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Tea Party Protests: 'Ni**er,' 'Faggot' Shouted At Members Of Congress

Abusive, derogatory and even racist behavior directed at House Democrats by Tea Party protesters on Saturday left several lawmakers in shock.

Preceding the president's speech to a gathering of House Democrats, thousands of protesters descended around the Capitol to protest the passage of health care reform. The gathering quickly turned into abusive heckling, as members of Congress passing through Longworth House office building were subjected to epithets and even mild physical abuse.

A staffer for Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) told reporters that Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-M.D.) had been spit on by a protestor. Rep. John Lewis (D-G.A.), a hero of the civil rights movement, was called a 'ni--er.' And Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) was called a "faggot," as protestors shouted at him with deliberately lisp-y screams. Frank, approached in the halls after the president's speech, shrugged off the incident.

But Clyburn was downright incredulous, saying he had not witnessed such treatment since he was leading civil rights protests in South Carolina in the 1960s.

Teabaggers: proving that they deserve the term one day at a time.

(My father got mad at me once for referring to them that way. This is the same man who misses the days when the n-word was acceptable to say among your friends, as long as one of them colored folks wasn't in earshot, so you wouldn't offend them.)

Related: I've heard about the Coffee Party and am very interested. I need to read up on it more before I take a stand, but it looks like a good idea to me.

eta: Ah, it was posted on

ontd_political while I was out. Not discussion so much as rage, but it does my liberal heart good.

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If nothing else, my network page is going to be even more interesting after the non-fandom friending meme.

Current Music: Retreat! Retreat! - 65daysofstatic

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How does anyone put up with using Windows? How did I put up with it for the two years I used it and it alone? It is such a piece of shit. Every time I boot into it, it's like, "HAI I UPDATED SOME STUFF WITHOUT TELLING YOU AND NOW YOU MUST RESTART :D."

Get a clue, Windows! If I booted into you, instead of my beloved Ubuntu which is better in almost every single way imaginable, there is actual stuff I want to do!! I wouldn't just boot into Windows to do something I could do in Ubuntu, because that would be stupid. I want to do stuff so stop nagging me to log off already. For serious.

By the way this happens every single time I boot into Windows. God forbid I should want to buy an album in iTunes (which is what I'm doing this time) or play Sims 2.

Anyway, I realise I haven't updated LiveJournal/Dreamwidth in forever and I apologise. I've been super-duper busy with uni and political stuff, so yeah. If you want to read a little about what I've been doing and thinking in the last month and a bit, here are some links to my main blog that you may click on or not click on (to click or not to click... that is the question) at your leisure:

Winter Olympics: a collection of assorted thoughts on the Winter Olympics
Illness and uni: some justification as to why I'd been busy then (...) and also some discussion of my timetable and subjects
¡Hola, mi amigos!: in my defence, I NOW know that this should have read "¡Hola, mis amigos!" but I didn't want to dishonestly change it. ;) It's an entry about my first impressions of some of my classes, mainly Spanish and International Studies.
Time-wastage: I waste lots of time at uni and the size of my Spanish class is obscene
Rove "proud" of waterboarding: seriously how disgusting is this?!
This tutor smirks a lot: a conversation which took place in one of my Spanish classes!

EDIT: I finished this and decided to write a new entry for my blog, and then even though I'd clicked "Postpone" a million times Windows decided to restart ITSELF. Then I lost the entry because apparently Chrome doesn't have any session restore-type thing. So aggravating!

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Received results this week from Chifley; a Distinction for Marketing (401); Distinction and a High Distinction for Managing Information Systems (403). This are remarkable results considering the somewhat average grades I received for the assignments and how difficult the exam was. The completion of these two units I also have a Graduate Certificate in Management (Technology) to add to my expanding list of academic qualifications. Another academic highlight of the week was seeing Craig Venter give the Graeme Clark Oration at the Melbourne Convention Centre, along with about 2,500 others. It was an outstanding presentation, describing the visionary work he has conducted since completing the human genome sequence, and included such tasty morsels of information on microbe biomass calculations, oceanic genetic diversity, artificial chromosones, automated synthesis, genome transplatation for speciation, biofuels and so forth.

We've been having Internet issues at home; or rather a lack of Internet connectivity. The previous owners of our house still haven't disconnected their 'phone, which means Internet provider can't provide us a connection (naked or otherwise). My evil side says plug in a 'phone, call the talking clock in Brazil and leave the 'phone off the hook. In a different sort of home issue, I have taken up cycling again. Having dragged my poor old bike out of storage where it has sat for the past eight years, I've been taking the deadly treadly along the 9km journey to work. Which wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't 30kg heavier than I was eight years ago and that the first four kilometers (along the winding Yarra Blvd) weren't so damn hilly. Ugh, I'm sure it'll all be better in a month or two.

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Title: A Matisse and Two Picasso's
Author: thearchpoet
Word count: ~2,500
Rating: PG-13 for drugs, alcohol, and swearing.
Warnings: Inanity?
Author's Note: For the lovely

misura who won this in the

help_haiti auction. I ought to give her roses for her infinite patience in waiting for this.
Summary: Opposite sides of the law or not, Neal has always trusted Peter most. Pre-Series (and practically AU.)

( The first time Peter Burke met Neal Caffrey, he was almost taken in by the con. )

Author's Note II: There are some serious issues with this story. I'm aware. (Like the tense. Dear god the tense. I must have switched it back and forth between present and past about a million times. Feel free to let me know if I missed stuff.) So I would appreciate con-crit. I tend to write a lot of head-space type stories so trying to stick with the physical - or trying to incorporate physical action into a scene, is very difficult for me. I hope, at least, that my little exercise wasn't too painful for you as the reader.

Thanks for reading!

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I finally got around to playing Assassin's Creed, in preparation for playing the second game, which is supposed to be much better. I DO like AC -- but it's not a game I'd go back and play again. to be honest. The last half hour of the game was the most interesting half hour of the game. It's as repetitive as everyone says it is, unfortunately. And frankly, I'm disappointed that Desmond didn't crack open a window and rescue himself -- although this IS a trilogy, we probably need him to hang around and do something awesome later. The combat, when you master it, is incredibly satisfying -- only Arkham Asylum has me feeling better about fighting, and that came out way after AC.

Now I just need Gamefly to send me AC2. C'mon, you know you want to~

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I also recently finished Silent Hill: Shattered Memories.

...

Sigh.

This would have ben an interesting one-off game that had nothing to do with SH. Instead they tried to cash in on a dying franchise by ripping off characters, places, and events from the first game and destroying them. There are some interesting concepts going on behind the scenes, but they're cheapened by the unnecessary association to Silent Hill.

Oh well.

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I really need to get a PS3. I want to play Heavy Rain SO BADLY. I'm sorely tempted to use my car money to get a PS3 & Heavy Rain. I mean, I technically have until October before I really need a car, and I could play Heavy Rain NOW...

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Three Weeks for Dreamwidth -- essentially, post content on DW and don't repost it elsewhere for three weeks. More details in a previous post.

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We've made the move (special thanks to Michael C.), somehow managed to avoid the chaos of Melbourne's weather, and unpacked most of our boxes. My god, we have a lot of books.

caseopaya dragged me down to the local shopping mall - the second time in almost as many years - to purchase a new fridge and washing machine machine. Despite some good items I'm still boycotting Samsung, you evil fuckers. A couple of days later she decided our bed needed an upgrade with a very thick futon mattress. Good lord, it's all far too middle class for my "street-kid" sensibilities.

Have discovered that our new home was a residence for one of Melbourne's original anarchists, David Andrade. On a more contemporary level, a few weeks back I saw Melbourne's most well-known anarchist, Dr. Joe Toscano, speak at the Melbourne Unitarian Church on his favourite issues (direct democracy vs representative democracy). Later I managed to coax him into giving an interview (of sorts) on the Isocracy Network.

Ran a training course with the new manual last week. Teaching feedback was excellent, although the facilities were madly crowded. Currently working on the intermediate version of the course. Today is the last day for our senior network engineer, Andy Botting, who's off to the UK. It's the latest in a run of significant staff changes in the systems department with the systems and operations manager both leaving last year for VLSCI. I'll miss Andy; he's incredibly switched on, conscientious and simply a great guy to be around.

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Listening to music from the 1970's today. It seems to suit me this morning.

List of accomplishments lately. Books I've read and films I've (newly) seen since 4 January 2010…

( Books and Films 4 Jan - 9 March )

Current Mood: calm
Current Music: Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting

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