Gordon Glantz is the managing editor of the Times Herald and an award winning columnist.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Woke up this morning to some clouds and light, but it was a beautiful day in America. At least for now, it's almost by the people and for the people (even though some are too dense -- and racist -- to realize it).
posted by Gordon Glantz at
8:05 AM
Congratulations! If you're here, you have gotten your grubby paws on a ticket to a ringside seat to the ongoing slugfest between the two Gordons. One is a fighter. One is a writer. One day - when the sun is shining, the birds are singing, the ice in our hard hearts is melting and Springsteen is playing on the radio - they will learn to co-exist. Until then, enjoy the carnage!
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Nice to know that the Party of NO is at it again. Business or should I say Not-Business-As-Usual. Dems tried to work with them and went along with court confirmations, etc., in the Bush years, but now the NO party is foaming at the mouth riling up their fringe element to call out racial and other slurs, spitting on people, instead of working on a real bill for all the people. Well, if they don't like the bill, let them give up their fantastic FREE medical benefits and pay the premiums without any reimbursements! Palin and her call about death squads, along with the "sky is falling" Repubs just show that they are in need of brain implants, because they obviously don't have any.
But, hey Chicken Little repubs, the sky isn't falling... It's only rain...
Keep laughing if you want. The joke is on you!
The joke is on all of us because only the politicians have the best health care!
Coulter speech canceled in Canada... Thank GOD for that! Her comments on her tour included:
Coulter, a best-selling author and syndicated columnist, was in the middle of a three-city tour of Canada, which began at the University of Western Ontario in London on Monday, and ends in Calgary on Thursday.
The event in London went without incident, but not without controversy.
When answering questions from students, Coulter told a 17-year-old Muslim student to "take a camel" instead of the flying carpet she has previously suggested Muslims use for transportation. Coulter later told CTV that the "camel" remark was a joke.
This is not a JOKE! She is in league with Beck, Limbaugh and the rest of the "sky is falling" racist, bigoted crew.
You can put Palin in that group. She watches her words more carefully, though that could be because some have too many syllables for her, but she enables the hatred by being their Great White Dope.
We are a family of Dems. and I believe this whole bill is way too expensive. Why didn't they see that the rain falling was only on those that have decided NOT to have any coverage - Free us the word is all they hear. No, the sky is not falling now - but my children will see the downpour and maybe we will with Medicare. Palin has nothing to do with the way we feel - I have turned her and Repubs. and our Senator and Reps. in Washington off - because they are only looking out for their family, not mine, as they are double dippers.
Yes, laughing on my way to work as people who benefit from my hard earned tax wages stand around outside their section 8 home selling drugs and destroying Norristown. When they get sick, either from drugs or the rain, we should all laugh while fronting the bill.
Nice to see a pic of one of Palin's tea party people with a sign displaying that he had tar but needed feathers and a pitch fork. Just like the racists of old and new like Michael Richards with his "stick a fork" in them comment. She and the rest of her crew are sickos!
BTW, the pic was in the Philadelphia Metro.
New York (CNN) -- Jurors have convicted a Long Island man of manslaughter as a hate crime in the death of an immigrant from Ecuador.
Jeffrey Conroy was on trial for the death of Marcelo Lucero, a 37-year-old native of Ecuador who died after being stabbed in the chest on November 8, 2008.
Conroy was also found guilty Monday of gang assault and conspiracy. Conroy was found not guilty of murder as a hate crime, the most serious charge he faced.
He was also found guilty of assaults on three additional Latino men on Long Island.
Prosecutors say Conroy and six friends in 2008 targeted Latinos for assaults -- part of a sport they called "beaner-hopping."
More Tea Party people, just like the one who wanted tar, feathers and a pitch fork...
Too bad the original racist, stan, is not named here.
birther bigots are at it again in Arizona. Courtesy of CNN
The Arizona House voted Monday by a 31-22 margin to require all presidential candidates to prove they were born in the United States in order to meet the constitutional requirement. The measure still has to be considered by the Arizona state Senate before it can become law.
E. J. Dionne: Facts crash the tea parties
Beyond the hype, the movement is media- driven, far right, and somewhat racist.
By E. J. Dionne
The tea party is nothing new. It represents a relatively small minority of Americans on the right end of politics, and it will not determine the outcome of the 2010 elections.
In fact, both parties stand to lose if they accept the laughable notion that this media-created protest movement is the voice of true populism. Democrats will spend their time chasing votes they will never win. Republicans will turn their party into an angry and narrow redoubt with no hope of building a durable majority.
The news media's incessant focus on the tea party is creating a badly distorted picture of what most Americans think and is warping our policy debates. The New York Times and CBS News thus performed a public service last week by conducting a careful study of just who is in the tea party movement.
Their findings suggest that the tea party is essentially the reappearance of an old, antigovernment far right that has always been with us and accounts for about one-fifth of the country. The Times reported that tea party supporters "tend to be Republican, white, male, married, and older than 45." This is the populism of the privileged.
Tea party backers are far more likely than others to describe their views as "very conservative" and are decidedly more inclined than the rest of us to believe that too much is made of the problems facing black people.
This last finding points to a disconcerting fact that white Americans are reluctant to discuss: Part of the anger at President Obama is driven by the color of his skin.
Saying this invites immediate denunciations from defenders of those who take guns to rallies, threaten violence to "take our country back," and mouth old slogans about states' rights and the Confederacy. So let's be clear: Opposition to the president is driven by many factors that have nothing to do with race. But race is definitely part of what's going on.
Here is the poll question in its entirety: "In recent years, do you think too much has been made of the problems facing black people, too little has been made, or is it about right?"
Twenty-eight percent of all Americans - and just 19 percent of those who are not tea party loyalists - answered "too much." But among tea party supporters, the figure is 52 percent. Tea partyers are almost three times as likely as the rest of us to say that too much attention is being paid to the problems of blacks.
Among all Americans, 11 percent say that the Obama administration's policies favor blacks over whites; 25 percent of tea party sympathizers say this. Again, more is going on here than race, but race is in the picture.
msnbc.com staff and news service reports
updated 11:09 p.m. ET, Sun., April 25, 2010
LONDON - British physicist Stephen Hawking says aliens are out there, but it could be too dangerous for humans to interact with extraterrestrial life.
Hawking claims in a new documentary titled "Into the Universe With Stephen Hawking" that intelligent alien life forms almost certainly exist — but warns that communicating with them could be "too risky."
"We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet," Hawking said. "I imagine they might exist in massive ships ... having used up all the resources from their home planet. Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they can reach.”
The 68-year-old scientist said a visit by extraterrestrials to Earth might well be like Christopher Columbus arriving in the Americas, "which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans."
CNN POSTED: 11:36 pm EDT April 27, 2010
UPDATED: 10:30 am EDT April 28, 2010
PRIMROSE, Ga. -- People who live near the Faith Baptist Church in Primrose call the pastor's messages offensive.
The marquee in front of the Faith Baptist Church in Primrose reads, " Islam will take you to Hell."
That message greets residents and people who travel down Highway 41 through Primrose.
Billy Ball is the pastor of Faith Baptist Church and the author of the sign that many in his community find offensive.
Ball said he doesn't care about offending people.
"I think there are three categories of people in America right now that get a break, the homosexuals, radical homosexual movement, the Nation of Islam and the illegal Mexicans," said Ball.
Ball said he puts controversial messages like that on the church sign, because it is his belief and he wants the attention.
"We had, last week for several days, 'Every time Obama wins, America loses, pray for our perverted president,'" said Ball.
Ball's church and its messages are right across the street from a gas station that's owned by Mohammad Ashfakul Monir.
Monir is a Muslim and said he finds the sign offensive.
He's not the only one who wishes the pastor would change his message.
"Especially talking about other religions too, I don't feel he should be doing that and not putting it out on signs," said John Sosby.
Travis Johnson's church is down the street from Ball's.
Johnson said he dreads passing by the sign especially with his wife and kids.
"And they reading that every Sunday, especially about our country and our president, it's just -- you know -- I wish there was another route I can take," said Johnson.
MSNBC: Jeb Bush, agreed with Rubio’s assessment in an interview with POLITICO, saying that the Arizona law is not “the proper approach” to solving the problem of illegal immigration.
Republican Meg Whitman, the front-runner in California's gubernatorial primary, declined to say whether the law is "racist" — as some critics allege — but told The Associated Press that Arizona's law does not offer the most effective strategy. "I think there's just better ways to solve this problem," she said.
But many more cities are lining up in opposition. Dozens are threatening to cut all business ties with Arizona. Already at least eight conventions have pulled out of Phoenix in protest. The city could lose up to $45,000 on each.
"I work in the hotel business and I know for a fact there are several cancelations already in the pipe for several hotels in Arizona," said Jeff Franklin, a hotel worker.
Arizona has gone through this kind of economic pressure before. In 1987, when the state refused to observe the national Martin Luther King Holiday, there was a national boycott - the Super Bowl pulled out of Tempe. It all cost the state $300 million.
Fact Check: FAIR’s 2,555,000 Dimes For “Ethno-Separatist”
Jim Burroway
April 29th, 2010
Rachel Maddow interviewed Bill Wolff of the Federation of American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the group that claims credit for writing Arizona’s anti-immigration law which critics charge is a open invitation to racial profiling. In particular, Maddow drills Wolff over FAIR’s extensive associations with White Supremacists.
Brutal. So who’s the more credible party: Maddow or Wolff?
Well, we don’t have the wherewithal to fact check everything in this interview, but I knew I could easily fact-check Wolff’s denial that FAIR donated any money or had any connections with an “ethno-separatist” during a 2004 Arizona ballot initiative. Protect Arizona Now (PAN), with “ethno-separatist” Virginia Abernathy chairing its national advisory board, was the prime force behind Arizona’s Prop 200 in 2004. At 19:33 in the interview, Wolff said:
First of all, we never gave that organization a dime. And secondly, even if we were going to give them the dime, we wouldn’t have given the dime with Virginia Abernathy associated with it.
Unfortunately for Wolff, donations for ballot initiatives are reportable to the Secretary of State and posted online. According to the Arizona Secretary of State’s Web Site:
• On April 1, 2004, FAIR gave Virginia Abernathy’s PAN $50,000, and the FAIR Congressional Task Force gave them another $50,000 more.
• On May 11, 2004, FAIR gave PAN $25,500, and the FAIR Congressional Task Force gave PAN another $25,000.
• On June 11, 2004, FAIR gave PAN $50,000, and the FAIR Congressional Task Force gave PAN another $55,000.
After Abernathy exploded publicly with her ethno-separatist views, FAIR did denounce Abernathy’s views. and on September 24, FAIR shifted its support to a new group that arose from those ashes, Yes on Proposition 200, with a $60,865 donation. But yes, despite Wolff’s claim, FAIR provided Abernathy’s PAN with $255,500 out of $370,000 of reportable donations altogether.
In case you’re counting, that’s 2,555,000 dimes.
Virginia Deane Abernethy (born in Cuba[1] in 1934) is an American professor (emerita) of psychiatry and anthropology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. She received a B.A. from Wellesley College, an M.B.A. from Vanderbilt University, and Ph.D. from Harvard University. She is an anthropology fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Abernethy describes herself as an "ethnic separatist". An outspoken opponent of immigration, Abernethy has called for a complete moratorium on immigration into the United States. She claims that immigrants devalue the work force, deplete scarce resources, adversely impact carrying capacity, and that Third World immigration has led to a rise in dangerous diseases within the United States.
teapartylatest.com/.../republican-tea-party-anti-health-care-protesters-mock-parkinsons-patient/
Wonder if Stan will to talk about things that just aren't right, like these reports and the pictures with his tea party supporters.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/20/tea-party-protests-nier-f_n_507116.html
I stopped ordering items from Arizona and so are others:
The ABA said rather than canceling or moving the conference it would offer expanded programming focused on issues arising from the Arizona legislation. Ms. Beck said she disagreed with that approach. "It's not the place to learn, it's not the place to discuss," she said. "It's the place to make an impact and send a really strong, loud message that we do not support unfair, unjust legislation, and we will not put our nickels and dimes behind it."
Legal Information for Families Today has attended the conference every year for educational training, Ms. Beck said. The City Bar Justice Center and the Legal Aid Society earlier this week announced their own boycotts of the event to put economic pressure on Arizona to reconsider the law.
In Arizona, tourism is already taking a hit.
The recently passed law that allows local police to question individuals about their immigration status if the cops believe they are not in the country legally has caused a chain reaction of boycotts, canceled hotel reservations and nixed business trips.
San Francisco and St. Paul have banned public employees from traveling to Arizona on business. Los Angeles, San Diego and Oakland are considering similar actions.
"We don't want to hurt Arizona, but we don't want this kind of law to continue," said Oakland City Council President Jane Brunner.
Opponents are looking to sink Phoenix's bid for the next Republican National Convention and Major League Baseball's 2011 All-Star Game, according to KJZZ radio.
In 2009, Arizona hosted more than 37 million domestic and international visitors, who spent approximately $18.5 billion and generated an estimated $1.4 billion in local and state tax revenues, according to the Asian American Hotel Owners Association.
“A boycott of Arizona will harm the lodging industry and the employees who depend on traveling guests for their next paychecks, but it will not solve any immigration problems,” said AAHOA Chairman Tarun Patel.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, who signed the immigration bill into law, said these boycotts are hurting real Americans who just want to make Arizona a safer place to live.
"Why would they want to hurt the legal citizens?" Brewer said. "You and I, and everybody else in this state. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever to me." - NEITHER DOES YOUR PROFILING LAW!!!
Arizona is still suffering high unemployment numbers - around 10% - from the recession. Now it seems like prosperity is far from being around the corner.
Ben Bethel, owner of the boutique Clarendon Hotel in Phoenix, told KJZZ that customers canceled 80 room reservations - about $8,000 worth of business - in just one day last week.
"We were so hopeful that things were recovering," he said, "but this is a situation where it's actually going to be very difficult to recover from this."
HA HA HA HA HA!!!
Different treatment for different folk in Montco. Guess Castor isn't the star attorney that he thought he was. Just a legend in his own mind as well as Stan's. Just like the bigots in the tea party...
Castor revealed that Maria Carpio-Umar, chief executive officer of Correctional Medical Care, wrote a letter to the judge, implying Mastronardo could best be cared for by his team of personal physicians outside of the jail.
But during a bombshell courtroom moment, Lupinacci played for the judge, recorded conversations that indicated Carpio-Umar was friendly with the Mastronardo family. Mastronardo’s brother, John, who also is in jail charged with bookmaking and racketeering, called his wife on several occasions from the jail during which he indicated there were some discussions with Carpio-Umar concerning Joseph’s health and getting him into a hospital.
Testimony also revealed that Carpio-Umar and her husband, Emre, president of Correctional Medical Care, appeared on John’s inmate phone list as “friends.”
Lupinacci said Carpio-Umar never revealed in her letter to the judge that she was friendly with the Mastronardos.
“I would suggest that Mr. Mastronardo has many friends and Mr. Mastronardo has many resources,” Lupinacci said. “I think that was very important for the judge to see that there was bias there. I think that was clear.”
The judge indicated he too was “troubled” by the timing of and circumstances surrounding Carpio-Umar’s letter.
http://www.pollingreport.com/BushJob.htm
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, but it's true, too. What a shame that dubya ignored warnings of the financial meltdown while pursuing his oil war that didn't find any WMD's while also bankrupting the country.
PHILADELPHIA - May 11, 2010 (WPVI) -- A police sergeant shot himself in the shoulder, then claimed he heroically defended himself from an attack, the Philadelphia police commissioner announced Tuesday morning.
Sgt. Robert Ralston claimed he was shot in the early morning hours of April 5th in the 5600 block of Lancaster Avenue.
At the time, Ralston claimed he approached the two suspects, described as black males, at the intersection. One man fled, while the other man ran up an embankment bordering the railroad tracks.
Ralston said he grabbed the suspect by the shoulder, who then turned around with a silver revolver in his hand, and pointed it at his head.
The sergeant said he smacked the gun away as it went off, the bullet hitting him in the left shoulder.
At a news conference Tuesday, Commissioner Charles Ramsey said Ralston made the story up.
Ramsey said the evidence at the scene did not match Ralston's story. One piece of evidence: The gunpowder residue found on Ralston's shirt matched ammunition used by the police department.
"It was clear to us, soon after it took place, that this was simply not true. The evidence did not support the story he was giving," said Ramsey.
At around midnight, Ramsey said homicide detectives brought Ralston in for further questioning, and Ralston allegedly continued to tell them he was attacked by two black males. However, at around 4:00 a.m. Tuesday, police say Ralston admitted to making the story up.
Ramsey said he did not know why Ralston would shoot himself and make up this story.
"There is some speculation he did it to bring attention to himself, to try to get a transfer," Ramsey said. Ralston had four prior suspensions and was recently transferred to the 19th District.
The commissioner also said that Ralston's claim that he was attacked by two black males "inflamed tension in our community." No one was arrested in connection with this case.
Ramsey said the department will do everything in its power to make Ralston pay for the cost of the investigation.
Ralston will be suspended with intent to dismiss later Tuesday, Ramsey said. Ralston is a 21-year veteran of the force.
Ralston was granted immunity from criminal prosecution in exchange for a confession, Ramsey said.
Ex-cop Ralston, Bonnie Sweeten... nothing but race mongers and bigots... They should have to pay for violation of civil rights by every Black Man, Woman and Child who have been profiled for this crap!
stan has a lot of nerve talking about teachers when he branded an innocent child by putting her name in his rag along with his stupid website. he is nothing but a piece of crap trying to sell his rag to all with his stupid ignorant bigoted bs.
stan is a low life bastard
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Mecklenburg County, Virginia (CNN) -- On his southern Virginia farm on a recent warm Saturday, John Boyd Jr. needs a dose of rain before he can plant soybeans.
More than 200 miles away in Washington, Boyd has a bigger problem on his hands. President Obama has promised to help black farmers who have not received the $1.25 billion settlement owed to them after years of being denied government farm loans and support from federal programs because of the color of their skin.
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