Well…if you take a look down the page, you’ll see that I did one of these yesterday on the hate filled bill in Georgia that would legalize discrimination in Georgia…so now, I have to do one of the same on North Carolina, whose repub controlled legislature just went into special session yesterday to pass another one of this heinous bills…but in this case, the governor there, Pat McCrory, gleefully signed to bill to ensure that discrimination is now part of the face of NC. The repubs there plotted this little shenanigan to take place in one day to make sure there could be no citizen opposition to the bill…and a good thing since 65% of the people polled said they didn’t want this bill passed and, as in Georgia, businesses didn’t want it passed, either. So, just like Georgia, companies such as Dow Chemical, Amgen, and other have said they will pull out of the state if the bill was passed…but, in another little twist…this bill is in violation of title IX, which does not allow discrimination in schools…and guess what you haters? You have just cost your state 4 billion, yep, that’s billion dollars in federal school funding just so you haters can hate….I hope all of you pay for this crap…especially you McCrory, all of you repubs are the same….if you can’t hate, you don’t know what to do…geez…
Tag Archives: North Carolina
How much more stupid can these folks get?
Well…I’m just sitting here shaking my head at this one…in North Carolina, a town called Woodlawn just refused a rezoning request from a solar energy company to build a solar panel farm in the town. Now, here comes the stupidity…a retired science teacher from the town testified that she was concerned the panels would prevent plants from growing since they will “suck up” all the photons from the sun; saying that she has seen that plants around the other farms that have already been installed are turning brown….the company building the farm tried to explain that the panels only use photons that hit them directly and they don’t suck up all of the photons in the area and that the plants could be dying, if they are, for many other reasons unrelated to the panels….my question is if this kind of stupidity is coming from a former science teacher, what the hell kind of schools do they have there? Oh, that’s right, they don’t believe in science, just faith….what a bunch of maroons….geez…
Special rights….
Well…I have just about had enough of the right’s railing against the “special rights” that they think gays will get if they get the same rights as the rest of us here in the US…I have yet to have anyone that supports discrimination against gays explain to me what these “special rights” are but there was a huge dose of irony that has come out of North Carolina over the past week dealing with the “special rights” that they are close to granting magistrates there that have “deeply held religious beliefs”….yeah, I put that in quotes because that phrase means they have deeply held bigoted beliefs that they think they should be able to act on…even if it is their job to issue marriage licenses. This new law, that was vetoed by the governor but looks like will be upheld with a veto override, grants these magistrates the ‘special right” to refuse to issue any couple a marriage license if they just shout “deeply held religious belief” before they discriminate…and, while the purpose of the bill is to allow discrimination against gays, it’s scope allows any magistrate to not give a marriage license to anyone they don’t like…interracial couple, check….Mexican couple, check, couple from a family they don’t like, check….how can we just saw these stupid states off and let them float away? These guys hate “special rights” unless it is for them and no one else…..geez…
Smart guys in NC…
Well…wanted to get to the last one for the month and one fell into my lap…and it really make me smile…in NC this week a group of religious organizations backed by the UCC (United Church of Christ) filed suit to overturn the ban on same sex marriage there…and the really neat little twist is that they are basing it on religious grounds…the same weapon that the haters on the right have been using to prevent these marriages until now. What the UCC is saying is that their right to practice their religion and run it as they see fit is being restricted by the ban on same sex marriages there and are using the first amendment that states that there can be no laws that restrict the free exercise of religion to hit back at the haters since the UCC says that it is okay in their church for same sex couples to get married. I applaud these creative people and the turnabout that they have played on the right….I just hope that the judge that gets the case sees it as clear as it it…
The pushback has begun…
Well…this is going to be a short one since the brain hasn’t been working that well the past few days…but I did want to comment on the signs of a progressive pushback to the nonsense that has come out of the tea party and even “normal” repubs lately…it used to be that progressives had no fight in them…they felt that they could reason with anyone if they would just sit down and talk with the opposition. But, it now appears that they have seen the truth that has been in front of their faces for years…that the right will not compromise, that the right will lie, cheat and steal to push their radical, women hating agenda…and we are doing something about it…like the thousands that have turned out every Monday in NC…the “Moral Monday” movement who are protesting the voter suppression, women suppression, and gay hating that is rife in the repub controlled legislature…and the many, many thousands who have turned out in Texas to protest the draconian intrusion into women’s lives there….we won’t win in Texas…not right now, anyway, but I think these two examples are the start of something big…the start of a movement that will take back the country from the money and the 15% of the crazies who are now attacking women across the country, who are still attacking gays and the poor…we can hope that this movement, along with the demographic changes that are coming, will finally put the nail in the coffins of the repub haters and get this country moving forward again…geez…
Are we in 1913 or 2013…
Well…I woke to a news story that makes me question if we are really in 2013….in NC, there are a group of students in a high school there who are trying to have an integrated prom for the first time ever…yep, in 2013 the racism still runs so strong in the south that in 2013, segregation is still acceptable and being taught to the children there. And, when the repub governor was asked to support these kids and their bid to end this nonsense, his only comment that it was a “Democrat stunt” and he was not going to comment or support the integration. I marvel at the hate and racism that still runs so strong in the repubs….even in this day and age….but, I am not surprised…especially with the latest meme from their side is that the “god fearing christians” are going to be rounded up and made to wear signs on their clothes since they oppose gay marriage, and then the next step is concentration camps…I am not making this up….what a bunch of maroons…geez…
More fallout from Citizens United…
Well…you’ve heard me rail about the stupid CU decision by the SC many times here, and while the effect of unlimited money has not swayed national elections, if we take a look a little lower down into state elections, we can see where the real mischief is being done. Here in Michigan, you have the DeVoses who have bought themselves a legislature and with it their own pet right to work for less laws, and huge tax cuts for business while everyone else pays more…and the bit by bit dismantling of the public school system. In North Carolina…one man and the companies he is connected to gave over 80% of the money that was used to buy repubs seats in the legislature, and with those seats come laws that want to establish christianity as the state religion, right to work for less being enshrined in their constitution, more abortion restrictions along with the continued discrimination against anyone who is not a white, male, religious bigot. This is where we need to concentrate our efforts if we want to get back to a country that doesn’t spend it’s time and money taking away rights or preventing people from gaining those rights they are already entitled to….this crap just can’t be allowed to stand…geez…
A second one…
Well…I have been searching around…kinda…for a topic to talk about in politics but haven’t really found anything that grabs me….there was a little bit of bad news today when I heard that Roger Ebert died….I just loved his movie reviews and his “Siskel and Ebert Show” was so much fun to watch…RIP…..now, on to the day….i did get the car detailed today and just had to take it out to show it off…it is so cool to have everything clean and shiny and no mechanical problems….but that meant that the rest of the things I was going to do around here will have to wait another day since I am a little worn out with no sleep last night and the calorie restriction that I have been doing the past few days to get back down to an acceptable weight….oh, there was a little outbreak of sanity in NC today when they killed the bill to establish a state religion and ignore the constitution….what a bunch of maroons…geez…
The crazy is strong in North Carolina…
Well….I have been thinking for a while now about doing a daily repub crazy contest but with the latest crazy coming out of the repubs in NC, it would take a long, long time to beat this one. In case you haven’t heard, the really crazy TP repubs in NC have proposed a new law that would establish a state religion (Christianity, of course) in NC and that would also, in their fevered brains, allow them to ignore any federal law or court ruling that they don’t like…proposing that the constitution does not apply to them…unless they can use the tenth amendment to nullify the rest of it. Yep, I’m not making this up…these idiots, in one breath, say that the constitution is not applicable there and they are going to ignore it…then, in the next try to use it to support their crazy. Nevermind that courts all over the country including the supreme court have ruled that federal law takes precedence over state law, and have affirmed in many, many cases that the first amendments establishment clause applies to every state. So, we have another case where ignorant repubs who have no clue what it means to govern are using the state government to push their crazy on the people of their state, not to mention enriching the law firms of their donors by hiring them to defend these blatantly unconstitutional laws….how much more of this crap do we have to listen to? Geez…