First, she noted that blacks are true victims, but then she notes Liberals haven't done much to help them. Wait, considering the GOP is showing itself to be the party of racists (hey, it's done so many racist things of late, it's hard to debate it), no mention of that?
But she also said Liberals want to be black so they can be victims.
Beck: Does everybody wanna be Black?
Coulter: Liberals do because that's the official, the top victim status so that being black trumps being an insect and ahhh, huh...
Being black trumpbs being an insect? Watch the video:
the clown who talked about Obama's mama getting an abortion?
He's another C-STREET CULTIST!!
VIDEO: Maddow outs Rep. Todd Tiahrt as "C Street Cult" member! by SamsonWH [Subscribe] Share this on Twitter - VIDEO: Maddow outs Rep. Todd Tiahrt as "C Street Cult" member! Mon Jul 20, 2009 at 08:49:30 PM PDT (Sorry for how short this diary is!)
This is big!
Todd Tiahrt is running for Senate in Kansas and he's considered the front runner in the GOP primary.
Seriously, time for a real investigation into this "C Street" cult....the FBI had a full program to destroy the Black Panthers but this "C Street" crap is allowed to go on?
Now...where is that card...I know I put that card somewhere, geez...driver's license, DSW points card.....social security card....where is it?
LMAO, is anyone else watching Colbert? He's now saying he's a recent Black man because pat buchanan said he has been reverse discriminated against. LOL!
spirit_55z
Rachel Maddow Corrects Pat Buchanan (Racist) Statements! (4 Days Later)
I saw a report on Oprah (I think it was Oprah) about how those dogs help Vets who are returning as well as the people in prison who train them. I think it's a great thing. I wish I could find the clip from the show.
Val
All the important news going on today this is a little frivolous but what the heck. Palin Hairdresser: NYT Lied About Her Hair Thinning (UPDATE: NYT Responds)
Now, that stylist is saying it's not true. In a post on her Twitter account, Jessica Steele owner of the Beehive in Wasilla, wrote: "I am Sarah Palin's hairdresser in Alaska! The media is saying Sarah's hair is thinning this is a lie!!! I never said this and it's not true!"
She repeated the rebuttal and disparaged the media in subsequent posts, saying "I have never spoken 2 Inside Edition or told any reporter at the NYTs that Sarah Palin's hair was thinning to the point of emergency! Liers! [sic]" and "If u think about it saying Sarah's Palins hair is thinning is the dumbest lie the New York Times and inside Edition can come up with yet!"
Ya'll probably already saw this and I have to say officially that the GOP is a bunch of %$&*#@@@@%$ %$#@*$# @%@
Official House GOP Website Promoting Video Of Rep Saying Obama’s Mom Might Have Aborted Him
The other day, GOP Rep Todd Tiahrt sparked a firestorm by suggesting in a speech on the House floor that if the government had paid for abortions, Obama’s mother might have, well, had an abortion.
Wouldn’t you know it, but now the official Web site of the House GOP has posted video of Tiahrt making the eyebrow-raising suggestion.
In case you missed it, Tihart said last week that government funded abortions could encourage low-income moms to have more abortions, and then added:
“Our President grew up in those similar circumstances. If that financial incentive was in place, is it possible that his mother might have taken advantage of it?”
The House Republican Conference’s Web site has now posted video of Tiahrt saying this stuff right here, which seems to constitute something less than condemnation.
The video posted there does include Tiahrt’s whole floor speech, under the title: “Tiahrt’s Opposition to Taxpayer Funded Abortions.” But the vid does include, at the 4:15 mark, Tiahrt’s claim that Obama’s mother might have cut short her pregnancy.
Not to go too far out on a limb, but maybe this means the House GOP doesn’t see any need to distance itself from the remarks…
Bobby Jindal has seen enough of this healthcare business Morning Fix: Jindal Rises Again
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) will wade into the national debate over health care this week by penning op-eds in Politico and the Wall Street Journal and appearing on a series of cable chat shows today and tomorrow.
"Governor Jindal has seen enough," said Curt Anderson, a consultant for Jindal. "As a health-care policy expert, he strongly believes that the House Democrat[ic] plan would be a disaster for the long-term health of the American people, and the long-term health of the economy."
WASHINGTON — A federal judge has ruled that CIA officials committed fraud to protect a former covert agent against an eavesdropping lawsuit and is considering sanctioning as many as six who have worked at the agency, including former CIA Director George Tenet.
And here we thought paying for sex was a no-no, especially for scandal-wary Members of Congress. But Rep. Steve Buyer thinks people who engage in the act (specifically, the kind that takes place sans protection) should have to pony up.
The Indiana Republican floated his unlikely cash-for-sex proposal Thursday during the markup of the health care bill in the Energy and Commerce Committee. http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_9/hoh/36956-1...
Val
Chuck Todd: Media Has "Created This Drama" That Obama Is Struggling With Health Care (VIDEO)
We're Beyond The Public Option By dday Monday Jul 20, 2009 7:00pm
Take a look at this ad from America's Health Insurance Plans, the insurance industry lobby.
See what's missing? The words "public option." Or really, any attack on the current plan in Congress at all. The spot associates AHIP with a reform banning denial of coverage for pre-existing condition in exchange for getting every American covered, gently asks for the final bill to be bipartisan, and... that's it.
Similarly, Olympia Snowe, who signed on to the letter calling for a delay in the deadline for reporting a health care bill out of the Senate, positively called for a public option on day one in a speech this weekend in Maine.
What this shows me is that we have now moved beyond the public option as the fulcrum point for the health care debate. We don't know what form it will take or how accessible it will be to all Americans, but if there's a bill signed by the President, it will include a public option. The major players have given up on that score and moved on to other issues to try and derail health care, particularly costs. We've seen much more criticism about cost controls and surtaxes on the wealthy over the last week than any discussion of the public option.
That's because those other facets of the policy don't poll as well as a public option does. They're also harder to explain and quantify. And the forces defending the status quo have found a much easier path by arguing for more delay, questioning costs, lying about the impact on small businesses, claiming that Democrats are engaging in class warfare, raising specters about rationing, and generally using that fiscal scold pose, saying we cannot pay for health care reform while protecting federal health care funding for their districts and localities. On the far right fringe you have lies about how the bill "outlaws private insurance," but in general, the status quo forces think they can trap the bill with a discussion about its cost, not its function.
Of course, the larger effort here is to destroy the Democratic agenda and basically ensure a first term without substantive accomplishments. And Obama is right to use Jim DeMint's "Waterloo" line against him, make it famous, and condemn those who would turn an urgent need for tens of millions of Americans into a game of political hardball:
Just the other day, one Republican Senator said, and I’m quoting him now, “if we’re able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.” Think about that. This isn’t about me. This isn’t about politics. This about a health care system that is breaking America’s families, breaking America’s businesses and breaking America’s economy. And we can’t afford the politics of delay and defeat when it comes to health care. Not this time, not now. There are too many lives and livelihoods at stake.
What we may see is a brief scaling back on the deadline, which should still leave enough time to report a bill out of both houses in September and reconcile them by October. But the fights ahead for health care appear to be playing out over cost and who pays. The public option is in the bill, as long as it gets dragged over the line.
Obama, Mormon leader meet in Oval Office (AP) – 6 hours ago
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has met with the leader of the Mormon church.
Obama and the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Thomas S. Monson, met in the Oval Office on Monday. Monson gave Obama a detailed genealogical history, as the church has done for other U.S. presidents.
Obama says he is grateful for the records and that he looks forward to reading through the material with his two daughters. He says his family will treasure the records for years to come.
It was the first face-to-face meeting between Monson and Obama.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat who is Mormon, joined the meeting.
by the way, I cannot provide an original copy of my birth certificate...I can't explain why...maybe because my parents moved around so much and then I ended up in a foster care system. I can get a certification of my birth records, but, I could never provide my original birth certificate.
Miranda
Well if you can't provide your ORIGINAL birth certificate, that means you were never born. I was never born either although I have THREE original copies of my birth certificate (which is wierd because by definition of the word "original", then if its a copy it really cant be the original one..but lets not confuse the birthers with technicalities)...anyway, my parents dont have their original birth certificates...so they aren't born.....hence, I'm not born.
Angelar
ok, back up a second...the birthers are not arguing whether Obama was born...it is WHERE he was born and the legality of where he was born.
The certificate issue will go on and on forever...because racism being racism means never having to accept reality.
Angelar
fyi....this is not going away at all!
the birther crap...
"Importantly, this doesn't appear to be an isolated incident. The Washington Independent says the so-called "birther movement" challenging Obama's citizenship is actually gaining momentum and increasingly dogging the Republican party.
I’m sure you are all as surprised by this as I am:
Teenage pregnancies and syphilis have risen sharply among a generation of American school girls who were urged to avoid sex before marriage under George Bush’s evangelically-driven education policy, according to a new report by the US’s major public health body.
In a report that will surprise few of Bush’s critics on the issue, the Centres for Disease Control says years of falling rates of teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted disease infections under previous administrations were reversed or stalled in the Bush years. According to the CDC, birth rates among teenagers aged 15 or older had been in decline since 1991 but are up sharply in more than half of American states since 2005. The study also revealed that the number of teenage females with syphilis has risen by nearly half after a significant decrease while a two-decade fall in the gonorrhea infection rate is being reversed. The number of Aids cases in adolescent boys has nearly doubled.
The CDC says that southern states, where there is often the greatest emphasis on abstinence and religion, tend to have the highest rates of teenage pregnancy and STDs.
At least the southern states get to lead the nation in something.
Val
it isnt funny but heh.heh.heh.
lamh32
Hey,
But this has got to be only those hedonistic black & mexican kids right? not the nice lily-white kids.
We do lots of testing, but our seriuos money-maker is the testing we do for Neisseria gonnorheae, and Chlamydia trachomatis. I kid you not that 10% of the patient population I test are pos for either one or the other or BOTH!. And a majority of the positives are teenagers and yound adults. I've seen them as young as 14...
Has anyone heard grumblings that the soldier being held by the Taliban is a deserter?
lamh32
Over at Huff Po, they have a story up about a Conservative Fox commentator who said this soldier was a deserter, and the Taliban can do us a favor and kill 'em.
Yeah, I saw that. So the conflicting reports of HOW he was captured bring up questions of desertion. Sometimes I'm just amazed at the leaps in logic when information ISN'T given.
I'm getting sick of living here wtih these people. I want to trade 'em in.
Why was it even posted? I'm glad it was taken down.
Lisa M
I'll take your word for it. I couldn't understand a word they were saying.
Miranda
Republican sex scandal meets spirituality on C Street
The large townhouse, valued at more than $1.8 million, is run by Christian network of nonprofits and ministries known as “The Fellowship.” Headquartered in Arlington, Va., the group focuses on what Fellowship leaders call the “up and out,” or powerful politicians struggling to confront their personal demons. By ministering to the most powerful, The Fellowship believes, it can bring Christian beliefs to the larger culture. Jeff Sharlet, who wrote a book about his time in The Fellowship's Virginia headquarters, said the group believes that lawmakers have been "chosen" to lead by Jesus Christ. Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/25139...
Chris Brown has posted a video on YouTube telling his fans how sorry he is for the Rihanna assault. He pleaded guilty to assault last month and will serve five years on probation.
In the message, posted below, he tells the camera in part:
"Since February my attorney has advised me not to speak out even though ever since the incident I wanted to publicly express my deepest regret and accept full responsibility. I felt it was time you hear directly from me that I am sorry.
"I cannot go into what happened, and most importantly am not going to sit here and make any excuses. I take great pride in me being able to exercise self control, and what I did was inexcusable. I am very saddened and very ashamed of what I have done. My mother and my spiritual teachers have taught me way better than that....
"I have told Rihanna countless times, and I am telling you today, that I am truly sorry and that I wasn't able to handle the situation both differently and better.. I hope that others learn from my mistake. I intend to live my life so that I am truly worthy of the term 'role model.' "
morphus
Lawyers for a black police officer's organization plan to ask a federal judge for an immediate injuction banning all Philadelphia officers from using the website domelights.com while at work.
The Guardian Civic League sued the Police Department, the website and its founder last week in federal court, charging the site contains hostile, racist material.
The league has called a news conference for this afternoon to discuss plans to ask U.S. District Court Judge Cynthia Rufe for an expedited hearing.
The league said that white officers post to the website and moderate it while on duty using department computers, creating a hostile work environment for black officers.
Is this black and white artwork on a 'Baptist air conditioner'?
Lisa M
Chris Matthews just said he voted for Steele for MD Senator and Bush for President. Can we stop with this liberal media bias crap and that MSNBC is the Obama network?
Miranda
The whole "liberal media bias" is as real as the tooth fairy.
Damn, that was quick. Well it should have been removed because it was horrible. Remember the LIl Wayne/Drake performance at the BET Awards with the little girls on stage? It was like that but MUCH MUCH WORSE!!!! Little kids on stage, GROWN people in the audience (it looked like a rec center or something) and some "rapper" yelling about "I eats da P******"
khrish
Don't you wonder what our people are thinking sometimes? With all that energy, why couldn't they have come up with something better than that. And the adults just sitting there eating it up. It's pathetic.
Promoted to Primary Headline on 7/19/09: Gang of Sickos: Six US Senators Sell Out Constituents for $11 Million from Health Industry
A bipartisan group of six "moderate" US senators, dubbed the "Gang of Six" by news agencies, issued a demand July 17 for a slowdown on Democratic health care reform. These senators - including three conservative Democrats, one conservative Independent who caucuses with Democrats, and two moderate Republicans - asked for a slowdown on health care reform not because their constituents wished it so: recent polls show that a clear majority of Americans want health care reform now including a public health care option such as that proposed by President Obama and progressives in Congress.
No, these senators asked for a slowdown on health care reform because the for-profit health, insurance, and pharmaceutical industries have bid them to do so in the hope that reform can be stopped, and because these same industries have generously provided them with career campaign contributions totalling more than $11 million.
These six senators - whom I'll call the "Gang of Sickos" in honor of Michael Moore's film on America's health care crisis similarly titled - are Democrats Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, and Ron Wyden of Oregon; Independent Joe Lieberman of Connecticut; and Republicans Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine (Paul Krugman calls them "the six deadly hypocrites"). Their career total and average daily contributions from the health, insurance, and pharmaceutical industries are summarized by Paul Blumenthal at the Huffington Post based on figures from the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP).
Sicko #1: Democrat Ben Nelson of Nebraska, the ringleader of the group, has raised more than $2.2 million in campaign contributions from the health, insurance, and pharmaceutical industries over the course of his career according to Blumenthal, averaging more than $700 per day since taking office in January 2001. Public Campaign Action Fund (PCAF) gives a slightly lower career total of just over $2.0 million for Nelson, and provides extensive detail on his ties to the health, insurance, and pharmaceutical industries. Before entering politics, as PCAF notes, Nelson spent his career as an insurance executive, as an insurance company lawyer and, early in his career, as Nebraska's state insurance regulator. As PCAF also notes, a number of Nelson's former Senate staffers have moved on into lucrative careers as health, insurance, and pharmaceutical industry lobbyists. Comments may be addressed to Senator Nelson via his Senate contact page (Nebraska residents only) or by direct e-mail at: senator@bennelson.senate.gov (CRP: Ben Nelson).
Damn. Wyden was my guy when I lived in Oregon. He was like a counterweight to Bob "sexual harrassment" packwood and "cowboy" Mark Hatfield. Money - root of all evil indeed.
Standard disclaimer applies-me speaking, not the campaign. Though it might be more the drugs talking.
First off, you know I don't get to handle the "important" people; hell, I only get Bob for black churches and to play driver/"armed escort.'
I got this right before I went through the CT yesterday, and while I was slowly cooking (iodine contrast burns a bit), I wondered what I was supposed to do with this bit of information. Suggest that the campaign run the ad of Bob and his family right after the latest Weezy video? Nah, bad idea.
Fact is, I don't see this helping me at all. Don't see it harming me (greatest accomplishment to date is killing the NBRA invite), but to me, she's useless. Money talks, sure. But I need people who are gonna go door to door, pick up voters, etc. In military terms, I need grunts...not more polished officers.
She brings nothing to the table for me...'less she wants to walk in Park Place or Gilpin Court and help me drop lit.
Sepia
Well, she made her fortune promoting the racist stereotypes of black folk, so I'm not surprised.
rikyrah
what did he do for her? did he help grease the way for that spa of hers?
Sepia
Dayum! You put her on Front St. and Blast Ave.!
isonprize
Awwwww- right... Give up the scoop.
rikyrah
she's obsessed with opening a spa, and her rich, WHITE neighbors didn't want her to have it. but, somehow, she got the approval for it.
How can anything regarding the economy be measured as to whether things getting better since most of what was standard business models are going up in smoke? Newspapers, broadcasting, etc. will never return to their old models. For the most part investment banks are gone, wall street is not the same.
We are in uncharted water, how do you measure where forward is?
RobM
It is still people going back to work. The question is to do what and at what wages.
Town
I don't know, but it seems to me the wages aren't going back up. If an employer has cut wages 20% and gotten the same level of work out of you as before, why would they raise it back up to the same wage level?
RobM
Overall demand for talent will boost wages. Right now there is a surplus of everything. At some point it will change. I suspect that it will be a long slow change as real wages had been coming down in this country since 2000.
morphus
In some cases, it is not about skills/talents. And, I would venture to suggest, most often it is not. Take for example, meatpacking where one is not required to have a bachelor degree. The wages in those plants were driven down because owners broke unions when brining in immigrants.
After the immigrants started efforts to form unions in meatpacking plants, there were all of these immigration raids. Towns and states where these raids occurred had large displaced population of blacks.
When the same plants were forced to hire idled blacks again, the blacks demand their correct pay scales, overtime pay, and enforced DOL/OSHA regulations.
Owners cried out the black workers cost too much, they were losing profits, cost of operation increased simply because they had to pay workmen comp, benefits, minimum wage, and make the workplace safe.
This is a perfect example that its not always about the amerrican worker not being skilled its about using the rhetoric to justify keeping wages low..
Miranda
Really good question. I wanna know the answer to that too.
morphus
Subprime broker: “We just changed the script and changed the product we were selling,” said Mr. Soussana, who ran the Los Angeles sales office of Federal Loan Modification Law Center. The new script: You got a raw deal, and “Now, we’re able to help you out because we understand your lender.”
FedMod is but one example of how many of the same people who dispensed risky mortgages during the real estate bubble have reconstituted themselves into a new industry focused on selling loan modifications.
Despite making promises of relief to homeowners desperate to keep their homes, FedMod and other profit making loan modification firms often fail to deliver, according to a New York Times investigation based on interviews with scores of former employees and customers, more than 650 complaints filed with the Better Business Bureau, and documents filed by the Federal Trade Commission in a lawsuit against the company.
The suit, filed in California federal court, asserts that FedMod frequently exaggerated its rates of success, advised clients to stop making their mortgage payments, did little or nothing to modify loans and failed to promptly refund fees. The suit seeks an end to FedMod’s practices, and compensation for customers.
Where is the outrage?
RobM
The need to move the economy forward is retarding the ability of the regulators to receieve sufficient funding to prosecute the offenders. These types of criminal cases do not have draconian enough outcomes for the guilty parties.
I have an idea, hire more regulators, the government is trying to stimulate other sectors. I'm sure there is a great deal of auditors and other accounting people out of work. It will make a dent in the unemployment rate.
morphus
Agreed. But, there in lies the rub.
Congress willfully dismantled the civil service workforce and replaced them with private contractors. Private contract workers work at the convenience of their overlords and not "The People". This began under Regun but Newt and his "contract on America crowd" really caused a lot of damage. And, do I need to address what happen under the coup from 2000?
Civil service workers worked for "The People" and were a thorn in the side of Congress.
My suggestion is to get rid of the private contractors, restore the civil services to be the watchdogs of Congress and let them do their due diligence for "The People", under these conditions, there will be ample time to address what is happening daily to individual citizens.
rikyrah
Hidden Danger The Senate must shoot down a concealed-weapons amendment. Monday, July 20, 2009
THE GUNS-everywhere-guns-for-all crowd in Congress is at it again. This time it's Sen. John Thune's turn. The South Dakota Republican has attached an amendment to the Defense Department authorization bill that would create a national standard for carrying concealed weapons. Those who are permitted to have them in their home states would be allowed to travel with them to almost any other state. We urge senators to vote no when it comes up for a vote Monday.
Illinois and Wisconsin are the only states that do not issue concealed-carry permits. The District doesn't have such permits for civilians. Forty-six states have varying requirements to obtain a permit to carry a concealed weapon. In Maryland, Virginia and at least 29 other states, some form of safety training is required, and abusers of alcohol are prohibited from getting a permit. At least 35 states reject those convicted of certain misdemeanors. In Maryland that includes extortion; in Virginia that includes simple assault and stalking. Both states require law enforcement to assess whether the applicant will endanger others.
None of this, including existing reciprocity agreements among some of the states, will matter if Mr. Thune's amendment passes. It would make concealed-carry permits akin to driver's licenses. If you meet the requirements for concealed carry in your home state, your permit would be honored in another. You just have to abide by the laws of the state you're visiting with regard to where and in what manner you carry the gun.
This is a frightening prospect. The argument that this will help law-abiding citizens is unconvincing. According to a coalition of gun violence prevention groups, there have been three confirmed mass shootings carried out by people who had concealed-carry permits. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence reports there have been at least 19 shootings around the country in 2009 involving such permit holders.
Conservatives usually argue against the federal government telling states what they can and can't do. If approved, the Thune amendment would trample all over the rights of states and cities to enforce reasonable restrictions on gun ownership. There are already enough guns on America's streets. A vote for Mr. Thune's bill would make them that much more dangerous.
Skip Gates was arrested last week for breaking into his own home in Cambridge, MA. A neighbor saw a suspicious Black man in the middle of the day and called the cops. I love the liberal Northeast.
I hope Harvard fires him for breaking and entering just like they did the two women.
Val
fires him for entering his own home????
TyrenM
Why so hard on Brotha Gates? School me man.
RobM
It's not that I have any facts but the two women whom were kicked out of Harvard because of the death of a drug dealer the two knew on Harvard's campus left a very nasty taste in my mouth. I don't believe they set up anyone for the robbery turned murder yet they were kicked to the curb like crack whores after the fleet's come in. I do not recall, nor have I read about anything coming out of Gates mouth one way or another so I find his arrest ironic to be charitable.
malletgirl02
I also want to know.
isonprize
School a sista too. I was just talkin' ish about him being locked out.
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