Jack & Jill Politics

It was RobM.

Dallas police wrongly ticketed at least 39 drivers for not speaking English over the last three years, Police Chief David Kunkle announced Friday while promising to investigate all officers involved in the cases for dereliction of duty.

Pending cases will be dismissed, and those who paid the $204 fine for the charge, which does not exist in the city, will be reimbursed, Kunkle said.

Dallas police ticketed 39 drivers in 3 years for not speaking English

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U.S. Senator John McCain has introduced legislation that would block the U.S. Federal Communications Commission from creating new net neutrality rules, on the same day that the FCC took the first step toward doing so.

McCain introduces bill to block FCC's net neutrality rules

My point of view is simple:

Time out from predictions for everybody seriously. If its failed since 200 A.D. to get the correct time for the end of the world maybe its time we focused on fixing the present world

LOL!

AFTERNOON OPEN THREAD IS UP

Only morons believe this nonsense. It's all driven by fear. Well, if it ends on 2012 atleast I won't have to pay these damn student loans.

Reason # (Hell I have ran out of numbers )to fight the right wing media and their apologist.
RIGHT FALLS FOR 'THESIS' HOAX…. Right-wing pundit Michael Ledeen published an item this week on Barack Obama's “college thesis,” which Obama allegedly wrote as a student at Columbia 25 years ago. Leeden cited some website, which ran a piece in August.

The paper was called “Aristocracy Reborn,” and in the first ten pages (which were all that reporter Joe Klein — who wrote about it for Time — was permitted to see), the young Obama wrote:

“… the Constitution allows for many things, but what it does not allow is the most revealing. The so-called Founders did not allow for economic freedom. While political freedom is supposedly a cornerstone of the document, the distribution of wealth is not even mentioned. While many believed that the new Constitution gave them liberty, it instead fitted them with the shackles of hypocrisy.”

That's quite an indictment, even for an Ivy League undergraduate…. Maybe instead of fuming about words that Rush Limbaugh never uttered, the paladins of the free press might ask the president about words that he did write.

Yesterday, Rush Limbaugh picked up on Leeden's report, blasting Obama for the alleged paper.

The first sign of trouble was when Joe Klein noted that he's never seen or written about Obama's college thesis, and has “no idea where this report comes from.”

The second sign of trouble was when one stopped to notice that Obama didn't write a senior thesis (though he did write a thesis-length paper on Soviet nuclear disarmament).

The third sign of trouble was when one clicked on the link that Leeden provided as support and found the word “satire.”

Yes, Leeden and Limbaugh got all worked up, trashing the president for a paper he didn't write in college 25 years ago, relying on a satirical blog post. And for real entertainment value, notice what Leeden and Limbaugh did when they realized they'd fallen for a dumb joke — they blamed Obama anyway.

Leeden conceded he was wrong and apologized, but added, “It worked because it's plausible.” Limbaugh said the text he touted was fake, but it didn't matter because, “I know Obama thinks it.” Yep, even when they're wrong, it's only because the president makes it easy for them to be confused.

Remember, the Washington Post and New York Times are committed to paying much closer attention to what's generating buzz among far-right talk-show hosts and bloggers. Here's hoping the dailies noticed the Leeden/Limbaugh journalistic breakthrough.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/indiv…

seen it.

LOVE IT.

I love that everyone is smart. the FBI guy is smart;the criminal is smart, but doesn't make a fool of the FBI guy.

that he found Diahann Carroll, and she's rich with a White maid…LOL

and the art school going granddaughter.

the FBI Black girl I've missed since she left VEGAS.

I think I'm going to like this show.

Thanks for the link. Typical foolishness from the Right.

I don't see a problem EVEN IF HE DID write this.

I suppose when marijuana prohibition went into play, the stigma of “non-white” and “dangerous” was attached to the drug. It's a “peculiar” nation…

That is pretty lame…

Hi ED.
See you still can't read and realize that one and one are two.
The banks made bad loans could they thought they could unload the risk to bond holders whom were to stupid to do due dilgence. In not performing due diligence investors/speculators bought bonds that were sliced and diced that hid how bad the underlying portfolio was. Even the Fed says it was not a problem w/ CRA.

When you come here would you please wear a bibb?