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Obama and Seth Meyers headline Politics and Hollywood collide again at tonight's annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. The event has evolved into a star-studded affair as celebrities descend upon Washington, joining journalists and President Obama. This year's comedian headliner, Saturday Night Live's Seth Meyers, is charged with the task of poking fun at the President and Washington politics. Each year, the President uses the occasion to show a more humorous side as well, making fun of himself and the people who cover him. The purpose of the annual dinner is “to raise money for WHCA scholarships and honor the...

In a major foreign-policy decision taken over the weekend, President Obama has decided to legitimize the United Nations’s “anti-racism” forum known as Durban II. State Department officials announced in a press release buried on Saturday, that starting today the United States will attend for the first time the preparatory meetings of this controversial U.N. conference. The “Durban Review Conference,” scheduled for April in Geneva, is the progenitor of the anti-semitic hatefest that took place in South Africa in early September 2001. The searing images of the demonization of America and Jews on the U.N.’s global stage, and the terrorism in...

In Portland, Oregon.

Discovered by a reader at Indymedia, this was the scene yesterday in Portland, Oregon, as “anti-war” demonstrators burned not only a US flag, but a US soldier in effigy.

ITHACA — Hundreds flocked to The Commons Saturday, joining tens of thousands around the world, to protest the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Some carried picket signs; some wore clothes with embroidered messages. One carried a doll meant to resemble President George W. Bush with a cowboy hat and his “pants on fire.” “Stop the War!” “Impeach Bush!” and “Out of Iraq!” were familiar cries as the protesters marked the four-year anniversary of the United States' involvement in Iraq. Several local politicians and anti-war demonstrators lent their voices to the crowd. Speaking on the steps of the Bernie Milton Pavilion, Sergeant...

This Saturday, March 17, March on the Pentagon for Peace and ImpeachmentMake plans now to join hundreds of thousands of veterans, military families, and peace and impeachment activists in a nonviolent march for peace and impeachment, beginning at 12:00 at the Vietnam War Memorial (23rd Street and Constitution Ave. NW) and ending at the Pentagon.http://www.marchonpentagon.orgAt the assembly site, between 8:00 a.m. and 12:30, there will be a pre-march People's Assembly. Contingents and organizations will be providing information displays and literature tables. We will be joined by the famous Bread and Puppet Theater. There will be children's activities, including sign-making for...

Hot off the digital camera, pictures of the action today at Union Square. A communist front organization, The World Can't Wait, sponsored and organized today's protest. The theme was RESIST OR DIE: DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME. There were a few of us there counter-protesting as well. http://www.flickr.com/photos/imagesofperfection/sets/1279186/ Also here are pictures from the Support our Troops and their Mission weekend in DC in September.

Do you remember reading the book, 1984 for the first time and thinking that the Hate Week rallies where the Party workers at the Ministry of Truth screeching “HATE! HATE! HATE!” was an interesting literary device but a little unrealistic for an actual situation in life? Well, welcome to the World of DUmmieland in which the 1984 type Hate rantings are not only a reality but the norm as you can see in this DUmmie THREAD titled, “Now we know how other cultures feel ......... I hate republicans.” As usual the DUmmie rantings are in Insoc, I mean Bolshevik,...

Something to Yak About – Kerry-Edwards NYC ‘Star Studded Hate Fest’ Draws Bad Reviews, Insults Venerable Venue How can a presidential campaign insult a building? The Kerry-Edwards campaign has found a way, hosting a celebrity hate fest last week in New York City with John Kerry and John Edwards actually applauding the performers who turned the venerable Radio City Music Hall into, “a launching pad for crass, vulgar and personal insults.” Smooth move, John-John. The ‘Heart and Soul’ of Kohn Kerry?Political debate is one thing, but when it comes down to vulgar name-calling and obscenity-laced diatribes, that’s just a bit...

Something to Yak About – Obscenity Laced Celebrity Hate Fest Reflects Kerry-Edwards Values A lot of papers carried an item Friday about the star-studded fundraiser in New York City, fawning over the Hollywood Big Shots who helped John Kerry raise $7.5 million. What many of those reports glossed over was the “X-rated rant,” of Whoopi Goldberg while Kerry could be seen, “laughing uproariously during part of Goldberg's tirade.” John Kerry’s response to the invective laden hate mongering? "Every performer tonight ... conveyed to you the heart and soul of our country.” John-John Shows Less Sense Than Dean We’ve already seen...

<p>December 16, 2003 -- YOU won't be seeing any video of Howard Dean's x-rated, epithet-ridden New York fund-raiser because Team Dean made sure to bar the TV cameras. Which suggests they expected trouble. Maybe it was the same foresight that inspired Dean to seal his records as Vermont governor for 10 years because of worries, as he put it in a moment of candor to Vermont public radio, about "future political considerations. We didn't want anything embarrassing appearing in the papers at a critical time in any future endeavor."</p>