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[Pierre Von Mondragon]

If ever there was a perfect time for the de-regulated chickens to come home to roost, it is now, the OvenChipmeister is doomed

[Paranoid Android]

Fox news continues to entertain

Sean Hannity, Robert Gibbs and anti-Semitism: How to go on Fox News - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

Nice article there and great to see Robert Gibbs put Sean Hannity in his place.

[Pierre Von Mondragon]

Wow, did you see the background of the TV guy, Andy Martin, linked to in the above article, Daily Kos: State of the Nation
He was banned from launching any more lawsuits in the tri-state area, but this bit is the most fucked up, so here it is. Copied from the article linked to by Paranoid Android;

In 1986, he ran for Congress in Illinois under this campaign committee: “The Anthony R. Martin-Trigona Congressional Campaign to Exterminate Jew Power in America,” and he wrote sympathetically of the Holocaust. As The Washington Times described this year:
In a New York bankruptcy case, he referred to a judge as a “crooked, slimy Jew.” During the bankruptcy dispute, he filed a civil-rights lawsuit claiming Jewish bankruptcy judges and lawyers were conspiring to steal his property. He asked a court to bar “any Jew from having anything to do with plaintiff’s property.”

In another motion in the case, he wrote: “I am able to understand how the Holocaust took place, and with every passing day feel less and less sorry that it did, when Jew survivors are operating as a wolf pack to steal my property.”

After the mid-1990s, Martin-Trigona re-surfaced in Florida with a name change (“Andy Martin”), ran for public office multiple times as a Republican (even the local GOP repudiated him), then became a vocal supporter of Rudy Giuliani’s presidential campaign, and finally an obsessive “investigator” of Barack Obama, trafficking in the filthiest and most deranged muck that for months stimulated the darkest crevices of the right-wing slime machine. As The New York Times put it, Martin “is credited as being among the first — if not the first — to assert in a chain e-mail message that Mr. Obama was secretly a Muslim.”

Those are the people that Repubicans 'associate' with.

One More, taken from Daily Kos site;

The 1984 injunction proved only partially effective, though. Between 1984 and 1986, Martin-Trigona still managed to burden the circuit with over 100 mostly frivolous motions, bearing titles such as "Motion for Leave to Appeal Bizarre Order." The Second Circuit strengthened the injunction by authorizing monetary sanctions for future frivolous filings. Martin-Trigona did score one victory, though. He argued that the 1984 injunction had only been temporary. The Court of Appeals agreed and ordered that the injunction be made permanent. In re Martin-Trigona, 795 F.2d 9 (2d Cir. 1986).

These setbacks hardly fazed our valiant litigator. In 1993, Martin-Trigona's continuing flair for the vexatious inspired the Second Circuit to take the extraordinary step of appointing an unidentified judge to screen his lawsuits in an effort to minimize his abuse of the system. What had Martin-Trigona done to deserve this increased level of scrutiny? Well, among other things

the appeals court cited what it called an "outrageous action" taken by Mr. Martin to get back at the Federal judge whose rulings displeased him. The court said Mr. Martin had sought to intervene in the judge's divorce case and have himself appointed as the guardian for the judge's children.
Andy has fans on the Florida Supreme Court as well. In pursuing a course of vigorous litigation in the Sunshine State, Martin-Trigona attempted to avail himself of Florida's procedures that allow financially-challenged litigants to avoid paying court fees. Aware of his history, the Florida courts declined to provide him a free forum despite the fact that, based on his economic circumstances, Andy qualified for indigency status. The state's Supreme Court upheld the lower court's decision, holding that the judicial branch could deny a litigant indigency status as a sanction for abusing the court system. Describing him as "one of this State's most active, as well as abusive, pro se litigants," the court noted that in 1995 alone, Martin-Trigona had bombarded one Florida court with more than 43 filings that "were not only without merit, but included extremely abusive insults directed at numerous non-respondents, public officials, judges and the judicial system as a whole." Ordered to show cause why the court should allow him to proceed in forma pauperis in light of his history of abusing the system, Martin-Trigona "responded by attaching a copy of another lawsuit he was filing against all the judges of the Fourth District Court." Surprisingly, the court was unmoved, one of many developments Martin-Trigona described as "extraordinary treatment and monolithic harassment which is being directed at petitioner by judges, the only excuse [for] which does appear [to be] retaliation by Jewish judges."
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Classy guy.

[Hugh_Jazz]

OBAMA DEFENDS CREATIONIST PSYCHO BITCH REMARK

[Jan Deal]

Stolen from another forum I post on:

YouTube - Sarah Silverman and The Great Schlep

I can't imagine a British equivalent to this really...

[lepeep]

Originally Posted by Hugh_Jazz

OBAMA DEFENDS CREATIONIST PSYCHO BITCH REMARK

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | US Elections 2008 | McCain defends rival Obama

(for real)

[treader.]

Originally Posted by lepeep

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | US Elections 2008 | McCain defends rival Obama

(for real)

Yeah. Have you seen the videos on YouTube of that!?

Some woman calls Barack Obama an "Arab". What the fuck?

Did anyone see the presidential debate last night then?! I was listening online because I'm a total loser.

[lepeep]

Originally Posted by treader.

Yeah. Have you seen the videos on YouTube of that!?

Some woman calls Barack Obama an "Arab". What the fuck?

Did anyone see the presidential debate last night then?! I was listening online because I'm a total loser.

no, I haven't.
I just randomly typed in a URL, and fuck me....I got the video on the BBC of the "Arab" quote...how amazing was that?! I should put a lottery ticket on.

[treader.]

yeah, i realise that the video on the BBC website probably shows the exact same quote, but I cant access streaming videos at work so I didnt know that.


I saw it on YouTube a few days ago. That is all.

[huntedbyafreak]

I heartily recommend The Bugle podcast from Times Online. Hilarious view on the weeks news... Mostly complete nonsense but it takes the edge off the U.S. election and the financial crisis. Downloaded 50 episodes after hearing the most recent one. Brilliant.