World News Korner

"I intend to do my job. And if it makes Republicans in Congress mad that I am trying to help people out, then I welcome them to join me so we can do it together."

I swear Job of the Bible had nothing on this President when it comes to demonstrating patience in the face of constant disappointment and adversity.

When the historians write about the Obama presidency it will be with admiration.

I am guessing the Republicans will not receive the same consideration.

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Courtesy of SF Gate:

A federal judge upheld Colorado gun restrictions that were enacted in response to 2012 mass shootings, saying Thursday that limiting the size of ammunition magazines and expanding background checks on firearm purchases are constitutional acts.

But gun-rights advocates who sued the state to overturn the laws called the ruling only the first round and said they planned to appeal.

In a 50-page decision, U.S. District Judge Marcia Krieger said both laws don't infringe on individuals' right to bear arms. The judge further said that limiting magazine sizes doesn't obstruct individuals' ability to protect themselves, and that the expansion of background checks to include firearms sold online and between private parties "is no more severe" than the requirements already in place for commercial sales before the new law.

Gun rights advocates and county sheriffs filed the lawsuit to overturn the laws, which Democrats passed last year without Republican support.

Two Democratic state senators who voted for the laws were recalled from office. A third Democratic lawmaker resigned while a recall effort was ongoing.

Former state Sen. John Morse, one of the recalled lawmakers, welcomed the ruling.

"You can't have a 100-round magazine and walk into a movie theater and start killing people. That's not what the Second Amendment is about," Morse said.

Even before the ruling, Morse said he remained unwavering in his support for the laws even if they cost him his seat.

"I knew when we were doing it that it was the right thing to do. There's no question," he said.

Of course there's no question about it. It is bringing sanity to an insane situation in this country.

And it is very sad that John Morse had to sacrifice his career to help fight to protect potential future victims against gun violence.

All I have to say it that it is nice to hear something positive about gun control laws for a change.

It gives me a little hope for the future.

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Jordan D. Haskins, candidate for the state legislator, and public masturbator.

Courtesy of Raw Story:

A candidate running to represent Michigan’s 95th House district in the state legislature wants you to know that once you look past his bizarre sexual fetish and multiple felony convictions, he is a rock-ribbed conservative Republican, whose “stool of conservatism” is held up by “faith, family and freedom.”

Michigan Live reported Friday that Saginaw’s Jordan D. Haskins dismisses the arrests and prison time as the results of youthful indiscretion and said that he is ready to “move on from that and do what I can” to serve his state as a Republican state Representative.

“I have dreams,” Haskins said to Michigan Live, “and I want to make a difference.”

Haskins, 24, has served prison time in two states and is currently on parole, but there are no rules preventing him from running for the state House.

On four occasions between April of 2010 and January of 2011, Haskins broke into vehicles on public and private property, disconnected the ignition wires, then started the engine. As the wires snapped and spit sparks, Haskins would masturbate to climax in a sexualized ritual he calls “cranking.”

Haskins has lived in Michigan and North Carolina and has lengthy criminal records in both states, dating back to the age of 15. Early offenses had mostly to do with breaking into cars and going on joyrides.

“I was just a lonely, angry kid at the time,” he said. “If anything, I could be put on ‘World’s Dumbest Criminals.’”

Valid point, after all who hasn't broken into cars, hot wired them, and then polished the bishop while listening to the vehicle's engine turning over?

Well me for one.

And here I thought I was fairly well versed in deviant behaviors, and yet I have never even HEARD of this one.

And look I don't like to judge other people's sexual proclivities, but he guy DID get convicted for his, and this did not happen when he was an adolescent, but instead only three or four years ago.

Yeah if I were a voter in Michigan's 95th district I am pretty sure this would be more than enough to dissuade me from casting my vote for this guy.

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10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours.

9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.

8 - You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a Triune God.

7 - Your face turns purple when you hear of the "atrocities" attributed to Allah, but you don't even flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in "Exodus" and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in "Joshua" including women, children, and trees!

6 - You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims about gods sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing that the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to life and then ascended into the sky.

5 - You are willing to spend your life looking for little loopholes in the scientifically established age of Earth (few billion years), but you find nothing wrong with believing dates recorded by Bronze Age tribesmen sitting in their tents and guessing that Earth is a few generations old.

4 - You believe that the entire population of this planet with the exception of those who share your beliefs -- though excluding those in all rival sects - will spend Eternity in an infinite Hell of Suffering. And yet consider your religion the most "tolerant" and "loving."

3 - While modern science, history, geology, biology, and physics have failed to convince you otherwise, some idiot rolling around on the floor speaking in "tongues" may be all the evidence you need to "prove" Christianity.

2 - You define 0.01% as a "high success rate" when it comes to answered prayers. You consider that to be evidence that prayer works. And you think that the remaining 99.99% FAILURE was simply the will of God.

1 - You actually know a lot less than many atheists and agnostics do about the Bible, Christianity, and church history - but still call yourself a Christian.

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You know I am not always a huge fan of petitions, but I am so goddamn sick and tired of these rich assholes undermining our democracy that I think this is one petition that deserves our support.

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So after yesterday's post on Palin's appearance at the "America Won't Stand For This" rally, or whatever it was called, I continued to look around for any other coverage besides the initial source from the local ABC affiliate and the tweets that we found and embedded in the post.

So this morning somebody sent me the Breitbart write up by Charlie Spiering.

Some of you may remember that I used a number of Spiering's tweets to flesh out my post, as there was not much to work with.

Apparently Charlie finally recovered from the hangover he got while freebasing all of that "FREEDOM!" and handed in his column.

The column starts off with Spiering commenting on the "long lines waiting to get inside the convention center." Which is odd because he had tweeted in response to a question about turnout that "The seats are filled. I'm guessing a few hundred."

And in the piece itself he stated that it was "a crowd of about 500." (So much for those reports that it numbered in the thousands.)

Spiering went on to say that most of the crowd were irritated by the recent Tea Party defeat in Mississippi, and quotes a number of disgruntled attendees who claimed Cochran "prostituted" himself and resorted to dirty tricks. Because you know resorting to attracting black voters is considered "dirty tricks" by this crowd of crackers.

Spiering then tied all of that together with the upcoming race between Tea Party favorite Joe Carr, who has a snowball's chance in hell of unseating established Republican Senator Lama Alexander.

(Carr does have one thing going for him however, Sarah Palin has not yet endorsed him.)

Spiering briefly covers remarks by West, Pirro, and Santorum, but I don't think any of us are interested in what they have to say.

Farther down in the article Spiering finally mentions the Wasilla White Walker's appearance:

Palin also disparaged the Republican party for their actions in Mississippi.

“Well shoot, our own party was proving this last week, to potentially manipulate and exterminate the integrity of a primary election,” she said, pointing out that the “the bloated political clash from both sides were trying to discourage people aligned with the Tea Party. ("Bloated political clash?" Could she have meant "bloated political CLASS?")

Palin reminded activists that the results should inspire them to redouble their efforts, pointing out that the establishment politicians would try to discourage them.

“It does make a difference,” she said. “What you are doing makes a difference and now more than ever we need to ramp it up. Don’t retreat, we gotta reload.” ("I would like to thank the bumper sticker industry for their assistance in helping me to write this speech. I couldn't have done it without y'all.")

In spite of their frustration, Palin soon had the crowd laughing as she peppered her speech with political jokes and taking shots against President Obama and his allies. (Yep nothing gets the Right Wing fringe laughing harder than poking fun at the black man in the White House.)

Palin took the stage acknowledging that Sevierville was Dolly Parton’s home town, explaining that she once dressed up as Parton for Halloween when she was in High School.

Hell, she STILL dresses like Dolly Parton.

She also reminded them that the media was also trying to sound a death knell for the Tea Party but it was very much alive. (And that's why there were less than 500 people in attendance, and they had to move the rally to a smaller venue. You know, because the Tea Party is SO popular.)

“Us bitter clingers and wingers, we ignored those yappin' little lapdogs in the media and with a new social media kind of reporting you know we were able to kick those little varmints away, we were able to ignore what it was that they were saying,” she said. (Yes because as every good conservative knows, if you ignore the facts they will simply go away.)

Palin held up Sen. Ted Cruz as an example of a Washington politician that was fighting for them, and explained that it was more important than ever to send him allies in his fight against the Washington establishment.

“He is there for a reason not a season, and that’s what we need more of,” she said. “We need to send the good guys reinforcements to take the battle to Capitol Hill for us.” (More "good guys" who pass no legislation, and instead spend all of their time seeking the spotlight and trying to get on camera as often as possible? Yes that would be the kind of politician supported by Sarah Palin.)

Although she hasn’t endorsed Joe Carr yet in his primary, Palin dropped a hint to Tennessee voters that he was one of their allies.

“We need to be pretty discerning here of what kind of ‘Carr’ we send to D.C.,” she said as Carr supporters in the hall cheered.

Well if he wasn't doomed before, he is now.

I think that this rally is a good indication of just how badly the Tea Party has fallen out of favor with the American people.

In 2010 I would imagine that this convention center would have been packed to the rafters with Right Wing lunatics, leaking Skoal juice from their lips, and screaming for the end of big government and a return to the America that they once enjoyed.

You know the America back before those Negroes got the vote and women knew that their place was in the kitchen and on their knees scrubbing floors.

And right along with viewing the demise of the Tea Party is the added spectacle of watching Sarah Palin's slowly decomposing visage carted from one tiny gathering of the political fringe to the next, until finally she is talking to a living room full of aged Lyndon LaRouche supporters for a cup of coffee and a ride back to the street corner from where she stands yelling conservative bumper sticker slogans at passers by.

And I plan to write about it all.

Update: Palin finally mentions the rally on Facebook:

Thank you, Sevierville Tea Partiers, who work so hard. The great people and great organizers there are making a difference. I was honored to meet them and speak at the rally this week!

Well that is certainly short and lacking in any detail.

She also links to the same Breitbart article that I link to up above, which makes me wonder where she got the idea to write a post today? Hmmm.

(Everybody wave to Sarah.)

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From Jesse DeBoard's Facebook page.

Courtesy of WKRC:

Videos that made their way around Facebook and other social media sites had neighbors talking about fears of violence.

The video showed a man and two women carrying around high-powered weapons. They made no attempt to hide their weapons and the videos are full of racial slurs. The voice in the video was that of a man who recorded three of his friends walking through the streets of East Price Hill. They flaunted the fact that they are legally carrying AR-15's through the neighborhood.

Since that video was recorded, Cincinnati police have arrested two of the four people in connection with the recent CIRV initiative. Charged were Jesse Deboard, the man heard on the video. The other was identified as Stephanie Coverman. Warrants are out for Chris Masters and Christina Tharp.

There is no way that I can adequately explain just what a vile little shit this Jesse DeBoard punk is, so I will embed the video that he posted of their heavily armed, expletive filled jaunt down a street in their neighborhood.

Let me warn you that about two minutes in you will want to wash his mouth out with soap and then slap the shit out of him.

Update: Okay well the video got removed, so I will leave it up to Raw Story to describe a little of the vulgarity:

“Broad day, you see this? Walking down the street with a AR-15,” says the man filming the demonstration, who police later identified as Jesse Deboard.

The group then brags about openly carrying assault weapons on city streets. “Open carry in the state of Ohio, the cops can’t do nothing,” one of the men says on camera.

Deboard can be heard asking if unidentified Facebook friends “still want that drama, though.”

“This is going on YouTube, n*gga, world star,” Deboard says to a passing group of black men.

His almost comical overuse of the "N" word is incredibly grating, as is his pathetic tough guy verbal diarrhea. The diarrhea dries right up when the police show up however.

The police then attempt to explain to the kids that by walking around with their rifles on display it makes them a prime target for robbery, but these idiots are far too immature to recognize the truth in those words.

After the talk with the police the punks go on their way, and suddenly DeBoard gets mouthy again.

I have to imagine that he again clammed the hell up after the cops showed up at his door and placed his ass under arrest.

However he could certainly talk some shit on Facebook:

Love when.mfs start shit take.off runnin and they wanna.squash it when.they alone then.come.to.my house 30 deep but scatter like cockroaches when.i.come.outside BY MYSELF NO.GUNS.MF!!!!!!! Yall aint bout that life #sitthefuckdown!!!!!!

I hate ol prison built buttercup soft ass pretty boy wannabe thug never in these streets only think u was hard cuz u did time tatted up even they face cuz they was in prison got patched up for protection fake made up gangbanger ass nigguhs and the bitches who entertain this shit is even more amusing.

Take a good look Wayne LaPierre, this is the lovechild that was delivered by NRA lobbying efforts. Now everybody can walk around acting like a dick while carrying a dangerous implement of death.

Even this little turd.

Update 2: I found some new footage that contains a portion of the video.

It leaves out a lot, but you get the idea.

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