Wingnutties out of control!

[rstrong]

Reminder: Trump's VP Mike Pence is also a nutjob. It's just that he's a nutjob by the pre-Trump standard.

And the link above only scratches the surface, when you look at his policies as congressman and governor.

[O Really]

Report card on Republicans' efforts in the legislature...

Struck down, all or in part

2011 law requiring physicians to perform ultrasounds on women seeking abortions and describe the images

2011 law capping enrollment in a pre-kindergarten program

2011 congressional district maps

2011 state House and Senate district maps

2011 move to cut off funding for a Planned Parenthood affiliate

2012 constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, which voters approved

2013 attempt to phase out teacher tenure for public school teachers already vested in the program

2013 Wake County school board redistricting plan

2013 elections law overhaul including requiring voter ID and reducing early voting

2014 creation of a Coal Ash Management Commission and other panels

2015 Wake County commissioners redistricting plan

2015 law to establish retention elections for sitting N.C. Supreme Court justices

Upheld

2011 Choose Life license plate

2013 school voucher program

To be decided

2015 Greensboro city council redistricting

2015 law allowing magistrates to opt out of performing gay marriages and pass the duties to colleagues

2016 House Bill 2 that limits local anti-discrimination laws and directs bathroom access in government facilities

See a full list of court cases involving General Assembly actions at nando.com/court

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/p ... rylink=cpy

[Vrede too]

... Cooper’s office has defended abortion restrictions adopted by the General Assembly, vouchers, the attempt to phase out teacher tenure, several redistricting cases, the magistrate opt-out law, the attempt to change how sitting Supreme Court justices are elected and more. Cooper said his office would not defend House Bill 2, the LGBT law passed in March....

In the past five years, lawmakers passed legislation that allows them to hire their own attorneys, even when Cooper’s office was on the case. In five years, they have run up a $9.3 million legal bill, according to legislative records. WRAL-TV reported the total is more than 20 times what the legislature spent on outside counsel in the decade prior.

That total does not include what the governor paid private attorneys representing his office. The governor’s office has not provided records of those costs, which The News & Observer requested in March....

“In the face of spurious explanations for public policies that would foreseeably inflict real damage on identifiable groups of people, judges and justices are abandoning the traditional diffidence of the judicial role,” Greenhouse wrote.

“Legislators, perhaps assuming they had friends in high judicial places, had taken bold, even flagrant steps to suppress the black vote and restrict women’s access to abortion. Judges responded, and even though their actions in some cases spoke more loudly than their words, these decisions mark a departure and make a difference.”

[Vrede too]

Lawmakers Call Maine Governor Unhinged After Obscene Tirade

[rstrong]

Lawmakers Call Maine Governor Unhinged After Obscene Tirade

He's since clarified his position on race:

Maine Gov. Paul LePage Says People Of Color Are ‘The Enemy’

[rstrong]

At the Little Red Barn Steakhouse in San Antonio, Texas, all the waiters wear guns and holsters.

But everybody knows they’re fake, which is probably why a disgruntled customer decided he could safely take a swing at a waiter who messed up his order.

But the waiter fetched a real gun and fired shots into the ceiling.

But the waiter could lose his job since it's against restaurant company policy for employees to carry (real) guns, despite all the waiters wearing (fake) guns and holsters.

So, not so much Texas as a Texas theme park within Texas. Not to be confused with CPAC and Republican rallies where everyone demands guns in schools and theaters and businesses but not in the venues where they're making those demands.

[Vrede too]

I love stories where everyone involved - Texans, the waiters, the customers, the restaurant and possibly the cook - are idiots.

[Vrede too]

Report card on Republicans' efforts in the legislature...

Struck down, all or in part

2011 law requiring physicians to perform ultrasounds on women seeking abortions and describe the images

2011 law capping enrollment in a pre-kindergarten program

2011 congressional district maps

2011 state House and Senate district maps

2011 move to cut off funding for a Planned Parenthood affiliate

2012 constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, which voters approved

2013 attempt to phase out teacher tenure for public school teachers already vested in the program

2013 Wake County school board redistricting plan

2013 elections law overhaul including requiring voter ID and reducing early voting

2014 creation of a Coal Ash Management Commission and other panels

2015 Wake County commissioners redistricting plan

2015 law to establish retention elections for sitting N.C. Supreme Court justices

2016 House Bill 2 that limits local anti-discrimination laws and directs bathroom access in government facilities
https://www.yahoo.com/news/relief-grant ... 59033.html

Upheld

2011 Choose Life license plate

2013 school voucher program

To be decided

2015 Greensboro city council redistricting

2015 law allowing magistrates to opt out of performing gay marriages and pass the duties to colleagues

2016 House Bill 2 that limits local anti-discrimination laws and directs bathroom access in government facilities

See a full list of court cases involving General Assembly actions at nando.com/court

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/p ... 12327.html

Thanks O Really, I used your Charlotte Observer list in another forum about the new HB2 decision.

[Boatrocker]

I love stories where everyone involved - Texans, the waiters, the customers, the restaurant and possibly the cook - are idiots.

Texass is an endless source of such bullshit.

[rstrong]

Jalopnik: Get A Load Of All The Insane Things In NASCAR's Leaked (2008) Complaints File

...Fans Hated Everything That Isn’t America Or In English...
...Like the National Anthem sung in Spanish...
...or the Canadian anthem...
...Fans Hated Diversity And Women’s Voices....
...and Toyotas...
...Another took issue with a prayer that was ended with the words “And Shalom”...
...Fans Who Cared Enough To Complain Were Generally Insane ...

¿Jose can you, si?

[Vrede too]

[Seth Milner]

¿Jose can you, si?

Just fine; thank you for asking.

[O Really]

Another win for the good guys - Republicans handed their asses again in Supreme refusal to stay lower court's totally reaming decision on the mess of voter suppression laws called euphemistically "Voter ID." It would be a bit scary that it was 4-4, but they weren't ruling on the law itself - only the request for a stay pending further appeal.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/01/us/po ... s-act.html

[Seth Milner]

[JTA]

This stupid shit shouldn't even be newsworthy.

Everybody has to have a boogeyman to direct their outrage.

[billy.pilgrim]

This stupid shit shouldn't even be newsworthy.

Everybody has to have a boogeyman to direct their outrage.

Compared to 1968 this is barely in the news. Maybe things are getting better, or more likely worse, but they are cray about more things, therefore less focused

[Vrede too]

Excellent cartoon, Seth Milner.

Kaepernick Jersey Sales Soar Amid Controversy

[Seth Milner]

Sales of socks will soar too.

Excellent cartoon, Seth Milner.
I thought so too despite feeling that Kaepernick is doing a bit of grandstanding because:
Black or white people get shot when they pull a weapon on a LEO ...
Black or white people get shot when a nervous LEO thinks they have a weapon because the victim(s) got confrontational ...
Black or white people get shot by LEO's when the LEO shoots first and ask questions later ...
LEO's get fired and/or prosecuted when it is DETERMINED they acted out of fear instead of rationale ...
Whites get shot by LEO's too; not so much is heard about those shootings because of media hype ...
Black shootings sell more papers and make for higher viewer ratings of news programs ...
Looting, burning, and civil disorder is not protesting ...

[O Really]

I modified your list a little so as to agree with you, Seth ---

Sometimes,
Black or white people get shot when they pull a weapon on a LEO ...
Black or white people get shot when a nervous LEO thinks they have a weapon because the victim(s) got confrontational ...
Black or white people get shot by LEO's when the LEO shoots first and ask questions later ...
LEO's get fired and/or prosecuted when it is DETERMINED they acted out of fear instead of rationale ...
Whites get shot by LEO's too;[although much less than their proportion of the population] not so much is heard about those shootings because of media hype ...
Black shootings [would] sell more papers and make for higher viewer ratings of news programs ...[if anybody bought papers from newstands anymore or depended on news programs for their information]
Looting, burning, and civil disorder is not [always] protesting ...

[O Really]

No tears to be shed over this gadfly... https://www.washingtonpost.com/national ... story.html
R.I.H.