-na-na-na-na-na Bat Theatre!
Reminds me of the Bat Shark Repellent.

Source: CE Pro