Courtesy of Carloshasanax:
How do you hide money from a teabagger? Put it under the health food.
What has a beer gut and looks good in red? A teabagger on fire.
Why wasn’t Jesus born at a teabagger rally? Because they couldn’t find three wise men.
How many teabaggers does it take to change a lightbulb. None: teabaggers never change.
Teabaggers: the last minority you’re allowed to insult. So go ahead, enjoy.
Let Michael Rosen show you them:
But then, remembering how wrong multiculturalism is, I say to myself, stop reading this stuff. What would Melanie say? Wouldn’t she tell me that this exhibit “promoted a lethally divisive culture of separateness”? And, “even worse”, that it “causes the moral paralysis of ‘victim culture'”? So now that I’m lethally divided and morally paralysed, I glance at my catalogue for help.
For a moment, I feel reassured to see that the museum is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council. But no, in my ear comes David Cameron telling me that “state multiculturalism” was “wrong-headed” because it involved “granting financial aid for artistic and other projects purely on account of ethnic background – with various groups, purporting to represent various minorities, competing for money against each other”.
By now, I’m standing in front of what to my secular eyes looks for a moment like a large, painted cupboard – albeit a gilded, pillared, baroque cupboard. I look down at the label. This was once an ark – where, in the synagogue, the scrolls of the Torah are kept – and it says it’s probably from Venice. So what’s it doing here? It was discovered by an antiquarian bookseller at an auction at Chillingham Castle, Northumberland, where it had been used as a wardrobe in a steward’s bedroom. So this was aristocratic loot? This is what it must mean in the catalogue where it says that “the new galleries bring our collections to life by placing the Jewish story into the wider context of British history”.
Nearby are rows of sacred silverware, each piece an example of astonishing craftsman-ship. One ornate menorah, for holding the Hanukkah candles, is more like a miniature stage set. I think of times I’ve got up close to look at a carving in a church and again there’s Melanie telling me of the folly of promoting the idea that “minority cultures” could be “held to be equal if not superior to the values and traditions of the indigenous majority”. The guilt thing gets me again. Yes, I admit, for a moment I was thinking that this bit of silverwork was as good as anything I’ve seen anywhere else. But I can choke that back down for you, Mel.
For decades India and Bangladesh have had a border squabble about a tiny island in the Gulf of Bengal; not anymore:
The island in the Bay of Bengal that Bangladesh called South Talpatti and India called New Moore or Purbasha appeared after a devastating cyclone, and it appeared right near the territorial boundary between the two. Decades of fighting over the uninhabited speck of land led to no political resolution. But now there’s a perfectly clear geographical resolution: The sea has reclaimed the island, scientists say.
Where have I read this before….
David Toube, for those of you with the luck not to know or care, is one of the guiding lights behind the “Harry’s Place” blog, best described as the clubhouse for what calls itself the “decent left”, mostly numpties and wingnuts who still have some sentimental attachment to being seen as leftwing, even if their opinions would put them comfortably on the rightwing of the Republican Party. Toube then is a bit of an ass, as also seen in the video above. An inflated ego and an desire to be a latter day Orwell, to take part in a fight againmst modern day fascism has led him to troll other leftie blogs, which has now gotten him into trouble. In particular, he has gotten into trouble for this comment on a Socialist Unity post.
Aaronovitch Watch has more details, with the discussion there focusing on how bizarre it is to sue Toube for a comment he left at the Socialist Unity website, but not Socialist Unity itself. To be fair, even if this is 2010 and everybody should be used to blogs and the internet already, it wouldn’t be the first time a lawyer got confused about these matters, if it actually was a mistake and not deliberate. You could argue that since Toube is the source of this comment, it is no more than right that he gets sued for it…
There’s also some soulsearching about it all, as people balance their loathing of Toube with the reflex antipathy any blogger feels against law suits threatening free speech as well as the loathing many have for Galloway himself. I can understand the dilemma, though do not share the mistrust of Galloway. However, as Aaronovitch Watch itself has shown over and over again, there are quite a few decent leftists who feel free to be bullies, not too careful with the truth and who think calling people nazis or Hamas supporters or whatever is consequence free. Perhaps this might persuade them to be a bit more careful with their accusations…
Isn’t it though?