25 March 2010
25 March 2010
THE TEA BAGGING REPUBLICANS ARE SUING…
1641 by Jeff Hess[Update @ 1641: Check out the Oops! next to Michigan. Via Plunderbund.]
From Business Week:
The states that say they will sue are Alabama, Florida, Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Washington.
Twelve states, that’s just under 25 percent of our Union. So, who’s in charge there?
Alabama: Troy King, Republican and teabagger;
Florida: Bill McCollum, Republican and teabagger;
Michigan: Mike Cox, Republican and teabagger; (Oops!)
Nebraska: Jon Bruning, Republican and teabagger;
North Dakota: Wayne Stenehjem, Republican and teabagger;
Pennsylvania: Tom Corbett, Republican and teabagger;
South Carolina: Henry McMaster, Republican and teabagger;
South Dakota: Marty Jackley, Republican and teabagger;
Texas: Greg Abbott, Republican and teabagger;
Utah: Mark Shurtleff, Republican and teabagger;
Virginia: Ken Cuccinelli, Republican and teabagger; and
Washington: Rob McKenna, Republican and teabagger.
So, do you see a pattern? And how about their Tea Bagger affiliations?
25 March 2010
25 March 2010
MY COMMENTS…
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25 March 2010
WHAT THEY SAY…
1326 by Jeff HessDifferent states have different requirements for re-enfranchising ex-felons. Maine and Vermont allow their imprisoned populations to vote. Some states restore voting rights at the moment of release, and some do it after parole or probation. Other states do not restore voting rights to those who have committed certain types of crimes or after more than one conviction. Virginia and Kentucky permanently disenfranchise the formerly incarcerated, except in cases of executive clemency.
Congress is currently considering the Democracy Restoration Act, which would restore federal voting rights to formerly incarcerated people upon release. The bill, which is based on recommendations from a 2008 report by the Brennan Center for Justice, would also require states to notify individuals of their right to vote as soon as they have completed their sentences and ensure that people on probation never lose their right to vote. The bill’s proponents argue that it would get rid of the confusion surrounding the voting-restoration process. In New York, a third of local election boards required formerly incarcerated people who wanted to register to vote to offer “improper documentation,” including, in some cases, documents the state doesn’t actually produce. Nearly a third of Ohio’s election workers incorrectly believed people with misdemeanor convictions couldn’t vote.
Ohio is one of 12 states, plus the District of Columbia, that allows ex-felons to regain voting rights once released from prison.
25 March 2010
25 March 2010
25 March 2010
25 March 2010
WHAT THEY SAY…
0631 by Jeff HessThere are gangs of overweight scooter riders, sometimes in corrective shoes that never touch the ground, whipping about with bags of open cookies in their laps, devouring as they shop, consuming enough calories to fuel an Olympic rowing team. Fact is, there”s something ominous about how the scooter riders congregate near the hot dog and ice cream aisles like motorcycle gangs, missing only the insignia on the leather jackets that read something like: WALMART ANGELS or BAD MOTOR SCOOTERS. They”re the kind of folks who look at you when you walk by as if, on a moment”s notice, they might snatch a can of potted meat and throw it at you because you”re ambulatory.
25 March 2010
FROM MY DAD…
0630 by Jeff Hess
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog video excursion I present: From My Dad.
25 March 2010
FROM MY CHAPBOOK…
0030 by Jeff HessFound in my electronic chapbook.
Rule No. 1: If your characters are good, and if the dialogue you hand them is natural, you should leave it alone as much as possible. Put them onstage and let them talk to each other. And stay the hell out of the way. p. 198
From Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers by Lawrence Block.
24 March 2010
GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…
2130 by Jeff Hess
That the leader of Myanmar’s National League for Democracy should declare that her party will not play a crooked game is no great surprise to anyone, including the State Peace and Development Council (aka, Myanmar’s military dictators), so what game are the generals playing and who is willing to play with them?
From The Independent:
Aung San Suu Kyi told her lawyer she believed the National League for Democracy should not register because a series of restrictions – including the demand that she be ousted from her party – were unjust. “Personally, I would not even think of registering [the party] under these unjust laws,” Ms Suu Kyi said, according to her lawyer, Nyan Win, who met her yesterday at the crumbling house in Rangoon where she is under house arrest. “I am not instructing the party or the people. They are free to make their decisions democratically.”
That very well may be the only free decision they may make.
24 March 2010
MY COMMENTS…
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24 March 2010
RUSSEL KING’S OPEN LETTER TO CONSERVATIVES…
1646 by Jeff HessNot that any conservatives read my blog…
24 March 2010
24 March 2010
WALMART WEDNESDAY…
1030 by Jeff Hess
It’s been a busy week in Wally World: the Universe’s source of cheap plastic crap. On The Writing On The Wal — the blog USA Today says should be on its readers’ radar — Jonathan Rees and I continue our work dedicated to drawing back the curtain on the Bentonvile Behemoth’s corporate disinformation and other flackery.
WALMART POISONING CHINESE…? I”ve lost track of all the cheap-plastic-crap-from-China-harming-the-health-of-Americans stories we have written here, so when one about Walmart selling illegal foods in China that threaten the health of Chinese is posted, my eyes light up. Keep reading…
JOSEPH CASIAS GAINING SUPPORT… Joseph Casias” story is growing legs because of the blatant injustice of firing an exemplary employee in the middle of our great recession while touting Walmart as a source of good jobs. Yes, both Walmart and Casias are victims of a legal system gone silly. Keep reading…
DON QUIXOTE WOULD BOYCOTT WALMART… I get that. Getting enough Americans to not think with their bank accounts and convince Walmart (which makes in five minutes than most Americans do in a year) that it should change its behavior over a social issue, however, is a forlorn hope. Keep reading…
RECESSION SHOPPERS A FICKLE BUNCH… There was a time when businesses thought that if they did their jobs right, that all they had to do was get customers in the door and they could make them customers for life. If, of course, you provided a high quality service in an attractive atmosphere. Keep reading…
WALMART TRIPPING… I confess that I”m not sure I buy what Augie Ray is selling about Walmart, but it is intriguing. Would people shop where a product is available, but not buy that product? Do Return On Investment and Social Media really go together? Keep reading…
WALMART, PRODUCE AND SUSTAINABILITY… Jim Prevor”s discourse may be a little bit too much inside baseball, ball, but I”m learning and I read through his posts on Walmart, produce and sustainability. Prevor is not pleased with Walmart”s current system and its effects on growers. Keep reading…
CHEAP PLASTIC MEATY CRAP FROM CHINA… According to Snopes, this email meme is at least three years old – having popped up there in August 2007 – but it popped up in my inbox this morning as one of the many pieces forwarded to me From My Dad. Snopes says the status of the email is: undetermined. Keep reading…
24 March 2010
MAKING OHIOANS PROUD…
0715 by Jeff HessAnd just where does Representative John Boehner (R-Ohio) stand on the Anti-Christ?
24 March 2010
A COINCIDENCE…? I THINK NOT…
0647 by Jeff HessOne quarter of state Attorney Generals are Republican Tea Baggers…
One quarter of Republicans think President Barack Hussein Obama may be the Anti-Christ…
You do the math.
