"We've been asked by the people of this district to send a message to Washington," Turner told supporters after the landmark win. "I hope they hear it loud and clear. We've been told this is a referendum. Mr. President, we are on the wrong track. We have had it with an irresponsible fiscal policy which endangers the entire economy."
This is a tide change people. A moving train is going to get real sleepy here soon.
The Democratic Party enlisted two of its biggest guns, former President Bill Clinton and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, to record phone calls for Weprin. And Democrats relied on organized labor and other affiliated groups to bring voters to the polls.
here is a taste of what is to come. more cut and paste in link attached.
Proof that the bigger the swagger, the smaller the heart.
He doesn't have much of a chance go winning since his completely classless, pig-like style only impresses the pigs of Texas, but his popularity proves that being an obnoxious white buttfuck who smiles big while he shoots his gun, lies through his teeth and encourages teenagers to get laid at an early age is popular with people who have no brains.
I can't wait til the knives come out. The Republican establishment hate him. With good reason. He's not a likable person at all.
let's all come together and get America working again. Don't ask what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. I want to encourage all of you to do the right thing. if you are communist, that's cool and all.....or socialist.....but here, in the US...let's go the right way ok?
But then, slogans and photo's are easier to digest than a reasoned exposition of the facts./quote]
im not so good with words. I will use anothers take who is more articulate than I.
The folks who are getting the free shit, don't like the folks who are paying for the free shit, Because the folks who are paying for the free shit,Can no longer afford to pay for both the free shit and their own shit, And, The folks who are paying for the free shit,Want the free shit to stop.
The the folks who are getting the free shit,Want even more free shit on top of the free shit they are already getting!
Now... The people who are forcing the people who Pay for the free shit, Have told the people who are RECEIVING the free shit,That the people who are PAYING for the free shit, are being mean, prejudiced, and racist.
So... the people who are GETTING the free shit,Have been convinced they need to hate the people who are paying for the free shit, by the people who are forcing some people to pay for their free shit,And giving them the free shit in the first place.
We have let the free shit giving go on for so long that there are Now more people getting free shit than paying for the free shit.
Now understand this. All great democracies have committed financial suicide somewhere between 200 and 250 years after being founded. The reason? The voters figured out they could vote themselves money from the treasury by electing people who promised to give them money from the treasury in exchange for electing them.
The United States officially became a Republic in 1776, 231 years ago. The number of people now getting free shit outnumbers the people paying for the free shit. We have one chance to change that in 2012. Failure to change that spells the end of the United States as we know it.
THIS IS WHAT AMERICA NEEDS
NOT very inclusive IF this is what America needs. It's quite possible by 2050 popluation wise that THIS will be the minority in this country so good luck IF you still feel this is what America needs.
Peace
*We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
Perry may have lost no sleep over Texas's 234 executions during his tenure, but the death penalty panders to crude bloodlust
Amanda Marcotte
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 13 September 2011
When Rick Perry threw his hat into the ring for the Republican presidential nomination, it set off such a collective cringe among liberal Texans that it likely scored on the Richter scale. Being a native Texan with basic respect for modern civilisation means living in a constant state of low-grade humiliation, as the state's size provides an interrupted stream of news stories highlighting the cranks and Bible-thumpers who win state and local offices – but a presidential campaign means exponentially expanding the amount of national and international attention paid to the streak of mean-spirited ignorance that rules Texas politics. With Rick Perry, this means a whole lot more coverage of the fact that Texas is the "killingest" state in the entire union, having executed more than four times as many prisoners as the next contender in this gruesome contest.
Of course, we of the non-barbaric sort do hope that all this attention paid to Rick Perry's willingness to execute anyone on death row – no matter how obviously screwed over by an imperfect and often unjust judicial system – could somehow provoke enough national shame that we actually do away with the death penalty. Which we really need to do, not because we have any great love for vicious murderers, but because the death penalty is a known destroyer of a fair and sober-minded justice system.
Once you have the right to kill people, the voters start expecting semi-regular bloodshed as proof that you're doing your job, creating incentives for prosecutors and politicians to cut corners to get those voter-pleasing cadaver numbers up. Each new generation of prosecutors and politicians feels pressure to "best" their predecessor in the number of executions carried out, lest they face accusations of being soft on crime. Which explains why they soon find themselves where Rick Perry stands, having executed 234 people, many of whom had highly corrupt trials and at least one of whom is most likely innocent.
For those who haven't read the tale of Cameron Todd Willingham, I implore you to read the New Yorker article recounting the case of a man executed for killing his three children based on shoddy evidence and prosecutorial willingness to introduce Willingham's love of Iron Maiden and Led Zeppelin as evidence in order to stoke the prejudices of a Bible Belt jury that was high on fundamentalist tall tales about the Satanic influence of rock music. When presented with an opportunity to spare Willingham's life, Perry declined, and in 2004, Willingham was executed by lethal injection. His case has come to symbolise the circus atmosphere around capital murder cases, and the way that the eagerness to see someone pay the ultimate price for the loss of innocent human life causes law enforcement and politicians to make a mockery out of the idea of justice.
Since Rick Perry, by his own admission, has never lost sleep over the execution of a likely innocent man, you can bet justice doesn't stand a chance when it comes to cases where the fact of homicide is indisputable. The public's desire to get blood for blood – especially if they can view the accused as an outsider – turns concerns about due process to dust for anyone whose job depends on a high conviction rate. Subsequently, death penalty cases where the prosecution won a clean conviction without relying on shoddy evidence or a jury's unfair prejudices are the rare gems in a sea of corruption. The case of Duane Buck, scheduled to be executed this week, demonstrates how the death penalty is more about hustling prisoners to the execution chamber to score points with the public than it is securing just and safe outcomes.
Even hyper-conservative Senator John Cornyn, once Texas's attorney general, wanted Buck's case reviewed, due to a prosecutorial witness's claim that Buck was more likely to be violent in the future because he's black. That someone's race was overtly invoked as a reason to kill him during trial should be indicator enough that the death penalty has meaning for the public beyond alleviating concerns about violent crime. But evidence of racism invoked during the trial probably won't bother Perry: if he had a conscience about signing off on overtly unfair executions, it probably stopped bothering him somewhere much earlier in his run of 234 executions as Texas governor.
The death penalty is wrong not because murderers deserve better, but because the death penalty appeals to the worst instincts of humanity. We see innocent people die, and our lizard brains want to believe that it won't be right until someone pays for blood with blood. That desire starts to overrule all other priorities. Our desire for a fair trial system and our desire to treat people equally despite racial differences are the first to go. But given enough time, we're even willing to send a man to the death chambers for what appears to have been an accident. Three small children are dead, and we want someone to pay, no matter the innocence of the someone we select.
Perry's willingness to execute a man who was almost certainly innocent comes uncomfortably close to regressing to the days of human sacrifice. Sacrificing an innocent man won't prevent other houses from accidentally catching fire and killing the innocent people inside, but it's clear that Perry will not hesitate to pander to voters who cling to hopes that periodic blood-letting will somehow save us all.
234 people under his watch. justice served. COLD. Don't go to Texas and think you are going to get away with fucking up....
"The state of Texas," Perry explained, "has a very thoughtful [and] very clear process in place. When someone commits the most heinous of crimes against our citizens, they get a fair hearing. They go through an appellate process; they go up to the Supreme Court of the United States if that's required."
234 people under his watch. justice served. COLD. Don't go to Texas and think you are going to get away with fucking up....
"The state of Texas," Perry explained, "has a very thoughtful [and] very clear process in place. When someone commits the most heinous of crimes against our citizens, they get a fair hearing. They go through an appellate process; they go up to the Supreme Court of the United States if that's required."
234 people under his watch. justice served. COLD. Don't go to Texas and think you are going to get away with fucking up....
"The state of Texas," Perry explained, "has a very thoughtful [and] very clear process in place. When someone commits the most heinous of crimes against our citizens, they get a fair hearing. They go through an appellate process; they go up to the Supreme Court of the United States if that's required."
And it helps if they happen to be white.
I don't think your racist comments belong on this forum. You have been reported.
haha. kidding. I wouldn't report you. You still got lots of learning to do. I will help.
I was referring to the death penalty, not education.
And today, this criminal will pay his dues in Texas.
Buck, 48, was convicted of gunning down ex-girlfriend Debra Gardner, 32, and Kenneth Butler, 33, outside Houston in July, 30, 1995, a week after Buck and Gardner broke up. Buck's guilt is not being questioned. :roll:
Gardner's 14-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son were among those who witnessed the shootings. Officers testified that Buck was laughing during and after his arrest, saying Gardner deserved what she got.
“Our country’s in trouble, I think even those on the left understand that,” Perry said. “I will go to that Oval Office every morning and try to make Washington as inconsequential as I can in your lives.’’
“I know it’s time for a change in this country,’’ Perry said. “There is nothing ailing America that can’t be cured with the rebirth of freedom.”
If Rick Perry thinks he's going to get the votes of blacks and hispanics, he's nuts.
He's not.
Yes, the terrified racist white people will vote for him, because they want their place at the top of the heap back. Or as they say it "their country."
But he's a pig. A disgusting pig.
that's all that needs to be said. He will finish the job of ruining America that was started by President Cheney in 2000.
So, you think he's going to win then huh? Me too. Glad we can agree on this.
No. I don't.
Maybe in your little insulated world, winning just the white vote is enough.
Welcome to the new reality and no, you cannot "have your country back."
This land was made for you and me. Not just you. Sorry. I know how much it sucks for you to have to be equal to us coloured people, homos and people who pray to different Gods and all that. Don't worry... you'll adjust.
“Our country’s in trouble, I think even those on the left understand that,” Perry said. “I will go to that Oval Office every morning and try to make Washington as inconsequential as I can in your lives.’’
“I know it’s time for a change in this country,’’ Perry said. “There is nothing ailing America that can’t be cured with the rebirth of freedom.”
Really? all those shitty wars we're fighting will start with the rebirth of freedom? Whose?
The sun comes shining as I was strolling
The wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
The fog was lifting a voice come chanting
This land was made for you and me
you should see the view sometime. It's beautiful up on the high road.
This land is your land, this land is my land
From California, to the New York Island
From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters
This land was made for you and me
As I was walking a ribbon of highway
I saw above me an endless skyway
I saw below me a golden valley
This land was made for you and me
Chorus
I've roamed and rambled and I've followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
And all around me a voice was sounding
This land was made for you and me
Chorus
The sun comes shining as I was strolling
The wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
The fog was lifting a voice come chanting
This land was made for you and me
Chorus
As I was walkin' - I saw a sign there
And that sign said - no tress passin'
But on the other side .... it didn't say nothin!
Now that side was made for you and me!
Chorus
In the squares of the city - In the shadow of the steeple
Near the relief office - I see my people
And some are grumblin' and some are wonderin'
If this land's still made for you and me.
Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
I can't wait until the sex scandals start to roll out about Rick Perry.
My guess is he likes to dress up in lace stockings and get beaten with carp.
Then he'd get your vote right?
Fuck no, I don't ever support closet cases. Same reason I wouldn't vote for the (likely) child molester Michele Bachmann and her closeted gay husband who most likely sexually assaults the teenage boys sent to him by their Christianazi parents.
Kum bay ya, my Lord, kum bay ya;
Kum bay ya, the Lord, kum bay ya;
Kum bay ya, my Lord, kum bay ya,
O Lord, kum bay ya.
I used to have to sing this shit at school when I was five years old.
Then was before I grew up.
in his defense, you do have to have the mind of a 6 year-old to think Tick Perry would be good at anything other than selling used cars. He's a ghastly bad governor and he'd ruin the world if he ran America for a couple of hours.
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"We've been asked by the people of this district to send a message to Washington," Turner told supporters after the landmark win. "I hope they hear it loud and clear. We've been told this is a referendum. Mr. President, we are on the wrong track. We have had it with an irresponsible fiscal policy which endangers the entire economy."
This is a tide change people. A moving train is going to get real sleepy here soon.
The Democratic Party enlisted two of its biggest guns, former President Bill Clinton and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, to record phone calls for Weprin. And Democrats relied on organized labor and other affiliated groups to bring voters to the polls.
here is a taste of what is to come. more cut and paste in link attached.
http://news.yahoo.com/gop-wins-ny-house ... 31942.html
let's get America working again!
THIS IS WHAT AMERICA NEEDS.
WOOT!
A foul, soulless pig.
Proof that the bigger the swagger, the smaller the heart.
He doesn't have much of a chance go winning since his completely classless, pig-like style only impresses the pigs of Texas, but his popularity proves that being an obnoxious white buttfuck who smiles big while he shoots his gun, lies through his teeth and encourages teenagers to get laid at an early age is popular with people who have no brains.
I can't wait til the knives come out. The Republican establishment hate him. With good reason. He's not a likable person at all.
let's all come together and get America working again. Don't ask what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. I want to encourage all of you to do the right thing. if you are communist, that's cool and all.....or socialist.....but here, in the US...let's go the right way ok?
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
NOT very inclusive IF this is what America needs. It's quite possible by 2050 popluation wise that THIS will be the minority in this country so good luck IF you still feel this is what America needs.
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
Rick Perry executes justice, Texas-style
Perry may have lost no sleep over Texas's 234 executions during his tenure, but the death penalty panders to crude bloodlust
Amanda Marcotte
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 13 September 2011
When Rick Perry threw his hat into the ring for the Republican presidential nomination, it set off such a collective cringe among liberal Texans that it likely scored on the Richter scale. Being a native Texan with basic respect for modern civilisation means living in a constant state of low-grade humiliation, as the state's size provides an interrupted stream of news stories highlighting the cranks and Bible-thumpers who win state and local offices – but a presidential campaign means exponentially expanding the amount of national and international attention paid to the streak of mean-spirited ignorance that rules Texas politics. With Rick Perry, this means a whole lot more coverage of the fact that Texas is the "killingest" state in the entire union, having executed more than four times as many prisoners as the next contender in this gruesome contest.
Of course, we of the non-barbaric sort do hope that all this attention paid to Rick Perry's willingness to execute anyone on death row – no matter how obviously screwed over by an imperfect and often unjust judicial system – could somehow provoke enough national shame that we actually do away with the death penalty. Which we really need to do, not because we have any great love for vicious murderers, but because the death penalty is a known destroyer of a fair and sober-minded justice system.
Once you have the right to kill people, the voters start expecting semi-regular bloodshed as proof that you're doing your job, creating incentives for prosecutors and politicians to cut corners to get those voter-pleasing cadaver numbers up. Each new generation of prosecutors and politicians feels pressure to "best" their predecessor in the number of executions carried out, lest they face accusations of being soft on crime. Which explains why they soon find themselves where Rick Perry stands, having executed 234 people, many of whom had highly corrupt trials and at least one of whom is most likely innocent.
For those who haven't read the tale of Cameron Todd Willingham, I implore you to read the New Yorker article recounting the case of a man executed for killing his three children based on shoddy evidence and prosecutorial willingness to introduce Willingham's love of Iron Maiden and Led Zeppelin as evidence in order to stoke the prejudices of a Bible Belt jury that was high on fundamentalist tall tales about the Satanic influence of rock music. When presented with an opportunity to spare Willingham's life, Perry declined, and in 2004, Willingham was executed by lethal injection. His case has come to symbolise the circus atmosphere around capital murder cases, and the way that the eagerness to see someone pay the ultimate price for the loss of innocent human life causes law enforcement and politicians to make a mockery out of the idea of justice.
Since Rick Perry, by his own admission, has never lost sleep over the execution of a likely innocent man, you can bet justice doesn't stand a chance when it comes to cases where the fact of homicide is indisputable. The public's desire to get blood for blood – especially if they can view the accused as an outsider – turns concerns about due process to dust for anyone whose job depends on a high conviction rate. Subsequently, death penalty cases where the prosecution won a clean conviction without relying on shoddy evidence or a jury's unfair prejudices are the rare gems in a sea of corruption. The case of Duane Buck, scheduled to be executed this week, demonstrates how the death penalty is more about hustling prisoners to the execution chamber to score points with the public than it is securing just and safe outcomes.
Even hyper-conservative Senator John Cornyn, once Texas's attorney general, wanted Buck's case reviewed, due to a prosecutorial witness's claim that Buck was more likely to be violent in the future because he's black. That someone's race was overtly invoked as a reason to kill him during trial should be indicator enough that the death penalty has meaning for the public beyond alleviating concerns about violent crime. But evidence of racism invoked during the trial probably won't bother Perry: if he had a conscience about signing off on overtly unfair executions, it probably stopped bothering him somewhere much earlier in his run of 234 executions as Texas governor.
The death penalty is wrong not because murderers deserve better, but because the death penalty appeals to the worst instincts of humanity. We see innocent people die, and our lizard brains want to believe that it won't be right until someone pays for blood with blood. That desire starts to overrule all other priorities. Our desire for a fair trial system and our desire to treat people equally despite racial differences are the first to go. But given enough time, we're even willing to send a man to the death chambers for what appears to have been an accident. Three small children are dead, and we want someone to pay, no matter the innocence of the someone we select.
Perry's willingness to execute a man who was almost certainly innocent comes uncomfortably close to regressing to the days of human sacrifice. Sacrificing an innocent man won't prevent other houses from accidentally catching fire and killing the innocent people inside, but it's clear that Perry will not hesitate to pander to voters who cling to hopes that periodic blood-letting will somehow save us all.
think much lately?
234 people under his watch. justice served. COLD. Don't go to Texas and think you are going to get away with fucking up....
"The state of Texas," Perry explained, "has a very thoughtful [and] very clear process in place. When someone commits the most heinous of crimes against our citizens, they get a fair hearing. They go through an appellate process; they go up to the Supreme Court of the United States if that's required."
And it helps if they happen to be white.
I don't think your racist comments belong on this forum. You have been reported.
haha. kidding. I wouldn't report you. You still got lots of learning to do. I will help.
my very own charity case.
Your graph shows blacks and Hispanics at the bottom end of the spectrum.
Anyway, I was referring to the death penalty, not education.
And today, this criminal will pay his dues in Texas.
Buck, 48, was convicted of gunning down ex-girlfriend Debra Gardner, 32, and Kenneth Butler, 33, outside Houston in July, 30, 1995, a week after Buck and Gardner broke up. Buck's guilt is not being questioned. :roll:
Gardner's 14-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son were among those who witnessed the shootings. Officers testified that Buck was laughing during and after his arrest, saying Gardner deserved what she got.
NOW IT"S YOUR TURN BUCK!
“I know it’s time for a change in this country,’’ Perry said. “There is nothing ailing America that can’t be cured with the rebirth of freedom.”
He's not.
Yes, the terrified racist white people will vote for him, because they want their place at the top of the heap back. Or as they say it "their country."
But he's a pig. A disgusting pig.
that's all that needs to be said. He will finish the job of ruining America that was started by President Cheney in 2000.
No. I don't.
Maybe in your little insulated world, winning just the white vote is enough.
Welcome to the new reality and no, you cannot "have your country back."
This land was made for you and me. Not just you. Sorry. I know how much it sucks for you to have to be equal to us coloured people, homos and people who pray to different Gods and all that. Don't worry... you'll adjust.
Really? all those shitty wars we're fighting will start with the rebirth of freedom? Whose?
The wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
The fog was lifting a voice come chanting
This land was made for you and me
you should see the view sometime. It's beautiful up on the high road.
This land is your land, this land is my land
From California, to the New York Island
From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters
This land was made for you and me
As I was walking a ribbon of highway
I saw above me an endless skyway
I saw below me a golden valley
This land was made for you and me
Chorus
I've roamed and rambled and I've followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
And all around me a voice was sounding
This land was made for you and me
Chorus
The sun comes shining as I was strolling
The wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
The fog was lifting a voice come chanting
This land was made for you and me
Chorus
As I was walkin' - I saw a sign there
And that sign said - no tress passin'
But on the other side .... it didn't say nothin!
Now that side was made for you and me!
Chorus
In the squares of the city - In the shadow of the steeple
Near the relief office - I see my people
And some are grumblin' and some are wonderin'
If this land's still made for you and me.
Kum bay ya, my Lord, kum bay ya;
Kum bay ya, the Lord, kum bay ya;
Kum bay ya, my Lord, kum bay ya,
O Lord, kum bay ya.
My guess is he likes to dress up in lace stockings and get beaten with carp.
You have a 1 track mind.
Then he'd get your vote right?
Fuck no, I don't ever support closet cases. Same reason I wouldn't vote for the (likely) child molester Michele Bachmann and her closeted gay husband who most likely sexually assaults the teenage boys sent to him by their Christianazi parents.
Don't be silly. I've never dressed in lace stockings or gotten beaten with a fish of any kind, carp or otherwise.
I used to have to sing this shit at school when I was five years old.
This was before I grew up.
in his defense, you do have to have the mind of a 6 year-old to think Tick Perry would be good at anything other than selling used cars. He's a ghastly bad governor and he'd ruin the world if he ran America for a couple of hours.
love that song !
Godfather.
Godfather.
Are these the people who don't like Kumbayya My Lord, Ted Nugent, and Rick Perry?
I pop in here every now and again and always regret it.