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South African President Jacob Zuma announced today that Nelson Mandela passed away at the age of 95. A life well lived, and an inspiration that will never die.

I had the privilege of meeting Mr. Mandela, when the Al Jarreau Band played in South Africa in 1993. He was totally down to earth; joked about sneaking into the concert, and made a point of personally meeting everyone in the band. A great experience of a great man who will be remembered throughout history.

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Giant birds totally freaking out about a battery-powered ball with a weasel tail — what’s not to love?

(Via Grist.)

This woman is pure evil.

Pamela Geller is telling her fellow anti-Muslim activists to convince Congress to reject a resolution “urging the Government of Burma to end the persecution of the Rohingya people and respect internationally recognized human rights for all ethnic and religious minority groups within Burma.”

The Rohingya minority have faced vicious persecution in Burma, but Geller accuses them of “waging jihad in Burma.”

Various human rights groups and media outlets, along with groups from the Heritage Foundation to the Brookings Institute, have described the persecution of the Rohingya in Burma as ethnic cleansing.

But not Geller.

She claims that the Rohingya are to blame for the atrocities against them because of a bombing at a Buddhist shrine in India by the Islamic extremist Indian Mujahideen, and is demanding activists stop the resolution from turning into a “battering ram to impose Islam on small, defenseless countries.”

Anytime Buddhist monks have to carry guns for self-defense, it’s a good bet that the Religion of Peace is involved.

Muslims are waging jihad in Burma. But the Buddhists aren’t having it. Muslim Brotherhood groups in the US are agitating for UN intervention. Scroll and read Hamas-CAIR’s call for support of US resolution 418 calling for intervention. Please contact your Congressmen and Senators and tell them to VOTE NO on resolution 418. We have seen this before. It led to President Clinton sending US troops to fight for the Bosnian Muslims against the Christian Serbs, leading to the establishment of the first Islamic state in Europe (Kosovo).

Support the Buddhists in Burma. Seriously. Do this. I am in Boston, as our free speech lawsuit is being heard today, but I will be working the phones, and so should you. Burma is 90% Buddhist. These are a peaceful people. The Muslims have brought war to Burma. Bodh Gaya, the holiest site for the Buddhists the world over, was bombed in a series of Islamic terror attacks. Hamas-CAIR must be stopped from using the most powerful government in the world as its battering ram to impose Islam on small, defenseless countries.

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If I never hear Rush Limbaugh talk about anyone (let alone President Obama) having an orgasm again, it will be too soon.

I have to admit I’ve never been a big fan of Martin Bashir’s hyperbolic style, but it’s more than a little pathetic to see MSNBC caving in to the right wing shriek machine, even after Bashir apologized and Sarah Palin accepted it: Martin Bashir Resigns From MSNBC.

Note that Bashir’s comment about Sarah Palin was gross and offensive, and I’m in no way supporting it; this kind of thing is why I said above that I wasn’t much of a fan. But if we’re going to weigh gross and offensive comments, Sarah Palin’s comparison of slavery to the national debt seems vastly more outrageous to me.

Meanwhile, at Breitbart.com, where they’ve been on a non-stop campaign to get Bashir fired, they’re in a celebratory mood. And you know what that means: lots of gloating (nobody gloats like a wingnut), mixed with thousands of openly racist, xenophobic comments: MSNBC’S BASHIR RESIGNS!!!

A small selection of the wonderful Breitbart comment section, in which we see the wingnut base in all its glory as usual:

How does Bashir sleep at night? Probably hanging from the rafters, above a mound of his own guano.

Resignation is not enough punishment for this piece of dirt.

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According to Wikipedia, he was born in Britain and is a Christian (although his parents are of Pakistani descent. Can you say “Taliban” anyone?

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Marty isn’t good enough for Britain. S’matter o’fact he isn’t good enough for most places. Maybe Uganda.

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Have a rotten life, Martin. May many urinate and defecate into your foul mouth.

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So long you douchebag. Have fun at Al-Jazeera!!

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The trash has taken itself out! He thought he was being all big and bad when in reality this idiot would cry if a bubble popped on him. Now to seal the deal leave the US and destroy your passport.

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He should return up his mother’s birth canal.

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Back to England for you. What a great day.

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No, don’t send the twat there. The British people have to put up with sh*t like Anjem Chouldary every day.

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Back to where he belongs—his real home—Pakistan.This turd world POS is a Pakistani immigrant to Britain.The West is sick of this third world trash. Ship this Paki to his real home.

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Good. One less muslim jihadi spewing his crap all over the TV.

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Filthy third world POS.This piece of trash is representative of many the turd worlders that are immigrating to our country.They will do everything they can to destroy traditional America.

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Forced?
But I thought he had a come-to-Mohammed moment.

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Nicely done America. On more than this front, America is pushing back against the reign of tyranny the progressive PC culture of Orwellian double speak and destructive lies as means to their fantasy ideological ends. The phony earth religion/science, the healthcare redistribution of wealth scheme, the discrimination against Christians in the name of reparations for Muslims, the corrupted racist policies of double standard, and the lawlessness of the current POTUS have all been revealed.

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HOLY COW!! A commununist ally, an islamofascist throwback to the 9th century, FIRED for ‘using his right to free speech!’ That’s the sort of thing I expect from people with INTEGRITY and GOOD SENSE and a pro-American world view.

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Wait till he gets caught with kiddie porn.

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But that’s part of Islamic culture, doncha know?!

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I thought they were only into swine.

Maybe piglets because there is a better chance the young ones are virgins.

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Man, the Islamotrash will hump anything they can stick their peters into…goats, mules, jackasses, little boys, their own daughters (but only up the butt…cuz she’s got to be a virgin to marry her off to some other desert dwelling goatfukkin savage,) any woman not escorted by a male, camels, the odd rabbit.

I think I’ll stop there before I get sick.

Republican Duncan Hunter says if we’re going to “hit” Iran, we should do it with nuclear weapons.

Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) said Wednesday that if the U.S. needs to use the military option against Iran, America should deploy its “tactical nuclear devices.”

“I think if you have to hit Iran, you don’t put boots on the ground. You do it with tactical nuclear devices, and you set them back a decade or two or three,” Hunter said in an interview with C-SPAN. “I think that’s the way to do it — with a massive aerial bombardment campaign.”