Lost, Abused And Neglected For A Profit:
BraveNewFoundation's Cuentame video demands action!
Take a stand against the private prison racket: http://immigrantsforsale.org
and discuss @ facebook.com/cuentame
The corporate takeover of California is on hold according to the latest polls out of the nation’s largest state. Just nine days before the election, the Los Angeles Times and University of Southern California poll shows a nearly impossible uphill battle for the big business ticket of former eBay CEO Meg Whitman and former HP CEO Carly Fiorina.
Among likely voters in the governor’s race, Brown leads Whitman 50% to 38%. In the race for United States Senator, two term Senator Barbara Boxer maintained an 8% lead. The leads by Democrats come from a brand new constituency, those who "never" go to church. More on that later.
[ed. note - CM1] Bunping this with an update from Rachel Maddow at the bottom. - Originally posted on 2010-07-26 19:30:52 -0400.
From Open Left, who profits from SB-1070? Two of Governor Brewer's top advisers...
When it leads to a profit, the GOP believes that taking away your freedom by subverting the law is a good thing.
More below the fold from Think Progress:
Jon Stewart does a superb take-down of the fact that from the day the 14th Amendment was first debated it was always about race, so there is nothing new about the reasoning behind those that want to repeal or change it now:
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BruinKid at dKos has the transcript up in a pictorial essay form for those of you that may not be able to watch the video embeds. Another video, the musical kind, that you can watch and listen to below the Open Thread fold.
Think about the coming redistricting as a result of the recent Census.
Imagine that many states that will gain a lot more Congressional weight through the Census results inevitable redistricting suddenly decided to chase a particular growing population from their state with certain targeted policies in order to achieve the goal of keeping these newly minted Congressional heavy weights in the hands of a political party that would otherwise be losing grip in the future.
And just imagine if they were already doing it to a large degree and with great success.
I guess you do not have to imagine it all, eh?
A tip of the hat to Connecticut's Representative Chris Murphy because what he did probably saved this young girl's life. I don't care what other people on the other side of so many arguments might think about it or what kind of political hammer he may have given them to hit him with. He did the hard right instead of the easy wrong, a little girl will live and I am going to go into the weekend smiling about it.
Recently I have detailed the relationship that Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul of Kentucky and State Senator Russel Pearce of Arizona have with their Neo Nazi, white supremacist supporters.
That is why it was no surprise to me to learn today that Rand Paul told a Russian journalist that he opposes birth citizenship as protected under the 14th Amendment, or, as Russel Pearce calls it "anchor babies".
We’re the only country I know of that allows people to come in illegally have a baby and then that baby becomes a citizen. And I think that should stop also.
Yeah, that's called the Section 1 of the 14th Amendment
More below the fold.
Hat-tip ricardomath. -- GH Originally posted 2009-03-18 23:45:36 -0500. Bumped by carol. I missed it yesterday and I was afraid someone else may have overlooked it also.
What the hell are we teaching our children?
More precisely, what the hell are we teaching our children about hypocrisy, about expectations, about fair and equal treatment under the law, about life and about rote idiocy?
From the Sioux City Journal:
Student rejects 'demeaning' test, is suspended
High achiever faces possible expulsion
By Russ Oechslin, Journal correspondent | Posted: Thursday, March 05, 2009STORM LAKE, Iowa -- Lori Phanachone is a member of the National Honor Society, has a 3.9 grade point average and ranks seventh in the senior class of about 119 at Storm Lake High School.
But school officials have told her she is considered to be illiterate based on her refusal to satisfactorily complete the English Language Development Assessment, a test she says is demeaning and racist.
Why? Because the test is for students who have English as their second language.
As we get close to labor day you need to know that while Obama says "Yes you can!" McCain says "No you can't!" to American workers, telling them that they can't do the job.
In McCain's fragile mind the real problem isn't about paying a man or woman fair wages for an honest day's work... McCain thinks the problem is that Americans just aren't good enough - hard working enough - to do these jobs.
I guess McCain thinks that you need to work harder at finding a pill-popping sugar momma beer heiress 2nd wife, like Cindy McCain, to pay your bills for you if you want to be able to succeed like he did?
I know that the work he is talking about is hard as hell. And it is only made worse by companies that hire undocumented immigrants and put the workers through hellish conditions that are often nothing more than modern day slave labor. Those are the very real issues that McCain would rather ignore.
Instead of having these companies hire by honest free market rules McCain and the GOP would rather let these companies continue to exploit fellow human beings and claim that Americans can't or won't do the work.
Originally posted at drinking liberally in new milford:
"McCain Thinks American Workers Aren't Good Enough"
promoted... good to see XP's posting!
Hot off the press, the Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility just released a report on the improper hiring practices by Monica Goodling, the Department of Justice's (DOJ) White House Liaison and Senior Counsel to the Attorney General. According to the report, Goodling broke federal law by discriminating against job applicants on account of their political views.
YES Magazine, Summer '08 Edition, has a number of really good articles, and an interview, that should be read and obsorbed as to some of what we should be putting into public discussion as we try to turn this ship of state around and head in a direction that should already have been. These articles touch on a number of important issues, Very Important, not only for us, as a country, but our place in the world and for the world as a whole.
Susan Ferriss/SacBee:
Labor inspectors root out violations along Central Valley back roads
A vision from the Great Depression lay before them. .. More than 30 tents rose like mushrooms under the trees. Clothes hung from branches, and empty cans and food packages were piled high. Smoke curled from one of the fire pits that had been dug into the soil.
About 100 men – migrant workers who follow crops – were sleeping on the ground by night in this orchard owned by R & J Dondero Inc., and climbing ladders by day to pick the company's cherries. Only a few overflowing portable toilets – and the orchard – were available for the men.
Marisa Taylor/McClatchy: Critics: New screening methods target Muslims
Federal agencies have created internal lists of countries that are of "special interest" . . . So many federal agencies have created different lists that U.S. officials contemplated adopting a single one to streamline the process . . . The proposed list, which officials said had yet to be adopted, includes 35 countries, most with significant Muslim or Arab populations. Almost 20 percent of the world's countries — including some of the United States' key allies, such as Jordan, Turkey and Egypt — are on the list.
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Which seems to be the norm for this country, just look at the leadership that's allowed to continue,
across the board, on any subject one might pick!
A Los Angeles man with mental problems,
who spent three months lost in Mexico after being deported despite being a U.S. citizen, sued homeland security
and immigration officials on Wednesday.
Mr Guzman apparently was arrested for trespassing and speant time in lockup than,
2008-02-21 00:34:46 -- cho
And Immigration.
Think they don't mix?
Well, GOP lobbyist had no work permit
And guess who he worked for:
A former California Republican Party official who resigned last year in a controversy over his immigration status had no valid visa or work permit during his high-profile career as a Washington lobbyist for conservative icon Grover Norquist, newly filed court records show.
