About the strange behavior of officers after they killed Akai Gurley, Tamir Rice, and Eric Garner

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/05/1349673/-About-the-strange-behavior-of-officers-after-they-killed-Akai-Gurley-Tamir-Rice-and-Eric-Garner?detail=email

When someone is killed, few things tell you more about how the the person who did the killing thinks and feels about the deceased than what they choose to do in the immediate aftermath of the killing itself.

For instance, when Michael Dunn, after shooting and killing teenager Jordan Davis, went back to his hotel room, ordered himself a pizza, fixed a Coke and rum, and went to bed, it gives us a glimpse into the peculiar mindset of the killer—who has since been convicted for his crime.

Scott Peterson, immediately after killing his pregnant wife, Laci, "went fishing," came back home, took a shower, washed his clothes, and, coincidentally, also ate some pizza. On its face, his behavior was out of the ordinary and we later learned that his "fishing trip" was to dump Laci's body, which later washed ashore in the San Francisco Bay.

In real life, or any every television crime drama told for the past 30 years, what a killer does in the immediate aftermath of the killing is extremely telling. It reveals either concern or callousness, sincere compassion or selfishness, humanity or depravity.

As new and extremely troubling details emerge concerning the moments immediately after the shooting deaths of Akai Gurley, Tamir Rice, and Eric Garner at the hands of local police, it would only be fair to wonder aloud what we can learn from the actions, or lack thereof, of the officers who killed these unarmed men.

What you will see, in each case, is that the officers demonstrated what can only be called criminal and unethical neglect for human life. Follow below the fold for more.

everyone reacts differently when they experience or are involved in a traumatic exchange where one does not get to tell their story, if no witnesses than any contrivance can be made in some cities even if the coroner disagrees or in fact if there were witnesses still it can go the way of the one who is the killer recent acts make that a factual statement.  but do we really know what goes on in the head of a racist killer who kills one that they are intolerant of.  what about those who seem to be in that zone and just keep on beating and firing does a rum and coke and a cigar do it or does it magnify the hate within firing them for the next time?

CONCLUSION

These three cases were by no means chosen because they are the only three cases on record in which police officers exhibited a willful lack of regard for their victims, but because these all happened in the latter half of this year. Sadly, scores of similar cases exist all over the country and it is nearly unfathomable to imagine police officers, or any human beings with half a heart, behaving this way with anyone they loved or cherished.

Instead of conveying positive emotions of any kind, quite the opposite effect, in fact, is conveyed to African Americans when victims of police violence are treated with the regard one would give a dead rodent. It must be accepted by the wider public that these post-tragedy behaviors only fuel the narrative that racism, be it subconscious or otherwise, is what allows those chosen to protect and serve do anything but.

hear, hear this is the mindset that is the problem when we learn how to get those of that mindset to admit it and seek help in dealing with it we will continue on this same path another problem most of that mindset don't want to change or literally deal with it.

Riiiiiiiiiight, Reince. We can surely count on your crew to produce jobs

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/05/1349647/-Riiiiiiiiiight-Reince-We-can-surely-count-on-your-crew-to-produce-jobs?detail=email#

The Republican National Committee has delivered its take on today's blow-out jobs report. Courtesy of Reince Priebus. And it's hilarious. You can tell by the historical chart above just how serious the GOP is in the matter:

“The months of incremental job gains we’ve witnessed are not enough. Creating 300,000 jobs in one month shouldn’t be a new high; it should be the minimum we expect. Today’s jobs report shouldn’t be an aberration; it should be the norm. Sadly, it’s not. The Obama-Clinton Democrats have prioritized other things like ObamaCare regulations, energy regulations, and small business regulations. Translation: they pushed job-killing policies when we needed job-creating policies.

“Thankfully, the American people spoke out last month and sent a Republican majority to the Senate, so next year we can begin passing the pro-growth, pro-jobs legislation that has gone nowhere in the Democrat Senate. That includes the Keystone Pipeline. Soon, it will be up to President Obama to decide if he wants to stand with American workers or continue siding with liberal special interests.”

only a fool would think that losing 750,000 jobs a month to 56 month of continues job growth to this past month of over 300,00 plus is not enough and this from the mouths of those who pledged to do nothing to assist this Pres. so they have not produced any jobs for 56 months and long before but they tell us that this is not enough, Pres. is cleaning up their mess by himself not a hand or sorry we screwed the country over and he's not doing it fast enough??

note first thing on their jobs list is keystone the one that might create 20,000 jobs to make and than only 35 to keep it going meanwhile folks like Koch's make billions and none of that dirty oil will be processed and sent to your corner gas station. wake up everybody!

Sure, Reince. If Mitt McCain were president and today's job numbers—and the ones for the rest of the year—were announced, y'all would be demanding Congress allocate funds for bronze sculptures of the guy placed in every state capital, with offsets to pay for them from the Head Start program.

The good news underlying today's report is that we are gradually seeing an end of the acute economic crisis that took away people's savings and homes along with their jobs. And that means there is space to deal with the chronic economic problems that pre-date the Great Recession.

 These—and other related issues—need to be dealt with. There are, to be sure, many elected Democrats who ought to be retired because they are not up to dealing with them. But listening to Republicans say they are the ones to fix things given their abominable record adds new meaning to stand-up comedy.

pay attention to everything they do from now on don't settle for the speak look between the lines you'll see who goes home with the money at days end.


http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/01/05/398725/where-the-real-job-creation-is-obamas-energy-initiatives-create-68000-jobs-to-keystone-xls-6000/

http://www.newsweek.com/state-department-keystone-xl-pipeline-would-only-create-35-permanent-jobs-228898

Have More Black People Been Killed by Police Than Were Lynched During Jim Crow?

http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/10/07/black-people-killed-police-lynched-jim-crow/

 

 A startling headline published Sunday put modern-day racism in perspective when one article suggested that more Black people have been killed by police than were lynched during the days of Jim Crow.

The claim made on BlackLikeMoi.com is difficult to dismiss but can’t be labeled as a fact just yet. What is apparent, however, is that the claim is not as improbable as one would like to think. 

Data gathered by the FBI recently revealed that a Black person is killed by white police officers approximately every 28 hours – that’s almost once every day.

Even more troubling is the fact that the statistics do not cover every police killing of an African-American simply because it would be impossible to do – the same way it is impossible to have an accurate account of how many Blacks were lynched during Jim Crow.

According to an article published by The Guardian, many police agencies also fail to report such killings unless they see the killing as being “justifiable.”

and therein lies the problem with public perception, when you are deprived of all info you can only be half cocked and under informed making assumptive conclusions like that misleads anyone who hears you too and a stereotypical myth is born and run with and Fox creates a new news story and the general public protects officer friendly, after all he saved them from whatever adjectives they used to describe the murder victim as a threat to society when actually it's the cop that is the danger read a paper or turn on a TV even Fox will confirm the kill just for different reasons check other medis for those archived details.

This number of killings also excludes cases like Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old who was shot and killed by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman.

While the exact numbers may forever remain a mystery, the similarities between police brutality and lynchings during Jim Crow are still striking and gut-wrenchingly horrifying.

As the San Francisco Bay View explains, “The haunting symmetry is not just in the number of dead Black bodies in the American streets but also in the stereotypes and images that perpetuate prevailing assumptions of Black inferiority.”

The only difference is that Blacks have traded in titles of being property and savages to being labeled as thugs and gangsters in the mainstream media.

Parallels have also been formed between the way a lynched body was left out in the public to send a message to other African-Americans and the way 18-year-old Michael Brown’s body laid uncovered in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, for hours.

The modern-day killings of Blacks by police also serve as proof that many white Americans are still disconnected from the lives of African-Americans.

According to a recent Pew study, 80 percent of Blacks who were polled felt that the Aug. 9 killing of Brown “raised important issues about race,” The Guardian reports.

Less than 40 percent of whites who were polled felt the same way.

and for most complicit or not the beat goes on sad as it is for "THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD" that this is a testament to the greatest.

 

No Charges for Cops Who Killed Darrien Hunt

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/05/1349651/-No-Charges-for-Cops-Who-Killed-Darrien-Hunt?detail=email

There will be no charges for the cops who shot Darrien Hunt in the back six times while he fled.

Posecutors in Utah have determined that two police officers were justified in the fatal shooting of 22-year-old Darrien Hunt.

The Saratoga Springs police officers — Cpl. Matt Schauerhamer and Officer Nicholas Judson – shot Hunt six times Sept. 10 after responding to two 911 calls about a man walking with a samurai-style sword along a commercial boulevard.

An autopsy revealed that Hunt, who was carrying a katana sword his family said was used for cosplay, had his back turned to the officers when all six shots were fired.

And of course, the case wouldn't be complete unless it included a cop that had a body camera but turned it off prior to the murder.

this has been a major concern for me, officers manipulating the device positioning themselves to not capture key sections of the complete scene, pulling suspect close to deter focus, deliberate breaking it from off  view finder like swing arm around and hit the camera lens and blaming it on their victim.  as time goes on they will realize other opportunities to deter video.

like the guy from FERGUSON  teen activist and rapper T-DUBB-O said "it's in their heads, no camera or training will resolve that" that is true it's only rendering the camera's and behavior training just a wet band aide, or as stated above simply turn it off, by accident i'm sure.

when will those who keep freeing murderous police recognize they are the problem when one of them is beaten or killed on the side of the freeway?  they say once an animal has tasted blood they want more doesn't matter what color bag it comes in.

 

Separate & Unequal: This is why political cartoons matter

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/05/1349612/-Separate-Unequal-This-is-why-political-cartoons-matter?detail=email

Pulitzer-Prize-winning political cartoonist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution – and avid Daily Kos reader – Mike Lukovich has created an iconic political cartoon. In my view, it's the most powerful, evocative visual representation of the injustices America has witnessed, and the black community has suffered, these past two weeks.

Here's Separate, Unequal:

The body laying on the ground could be Eric Garner or Mike Brown, both of whom were robbed of justice by the grand jury process after their lives had already been taken. But the body laying still, motionless really represents the black community in America, evoking a deadly Jim Crow, reinvented and housed where justice in this country resides.

Or, if you're a minority in America, where justice has yet to fully reside.

centuries coming how many more before it's realized in full, how many more of our generations will have to live with the stigma of racial inequality, injustice, voter suppression, war against our women, our worth in the job arena, our courts and our police who seem to have found away to lower prison overcrowding with minor offenses with a major reduction in the Black culture.

are they still honoring those founding guys by treating us as 3/5ths of a human?

Obamacare has another very, very good week

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/05/1349481/-Obamacare-has-another-very-very-good-week?detail=email

Yep, it was another pretty damned good week for Obamacare, if you don't count that whole impending Supreme Court doom part. Here's what we found out this week.

This one is particularly salient for a Supreme Court considering stripping subsidies away from millions of people: the uninsured rate dropped more than 30 percent from September 2013 to September 2014. The Urban Institute has been releasing quarterly data since the implementation of the law, and has found that the uninsured rate for adults under age 64 has been significantly lowered, across genders and races and age groups. But not economic groups—the working poor and the middle class saw the largest drops because of the combination of Medicaid expansion and federal tax credits, or subsidies, for the middle class. In other words, the law is doing exactly what it was intended to do. At least in the Medicaid expansion states.

Thanks in part to some of the Medicare provider reforms and incentives in the law, healthcare spending in the U.S. grew slower in 2013 than it had in 53 years. Half a century. Lowest healthcare spending growth. It's worth repeating that the shrinking of Medicare spending hasalready cut the deficit more than any of the austerity-minded plans that anyone has come up with—Simpson/Bowles, or Paul Ryan, or anyone else.

There's this, too: 50,000 lives saved because hospitals have been made safer. The law included both penalties and incentives for hospitals to reduce readmissions and thus to cut down on the incidence of things like patient falls, poor sanitation practices that increased hospital-based infections, or patients being given the wrong prescriptions. This is all critical in saving lives, but incidentally helped in that whole spending less money on health care part, particularly for Medicare.

now how can any politician who cares about their constituency snatch this out from under American families, even if they engaged in the distortion of truths about it called it a train wreck and my favorite "AN ABOMINATION", i'm still trying to understand how all the above can be an abomination, unless your "PRINCIPLES" formerly known as " VALUES" are in fact to deny it to the people as a revenge attack against a Pres. they don't like because of party association and his skin color and the fact that he snubs their"PRINCIPLES" formerly known as "VALUES" because he knows them to be elephant dung and exclusive of all the above when it comes to "we the people".

Cartoon: Who killed Michael Brown?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/05/1349249/-Cartoon-Who-killed-Michael-Brown?detail=email

you know i believe in conveying a message with humor is most effective but i was a little concerned about it's story line sending the wrong message, but i also feel that those who chose to oppose will never admit the reality of it but my friends i feel confident that you can see the forest in spite of the trees.  truth is always stranger than fiction, could that perhaps be why we seek the genre of fiction to avoid dealing with the truths?

And yet another UNARMED black man SHOT DEAD by police

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/04/1349400/-And-yet-another-UNARMED-black-man-SHOT-DEAD-by-police?detail=email#

This time in Phoenix, Arizona. Thirty-year-old Rumain Brisbon on his way to drop off lunch for his daughters, accosted and killed by 30-year-old unnamed white police officer.

It's "open season for killing black men," according to a community leader in Phoenix where another unarmed black man is dead at the hands of local police. An officer said he felt threatened by Rumain Brisbon before shooting him twice in the torso.

 Police say that Rumain went in the back of his vehicle and then grabbed for his waist. Where have I heard that before?? The dead man's friend tells a different story than that offered by the police:

Brandon Dickerson, who said he was in the car with Brisbon shortly before the shooting and witnessed some of the incident, said Brisbon was dropping off fast food to his children in the apartment. On Wednesday evening, strewn french fries still littered the front porch.

Dickerson said he never saw the officer try to talk with Brisbon. He also said his friend wasn't yelling at the officer.

"Who's gonna argue with police?" Dickerson said. "He had no death wish yesterday.

 http://www.usatoday.com/...

And yes, let me just put it out there, he was no angel, but he was an unarmed citizen of this country who deserved due process. It seems that black people have a new bar to jump, they must prove that they are angels before they are assigned any humanity. Brandon had an arrest record which has nothing to do with him joining the long list of people of color killed by white police officers.

This is madness!!

have you noticed now they are parroting the lame excuses of the other killer cops are they being given talking point no plural just point because each one from Trayvon Martin claim they reached in their waist ban, but never was there a gun present other than the murder weapon.  Mike Brown was wearing elastic ban gym shorts try holding a gun in that waist ban you might lose a toe when it falls through.

it's becoming clearer that these incidents are not as reported by police, but are upheld by commanding officers and sanctioned by jury's, once again the real problems lie with "we the people" and a stereotyped impression that allows them to discriminate between homicidal cops and innocent of what gets the Black men killed.  note how now after a killing the press and police attack the deceased alleged record which so far has had no bearing of their deaths, and have revealed little of the homicidal cops record that is more of an indicator of their crime then the one the killed. BLACK PEOPLE ARE NOT A MENACE TO SOCIETY, SOCIETY IS A MENACE TO BLACK PEOPLE recognize

Stephen Colbert Slams Fox News' Willful Ignorance On Race Relations

http://mediamatters.org/video/2014/12/05/stephen-colbert-slams-fox-news-willful-ignoranc/201777

Colbert: Non-Indictments For Police Shootings Could Be Seen "As Part Of A Larger Troubling Trend. Or, You Could Be Fox News."

comedy break i was getting a little depressed at last few post.  look closely there is a lot of truth in this one. hope it cheers you up

Why Hosting Rudy Giuliani To Talk About Race Is A Bad Idea

http://mediamatters.org/research/2014/12/05/why-hosting-rudy-giuliani-to-talk-about-race-is/201781

Media outlets have been hosting former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani to discuss race as it relates to crime and policing. But Giuliani, who stoked "racial divisions" during his time in office, has used these outlets to push "false" and "misleading" crime statistics.

Giuliani Cites "Misleading" And "False" Statistics About Race And Crime

Giuliani Repeatedly Asserted That "93 Percent Of Blacks In America Are Killed By Other Blacks." During a November appearance on NBC's Meet the Press, Giuliani repeatedly touted the statistic that "93 percent of blacks in America are killed by other blacks." Giuliani also said, "White police officers won't be there [in black areas] if you weren't killing each other 70% of the time." [NBC, Meet the Press, 11/23/14]

Wash. Post's Fact Checker Calls Out Giuliani's "Misleading" Statistic. On The Washington Post's Fact Checker blog, Michelle Ye Hee Lee wrote that Giuliani's talking point was "misleading" and "lacks significant context":

Giuliani's statistic is rooted in Department of Justice studies. But it lacks significant context -- especially because race relations and police treatment of minorities are complex and emotionally-charged topics. We also found it difficult to support Giuliani's personal estimation of the rarity of deadly force by white police officers on black victims, but were limited by the unreliable data on homicides by police.

Ultimately, it is misleading for Giuliani to simplify this topic to the 93 percent statistic and then omit the corresponding statistic for intraracial white murders. [Fact Checker, The Washington Post, 11/25/14]

Giuliani On Fox: The Conviction Rate For White And Black People Who Commit Murder Is "Approximately The Same." 

During an appearance on Fox & Friends to discuss the outcry over his Meet The Press comments, Giuliani claimed "only about 3 percent of whites kill blacks. They go to jail at approximately the same percentage as blacks go to jail. The conviction rate is almost exactly the same. The difference is, it's a very rare exception when a white kills a black." [Fox & Friends, Fox News, 11/24/14, via PolitiFact.com]

PunditFact: Giuliani's Race Murder Claim Completely Lacks Evidence. 

PunditFact rated Giuliani's claim about conviction rates by race "false":Giuliani said, "the conviction rate is almost exactly the same" for whites and blacks who commit murder.

We couldn't find any statistical evidence to support Giuliani's claim, and experts said they weren't aware of any, either. We found some related data, but that data only serves to highlight some of the racial disproportion in the justice system.

And when you take a step back, Giuliani's comment -- even if supported by statistical evidence -- would amount to cherry-picking data to shed the most benign light on racial disparities of the American justice system. Jurisprudence in general does not reflect this pattern.

Without statistical data to back up his claim, we rate it False.

okay he is a fake like so many on that side the use hyperbole and out right misinformation let me just break it down, bald faced lies to get in to office then all throughout to stay in then after it's over if they tell the truth then it exposes the multitude of misleading's in order to create a false legacy, but again they forget it's all archived and we will know eventually. prolonging the inevitable only makes the impact stronger had they come clean by the time the lies are exposed they would have been forgotten and no need to hide your face.

they don't want to resolve the race issue because now and since it's always benefited them, with their numbers decreasing they are trying tohold on to as much as they can to lessen the blow to them when they wake up and find out they are the new minority.

Wash. Post Digs In Its Heels On Botched Immigration Fact Check

http://mediamatters.org/research/2014/12/05/wash-post-digs-in-its-heels-on-botched-immigrat/201776

The Washington Post is helping a former official from President George H.W. Bush's administration walk back his 1990 congressional testimony that Bush's executive action on immigration could have helped up to 1.5 million people and using that to decry the Obama administration's use of the figure to justify its upcoming immigration action. But the official, then-Federal Immigration Commissioner Gene McNary, was the person who introduced the 1.5 million figure, and an immigration expert's analysis of immigration numbers at the time shows that the figure is plausible.

here we go with another big business recently changing ownership and immediately starts leaning right, Post was the paper that Black Americans trusted because it was fair and balance for real but like NBC/Comcast they seem to see red more than purple.  republicans all seem to have selected memories when they get caught with the headlights in their eyes trouble is they can't keep their lies straight.

White House Says George H.W. Bush's Immigration Executive Action Covered 1.5 Million Immigrants

White House: 1.5 Million Undocumented Immigrants Were Eligible Under 1990 Executive Action. Responding to a question about whether past executive actions on immigration "would involve millions of people like this upcoming one," White House press secretary Josh Earnest noted that George H.W. Bush had "expanded the family fairness program to cover more than 1.5 million unauthorized spouses and children" and that it "represented about 40 percent of the undocumented population at the time." [WhiteHouse.gov, 11/19/14]

Wash. Post Helps McNary Walk Back His 1.5 Million Estimate

Wash. Post Fact Checker Forced To Correct Post On Scope Of Obama's Immigration Executive Action. In a November 24 post on The Washington Post's Fact Checker blog, Glenn Kessler labeled the administration's claims that the 1990 executive action by President George H.W. Bush affected 1.5 million undocumented immigrants suspect. He said the figure was a "rounded-up estimate" from "a single news article" that misleadingly included people who were not eligible to be legalized at the time due to pending applications or appeals. 

Kessler's argument sparked significant criticism after other media noted that then-Federal Immigration Commissioner Gene McNary testified in 1990 that 1.5 million undocumented immigrants would be covered by the policy. Kessler downgraded his assessment of the original claim from "Four Pinocchios" to "Three Pinocchios" and updated his post to note the discovery of McNary's testimony. [Media Matters, 11/24/14]

Wash. Post Updates: Source Of The Number "Is Fairly Certain He Never Used That Figure." Kessler updated his original post to note McNary's testimony and include comment from McNary, who said he did not recall using the 1.5 million figure. Kessler concluded that the figure "appears to be a random one-off comment, apparently never repeated by McNary or any other Bush administration official":

don't think you would forget something with a figure that high but what still amazes me is how they either don't take into account that it's history it's recorded somewhere or they just don't give a damn till the light shines brightly on them then the lies begin, they thought they saw another grain of sand they could spin against Pres. but they are the ones who spun out of control

Sean Hannity Finds A Way To Make Eric Garner's Death About Benghazi

http://mediamatters.org/video/2014/12/05/sean-hannity-finds-a-way-to-make-eric-garners-d/201783

Hannity Indignant Over Boehner's Calls For Congressional Hearings On Garner's Death Rather Than Benghazi.

you know after millions of your tax dollars the embarrassment of each and every time a rebuking and then the coupe de gras their own people put the final nail in the Benghazi faux scandal, and here we go again did he not get the email, or is it he is so sure that his listeners are dim witted enough not to recall recent reports of no Obama admin involvement i8n Benghazi or did fox not report it keeping them under informed?

either way he and the others are just confirming that they are card carrying members of the party of stupider.   maybe Beohner knew the Bengazi thing was a hoax and chose not to further put the spotlight on their exercise in insanity something Hannity knows not, as far as doing their job it's not to stop Obama he has reached the upper echelons of his club he is now in the party of stupidest.

note the only mention of Mr. Garners murder was it wasn't more important that keeping up the Benghazi ruse and as far as police doing their job was that description changed and was it only shown on Fox?

Madison loves books

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGHeh6OPhg4


Madison Reid
a little sumpin sumpin to start your day with a smile, God Bless
i watched this again 10 12 years watch out Capt. Hill here she comes!

Cartoon: Black and white

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/01/1348341/-Cartoon-Black-and-white?detail=email

this is not an indictment of all Black and White peoples mindset but it's still too many that could and should wear that on their foreheads so we can avoid confrontation. the right wing and their media use these kinds if ideology as the red meat they toss out it's a decades old plan to influence the way some vote.

http://gawker.com/5814150/roger-ailes-secret-nixon+era-blueprint-for-fox-news

coupled with G W Bush."you can fool some of the people all of the time and those are the ones you want to concentrate on",  republican voters and some former Dems didn't have a chance like Rush limbaugh and a plate of anything.

TUE DEC 02, 2014 AT 12:05 PM PST Texas school board member posts KKK 'I'm dreaming of a white Christmas' meme on Facebook

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/02/1348850/-Texas-school-board-member-posts-KKK-I-m-dreaming-of-a-white-Christmas-meme-on-Facebook?detail=email

One can only imagine Hooks Independent School District board member Chris Harris won't be working for the district much longer after he posted the image above. The image has rightfully garnered a lot of attention, not the kind Mr. Harris was likely hoping for when he posted it. He's since apologized, but it may be too late:

Harris posted messages saying in part that he realizes what he posted was inappropriate and offended people. He went on to say he's deeply sorry and not a racist.

According to Superintendent Thompson, Harris' future with the school district  will be up to the school board members.

"They govern me. That is who I answer to," said Thompson. "They govern each other. It is in their hands."

i don't think a lot of those types would do and say crazy crap if the though everyone agreed at that point they are preaching to the choir and there is no shock value and they hypocrisy of saying you are not what your speech and actions represent is either more about his ignorance that his thought that we'd buy it. as far as the school board governing him sounds like a third finger flip to those who oppose his actions and are not school board members even more reprehensible but it's Texas no excuse but a better understanding of the source.

Crickets from MSNBC

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/03/1348987/-Crickets-from-MSNBC?detail=email

You know what really grinds my gears?

Two days ago, Joe Scarborough said some of the most vile, disgusting, racist and quite frankly, inhuman remarks that have ever crossed an MSNBC anchors lips. And this is the network that employed Don Imus and Pat Buchanan for years. It was honestly the most racist rant I have heard in a long time. Coming from the station that is supposed to "Lean Forward" their deafening silence, to me, means that they have absolutely no plans of reprimanding Joe Scarborough for his insensitive and asinine comments.

Its time to ask the question -- what the fuck is MSNBC supposed to be anyway? Their ratings have fallen to their lowest levels in a decade in October, and it is because MSNBC has absolutely lost its way as a center left news outlet, and has completely dropped the ball with their confusing bipartisany bullshit.

But the last straw is letting these vile and racist remarks stand. I cannot watch a news channel that would give such a racist man a microphone and allow him to spew shallow bullshit, then turn around and pretend to be a wonkish center left news outlet with a "Lean Forward" tag line. You know what, Phil Griffin and MSNBC, that slogan rings just as hollow as "Fair and Balanced".

i first noticed a change after the NBC Comcast merger big business tends to support the ri8ght wing propaganda machine, now if my TV goes off my phone won't ring or you don'thear from me Comcast didn't appreciate my blog. most of the more popular host have started leaning back and forth one day Progressive the next the ugly other side they are like the illegitimate cousins of Fox and Friends.  i used to watch all day bu now a select few, with their numbers dropping they are not attracting the Fox audience if that was the plan their grade a big g00se egg.

Do-nothing House does something, declares Nazis shouldn't get Social Security

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/03/1349053/-Do-nothing-House-does-something-declares-Nazis-shouldn-t-get-Social-Security?detail=email

This must count as some kind of progress for House Republican leadership. They can't figure out how to get the Republican conference behind keeping the government open and functioning, but they got everyone to agree that Nazis are bad and shouldn't get Social Security.

The No Social Security for Nazis Act sailed without opposition through the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday. The Senate will vote on an identical bill at a later date.

More than three dozen lawmakers from both Republican and Democratic parties and both chambers introduced the legislation last month after an Associated Press investigation showed that dozens of suspected World War Two criminals had collected millions of dollars in Social Security payments.

Many had lied about their Nazi past to get into the United States after the war.

this my friends is your republican vote not working for you, told you they are the only ones who bring up Nazi they have this mad love for all things Nazi and have repeatedly brought it up in reference to Pres. and Progressives in general but mysteriously never about themselves, like race card pulling, no racism, trying to separate the country you now the usual talking points of old.

as to many have lied think they are including their klans?  note to some of the leading wing nuts and maybe namesakes of the party of stupid so many of them so little space to list them all. 

Cartoon: X-Race Specs

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/03/1348893/-Cartoon-X-Race-Specs?detail=email

this is true humor it's what i refer to as in a zone, anal retentive driven by delusion or maybe just a racist homicidal cop.   will this be the new non Black crime, or just a new threat to those of color as victims of Non Black criminals gives new meaning to police serving a protecting just those non Black crooks?

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The term anal retentive (also anally retentive), commonly abbreviated to anal, is used to describe a person who pays such attention to detail that the obsession ...

These 17 States Just Sued Obama for Wanting to Keep Families Together

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/04/1349246/-These-17-States-Just-Sued-Obama-for-Wanting-to-Keep-Families-Together?detail=email

As you may have heard by now, Obama has been sued by 17 states who think keeping families together is bad for America:

Texas. Alabama. Georgia. Idaho. Indiana. Kansas. Louisiana. Maine. Mississippi. Montana. Nebraska. North Carolina. South Carolina. South Dakota. Utah. West Virginia. Wisconsin.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Brownsville, Tex., was the first major legal challenge to initiatives Mr. Obama announced Nov. 20 that will provide protection from deportation and work permits to up to five million immigrants in the country illegally.

-17 States Suing on Immigration

How will the future look back on this day? What will it say to those seventeen states for taking up arms against a democratic ideal that sought to serve the powerless and keep them bound to their families, honoring the work ethic of millions of the hardest-working people on the planet who found themselves on American soil?  Will we look back at this day as the political equivalent of dogs and firehoses unleashed on honest people just trying to carve out a small slice of the American dream?

Or will history say, "It made all the sense in the world, given the many other faults in your Republican stars"? The only time in American history that an entire House of Congress has sued a sitting President of the United States happened last week because that President passed a law to help grandmothers get better care at the hospital and parents offer their children a healthier childhood and working families afford the costs of taking care of the people they work so hard for in the first place. 

After Obama and Democrats found a way to pass universal health care, Republicans voted 50 times to repeal or cripple the new law. 50 times. Republicans voted 50 times to hurt you and me and the 291 million American citizens that make us who we are. They spent nearly $50 million dollars doing that, enough to build an elementary school or two and still have money left over to buy books and buy every kid at that school breakfast and lunch for who knows how long.

my vote goes for the latter if we vote in another Progressive in 2016 and all goes back to a kinder gentler America we will still look back on this time and remember the racism and bigotry that permeates the republican party and the right wing of the populous. it will be looked at as not the America they've been advertising all these years but just a broke in half ball of hate and compassionate's who gave up and stayed home, this will be America's legacy with a rewrite after republicans take office. recognize

Denver police erase video evidence of them flipping 7-month-pregnant woman and pummeling her friend

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/03/1349088/-Denver-police-erase-video-evidence-of-them-flipping-7-month-pregnant-woman-and-pummeling-her-friend?detail=email

This is brutal stuff. Denver police officers are under investigation after they beat a man during an alleged "drug-use stop" and then flipped a 7-months-pregnant woman on her stomach and face. Initially, it was business as usual for the police force because they thought they got rid of some key evidence:

The witness, identified as Levi Frasier, told Fox 31 that police seized his tablet once they realized he was recording the beating, telling him that if he refused to give up the device they would do it “the hard way.” When it was returned, the video was gone.

Luckily, Frasier was able to recover the 55-second clip of the arrest and beating because it had been stored in the cloud. Now, Frasier is sharing his story and the disturbing clip that may land the unidentified plainclothes cops and two other officers, Charles Jones IV and Christopher Evans, in hot water.

In the video you can see the officers holding down the suspect David Nelson Flores. They are yelling for him to "spit out the drugs." One of the officers proceeds to pound Mr. Flores 6 times in the face, close-fisted, so hard that his head can be seen and heard smacking against the pavement. A very pregnant young woman comes over and can be seen getting flipped onto her belly, smacking her stomach and face.

The officer's excuse for this behavior is: 1) By trying to fracture Mr. Flores face and head the police officer was trying to stop him from swallowing evidence and something about his poor partner's arm being stuck under the suspect. 2) He thought that 25-year-old Mayra Lazos-Guerrero was going to kick him—and because he's a coward and a bully, he flipped her.

Those aren't his exact words.

Don't you worry:

Mayra Lazos-Guerrero faced charges for obstruction, drugs and child abuse because there was a child in the car when this arrest went down. Guerrero was also allegedly caught with drug paraphernalia in her purse.

they are becoming more and more emboldened, the longer we take to begin holding them responsible for these gangster assaults against American citizens, and start seeing prosecutions and not juries of question not finding fault and prosecutors directing them in the wrong direction even when there in latest case video proof of abuse.  

one thing that puzzles me in all the videos they don't seem to be far enough away from the brutality to not be seen by those committing the crimes, but they go on beating and assaulting with impunity.  are they in a zone if so that is like the young activist from Ferguson said, "it's in their heads", removal is only solution if the city wants to foot a rehab bill cool, but immediate removal not a paid vacation while the bosses come up with the exoneration scam.

are these cops seeing the future of their minority status and taking it out on Black men if so that won't stop the impending change of majority status.  God forbid but Hispanics are the fastest growing demographic let's hope they don't start killing them, denying them entrance and everything else won't change the future.  God please save us from those who would be you, Amen.