Lunatic Fringe
When dealing with wingnuts ... Remember the rule:
If they accuse someone of something, then they're already guilty of it.
These idiots are so predictably stupid no commentary is needed ...
Liars and Fools
Faux's Glenn Beck claims that 1960s era violent Weather Underground manifesto "sure sounds an awful lot like the things that we're doing".
WingNutDaily 'explains' that President Obama is "a vengeful, spoiled little man-child" who "derives perverse pleasure by seeing America on her knees" and whose "entire Cabinet are a veritable Who's Who of political radicals, social engineers, Marxists, feminists, socialists, communists, fascists".
Faux's Glenn Beck suggests that the Obama administration is governing from the Weathermen manifesto.
Faux's Glenn Beck claims We have "really nasty communist Hispanic groups that are sowing the seeds of discontent".
Faux News 'demands' to know, When will American Blacks stop oppressing white people?
Ted Nugent lies: "Those currently in charge want to destroy America and turn us into a Third World nation".
Faux News reports, over and over again, that black people are coming to wreak havok on white people.
Faux's Glenn Beck somehow links "this Sherrod thing" to imagined Obama administration plot to "take over the media".
Faux's Glenn Beck compares nearly-toothless financial reform to "Big Brother," an "unprecedented assault on our economy".
Latest rant from Faux's Glenn Beck: "What is wrong with us, America? Why are people not in the streets? Your republic is over."
Obama orders an ice cream cone, and would-be pundits across the right-wing blogosphere see the sign over the ice cream shop as Obama's endorsement of "Black power".
Lush Dimbulb lies: Obama "regime" is "tribalizing this country" into "different racial tribes".
Tonight I discovered that the deleterious effects of bottom trawling were first noted (and first protested) in... 1376! This text comes from a petition to King Edward III:
Milk Duds. It kind of sounds like something Linda Richman would say on Coffee Talk: “Milk Duds. They’re neither Milk, nor Duds. Discuss.” But the fact is, they’re both. The “Milk” comes from the high amount of milk used in the product when it was created in 1926, and “Dud” comes from the fact that the candies were meant to be perfectly round, similar to a malted milk ball. Rather than spend copious amounts of money and effort trying to get the candies more spherical, Hershey’s opted to call it a “Dud” instead and simply market it that way. And although there’s still milk in the product, there’s a bit less of it in the past few years since Hershey started using vegetable oil in some products to replicate the expensive cocoa butter used in milk chocolate.
Sour Patch Kids. The mere mention of Sour Patch Kids makes my mouth water. When the candy was invented in the ’70s, they were known as Mars Men and were sold as loose penny candy in stores. It wasn’t until Cabbage Patch Kid-mania hit in the ’80s that the pucker-inducing gummy was retooled to be shaped like dolls to capitalize on the craze. The first Sour Patch Kid on the package was modeled after the inventor’s son.
Red Vines. I think most licorice lovers can be divided into two categories: those who love Red Vines and those who love Twizzlers. The American Licorice Company introduced Black Licorice Vines in 1914, and those did well enough that they were able to branch out into Raspberry Vines in 1920. They were renamed “Red Vines” in 1952. Despite being around for as long as Elizabeth II has ruled, Red Vines’ first television ad didn’t air until 2008. More fun trivia from the American Licorice Company: they created a licorice shoe for Charlie Chaplin to carve up for a meal in the 1925 movie The Gold Rush.
Dots and Crows. If you need proof as to how popular these chewy gumdrops are, you need only look to the numbers: the Tootsie Company produces four billion Dots every year. But Tootsie didn’t own the company that invented Dots until 1972 – prior to that, Dots and their sister line, Crows, were a product of the Mason Company. In fact, you’ll occasionally hear some people continue to refer to them as “Mason Dots.” And there’s a nice story that Black Crows, the black licorice-flavored alternative to Dots, should have been called something else entirely. The story goes that the Mason Company informed their candy label printer that they were making a new candy called “Black Rose,” which the printer misheard as “Black Crows.” But Candy Professor 
