It is toward the end of the class I am taking and I am working on a paper so I may be a little scarce around here. I will try to throw a cartoon or something up each day at least but it will be hard to write here as well as my paper for a few days. Who doesn't like political cartoons anyway?
Tea Party Republicans in New Hampshire have called for the arrests of the lawmakers that voted to repeal the stand your ground law in that state. They say that those lawmakers have violated their oaths of office by trying to trample the Constitution. I guess we're just supposed to forget all those ridiculous times the stand your ground laws have been cited to protect shooters. This is a perfect example of this law being abused.
CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference was this weekend and the usual crazy was heard by all.
Donald Trump was invited to speak because the Republicans have not noticed how utterly insane the man is. In his speech, he slammed immigration from Latin American countries and asked why we can't have more immigrants from Europe. He said undocumented workers should not be given any path to citizenship because if they get to vote they will vote Democratic.
Sarah Palin sipped a Big Gulp during her speech to thumb her nose at New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The fact that increased serving sizes, especially for soft drinks, has increased the rate of obesity is not an issue for Palin and folks like her.
There was so much crazy in such a small compact place. One could go insane going through all of it.
I do want to narrow in on one nugget of crap out of CPAC. The following video is of a panel with the Frederick Douglass Republicans where one participant, Scott Terry, demonstrated his ignorance of history.
When the speaker talks about a letter that Frederick Douglass wrote to his slave master thanking him, Terry interrupts.
Terry: “For what? For feeding him and housing him?”
After the outburst, he was overheard saying, “why can’t we just have segregation?”
Terry maintained that white people have been “systematically disenfranchised” by federal legislation.
When asked by ThinkProgress if he’d accept a society where African-Americans were permanently subservient to whites, he said “I’d be fine with that.” He also claimed that African-Americans “should be allowed to vote in Africa,” and that “all the Tea Parties” were concerned with the same racial problems that he was.
At one point, a woman challenged him on the Republican Party’s roots, to which Terry responded, “I didn’t know the legacy of the Republican Party included women correcting men in public.”
So he decided to touch on sexism as well. Well it is nice to spread the hate around, I guess.
The Tea Party does seem to be more and more outcast from the Republican party. It's a little funny to me.
A lot has happened this week and I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is under attack, more on that this weekend. Bills all over the midwest attacking the teaching of science, but that is nothing new, sadly.
I've been slow to post the past several days and when I finally did, it wasn't much. I'll try to get back on track this weekend. It was kind of a crazy week.
