RICK SCOTT’S ‘DISGUSTING’ VOTER PURGE RESUMES

RICK SCOTT’S ‘DISGUSTING’ VOTER PURGE RESUMES

The Daily Edge

Obama beat Romney by less than 1% in Florida in 2012. And Republicans are determined not to let that happen again.

Last year, Rick Scott made a blatant attempt to target minority voters in a voter purge that targeted 182,000 voters–with an emphasis on those identified as Hispanic, Haitian or members of other minority groups.

The effort–called ‘disgusting’ by one Elections Supervisor–ultimately failed after Scott’s sloppy methods and discriminatory intentions were exposed. But now that the Supreme Court has decided racism is dead and that section 5 of the Voting Rights Act is no longer necessary, Scott has resumed his disgusting and racist voter suppression scheme full force.

Full story at Maddow Blog: http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/08/05/19881209-floridas-scott-readies-second-disgusting-voter-purge?lite

GLENN BECK’S “I HAVE A DREAM, TOO!” SPEECH

GLENN BECK’S “I HAVE A DREAM, TOO!” SPEECH

Lipstick Liberal

GLENN BECK, American radio man, actor, and paid leader in the Right-Wing Conservative Movement.

“Only MEN, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights to the pursuit of happiness.”

2013 - Black and Latino Women are paid $18,000 less than men yearly.

“That my children will be judged NOT by the content of their heart, but by the COLOR of their skin.”

1963 & 2013 – Black unemployment twice the amount of White Unemployment 

“So, let freedom ring NOT from the prodigious SCHOOL-tops of New Hampshire.”

2012 -Voter ID Laws passed suppressing college student voting

“Rather, let freedom ring from the MIGHTY mountains of New York”

2013 – Millions of  innocent African-American/Latino Stopped and Frisked 

“Let FREEDOM ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!”

2012- Pennsylvania Gov. Corbett Mandates Vaginal Ultrasounds

“Now is the time of making ‘PROFIT OFF THE JUSTICE’ a reality to all of God’s children.’

 2013 - $5 million per day spent on immigration detention /$6.5 million per mile for Border Control

“Now, we can ALL join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, FREE at last! FREE at last! Thank god, almighty, WE are FREE at last!”

2013 – People of color make up about 30 percent of the United States population, they account for 60 percent of those imprisoned.

Boehner: "I didn't attend March on Washington commemoration because I lacked the right ID"

Boehner: "I didn't attend March on Washington commemoration because I lacked the right ID"

The Daily Edge

Speaker of the House John Boehner denied today he had turned down an invitation to attend the 50th anniversary March on Washington commemoration this week because of a “scheduling problem” as previously reported.

“To be honest it was just a cock-up on my part,”  he told The Daily Edge. “I had an early morning tee time with corporate lobbyists at my exclusive all-male country club. You know how it is,” he went on. “The Big Oil guys sent a limo to pick me up at 5:30 AM. It wasn’t until I got the the 15th hole, I realized I’d left the house without my wallet.”

Boehner explained that he frequently left home without his wallet, especially when being entertained at “fancy schmancy” country clubs and restaurants or flying on the private jets of Wall Street CEOs.

“They call me ‘Mr. Short Arms,’” he chuckled, “Because I sometimes pretend I’m reaching for my wallet to pay a massive bar tab, but my arms never seem long enough to reach my pockets. It’s kind of a running joke. You have to be there, I guess.”

Our reporter urged the blurry-eyed Boehner to refocus on his explanation as to why he shunned the 50th anniversary celebration of the March for Jobs and Freedom, an event attended by Presidents Obama, Clinton and Carter and dedicated both to the memory of MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech and the ongoing challenges faces by minorities, women, the LGBT community and all children, students and all working families seeking their opportunity to access the American Dream.

“Without my wallet I didn’t have my Congressional ID to attend the event,” he said. “And for something like that, I wasn’t going to spend four hours on a round-trip drive to my apartment, fighting traffic all the way, just to take a shower, put on a suit, show up and pretend I give a shit about jobs or freedom.”

“You didn’t think it was kinda expected?” we asked.

“Of course,” said Boehner. “It’s like voting. You know you should do it. But we know that once we put all these elaborate obstacles in place for blacks and Hispanics and seniors and students, many of them simply won’t be able to jump through all the hoops we set up.”

“Really?” we prompted.

“Yeah, like that elderly woman born in the Jim Crow south to a midwife. She’s 78 years old. She doesn’t have a birth certificate or a driver’s license. Unless she has a gun license, she’s screwed. There’s no way she’ll ever be able to satisfy the new requirements. This is off the record, right?” he added with a nervous chuckle.

Additional background on Boehner’s love for golfing with lobbyists at all-male clubs:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/john-boehner-burning-tree-lobby

More on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and the new war on voting rights:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/28/obama-martin-luther-king-50th-anniversary-celebrations

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Why does this man hate Irish Families? 

Alpha Lemmingtarian Rand Paul LIED

Alpha Lemmingtarian

Rand Paul LIED About GOP's Racist Civil Rights Record at Howard University

How Fox News Covers The 50th Anniversary Of The March On Washington

JOSH BARRO

Today is the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which brought about a quarter million protesters to the National Mall to demand passage of civil rights legislation.

In that spirit, Fox News' America Live had a discussion yesterday of one of the key problems facing black Americans 50 years on: rap.

Yes. Here's the screenshot with Fox's chyron: "50 YEARS AFTER MARCH ON WASHINGTON SOME SEE RAP MUSIC AS A PROBLEM."

TED CRUZ HAS NOT APOLOGIZED FOR BEING BORN IN CANADA AND OTHER PROBLEMS.

TED CRUZ HAS NOT APOLOGIZED FOR BEING BORN IN CANADA AND OTHER PROBLEMS.

Tea Party Cat

19/08/13

While, sure, there’s a legal case to be made that Ted Cruz is eligible to be president based on the fact that his mom was a citizen when he was born, I am still troubled by the release of his birth certificate.

Now before I get too far, let me just say I love the way he espouses and defends conservative ideology. He is a great spokesman for our Eternal Principles that were passed from God to Moses to Jesus to the Founding Fathers to Reagan and finally passed, after some fumbling by the Bushes, to the Tea Party. But like most Real Americans, fancy talk isn’t enough for me. Sarah Palin knows what I’m talking about.

Disturbing revelations of the Birth Certificate

#1 He hasn’t even apologized for being born in Canada. Frankly I’m insulted when I think about this, aren’t you? Does he think we don’t know? That we don’t care?

#2 Shows poor choice of parents. Why didn’t he choose an American citizen as his father? Does he secretly hate Americans in the same way that Obama hates white people, as Glenn Beck proved in 2009?

#3 If he didn’t choose to be born in US, how can we be sure he will make the right choices for America?

#4 Canada isn’t Kenya, but it’s still not the US. How can we count on someone born under the Canadian dollar to return us to the gold standard? I mean, vending machines won’t even take Canadian quarters, so how can we accept a Canadian born man as our president?

#5 Born in 1970. Can anyone so young be counted on? I mean, he doesn’t even have any memory of the glory days of Jim Crow.

Reasonable Doubt about Ted Cruz

And all this just adds to the ongoing list of concerns I and others in the Tea Party have with Senator Cruz:

#6 Went to Harvard. Just like Obama.

#7 Lost his case before the Supreme Court. Could someone who professes to love the Constitution as much as Ted Cruz does lose before this court? How is that even possible? I mean, all you need to do is flash your GOP credentials and you’ve already got Scalia, Thomas, Alito and Roberts. Something’s fishy here.

#8 No one heard of him outside Texas before last year. In order to keep the FBI from infiltrating, the Mafia traces people back to Sicily before someone can be a made man. Shouldn’t we do the same? Shouldn’t we be making sure that all Republicans are descended from Confederate war veterans? Can anyone else be trusted to value states’ rights enough?

Additional concerns have been raised by my colleague, The Daily Edge, in his post about how Ted Cruz birth certificate raises more questions than answers, which I encourage you to also read.

Nice try, Senator Cruz

So, after careful consideration of all the evidence, I just can’t support Ted Cruz for president, and encourage my fellow Tea Partiers to reject him as well. While he talks a good game– a great game– he’s just not one of us.