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Jonah Goldberg: Black-Hole Speech - The will-to-power masquerades as tolerance.
National Review Online ^ | July 11, 2008 | Jonah Goldberg

Posted on 07/12/2008 9:46:46 AM PDT by neverdem

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Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield found himself guilty of talking while white.

IMHO, that wry wit reminds me of Tony Snow's style. I hope he was able to enjoyed it before he passed away.

N.B. In FOX News's obituary "Tony Snow, Former White House Press Secretary and FOX News Anchor, Dies at 53," there was no byline, but a verboten source contributed to it.

1 posted on 07/12/2008 9:48:10 AM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem
Here's a photo of that racist fool, Commissioner Price:


2 posted on 07/12/2008 9:53:03 AM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham ("The land of the Free...Because of the Brave")
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

A judge — any judge — is just a lawyer with too much power.


3 posted on 07/12/2008 9:56:36 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: neverdem
Harvard President Lawrence Summers was tarred and feathered after merely hypothesizing about the data on cognitive differences between the sexes.

Excuse me! Why did he have to be "tarred" and feathered? Could it be because tar is a sticky, gooey "black" substance? Eh? That's RACIST! RAAAAAAAAAAACIST! Oh hold me, I'm going to swoon!

4 posted on 07/12/2008 9:58:39 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Barack Obama--the first black Jimmy Carter.)
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To: neverdem

How do these people get to be commissioners and judges, and they don’t even know what a black hole is? Unbelievable!!!


5 posted on 07/12/2008 10:00:26 AM PDT by abclily
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To: neverdem
Maybe so, but speaking metaphorically, if it were a white hole, that might suggest central collections was actually doing its job, ejecting paperwork in a timely fashion.

That's not just racist, that's Hate Speech!

6 posted on 07/12/2008 10:00:55 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (maybe apes evolved from people.)
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To: BenLurkin

Good point - a judge is by training a lawyer. I always thought lawyers were supposed to study language and logic, but it’s obvious this fool failed both.


7 posted on 07/12/2008 10:05:15 AM PDT by Ken522
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To: neverdem

Jonah Goldberg is funny.

I loved when he talked about Obama complaining about Wright’s comments not being put in context, but after the Press Club appearance Obama was left holding “a big stinking bag of context”.


8 posted on 07/12/2008 10:06:08 AM PDT by prolifefirst (w)
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How do these people get to be commissioners and judges, and they don’t even know what a black hole is? Unbelievable!!!

HA! wait one sec....... I never thought of it that way! That Price guy thought Mayfield was talking about a deep hole in the ground, not a "black hole"!

ROTFLOL!! Price is REALLY dumb!

Did Mayfield apologize? I wouldn't!

9 posted on 07/12/2008 10:08:37 AM PDT by Fox_Mulder77
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A judge — any judge — is just a lawyer with too much power.

Many states have appointed judges who, no matter what the "selection committees" claim, are not appointed for their excellence. Indeed, because of the comparatively low pay and a job that is primarily as a bureaucrat, few top lawyers ever aspire to become a state court judge.

10 posted on 07/12/2008 10:12:10 AM PDT by Prokopton
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

I suspect Commissioner Price is a Mac Daddy.


11 posted on 07/12/2008 10:12:46 AM PDT by prolifefirst (w)
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

stuck on stupid.....


12 posted on 07/12/2008 10:12:58 AM PDT by clintonh8r (Fire mission!)
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A judge — any judge — is just a lawyer with too much power.

Yep. I include judges in my favorite perjorative term, "government lawyers."
13 posted on 07/12/2008 10:13:39 AM PDT by JamesP81 (George Orwell's 1984 was a warning, not a suggestion)
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In this case, "Judge" is a title that doesn't mean what you think it does.

In Texas, elected County Commissioners meet as a group in what is referred to as the Commissioners Court. The head of the "Court" holds the title of "Judge".

Thus, Judge Thomas Jones is neither a lawyer nor a "judge", in terms of common meaning. Instead, he is what he seems to be -- a stone ignorant political hack.

14 posted on 07/12/2008 10:19:39 AM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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Thank you.

Very interesting distinction.

Explains a lot actually.


15 posted on 07/12/2008 10:20:49 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: neverdem

He was trying the change the subject from where the money had gone to accusations of ‘racism’.

It was a quick cover-up.

And so where HAS all they money gone?


16 posted on 07/12/2008 10:29:02 AM PDT by squarebarb
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For example, ditching the word “colored” from the vocabulary when it comes to describing blacks might have been seen as political correctness by many in the 1960s

I get confused: "colored" is racist, but "people of color" is acceptable?!

17 posted on 07/12/2008 10:41:08 AM PDT by Inspectorette
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To: neverdem

i remember a couple years back a police porn raid on a video store took all the copies of walt disney sci fi movie “the black hole” cause they thought it was a gay porn movie. no lie.


19 posted on 07/12/2008 10:51:45 AM PDT by beebuster2000
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People of color means they can have red hair, blonde hair, auburn hair, or any shade from black to white hair...it also means that you can have blue eyes, green eyes, hazel, grey....oh wait, I was wrong...people of color means brown hair and brown eyes


20 posted on 07/12/2008 10:58:57 AM PDT by dsrtsage (John Galt, Dagney Taggart..2008)
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