[Video] CPAC Discovers Hip-Hop

(Almost) no words except….

Oh you crazy rapping Republicans. And that moment at the 1:55 mark, just wow…

[via Ta-Nehisi Coates at The Atlantic]

Wannabe Toronto rapper and gangster Mark Garfield Moore charged with four murders!

This is both sickening and embarrassing. Get the story via Toronto Star | National Post

Note: The above is the viral BTS video for Moore’s “Gettin’ This Money” under his rap moniker, Prezidenteeh! “Out here, One Touch, gettin’ this money…” – Smdh!

[Infographic] The Difference Between the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street Movements

Wow! I think that’s pretty much says it all….

Actually, I’ma let Xeni Jardin from Boing Boing have the last word on this post:

@xenijardin: “#OWS Fact: More people have now been arrested for protesting financial crimes than # of bankers arrested for those crimes.”

Marinate on that for a while….

UPDATE: Wall St. Protest Isn’t Like Ours, Tea Party Says. [NY Times]

[News] Teen Executed in 1944 May Have Been Innocent!

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“George Stinney, Jr. was 14 years old when South Carolina executed him in 1944, making him the youngest person executed in the U.S. in the 20th century. He was convicted of murdering two girls. Now there’s a move to clear his name. NBC’s Mark Potter reports….”

14 years old! You see where I’m going with this now, right?

[NBC Nightly News via The Grio]

[News] Police charge 26-year-old London, ON man over NHL banana-tossing incident

Since I’m now back in Canada, I feel obliged to pay attention to the national obsession with hockey more than my personal passion would normally warrant. But y’all should know by now, as previous posts have demonstrated, that I’m gonna do it from my own particular perspective here at The Kitchen:

“London Police Chief Brad Duncan speaks at a press conference September 28, 2011, announcing police have charged Chris Moorhouse, a 26-year-old London, Ontario man in the banana toss incident at last week’s Philadelphia Flyers, Detroit Red Wings exhibition NHL game at the John Labatt Centre.”

CLICK HERE to read the full article and CLICK HERE to watch the CTV News piece on the story.

Related:

In the very same week as this banana-tossing f-ckery though, Wayne Simmonds has been on the other end of a second ugly alleged intolerance incident:

NHL bad boy Sean Avery accuses Simmonds of uttering gay slur: Globe & Mail | Toronto Star