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Simple, if it's so important to you, buy the domain from Thom, change the name and keep the board running. I'm sure Thom would sell it for peanuts as long as his name wasn't on it.

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And most egregious of all, he quotes Reagan on his promise to repeal California's fair housing act when he was running for governor in 1966: "If an individual wants to discriminate against Negroes or others in selling or renting his house, he has a right to do so."

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Similarly William F. Buckley Jr., who has renounced the Iraq war and was host to many liberals during his Firing Line days, is regarded as one of the more "reasonable" conservatives. But Krugman finds, in an early issue of Buckley's National Review, editorial conclusions about race that went beyond the public views of right-wing politicians. Krugman writes:

Today leading figures on the American right are masters of what the British call "dog-whistle politics": They say things that appeal to certain groups in a way that only the targeted groups can hear—and thereby avoid having the extremism of their positions become generally obvious.... Reagan was able to signal sympathy for racism without ever saying anything overtly racist.... George W. Bush consistently uses language that sounds at worst slightly stilted to most Americans, but is fraught with meaning to the most extreme, end-of-days religious extremists. But in the early days of the National Review positions were stated more openly.

Thus in 1957 the magazine published an editorial celebrating a Senate vote that, it believed, would help the South continue the disenfranchisement of blacks.

"The central question that emerges—and it is not a parliamentary question or a question that is answered by merely consulting a catalog of the rights of American citizens, born Equal—is whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas in which it does not predominate numerically? The sobering answer is Yes—the White community is so entitled because, for the time being, it is the advanced race."

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Just when you thought the republicans could stoop no further...

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Masked men armed with machetes attacked the girls as they walked to school in the town of Poso Oct. 29. Their heads were taken by the killers and were found later in the day, one near a Catholic church and two near a police station.

The girls were dressed in the brown uniforms of their Catholic school on the island of Sulawesi, which has a history of violence between local Christians and Muslims. A fourth girl suffered facial injuries but survived the attack.

The Vatican said that as soon as the pope was given the "painful news of the barbaric killings of three Christian girls in Indonesia" he sent his condolences to the families of the victims.

He also asked the local bishop, Bishop Joseph Suwatan of Manado, to convey his sympathy to the local Catholic community.

The Vatican said the pope was praying "for the return of peace between those populations" on the island.

According to Italian news reports, Bishop Suwatan said the killings were part of a destabilization campaign.

"We are facing a strategy of terror that aims to shock the population and make it feel insecure, precisely when relations between the two communities have become peaceful," Bishop Suwatan said.

Last May, two bomb blasts in a predominantly Christian town on the island left 20 people dead. Officials said they were an attempt to reignite violence in the religiously mixed area.

Several times the church has joined with local Muslim leaders in efforts to quell the violence, which broke out in 1998.

Central Sulawesi is an impoverished, remote area wedged between the predominantly Christian northern and mainly Muslim southern parts of the island. Its people earn a living from farming and fishing.

Some have described the violence there as a spillover from fighting between Christian and Muslim communities in the Molucca Islands to the east.

Others have said it was caused by the influx of mainly Muslim migrants from Java, reducing the Christian majority. Muslims now dominate the political and commercial life in the area around Poso, and local people maintain that tens of thousands of mainly Christian inhabitants have been expelled from Poso and surrounding villages.

Christians said some of the violence in recent years has been provoked by members of the Jihad Fighters, a Java-based militant Islamic group that claims to offer protection for Muslims it says are being besieged by other communities.

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We have found a witch. May we burn her?
CROWD:
Burn her! Burn! Burn her! Burn her!
BEDEVERE:
How do you know she is a witch?
VILLAGER #2:
She looks like one.
CROWD:
Right! Yeah! Yeah!
BEDEVERE:
Bring her forward.
WITCH:
I'm not a witch. I'm not a witch.
BEDEVERE:
Uh, but you are dressed as one.
WITCH:
They dressed me up like this.
CROWD:
Augh, we didn't! We didn't...
WITCH:
And this isn't my nose. It's a false one.
BEDEVERE:
Well?
VILLAGER #1:
Well, we did do the nose.
BEDEVERE:
The nose?
VILLAGER #1:
And the hat, but she is a witch!
VILLAGER #2:
Yeah!
CROWD:
We burn her! Right! Yeaaah! Yeaah!
BEDEVERE:
Did you dress her up like this?
VILLAGER #1:
No!
VILLAGER #2 and 3:
No. No.
VILLAGER #2:
No.
VILLAGER #1:
No.
VILLAGERS #2 and #3:
No.
VILLAGER #1:
Yes.
VILLAGER #2:
Yes.
VILLAGER #1:
Yes. Yeah, a bit.
VILLAGER #3:
A bit.
VILLAGERS #1 and #2:
A bit.
VILLAGER #3:
A bit.

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Originally posted by Sawdust:

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I don't know if this should be listed under terrorism, or treason, or conspiraccy to commit global thermal-nuclear war...