mdemone posted:

Probably referring to the rumblings about executive-order amnesty for immigrants. If that actually happens I think at least five right-wing blowhards will die from apoplexy.

Rap Record Hoarder posted:

Ferguson, Missouri[/url]

Radish posted:

This sort of thing is really scary. Like what do you do when the police is actively suppressing media coverage of their possibly illegal activities and the justice system does nothing about it?

zoux posted:

So, how are conservatives spinning this so that it makes the police officer actually a hero who was at zero fault?

Shifty Pony posted:

Oh there is certainly plenty that can be done to enhance English language skills and proficiency, primarily by giving money to teachers and educational programs.

Yet strangely the GOP has completely gutted those programs and grants as I mentioned above. Funny thing huh?

SirKibbles posted:

Mlk's son is on msnbc talking about it now. There's going to be a rally in Ferguson.

edit: Gov Nixon gave a speech to a few clergy and there's this lady in the background trying not to snap off.

Amergin posted:

Why should I be taxed to fund English education for immigrants when they should, by all accounts, learn the language enough to get by before they even come here?

If you're moving to a country to create a new life for yourself, don't jump in without learning the language first.

Prester John posted:

I'm also willing to give Obama some benefit of the doubt here because it is not inconceivable that a strong discussion about race from him would be the signal to start RAHOWA that any number (probably dozens) of these militia groups have been waiting for. I can't wait to read the books coming out about this decades from now, because based on my time spent around those paranoid whackjobs, they must be absolutely frothing right now. I mean they were bad and getting worse when I walked away 3+ years ago, now who knows.

DoubleDonut posted:

I don't think anyone's refuting that. We're refuting the idea that talking about race at all would be some catastrophe that would immediately give complete control of the House, 60 seats of the Senate, and the Presidency to the GOP. We're also saying that even if it is politically bad for the Democratic party to talk about race, it is still necessary if any progress is to be made ever.

computer parts posted:

The controversial part is why the officer did it.

Raskolnikov38 posted:

Are cowards ever really afraid of something in particular? I always thought it was a kind of generalized "please don't hurt me" thing.

computer parts posted:

Specifically the controversy is "The officer shot this kid because he's a virulent racist and racism is still a problem in America" instead of "He shot this kid because he was an urban thug/a shoplifter/militarization of the police/etc."

You even see it here - the Michael Brown thread was obsessed with militarization of the police instead of "guy shooting a black guy because he was black".

computer parts posted:

One of them is controversial because it acknowledges what white people did, and one of them is controversial because it makes white people feel how black people feel around the police.

amanasleep posted:

Obama could probably gain but he clearly believes that Democrats generally may lose.

Prester John posted:

I was raised to be crazy

computer parts posted:

Of course it should be talked about. It's just ironic that a black man initiating the conversation is the worst possible person to do so.

computer parts posted:

Because the attack ads write themselves. "[Candidate] supports Obama, who said all of your struggles and hard work was stolen from black people! Do you really want someone in office who supports pulling out the race card?" etc and so forth.

computer parts posted:

This isn't necessarily true. Ask otherwise progressive people in their 40s what they think about "forced busing".

computer parts posted:

The GOP is doing exactly what hard leftists would do if they controlled a significant part of the federal government. It's a partisan thing, nothing more.

Johnny Cache Hit posted:

Seriously, is your entire perception of "those loving rurals" based upon old television shows or something?

Among the states, New Mexico had the highest teen pregnancy rate, in 2010, with 80 pregnancies per 1,000 women in the age group, followed by Mississippi, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma. New Hampshire had the lowest rate, with 28 pregnancies per 1,000, followed by New Hampshire, Vermont, Minnesota, Massachusetts and Maine.

The teen birth rate also declined noticeably, to 34.4 births per 1,000 teens, a 44 percent drop from its peak in 1991, when it was 61.8 births per 1,000. The teen abortion rate fell 66 percent, from 43.5 abortions per 1,000 in 1988 to 14.7 per 1,000 in 2010, according to the report.

quote:

Teen births down in Mississippi, other US states

420DD Butts posted:

The issue is that the vast majority of "frothing Limbaugh listeners" are middle-upper middle class suburbanites, not people living in rural towns in flyover country.

Joementum posted:

Here's (Facebook link) Paul Ryan pouring ice water over Mitt Romney's head.

"Ha ha. That is cold!"

ThirdPartyView posted:

Are they planning on re-enacting David Byrne's self-interview promo for "Stop Making Sense"?

Amergin posted:

In 2012 there was a sizable and legitimate push-back against the GOP foreign policy as being too "hawkish" and paranoid about other large world powers, namely China and Russia. Virtually every liberal response to the GOP mentioning Russia was "psh the Cold War ended years ago grandpa!"

So not so much "I told you so!" or "Romney/Ryan 2016!" as "the GOP foreign policy isn't as out-of-touch as a lot of liberals like to think it is/portray it as."

Shear Modulus posted:

Here's the phrasing of the question:


This is a pretty positive phrasing of right-to-work laws.
Isn't branding something.

radical meme posted:

The Bundy Clan continues to provide comic relief and fodder for late night tv hosts.


The Bundy solution is just loving let me do whatever I want to do.

I really feel that girl's cry for help.

computer parts posted:

That part at least is not right to work.

Boon posted:

Is this a serious post? Someone help me I cannot tell.

Pohl posted:

I'm rather confused myself.

Shear Modulus posted:

Clickhole

eggyolk posted:

That's awesome. I was an independent contractor for a year and a half at a sign painting company. It wad great for my boss. We weren't allowed to work for anyone else or he'd fire us, couldn't request days off (I worked 44 days in a row at one point), no holidays or sick leave, no benefits of any kind. 11 hour days were common and we had a couple 18-20 hour days when he promised clients too much. He bought an expensive company truck that nobody could use for work cause he didnt want it dirtied up when he took his motorcycle to the track every few weeks. I lost an entire paycheck because I got a parking ticket during a job and he deducted it. After 14 months with no raises or benefits I managed to sneak in interviews elsewhere and "exercised my right to work". What a horrible practice.

E: Oh, and the only reason he gave overtime was because he was already being sued for not providing it for years. It was a perk of the job, he said. You should've seen the amount of childish backtalk they'd give to union guys if we had to share a job site.

Berke Negri posted:

Did Peter King just say that real Americans don't care about the economy?

GlyphGryph posted:

There are few things that are actually necessary to bring to school.