Jack & Jill Politics

EVENING THREAD IS UP

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17254...

Dean snubbed???

Barkley taking a leave of absence from TNT

Atlanta, GA (Sports Network) - Charles Barkley is taking a leave of absence from the TNT broadcast team.

The announcement came in a statement from David Levy, the president of Turner Sports, on Friday.

"I have spoken with Charles Barkley regarding the incident that took place in Scottsdale, Arizona, last week and I understand he has hired a lawyer to represent him regarding this matter," said Levy. "When I spoke with Charles, he was apologetic for the events that transpired and it was obvious he understood the significance of this situation. This is an important time for Charles as he deals with the legal and personal issues that confront him. Charles is a valued part of the Turner Sports organization and we are concerned for his well-being."

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/scorecard/nbanews...

-A terrible blow for broadcasting.

Awww.....say it aint so Chuck!

Job

Aw, Miranda, you ruined the joke.

Justice58: Think there won't be any CHANGE? Hah!!

"Word on the street" is that on January 20, "sista-girl" is gonna TOSS ALL present COOKBOOKS and get soma these titles:

1. "Diva" Angela Shelf Medearis - Rethinks Soul Food

2. African-American Heritage Cookbook

3. The NEW African-American Cookbook

4. "Joe Foreman Cooks"

5. "Patti Labelle Cooks"

6. The Early American Cookbook [Oldest known African-=American Cookbook]


Annnnnnnnnnnd,

That NEW "$500,000" CHINA! - - - - - OUT!! Replaced by "COREL CHINA"

Those "crystal glasses"! - - - - - OUT! Replaced by "Jelly Jar" CRYSTAL

That silverware!- - - - - -OUT!! Replaced by "HEAVY Duty Plastic" - the kind that is - "silver"

Those cloth napkins! - - - - - - OUT! Replaced by "Tar- Jey [get]" Dinner Napkins!!

NOW THAT'S CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!!

I'm THA-ROUGH!!! :>) :>)

ROTFLMAO!!!!!

lol

I am very upset about this selection. From what I've read, Comerford is a total hack.

/snark

I'm so disappointed! This is not change!

Just wait, there will be a Kos diary up momentarily: "This is not change we can believe in!" :)

They'll be in a complete outrage over passing of "Proposition Chef "

I wouldn't be a bit surprised! Daily Kos has become that nutty!

rikyrah: Mother-In-Law Robinson is going to "MAKE THAT MOVE" into the White House - -for NOW!!

L8R, she will decide IFF she will stay! :>) :>) NICE!!

MSNBC 1:55pm

Bob Johnson's trying to use the old ION cable network to establish a new BET. Unknown if there're be Keyshia Coles and Sanford & Son reruns, but at least there wont be Tyler Perry...

http://www.whataboutourdaughters.com/2009/01/wa...

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON??

Family wants police charged in New Orleans killing

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- As fireworks exploded over the Big Easy on New Year's Eve, 22-year-old Adolph Grimes III pulled up to his grandmother's home near the French Quarter after a five-hour drive from Houston, Texas.
Grimes, who relocated to Texas with his fiancée, Shae Whitfield, after Hurricane Katrina, couldn't wait to get home with their 17-month-old son, Chris, and ring in the new year with friends and family.
"He made it at 12 o'clock exact, with a second to spare," said his father, Adolph Grimes Jr.
Three hours later, Grimes lay dying on the sidewalk half a block from his grandmother's front door, with fireworks giving way to the hue of flashing police lights.
The Orleans Parish coroner said Grimes was shot 14 times, including 12 times in the back.
Grimes had just walked out of the house and was in a car waiting for his cousin, according to family members, when nine plainclothes officers -- part of an undercover narcotics task force driving around New Orleans on New Year's Eve -- surrounded Grimes' vehicle.
Shots rang out; New Orleans Police Superintendent Warren Riley said Grimes shot at police first.
The Grimes family disagrees, saying police executed a loved one as he ran for his life.
"It was like someone was a murderer, and they finally caught him," said Grimes' mother, Patricia. "I ain't ever seen anything like this. And the worst part about it was I had to wait for the 5 o'clock news to find out my son was murdered."
Shortly after finding out about the death, the family contacted the FBI to investigate alleged wrongdoing by police officers in the shooting.

Why does this sound familiar? Is this Groundhog's Day or something??????

I guess the fact that we have a AA President makes this OK also!

Jesus Christ!

Shooting someone in the back 12 freaking times. OMG!

14 TIMES 12 TIMES IN THE BACK
14 TIMES 12 TIMES IN THE BACK
14 TIMES 12 TIMES IN THE BACK

The klan is at hand.

IN. THE. BACK.

IN.THE.BACK.

NOTHING BUT OPEN SEASON!

It's open season on black men. You didn't know?

Other young black men have likely killed more young black men than all the police departments from Miami to Maine, from NYC to Wassila AK. About some anger and outrage there? Seriously.

WTF, are you fucking kdding me????? One civil servant that is paid to protect citizens and kills an unarmed man as viciously as what we seen, is worse than 50 million black men killing each other. GMAFB.

So that makes it OK? Just fine and dandy?????

ok. Black on Black crime = nationwide Police CLEARANCE for open season on Black men. WTF?

According to Chris, it shouldn't matter that cops are killing unarmed black men, b/c black men kill other black men. That makes it right. No need to be outraged. *major fucking eye roll*

DOUBLE EYE ROLL >>>><<<<

Eye Roll

I was right there rolling mine too.

Say what? really? who knew?
Thanks for sharing - no one had any idea black on black crime was going on. Wow.

There is NO SUCH THING as "black on black crime."

People kill/rob/rape who is around them.

White people kill/rob other white people.

Hispanics kill other Hispanics.

Asians kill other Asians.

Yet we don't hear about "Asian on Asian" or "White on White" crime. Why is that? When I open up the paper and hear that Oscar Gonzalo was shot/killed/robbed, I can bet 90% of the time Juan Jimenez did it.

When you hear that Billy Ray out in his hood got shot/robbed/killed, Bobby Joe is the one who done it.

The myth of "black on black" crime only serves to say "lookit black people committing all this crime," as if black = crime, when the fact is people kill who's around them.

Yes, black people are killing and robbing each other too much but that's no excuse for law enforcement to be shooting unarmed and defenseless black people.

I know....but since Chris Chambers has to believe he is dropping science on us, I wanted to do my part in pretending like he did.

Town,

I'm with you! It's a time for all things....But you made me laugh with this. I tried not.

When I open up the paper and hear that Oscar Gonzalo was shot/killed/robbed, I can bet 90% of the time Juan Jimenez did it.


Town, Stop making me laugh!!!!!!!!!!

Levi Johnston's Mother Tries to Explain Drug Arrest

Snippet:

"It's hard not to feel for Sherry Johnston. She has a brand new grandbaby, who she says looks "just like Levi," but instead of enjoying her role as the Nana, she's facing jail time for second-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance."

GMAFB!!! Actually, I don't feel sorry for Sherry Johnston at all. If you push dope you get locked the hell up. At least that's what they do to the duffle bag boys wearing those long ass white tee shirts where I'm from. They don't catch any breaks and this woman shouldn't either.

Baretta- "Don't do the crime if ya can't do the crime." Next!

DON'T DO THE CRIME IF YA CAN'T DO THE TIME. NEXT!

COSIGN!!!!!!!

Sho ya right!!! ^^^^^^^^^^^^

I love that picture, Barack waiting for his girls.....

Blago's Crazy Presser Vid

As the Rod Turns....

Somebody...please tell me Blago did NOT drag the sick and shut-in on stage with him at this press conference...please..somebody tell me he did NOT go there with it.

icebergslim: Yaaaa! :>) Thank you.

BUT I "axe" you: IS THAT AN IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE??" :>) :>)

He ended the news conference by quoting a poem from "Ulysses" by Lord Alfred Tennyson, ending with: "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

BWA HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

"To record, to pay, to play, to deal, to squeal, to...... LOL!!!

*giggles*

He should've just asked everyone if they really want to know about some gangsta shit. I kinda wish he did, it would have been LOLZ all over. Oh well.... :-(

Ex-advisor to panel: ORDER BLAGO TO GET PSYCH EVALUATION

SPRINGFIELD — When former Chicago television broadcaster Bob Arya joined Gov. Blagojevich's staff as a senior advisor in November 2006, the governor described him as “a real asset to my administration.”

But when Arya's run with Blagojevich came to an end, he had a story to tell — one of intense jealousies by the governor toward President-elect Barack Obama, House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago) and others, a terrorized staff, and emotional instabilities that Arya said demonstrate the need for a psychological evaluation by the legislative panel weighing the governor's impeachment.

Not long after Arya assumed his $114,000-a-year position, Blagojevich confided in him his desire to one day reach the White House. When corruption allegations prevented that from happening, the governor's disdain for Obama seemed to grow.
“Rod dislikes Barack Obama because Barack is living the life Rod envisioned for himself,” Arya wrote in a nine-page memo he has shared with the House impeachment panel.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/blagojevich/...

Sounds like both sides are presenting arguments to the court of public opinion, and this one is hella weak.

Playah hatin' as grounds for a court ordered pysche evaluation?

Is this the best y'all got?? LMAO.

Psst!
He's cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!
Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!

saw.that.coming.

He's a straight up fool.

Here we go!

U.S. Supreme Court- American Bar Association Journal
Supreme Court Will Hear ‘Powder Keg’ Voting Rights Case
Posted 1 hour, 14 minutes ago
By Debra Cassens Weiss

The U.S. Supreme Court has accepted a “powder keg” voting rights case that challenges the law requiring Justice Department clearance for changed election procedures in certain jurisdictions.

The case affects nine states, mostly in the South, and several other local voting bodies that are required to get clearance under the law, Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, the New York Times reports. Congress extended the clearance requirement in 2006.

At issue is whether society has changed so much that once-constitutional racial remedies are now improper infringements on state sovereignty. Law professor Richard Hasen of Loyola Law School in Los Angeles told USA Today in a story previewing the case that it offers a “powder keg” of divisive issues.

A decision overturning the extension “would mark the biggest change in U.S. voting law in decades,” Bloomberg News reports.

The Times says the Supreme Court could issue a narrow opinion if it accepts an argument by the utility district challenging the law that it is entitled to an exemption. The district says it is no longer subject to the law because it has acted without discrimination for the last 10 years.

The case is Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District No. 1 v. Mukasey

http://www.abajournal.com/news/supreme_court_wi...

These mofos tried voter suppression at every turn..so much so that we had to invent a WIKI to track it, and they think they can argue that the Voting Rights Act isn't needed?

GTFOH

rikyrah, tell it.

Unfortunately, I am not surprised at all. As the executive and legislative branches look like they might actually work together for the common good, it would not be Washington politics as usual if the judicial branch (stacked with conservatives no doubt) didn't work to keep things "interesting."

There are many people who think Obama's ascendency is the beginning of the end for laws, policies and programs aimed at improving the black social condition. While I do not subscribe to this school of thought, efforts to bring this era to an end are likely just getting underway. Stay tuned...

Somebody tell Donna Brazle that they really are gonna try and put to the back of the bus again....honker down people, its bout to get real tight up in here.

Miranda, Realz tight You gonna break the news to Donna?

She's livin it up on the weekedns over at CNN's "After Party."

Love this pic!

love it too

Come to DADDY.

SUPREME COURT TO HEAR CHALLENGE TO VOTING RIGHTS ACT

By Joan Biskupic, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced Friday that it will hear a challenge to the landmark 1965 voting rights act, paving the way for a major decision this term on federal power to oversee state election laws.
In the backdrop is the recent election of Barack Obama and the question of whether America still needs an expansive law protecting against discrimination in voting now that a black man has won the presidency.

A decision in the case from Texas, to be heard in April, could impact the U.S. government's authority to ensure that racial minorities — who were subjected to literacy tests and other devices to keep them from the polls for most of the 20th Century — continue to have as much of a chance as whites to elect candidates of their choice.

In dispute is the 2006 renewal of the Voting Rights Act, which Congress passed overwhelmingly and President Bush signed.

Richard Hasen, an election-law expert at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, said the dispute "has the potential to be the most important election case since Bush v. Gore." That 2000 decision cut off Florida ballot recounts and ensured Bush the White House.

Miranda, girl you quick. This does not bode well......

Grandma Robinson is going to D.C.!

Get ready for the in-law in chief.

Transition officials said Friday that President-elect Barack Obama's mother-in-law, Marian Robinson, is moving into the White House to join Michelle Obama and their two children.

It's not clear whether the move will be permanent.

Katie McCormick Lelyveld, the press secretary for Michelle Obama, said Robinson would decide in coming months whether she wants to stay in Washington.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090109/ap_on_go_pr...

Those poor SS agents they are just chauffeurs now. They are going to have to protect the press if they come to close to those kids. Is she qualified w/ a pistol or is she just going to pull out a switch and whip everybody's ass when they act out.? I'll bet everyone whom posts here had a granny whom let you know who was large and in charge and your friends were not excluded.

Grandma Francis used to say: "The quickest way to your brain is through the seat of your pants! WHACK!

Knowing this will get me in trouble....

I'm not sure if Michelle's mom rates Secret Service protection. Parents of the President aren't in the list of people the USSS is authorized to protect.

She'll be living in the White House, she'll have it by default.

Whenever she's with the family, she has it.

If she's by herself, though...

"Um...sorry ma'mn"
"We can't take a bullet for you."
"Only the First Family."
"It's the rules."

D,Grandma Robinson will have SS protection. PERIOD

I think she qualifies as immediate family.

I'm not sure, as it's "immediate family of the President."

Does a mother in law qualify as "immediate family?"

Actually I just read that the president can make an Executive Order for any individual he believes should have SS protection..

I read an official definition of immediate family somewhere, when I get a
chance I will look or it, and it includes in-laws.

Here's what I found.

Definition of immediate family

i can't believe you posted this about family. You better keep your ass away from the White House cause I know after she takes you over her knee you'll be saluting and yelling yes maam like it was the first day of boot camp.

Grandma Robinson to "D":
"Who's your granny, who's your granny"

My oath's to the Constitution as a federal employee.

Hell, the oath of enlistment only extends to the "orders of the President."

But the Obamas have earned the courtesies due the office, and opposition on policy doesn't extend to outright disrespect.

My grandmama whupped her foster children.

Ida Bell Hayes DID.NOT.CARE.

But they totally loved her and always came back to see her.

Exactly. Spare the rod, spoil de child.

AMEN!

LOL... and co-signing.

rikyrah: Continuing on BLAGO:

1. Gave examples of HIS Health Care programs. Showed people who "benefitted."

ASKED: ARE THESE IMPEACHABLE OFFENSES??

2.Spoke against the HOUSE NOT the Senate.

3. Quoted Lord Tennyson [that was used by Pres. Kennedy]

4. Walked OFF- no QUESTIONS,

"Annnnnnd, I am tellin' YOU. I'm NOT GOING!!" :>)

LAWD HA'MERCY!! :>)

Oh. My sister called. Going to CNN.