The Clansmen Would Be Proud: Herman Cain Jumps Ahead in the GOP Pack and Deems Black People “Brainwashed”

Same ol', same ol'.
Black people are not allowed to think differently than Jessie Jackson or Al Sharpton. If they do they are simply "low hanging rotten fruit that comprise the black face of the Tea Party GOP."

Whites are able to have differing opinions, think Rick Perry and Michael Moore. But blacks are not allowed that privilege. They must all think alike, follow their "leaders" (are these leaders elected or self-appointed?).

Also, what does race have to do with it anyway? Cain is black; so what? What does it matter? It seems it only matters to other blacks who see one running away.

-Honkies for Herman

See article at: http://goo.gl/QfKoU

AZ School Chief Compares Studies to Hitler Jugend

Not endorsing or condemning this guy (I've never heard of him), why is that no one is allowed to compare anything to Hitler without being branded a Nazi or racist?

Hitler was one of the most evil people to ever lived, but you have to admit he wasn't stupid. Making sure all guns were confiscated before he started his witch hunt, enabled him to capture and kill millions.

Another smart idea was the creation of the Jugend, to indoctrinate children and teenagers in the Nazi way of life, to believe they the Aryan was superior.

Our government schools sometime do the same, there were many videos of school kids singing the praises of Obama. Here's one: http://goo.gl/Czi0b

A government indoctrinating children to support one Presidential candidate over another. Just like the Jugend.

Read the article at:

AZ School Chief Compares Mexican American Studies to Hitler Jugend (As He Endorses White Supremacist-Backed Candidate) « SpeakEasy

The death penalty must go!

When the state of Georgia finally executed Troy Davis the other day, not far from where I live, it reminded me of my belief that the death penalty has outlived it's usefulness. Davis was sentenced in 1991 for the brutal murder of an off duty Savannah police officer who was attempting to help a man being assaulted in a parking lot.


That was twenty years ago. It cost $3 to $5 million dollars to execute a prisoner, while it costs less than $1 million to house him for the rest of his life. This is money the states simply do not have. 


States waste millions of dollars each year housing prisoners on death row when they could have simply locked them up for life. The result will be the same, as I don't believe the death penalty is a deterrent to anyone but the person executed. A convicted murderer in prison is removed from society just as much as one who has been executed, at a much lower cost. In reality, the prisoner-for-life is probably suffering much more than the dead one.


It's time we push our states to eliminate this wasteful death penalty and replace it with a "life without parole" option. The taxpayers deserve it.  

One morning in the Oval office

Why are we allies with these people? Saudi woman killed for chatting on Facebook

From The Telegraph


Saudi woman killed for chatting on Facebook
By Damien McElroy Foreign Affairs Correspondent
12:01AM BST 31 Mar 2008

A young Saudi Arabian woman was murdered by her father for chatting on the social network site Facebook, it has emerged.

The unnamed woman from Riyadh was beaten and shot after she was discovered in the middle of an online conversation with a man, the al-Arabiya website reported.

The case was reported on a Saudi Arabian news site as an example of the "strife" the social networking site is causing in the Islamic nation.

Saudi preacher Ali al-Maliki has emerged as the leading critic of Facebook, claiming the network is corrupting the youth of the nation.

"Facebook is a door to lust and young women and men are spending more on their mobile phones and the Internet than they are spending on food," he said.

The woman was murdered in August but her death was highlighted following Maliki's comments.

Social customs and religious rules oblige women in Saudi Arabia to cover their head and figure with a veil so that men are not distracted by the female form.

Critics also allege that Facebook is an avenue for the promotion of homosexual relations in Saudi Arabia. More than 6,500 people have signed the online petition in a bid to stop the conservative Muslim kingdom following Syria in banning access to the network from local internet servers.

There are estimated to be more than 30,000 Facebook users in the oil-rich kingdom. Many Saudi women use nicknames and post comic images or drawings on their pages instead of photographs. Some Saudi bloggers have dubbed the network "Faceless".

Women users' contact details and email addresses are often pseudonymous. The popularity of sites for singles has broken taboos on people making contact outside family and class connections.

One of the most popular Facebook groups among Saudi Arabian youth is Single and Looking in Saudi Arabia, which has 1,823 members and hosts many sexually explicit images.




Saudi woman killed for chatting on Facebook - Telegraph

The Mark of Zero

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Cartooning vs. Technology: How Steve Jobs Ruined Comics

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Honkies For Herman 2012

Honkies For Herman 2012

Rick Perry a radical libertarian?

I usually don't get involved in the primaries, as the republicans for the most part haven't come up with anyone who I would want as President. But since Obama is a threat to this country, I am paying more and more attention.

Perry is looking better to me that the rest, his one big failing is the fear that he might attempt to impose his religious beliefs of us.

Libertarian Republican: WaPo Columnist: Rick Perry a radical libertarian

Johnny Cashless sings "Obama's Prison Blues"

From Maggies Farm

If the government won't pay for it, that doesn't mean they're against it.

This article from AlterNet focuses on the anti-abortion tactics of Prez hopeful Rick Perry. I don't worry too much about that, because I don't believe the Supreme Court will ever overturn Roe v. Wade.

The part of this article that disturbs me is the comment that Perry has a "hostility to contraception and sex education" . This is backed up by the fact that Perry's administration has cut funding for family planning. This doesn't mean that Perry is against contraception or sex education, he is against taking money from taxpayers to pay for it.

The article continues: "These cuts had no relationship to abortion, but are simply cuts in basic reproductive healthcare services and, of course, contraception. The Austin Chronicle estimates that hundreds of thousands of women will be cut off from subsidised contraception. Since these women already struggle to afford basic healthcare, many won't be able to get contraception elsewhere, and will get pregnant. Since it's even harder to afford a baby than a pack of pills, we can expect many of these women to get abortions, even if they have to borrow money or pawn belongings to afford it."

They will borrow money for an abortion, but not for contraception. That doesn't sound like they have a grasp on what "family planning" means.

Read the full article at:
Pushback on Draconian Rick: Stay Out of Women's Sex Lives | | AlterNet

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Speechless | Flushed Up

Does the Tea Party Really Want to Lynch Black Folks? AlterNet makes up "statistics"

This article quoted a "recent public opinion research" and linked to another article about the research, but no links to the research. This "recent" poll was April 2010; here is the link: http://goo.gl/x8fCc

Nowhere in that poll is anything about "Tea Party members are more likely to believe that blacks are not hard working, are lazy". This appears to be made up.

This article makes statements about TEA party members being “oppressed” and that they "believe that they are victims of prejudice" without backing it up. That means those statements are also probably made up.

The article then goes on to describe the horrors of lynchings with no backup or reference to the TEA party. The attempt in logic goes like this:

TEA party members are white.
Blacks were lynched by whites
Therefore TEA party members lynched blacks.



Does the Tea Party Really Want to Lynch Black Folks? Why Andre Carton was Wrong, But Not for the Reasons You May Think
Posted by Chauncey DeVega at 2:51 pm

August 31, 2011

In a talk about the economy earlier this week, Representative Andre Carton (a member of the Congressional Black Caucus) suggested that the Tea Party are the same people who in another time would have loved to see black people “hanging on a tree.”

Such language is by its very nature controversial. It is also overwrought because an allusion to lynching and the “strange fruit” of this country’s recent memory conceals more than it reveals. In much the same way that black conservatives and their white handlers deploy the horrid language of “the plantation” and “run away slaves” to describe African Americans who make a choice to support the Democratic Party, an appeal to lynching as a means to describe the motives of one’s political foes has to be handled with great care and precision.

For those reasons, Carton’s suggestion was problematic. But perhaps not in the ways that many would assume.

Let’s begin with a simple question. What do we know about the Tea Party? Who are its members? What do Tea Party members believe? What is their rhetoric? What are their dreams and goals for the country?

From recent public opinion research, we know that the Tea Party’s membership is made up of older, almost exclusively white folks, and that they want to “return” the country to “Christian values” and “the Constitution.” We also know that their animus and upset did not take full form until the election of Barack Obama, America’s first Black President. Moreover, public opinion data has revealed that Tea Party members are more likely to believe that blacks are not hard working, are lazy, and complain too much about racism. Tea Party members, as a function of their Conservative political orientation, are awash in racially resentful attitudes. The Tea Party uses the language of secession and the neo-Confederacy. They also advocate violent solutions to removing an “illegitimate” and “Socialist” President: these are the Tea Party’s dreams of civic virtue and justice.

More at:

Does the Tea Party Really Want to Lynch Black Folks? Why Andre Carton was Wrong, But Not for the Reasons You May Think « SpeakEasy

West Considering Leaving Black Caucus Over Attacks on Tea Party

Earlier this month, California Rep. Maxine Waters said the Tea Party "can go straight to hell." The next day, Rep. Andre Carson of Indiana, speaking at a convention in South Florida, told attendees that some Tea Party-supported Republicans in Congress want to see blacks "hanging on a tree."

The video of Carson's comment is now circulating the Internet, drawing a response from Rep. Allen West of Florida. The only Republican member of the Congressional Black Caucus, West has written a letter to CBC chairman Emanuel Cleaver asking the Missouri Democrat to condemn these statements from caucus members Waters and Carson.

West, who reiterated on Fox News this morning that he is considering leaving the CBC, writes in his letter that it appears to him the CBC's strategy is to "demonize the Tea Party." He continues:

More at:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/west-considering-leaving-black-caucus-over-attacks-tea-party_592049.html

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Obama is a Bad President - Townhall.com

John Ransom
Obama is a Bad President: An Answer to Jonathan Alter

Email John Ransom | Columnist's Archive

Progressive Jonathan Alter is outraged that everyone is ready to “fire” Obama.

“I want to know,” wrote a snippy Alter on Bloomberg.com, “on a substantive basis, why you think he deserves to be in a dead heat with Mitt Romney and Rick Perry and only a few points ahead of Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann in a new Gallup Poll. Is it just that any president -- regardless of circumstances and party -- who presides over 9 percent unemployment deserves to lose?”

I was tempted to treat Alter with the “What? You got to be kidding,” routine. Any Republican should be way ahead of the president. But Alter seems to be one of the few still genuinely shocked that Obama has lost support from all segments of the American public who consider hugging the president to be inappropriate.

So, since Alter asked sincerely, I will answer with five reasons based on substance, although I could probably come up with twenty reasons easily.

But for now, five will do.

Each reason will come in two parts. The first part will be substantive arguments as to why Obama is a bad president because of a failed or flawed policy. The second part will put that argument into context with a campaign promise.

More at:

Obama is a Bad President: An Answer to Jonathan Alter - John Ransom - Townhall Finance

Oh Great, here's another country we need to impose on for the next 50 years.

Michael Reagan

United States Must Lead in Libya

8/25/2011 | Email Michael Reagan | Columnist's Archive

With approximately 135 different tribes within its borders, the hard lifting in Libya now begins. It is incumbent upon the United States to take a lead role in this vital area. No more of the Obama policy of leading from the rear -- the U.S. must lead, and must lead from the front.

The Libyan people have not breathed freedom since the tyrant Gadhafi took control of their government way back in 1969. It may not be easy for Libyans to learn how to be free after all that time, but we can and must help them.

There are factions in Libya that support terrorism, and we cannot allow them to gain control of a nation with $85 million a day coming from oil sales and with upwards of $150 billion in assets now frozen by international action. We also cannot allow known weapons supplies and raw nuclear material to get into the hands of the enemies of freedom now vying for power.

That lead role will be critical. With Gadhafi's 42-year-long dictatorship all but over, Libya's new leaders face what Peter Apps of Reuters called "the daunting task of restoring order, beginning reconstruction and avoiding collapse into conflict and chaos."

More at:

United States Must Lead in Libya - Page 1 - Michael Reagan - Townhall Conservative

Truth-O-Meter: Has class sizes under Rick Perry grown massively?

The Truth-O-Meter Says:

Says Texas schools have had "massive increases" in class sizes with Rick Perry as governor.

Arne Duncan on Thursday, August 18th, 2011 in an interview.

The nation’s education secretary says Texas students have struggled on Gov. Rick Perry's watch.

In an interview with Bloomberg TV’s Al Hunt touching on the new Republican presidential candidate, Arne Duncan said: "Far too few of their high school graduates are actually prepared to go on to college. I feel very, very badly for the children there."

Duncan, the former chief executive officer of the Chicago public schools, continued: "You have seen massive increases in class size. You’ve seen cutbacks in funding. It doesn’t serve the children well. It doesn’t serve the state well. It doesn’t serve the state’s economy well. And ultimately it hurts the country."

The college-readiness of Texas high school graduates is a rich topic. For instance, The Dallas Morning News, citing a report, noted Aug.ust 17, 2011, that a majority of Texas high school graduates who took the ACT college-entrance exam this year lacked the skills to pass introductory college courses in math, reading and science.

Too, the revenue-strapped 2011 Legislature did not provide billions of dollars in state aid to school districts that the schools would have fielded for enrollment growth under existing funding formulas.

We wondered if Duncan was accurate about Texas seeing massive increases in class size.

Read the truth at: PolitiFact Texas | Arne Duncan says class sizes in Texas have grown massively

Texts From Last Night

He set an alarm on my phone to an infant screaming and puking to make sure i take my pill. its working.

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