Day: April 11, 2014

2014 Babbling Buffoons Of Babylon #7

It has been a good year for IST….lots of babbling going on…..I guess we can thank the midterms for the steady increase of crap being passed off as news or analysis…….gotta love this stuff……

1–Edition 7 begins with the words of a convicted FELON, Sen. Vitter of Louisiana………yep a felon and he still has a following……how sad is that?

Sen. David Vitter’s (R-LA) book, conservative billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch are some of the most “patriotic Americans” in the history of the planet.

Vitter made the comments during a March 18 town hall at Blanchard Elementary School in Blanchard, Louisiana.

“I think the Koch Brothers are two of the most patriotic Americans in the history of the Earth,” Vitter said. That line sparked applause from the audience.

Later on during the town hall, Vitter heaped some more praise on the Koch brothers, which again, sparked applause.

“Maybe this is a good example because I’ll be honest with you, God Bless the Koch brothers,” Vitter added. “They’re fighting for our freedoms.”

Patriots?  Fighting for our freedoms?  That should tell the LA voter whose side this prick will be on once he becomes governor……bet your ass it will not be the poor or the middle class…..let the rape of the state begin!

2–I bet a lot of my conserv readers think that I pick on conservs more than Libs……and that I am somehow a secret Obama apologist……if so then they need to read more and think less.

Obama while on his European tour recently made a speech in The Hague about Russia’s annexation of Crimea and he said this…….

“The borders of Europe cannot be redrawn with force”…..

I believe that our prez may be a little short on historic accuracy…….there was these minor conflicts…..WW1 and WW2……after each the borders of Europe were redrawn…..and I believe that a small amount of force was needed…….World History 101……

3–Of course with an election approaching it s all about health care and Obamacare…….

Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), a physician and the current GOP front-runner to challenge Democrat Mary Landrieu for her U.S. Senate seat this November, told an annual meeting of the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association that uninsured Americans are “less sophisticated” and “less educated” people who might find the Affordable Care Act too complicated and cumbersome to take advantage of, BuzzFeed’s Andrew Kaczynski reports. The remarks came as Cassidy was promoting his own pared-down health care reform proposal that relies only on catastrophic insurance coverage and Health Savings Accounts.

I think actually reflects the reality of who the uninsured are, relatively less sophisticated, less comfortable with forms, less educated. Those are the folks that — not all — there’s a guy who goes to my church who’s uninsured, who’s middle-class but couldn’t get it because he has Type I diabetes. So it’s not all, but it is the folks who I think are going to have the hardest time reaching. […]

We were fortunate growing up in the South. The president is a community organizer. You wonder if he ever worked with a poor person… Insurance people, they will tell you that they will go to a company and an employer will pay for everything, and there are some people who will not sign up. Turns out, those are my patients. They’re illiterate. I’m not saying that to be mean. I say that in compassion. They cannot read. The idea they’re going to go on the internet and work through a 16-page document to put in their data and sign up does not reflect on understanding of who is having the hardest time in our economy.

Yeah that is the way to win friends and influence voters……..look down on the electorat….a sure winner……but if he is right about the uneducated thing then he may well be the winner….conservs are less educated than libs…..

4–It looks like Alaska is trying to out do Texas….especially with idiots and their moronic statements…….this guy is a real “tool”………..

State Sen. Pete Kelly (R) said Monday before the Alaska Senate that birth control may not protect Alaskan women who drink regularly from getting pregnant.

“If you have people who are binge drinking or chronic drinkers, we’re hesitant to say ‘use birth control as your protection against fetal alcohol syndrome,’ because again, as I say, binge drinking is a problem,” he said. “If you think you can take birth control and then binge drink and hope not to produce a fetal alcohol syndrome baby, you may be very wrong. Sometimes these things don’t work. Sometimes people forget. Sometimes they administer birth control improperly, and you might produce a fetal alcohol syndrome baby.”

5–You know…..everyone is allowed their own opinion but NOT there own facts…..Obama did it again….trying to rewrite history to make his point…….

Obama appears now to be inventing events wholesale to try to rebrand them, claiming that in contrast to the Crimean secession, Kosovo seceded from Serbia after a referendum organized “in careful cooperation with the United Nations.”

Here is the FACT……..Kosovo’s provincial assembly did hold a referendum on the possibility of secession in 1991, but it was not done with UN backing, nor did the US or anyone else even recognize the result. Albania was the long state to recognize the vote, and it was never cited as justification in NATO’s 1999 war.

The only other referendum to take place in Kosovo came in 2012, under Obama’s watch. In that vote, 99% of Kosovar Serbs in several northern districts voted against being part of an independent Kosovo. As with the 1991 vote, the US rejected its validity.

I despise anyone that tries to rewrite history to their advantage…….

6–Our Prez needs to shut the Hell up….it is becoming pathetic at this point………

 President Obama went on a lengthy diatribe about how the decade-long US occupation of Iraq, which left roughly a million people dead and the entire region awash in al-Qaeda factions, was nowhere near as bad a thing as Crimea.

Please someone tell him to shut up!

7–And lastly, Louie Gohmert is always good for an anal statement or two………I love his thought process in this one……

“But it was to be a one-way wall, where the state would not dictate to the church,” the Texas Republican insisted. “But the church would certainly play a role in the state.”

“So, that’s a little different idea than a lot of people have about separation of church and state now,” he added. “Including some of our esteemed Supreme Court, who are not quite as familiar with our history as they probably should be.”

What a douche!  Personally, I do NOT want ANY religion dictating anything that has to do with governance……..this makes this a/hole NO better than those that want to Force others to live by their little beliefs……please Texas…replace this moron with someone with half a brain, please.

So ends another edition of B3………..next edition coming soon to a blog near you………

Demographics, conservatism, and racial polarization: Could America become Mississippi?

I was attempting to use this article for a post…..but after a couple tries…I gave up….it is better to read the entire thing…..

A scary thought…I live in the state and believe me when I say that America does not need to if it wants to survive….there is NOTHING that can be said good about the social aspects of the state nor the political either…….

 

Demographics, conservatism, and racial polarization: Could America become Mississippi?.

What Can I Say? It’s Mississippi!

I am a long time resident of Mississippi and I have written many articles about the state of the state and the state of the government……Mississippi is the most obese state, the most religious, the most conservative, and a whole list of other factors…….most of them have nothing to do with prosperity…..and the legislature is seldom concerned with the betterment of the citizens….most of it is all about keeping the people down and out…..an easy force to control……..

Now the 2014 legislature has ended its run for the roses……and here is what some think of the session……………..

As the state continues to prepare for a myriad of new laws and reforms, legislators are taking the time to reflect on the 2014 legislative session. Republican Representative Andy Gipson of Braxton says he believes Mississippi made great strides this session.
“We passed some phenomenal legislation.” said Gipson. The criminal justice reforms, the 20-week abortion ban, Religious Freedom Restoration Act– that’s not discriminatory. It does protect people’s religious freedom Mississippi. Plus, we refilled the rainy day fund.”
Landmark decisions huh?  Does any of the “monumental” laws say that the people will be better off?  A typical Mississippi law making session…..nothing to improve the quality of life within the state.
Although the majority of Americans errantly believe the United States Constitution is the unchallenged law of the land, a substantial number of Christian fundamentalists still adhere to, and are enforcing, their firm belief that their almighty god directed the Founding Fathers to create a Christian nation and wrote a set of laws they would call “The Constitution of the United States.” In the Christian version of god’s Constitution, equal rights are an abomination on par with biblical god’s abhorrence of homosexuality, and religious freedom is Christian’s biblical right to subjugate the population under a Christian theocracy. Over the past five years, Americans have learned that, along with Republicans and teabaggers, the religious right hates the U.S. Constitution as much as they despise America’s African American President, gays, women, and Americans rejecting the Christian bible as law of the land, and the proof is another Republican-controlled state passing and the Republican governor signing into law, a religious edict voiding the 14th and 1st Amendment to make the Christian bible the law of the land in Mississippi.
Last week while Americans deluded that the religious right anti-gay movement is in its death throes celebrated the country’s entrance into the 21st Century as an all-inclusive nation, Mississippi Republicans passed an anti-gay “religious freedom” law. Religious right activists celebrated Mississippi’s biblical law as empowering businesses to reject the Constitution and enforce biblical law discriminating against same-sex couples in the name of Christianity, and shortly after Governor Phil Bryant signed the scriptural edict into law, head of the Family Research Center, Tony Perkins, issued a statement saying as much. The leading prospect to head a Supreme Christian Council to rule theocratic America said, “Whether it’s someone like Pastor Telsa DeBerry who was hindered by the Holly Springs city government from building a new church in the downtown area, or a wedding vendor, whose orthodox Christian faith will not allow her to affirm same-sex marriage,” the religious edict will “prevent government from discriminating against religious exercise.”
Yeah, all that concern for religious freedom and Mississippians are still living in the 19th century…….as long as they keep letting these types run the state there s NO way forward for the state……we will forever be stuck in the 19th century.
And then there are the elections in Mississippi…..still the worst………

In 2012, life in Mississippi might have gotten better, but it’s still the worst state in the country for elections, according to a new survey from Pew Charitable Trusts.

Pew creates a composite “Elections Performance Index” based on 17 factors (some of which include voting-wait time, turnout, registration rate, the robustness of the state’s election data, availability of online voting information, and use of provisional ballots). Read the full list of criteria here. Taken together, they provide a ground to compare states, which have varying election laws and practices.

Check out Pew’s complete interactive comparing the states here.

 

We can pretend that Mississippi has changed but reality is….not much since the 1950’s…….it is still, in my mind, a cultural wasteland………