The National Black Republican Association has paid for Florida and South Carolina billboards that show a photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. and claim that he was REPUBLICAN.

That’s a claim that really takes some nerve – or desperation. Could it be that there’s some worry about losing the South after all? Now they’re trying to claim MLK – now? Unbelievable.

Memes to you all… because there’s no real argument or justification left to vote Republican except fear of the demonized left wing, right? Please tell me that there is only a very very minuscule subset of the voting population that could in any way fall for this one. I wish I had more confidence in my countrymen, but discernment has been lacking in the last couple of elections.

Thanks to Rob Kall at OpEd News.

” Told about the billboards, the Rev. Joseph Lowery let out a soft chuckle that grew stronger as he began to think more about the idea.

“These guys never give up, do they?” said Lowery, who co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with King. “Lord have mercy.”

In a statement released through the King Center, Martin Luther King III said, “It is disingenuous to imply that my father was a Republican. He never endorsed any presidential candidate, and there is certainly no evidence that he ever even voted for a Republican. It is even more outrageous to suggest that he would support the Republican Party of today, which has spent so much time and effort trying to suppress African American votes in Florida and many other states.”

Read the entire AP story.

Evidently there is a new movie on the horizon called “The Golden Compass.” At the movie site, they are offering to ask you a few questions to establish your Daemon personality match.

My daemonic match is “Aeschylus” the butterfly: Modest, a leader, sociable, shy and fickle. Since my daemon is for some reason supposed to be the opposite gender, it is male (do they have it confused with anima/us? or perhaps a familiar? a totem?) I don’t think of Aeschylus and butterflies in the same visionary set myself.

He who learns must suffer, and, even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. – Aeschylus

In war, truth is the first casualty. – Aeschylus

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny. – Aeschylus, Agamemnon

For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends. – Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. – Aeschylus

Hmmm. Well. If you like, you can affect the final result. My friends can decide if this is a representation of the “real me.” Changes will be allowed for 12 days. This display will update in response to differing assessments.

So, if you have a sense of me, go ahead and affect the results.

It should be interesting to hear more about the movie. Marketing by quiz results.

(thanks to Laureth and Prism)