Just for the record, Gil Smart doesn't know shit and here is proof

Knucklehead Gil Smart predicted Romney as the McCain pick for VP

What a chump!

May God sink New Orleans and drown the dumb fuckers living there

Evacuation Ordered

Ex-Dem Chair Jokes Hurricane a Sign From God Against Republicans

Idiot tries to tie Iraq War to high gas prices AGAIN

Gil, you are 100% full of fucking shit. The reason gas prices went up is because the Clinton administration made it mandatory for gasoline to contain MTBE-like substances in the Clean Air Act of 1992. When it was discovered that MTBE was leaking into the water supplies and causing cancer, the oil industry was forced to phase out MTBE, shutting down many plants and costing them a lot of money and time.

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Notice that while the numbers have fluctuated over time, there is not much to explain a diminished demand anywhere near 2006 - the time gas prices had begun to rise up to (and past) $3.00 per gallon.

Exclusive: NYC parking meter thief's name appears on DNC contributor list

Donations by Maurice Mizrahi.

According to the Huffington Post, a "Maurice Mizrahi" contributed $284 in the fourth quarter of 2007 to the Edwards campaign. He also contributed $125 to Howard Dean in the first quarter of 2004. Smart Retorts is currently working to determine if Maurice Mizrahi in Florida is the same individual in Brooklyn, New York. See link below.

WNBC - Man accused of stealing 87 parking meters

Wife swap?

Irresponsible Journalism

This week, Gil decided to "lighten up" a bit. Yet he still had to throw in a little jab here and there. For example, he just had to say that Texas (a conservative state) - the home state of George W Bush, has the highest rate for out-of-wedlock births.

Really? Unfortunately, no reference of link was provided, but I found some information at the CDC website for 2002.

Texas, the home state of George W Bush, does not have an unusually high rate according to this data from 2002. Clearly, there are many other states with just as high or higher rates.

According to this link, Texas is ranked 27th.

Obama: Biden is the "next President"

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Obama slammed over Clarence Thomas remark

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Do-Nothing Congress: Passes Fewest Bills in Two Decades

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Barack has missed 290 votes - this Congress!

Complete list of missed votes

Barack Obama has missed 290 votes (45.5%) during the current Congress.

The Latest: More babbling about oil supplies

The latest

Debate? What debate?

The First Black President? Really?

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Which other presidents hid their African ancestry? Well, it's not Bill Clinton, even though the Congressional Black Caucus honored him as the nation's "first Black president" at its 2001 annual awards dinner. Presidents Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge all had Black ancestors they kept in their genealogical closets, according to historians.

Harding did not deny his African ancestry when Republican leaders called on him to deny his "Negro" history. He said, "How should I know whether or not one of my ancestors might have jumped the fence?"

Does African ancestry make these men Black? If the bar is the one-drop rule, then yes. The one-drop rule is a historical term used during the Jim Crow era that defines a person with one drop of sub-Saharan-African ancestry as not white and therefore must be Black. If that's the bar, then there have already been other Black presidents, says historian Leroy Vaughn, author of Black People and Their Place in World History.

The first president with African ancestry was Jefferson, who served two terms between 1801 and 1809. Jefferson was described as the "son of a half-breed Indian squaw and a Virginia mulatto father," as stated in Vaughn's findings. Jefferson also was said to have destroyed all documentation attached to his mother, even going to extremes to seize letters written by his mother to other people.

President Andrew Jackson, the nation's seventh president, was in office between 1829 and 1837. Vaughn cites an article written in The Virginia Magazine of History that states Jackson was the son of an Irish woman who married a Black man. The magazine also stated that Jackson's oldest brother had been sold as a slave.

Lincoln, the nation's 16th president, served between 1861 and 1865. Lincoln was said to have been the illegitimate son of an African man, according to Vaughn's findings. Lincoln had very dark skin and coarse hair and his mother allegedly came from an Ethiopian tribe. His heritage fueled so much controversy that Lincoln was nicknamed "Abraham Africanus the First" by his opponents.

President Warren Harding, the 29th president, in office between 1921 and 1923, apparently never denied his ancestry. According to Vaughn, William Chancellor, a professor of economics and politics at Wooster College in Ohio, wrote a book on the Harding family genealogy. Evidently, Harding had Black ancestors between both sets of parents. Chancellor also said that Harding attended Iberia College, a school founded to educate fugitive slaves.

Coolidge, the nation's 30th president, served between 1923 and 1929 and supposedly was proud of his heritage. He claimed his mother was dark because of mixed Indian ancestry. Coolidge's mother's maiden name was "Moor," and in Europe, the name "Moor" was given to all Blacks, just as "Negro" was used in America. It later was concluded that Coolidge was part Black.

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Gunman kills Arkansas Democratic Party Chairman

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Pelosi yields, open to vote on offshore drilling

Thank God!

Pelosi indicates openness to offshore drilling vote

One person shows up to Al Franken event

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Latest Pile of Rubbish

Drill, and ye shall be saved

Gee, is Gil finally admitting that two years of a Democrat-controlled Congress has not solved the rising gas price problem?

Petroleum facts

If we import 60% of our oil and only 16% comes from the Persian Gulf, that is 16% of 60%, or 9.6%. See pie chart.



This graph represents how much we rely on Persian Gulf oil based on all oil sources (our own and other nations outside of the Persian Gulf). Western Hemisphere nations provide about half of our imported petroleum.

Obama not qualified to be President?

Uh-oh

So while Edwards' wife had cancer...

He had an affair

Pelosi book mega-bombs

Pelosi book bombs

So he is pretty lame then...

So it is Tuesday and I finally decided to get around to making some comments about Gil's previous column. Basically, I was in no big hurry to get to it.

And when I read it, I found that the gist of it was that the more conservative you are the more liberal your spending gets. Does this fucking imbecile really believe that? Or is he just begging for our attention again? I am so sure that there is not a single liberal person out there who is not knee-deep in credit card debt. I mean, come on, Gil. This is kiddie shit. Grow up.

Let's not forget that the stuff he is referring to wasn't even his column! It was a column he openly ripped off from a reputable news organization.

Obama's Chicago worst for personal freedom

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