Dear Donnie! Your racist, bigoted, pedophile lost!

The "Honorable" Roy Moore from Alabama!

• homosexual conduct should be illegal
• 9/11 was God's punishment for "perverseness"
• personal belief..."Obama was not born here"!
• reference to the "Reds" and the "Yellows"
• Muslims should not sit in congress
• Islam is contrary to the U.S. constitution
• Islam is a "false" religion
• there's no such thing as "evolution"
• "God is the only source of our law"

And this embaraament to America (obviously not to Alabama) is likely to head to the Senate in December to represent the "American" people of Alabama!   You just can't make this sh*t up!

More details here from BBC News

The Deplorables!

Happy Brthday MLK!

"Nigger!" Yeah...he said it!

Get over it!   Sorry Oprah!

2016 Presidential Candidate...Mike Huckabee!!! Child Molesters...OK! Transgender? Not OK!

He wants to shower with the girls!

During the 2008 Republican primaries, this clown won the following states (Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Iowa, West Virginia, Tennessee, Kansas, Louisiana) and came in second in another 20+ states!!!   I've always maintained that Americans are not the smartest homo sapiens on earth!!!

President & First Lady Lindsey Graham!

Two for the price of one!   Who knew?   The Rethuglikkan circus tent continues to grow by leaps & bounds!

Texas Teabaggers! You can't make this sh*t up!

6 minutes and it's worth every minute of it!   A must watch!
More reasons to stay away from Texas!   You just can't make this sh*t up!   And...what's up with the wacko "brotha" (aka...niggah)!   God help us!   I've always maintained that there are a lot of "ig'nant" folks in this country!   These folks shouldn't be allowed to vote.   Actually they need to be deported!!!

Jim DeMint...Americans Freed the Slaves!

Jim DeMint, president of the conservative Heritage Foundation, former U.S. Senator from South Carolina, and latest spiritual guru of the tea party, told a Christian radio host last week completely un-ironically that "the conscience of the American people" freed the slaves in the 1860's, not "big government."

Per Mr. DeMint:
"Well, the reason that the slaves were eventually freed was the Constitution.   It was like the conscience of the American people.   Unfortunately, there were some court decisions like Dred Scott and others that defined some people as property; but the Constitution kept calling us back to ‘all men are created equal’ and we have inalienable rights in the minds of god.   But a lot of the move to free the slaves came from the people, it did not come from the federal government.   It came from a growing movement among the people, particularly people of faith, that [slavery] was wrong.

People like Wilberforce who persisted for years because of his faith and because of his love for people.   So no liberal is going to win a debate that big government freed the slaves.   In fact, it was Abraham Lincoln, the very first Republican, who took this on as a cause and a lot of it was based on a love in his heart that comes from god."

This is the same teabagging wingnut who joined other Republican wingnuts on the eve of President Obama's first inauguration to plot how they could undermine and derail Mr. Obama's Presidency!

More details and hilarity at Gawker.

Rethuglicans versus the Affordable Care Act.

From CNN:

"Republicans are going all in, hoping that the payout is big.   Like control of the Senate, big!

Their big bet: Obamacare.

The deadline to enroll in the Affordable Care Act for the year has come and gone.   The Obama administration is touting the enrollment numbers as a successful first year, but Republicans think voter anger over the law is here to stay.   And so, Republicans running for House and Senate continue to make it central to their campaign.

In the Arkansas Senate race, Republican challenger Tom Cotton (pictured above) is using Obamacare to fund-raise for his race against Democratic incumbent Mark Pryor.   The first screen on Cotton's website is a plea for contributions that says, "Obamacare is so bad that Obama doesn't want it.   Tell him neither do I."

The full story at CNN.

Footnote:   What's scary is that Nate Silver believes that Mr. Cotton has a 70% chance of winning!

Nate Silver & GOP 2014 & GOP voter suppression!

Nate Silver's midterm (2014) Senate projections scare the sh*t out of me.   I hope he's wrong because there's too much at stake.   Then I read an article in today's New York Times about on all the tactics that the GOP is using to thwart the turnout across several states targeting communities that typically vote Democratic (black and Latino) and I see the ugliness behind their efforts.   Now I'm really scared.

From today's New York Times:
"Pivotal swing states under Republican control are embracing significant new electoral restrictions on registering and voting that go beyond the voter identification requirements that have caused fierce partisan brawls.

The bills, laws and administrative rules — some of them tried before — shake up fundamental components of state election systems, including the days and times polls are open and the locations where people vote.

Republicans in Ohio and Wisconsin this winter pushed through measures limiting the time polls are open, in particular cutting into weekend voting favored by low-income voters and blacks, who sometimes caravan from churches to polls on the Sunday before election.

Democrats in North Carolina are scrambling to fight back against the nation’s most restrictive voting laws, passed by Republicans there last year.   The measures, taken together, sharply reduce the number of early voting days and establish rules that make it more difficult for people to register to vote, cast provisional ballots or, in a few cases, vote absentee.

In all, nine states have passed measures making it harder to vote since the beginning of 2013.   Most have to do with voter ID laws. Other states are considering mandating proof of citizenship, like a birth certificate or a passport, after a federal court judge recently upheld such laws passed in Arizona and Kansas.   Because many poor people do not have either and because documents can take time and money to obtain, Democrats say the ruling makes it far more difficult for people to register."

More details from the Times article here.

Lindsey Graham's Eye Roll over Obama's handling of Ukraine

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) blamed President Obama’s handling of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, tweeting Tuesday afternoon that it somehow emboldened the Russians to attack.

Though the Russian incursion into Crimea was motivated principally by Russian strategic concerns after the fall of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, Graham blamed American conduct in North Africa:

You just can't make this sh*t up!   And he's still in the Senate?   I have many dear/close friends that live in South Carolina.   I just assume they don't support this right wing wacko!

Georgia on My Mind!

"Georgia officials have once again approved a specialty license plate featuring the Confederate battle flag, infuriating civil rights advocates and renewing a debate among those who believe the symbol honors Confederate heritage and those who see it as racially charged.

The Georgia division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans requested the new plate design, and the Georgia Department of Revenue recently approved it.   The group's old plate had a small Confederate battle flag. The new one features an additional, larger image in the background that covers the entire plate."

More here!

More from the Wacko Joshua Black!

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Hang President Obama?

A local Republican candidate in Florida said Monday that President Barack Obama should be hanged for war crimes, the Tampa Bay Times reported.

People...you just can't make this sh*t up!

Meet Joshua Black, the 31-year-old ex-street preacher eager to represent a Tampa Bay district in Florida’s House.   On Monday – Martin Luther King Jr. Day, it should be noted – Black (who is African-American) enthusiastically agreed with a supporter’s suggestion that the president of the United States of America be tried for non-specific treason and then executed via hanging.

Source:

Four Little Girls...

Addie Mae Collins, 14; Denise McNair, 11; Carole Robertson, 14; and Cynthia Wesley; 14, were killed Sept. 15, 1963, in the attack that struck the packed church on a Sunday morning. Twenty-two others were injured.

At a memorial service for the girls, three days after the blast, Martin Luther King Jr., said, “These children — unoffending, innocent, and beautiful — were the victims of one of the most vicious and tragic crimes ever perpetrated against humanity.”

"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job!"

Twenty-eight percent of Louisana's Republicans think former President George W. Bush, who was in office at the time, was more responsible for the poor federal response while 29 percent said Obama, who was still a freshman U.S. Senator when the storm battered the Gulf Coast in 2005, was more responsible.   Nearly half of Louisiana Republicans — 44 percent — said they aren't sure who to blame.   Welcome to Teabagistan!

You just can't make this sh*t up!   Louisiana is in the Bible Belt and is on the obesity list; the least educated list and my list!

Trayvon - Happiness, Adventure & Experience Denied!

This is long but it is awesome and worth the read!   It was posted somewhere on Facebook and I have yet to find the source...but, hopefully, I will!

Man, I'm just glad I had a Mom who gave me the realness from a young age.   I can remember thinking she was so stuck in the past for telling me that I couldn't do or say or wear certain things, that I could not stay out as late as my white friends could, that I could not "experiment" with any of the things my white friends did.   I struggled so much with her for trying to impress upon me the fact that I was different.   Because I'm supposed to be.   I lived in a nice house, spoke more than one language, was well educated and well socialized and I did not understand why I needed to constantly act in a manner designed to disarm another person's suspicions about me.

But wow, I get it now.   Every black kid has that moment where he has to decide to accept the armor that his parents present to him to get through life as an American black male, or walk around naked.   And the crazy part is, it’s probably something most people outside of the black community never see.   I can remember my Mom talking to me over and over and over again about what to do and who to call if I was ever picked up by a police officer.   She made sure I knew that I needed to declare that I was exercising my Miranda rights rather simply evoke them without notice.   If you were in New Jersey your Mom probably made you take a WHOLE FREAKING CLASS on how to deal with police officers and other people who were perceived to be threatening.

And I say that to say that as scary as people think black males are, black males are conditioned to be ten times more afraid of everyone else.   We’re conditioned to be afraid of going to certain parts of the country, afraid of people with certain political view, afraid of police officers, and sometimes even afraid of other black and Latino males.   The most sickening thing about this whole trial has been the deliberate campaign to rob Trayvon of his right to be afraid.   I know I would have been.

And I owe her the deepest of apologies for all of the times that I accused her of overacting or impressing a vision of a society long since passed on the one that exists today.

It doesn’t matter how well traveled you are or how many languages you speak or where you went to school.   It doesn’t matter how many friends you have or how much good you’ve done in the world.   From afar we are all the same.

It used to hurt when my mother would tell me I couldn’t put my hood up or that I couldn’t stay out as late as my white friends.   She told me I was a young black male and I couldn’t afford these things and I figured she never knew how much it hurt for be to know that she did not have faith that I could transcend the many stereotypes that swirl around me and be seen as an individual.

But when I think about my own Mother having to come down the police station, and identify my naked body and come home and go in my room that would feel strangely empty.   She would have to walk past my favorite custom built aquarium and the framed boards my class in Japan made for me on my last day of study abroad, she would have to open my closet and go through all of the clothes I would never wear again and find my favorite suit and then walk out of a room where every object holds a memory.

She would have to go on interviews and meet with lawyers and try to be strong in the face of unimaginable tragedy.   While people picked apart my character and found every Facebook status where I cursed or every stupid picture I was ever captured in.   She would have to sit in court and dignify people who sought to put me in the ground with not a shred of justice with her presence and her silence.   And then on top of that, after a year of pain, to hear from 6 other mothers that my life meant nothing...

And the thought that after 24 hours of labor, thousands of dollars on tuition and extra curriculum and trips and summer activities, and millions of tiny sacrifices that she could be left with the dust of my memory and the guilt of having not prepared me for this thing called America.

I joke about it, but I know how much I mean to her.   Before I go parasailing I think about her, and before I jump in the ocean I think about her, and when I had tigers crawling all over me and licking my face I was thinking about her.   But I did those things because I knew that even if I got poisoned by a cobra or mauled by a tiger, I know it would have been hard.......but she would have derived comfort from knowing that I died pursuing happiness, adventure, and experiences that are worth their risks.

But I know that she would never ever be able to recover from knowing that I died the way that Trayvon died.   And so I understand so well why she taught me to think about the world in the way that I do.   To remember how to love life, be open to others, but to always remember who I am and to be so secure in who I am, that I accept that I must constantly think and behave with consideration for that one person who might think they already know.

I have fought with my Mom, Dad, and Stepdad about what it means to be a young black man in 2013.   And I have at times been annoyed at all of them for presenting me with my constraints.   But I am so lucky to have been armed with the truth at such and early age.   The world can be so confusing for us.   So much kindness and then so much cruelty.   We've all accused our parents of over estimating the dangers out there.   But they managed to teach us not to allow this country to fill us with fear, while simultaneously not allowing it to rob us of our vigilance.   Shout-out to all of the parents out there, giving that extra course on how to keep your children from being victimized in a society that does not believe that they can be victims.

Trayvon Martin...R.I.P.

Just put in my order for one of these T-shirts!

O.J. Zimmermann and the state of Florida?

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Then there are these 7 Mind Blowing Moments from Zimmerman Juror B37′s first interview with Anderson Cooper!

1. Martin was responsible for his own death.
2. Juror felt just as sorry for Zimmerman.
3. Zimmerman should continue to serve as a neighborhood watchman because he has learned his lesson about going too far.
4. Verdict hinged on “Stand Your Ground” law, even though Zimmerman did not use it in his defense.
5. Zimmerman was only guilty of using poor judgment and was “egged” on to follow Martin by the 9/11 operator.
6. Race played absolutely no factor in Zimmerman’s profiling of Martin.
7. Zimmerman’s history of reporting black men to the police and his decision to follow Martin played no role in the verdict.

Four other jurors are distancing themselves from Juror B37!   (via the "Los Angeles Times")

“We, the undersigned jurors, understand there is a great deal of interest in this case. But we ask you to remember that we are not public officials and we did not invite this type of attention into our lives," the jurors wrote.

"We also wish to point out that the opinions of Juror B37, expressed on the Anderson Cooper show, were her own, and not in any way representative of the jurors listed below."