Category Archives: Politics

Think Again: Ronald Reagan – By Peter Beinart | Foreign Policy

So Reagan didn’t have the bloodlust conservatives now try to give him. I mean, face it, you’ve got to have stones to bankrupt our nation in a game of “let’s buy the most nukes” with the Soviets.

You’ve apparently also got to be bright enough to not actually use all the bombers and tanks just for the hell of it. Something lost on our last Republican president.

In short, if the article is true, Reagan was less of a mouth breather than I give him credit for, and neocons are full of it. As they usually are.

Aryzona School Demands Black & Latino Students’ Faces On Mural Be Changed To White

Remember where you were, when you could still laugh about teabaggers and racists and Arizonans, because funny time is almost over. If the unemployment keeps up — one in five adult white males has no job and will never have a job again — and people keep walking away from their stucco heaps they can’t afford and the states and cities and counties and towns keep passing their aggressive racist laws to rile up the trash even more, shit’s going to very soon become very bad, and whether it’s the National Guard having wars in the Sunbelt Exurbs against armies of crazy old white people who are finally using their hundreds of millions of guns, or whole Latino neighborhoods burned to the ground the way the Klan used to burn down black neighborhoods a century ago, we are in for a long dark night and no light-colored paint is going to fix that.

Yes, the school has since backtracked this crazy BS decision, but the anger lingers. How dare these bastards lighten the skin of a mural of their own students?

I heard about this racist crap on the way home – and still in Aryzona. Here is the original news story.

This makes me absolutely livid. It is bad enough that in general Republicans, Tea Baggers, Klansmen and generic conservative racists hate people based on the color of their skin, or religion, or sexuality, or gender. It is worse that these cretins try to steal votes from folks they don’t agree with or do a multiple of sins to diminish folks. Often they do this in the name of God, which should make for an interesting line-up at the afterlife but I want their evils punished in the hear and now. For Aryzona, they didn’t need another black eye, but they earned it.

Look, racists shout ugly things. When the last two racists on Earth exist, they’ll be white Americans riding together in a rusty El Camino yelling hateful crap drinking Mexican beer out of a 40 oz. and being completely unaware of the irony.

You do NOT kowtow to these bastards. And you certainly do NOT tell your minority kids that their color isn’t good enough for a mural and try to literally whitewash their skin.

The racists are just idiots. The school administrators should have known better. Hell, all of Aryzona should know better.

Here’s Roger Ebert explaining it better than I can.

Plus accompanying video:

Poll: On immigration, racial divide runs deep – Immigration: A Nation Divided- msnbc.com

From the Obvious Department, Latinos seem to have a growing distrust of the Republican Party.

Gee, I wonder why?

Here’s one example of the toxic environment the GOP has created. An American citizen (born in Puerto Rico) was held by La Migra for three days on suspicion of being an illegal alien. Sure, he was busted for possibly committing a crime, but he got out on bail for that. That doesn’t make him an illegal. He even had all his papers and they held him over a weekend.

But, hey, the cops and conservatives couldn’t possibly be racist because they didn’t believe his paperwork was real. Right? Just like they can’t believe Hawaii issues legal birth documents I suppose.

Right?

Uncompassionate Educators

I was going to go in another vein with one of these stories but they keep cropping up.

So, here goes.

Conservatives bitch and moan about how the “liberals are brainwashing our children” and how education teaches kids to think and care for others and the environment. You know, stuff like where things are, not everyone brown needs bombed, science and condoms exist: use them, and so on. I’ve spent some time highlighting the lies passing as history in a Texas history book coming to a school near you.

But there are other problems with having conservatives involved in education.

In San Antonio, teachers apparently feel comfortable in bashing Mexicans to the faces of their Latino students. Said teacher was told to take a week off and is already back in class.

In Alabama, a teacher used to concept of assassinating President Obama as a means to teaching parallel lines and angles. You know, just in case some hillbilly teen might want to take a shot at our nation’s leader. Once again, the teacher wasn’t fired, and the Secret Service decided not to make an example of them. Again. Can we at least put ONE of these assassination lovers behind bars?

And, just for kicks, in Florida, two teachers are accused of dousing their atheist co-worker in holy water in the hopes of converting them.

Apparently that’s the compassionate thing to so in the Sunshine State.

Jerks.

Paul Cancels Sunday TV Appearance

I’m posting this link concerning Rand Paul chickening out of being on “Meet the Press” for the following reason:

“Throughout its history, she said, only two guests have canceled: Louis Farrakhan and Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia.”

That’s good company for the Tea Bagging Libertarian.

That said, it’s probably good for his people to tell him to start shutting the hell up. In the past week, we have learned that Paul (probably both of them) are cool with people being racist as long as they don’t beat on people.

Also, disabled folks should just suck it up and not worry about businesses providing access to them.

There shouldn’t be a minimum wage in his view, though he’s too chicken to admit it.

Oh yeah, President Obama is apparently a racist tyrant for telling British Petroleum they’re responsible for dumping millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico (and beyond). Government should just shut up and let companies destroy nature willy nilly according to this guy and folks who agree with his philosophy.

In short, the more we allow Tea Party Treasonous Bigots to speak, the worse they sound.

Here’s a bit of reminder footage on how Paul thinks racism should be a protected right. Here’s a glimpse at one of his racist former spokesmen.

This is the kind of racism Rand Paul is for:

TX Textbooks Proposal: Students Must Discuss Gutting Social Security, Explain How U.N. Undermines U.S.

Texas is for lunatics.

Here is more on the insane crazy lies they are planning to pack into Texas schoolbooks. California, thank God, is working to ban Texas-approved schoolbooks in the Golden State as they are “a threat to the apolitical nature of public school governance and academic content standards in California.” Amen.

In other Texas news Governor Traitor Rick is blowing through hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to fund his rental home since the governor’s mansion got hit by arson a couple years back.

So much for fiscal conservatism.