Monthly Archives: October 2011

The GOP War on Voting | Politics News | Rolling Stone

Republicans hate democracy. And they know that the more they coddle secessionists and racists, the more they are going to lose elections.

Plan? Rig the voting districts and then strip the right to vote from minorities and college students, among others.

The worst part? It is working. Here is an interactive map showing where these anti-American twits are stealing the vote.

Look, if you can not make a factual argument and win in this country, the problem may actually be YOU and not the electorate.

My Advice to the Occupy Wall Street Protesters | Politics News | Rolling Stone

Not a bad start to a coherent strategy for the Occupiers out there.

Ditch the 60s retread crap. Most of you weren’t even born then and bongos just tend to piss people off. Including me, and I want to be on your side.

Small words, strong actions. You know the FAUX viewers can’t understand sentences long than eight words long. If you want to speak to them it has to be clear and concise.

Get a plan, stop the usual bickering over tiny BS. Get everyone on board as best you can.

The 1968 Exhibit | Opens October 14, 2011

I am fairly excited about this and hope to get to it sometime soon.

Tonight in Minneapolis the 1968 Exhibit opens. Granted, before my time but it was certainly a year when the nation and the world was on a precipice. Extremists murdered King and Kennedy, we were at war for no good reason. Nixon embraced racism and became president.

Almost makes you wonder where the Baggers want to take us, doesn’t it?

MPR has been covering this, both this morning and at midday.

Dartmouth aims to control debate crowd

LOL.

You can’t make this up. Instead of having organizers – and candidates – try to confront the ugly crowds that go to GOP debates, they are doing what they can to cherry-pick, limit the size and makeup of said crowd.

You know, like setting up a “free speech zone” two blocks away from anywhere Bush the Lesser was standing so he wouldn’t have to hear about how he was screwing over and killing Americans for no good reason.

So, instead of actually being adult and asking their supporters to be adults as well, the GOP has once again chickened out and taken the non-democratic, censorship route.

There’s a lesson there. A lot of them actually.

After Ruling, Hispanics Flee an Alabama Town – NYTimes.com

Here’s the thing. You start fulfilling the sterotypes built by our enemies: you discriminate based on the color of people’s skin, you lock folks up and through away the key, you because what you spend a lot of hot wind saying you aren’t.

Welcome to Alabama, which thinks it is just fine to hunt down anyone brown and make everyone flee the state, legal status or not.

Hell, *I* sure the hell don’t want to go there and face arrest because I’m a darker shade than lily white.

And while they swear this isn’t about race and is a smart strategy, this law against Mexican first collared a Yemeni national in this nation legally. Nice job!

But hey, no problem, right? Oh, except for that whole “you have to prove you are a citizen just so you can get clean water” business. Hell, even the racist Minutemen give folks water!

I seriously hope folks of any type of tinted skin stay the hell out of that state. And if anyone could point out ways to not let any of our cash stray towards Alabama, I’d love to hear about it.