I’m sorry this happened to Forest Whitaker, and hope the store owner will appologize for his employee’s behavior. Racists bigots are such bores! Thanks for publishing this article. It’s necessary to call a bully a bully. I’m proud that our country has such a rich mixture of people – its a great tradition. My grandmother was born in 1886 and she taught me that we are all pink on the inside and superficialities don’t matter very much.

Are you talking about the Republicrats or the Demicans?

Thanks for this article. Firedoglake’s reporting on Assange is the best I’ve found. I think this case is the most important issue today, and I wish the big old newspapers in the USA had the nerve to publish it. What election?

Dear Ready, How do you know that “God” is a “he”? Maybe “God” is really “Mother Nature”…and anyway, Ready,if you want to make God laugh, tell her/him Your plans…..

“…..stirring up the American masses….”

…who wouldn’t like three square meals a day, a room, transport, clothes and shoes, medical help, someone would let your long lost relatives know if you die…

…or you can stick to the bread lines…..

“How does Obama not see the dangers that lie down this path?”

What could he do? He has a lovely wife and two beautiful young daughters to protect from people who might not agree with him. The president is not the leader except on paper. The leader is the one or ones who are holding the marionette strings. What a rotten deal!

Yes we do have a sense of humor. More importantly, we have a sense of emphathy which you seem to lack, making you less human than us. Ha!

“Enough of this counter-productive divide and conquer bullshit.”
Right, and last time in 1850 the USA didn’t have the whole world ready to pounce on the leftovers. Aren’t tornados bad enough? Nazi bullies need to be told something constructive to do with all that energy.

“If Obama wants to complain about someone, he should look in the mirror and say, ‘Why the hell didn’t you have some balls and go for single payer?”

Maybe you have some good points here, but shouldn’t we give credit where credit is due is due? Obama has two daughters and a wife to protect from the poweres that be, which has effectively got him by the balls. And if you are elected, which is part of the job, ’cause you gotta get there first,and supposing you have children, do you think you could do any better? And how do you know he didn’t go for single payer? Just asking…

Twenty some years ago or whenever it was that george started the War On Drugs, someone on KPFK radio smirked, “Why not? We do everything else on drugs…”

What a coincidence that most illigal immigrants are Catholics.
Does the Catholic church also support illigal immigrants from Buddhist or Muslim countries? Ho Humm for the whosiwhatit U.S Conference of Bishops. As if they were the only do gooders in the USA

But most people couldn’t meet the requirements of the “purity” wingnuts even if they tried because the bar is constantly being moved

This is one of the techniques of the Inquisition, which never ends because it is the law inforcement arm of the Catholic church, even though there is supposed to be civil law (where the offence is only blamed on the civilian who broke it, not on all his relatives for seven generations and seven – or nine- degrees). The Catholic church does not submit to civil law, whichis one of the reasons it does not recognize divorce, and calls anyone who has a remaries in a civil court a “prostitute”. The Inquisition uses a word technology that makes it impossible for anyone to be correct unless they are doing exactly what the Catholic church wants. Phoooooo!!!!!!

Virgins are more easily manipulated. Where I live, if the priest says something the woman don’t like (the men are outside waiting for the women) the women start coughing loudly, even enough sometimes to drownd out the sound of his voice.

There may be a good reason for purging voter registration. In my state in 1966 a newly elected governor hired 50 high school students to go through the voter registration cards and pick out cards of voters who were dead (some were 140 years old), and duplicates. I found many voters registered 4 or 5 times during the two months I worked there before school started in the fall. The previous governor had been “elected” three consecutive 4 year terms. With computers, it would take a lot less time to check out registered votors, and I think its a good idea.