Pat Buchanan & the Jews

Here's the MSNBC transcript on the Immigration bill:

It is a pig story! It’s animal farm all over again. And also make no bones about it, it’s the greedy Jews that were behind it because the people of America walked away from them and they need to bring in people from the Third World who are still gullible enough to sit there and listen to the Zionists…the Jews were behind this, the Jews started this a year ago. The neocons flooded the streets because they cannot get blind obedience anymore amongst educated white people who have caught onto the racket and instead they need to import dummies. That’s the story and it is not difficult for you to understand—I’m telling you the truth. It’s all about greed. It’s greed at the top of the Jewish establishment.

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Make no mistake about why this is happening. This has nothing to do with compassion for Mexican workers. This has nothing to do with fairness for Mexican workers—it has to do with the greed…. That’s all there is to it. And that includes the Zionist pigs. And if you don’t like it, don’t listen to the show—I really don’t care anymore. I’m not going to be duped by this sanctimonious garbage that all religions are good and that the institution itself is good. Bah humbug. Judaism is rotten from the top to the bottom.

Shocking? Disgusting? Sure, it's both and then some. But it's also something that I completely made up.

Well, I didn't exactly "make it up" I just tampered with the original text. Pat Buchanan never spoke these words against Jews. The object of this diatribe was actually the Catholic Church and the words were spoken (spewed?) by neocon darling, Michael Savage during his nationally syndicated radio show.

Here's the full text:

Tis the Season

I'm not a big fan of the online quiz but there are times when I just can't help myself. This was one of them:

You scored as Sox Fanatic. You're a Sox Fanatic- you know nearly anything and everything about the Red Sox. You've probably gone to at least a few games a year, a Sox-Yankee game, spring training, and have a bunch of autographs. Plus, I can bet Jerry Remy is one of your idols. You definately count as part of Red Sox Nation. Sox Fanatic 100% Almost a fan 88% On the bench 63% Not so much 0%

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Yeah, I know I'm a Red Sox fanatic -- it didn't take a quiz to tell me that -- but the pic that came along with it was just too cool to resist. And, by the way, Jerry Remy is not one of my idols, I can't stand the man...

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Also worth a look:

Coolus maximus linguam latinam est!

I love Latin... I took three years in High School but learned little more than a few prayers and the odd maxim or two. Every year -- and I mean EVERY year -- I promise, I vow, I swear that I'm going to sit down with my Wheelock's and build the vocab and work on the grammar. I never do it...

I'll go to my grave with the goal of Latin fluency unmet but I still can't resist websites like these:

Latin Weather Forecasts: The Weather Underground provides current weather and updated forecasts in Latin for people who are just too cool to bother themselves with the English. Another useless site that I find utterly fascinating.

The Latin Lover The official versions of Vatican texts and Papal documents are always promulagted in Latin and then translated into the various modern languages. So who checks the Pope's Latin? Why Father Reginald Foster, of course. Father Foster " The Pope's Latinist" (this is the guy who raps the Supreme Pontiff's knuckles and says "No, Holy Father, you want the VOCATIVE case here!!") has his own show on Vatican Radio. The link above will take you to the website. Yet another place where I can waste hours and hours of time...