We actually have to thank Andrew Breitbart in some respects because after the fun we had with him and his temper tantrums earlier this year when we busted his boy James O'Keefe at a white supremacist forum in 2006 (something that O'Keefe is still avoiding talking about), we have been non-stop going around the country using him to make our point. Thing is, if he is still able to cost a good woman her job on his say so because someone in the Obama Administration doesn't have not the balls but the brains to tell him to go to hell, there's more work to do. It seems that Saturday in Philadelphia, PA is going to be his next Teabagger event and that rally is significant because the organizers wanted this rally to show that the NAACP is sooooo wrong about them. Breitbart isn't helping, and the black conservatives who are going to be on this stage kissing his behind are just going to make themselves look stupid. Not all of them though. While the "Uni-TEA" rally is phony in his mission to bridge those racial gaps, that doesn't mean everyone participating is insincere. There are some folks who have issues with Breitbart's presence, given what he did - and apparently still wants to do - to former USDA official Shirley Sherrod last week. Some may not participate. Some will in the hopes that it will help start something that will ease the shrill discourse. Sadly far too many of them will prefer that shrill discourse. If that's the case, we have no problem playing along. That's one thing Breitbart knows about us all too well!

If New York Gov. David Patterson wants any redemption for his mess of a Governorship before he leaves in January, he really, really, REALLY needs to pardon this guy. We reported on this story two years ago about John White, a black man who defended his home and his son against an angry white mob outside his Suffolk County, NY home and ended up shooting one of the mob, a 17-year-old, to death. The trial and eventual manslaughter conviction was seen as an outrage even among conservatives, but we hadn't heard much about the case until today, when we were looking at another case where a Black Univ. of Louisville (KY) student named Montequa Jackson fought another angry white mob attacking her boyfriend. She stabbed one, and that netted her a guilty plea to 4th degree assault and expulsion from the school. That reminded us of John White's case, we looked it up and found out that two weeks ago he started his 2-4 years in prison. What's even sadder is that no one, absolutely no one is talking about the case anymore, despit our pronouncements two years ago.  We should hang our heads in shame for that, but it's not too late. We will be in NYC next Saturday, and this will come up. This man does not need to be in jail, and if anyone needs a parallel, look up the case of Joe Horn and see how things were done with that.

CALL THE PARAMEDICS LOSES JULY 23nd SHOW IN PHILLY!

Memo to Call the Paramedics: when you hang out with Nazis, the last thing you want to do is thank us for the publicity. Because we have a funny way of saying "You're welcome"! The band was supposed to play the North Star Bar tonight, but the club just put this announcement on their site that the show isn't happening. That means the band has lost a total of five shows, with only a gig in Virginia Beach and another late August again in Philly. The club is citing a request from law enforcement for the shutdown, and that is REAL curious to us. Add the fact that newspaper articles are being written about those Nazi connections, and we have ourselves a band officially being called out by more than just some local antifa - and that is a bad thing for them! Again, you're welcome. Let us know if you want more publicity! We will keep you posted on further developments.

Let's hope so, because this needs to happen. You can't just uproot lives on doctored propaganda and expect nothing to come your way. Andrew Breitbart - and Fox News by extension - are trying like hell to absolve themselves of sin in smearing Dept. of Agriculture official Shirley Sherrod, but she is not letting them off the hook, Breitbart especially. She made it very clear, she wan'ts to "get back at him". Now that wording is likely to be seized upon by the right to smear her even further, but to hell with them. They picked this fight. They will lose it. And maybe in the future they will be a little more responsible in their actions. If the right wing idiots out there truly want to fight racism, they need to purge their ranks, not pretend that everyone who is not white is no better than them.