Can you really blame people for getting suckered by very slick propaganda day in, day out?
We should be somewhat frustrated with congress, no matter what your political stripe is.
yes, I can really blame rightwingnuts for being so willfully ignorant to be dupe-able, for being Christian Tablian supremacists, for being racists, xenophobes, misogynists, etc. It's their choice.
The VRWC, Repugs decided decades ago to polarize America, to divide itself against itself. That was not the strategy of the Dems. There's no extreme wingnuttiness on the Dem side that matches that of the Repugs, tea baggers, right wing hate media.
You are more right about that than many would like to think or even admit to. I am not prone to conspiracy theory, but this trend is very obviously deliberate, and you can't watch the festering sore of Fox News and not conclude that there is some real moneyed interests at play.
The Grimes Scene: White and Wrong on Racism in Texas
There’s also no evidence that the man who shot a white sheriff’s deputy in Houston this summer did so out of racist malice. But that didn’t stop a former Texas corrections officer, Nathan Ener, from throwing on a cowboy hat and taking to YouTube to demand white people rise up in mobs to beat and murder black Texans. He spewed into the camera:
“The last fricking thing some of you sons of es will ever hear is that noise right there,” Ener says while ing his gun. “… When we’re out there, when we come in your goddamn house. … Don’t ever threaten another cop in Texas, don’t ever threaten another white person. You black bas s, you goddamn Panthers and , try to come to another town and try to march — see what happens to you.”
Men like Ener, and I’m ashamed to say I’ve met more than a few, see Texans of color marching for their lives in the street, demanding relief from disproportionate police violence, and take it as a personal and physical threat against golly-gosh well-meaning white folk everywhere.
And yet the only true violence I see — the only true racist violence — is coming straight from the Nathan Ener school of white supremacist sociology, from Klan lackeys pasting houses with pamphlets. From folks who see “black lives matter” and hear the of their own shotguns.
Yet Nathan Ener seems to see oppression wherever he looks, because he only looks to blame Texans of color for his own imagined oppression. He constructs himself as a victim of a teeming throng gathering to assault him for the color of his skin. Any crime against a white person becomes an act of unmitigated tyranny. This despite the facts: White Texans fare better than Texans of color in almost all ways. We are healthier, we are safer, we are wealthier.
But Ener cries racism and fantasizes about an armed mob busting into citizens’ homes to beat them into silence. Does it sound to anyone else like the white man in the cowboy hat doth protest a skosh too much?
http://www.texasobserver.org/the-gri...cism-in-texas/
"y'all drive friendly now"
The Insanity Begins As GOP Announces Bill To Repeal ObamaCare and Defund Planned Parenthood
House lawmakers will include repealing parts of ObamaCare in the fast-track process known as reconciliation, in addition to defunding Planned Parenthood, according to two lawmakers.….
President Obama would still be able to veto the repeal and the defunding measures, but they would at least get to his desk using this process, which would bypass a Senate Democratic filibuster because the process allows measures to advance with just 51 votes instead of the usual 60.
The reconciliation process coincides with a “clean” government funding bill that includes funding for Planned Parenthood and is expected to pass with the help of Democratic votes, given the opposition of some conservative Republicans.
This bill unlike the dozens of other pointless bills to repeal ObamaCare is going to pass, but it doesn’t matter. President Obama will veto the bill, and Congressional Democrats will vote to sustain his veto.
Republicans are using the reconciliation bill to appease conservatives who want the ACA repealed, and Planned Parenthood defunded. The fact that there is a companion clean government funding bill is the real prize.
The clean government funding bill will be signed by President Obama, so the result of the latest round of Republican drama will be that government stays open, ObamaCare is not repealed, and Planned Parenthood won’t be defunded.
The whole process is full of unnecessary drama and show votes. Even though John Boehner was the worst Speaker of the House in modern history, without him, the crazy on the Republican side of the aisle may be completely unleashed.
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/09/...iticus+USA+%29
that is a liberal spin all he said was the person faith should agree with the usa cons ion
muslim does not
Christianity, the 10 Commandments, the Old Testament ing craziness don't agree with US laws.
Here Are 5 Times Conservatives Have Admitted They Don’t Want People to Vote
http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-an...nt-people-vote
BigCarbon owns these s
House Votes To Keep EPA From Considering Costs Of Climate Change
Climate change costs an incredible amount of money. Whether it is deaths during heat waves,reconstruction after a superstorm, or even lost revenues at ski slopes, rising temperatures and increased extreme weather events are costing the economy. In fact, Citibank reported earlier this year that it will cost $44 trillion worldwide by 2060 to mitigate the costs of climate change under the business as usual scenario.
But efforts to include those costs in permitting projects just took another hit, when the House voted to pass the RAPID Act, a bill intended to streamline permitting processes. Tucked into the bill is language that will prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from considered the social cost of carbon during permitting.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/09/27/3705860/social-cost-of-carbon-must-remain-uncalculated/
Alabama KKK member tells horrified British reporter Auschwitz was ‘summer camp’ for Jews
A BBC do entary crew who filmed members of the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama were shocked after a member of the racist organization claimed that the Holocaust concentration camps were actually “summer camps” for Jewish people.
Following the murders of nine people by a white supremacist at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, BBC negotiated with a KKK chapter in Alabama to get a closer look at racist hate groups in the U.S.
BBC Three’s do entary “KKK: The Fight for White Supremacy,” which aired on Monday, follows members of the Klan as they prepare for what they say will be a race war.
As Klan members assemble 3,000 fliers to deliver to a predominately black neighborhood, the BBC interviewer notices a photograph of Adolf Hitler on the wall.
“Adolf Hitler, he was one of the smartest men there ever was,” a Klan member explains. “The so-called concentration camps like Auschwitz and so forth, they say they were death camps. But these death camps, they gave the so-called people that were being killed cigarettes, there was coffee, there was a movie theater, a library, even a swimming pool in Auschwitz.”
“And if you’re going to sit there and kill all these people then how come all these things would be in there?” he continues. “It’s more like a summer camp.”
“Sorry,” the stunned interviewer interrupts. “You’re telling me Auschwitz was like a summer camp?”
“Well, they had a swimming pool, a movie theater and everything else,” the Klan member insists. “You know, you don’t see in prisons today any kind of swimming pool being in the middle of the prison hall.”
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/watc...e+Raw+Story%29
Utah Congressman Vows to Kill America’s Top Parks Program
Barely 24 hours after Pope Francis appealed to U.S. lawmakers to help protect “our common home,” Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT) announced that he intends this week to kill the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), which is known as America’s best parks program. The move — which is expected to succeed — places dozens of U.S. national parks at heightened risk of commercial development, including Grand Teton National Park and Gettysburg National Military Park.
The LWCF is a budget-neutral program that uses fees from offshore oil and gas development to fund national, state, and local conservation projects. Although the program enjoys widespread bipartisan support, it is scheduled to expire on Wednesday, September 30.
In a press release Friday, Bishop, who serves as chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, promised to block all attempts to save the program unless significant changes are made to its structure to prevent the federal government from protecting additional land. “Under my chairmanship, the status quo will be challenged,” said Bishop in the release.
In his statement Friday, Bishop did not outline what specific changes he would like to see. In July, 2014, however, Bishop wrote that the LWCF should be transformed into a program to pay for “the education of future American energy industry workers” and to “help local governments.”
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/201...authorization/
Just more proof that Repugs work exclusively for BigCorp and against Human-Americans and the environment.
Alabama to stop issuing driver’s licenses in counties with 75% black registered voters
The state of Alabama, which requires a photo ID to vote, announced this week that it would stop issuing driver’s licenses in counties where 75 percent of registered voters are black.Due to budget cuts, Alabama Law Enforcement Agency said that 31 satellite DMVoffices would no longer have access to driver’s licenses examiners, meaning that residents will need to travel to other counties to apply for licenses. The move comes just one year after the state’s voter photo ID law went into effect.
AL.com’s John Archibald asserted in a column on Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Justice should open an investigation into the closings.
“Because Alabama just took a giant step backward,” he wrote. “Take a look at the 10 Alabama counties with the highest percentage of non-white registered voters. That’s Macon, Greene, Sumter, Lowndes, Bullock, Perry, Wilcox, Dallas, Hale, and Montgomery, according to the Alabama Secretary of State’s office. Alabama, thanks to its budgetary insanity and inanity, just opted to close driver license bureaus in eight of them.”
“Every single county in which blacks make up more than 75 percent of registered voters will see their driver license office closed. Every one,” Archibald explained. “But maybe it’s not racial at all, right? Maybe it’s just political. And let’s face it, it may not be either… But no matter the intent, the consequence is the same.”
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/alab...e+Raw+Story%29
Repugs aren't racist! never! Jim Crow and Confederacy forever!
Repug MISgovernance
Increased lead in Michigan’s water is harming children’s health: ‘We’re paying to poison our kids’
A spate of kids are experiencing elevated blood-lead levels in Flint, and some drinking water lead levels are so high they are defined as hazardous waste, according to several local studies.
Residents also pay some of the highest water rates in the US, in the community known for its economic decline.
After months of resisting complaints about the water, and even a press conference by local doctors warning of potential effects, officials relented this week, declaring a public health emergency
the lead levels of hundreds of children, comparing blood tests taken before and after April 2014, when Flint stopped using Detroit water and started drawing water from the Flint River as a temporary cost-saving measure.
Ever since the switch, according to the Hurley study, the number of children in the city with elevated blood levels increased from 2.1% to 4%. In some areas, the number increased as high as 6.3%.
The study found no significant change over the same period in lead levels of children from surrounding Genesee County, which continued to purchase water from Detroit instead.
the city’s water is wholly unsafe.
water from the Flint River is far more corrosive than Detroit’s supply, and it eats away at lead from service lines, before flowing into homes across the city of 100,000.
the city promptly issued a lead advisory, telling residents to flush their pipes and install water filters. In addition, the city said, it is now feverishly working to implement a corrosion control plan to reduce levels of lead.
“Flint is the only city in the United States that does not have a plan to control lead corrosion,”
emergency manager Ed Kurtz’s decision, in April 2014, to decline a short-term deal with Detroit to continue receiving water from the city, and instead sign a contract to join a new system.
Immediately, problems arose. Residents complained about water that was suddenly cloudy, odorous and tasted rancid.
Test results showed levels of fecal coliform bacteria and, eventually, elevated levels of total trihalomethanes, chemical compounds which, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, can lead to liver or kidney issues for an individual who consumes water with high levels over a long period of time.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/incr...e+Raw+Story%29
Florida Would Like To Give You $200K For Killing Someone, As Long As It’s ‘Self-Defense’
Florida has a nifty new variation on “Stand your Ground” legislation in the works. Not only would it make it easier for criminal defendants to escape murder prosecutions by claiming self-defense, but it would also require the state to reimburse defendants for their trouble, to the tune of up to $200,000 for court costs and attorney fees. Not surprisingly, the bill has the backing of the NRA and would give defendants a huge six-figure incentive to claim self-defense. As we know, Stand Your Ground has already done a terrific job of helping violent criminals beat prosecution, so this new wrinkle should ensure even more mayhem, yay.
As Orlando Sentinel columnist Scott Maxwell explains, House Bill 169 would shift the burden of proof to prosecutors in Stand Your Ground cases, “so that anyone who claims self-defense is essentially assumed to be telling the truth unless the state can prove otherwise, often in a pre-trial immunity hearing.” Look, we understand “presumed innocent until proven guilty,” but isn’t that supposed to happen in a trial?
Maxwell also suspects that the bill’s proponents included the $200K payout for defendants’ “court costs, reasonable private attorney fees and related expenses” as a strategic distraction, “just so they could later take it out, claiming it was now a thoughtful compromise.” Hey, that’s clever!
It’s a tactic they’ve used before with extremist bills — such as an early version of the “Docs vs. Glocks” law that sought to imprison pediatricians who discussed gun safety with patients.
That was the 2011 law that made it illegal for doctors to ask parents if they had a gun in the home; it was upheld in 2014.
that’s two Tuff-On-Crime Florida Republicans who’ve suddenly become sympathetic to criminal defendants, as long as they’ve been accused of blowing someone away with their responsibly owned firearm.
http://wonkette.com/594545/florida-would-like-to-give-you-200k-for-killing-someone-as-long-as-its-self-defense
Lindsey Graham’s disaster relief hypocrisy: He wants federal aid for his state’s floods but voted against Hurricane Sandy relief
http://www.salon.com/2015/10/06/lind..._sandy_relief/
Will the Old Lesbian hug Obama?
John McCain’s insane delusions: The big Afghanistan lie he will not let go of
The U.S. invaded Afghanistan to ensure it “would never again be a safe haven for al-Qaeda or other radical Islamist terrorists to attack us again,” John McCain said in a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Tuesday morning. And “that mission has been successful for 14 years.”
To say al-Qaeda has not again attacked Americans on U.S. soil is technically correct, but to call such a mission “successful” is mindbogglingly myopic. No rational person can look at the situation throughout South Asia and the Middle East today and say U.S. military intervention has been a success. This would take either extreme blindness or sheer delusion.
McCain insisted “American troops and civilians have made steady progress in supporting our Afghan partners to secure their country and dealt severe blows to al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups.” Yet these claims blatantly defy the facts on the ground.
It was the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that in fact led to the growth of al-Qaeda throughout the world. Al-Qaeda was not in Iraq before the U.S. invasion; the U.S. war, which pulverized the government, destroyed enormous amounts of infrastructure, and escalated sectarian tensions, is what brought al-Qaeda into the country. This eventually led to the rise of ISIS – whose predecessor was ISI (the Islamic State of Iraq) – which broke ties with al-Qaeda for not being extreme enough.
McCain failed to mention in the hearing that al-Qaeda has grown exponentially since the U.S. war in Afghanistan began. Now al-Qaeda is present in almost every country in the region. And ISIS, even more violent than al-Qaeda, is growing, taking more and more territory in war-stricken Libya – where U.S. bombing once again destroyed the government and left the country in shambles – along with Yemen – where Washington is backing the Saudi-led coalition that is responsible for approximatelytwo-thirds of the thousands of civilian casualties and has used banned U.S.-madecluster munitions to bomb civilian areas – and more.
http://www.salon.com/2015/10/06/john...not_let_go_of/
ing Repugs, what a bunch of assholes
WI Repugs Biblical HATE
GOP bill would let parents sue schools if transgender students are ‘up to no good’ in bathrooms
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/10/gop-...e+Raw+Story%29
of all the problems WI politicians should be working on ...
Haven't bothered with this grifter for a while, he's due
'We Will Beg The Lord Above To Destroy Us': Glenn Beck Freaks Out Over The Removal Of Ten Commandments Monument
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/we-will-beg-lord-above-destroy-us-glenn-beck-freaks-out-over-removal-ten-commandments-monume
Repug/VRWC War on the Poor
People in Texas get thrown behind bars just because they can’t afford their traffic tickets. That’s a disaster for people who are already struggling. It’s also completely against the law.
Levi Lane shuffled into the pews of the El Paso County jail court still reeking of poultry fat from his night shift at a local pet food factory. Driving home at 2 in the morning, he had been pulled over for going 43 miles an hour when the limit was 35 and arrested on the spot for outstanding traffic tickets.
There in court, Judge Cheryl Davis, a part-time judge and bankruptcy lawyer, called Lane’s name. Barely looking up at him, Lane recalled, she read off his driving offenses, which included expired registration, no insurance, and not stopping at a stop sign — five traffic stops, totaling more than $3,400 in penalties.
If Lane paid up, he would have been released immediately. But there was no way Lane could afford that sum. The pet food factory paid $8 an hour, more than any other job he had had, but even so he made only $5,650 that year. Judge Davis did not ask about his financial situation, Lane said. Less than two minutes after the hearing began, it ended. In lieu of payment, Lane, who had no legal representation, was ordered to spend 21 days in jail.
What happened to Lane is illegal. It violates Texas law and two unanimous Supreme Court decisions, all of which bar courts from jailing people simply because they are too poor to pay their fines. One of the Supreme Court decisions even stemmed from a traffic case in Texas.
But in many courts across the Lone Star State, it is as if the law and the Supreme Court rulings never happened.
A BuzzFeed News investigation into Texas judicial practice found that with no public defenders present, traffic court judges routinely flout the law, locking up people for days, weeks, and sometimes even months because they did not pay fines they could not afford. The result is a modern-day version of debtors prison, an ins ution that was common two centuries ago but has been outlawed since the early ’70s.
Unpaid fines are a vexing problem for municipalities across the country, and uninsured drivers can indeed be a hazard, but
Texas law leaves no doubt as to how courts must handle someone who has been arrested for unpaid fines.
And it provides an unambiguous, step-by-step process that includes an alternative punishment for those too poor to pay their fines.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/kendalltagga...oor#.vpQvVEeM4
How about Obama wasting $500 million on training Syrian "rebels"?
how about it?
How about your beloved -headed Repugs wasting $3T and 5000 military lives invading Iraq for oil?
I'm not a republican or conservative. I just deal with now. And Obama's plan in Syria has been a disaster. He's lied about moderate rebels. He also lied about fighting ISIS. They've only gotten stronger. He's still talking about regime change which basically means he's on the terrorist sides. Sure Bush was a disaster and that was 8 years ago. Putin has done more in one week than Obama has in 8 years when it comes to the Middle East.
What lies specifically?
Repugs, neocons have been talking about Iran, Iraq, Syria regime change for 25 years, pay attention.
Putin has slaughtered Syrian rebels so Putin could negate regime change.
The US military hasn't done since Korea.
What are your SPECIFIC TACTICS, STRATEGY for Syria, "honestly"
Land and Water Conservation Fund expires, sparking debate
The Land and Water Conservation Fund has had wide bipartisan support for 50 years.
Its name may be little known outside Washington D.C., but many people are likely to have enjoyed the fruits of the fund — it has provided about $17 billion for everything from the expansion of iconic national parks and forests to more than 40,000 local recreation projects across the country. California, for example received $3.7 million in 2014 and has received about $300 million since 1965.
And all of that has been done without tax dollars, because most of the money comes from royalties on offshore oil and gas leasing.
Still, Congress failed last week to meet the Sept. 30 deadline for reauthorizing the fund.
Proponents of the fund point much of the blame at Rep. Rob Bishop, a Utah Republican who is chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, which has jurisdiction over the fund.
On the Senate side, Sen. Mike Lee of Utah blocked several attempts on the floor to permanently authorize the fund on the final day before it expired.
Lindholm said the disagreement over how the accounting works is “really a red herring.”
“The fact is that you have broken this tie that has existed for 50 years,” she said. And she believes that critics of the fund have something more than reform in mind.
“He just really wants to kill the program,” she said of Bishop.
http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/...fund/73549574/
If the Repugs are involved, it's ed up.
how about it?
how about your dear Repugs and BigOil wasting 5000+ MILITARY LIVES and 100Ks of mlitary bodies and minds,and $2T in Iraq?
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