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I'm ok with the rag bag thread, keeps him ever so slightly from ting up other threads nonsensically.
Stop flattering yourself, coward.
I'm ok with the rag bag thread, keeps him ever so slightly from ting up other threads nonsensically.
Texas Lawmaker Wants To Make It Illegal To Film Cops From Less Than 25 Feet Away
from the because-yelling,-shoving,-intimidation-and-confiscation-just-aren't-enough dept
Now that it's pretty much settled that the public has the right to record the police*, legislators are now moving to peel back this begrudgingly "granted" First Amendment protection.
*Exceptions, of course. Far, far too many of them.
Filed by Dallas State Representative Jason Villalba (R), the bill prohibits anyone in public within 25 feet of police to record them. The buffer is even greater at 100 feet, for anyone recording video who is also carrying a gun. Only accredited news organizations, like KENS5, would be allowed to record without the buffer zone.
Guess who gets to decide whether any unaccredited videographers are "too close" to the action? That's right. It'll be the person deploying handcuffs or demanding the camera be shut off/relinquished. It will all be in the eye of the uniformed beholder who's just going to eyeball the distance between him and the unaffiliated bodies of public accountability, and if it's close, just go ahead and call it a crime. A crime with some rather hefty penalties, considering it involves recording public figures in public areas.
Anyone caught filming within the 25-foot radius could be prosecuted for a Class B misdemeanor, punishable by up to 180 days in jail and a $2,000 fine. For gun-carriers who step within 100 feet, it would be a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in jail and a $4,000 fine.
Blogger Ex-Cop Law Student calls it the "Kory Watkins Law," after the open-carry activist, who has filmed many of his interactions with local law enforcement.Of course, the "valid" law is one that's already frequently abused: "interfering with public duties." This catch-all has snagged many citizens and their cellphones. Villalba's proposal just gives police officers another way to legally violate the First Amendment rights of others.
This is basically a reaction to the confrontational style of Kory, who has a tendency to get very close to the officers while being loud and armed with either a rifle or a black powder revolver. So Villalba decided that a new law was needed, despite the fact that there is already a perfectly valid law on the book that deals with the issue.
Villalba's hardly a neutral party. According to the Dallas Observer, his best man was a police officer. So are many of his family members and friends. This string of tweets issued as the criticism began to roll in shows pretty clearly which side Villalba is legislating for.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150316/09371330326/texas-lawmaker-wants-to-make-it-illegal-to-film-cops-less-than-25-feet-away.shtml
Rick Santorum does a great job keeping a straight face while listening to the rants of this delusional lady who's clearly been brainwashed by listening to right wing radio 24/7When her voice rises and cracks I would have lost it on the stage and just burst out laughing. It's unreal there are people like this in America.
the charismatic, handsome, golden-tongued LEADER of the Repugs!
McConnell Urges States to Help Thwart Obama’s ‘War on Coal’
Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has begun an aggressive campaign to block President Obama’s climate change agenda in statehouses and courtrooms across the country, arenas far beyond Mr. McConnell’s official reach and authority.
The campaign of Mr. McConnell, the Senate majority leader, is aimed at stopping a set of Environmental Protection Agency regulations requiring states to reduce carbon pollution from coal-fired power plants, the nation’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.
Once enacted, the rules could shutter hundreds of coal-fired plants in what Mr. Obama has promoted as a transformation of the nation’s energy economy away from fossil fuels and toward sources like wind and solar power. Mr. McConnell, whose home state is one of the nation’s largest coal producers, has vowed to fight the rules.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/03/20...coal.html?_r=0
Has any Repug moved the country forward, instead backward, in 40 years?
National Review's Rich Lowry:
A very wise TV executive once told me that the key to TV is projecting through the screen. It's one of the keys to the success of, say, a Bill O'Reilly, who comes through the screen and grabs you by the throat. Palin too projects through the screen like crazy. I'm sure I'm not the only male in America who, when Palin dropped her first wink, sat up a little straighter on the couch and said, "Hey, I think she just winked at me." And her smile. By the end, when she clearly knew she was doing well,http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/1...h-these-people
it was so sparkling it was almost mesmerizing. It sent little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the living rooms of America
Of course, he's pretending it's about being high-minded on immigration and the cons ution and such.
As an African-American woman, Lynch represents a gloriously double-barreled opportunity to accuse Republicans of sub-rosa hatreds.The political benefit of what feminists call intersectionality—membership in two or more historically oppressed groups—is not having to choose which accusation of bias to make.
One day, it can be racism; the next it can be sexism. Or, different people can make different charges of an -ism on the same day. The possibilities to mix and match are endless. […]
This is demonstrably false. As all the Republicans opposing her nomination make plain, the issue is her belief that President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty is lawful.
So there you go, McConnell, you got one guy on your side who says it's not a problem at all politically to not only delay this vote as long as possible, but to oppose this nomination. Not that it was ever in question that the editor of the National Review would be on your side.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/0...h?detail=email
Lowry loves Palin, and doesn't understand why Repugs blocked (but lessly chickened out) DHS funding!
Tennessee Republican would sacrifice a whole lot of jobs to keep unions away
Tennessee Republican state Sen. Bo Watson really does not like unions. He dislikes unions so much that he would sacrifice giant numbers of jobs in his state if the jobs brought with them the threat of unions. Speaking about a proposed $165.8 million in tax incentives for Volkswagen to produce an SUV in Tennessee, Watson was emphatic.
“The incentive, no doubt, will create about 200,000 jobs directly, and countless more indirectly,” he admitted. “It will give southeast Tennessee a big foothold in the automotive industry, particularly in research and development. And it will allow the development of a new line of Volkswagen vehicles, particularly the SUV.”But Watson asserted that the threat of organized labor unions might not be worth the benefits that Volkswagen would bring to the state.
“VW is a magnet for organized labor, intentionally,” he opined. “I believe this committee should know and understand what Volkswagen’s position is on this issue, both here and in Germany.”
First off, I'm ... quite sure the number is not 200,000 jobs. If $165.8 million in tax incentives could create 200,000 jobs, the United States would long since have been at full employment. In fact, it's probably more like 2,000 jobs
In 2014, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haleytook a similar position, saying that "We discourage any companies that have unions from wanting to come to South Carolina because we don’t want to take the water."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/0...y?detail=email
so, no jobs is better than unionized jobs. Repugs are truly ing nutjobs.
Conseravative Radio Host: If You Oppose Netanyahu, You Oppose God
In “Obama Bypasses God and Netanyahu,” CPAC darling Dr. Laurie Roth (having that le sure doesn’t make them smarter does it?) argues that if you oppose Benjamin Netanyahu, you oppose God. Oh sweet little baby Jesus, no!The “Annie Oakley of the Airwaves” writes at Matt Barber’s BarbWire that,
Anyone or anything connected with the God of the Holy Bible will be attacked and bypassed by Obama and his progressive robots. As we all know by now Obama had no congratulations or words of any kind for Benjamin Netanyahu though BiBi won huge. Funny how all the other ‘big boy’ leaders called to congratulate him but not Obama. John Kerry saying something pathetic from afar and too late doesn’t cut the cheese folks. Obama is most certainly against Netanyahu because he represents the Jews and Israel and won’t be intimidated into giving away more land or kissing up to the Islamic agenda….which is simply — destroy Israel
That’s quite a leap (of faith, shall we say?). Not a word here about how her pal “Bibi” came to the United States and tried to wrest control of America’s foreign policy away from the man in whom that control is vested by the United States Cons ution: the President of the United States.
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/03/...iticus+USA+%29
McCain defends Netanyahu’s racial campaign ploy: Politicians can’t be ‘held to everything’ they say
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/m...e+Raw+Story%29
He also insulted his n!gg@ boy by telling him to get over his temper tantrum over Bibi. Hilarious from a senile old fart who is emotionally unstable.
Gov. Jindal’s Implosion
What happened to Bobby Jindal?
He was the next wave of Republican. He was young and smart — a Rhodes scholar. He was the son of immigrants and the first Indian-American governor in this country’s history.
He had even bounced back from his disastrous rebuttal to President Obama’s first State of the Union address. (Personally, I thought that his claim of having participated in an exorcism performed on his friend in college would have been more of an issue than it was, but that was just me.)
Jindal had all the right rhetoric.
He told the syndicated columnist Cal Thomas: “As Republicans we don’t need to obsess about our opponents, we don’t need to define ourselves in opposition to our opponents. Let [Democrats] look backward; we need to look forward.”
In 2013, he demanded that the G.O.P. “stop being the stupid party.”
Jindal was the brainy Moses coming to deliver his people from the bondage of inanity. But that was then.
Now, Jindal has gone from being one of the most popular governors in the country to one of the least popular.
In the latest CNN/ORC poll of Republicans and independents who lean Republican, only 1 percent said that he was the candidate they would most likely support for the Republican nomination. Even “none/no one” got 6 percent.
And in a desperate attempt at relevancy — and press — he has lately been sliding further into Islamic hysteria.
In January, he doubled down on a controversial claim that parts of Europe were “no-go” zones because of Muslim extremists. Jindal said that there were cities “where non-Muslims simply don’t go in,” like Birmingham in Britain. Prime Minister David Cameron had already said in response to a Fox News analyst who made the assertion: “When I heard this, frankly, I choked on my porridge and I thought it must be April Fools’ Day. This guy is clearly a complete idiot.”
That hasn’t stopped Jindal. Last week on Fox News, he set about defending his statement that America “shouldn’t tolerate those who want to come and try to impose some variant, or some version, of Shariah law.” But he went so far as to say of prospective immigrants:
“In America we want people who want to be Americans. We want people who want to come here. We don’t say, ‘You have to adopt our creed, or any particular creed,’ but we do say, ‘If you come here, you need to believe in American exceptionalism.’ ”
What? Where is that written? I can’t find this “need to believe in American exceptionalism” anywhere in the Immigration and Nationality Act. Isn’t American exceptionalism itself a creed?
The smart-on-paper Jindal increasingly comes across as nuttier than a piece of praline.
On Friday, Robert Mann, a columnist at The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, called for Jindal’s resignation, citing all of the problems in the state that the governor isn’t focusing on as he tries to gin up a greater national profile:
“We have some of the nation’s highest poverty and worst health outcomes and you’ve done little to address them.
Baton Rouge, your hometown, has the nation’ssecond-highest H.I.V. rate (New Orleans is fourth), but you’ve done nothing to address that crisis.
What you have done is hollow out higher education and inject needless confusion and rancor into the state’s elementary and secondary education system.
Meanwhile, the state’s health care system is a fractured, dysfunctional mess under your privatization schemes.
Now, you’ve outsourced the state’s tax policy to Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform.”
Louisiana’s fiscal picture is dire. As Politico reported in February:
“Jindal is preparing a budget to close a $1.6 billion shortfall in Louisiana, a particularly daunting task after the $400 million in additional money he had to scare up to fill a budget gap for the current year. The president of Louisiana State University said earlier this month that the state’s flagship school is preparing for a 40 percent cut in its operating budget next year.”
In fact, The Times-Picayune reported in January that “Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration said Louisiana’s colleges and universities should be prepared to sustain anywhere from $200 million to $300 million in cuts during the 2015-16 school year.”
But in February, Jindal strained credulity, claiming, “The total higher education budget, including means of total finance — is actually a little bit, just slightly, higher than when I took office.” The Washington Post’s Fact Checker blog quicklysmacked that down, awarding Jindal three Pinocchios.
Jindal has made a mess of Louisiana and wrecked his reputation in the process. His odds of becoming president of the United States have shrunk to nil.
Sometimes what looks good on paper is a disaster in practice.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/03/23...implosion.html
Repug governance!
Jindal didn't act alone to screw Confederate LA. He had the support of the Repug legislature all the way.
Repug governance!
Don't know if he's a Repug, but from Bircher County SoCal and a LGBT hater, so whadya think?
California Lawyer Initiates 'Shoot the Gays' Measure
A southern California lawyer recently submitted an extremely violent and phobic measure for state review that would legalize state-sanctioned murder of any person who engages in sexual pleasure with someone of the same gender, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
Matt McLaughlin paid the $200 fee late February to submit the “Sodomite Suppression Act” to California voters.
The measure would make it a crime to advocate gay rights to audiences that include minors.
Those convicted would face up to 10 years in prison.
What is the cons utionality of this ridiculous measure?
Well, under McLaughlin’s logic, that could only be determined by a state Supreme Court that is free of LGBT judges or their advocates.
And if the state fails to take action on any conviction within a year, the act permits private citizens to step in as executioners.
Another insane provision of the act requires that it be posted at every public school in the state.
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-pol...er1033738&t=10
Andrea Tantaros: ‘I’m going to speak slowly’ so feminists learn rape reports are a ‘war on boys’
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/a...a-war-on-boys/
Fox/Ailes sure know how to find the talent
‘Thank Thor for this’: Texas GOP congressman brutally mocked for his ‘so help me God’ bill
“Let me be clear: Americans have the freedom of religion – but not freedom from religion.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/t...p-me-god-bill/
Texas, full assholes who elect assholes!
one of the nastiest of the red states
Indiana Governor 'Looking Forward' to Signing Bill That Ensures Sweeping Discrimination
he Indiana House of Representatives passed a religious "freedom" bill Monday 63-31 that will allow private businesses, individuals and organizations to discriminate anywhere at any time against any person they so choose based on religious grounds.
A similar bill already cleared the state Senate. Once the two bills are reconciled, it will head to the desk of Gov. Mike Pence, who can't wait to sign it into law.
The Human Rights Campaign:aka, Christian Taliban.
If signed into law, this bill could empower police officers to refuse to patrol the areas around synagogues or mosques, allow doctors to withhold medically-necessary information from their patients, or expose the LGBT community to a wave of new forms of discrimination.
Jenny Pizer, senior attorney at the LGBT legal advocacy group Lambda Legal:http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-pol...discrimination
"Once the governor signs this bill into law, women, racial minorities, religious minorities, people living with HIV and many others will be much more vulnerable to the whims of any individual or business owner who refuses services to particular groups of people based on religious objections to who those people are."
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More Christian Taliban news
Colorado Republican says brutal attack on pregnant woman could be God’s punishment for legal abortion
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/c...e+Raw+Story%29
Repug Bible Humping Redneck Hero going all Christian Taliban
‘Duck Dynasty’ star fantasizes about atheist family’s brutal rape and murder to make point about God’s law
k Dynasty” patriarch Phil Robertson conjured up a lurid fantasy about the rape and murder of an atheist family to illustrate a point about following God’s law.
The reality TV star made the comments Friday at the Vero Beach Prayer Breakfast, and Christian conservative radio host Rick Wiles aired them later that day on his “Trunews”program, reported Right Wing Watch.
“I’ll make a bet with you,” Robertson told the religious gathering. “Two guys break into an atheist’s home. He has a little atheist wife and two little atheist daughters. Two guys break into his home and tie him up in a chair and gag him.”
“Then they take his two daughters in front of him and rape both of them and then shoot them, and they take his wife and then decapitate her head off in front of him,” Robertson continued, “and then they can look at him and say, ‘Isn’t it great that I don’t have to worry about being judged? Isn’t it great that there’s nothing wrong with this?
There’s no right or wrong, now, is it dude?’”
He then imagined the assailants cutting off the atheist’s penis.
“Then you take a sharp knife and take his manhood and hold it in front of him and say, ‘Wouldn’t it be something if [there] was something wrong with this?’” Robertson said.
“’But you’re the one who says there is no God, there’s no right, there’s no wrong, so we’re just having fun. We’re sick in the head, have a nice day.’”
“If it happened to them, they probably would say, ‘Something about this just ain’t right,’” Robertson added.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/d...bout-gods-law/
all y'all right-wingers got not only a bunch of wackos as leaders but also pure sickos. Thanks, religion!
Indiana Defines Stupidity as Religion
INDIANAPOLIS —In a history-making decision, Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana has signed into law a bill that officially recognizes stupidity as a religion.
Pence said that he hoped the law would protect millions of state residents “who, like me, have been practicing this religion passionately for years.”
The bill would grant politicians like Pence the right to observe their faith freely, even if their practice of stupidity costs the state billions of dollars.
While Pence’s action drew the praise of stupid people across America, former Arizona Governor Jan Brewer was not among them. “Even I wasn’t dumb enough to sign a bill like that,” she said.
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borow...ty-as-religion
just happen to unblock boutons latest post and what do you know, it is a fake news article. Why am i not surprised?
but you can't unblock your hilarious stupidity. It's a comedian's satire
Republicans see Obama as more imminent threat than Putin
A third of Republicans believe President Barack Obama poses an imminent threat to the United States,
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/republicans-see-obama-as-more-imminent-threat-than-putin-reutersipsos-poll/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29
Arizona Gov. Ducey signs bill requiring doctors to tell patients about abortion ‘reversal’
Arizona Republican Governor Doug Ducey signed a law on Monday that requires doctors to tell women that drug-induced abortions can be reversed and that blocks the purchase of insurance on the Obamacare health exchange that includes abortion coverage.
The requirement that patients be told that the effects of abortion pills may be undone by using high doses of a hormone was the most hotly contested provision during legislative debate.
Supporters said there was ample evidence the reversal was possible if acted upon quickly, although they provided no peer-reviewed studies in support of their position.
Critics called the argument “junk science.”
The bill cleared the Republican-controlled Legislature last week, largely along party lines.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/a...tion-reversal/
LIES AND HATE about gun/guns/gays/abortion/immigration is all the Repugs got.
State Attorneys Tell Supreme Court That Gay People Are Too Powerful To Have Equal Rights
Gay Americans simply have too much political power to be afforded equal rights under the Cons ution, according to a brief filed by the state of Ohio asking the Supreme Court to permit that state to continue to practice marriage discrimination. Ohio’s claim comes as part of a greater effort to convince the justices that laws which discriminate again gay men, lesbians and bisexuals should not be treated with skepticism by courts applying the Cons ution’s guarantee that everyone shall be afforded “the equal protection of the laws.”
Ohio argues that such protection is unwarranted because, in recent years, gay people have started to win battles in the political arena:At the federal level, the executive branch filed an amicus brief, as did some 167 Representatives and 44 Senators. Not only that, with respect to DOMA, the executive branch’s strong support led it to the “unusual position” of failing “to defend the cons utionality of an Act of Congress based on a cons utional theory not yet established in judicial decisions” and that was rejected by four Justices. At the state level, 19 States filed four amicus briefs in these cases challenging the laws of their sister sovereigns. Further, several state officers have, like the federal government, “refused to defend” their own laws. At the local level, some 226 Mayors and many of the largest cities expressed support.http://thinkprogress.org/justice/201...-equal-rights/
ing lawyers, can twist anything. We should be be able to keep discrimating against LGBT because now they have policital power, so don't need legal protections from us haters.
Arkansas Could Soon Become The Most Anti-LGBT State In The Nation
Arkansas is a penstroke away from having a “license to discriminate” law nearly identical to Indiana’s. HB 1228, the Arkansas “Religious Freedom Restoration Act” (RFRA), already passed both the House and the Senate, though it is awaiting a final consensus vote in the House before advancing to Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s (R) desk for his signature. Unlike the scramble now happening in Indiana, lawmakers do not plan to include any clarification or carve-outs for nondiscrimination protections and activists are already pressuring Hutchinson to veto.
The Arkansas RFRA shares all of the characteristics of the Indiana bill that distinguishes both from other laws across the country with the same name. While other RFRAs only apply to complaints against the government, a person could cite the Arkansas RFRA as a defense against another citizen, claiming a burden on their religious belief. And like in the Indiana law, those religious beliefs are similarly broad, allowing for religious beliefs a person might hold “whether or not the exercise is compulsory or central to a larger system of religious beliefs.”
If Hutchinson signs this RFRA into law, it will make Arkansas the state that most enables discrimination against LGBT people. There are no state-wide protections for LGBT people in employment, housing, or public accommodations, and just last month, the stateapproved a different bill that prohibits cities and counties from establishing LGBT protections, seemingly invalidating those protections that some municipalities already have. In a sense, HB 1228 might not change the status quo in the state, given that protecting LGBT people from discrimination is already forbidden.
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2015/0...ra-hutchinson/
Christian Taliban Haters!
The True Intent Of Indiana’s ‘Religious Freedom’ Bill, According To The People Who Helped Write It
At the forefront of the conservative reaction is Micah Clark, who serves as executive director of the American Family Association of Indiana and who stood right behind Penceas he signed the bill. Speaking Monday to Tim Wildmon, head of the national American Family Association, Clark explained that conservatives should oppose any effort to clarify that the law does not legalize discrimination. “That could totally destroy this bill,” he explained.
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2015/03/31/3640801/conservatives-indiana-discrimination/
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