Asp Forum - open-uri can read slashdot rss, but not digg rss ?

uncle

3/18/2007 8:28:00 PM

Here's an irb session, this used to work, maybe something new about
digg's rss feed ?

irb(main):001:0> require 'open-uri'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> open('http://rss.slashdot.org...
slashdot').readlines.length
=> 263
irb(main):003:0> open('http://www.dig...
containertechnology.xml').readlines.length
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:54:in `rbuf_fill': execution expired
(Timeout::Error)
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:56:in `timeout'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:76:in `timeout'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:132:in `rbuf_fill'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:116:in `readuntil'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:126:in `readline'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1988:in `read_status_line'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1977:in `read_new'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1046:in `request'
... 8 levels...
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:86:in `open'
from (irb):3:in `irb_binding'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/workspace.rb:52:in `irb_binding'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/workspace.rb:52

happens every time !

7 Answers

uncle

3/18/2007 8:45:00 PM

On Mar 18, 3:28 pm, "akt...@gmail.com" <akt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's an irb session, this used to work, maybe something new about
> digg's rss feed ?
>
> irb(main):001:0> require 'open-uri'
> => true
> irb(main):002:0> open('http://rss.slashdot.org...
> slashdot').readlines.length
> => 263
> irb(main):003:0> open('http://www.dig...
> containertechnology.xml').readlines.length
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:54:in `rbuf_fill': execution expired
> (Timeout::Error)
> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:56:in `timeout'
> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:76:in `timeout'
> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:132:in `rbuf_fill'
> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:116:in `readuntil'
> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:126:in `readline'
> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1988:in `read_status_line'
> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1977:in `read_new'
> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1046:in `request'
> ... 8 levels...
> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:86:in `open'
> from (irb):3:in `irb_binding'
> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/workspace.rb:52:in `irb_binding'
> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/workspace.rb:52
>
> happens every time !

Digg wants a specific user-agent, like the one my FF uses. Why in the
world would they do that ? What/who are they hoping to prevent. Do
they really only want browsers connecting to there feeds ?

John Joyce

3/19/2007 2:44:00 PM

They may just be keeping track of what user-agents are being used.
Though browser sniffing is almost pointless.
Should be easy enough to give it whatever string you like. "user-
agent" is nothing but a string anyway, almost meaningless, because it
isn't guaranteed to be true or mean anything valid or verifiable.
(like microsoft's early corruption of it, to circumvent browser
sniffing and blocking by starting it's MSIE user-agent string with
Mozilla 4.x (compatible... ))

On Mar 19, 2007, at 5:50 AM, aktxyz@gmail.com wrote:

> On Mar 18, 3:28 pm, "akt...@gmail.com" <akt...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Here's an irb session, this used to work, maybe something new about
>> digg's rss feed ?
>>
>> irb(main):001:0> require 'open-uri'
>> => true
>> irb(main):002:0> open('http://rss.slashdot.org...
>> slashdot').readlines.length
>> => 263
>> irb(main):003:0> open('http://www.dig...
>> containertechnology.xml').readlines.length
>> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:54:in `rbuf_fill': execution expired
>> (Timeout::Error)
>> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:56:in `timeout'
>> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:76:in `timeout'
>> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:132:in `rbuf_fill'
>> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:116:in `readuntil'
>> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb:126:in `readline'
>> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1988:in `read_status_line'
>> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1977:in `read_new'
>> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1046:in `request'
>> ... 8 levels...
>> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:86:in `open'
>> from (irb):3:in `irb_binding'
>> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/workspace.rb:52:in `irb_binding'
>> from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/workspace.rb:52
>>
>> happens every time !
>
>
>
> Digg wants a specific user-agent, like the one my FF uses. Why in the
> world would they do that ? What/who are they hoping to prevent. Do
> they really only want browsers connecting to there feeds ?
>
>

Klaus Schadenfreude

10/22/2013 11:31:00 PM

On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 21:59:03 +0000 (UTC), betweentheeyes
<betweentheeyes@supportingthe2nd.org> wrote:

>Frank <FrankS@nospam.com> wrote in news:l46ggi$16u$2@dont-email.me:
>
>> On 10/22/2013 10:23 AM, betweentheeyes wrote:
>>
>>> How is it, the Presidential executive order
>>
>> read slowly :
>>
>> P r e s i d e n t i a l
>>
>> e x e c u t i v e
>>
>> o r d e r
>>
>>
>> now if your reading comprehension is that bad ,
>> ask mommy what "elections have consequences"
>> means.
>>
>>
>>
>
>Look, dumbass, I asked a simple question and your stupid ass turns it into
>an argument. WTF?
>
>If you HAPPEN to be aware of precedence that causes E.O. to trump House
>legislation, by all FUCKING means, presnt it
>
>======>here<=============
>
>damn you leftists are agravating!

Don't worry. When President Christie starts chucking E.O.'s at them
left and right, they'll scream like fucking banshees.

Look for your answer then.

[chuckle]

Cruz is a Cuban anchor baby

10/23/2013 11:04:00 AM

The answer is obvious. Presidential powers are a wonderful thing that sore losers simply can't stand when a black man has them.

JohnJohnsn

10/23/2013 4:22:00 PM

In article <e8878eca-281e-4a70-be43-e76bdeeefb36@googlegroups.com>, the
racist Loony Liberal posting under the phony nym "Cruz is a Cuban anchor
baby" <loonkiller@gmail.com> after "snipping *all* context, says ...
>
> The answer is obvious. Presidential powers are a wonderful thing
> that sore losers simply can't stand when a black man has them.
>
15 Moronic Things Liberals Call Racism Since Obama Was Elected
By John Hawkins | Aug 27, 2013

Bizarrely, racism in America is no longer mainly about race. Sure, race is
involved in a peripheral manner, but racism has mainly become an excuse, a
dodge, a way to escape responsibility.

When a black liberal is criticized, he cries racism. When liberalism fails,
liberals cry racism. When the Democrat Party gets in trouble, liberals cry
racism. It has become the ever present background noise of politics, like
birds chirping in the forest.

Racism does still exist and always will, but once the Democrat Party joined
the GOP in being opposed to racist policies, appealing to racism became a
dead dog political loser in this country. The very fact that we've become so
hypersensitive about it as a country is evidence of how far it has been
pushed to the fringes.

Keep in mind that we live in a nation with a black President and a black
Attorney General. Furthermore, the government is legally allowed to
discriminate against white Americans based on the color of their skin and it
happily does so; yet you can't go a day in this country without hearing
liberals howling about what a racist country they live in. It has almost
become a circular, faith-based argument. America is racist because so many
liberals say it's racist because they've heard other liberals say the country
is racist.

Well, if our country is so racist, why is it that the Left has to reach so
far to find examples of racism? People didn?t have to do any reaching to find
examples of racism in the fifties and sixties, did they? So, if racism is
such an all powerful force in America today, how is it that liberals have
gotten so desperate to see race in every issue that they've had to latch on
to pitiful issues like these to support their claims?

1) Criticizing the IRS: "Republicans are using [the IRS scandal] as their
latest weapon in the war against the black man. ?IRS? is the new 'N****r.'"
--Martin Bashir

2) Having a Republican National Convention during a hurricane: "They are
happy to have a party with black people drowning."
--Yahoo News Washington bureau chief David Chalian on the Republican National
Convention, which was going on at the same time as Hurricane Isaac.

3) Wanting to own a gun to prevent break-ins: "I am loathe to bring up what
is in our head because we don?t like to talk about it so much. But on this
particular day, on Martin Luther King Day, I think this needs to be said.
That imaginary person that?s going to break into your home and kill you, who
does that person look like? You know, it?s not freckle-faced Jimmy down the
street, is it really? I mean, that?s not what really, that?s not what really
people, we never really want to talk about the racial or the class part of
this, in terms of how it?s the poor or it?s people of color that we imagine
that we?re afraid of. Why are we afraid? What is that, and it?s been a fear
that has existed for a very, very long time."
--Michael Moore

4) Mentioning the "Constitution" or "respect for the Founding Fathers:" "The
language of GOP racial politics is heavy on euphemisms that allow the speaker
to deny any responsibility for the racial content of his message,? Williams
wrote. ?References to a lack of respect for the ?Founding Fathers? and the
?Constitution? also make certain ears perk up by demonizing anyone supposedly
threatening core ?old-fashioned American values.?"
--Juan Williams

5) Calling Obama "angry:" "That really bothered me. You notice (Romney) said
anger twice. He?s really trying to use racial coding and access some really
deep stereotypes about the angry black man. This is part of the playbook
against Obama, the ?otherization,? he?s not like us. I know it?s a heavy
thing, I don?t say it lightly, but this is ?n*ggerization.?"
--Tour?

6) Saying that Barack Obama lies: "Surrounded by middle-aged white guys ? a
sepia snapshot of the days when such pols ran Washington like their own men?s
club ? Joe Wilson yelled ?You lie!? at a president who didn?t. But, fair or
not, what I heard was an unspoken word in the air: You lie, boy!"
--Maureen Dowd

7) Noting that Obama is privileged: "Spotlighting his elite education is
tantamount to racial bigotry because it insinuates that 'he took the place of
someone else through affirmative action, that someone else being someone
white.'"
--Jonathan Capehart

8) Saying that unions boss Obama around: "The Republican Party is saying that
the President of the United States has bosses, that the union bosses this
President around, the unions boss him around. Does that sound to you like
they are trying to consciously or subconsciously deliver the racist message
that, of course, of course a black man can?t be the real boss?"
--Lawrence O?Donnell

9) Supporting voter ID: ?If you go back to the year 2000, when we had an
obvious disaster and ? and saw that our voting process needed refinement, and
we did that in the America Votes Act and made sure that we could iron out
those kinks, now you have the Republicans, who want to literally drag us all
the way back to Jim Crow laws and literally ? and very transparently ? block
access to the polls to voters who are more likely to vote Democratic
candidates than Republican candidates. And it?s nothing short of that
blatant.?
--Debbie Wasserman Schultz

10) Saying "I want my country back:" "Do you remember tea baggers? It was
just so much easier when we could just call them racists. I just don?t know
why we can?t call them racists, or functionally retarded adults. The
functionally retarded adults, the racists ? with their cries of, ?I want my
country back. You know what they?re really saying is, ?I want my white guy
back.? They apparently had no problem at all for the last eight years of
habeas corpus being suspended, the Constitution being [expletive] on, illegal
surveillance, lied to on a war or two, two stolen elections ? yes, the John
Kerry one was stolen too. That?s not tin-foil hat time. ?
--Janeane Garofalo

11) Being fans of Herman Cain: "One of the things about Herman Cain is, I
think that he makes that white Republican base of the party feel okay, feel
like they are not racist because they can like this guy. I think he(he?s)
giving that base a free pass. And I think they like him because they think
he?s a black man who knows his place. I know that?s harsh, but that?s how it
sure seems to me."
--Karen Finney

12) Fighting for the 2nd Amendment: "I believe the NRA is the new KKK. And
that the arming of so many black youths, uh, and loading up our community
with drugs, and then just having an open shooting gallery, is the work of
people who obviously don?t have our best interests [at heart]."
--Jason Whitlock

13) Republicans trying to keep Obama from being reelected: "Look at, look,
the Tea Partiers, who are controlling the Republican Party?.Their stated
policy, publicly stated, is to do whatever it takes to see to it that Obama
only serves one term. What?s, what does that, what underlines that? ?Screw
the country. We?re going to (do) whatever we (can) do to get this black man,
we can, we?re going to do whatever we can to get this black man outta here.??
It is a racist thing."
--Morgan Freeman

14) Disliking the fact that Obama is President: "They can?t stand the idea
that he?s president, and a piece of it is racism. Not that somebody in one
racial group doesn?t like somebody in another racial group, so what? It?s the
sense that the white race must rule, that?s what racism is, and they can?t
stand the idea that a man who?s not white is president. That is real, that
sense of racial superiority and rule is in the hearts of some people in this
country."
--Chris Matthews

15) Disliking Barack Obama: "I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely
demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact
that he is a black man, that he?s African-American."
--Jimmy Carter

http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2013/08/27/15-moron...
liberals-call-racism-since-obama-was-elected-n1674131/

RD Sandman

10/23/2013 7:47:00 PM

Johnny Johnson <TopCop1988@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:MPG.2cd1b36aa26169e198a094@news.eternal-september.org:

> In article <e8878eca-281e-4a70-be43-e76bdeeefb36@googlegroups.com>,
> the racist Loony Liberal posting under the phony nym "Cruz is a Cuban
> anchor baby" <loonkiller@gmail.com> after "snipping *all* context,
> says ...
>>
>> The answer is obvious. Presidential powers are a wonderful thing
>> that sore losers simply can't stand when a black man has them.
>>
> 15 Moronic Things Liberals Call Racism Since Obama Was Elected
> By John Hawkins | Aug 27, 2013
>
> Bizarrely, racism in America is no longer mainly about race. Sure,
> race is involved in a peripheral manner, but racism has mainly become
> an excuse, a dodge, a way to escape responsibility.
>
> When a black liberal is criticized, he cries racism. When liberalism
> fails, liberals cry racism. When the Democrat Party gets in trouble,
> liberals cry racism. It has become the ever present background noise
> of politics, like birds chirping in the forest.
>
> Racism does still exist and always will, but once the Democrat Party
> joined the GOP in being opposed to racist policies, appealing to
> racism became a dead dog political loser in this country. The very
> fact that we've become so hypersensitive about it as a country is
> evidence of how far it has been pushed to the fringes.
>
> Keep in mind that we live in a nation with a black President and a
> black Attorney General. Furthermore, the government is legally allowed
> to discriminate against white Americans based on the color of their
> skin and it happily does so; yet you can't go a day in this country
> without hearing liberals howling about what a racist country they live
> in. It has almost become a circular, faith-based argument. America is
> racist because so many liberals say it's racist because they've heard
> other liberals say the country is racist.
>
> Well, if our country is so racist, why is it that the Left has to
> reach so far to find examples of racism? People didn?t have to do any
> reaching to find examples of racism in the fifties and sixties, did
> they? So, if racism is such an all powerful force in America today,
> how is it that liberals have gotten so desperate to see race in every
> issue that they've had to latch on to pitiful issues like these to
> support their claims?
>
> 1) Criticizing the IRS: "Republicans are using [the IRS scandal] as
> their latest weapon in the war against the black man. ?IRS? is the new
> 'N****r.'" --Martin Bashir
>
> 2) Having a Republican National Convention during a hurricane: "They
> are happy to have a party with black people drowning."
> --Yahoo News Washington bureau chief David Chalian on the Republican
> National Convention, which was going on at the same time as Hurricane
> Isaac.
>
> 3) Wanting to own a gun to prevent break-ins: "I am loathe to bring up
> what is in our head because we don?t like to talk about it so much.
> But on this particular day, on Martin Luther King Day, I think this
> needs to be said. That imaginary person that?s going to break into
> your home and kill you, who does that person look like? You know, it?s
> not freckle-faced Jimmy down the street, is it really? I mean, that?s
> not what really, that?s not what really people, we never really want
> to talk about the racial or the class part of this, in terms of how
> it?s the poor or it?s people of color that we imagine that we?re
> afraid of. Why are we afraid? What is that, and it?s been a fear that
> has existed for a very, very long time." --Michael Moore
>
> 4) Mentioning the "Constitution" or "respect for the Founding
> Fathers:" "The language of GOP racial politics is heavy on euphemisms
> that allow the speaker to deny any responsibility for the racial
> content of his message,? Williams wrote. ?References to a lack of
> respect for the ?Founding Fathers? and the ?Constitution? also make
> certain ears perk up by demonizing anyone supposedly threatening core
> ?old-fashioned American values.?" --Juan Williams
>
> 5) Calling Obama "angry:" "That really bothered me. You notice
> (Romney) said anger twice. He?s really trying to use racial coding and
> access some really deep stereotypes about the angry black man. This is
> part of the playbook against Obama, the ?otherization,? he?s not like
> us. I know it?s a heavy thing, I don?t say it lightly, but this is
> ?n*ggerization.?" --Touré
>
> 6) Saying that Barack Obama lies: "Surrounded by middle-aged white
> guys ? a sepia snapshot of the days when such pols ran Washington like
> their own men?s club ? Joe Wilson yelled ?You lie!? at a president who
> didn?t. But, fair or not, what I heard was an unspoken word in the
> air: You lie, boy!" --Maureen Dowd
>
> 7) Noting that Obama is privileged: "Spotlighting his elite education
> is tantamount to racial bigotry because it insinuates that 'he took
> the place of someone else through affirmative action, that someone
> else being someone white.'"
> --Jonathan Capehart
>
> 8) Saying that unions boss Obama around: "The Republican Party is
> saying that the President of the United States has bosses, that the
> union bosses this President around, the unions boss him around. Does
> that sound to you like they are trying to consciously or
> subconsciously deliver the racist message that, of course, of course a
> black man can?t be the real boss?" --Lawrence O?Donnell
>
> 9) Supporting voter ID: ?If you go back to the year 2000, when we had
> an obvious disaster and ? and saw that our voting process needed
> refinement, and we did that in the America Votes Act and made sure
> that we could iron out those kinks, now you have the Republicans, who
> want to literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws and
> literally ? and very transparently ? block access to the polls to
> voters who are more likely to vote Democratic candidates than
> Republican candidates. And it?s nothing short of that blatant.?
> --Debbie Wasserman Schultz
>
> 10) Saying "I want my country back:" "Do you remember tea baggers? It
> was just so much easier when we could just call them racists. I just
> don?t know why we can?t call them racists, or functionally retarded
> adults. The functionally retarded adults, the racists ? with their
> cries of, ?I want my country back. You know what they?re really saying
> is, ?I want my white guy back.? They apparently had no problem at all
> for the last eight years of habeas corpus being suspended, the
> Constitution being [expletive] on, illegal surveillance, lied to on a
> war or two, two stolen elections ? yes, the John Kerry one was stolen
> too. That?s not tin-foil hat time. ? --Janeane Garofalo
>
> 11) Being fans of Herman Cain: "One of the things about Herman Cain
> is, I think that he makes that white Republican base of the party feel
> okay, feel like they are not racist because they can like this guy. I
> think he(he?s) giving that base a free pass. And I think they like him
> because they think he?s a black man who knows his place. I know that?s
> harsh, but that?s how it sure seems to me."
> --Karen Finney
>
> 12) Fighting for the 2nd Amendment: "I believe the NRA is the new KKK.
> And that the arming of so many black youths, uh, and loading up our
> community with drugs, and then just having an open shooting gallery,
> is the work of people who obviously don?t have our best interests [at
> heart]." --Jason Whitlock
>
> 13) Republicans trying to keep Obama from being reelected: "Look at,
> look, the Tea Partiers, who are controlling the Republican
> Party?.Their stated policy, publicly stated, is to do whatever it
> takes to see to it that Obama only serves one term. What?s, what does
> that, what underlines that? ?Screw the country. We?re going to (do)
> whatever we (can) do to get this black man, we can, we?re going to do
> whatever we can to get this black man outta here.?? It is a racist
> thing." --Morgan Freeman
>
> 14) Disliking the fact that Obama is President: "They can?t stand the
> idea that he?s president, and a piece of it is racism. Not that
> somebody in one racial group doesn?t like somebody in another racial
> group, so what? It?s the sense that the white race must rule, that?s
> what racism is, and they can?t stand the idea that a man who?s not
> white is president. That is real, that sense of racial superiority and
> rule is in the hearts of some people in this country."
> --Chris Matthews
>
> 15) Disliking Barack Obama: "I think an overwhelming portion of the
> intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is
> based on the fact that he is a black man, that he?s African-American."
> --Jimmy Carter
>
> http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2013/08/27/15-moro...
> - liberals-call-racism-since-obama-was-elected-n1674131/
>

Very good....interesting reading......let the games begin.......again.

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JohnJohnsn

10/23/2013 9:01:00 PM

In article <XnsA262822254817Hopewell@216.196.121.131>, RD Sandman says...
>
> Johnny Johnson <TopCop1988@yahoo.com> wrote in
> news:MPG.2cd1b36aa26169e198a094@news.eternal-september.org:
>
>> In article <e8878eca-281e-4a70-be43-e76bdeeefb36@googlegroups.com>,
>> the racist Loony Liberal posting under the phony nym "Cruz is a Cuban
>> anchor baby" <loonkiller@gmail.com> after "snipping *all* context,
>> says ...
>>
>>> The answer is obvious. Presidential powers are a wonderful thing
>>> that sore losers simply can't stand when a black man has them.
>>
>> 15 Moronic Things Liberals Call Racism Since Obama Was Elected
>> By John Hawkins | Aug 27, 2013
>>
>> Bizarrely, racism in America is no longer mainly about race. Sure,
>> race is involved in a peripheral manner, but racism has mainly become
>> an excuse, a dodge, a way to escape responsibility.
>>
>> When a black liberal is criticized, he cries racism. When liberalism
>> fails, liberals cry racism. When the Democrat Party gets in trouble,
>> liberals cry racism. It has become the ever present background noise
>> of politics, like birds chirping in the forest.
>>
>> Racism does still exist and always will, but once the Democrat Party
>> joined the GOP in being opposed to racist policies, appealing to
>> racism became a dead dog political loser in this country. The very
>> fact that we've become so hypersensitive about it as a country is
>> evidence of how far it has been pushed to the fringes.
>>
>> Keep in mind that we live in a nation with a black President and a
>> black Attorney General. Furthermore, the government is legally allowed
>> to discriminate against white Americans based on the color of their
>> skin and it happily does so; yet you can't go a day in this country
>> without hearing liberals howling about what a racist country they live
>> in. It has almost become a circular, faith-based argument. America is
>> racist because so many liberals say it's racist because they've heard
>> other liberals say the country is racist.
>>
>> Well, if our country is so racist, why is it that the Left has to
>> reach so far to find examples of racism? People didn't have to do any
>> reaching to find examples of racism in the fifties and sixties, did
>> they? So, if racism is such an all powerful force in America today,
>> how is it that liberals have gotten so desperate to see race in every
>> issue that they've had to latch on to pitiful issues like these to
>> support their claims?
>>
>> 1) Criticizing the IRS: "Republicans are using [the IRS scandal] as
>> their latest weapon in the war against the black man. `IRS' is the new
>> 'N****r.'"
>> --Martin Bashir
>>
>> 2) Having a Republican National Convention during a hurricane:
>> "They are happy to have a party with black people drowning."
>> --Yahoo News Washington bureau chief David Chalian on the Republican
>> National Convention, which was going on at the same time as Hurricane
>> Isaac.
>>
>> 3) Wanting to own a gun to prevent break-ins: "I am loathe to bring
>> up what is in our head because we don't like to talk about it so much.
>> But on this particular day, on Martin Luther King Day, I think this
>> needs to be said. That imaginary person that's going to break into
>> your home and kill you, who does that person look like? You know,
>> it's not freckle-faced Jimmy down the street, is it really? I mean, that's
>> not what really, that's not what really people, we never really want
>> to talk about the racial or the class part of this, in terms of how
>> it's the poor or it's people of color that we imagine that we're
>> afraid of. Why are we afraid? What is that, and it's been a fear that
>> has existed for a very, very long time."
>> --Michael Moore
>>
>> 4) Mentioning the "Constitution" or "respect for the Founding
>> Fathers:" "The language of GOP racial politics is heavy on euphemisms
>> that allow the speaker to deny any responsibility for the racial
>> content of his message," Williams wrote. "References to a lack of
>> respect for the `Founding Fathers' and the `Constitution' also make
>> certain ears perk up by demonizing anyone supposedly threatening
>> core `old-fashioned American values'."
>> --Juan Williams
>>
>> 5) Calling Obama "angry:" "That really bothered me. You notice
>> (Romney) said anger twice. He's really trying to use racial coding
>> and access some really deep stereotypes about the angry black man.
>> This is part of the playbook against Obama, the `otherization,' he's
>> not like us. I know it's a heavy thing, I don't say it lightly, but this
is
>> `n*ggerization'."
>> --Toure
>>
>> 6) Saying that Barack Obama lies: "Surrounded by middle-aged white
>> guys --- a sepia snapshot of the days when such pols ran Washington
>> like their own men's club --- Joe Wilson yelled `You lie!' at a president
>> who didn't. But, fair or not, what I heard was an unspoken word in the
>> air: You lie, boy!"
>> --Maureen Dowd
>>
>> 7) Noting that Obama is privileged: "Spotlighting his elite education
>> is tantamount to racial bigotry because it insinuates that 'he took
>> the place of someone else through affirmative action, that someone
>> else being someone white.'"
>> --Jonathan Capehart
>>
>> 8) Saying that unions boss Obama around: "The Republican Party is
>> saying that the President of the United States has bosses, that the
>> union bosses this President around, the unions boss him around.
>> Does that sound to you like they are trying to consciously or
>> subconsciously deliver the racist message that, of course, of course
>> a black man can't be the real boss."
>> --Lawrence O'Donnell
>>
>> 9) Supporting voter ID: "If you go back to the year 2000, when we had
>> an obvious disaster and ... and saw that our voting process needed
>> refinement, and we did that in the America Votes Act and made sure
>> that we could iron out those kinks, now you have the Republicans,
>> who want to literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws and
>> literally --- and very transparently --- block access to the polls to
>> voters who are more likely to vote Democratic candidates than
>> Republican candidates. And it's nothing short of that blatant."
>> --Debbie Wasserman Schultz
>>
>> 10) Saying "I want my country back:" "Do you remember tea baggers?
>> It was just so much easier when we could just call them racists. I just
>> don't know why we can't call them racists, or functionally retarded
>> adults. The functionally retarded adults, the racists --- with their
>> cries of, `I want my country back.' You know what they're really saying
>> is, `I want my white guy back.' They apparently had no problem at all
>> for the last eight years of habeas corpus being suspended, the
>> Constitution being [expletive] on, illegal surveillance, lied to on a
>> war or two, two stolen elections -- yes, the John Kerry one was stolen
>> too. That's not tin-foil hat time."
>> --Janeane Garofalo
>>
>> 11) Being fans of Herman Cain: "One of the things about Herman Cain
>> is, I think that he makes that white Republican base of the party feel
>> okay, feel like they are not racist because they can like this guy. I
>> think he (he's) giving that base a free pass. And I think they like him
>> because they think he's a black man who knows his place. I know
>> that's harsh, but that's how it sure seems to me."
>> --Karen Finney
>>
>> 12) Fighting for the 2nd Amendment: "I believe the NRA is the new KKK.
>> And that the arming of so many black youths, uh, and loading up our
>> community with drugs, and then just having an open shooting gallery,
>> is the work of people who obviously don't have our best interests [at
>> heart]."
>> --Jason Whitlock
>>
>> 13) Republicans trying to keep Obama from being reelected: "Look
>> at, look, the Tea Partiers, who are controlling the Republican Party".
>> Their stated policy, publicly stated, is to do whatever it takes to
>> see to it that Obama only serves one term. What's, what does that,
>> what underlines that? `Screw the country. We're going to (do)
>> whatever we (can) do to get this black man, we can, we're going to
>> do whatever we can to get this black man outta here.' It is a racist
>> thing." --Morgan Freeman
>>
>> 14) Disliking the fact that Obama is President: "They can't stand
>> the idea that he's president, and a piece of it is racism. Not that
>> somebody in one racial group doesn't like somebody in another racial
>> group, so what? It's the sense that the white race must rule, that's
>> what racism is, and they can't stand the idea that a man who's not
>> white is president. That is real, that sense of racial superiority and
>> rule is in the hearts of some people in this country."
>> --Chris Matthews
>>
>> 15) Disliking Barack Obama: "I think an overwhelming portion of the
>> intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is
>> based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African-American."
>> --Jimmy Carter
>>
>>http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2013/08/27/15-moron...
liberals-call-racism-since-obama-was-elected-n1674131/
>
> Very good....interesting reading......let the games begin.......again.
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