These women are funny. People have stopped taking them serious since they have, for some reason, stopped protesting the War in Afghanistan, or the secret covert ops carried out via the “peace” candidate Obama, or Gitmo which remains open…..

They are nothing more than political partisans.

Clueless women with absolutely no life and no brains. Right up Ratigans alley.

When you’re (largely) without clothes and doing something dirty (like rubbing crude oil over your body) the word in Texas is “nekkid” not “naked” Glynnis.

Not one mention about these angry white protestors?

I’ve never been able to understand things like this. Do these people really think that being so goofy will help them? Don’t they realize the spectacle takes away from their message?

Personally, I think it’s the way misguided people hold on to their youth… and cynical men pick up hippie chicks. At least, that’s how it was when I was in college.

The group does appear to be mostly white, which automatically denotes racism.

Penguin60 says:
May 25, 2010 at 10:17 am
Not one mention about these angry white protestors?

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Haven’t one of the writers and now four (4) commenters mentioned them? What are you saying?

In any event: I’ve never been truly angry when I was nekkid? Have you? I bet these protestors are having more fun than anything else.

I think this is intended to be funny, and it might be best if we took it that way.

BINGO!

King,

Your personal attacks and bigotry of Texas and Texans is truly disgusting. The way you attacked and made blanket statements about how a word is pronounced in Texas by Texans is no different than if you attack a minority for his/her accent. You consistently prove to everyone that you are a bigot.

I myself currently live in the state of Texas because I moved me and my family from Southern California in ’08. I moved from a state with huge taxes, horrible debt, over priced homes, high crime to a state that had a surplus, growing economy, affordable homes and a family atmosphere. I’m sure you are going to come at me with some other race baiting propaganda so I will pre-empt it.

Do you want to know who has the highest number of hate crimes? Well I will tell you. Just last year, according to statemaster.com, California had the highest number of hate crimes with a grand total of 1,297, followed by New Jersey, and New York. Texas ranked 8 with 245 incidents reported.

So please keep you ignorant bigoted comments to yourself.

The King needs to be more careful when stereotyping the southern states. He’s forgetting that there are large numbers of minorities also living in these states. He needs to specify that he only hates the white people living there, not everyone. Otherwise, someone might mistake him for a bigot.

You have to remember everything RRK says is funny. It is not meant to be that way, but stupid is funny.

Yes righter but those blacks aren’t boasting about their confederate heritage, ignoring the role slavery played in the civil war.

So Fox, you’re taking the Royal King approach. While it’s wrong to stereotype minorities, it’s perfectly okay with white people.

Not “white people” righter but “southern white people”

That ‘southern heritage’ issue was going on in Virginia. The King was talking about Texas. In other words, lets lump all southern whites in together. Yet if someone were to say ‘all blacks act alike’, you’d be outraged. And you see no double standards in that.

LNR: I take that liberty because I am a Texan. I am a native. I have spent the better part of my life (in terms of quantity and quality) in Texas. I have lived in Texas continuously since 1985. I am given to frequent cursing of Sam Houston, often because I think it might have been better had we remained our own Republic.

If you truly live in Texas, then you know that we have a wonderful lingustic nuance involving the words “naked” and “nekkid”. I find it neither demeaning nor bigoted. I find it unique, charming, descriptive and a wonderful contribution to the family of English languages spoken in the world. We make many such contributions to English, but we so to Spanish as well.

Again, if you live in Texas, then you know that we have a similar political nuance. Comparisons between liberals in Texas and liberals in the rest of the US, between conservatives in Texas and conservatives in the rest of the US, are no more valid than such comparisons betweem the ideological groupings in the US and the UK. Texas has a strong sense of accountability, morality and personal responsibility which transcends ideology. Texas conservatism has a does of progressivism conservatism lacks in other states, and Texas liberalism has a does of individualism that liberalism lacks in other states.

I think, as a Texan, with the strongest of credentials, I’m allowed to comment on our eccentricities, liguistic and otherwise, because they in some measure define us.

I reject your criticism in this instance, but I appreciate the passion with which it was offered.

Liberty – Not Redistribution says:
May 25, 2010 at 10:55 am

Do you want to know who has the highest number of hate crimes? Well I will tell you. Just last year, according to statemaster.com, California had the highest number of hate crimes with a grand total of 1,297, followed by New Jersey, and New York. Texas ranked 8 with 245 incidents reported.

You do realize you just bragged about 8 out of 50 right?

“…Farrakhan was not present, and I didn’t care to make remarks about someone not present.” Royal King

King, besides white people in general, you particularly insult southern whites. (Alabama is one of your favorite targets.) Since you couldn’t ‘label’ Farrakhan as a racist because he wasn’t ‘present’, I’m curious. When you comment on people of an entire state, are all of those people right there in your living room, or standing out in your yard, or what? I know you wouldn’t want to violate your ‘if they’re not present, I can’t comment’ rule. So how does that work?

Jackie_Treehorn says:
“You do realize you just bragged about 8 out of 50 right?”

Oh I was being kind. Those are total numbers. Per capita, Texas falls down the list greatly.
Per Capita hate crimes in no particular order:

Texas has 1 per 97,909
CA: 1 per 28,527
New York: 1 per 36,398
New Jersey: 1 per 16,666
And Massachusetts, that bastion of tolerance, has a hate crime per capita of 1 per 17,150

So if you want to talk about actual facts Jackie, these are the numbers. Texas, in comparisons to many of the liberal and “tolerant” states, is actually vastly more tolerant.

Fair enough King…fair enough.

Jackie_Treehorn says:
May 25, 2010 at 11:33 am

Compare the raw numbers, though… not the list.

1,297 for Cali… 245 for Texas.

Here is some other information to consider:

California–
Size: 163,696 sq mi
Population: 36,961,664 (2009 est.)
Hate Crimes: 1,297
Hate Crime %: ~0.00003%

Texas–
Size: 268,820 sq mi
Population: 24,782,302 (2009 est.)
Hate Crimes: 245
Hate Crime %: ~0.000009%

So to summarize… Texas is physically larger, but has a smaller population (ranked #2 overall, with California as #1). However, California has over 5 times greater hate crimes than Texas… and based on percentage, a significantly higher rate per population.

Jackie_Treehorn says:
May 25, 2010 at 11:33 am

You do realize you just bragged about 8 out of 50 right?”

No, according to barry 8 out of 57!

Liberty – Not Redistribution says:
May 25, 2010 at 11:55 am

So if you want to talk about actual facts Jackie, these are the numbers. Texas, in comparisons to many of the liberal and “tolerant” states, is actually vastly more tolerant.

But what you fail to mention is that not all states define hate crime the same way thus skewing the numbers.

For instance Arizona, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina, Utah and Wyoming don’t consider race into their hate crime laws.

Also alot of states do not include gender in their statutes.

The same with sexual orientation.

Not surprisingly it’s a huge majority of red states not including them.

So one could see that obviously numbers are skewered. Mostly in favor of lower numbers for red states seeing as they do not prosecute the same types of crimes as hate crimes as blue states tend to do…..

http://www.adl.org/99hatecrime/state_hate_crime_laws.pdf

Jackie_Treehorn,

Thanks for the additional source. You prove my point with regards to Texas, CA, NY, MA and NJ. Massachusetts, which has an extremely high number of hate crimes per capita, doesn’t even take into account gender. You proved my point about Texas. It is vastly more tolerant.

Jackie_Treehorn says:
May 25, 2010 at 12:19 pm

Then why did you compare them in the first place?

ImNotBlue,

I compared them because I wanted to prove, as I did, that Texas has less “hate crime” violence on a per capita number when compared to many liberal states. Texas takes into account all possible demographics similar to the states I compared. My analysis did not change because of Jackie’s post, it only grew in strength.

Liberty – Not Redistribution says:
May 25, 2010 at 12:38 pm

I agree.

My comment was designed to illustrate that Jackie was simply moving the goal posts, once her original post was found to be nonsense. However, your conclusion remains well founded.

I simply find the best way to deal with these race hustlers is through actual facts.

ImNotBlue says:
May 25, 2010 at 12:41 pm

Liberty – Not Redistribution says:
May 25, 2010 at 12:38 pm

I agree.

My comment was designed to illustrate that Jackie was simply moving the goal posts, once her original post was found to be nonsense. However, your conclusion remains well founded.

First off…him him him. Big Lebowski watch it….

Second off, ok he was found correct in Texas. Less hate crime than 5 Blue States. Far from the “vastly” term he uses…..

Those are the five I compared, each one with greater per capita hate crimes. I could go on if you’d like.

Jackie,

Here are a few more comparisons for you.
Hate Crime Per Capita:
Maryland: 1 per 26,886
Washington: 1 per 36,723
Conn.; 1 per 26,717

Oh wait…I finally found one with a lower per capita hate crime rate of Texas. It is the lovely state of Vermont with 1 per 166,666.

Wow!!! How would you like to own a lunch counter in sight of that protest? Certainly, most everybody lost their appetites and those that ate already probably lost it all.

There is no such thing as a “hate crime”. I don’t care if you kill someone because you hate them or just because they looked at you wrong. It is still murder. So we should kill you twice if you hated them? These are truley stupid lib P.C. laws.

Once again I agree with you Gordon. Declaring something a “hate crime” clearly violates the “equal protection” clause in the 14th Amendment. It gives on group more protection over another.

Their naked bodies are more indecent.. Stay obscene and not heard.

Talk about a bunch of UGLY broads!

PUT ‘EM BACK ON, PUT ‘EM BACK ON!

And they all drove away in their SUVs when it was over.