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otohara's JournalVoter ID - Remember When The GOP Went Nuts Over Photo ID's to Purchase Hand Guns?
Suddenly photo ID's are all the rage amongst the "small government" group.
It was in the 2000 campaign that the NRA went after Democratic candidate Al Gore with a vengeance built up over years of confrontation with the Clinton administration and its jack-booted government thugs, as others put it.
The Moses of gun rights may have had too regal a bearing to use such incendiary words. But in attacking a Democrat who favored mandatory photo ID licenses for future handgun buyers, Heston held little else back. http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/23985685/ns/today-entertainment/t/heston-was-public-face-gun-rights/#.T1pziudZAs0
Did You Notice Carville Coil Into A Snake
position when asked about Limbaugh on Bill Maher?
Why was the great mouth from the South at a loss for words?
He and his freaky wife are very close to the fat-blowhard and have attended two of his four weddings.
She's Having So Much Sex, It's Amazing She Can Even Walk??????
What the FUCK!
I had not heard this part of his 3 day obsession with "all the SEX she keeps having"
No wonder his first 3 wives bolted!
Judge Who Sent Racist E-mail - Will Get New Office - Obama Stimulus
Come this summer, Judge Richard Cebull will be conducting business in a brand new $79 million federal courthouse in Billings, Montana, paid for through President Obama's economic recovery program. That is, if Cebull survives the firestorm engulfing him for forwarding a racist e-mail about the president.
everal advocacy groups and lawmakers have called for Cebull's resignation, but the judge will probably not face any harsh punitive action, said CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin.
It's rare and generally very difficult to force federal judges from office. They receive tenure, and the Constitution guarantees they can remain on the bench during good behavior.
The standards for removal are not clear, beyond a violation of civil or criminal law. Congress would have to initiate impeachment proceedings, but the few judges to face that have usually resigned before an outcome.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/02/us/montana-judge-racist-message/index.html
Does Darrell Issa Have Any Children?
I find the wife, but no mention of children - anybody know?
His office keeps transferring me, to comment line - won't let me ask a question
Lloyd Blankfein HRC's New “national corporate spokesman for same-sex marriage.”
Yuck
Double yuck
Last week, the Human Rights Campaign, the organization that advocates for equal rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, announced that Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein will be its first national corporate spokesman for same-sex marriage. HRCs move was almost universally portrayed in the media as a laudable one for the cause of equality: a supposed Nixon-goes-to-China-esque coup that aligned a politically conservative icon with a liberal cause. As one HRC executive told the New York Times: Lloyd Blankfein is not someone average Americans would think is going to support marriage equality.
In all the ovation and self-congratulation, however, two big problems were left unmentioned.
First and foremost is the simple fact that this is not some brilliant P.R. move in the Nixon-to-China vein. On the contrary, many (though certainly not all) Wall Street financiers have long professed their support for gay rights, culminating in their pivotal role helping legalize gay marriage in New York state. Thats, in part, because its an effective strategy to divert attention from their economic agenda.
Taking a page out of corporate greenwashing strategies, many of the most offensively greedy, right-wing thieves in the business world have long touted their personally progressive position on select social issues like gay rights as a means of publicly presenting themselves as Good and Decent People. Not surprisingly, the particular progressive causes they choose tend to be those that do not impact their businesses or personal economic situations. In some cases, in fact, these thugs seem as if they are leveraging their stands on such progressive issues as a quid pro quo bargaining chip for their personal financial interests. As just one example of where that kind of dynamic may have played out, recall that almost immediately after Wall Streeters underwrote Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomos campaign to legalize gay marriage, Cuomo launched a public (though ultimately unsuccessful) campaign to halt the extension of a so-called millionaires tax on those same Wall Streeters.
This isnt to say that Wall Streeters support for marriage equality isnt a good thing; it most certainly is. (As a strong supporter of marriage equality, for instance, Im glad those Wall Streeters helped New York State legalize gay marriage.) Its only to say that Blankfeins support of gay marriage isnt some hard-to-believe coup; its probably exactly what many average Americans would expect from a Manhattan investment banker.http://www.salon.com/2012/02/14/an_offensive_advocate_for_lgbt_rights/
Self Deportation
I'm waiting for Rachel to get back to the episode of This American Life and self deportation.
This "self deportation" joke is working very well in Alabama.
Self Deportation - Listen to This American Life
I know I chuckled when Mittens suggested it, but it seems to be working in Alabama.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/
Alabama's new immigration law aims to make life so difficult for illegal immigrants that they will "self-deport." And in a way it's working. Immigrants are fleeing Alabama...but not just the undocumented ones. This and other stories of people living with the unintended consequences of their decisions.
Will Allen West Be Re-elected?
I looked at the numbers of his district from the last 3 POTUS elections and all went Dem...what happened in this district to bring this vile POS into our lives?
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