OK. Now this is seriously funny. The BFF of Tony Perkins (of the Family Research Council), former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke, is going apesh*t over the election of Michael Steele to run the RNC. He refers to the former Maryland Lt. Gov as "Obama Junior" (if only!): To Hell with the Republican Party!What are the race-baiting, ignorant McCain/Palin mobs going to do now that its party is being headed up by a black man? Perhaps a better question is whether the Steele and the GOP will try to salvage this ignorant base of voters that they've depended on since the Southern Strategy of Nixon? GOP strategists are so used to using color-aroused campaign tactics that it's second nature; will the party be able to cure its addiction to racism and xenophobia?
GOP traitors appoint Obama Junior as Chairman of the Republican Party
I am glad these traitorous leaders of the Republican Party appointed this Black racist, affirmative action advocate to the head of the Republican party because this will lead to a huge revolt among the Republican base. As a former Republican official, I can tell you that millions of rank-and-file Republicans are mad as hell and aren't going to take it anymore! We will either take the Republican Party back over the next four years or we will say, "To Hell With the Republican Party!" And we will take 90 percent of Republicans with us into a New Party that will take its current place!I think the insanity of nominating "Mr. Amnesty" John McCain and now this Black racist - will lead to insurgency in the Republican ranks, and a lot of dissidents getting elected in Republican Party primaries around the country. This will result over the next four years a real move by millions of Republicans to take the party back to the populist issues that are not only right but can win for the Republican Party. We must end affirmative action, protect our gun rights and all our constitutional rights, have a moratorium on immigration, we must have protectionism, yes I said protect American businesses and their workers from NAFTA and GATT and the lie of free trade, and we must have America First, not foreign interventionism. Our boys should be home protecting the American borders a not being murdered on the borders of Iraq or Afghanistan. The time as come for Republican Party to stand up to Obama and defend American heritage, rights, and freedom!
...Let's make this abomination in the Republican Party, the last major party of White redoubt, as a rallying cry of resistance!
According to files released Friday, Johannes Mehserle, the Bay Area Rapid Transit officer who shot and killed 22-year-old Oscar Grant on New Year's Day, told a fellow officer he planned to shock Grant with his Taser, not shoot him.Stupidly, the BART police chief compromised the investigation to the point that an outside agency has to take it over. Why? Look at this:...The court documents, which contain statements from fellow BART officers present during the shooting, indicate that Mehserle had intended to use a Taser on Grant.
"I'm going to taze him, I'm going to taze him," Mehserle said, according to Officer Tony Pirone. "I can't get his arms. He won't give me his arms. His hands are going for his waistband."
..."The judge said Mehserle's statements 'seem to be inconsistent' because if Mehserle truly believed that Grant had a gun then Mehserle would have been justified to pull out his gun and use deadly force and wouldn't have needed to use his Taser," said KTVU.
Also on Friday, it was announced that an outside agency would take over the shooting investigation, displacing BART Police Chief Gary Gee after he circulated a memo describing how BART employees might go about sending money and material comforts to Mehserle.
"It is unacceptable for the police chief, who ostensibly is investigating Mehserle and other officers ... To encourage officers to visit and make financial contributions to Mehserle," said John Burris, who represents Oscar Grant's family.
Let's go to that videotape again:
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Last Sunday's Portland Press Herald ran this editorial regarding Maine Rep. Les Fossel's "compromise" domestic partnership bill versus Sen. Dennis Damon's proposed same sex marriage bill.
From the Portland Press Herald, 1/25/09:
The Legislature should welcome this public policy debate, not squelch it with compromise.
There are issues on which both sides can split the difference and come away with a deal that everyone can live with.At this point, same-sex marriage is not one of them.
State Rep. Les Fossel, R-Alna, has admirably tried to bridge the gap between people who want to extend full marriage rights to same-sex couples and those who do not.
His solution, a package of rights that married couples now enjoy assembled under another name for same-sex couples, is one that will satisfy neither side. The measure is well-intentioned but would provide an unnecessary distraction in the midst of an already intense public-policy debate.
A domestic partnership law is the wrong place to start the discussion. Those who object to the state applying family law norms to same-sex relationships see it as a way to sneak gay marriage into the law books.
Those who support same-sex marriage view it as a less-than-equal legal status that does not carry one of the most important benefits of marriage - its universal recognition.
In a school, hospital or courthouse, everyone understands the family relationship of marriage and the rights that go with it. A new institution with an unfamiliar name would not have the same weight.
We support full marriage rights for same-sex couples because we believe they are entitled to equal protection under the law. Marriage is the best building block for stable, supportive families, and families led by same-sex couples should have same legal rights and obligations as those led by heterosexual couples.
Obviously, others disagree.
But a discussion of marriage equality is the public-policy debate that we should be having. It is not something that should be sidestepped with a pre-emptive compromise.
A link here to MORE THAN 140 PAGES Maine's 124th legislature is working on this session. More than 1500 bills- less than 300 of which have been written up so far.
This includes the same sex marriage bill sponsored by Dennis Damon entitled "An Act To End Discrimination in Civil Marriage and Affirm Religious Freedom" and the compromise discussed by PPH sponsored by Les Fossel called "An Act To Expand Rights for Maine Families".
A note: this is the only bill Les Fossel is sponsoring this session.
Remember the hand-wringing about the economy and how "we couldn't possibly waste valuable time talking about same sex marriage NOW"?
Well, here's what WAS discussed this week- without great wails of consternation, either:
1. Toilet seat cover legislation. This was "flushed", by the way. (Oh come ON, you knew I'd say it!!)
2. Reviving a defunct women's commission.
Mind you, I don't disagree with the second one and renaming the Father Curran Bridge should have been done long ago. But where are the protests from Maine GOP for these obvious wastes of every precious second? Where is Dean Scontras and his latest gang of bigots?
Not one PEEP. "Sleeping it off" after the election of a new RNC chair, I guess...
Related:
Why Maine Shouldn't Have Equal Marriage: $$$
Dirigo and Marriage Equality
GLAD: Legal Gay Marriage By 2012 For All of New England
Massachusetts, Connecticut... maybe Maine in 2009?
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