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(R) Trisha Calvarese
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President (To Win Colorado)
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(R) Donald Trump
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(R) Deborah Flora
(R) J. Sonnenberg
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CO-06 (Aurora)
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(R) Gabe Evans
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January 19, 2015 12:00 AM UTC
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Happy Martin Luther King Birthday! What will you do today to honor MLK's legacy?
(The Stevie Wonder tribute)
I’ll march in the MLK marade here, and connect with people and groups working for social change.
You are one very special lady, MamaJ. I'm going to watch, again, the best clip ever from Newsroom, (they have disabled the embed function on YouTube so here's the link) It will come as no surprise to you, but the Washington Post is reporting this morning that a majority of US school children in public schools live in poverty. This, while OxFam is reporting that one-quarter of the annual income of the worlds richest people would be enough to end poverty – and The New Jim Crow: mass incarcerations of young men of color – and a failed War on Drugs.
From the balconies of the 1%-ers, I'm sure it doesn't look all that bad.
There were around 700 people at the march and celebration in Greeley, about half young folks, and half, we veterans of past struggles who actually remembered Martin Luther King. A good crowd, I thought.
Dr. Jones-Deweever, the keynote speaker, spoke about how racism is unfashionable and not overt, but still prevalent, these days, in the incarceration rate, in lopsided police violence towards communities of color, in school achievement and graduation and employment rates.
She also said that overt racism is making a comeback – or perhaps people are just being more honest about it these days….56% of adults said that they had negative ideas or emotions about black people.
I see that what's new these days is the orchestrated political rise and promotion of very conservative black (mostly) men, such as Allen West, Ben Carson, the Springs guy taking on Bennet, and many more. These men, who out TP the tea party, give plenty of cover for the GOP's pro-1% message. Their plans to cut taxes by making poor people pay more can't be racist – look at this black male candidate they support. They call themselves "Frederick Douglass Republicans", but Douglass, who saw and spoke so clearly, would have repudiated them immediately.
There was a theory, when MLK was killed, that he was targeted ultimately because he was moving beyond race and into what we used to call the "class struggle" – i.e., standing with the Memphis garbage collectors, standing with all poor people. His speaking out against clear racial discrimination in southern states was tolerable; his bringing it home to the rest of America was not.
WWMLKD?
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/19/business/richest-1-percent-likely-to-control-half-of-global-wealth-by-2016-study-finds.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share
In the interest of fairness, we asked a representative of the elite, Mr. Scrooge McGOP about this report. He responded that the GOP and the 1%ers "are doing everything the can to make poverty as enjoyable as a Club Med vacation. "Being poor is so much more easy than it used to be, and we're proud to be doing our part to give so many more folks their shot at an easy life."
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/19/opinion/charles-blow-how-expensive-it-is-to-be-poor.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share
Most wealthy Americans believe “poor people today have it easy.” This view is infuriatingly obtuse.
. . . god help us . . .
For some reason I'm reminded of Anatole France's line about "The majestic equality of the law, which prohibits rich and poor alike from sleeping under railway bridges.'
MLK on war and how it distracts from the higher purpose of a country's goals for its own people
Remember the guys – Lindsey Graham, John McCain, Cheney, Fox News – who never complain that we don't the funds to attack Iran or Somalia or ISIS or Ukraine. But ask for funds to rebuild a bridge or feed a poor kid and they call you crazy.
Ask for a reduction in tax cuts and breaks for the top .1% to help pay for their wars and they'll call you a commie class warrior out to stick it to the deserving rich.
Is anyone else getting the top-of-page banner on this site that asks for you to click in to a website and vote for whether we should go to war with Syria? Is this part of the Ms. Lindsay polling they mentioned yesterday on Meet the Press?
Not having seen the lady in the black pantsuit (a model who works for the American Petroleum Institute) for a while, I too hastily presumed the API had given their advertising budget a break, but I was wrong. The short hiatus seems to be for the purpose of creating some commercials and plugging them in. It sounds like the script writers are jumping on the Chicken Little Brigade War Wagon, and once again convincing the investors they can keep this thing going by scaring the shit out of the public.
These new commercial extravaganzas, (the first one I have seen, at least… I am sure there will be more), are all glitz, plying the national pride angle… You know, "we're #1 in natural gas!!…Yay!!…and if we frack the living daylights out of this country, and throw out the libruls we could become #1 in oil, too!!…", all about the Red, the White, and the Bluuuueeee!
The War on Terrorism is back at the Bijou!
O&G and the Big Repubs almost always have coordinated messaging…
I got it, Michael. I always click "inappropriate" or "irrelevant". If you do that enough, they'll get the message that this is not their target audience.
Thanks!
I was getting that for a few days. Now it's back to asking me if I want to fight Obama on gun control (not especially), or if I'm in the market for some really sweet fracking fluid/ drilling lubricant. I must confuse the hell out of Google.
tea part Christian "family values" http://freakoutnation.com/2015/01/tea-party-christian-holly-hobby-lobby-cheated-on-vet-husband-at-family-values-conference/
It's not the cheating which is exclusive to no group of any kind. It's being such self righteous blowhards while cheating.
When is she scheduled to be stoned by her fellow family values hypocrites? Isn't that required in that book she waves around?
She and Michelle Malkin have a date to get stoned in a Pueblo West pot shop very soon.
Dems f*ing up so bad Howard Dean has returned to post at DailyKos:
Someone please wake our side up. They can't even figure out when good politics, good policy, and solid Democratic values line up. That's the kind of triangulation they should be attempting.
Cynical, opportunistic, and just plain wrong.
speechless….
I know African-Americans had trouble voting prior 19964 but. I didn’t know they couldn’t own guns. Who knew?
If Jesus had a gun, he'd be alive today.
"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of gun is everlasting life."
Ask me sometime why I stopped reading the Biberish . . .
Please tell me someone threw something at her!
I wish I could tell you that. Instead, her audience cheered. The Fox commentators seemed bland and cheery when they reported it, as well. There is a reason Michelle Batshit gave up her Senate seat. Unfortunately, she is following Sarah Palin's path of being conservative media "personality", who gets to say outrageous things with no accountability.
We all need to help with that accountability by talking about politics with everyone we know…just like the righties. We (my wife and I) have started challenging these people at every opportunity. At a time like this, politeness gets us nowhere….