Friday, November 14, 2008

Iowa's Tom Vilsack for Secretary of Ag?

Joe the Plumber’s latest small business? Apparently: himself.

Click the title, and then this. As my former co-worker would say, "for the love of God".

Hillary Clinton for Secretary Of State?


Just might be. Check out A. Sullivan's take.

You Know Your President Is Black When......

Coates:
...he paraphrases Sam Cooke in his acceptance speech, has an office of urban policy, and gives Ebony the first photo shoot.

I'm sure it also has something to do with the fact that Johnson publications, Ebony's parent, has deep ties in black Chicago. You know all them bougie South Side Negroes run together!

UPDATE: J Starr points us to this dope, dope cover from Ebony

Monday, November 10, 2008

Auschwitz Plans Discovered

Germany's chief archivist, Hans-Dieter Kreikamp, is quoted by Bild newspaper as saying that the plans, which appear to have been made from 1941 to 1943, are "authentic certificates of a systematically planned genocide of European Jews", and "of extraordinary importance". [..]

The documents are undergoing close examination. If confirmed as genuine they would adjust the timeline of the planned Holocaust. Historians believed the start of the genocide campaign was January 20 1942 when top Nazi officials met at the lakeside resort of Wannsee, west of Berlin, and concocted the "final solution". One of the drawings has a date that precedes the conference by eight months. The rest..