Crazy wingnut candidate, backed by zombie army, compares taxes to slavery and holocaust

Rick "Gather your armies" Barber is back with a new commercial in which the reanimate spectre of Abraham Lincoln compares taxes to slavery in front of a montage of holocaust camps.

Right.

He's nuts, we get it.

What's funny about this though is the zombie army he leads at the end. Check out the half-decomposed one on the left. Click the picture to see the video.

Cleaning up the legacy of hate to advance a political cause

NYT/Jon Meacham

As the sesquicentennial of Fort Sumter approaches in 2011, the enduring problem for neo-Confederates endures: anyone who seeks an Edenic Southern past in which the war was principally about states’ rights and not slavery is searching in vain, for the Confederacy and slavery are inextricably and forever linked.

That has not, however, stopped Lost Causers who supported Mr. McDonnell’s proclamation from trying to recast the war in more respectable terms. They would like what Lincoln called our “fiery trial” to be seen in a political, not a moral, light. If the slaves are erased from the picture, then what took place between Sumter and Appomattox is not about the fate of human chattel, or a battle between good and evil. It is, instead, more of an ancestral skirmish in the Reagan revolution, a contest between big and small government.

We cannot allow the story of the emancipation of a people and the expiation of America’s original sin to become fodder for conservative politicians playing to their right-wing base. That, to say the very least, is a jump backward we do not need.

Responding to the firestorm that resulted from Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell's "Confederate History Month" proclamation that honored the Southern cause in the civil War and left out any mention of slavery, Mississippi gov. (and possible 2012 Presidential candidate) Haley Barbour said:

Politico

When CNN "State of the Union" anchor Candy Crowley asked Barbour, a onetime lobbyist and former head of the RNC, if the slavery omission was a mistake, he said, "I don't think so, my legislature has made an active holiday of Confederate Memorial Day... Anyone who thinks that you have to explain that slavery is a bad thing, it goes without saying... It's sort of feeling that it's a nit, it's not significant, it's trying to make a big deal."

"A nit". Remember this in November, the Republicans consider slavery - America's original sin - "a nit".

Jefferson's gift that keeps on giving (or it gets beaten)

Elvis Dingeldein writes for Bob Cesca's Goddamn Awesome Blog and posted this really disturbing story about Jefferson. Now, I'm not surprised - I'm aware of Jefferson's contradictoryness. Just disturbed. disturbed at how someone can write some of the greatest statements of human freedom and natural rights ever... and give away human beings. How someone can be anti-slavery enough to want to condemn it in the Declaration (but the southern states would never sign on, so it was dumped) and yet gift one to the INCOMING PRESIDENT. I don't get it.

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(Elvis Dingeldein)
Yesterday in The Histories™, 19 April 1809, former president and swimsuit model Thomas “I Like My Coffee Black, Like My Ironies; Also My Slave Mistresses” Jefferson made a handy Inauguration Gift of an indentured African servant named John Freeman* to newly presidentified pal James Madison.

Because The Ironies seemed to have been entirely lost on Jefferson, his note made no mention that on this same day in The Histories™, 19 April 1775, the American Revolution began in Lexington (See: Concord), Massachusetts, with The Shot Heard ‘Round The World But Really Only Felt By That One Redcoat With The Lead Ball In His Eyesocket. So yeah, that was a pretty good day to celebrate the 34th anniversary of a War For The Independencies by having a fire sale on fungible brown people with other members of the Plantation-Owning Secret Handshake Whitey Society.