Wow, if this is true it's huge. He'd better start mending ties with labor if he wants to win. The last thing we need is Pat Toomey as Senator from Pennsylvania.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Interesting...
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/28/republican-senator-to-switch-to-the-democratic-party/
Wow, if this is true it's huge. He'd better start mending ties with labor if he wants to win. The last thing we need is Pat Toomey as Senator from Pennsylvania.
Wow, if this is true it's huge. He'd better start mending ties with labor if he wants to win. The last thing we need is Pat Toomey as Senator from Pennsylvania.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Racism is Alive And Well...
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/25/texas-center-supreme-court-battle-voting-rights/
The community of Canyon Creek was ranchland rich with limestone and cedar trees when Jim Crow held sway in the South. The first house wasn't built until the late 1980s and not even a hint of discrimination attaches to this little slice in suburbia.
The people of Canyon Creek didn't sprout from the ground. They moved there from other places. They're not clean of the taint of racism that infests their state.
President Obama won more than 48 percent of the vote in November in this overwhelmingly white community northwest of the state capital.
Which means he lost that community. I don't see how this disproves racism.
Much has changed across the South and elsewhere in the country, not least of which is Obama's election, Gregory Coleman, the district's lawyer, has told the court.
Not a single state in the Deep South voted for Obama. The states covered by this law are covered for a reason. They can't use the fact that those of us in the rational parts of the US overruled them to argue that they should no longer be kept in check.
"It's insulting to me to be accused of having a racial bias just because you live in Texas," said Zimmerman, an engineer.
Then change your state. Don't blame us for pointing out the obvious. When your Governor and at least one of your Representatives is threatening secession because the US elected a black President you can't claim that racism has been eliminated.
Evidence amassed at congressional hearings showed that hundreds of discriminatory proposals were rejected by the Justice Department or withdrawn when government lawyers raised questions.
They bury this, proof that the law is still necessary, right at the bottom.
The community of Canyon Creek was ranchland rich with limestone and cedar trees when Jim Crow held sway in the South. The first house wasn't built until the late 1980s and not even a hint of discrimination attaches to this little slice in suburbia.
The people of Canyon Creek didn't sprout from the ground. They moved there from other places. They're not clean of the taint of racism that infests their state.
President Obama won more than 48 percent of the vote in November in this overwhelmingly white community northwest of the state capital.
Which means he lost that community. I don't see how this disproves racism.
Much has changed across the South and elsewhere in the country, not least of which is Obama's election, Gregory Coleman, the district's lawyer, has told the court.
Not a single state in the Deep South voted for Obama. The states covered by this law are covered for a reason. They can't use the fact that those of us in the rational parts of the US overruled them to argue that they should no longer be kept in check.
"It's insulting to me to be accused of having a racial bias just because you live in Texas," said Zimmerman, an engineer.
Then change your state. Don't blame us for pointing out the obvious. When your Governor and at least one of your Representatives is threatening secession because the US elected a black President you can't claim that racism has been eliminated.
Evidence amassed at congressional hearings showed that hundreds of discriminatory proposals were rejected by the Justice Department or withdrawn when government lawyers raised questions.
They bury this, proof that the law is still necessary, right at the bottom.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Selective Amnesia...
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/21/mccain-demands-white-house-apology/
Has John McCain already forgotten Timothy McVeigh? He was a veteran of the first Gulf War, where some said he took particular pleasure in shooting Arabs, and decided to blow up hundreds of his fellow citizens. Nobody is suggesting that all veterans are going to start committing domestic terrorism but the militias would be crazy not to target a group of people with weapons training who are desensitized to killing people and often hold political viewpoints to the right of the average citizen.
Has John McCain already forgotten Timothy McVeigh? He was a veteran of the first Gulf War, where some said he took particular pleasure in shooting Arabs, and decided to blow up hundreds of his fellow citizens. Nobody is suggesting that all veterans are going to start committing domestic terrorism but the militias would be crazy not to target a group of people with weapons training who are desensitized to killing people and often hold political viewpoints to the right of the average citizen.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Idiots...
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/15/tea-bag-toss-ends-white-house-protest/
How do you do something like this and not end up in prison? They didn't even have a permit to dump the stupid tea bags in the park, what did they think would happen if they tried throwing them towards the White House? They're lucky they didn't get shot.
How do you do something like this and not end up in prison? They didn't even have a permit to dump the stupid tea bags in the park, what did they think would happen if they tried throwing them towards the White House? They're lucky they didn't get shot.
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