Exactly what I thought would happen

From Kay over at Balloon Juice:

Governor Corbett and his political appointees and the Romney bundler he hired to do voter education in Pennsylvania issued a press release with great fanfare on their thrown-together, half-ass attempt to create and issue voter ID’s.

They’ve had months to address this obvious, documented problem but did absolutely nothing until they were sued, but they claim they’re ready now. This morning I called the Pennsylvania voter hotlineto see how well the education effort was going:

Voter ID Hotline at 1-877-VotesPA (868-3772)

I got through the recorded message and hit the button to speak to a person and see if I could ask a specific question or two about how one might get the newly announced voter ID in Pennsylvania. It rang and rang and rang. I let it ring so long the call was disconnected.

Remember how the judge that decided the PA case to not issue an injunction against this law said that PA officials were sincere and capable of educating the hundreds of thousands of voters who might be disenfranchised? Notice how those very same PA officials don’t answer the frigging phone?!?!

RETRACTION: Not example of racism

Yesterday in a post entitled “Yeah Right” I pointed to a video of RNC delegates chanting at a speaker as being an example of racism.  Turns out that this was not the case.  Evidently the chanting was the result of Paulite Delegates disrupting the convention and it just so happened that a delegate from Puerto Rico was up on the stage.

My apologies.  However, that doesn’t excuse the fact that two attendees of the RNC threw peanuts at a black CNN camerawoman and saying, “This is how we feed animals”.  So, yeah………riiiiiiiiight.

Yeah………..right

• Apparently Ann Romney thinks that her husband will ‘lift up America’.  Yeah right, but only to search under the couch cushions for spare change.
• Yesterday a GOP Party Rep from the beautiful island of Puerto Rico began addressing her fellow Republicans in thickly accented English.  Their reaction?  Shouting her down with chants of “U.S.A”.  Evidently she wasn’t ‘murican enough for the Grand Ol’ Party of bigotry.  Yeah, you must be so proud of yourselves.  Right?
• Romney aides actually told reporters that “[W]e’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers.”  Talk about throwing down the gauntlet to journalists!  Yeah, right.  I’m predicting that our failed experiment called The Fourth Estate will lay down like a worn out hooker.
• Republicans care so much about the Right to Vote they wanted to ensure that fraud is prevented by passing Voter ID laws in 33 states and changing the laws on how registration can occur.  They’ve been so effective in stamping out the non-existent fraud (at a rate of .0004%) that they’ve also managed to stamp out voter registration.  Florida is a prime example.   So the moral of the story is if you want to protect something from a non-threat you have to strangle it first.  Yeah, that makes sense, right?
• In Romneyville,
  • the Black President is the one playing the race card,
  • the poor who are, well poor, are the ones robbing the rich and the middle classes,
  • patriotism means hiding as much of the money you made in the U.S. as possible in other countries,
  • taking away healthcare from millions will improve their healthcare situation,
  • doing missionary work while staying in a chateau in the south of France is roughing it,
  • the more guns ill-trained civilians have in public places the safer we will be,
  • “personhood” begins at conception and in Arizona two weeks before actual conception (so keep those eggs safe little ladies), and
  • up is down, black is white, kleptocracy is meritocracy, and useful idiots have all the liberty that their corporate overlords allow them to have.

Yeeeeeah…….riiiiiiiiight………..

Something Evil This Way Comes

This solution proposed by Rush Limbaugh would be pretty final, wouldn’t you say?  Bold emphasis is mine.

Okay, folks, it’s a moment of truth. We are mere hours away now from Tropical Storm Isaac, which everybody is desperately hoping becomes a hurricane. I can’t believe this. They are desperately hoping that it becomes a hurricane. It’s the Democrats’ wet dream that this thing hit New Orleans. So, you know me. My middle name is Solutions. I have some ideas for the Republicans. How to deal with the tropical storm, slash, hurricane hitting New Orleans.

(snip)
Once we publicize that we have sent 500 bags of money — well, whatever number of bags, bags filled with money to shore up the levees, what will happen? The poor of New Orleans will storm the levees and steal the bags, thereby putting themselves at risk for the eventual flooding that will happen once they remove the bags of money. And that way the Republicans can get rid of even more Democrats in Louisiana and shore up the state for themselves.

I honestly cannot believe that I am hearing this kind of EVIL in the United States of America in frigging 2012. Seriously?! I am sincerely hoping that the GOP comes out, particularly Romney and Ryan, and not only condemns this but also severs all ties with this maniac.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.
–Albert Einstein

I think the companies that still buy ad space from Limbaugh should be excoriated for continuing their support after this. This is just going too, too far for good people to stand by and not say something.

ht JM Ashby at Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog

Thoughts on the Day

1. I think I discovered another Darwin Award Nominee, guy trying to pull a Bigfoot hoax gets killed in mid-prank….from Here

2. At the home of the teenage shooting suspect in Maryland, “A sign at the house said, “We don’t call 911″ and had a carved relief of a gun.” Hmmmm, I wonder where the boy got the idea into his head to use a gun to strike out at people who made him mad….hmmmmmmmmm…..from Here

3. Did you notice in the New York City shooting the other day that all 9 civilians who were wounded were actually shot by the officers responding to the scene. Completely undercuts the arguments of numbnuts who think they’re Dirty Harry who can respond to a shooting incident in a crowd and ONLY hit the bad guy….from Here

4. Sheriff “I let people die in my jails” Arpaio was set to speak (along with Donald Trump) at the GOP convention but only to the Western delegates at an “invitation-only” reception. For a minute there, I thought they were going to let the idiot speak on the national stage. Phew! As if AZ needed more embarrassment than usual…..from Here

5. Someone put up a modified Hope poster on Facebook yesterday that showed the President being lynched. Thankfully it was only up for a few hours before outraged citizens forced Facebook to take it down. It literally made me nauseous….from Here

6. Speaking of bigotry, did you catch Mitt “I have big Man-Love for Paul Ryan” Romney saying no one ever asked for his birth certificate, ha ha. Interestingly enough, I didn’t laugh at his supposed joke. He may have said it in Ann Arbor, Michigan but they heard that dog whistle all the way down in the Louisiana bayou. What an asshole….from Here

7. It has actually been raining in AZ, so now it’s over a 100 degrees, humid AND we’re still in a massive drought. Wheeeeeeeee!

8. Remember the conservative poutrage over the Dept of Homeland Security Report that said domestic terrorists, in particular right-wing groups, pose the greatest threat to our safety? Well, recent events are bearing that out (i.e., a plot in Alaska to kill a Federal Judge, in Georgia the murder of an innocent couple and a plot to kill the President, and the mass murder at a Sikh Temple in Wisconsin). Now watch how conservatives try to distance themselves from these extremists while issuing dog whistles from the other side of their mouth. They honestly think if the American people just stare into Paul Ryan’s dreamy blue eyes, they won’t notice that bigots and extremists have taken over the Republican party. Let’s hope they’re wrong.

9. Speaking of his dreamy blue eyes, Paul “I’m Ayn Rand in a suit” Ryan was raked over the coals by Maureen O’Dowd.  O’Dowd’s article was summarized in hysterical fashion by Sarah, Proud and Tall.  Sarah’s biting and bawdy humor isn’t for the faint of heart. And I mean that part about biting literally.  Even without her dentures in Sarah is a downright dangerous.  Check it out over at Balloon Juice and make sure you do not have liquids in your mouth while reading it:  That’s Why her hair is so big. It’s full of secrets.