gun violence archive
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Sunday, August 30, 2015
Saturday, August 29, 2015
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Curt Schilling, dumber than Donald Trump?
http://deadspin.com/and-now-curt-schilling-with-some-cool-thoughts-about-m-1726385341
Curt also has really cool collection of Nazi memorabilia, including SS troop uniforms, because nuthin' sez fun like playing dressup for a good game of Nazi death camp guard versus all that is good and Holy.
Saturday, August 22, 2015
Bill Maher: Anti-Immigrant The Donald Marries Furriners
[“Nobody brings this up about Donald Trump, who is always on about, ‘We can’t have foreigners coming into this country!’” said Maher. “His first wife is from Czechoslovakia. His current wife is from Slovenia. So, if you think crawling under a wall is the most disgusting way to become an American, somewhere there is a Panamanian woman hiding in a truck full of chickens with ten pounds of heroin-filled condoms in her stomach who’s thinking, ‘Well, at least I didn’t have to blow Donald Trump.’”] (Emphasis added for comedic value)
www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/22/bill-maher-slams-anti-immigrant-donald-trump-for-having-immigrant-wives.html
www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/22/bill-maher-slams-anti-immigrant-donald-trump-for-having-immigrant-wives.html
Friday, August 21, 2015
JEB!: The truth will set you free....
....from voting for John Ellis Bush, Iran Contra money launderer.
Thursday, August 20, 2015
Democracy: One person, one vote?
One of the most enduring myths of the United States holds that we have a democracy. An actual democracy has all eligible citizens voting on all issues, which we can admit as not practical for countries larger than ancient Athens.
Since we vote in these United States for people to represent us in our state and federal legislatures, we can more accurately call our government a republic based on voting by individuals.
Nevertheless, as Supreme Justice and judicial crank Antonin Scalia noted in oral arguments on Bush vs Gore, the case the conservative Supreme Court justices would have us all forget, the right to vote does not appear in the Constitution we have. Mr. Scalia, who acts and writes as as strict constructionist basing his rulings on the literal text of the Constitution--when it suits his needs as a regressive, conservative, wannabe segregationist slave owner--ignores his own jurisprudence and issues expansive opinions when for instance he issued an opinion interfering in counting of actual votes in Florida in 2000.
Instead of rehashing the past, however, let us note now our right to vote lays under siege by Republican dominated state legislatures in the name of stopping the negligible, statistically insignificant cases of voter fraud.
So we must fight for the right to vote, for the most basic cornerstone of our representative democracy, for the rights of all eligible voters.
Since we vote in these United States for people to represent us in our state and federal legislatures, we can more accurately call our government a republic based on voting by individuals.
Nevertheless, as Supreme Justice and judicial crank Antonin Scalia noted in oral arguments on Bush vs Gore, the case the conservative Supreme Court justices would have us all forget, the right to vote does not appear in the Constitution we have. Mr. Scalia, who acts and writes as as strict constructionist basing his rulings on the literal text of the Constitution--when it suits his needs as a regressive, conservative, wannabe segregationist slave owner--ignores his own jurisprudence and issues expansive opinions when for instance he issued an opinion interfering in counting of actual votes in Florida in 2000.
Instead of rehashing the past, however, let us note now our right to vote lays under siege by Republican dominated state legislatures in the name of stopping the negligible, statistically insignificant cases of voter fraud.
Nonetheless, we should never forget, first, that even if we define democracy simply as universal adult suffrage, the United States has only recently come close to living up to its proclaimed purpose of serving as history’s grand democratic experiment; and second, that even when the right to vote itself has finally been won, it does not mean it has been fully secured.
Enfranchisement has neither prevented ruling elites from continuing to exploit and oppress, nor kept them from turning things around and effectively stripping fellow citizens of their hard-won rights—including the right to vote itself.
The post-Civil War Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting African-American men the right to vote states very clearly: Section 1: The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Section 2: The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. And yet, as President Franklin Roosevelt himself was to observe in the 1930s: “New laws, in themselves, do not bring a millennium.” And he might well have added that not even constitutional amendments necessarily do....
In Give Us The Ballot, Nation magazine political correspondent Ari Berman has written an extremely valuable and terribly timely history of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). Terribly timely not just because this year marks the 50th anniversary of the enactment and signing into law of the VRA (August 6, 1965), but all the more so because the VRA and the right to vote are not just under continuing attack but actually under siege.
Under the ruse of preventing “voter fraud,” Republican-controlled state legislatures across the country have enacted laws clearly intended to make it more difficult for minority, poor, and young Americans to actually exercise their right to vote. (emphasis added)For one particularly egregious incidence, a state legislature banned college identification cards with photos as proper id for voting but allows National Rifle Association id for voting purposes, obviously aimed at suppressing votes by the young: people who lean towards progressive policies. Mother Jones has an excellent piece on voter suppression measures passed or pending in 22 states, all in the name of preventing nearly non-existent voter fraud.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/18/think-your-voting-rights-are-guaranteed-think-again.html
So we must fight for the right to vote, for the most basic cornerstone of our representative democracy, for the rights of all eligible voters.
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Robin Williams Elmer Fudd Sings Bruce Springsteen
OMF'ngG! Funniest thing seen this month so far.
Wait, maybe that can point my way to lessening depressing feelings. Read 1 time of film producer in hospital w/ gastrointestinal problems of unknown origin. After significant time in bed--probably w/ blood tests done at 5 am, commotion in the hallways so no one sleeps, and an absolute lack of privacy--and guy finally got fed up, checked himself out, rented every comedy videotape he could find, and he cured himself w/ laughter.
"Does anybody remember laughter?"
Seeing The Donald on TV every single damn night already driving me insane, and I absolutely abhor JEB! so will become an absolute gibbering, drooling, senile old fool before November '16, (even more so than now, Ron).
See so much here at Tube of U: George Carlin on global warming and Robin and Pres. Bush. Wonder which 1? Pray to goddess we have no more Bush.
Wait, maybe that can point my way to lessening depressing feelings. Read 1 time of film producer in hospital w/ gastrointestinal problems of unknown origin. After significant time in bed--probably w/ blood tests done at 5 am, commotion in the hallways so no one sleeps, and an absolute lack of privacy--and guy finally got fed up, checked himself out, rented every comedy videotape he could find, and he cured himself w/ laughter.
"Does anybody remember laughter?"
Seeing The Donald on TV every single damn night already driving me insane, and I absolutely abhor JEB! so will become an absolute gibbering, drooling, senile old fool before November '16, (even more so than now, Ron).
See so much here at Tube of U: George Carlin on global warming and Robin and Pres. Bush. Wonder which 1? Pray to goddess we have no more Bush.
Monday, August 17, 2015
Sunday, August 16, 2015
Saturday, August 15, 2015
Star Farts: The Bore Begins
New Star Wars footage from Comic-Con, where lonely comic nerds go to meet girl geeks.
Abigail's 101st birthday party
She might not be as spry as once was, but darn sure happy, alive, and metaphorically kicking.
You go, girl! Next year strippers!
Friday, August 14, 2015
Thursday, August 13, 2015
Big Box Store- Neil Young
Uncle Neil, still angry after all these years, plays with Willie Nelson's boys and their band, Promise of the Real, on the album The Monsanto Years.
By overwhelming margins. polls show Americans want food containing Genetically Modified Organisms labeled as such. our legislators, ever mindful of raising cash rather than public opinion, have passed laws so GMO's do not need labeling as such.
Why, I feel better already!
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
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