No charges in Trayvon Martin shooting, yet

post from Where's the Outrage? on 12 March 2012 08:20:20 PM. © Where's the Outrage?

I understand that the wheels of justice can sometimes move slowly. I’m happy to wait[...]

Read The Full Article:
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WheresTheOutrage/~3/wxDpigsmsG8/

Add to del.icio.us

Digg this

Post to Furl

Add to reddit

Add to myYahoo!

The Problem Women Having Sex

post from Talking Points Memo on 12 March 2012 08:00:45 PM. © Talking Points Memo

North Carolina county commission turns down state grant for family planning services. "If these young women are being responsible and didn't have the sex to begin with, we wouldn't have this problem to begin with," commission chairman Tom Davis[...]

Read The Full Article:
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Talking-Points-Memo/~3/FbpHqSHQHGU/the_problem_wom
en_having_sex.php

Digg this

Rick Santorum's Crazy Campaign Co-Chair Says
Blacks Won't Vote for Mitt Romney Because Mormonism is Racist

post from Crooks and Liars on 12 March 2012 08:00:25 PM. © Crooks and Liars

Santorum Co-chair: Romney Should 'Renounce His Racist Mormon Religion'

Click here to view this media

While it's true supporters of Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry made bigoted remarks about Mormonism, I think this is a new low for the increasingly ugly quadrennial sectarian conflict known as the Republican presidential primary.

DOZIER: See, Mitt Romney has a lot of minuses. Number one, I don't believe that he's going to garnish the black vote like he needs to. Why? Because he's a Mormon. Why? Because in the Book of Mormon, there is a verse in there...that says that the negro is cursed and that his skin is black because of that curse.

Well, if Mormonism is what's holding back Romney with black voters -- what's the rest of the GOP field's excuse? Because 0% of the Arizona Republican primary vote was cast by blacks.

In this interview he also serves up this parody-worthy remark.

DOZIER: God does not have the Robin Hood mentality. That is a socialist mentality. There is no place in the bible, Brook, where God orders -- even mandates -- for the rich to give their monies to the poor or someone take their monies from them.

This guy isn't teaching the New Testament I learned in Catholic school -- he's teaching the Gospel of Supply Side Jesus.

Read The Full Article:
http://crooksandliars.com/blue-texan/rick-santorums-crazy-campaign-co-chair-

Digg this

Nice Alabama accent, Mitt

post from US Politics | AMERICAblog News on 12 March 2012 08:00:13 PM. © US Politics | AMERICAblog News

Listen closely to Romney's accent in Alabama today.

Read The Full Article:
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Americablog/~3/M1U6xYRPAdQ/nice-alabama-accent-mit
t.html

Digg this

FDL Movie Night: Freedom is Now: A Documentary

post from Firedoglake on 12 March 2012 08:00:08 PM. © Firedoglake

Emiel Cleaver, son of Congressman Emanuel Cleaver II of Missouri, reveals an important part of Kansas City's--and our nation's--history in his film Freedom is Now: A Documentary, which tells the story of Freedom, Inc., the groundbreaking political[...]

Read The Full Article:
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/firedoglake/fdl/~3/5H8lcInNyak/

Digg this

Recall elections against four Wisconsin
Republican state senators to go forward

post from Daily Kos on 12 March 2012 07:49:00 PM. © Daily Kos

(Mark E. Andersen)

It's on. The Wisconsin Government Accountability Board has rejected challenges to the recall petitions submitted against four Republican state senators and ruled that recall elections must be held:

Recall elections must be held for four Republican state senators, the Government Accountability Board unanimously ruled Monday.
The panel, which runs state elections, also said it wanted to schedule elections for May 8. If more than one candidate from the same party runs, that date would become a primary and the general election would be held June 5.

Last year, Democrats defeated two Republican incumbents in recall elections, narrowing the GOP majority in the state senate to a single vote. Those victories have resulted in much of the Republican agenda stalling, as centrist Republican Dale Schultz has taken de facto control of the state senate.

Now, in addition to recalling Gov. Scott Walker, Democrats can take outright control of the chamber by winning just one more seat. Their chances are excellent, as three of the four recall elections will be held in districts more favorable to Democrats than all but one of the six districts where recalls were held back in August.

There is one hitch. Because the Government Accountability Board is still reviewing the recall petitions against Scott Walker, and because the GAB wants to schedule the recalls of Walker and the state senators for the same date, the elections have not been officially ordered. As such, under Wisconsin law, the Republicans facing recall can continue raising unlimited contributions while all Democrats must abide by campaign contribution limits. This will only change once the recalls are officially ordered, likely near the end of the month.

To fight back, we have added the four Democrats who are challenging the four Republican state senators to the Daily Kos Wisconsin recall fund Act Blue page. The Democrats are state Rep. Donna Seidel, former state Sen. John Lehman, former state Rep. Kristen Dexter, and Lori Compass, who actually organized the recall of the Republican she is challenging, Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald.

Please, contribute $6 to the Democrats running in the Wisconsin recall elections.

For more discussion of the ongoing fight in Wisconsin, see recent posts from noise of rain, Puddytat, and stcroixcheeshead.

Read The Full Article:
http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/e_ILlaINfjE/-Recall-elections-agai
nst-four-Wisconsin-Republican-state-senators-to-go-forward

Digg this

Georgia Joins Other States in Diverting
Foreclosure Fund Settlement Money for Non-Housing Purposes

post from Firedoglake on 12 March 2012 07:17:12 PM. © Firedoglake

When last I looked in on it, I counted $80.35 million in foreclosure fraud settlement funds earmarked for the states actually headed to purposes other than helping homeowners, its ostensible aim. This includes portions from Missouri, Wisconsin, Maine,[...]

Read The Full Article:
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/firedoglake/fdl/~3/8tZNkb5MKLM/

Digg this

Polling in Deep South Has Posed Challenges

post from FiveThirtyEight on 12 March 2012 07:05:02 PM. © FiveThirtyEight

Polls in Mississippi and Alabama, the two states holding their primaries on Tuesday, have a pretty awful track record.

Read The Full Article:
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/12/polling-in-deep-south-has-pos
ed-challenges/

Digg this

A Moment of Zen

?Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don?t be sorry.? – Jack Kerouac (born this day 90 years ago)

Don’t be sorry… that resonates deeply with me.

It’s not about ignoring mistakes, or refusing to say you’re sorry or ask for forgiveness.

What it is about is making certain your personal courage matches your dreams so you can manifest your heart’s desire.

Don’t be sorry you didn’t do something in your life.

Be brave.

Step out.

(graphic via Tumblr)

Read The Full Article:
http://taylormarsh.com/blog/2012/03/a-moment-of-zen-2/

Digg this

Bill Maher Sends Alexandra Pelosi Out to
Interview Mississippi Residents

Bill Maher Sends Alexandra Pelosi Out to Interview Mississippi Residents

Click here to view this media

From Raw Story -- Maher panel responds to footage of Mississippi voters:

Filmmaker (and daughter of former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi) Alexandra Pelosi traveled to Mississippi at the behest of Real Time with Bill Maher to film voters and get their opinions of the 2012 Republican primary. Before showing the footage, Maher explained to the audience and his panel of guests that the people in the video were not ?cherry-picked? and that the intent of the video was not to make fun of anyone.
However, it becomes clear fairly quickly that some of these people are not going to be shortlisted for MacArthur ?Genius Grants? any time soon. After the clip, panelists John Hamm from AMC?s series Mad Men and former RNC Chairman Michael Steele joked about the number of teeth the interviewees possessed, but otherwise refrained from poking too much fun.

The Pelosi segment is above and the panel segment is below the fold and I'll give them credit for actually having a pretty substantive conversation about what leads to the sort of prejudices shown in the video by Pelosi, whether anyone thinks that the people she interviewed are representative of most of the people in that state or not, I've never spent any time in Mississippi, so I don't consider myself qualified to say one way or the other what most of the population there is like, although I do know they've got abysmal records when it comes to education and poverty. I found it strange that the coverage by Pelosi did not include any black people from that state, but they weren't specific about what area she dropped off in and what the ethnic breakdown there is compared to the general population of the state.

I'm sure there are a lot of people who will find the footage insulting, but I think the larger arguments about addressing the prejudices of the people interviewed is a good one to have for all of us and how to not dismiss them, but attempt to address them and understand what the underlying causes are, which I think the panel here at least tried to do in the limited time they had to discuss it.

Real Time Panel Responds to Footage of Mississippi Voters