Day: June 21, 2011

2011 Anal-Ocity #21

That time again…..more anal drippings from the mouths of politics…..

this time it is an old friend of Anal-Ocity, as a matter of fact he won the 2008 “Assie” Award for the most anal statement of the year….my friend and yours, Sen. John McCain of Arizona…..

Recently when interviewed about the devastating fires in his home state, he said…..

“substantial evidence that some of these fires have been caused by people who have crossed our border illegally.”

Of course the political world went “HUH”?  And he then had to do what ALL good repubs have to do…..try to explain what he meant by his statement……

“I was briefed by the Forest Service about the fact that illegal immigrants sometimes start these fires,” he said. And there has been testimony by service officials that “large numbers of warming and cooking fires built and abandoned by cross-border violators have caused wildfires that have destroyed cultural and natural resources.”

With his clarification he clouded up the waters even more……he still has not explain what was the substantial info that he had received that would indicate that they were started by border violators…..

I thought that in 2008 that he was losing it and he has done or said NOTHING that would change my opinion…he is old!  Time to go!  Somebody has got to make room for Arizona’s newest politician….Palin….

Welcome Back, Jim Crow

No not a post on some fuzzy headed teacher that returns to his home town to teach……but rather a set of laws from our segregation days….the Jim Crow Laws…..

in case you are too young to remember the Jim Crow Laws…..let me help out…..let Wikipedia help…..

The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities, with a supposedly “separate but equal” status for black Americans. In reality, this led to treatment and accommodations that were usually inferior to those provided for white Americans, systematizing a number of economic, educational and social disadvantages.

These laws when it was the law of the land, especially in the South, had numerous ways to prevent minorities, especially blacks, from voting….poll taxes, literacy tests, etc….but thank God for the Civil Rights Act of 1965 which put an end to these practices….okay the improvements were not immediate, but they eventually stop all the crap…….”it stopped all the crap”?  I may have spoken too soon!

From the Newser website…..

After electing its first African American president—thanks in part to a surge of new voters—the US is in danger of seeing “a subtle return of Jim Crow voting laws,” writes EJ Dionne Jr. in the Washington Post. New laws being passed here, supposedly to prevent voter fraud, would be condemned as “election-rigging” in an emerging democracy—but here in the US no one is saying a word. Voter fraud is not a real problem, Dionne alleges, it’s an imaginary problem serving as an excuse for the GOP to wage war on the right to vote. The greatest impact of the new statues “will be to reduce turnout among African Americans, Latinos and the young,” the groups that helped to elect Obama in 2008. Meanwhile, the new laws—which include voter identification measures and limitations on early voting and same-day registration—will serve to benefit the Republican Party. In one particularly telling example, a Texas law allows concealed handgun licenses to be used as ID—but does not allow student IDs.

These attempts to limit the voting of minorities…all under the guise of preventing voter fraud….the problem is there is NO widespread voter fraud….in reality it is to try and limit the people that vote Democratic….you can scream voter fraud…….but there is little to use as evidence…..

And you still do not see the attack on one’s freedom to vote?  Next time one of your conserv candidates rant on about loss of freedoms….ask them about these attempts to keep people from voting.