The final report to the city council listed housing starts up 200% over the previous year which they accepted as the bright spot that it was and would cheerfully regurgitate that golden nugget on request. While the city is three hundred and fifty million in the hole coupled with unprecedented job loss, fear not humble citizen for housing starts are up two hundred fucking percent — and sunshine is right around the corner. Wow! Really?

So we have a group of White Nationalists get into an internal pissing contest over single versus dual seedline Christian Identity and one guy splinters off with a PHPbb message board on a $5/month hosting account whilst dragging its three friends and the SPLC reports that hate groups increased 53% last year.

Meanwhile over at the Department of Homeland Security they’ve reportedly thwarted several terrorist attempts thus saving America from untold carnage but unfortunately they can’t tell us about it or offer any evidence because is a secret and we’ll just have to take their word for it. But take heart good citizen for we have amassed the best team of report writers on the planet. Forests tremble in fear.

This same DHS, so in tune with the pulse of America and the task at hand given resources allotted they need assemble a group of Science Fiction writers for threat creation and assessment prior to participation in budget hearings on the Hill. Talking points needed. Money at stake. And reality takes a holiday.

SLPC has been expanding their scope in terms of classifying hate groups. I happen to agree with their expanding criteria (e.g. adding anti-gay groups like the Family Research Council)… but the fact that the SLPC’s intelligence report is listing more hate groups does not necessarily mean that there are more hate groups. Those groups could have been there all along, and SLPC just got the balls to call them what they are.

I don’t know as that counts for the whole effect. It could be that hate groups are on the rise anyway. I’m just sayin’, the number of groups listed in the SLPC intelligence report is not where I would get my numbers from…

http://tinyurl.com/l2ez29

Last week, we released our annual hate group count in the latest edition of the Southern Poverty Law Centerâ??s Intelligence Report. The key finding was that the number of hate groups operating in the United States continued to rise in 2008 and has grown by 54% since 2000 â?? an increase fueled last year by immigration fears, a failing economy and the successful campaign of Barack Obama.

This is not actually the report I heard about, but it is useful.

Easy. Letterman is a comedian. Palin is a joke. Comedian, meet joke.

From MSNBC:

Distributor of white racist music, writing
Todd Blodgett, a former Reagan White House aide who later worked with several extremist groups, met regularly with von Brunn in the 1990s and early 2000s.

“Von Brunn is obsessed with Jewish people,” Blodgett said. “He had equal contempt for both Jews and blacks, but if he had to pick one group to wipe out, he’d always say it would be Jews.”

There is a homeland security report that says that this is true, referred to on the news last night (sorry, can’t give citation).