HICKS WITH GUNS COVER DEAD BEAR IN OBAMA SIGNS The loonies are out of control! They're coming out of the woodwork and using MURDERED BLACK BEARS as some sort of warning to Barack Obama. This is our 'Merica: "Police at Western Carolina University and wildlife officials were investigating the discovery early Monday of a dead bear cub draped with a pair of Barack Obama campaign signs. Leila Tvedt, associate vice chancellor for public relations, said Monday night that maintenance workers found the 75-pound bear cub shot to death in front of the school's administration building at the entrance to campus. The Obama yard signs were stapled together and placed over the bear's head, Tvedt said. The bear had been shot in the head, Tvedt said."

What a tangled web our bloody, shameful, slave-ridden American history has woven.

A genealogical study has found that silvern newsman Anderson Cooper's great-great-grandfather, Cornelius Vanderbilt, once owned Michelle Obama's great-great-grandfather, Jim Robinson, on Friendfield(!!!!!!!!!), a 3,000-acre plantation in Georgetown, South Carolina.

Whitney Tower, a budding author and cousin of Cooper's who still lives in Georgetown, has now invited Obama to visit Robinson's resting place at Friendfield. Obama has yet to accept the offer, probably because walking amid tremendous wealth tended to for decades by one's enslaved ancestor and people like him, many of whom are now buried underfoot, is equal parts infuriating, creepy and fucking depressing.

If her husband is elected, Michelle Obama would be the first First Lady with slave roots.

Update: Whoops! The Daily News has updated their article to include the information that the Vanderbilt family did not own Friendfield in the slave era, meaning Cornelius Vanderbilt never owned Jim Robinson—some other horrendous, lazy pig did.

A South Carolina mayor says he was just trying to authenticate information when he used his business e-mail account to forward to colleagues and friends a message disparaging Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. Danny Funderburk, of Fort Mills, says he wanted to see if there was "any validity" to the chain e-mail's claim that Obama is indeed the devil.

The e-mail, which has circulated in the last six months since Obama secured the Democratic nomination, claims the biblical book of Revelation says the antichrist will be in his 40s and of Muslim ancestry.

There is no such scripture. And Obama is not a Muslim. But that hasn’t stopped the e-mail.

Mayor Funderburk says he's got "no way of knowing" if Obama is the antichrist.

Oh, The South, what are we gonna do with you?

That scuffle with Shreveport, Louisiana locals and police officers that resulted in the arrests of Josh Brolin, Jeffrey Wright and several others associated with the film W? Turns out it began after a good ol' Looziana boy hurled a racial slur at Wright.