Really??? How the hell is Jeb Bush gonna make hispanics love shady conservatives?!?! According to Washington Post: After a year in which Republicans had precious little for which to be thankful, perhaps it’s not surprising that party leaders and the faithful spent a good chunk of the long Thanksgiving weekend obsessing instead over 2016 – specifically the possibility of a presidential run by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. After the New York Times reported Thursday that a Bush bid was a possibility, Republicans and conservatives have been buzzing over the news on Internet news sites and talking up the pros and cons of such a run. Mr. Bush, the son and brother of the last two Republican presidents, is “weighing financial and family considerations,” according to people close to the former governor, the Times reported. The governor, who speaks Spanish and is married to a woman born in Mexico, has called for a more inclusive approach to immigration policies for the Republican Party and could help restore the party’s diminished appeal among Hispanics. Mr. Bush, 59, has worked as a consultant and managed his education foundation since leaving the governorship in 2007 in Florida, where he is still popular. A Public Policy Polling survey taken earlier this month showed Mr. Bush and fellow Floridian Sen. Marco Rubio – who considers the former governor a political mentor – are the early presidential favorites among Florida Republicans, with Mr. Bush leading the 41-year-old senator, 28 percent to 22 percent. Discuss… WENN
Get this guy outta here… Cal State University Professor Under Fire For Neo-Nazi Teachings California State Univeristy, Long Beach psychology professor Kevin MacDonald, a man the Southern Poverty Law Center calls the “ neo-Nazi movement’s favorite academic,” continues to rile community members with language that some say teaches white supremacist and neo-Nazi beliefs. According to HuffPo : MacDonald prefers the description “white advocate.” As a director of the new political party American Third Position (AP3), he believes that immigration (both illegal and legal) must be stopped in order to preserve American society. According to the OC Register, part of AP3′s mission statement reads: “Government policy in the United States discriminates against white Americans … white Americans need their own political party to fight this discrimination.” MacDonald stands firm in his positions, noting in an interview with KCAL9 that white citizens will be a minority in the U.S in 2042. “I think the white middle class is scared economically,” MacDonald said. “They’re concerned about the future of the country. Underlying it, there is a fear of the future. When whites are a minority, there is a concern the country won’t be the same anymore.” Funny he’s a psychology professor. Opinions like his should be a paramount study in the field of psychology. There is something clearly mentally wrong if you deem yourself superior to other people. Then you spend all your time trying to prove your theory by suppressing those people to keep them from proving you wrong. KAL9
Nobody saw this clusterf*ck coming!?!? In what may go down as one of Georgia’s dumbest laws, a new immigration check on medical licenses was meant to weed out ‘illegal’ health care workers in the industry. It’s backfired only a week after it was put in place. According to NPR : Hundreds of health care workers in Georgia are losing their licenses to practice because of a problem created by a new immigration law in the state. The law requires everyone — no matter where they were born — to prove their citizenship or legal residency to renew their professional licenses. With too few state workers to process the extra paperwork, licenses for doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other health professionals are expiring. Lisa Durden with the secretary of state’s office says renewing a license used to be a straightforward process and most applications whizzed through. Now, they crawl. Enactment of the law coincided with budget cuts that reduced the office staff by 40 percent. Kelly Farr, Georgia’s deputy secretary of state, says 600 nurses alone have fallen through the cracks. “There’s nothing more frustrating than getting that call from the desperate nurse, knowing … she’s being slowed down because we literally don’t have enough people to click the approve button,” Farr said. While the secretary of state handles licensing of nurses, pharmacists, and veterinarians, Georgia’s medical board is in charge of doctors, physician assistants and even acupuncturists. It’s the same story there. Director LaSharn Hughes says she sent 41,000 letters of notification out on a recent Thursday. “And by Monday, we’d burned up a fax machine,” Hughes said. “We didn’t have the staff. We didn’t have the equipment.” Phones go unanswered. Paperwork piles up. And processing delays, coupled with confusion over the new rules, mean lots of expired licenses. Hughes estimates about 1,300 doctors and other medical practitioners have lost their legal ability to work. Some didn’t submit the required paperwork. Others are stuck in the backlog of applications that haven’t been processed yet. Donald Palmisano Jr. executive director of the Medical Association of Georgia, says the law fixes a problem that never existed — at least not among doctors. “We’re not aware of any undocumented immigrants that are physicians,” Palmisano said. Even D.A. King, an outspoken activist and critic of illegal immigration who helped write the law, agrees. King says the law protects Georgia jobs, but even he believes some parts of the legislation need fixing. A bill that addressed some of the law’s shortcomings died in the last legislative session. “I am not only outraged, but sincerely disappointed and puzzled that our repair legislation was not allowed a vote,” King says. Legislative sponsors of the law didn’t respond to interview requests. Neither did Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal. For now, state licensing offices will keep plowing through the mail containing copies of passports and birth certificates, then checking them against a list of acceptable documents. But that’s where the vetting ends, confirms Kelly Farr and Lisa Durden of the secretary of state’s office. The law says nothing about making sure the documents are genuine. “We really don’t have a way to do that,” says Durden. State officials say the new document requirements haven’t uncovered any undocumented immigrants. Instead, officials say they hope the process itself may discourage people in the country illegally from trying to get licenses in the first place. Good to know all of the illegal practitioners and registered nurses will be caught now! Images via WABE
The Cops never even released an Amber Alert , citing the teen “did not fit the criteria”. Her poor family had to get the heartbreaking news that their baby girl’s body was found, stuffed inside a furniture trunk, alongside the highway and everyone’s wondering if the Police should have done more. According to The Huffington Post , the family is asking the killer to come forward. The emotional plea came Thursday from Alicia Chanta Moore’s aunt, Jessica Byrd, on behalf of the 16-year-old murder victims’ entire family. “Do the right thing and turn yourself in. That’s all we ask you to do so we can get some sort of peace from this situation,” Byrd told The Huffington Post. The distraught aunt, whose deep sorrow was evident in her voice, added, “We’re not here to judge you. That’s not our job. That’s God’s job.” The body of 16-year-old Alicia Moore was discovered at about 12 p.m. Tuesday in a furniture trunk along Highway 47. The body, police said, was transported to the Dallas County Medical Examiner’s Office for the positive identification. According to Greenville Police Chief Dan Busken, detectives are treating the case as a homicide. Moore appears to have suffered trauma wounds, though the exact cause of death has not yet been determined, Busken said. “We have a lot of work ahead of us with this investigation,” Busken said. “We have received many tips from the community, and we hope those tips continue to come in.” The police chief did not elaborate on what type of trauma Moore suffered and did indicate whether police have a suspect in mind. Moore’s body was found in Van Zandt County, about 40 miles away from Greenville where she disappeared. Moore was last seen Friday afternoon when she got off the school bus. Busken said officials at Greenville Independent School District reviewed campus surveillance camera footage that showed Moore safely exit the bus at 3:25 p.m. Friday, near her home at the corner of Bourland and Walnut streets. What happened to the teen after her drop-off — roughly one block from her home — remains a mystery. “There’s nothing that we can think of that could have happened,” Byrd said. “She’s not the type that would just take off and she would not walk up to anybody she did not know. She is very shy and quiet. Either someone threatened her to come with them or she was approached by someone she trusted. We just don’t know.” Authorities said they interviewed Moore’s friends and teachers. The school district’s technology department also attempted to trace the location of Moore’s school-issued iPad, however officials said the device had been reset and was untraceable. Byrd said Moore’s family is upset that police did not do more to locate the missing teenager. An Amber Alert was never issued and a police press release was not issued until Monday, Byrd said. “[Police] didn’t do enough,” Byrd said. “They told us the situation did not qualify for an Amber Alert because there was no evidence of abduction. Then they waited till Monday to do something.” Cedric Fisher, a friend of Moore’s family, expressed the same doubts in an interview with The Dallas Morning News. “I feel like personally [the police] really dropped the ball,” Fisher said. Lori Philyaw, public information officer for the city of Greenville, Texas, told HuffPost Wednesday that authorities did not issue an Amber Alert for Moore because the case “did not fit the criteria.” According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, a law enforcement agency in Texas must meet a number of specific criteria’s to issue a state Amber Alert. That criterion includes determining whether abduction occurred and or if the child is in “immediate danger of sexual assault, death or serious bodily injury.” The Greenville Independent School District issued a notice to parents Thursday about a suspicious person who had approached a student. According to the notice, a student at Greenville Middle School reported being approached Wednesday and offered a ride by a man in a gray or silver Dodge four-door pickup truck. “The student reported that the suspect had been waiting on Texas Street in front of the Middle School as though waiting to pick up a child, only he did not pick up a child,” Superintendent Don Jeffries said. “Instead, the man drove his pickup truck toward the student in the parking lot. He lowered his window and asked if the student needed a ride and offered to take the student home. When the student refused, the man drove away west on Park.” Authorities have not yet commented on the possibility of a link between Wednesday’s report of a suspicious person and Moore’s homicide. Meanwhile, Byrd said that the last 6 days have been a living nightmare for her family. “We just don’t know why [this happened] or who could be responsible,” she said. “This is a nightmare that we wish would just go away.” Anyone with information in this case is asked to contact the Greenville Police Department at 903-457-2900. This is just all-around sad to think about. Knowing that last image of Alicia getting off of the bus is the last her loved ones have of her. Thoughts and prayers go to the family and we hope this is a reminder to us all to keep your beautiful babies close. There are monsters out there! Images via tumblr
Sometimes you just got to know when to throw in the towel. And Romney’s camp was at least smart enough to not try to drag this isht out any longer than necessary. According to YahooNews : While ballots are still being counted in the state of Florida, a senior adviser for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign told the Miami Herald on Thursday that they are effectively conceding the Sunshine State and its 29 electoral votes to President Barack Obama. “The numbers in Florida show this was winnable,” Brett Doster said in a statement to the paper. “We thought based on our polling and range of organization that we had done what we needed to win. Obviously, we didn’t, and for that I and every other operative in Florida has a sick feeling that we left something on the table. I can assure you this won’t happen again.” Florida would give the president a total of 332 electoral votes. Romney would finish with 206. According to state officials, Obama leads Romney 49.9 percent (or 4,180,697 votes) to 49.24 percent (or 4,124,865 votes)—a margin of 55,832 votes—with more than 97 percent of the vote counted. If the final margin is within a half percentage point, there would be an automatic recount. Romney conceded the election to Obama early Wednesday. Earlier Thursday, Jim Messina, the president’s campaign manager, said during a conference call with reporters that they expected Obama would be named “the official winner in Florida later today.” Saturday is the deadline for counties to file their preliminary results with the state. The final tally is expected to be certified on Nov. 20. Alright Florida. Always the last dayum one to count up all the votes. Maybe you can have your isht together for the 2016 elections!! Images via WENN
Barack won before Ohio, Virgina, and Florida’s votes even came in tonight! With his voice strong but quivering with passion, Barack gave a heartfelt speech after a long night of waiting for the electoral votes to come in. POTUS let us know that “The role of citizens of our democracy does not end with your vote” after he thanked US ALL for campaigning and voting during the last few months. According to The Huffington Post : President Barack Obama did not just win reelection tonight. His victory signaled the irreversible triumph of a new, 21st-century America: multiracial, multi-ethnic, global in outlook and moving beyond centuries of racial, sexual, marital and religious tradition. Obama, the mixed-race son of Hawaii by way of Kansas, Indonesia, Los Angeles, New York and Chicago, won reelection in good part because he not only embodied but spoke to that New America, as did the Democratic Party he leads. His victorious coalition spoke for and about him: a good share of the white vote (about 45 percent in Ohio, for example); 70 percent or so of the Latino vote across the country, according to experts; 96 percent of the African-American vote; and large proportions of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. The Republican Party, by contrast, has been reduced to a rump parliament of Caucasian traditionalism: white, married, church-going — to oversimplify only slightly. “It’s a catastrophe,” said GOP strategist Steve Schmidt. “This is, this will have to be, the last time that the Republican Party tries to win this way.” The GOP chose as its standard-bearer Mitt Romney, whose own Mormon Church until recent decades discriminated officially against blacks. His campaign made little serious effort to reach out to Hispanics voters, and Romney hurt himself by taking far-right positions on immigration during the GOP primaries. He made no effort whatsoever in the black community. Obama reached out not only racially and ethnically, but in terms of lifestyle. Analysts made fun of, and Republicans derided, his campaign’s focus on discrete demographic and social slices of the electorate, including gays and lesbians. But the message was one about the future, not the American past. U.S. Census numbers tell the story. In the first decade of the new millennium, the Asian-American population rose 43.3 percent, the African-American population 12.3 percent, the Latino community 43 percent — and the white population just 5.7 percent. To be sure, the president won because of his stand on the issues — health care reform, Wall Street regulation, the auto industry bailout, among others. But his victory is something more: a sense that we are all in this together as a society, no matter who we are or how we live our lives. I saw this new America at the heart of the Obama reelection effort, in their campaign offices. In one office in Virgina, for example, the local campaign manager was Pakistani-American, the volunteers were of every race and background, the people heading out to handle the signup drive were Hispanic, and the event they were working on was a concert by Bruce Springsteen. Not only did Barack and his mayne man Joe win the electoral vote, they also won the popular vote too. While Mitt won the white vote (SMH), he failed to bring in votes with minorities. Barack also brought in votes from more than 60% of young voters (those ages 18-29) and, even though he fell from 44% to 39% of the overall white vote this election year, he still stomped Robney with a huge lead. To quote CNN “This is a crisis amongst the Republican Party”. Crisis or not, we’re pretty sure POUTUS can get a lot more isht done than Mittens would’ve been able to over the course of the next four years. Images via facebook
You can’t be serious … Anti-Obama Artist Creates Runaway Slave Painting Jon McNaughton, an anti- Obama artist notorious for his slanderous political paintings, is back with another creation just in time for next week’s elections. Via Huffingtonpost : Titled “Runaway Slave,” the work depicts conservative figure Rev. C.L. Bryant, the man who recently produced a documentary by the same name on the alleged bondage of black Americans under liberal governments. McNaughton worked with Bryant to produce his new painting, telling CBS Houston that he supports the filmmaker’s sentiments. “My position is that the Democratic Party has brought the demise of Black America,” the artist said. McNaughton described his controversial painting on his website: “This painting is a beacon to all Americans, to free yourselves from the government bondage that enslaves your very soul. Be free of the old taskmaster that will offer you all the comforts if you will but do his bidding. Rise up and be great in the sight of God!” This is how you get attention as an artist when you have no artistic ability. Wow, you have to continue to ba amazed at how the election of a Black man to the presidency has made a sizeable percentage of the White population absolutely insane. How do you feel about the painting? Jon McNaughton
Here goes the GOP with this BS… John Sununu, Suggests Colin Powell Obama Endorsement Was Race Based Top Romney surrogate John Sununu suggested Thursday night that Colin Powell endorsed President Barack Obama in part because the two men are the same race. According to Huffingtonpost reports: Sununu, who served as governor of New Hampshire from 1983 to 1989, made the comment during an appearance on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight.” Morgan asked Sununu whether Powell’s endorsement of Obama, after having also thrown his support behind the president in 2008, meant the former four-star general should end his membership in the Republican Party. The exchange that followed: Sununu: Well, I’m not sure how important that is. I do like the fact that Colin Powell’s boss, George Herbert Walker Bush, has endorsed Mitt Romney all along. And frankly, when you take a look at Colin Powell, you have to wonder whether that’s an endorsement based on issues or whether he’s got a slightly different reason for preferring President Obama. Morgan: What reason would that be? Sununu: Well, I think when you have somebody of your own race that you’re proud of being president of the United States, I applaud Colin for standing with him. This isn’t the first time Powell has been accused of an endorsement based on race. In 2008, Rush Limbaugh, among others, insinuated that Powell’s endorsement of Obama was motivated by skin color. When a White man endorses a White Man it is “logical” and makes “sense?” But when a Black man endorses another Black man it must be about race? Fundamentally, to assume this and not that Powell is endorsing the better man is profoundly racist. But they will never see themselves in the mirror.
We all know Ann Coulter stays out of pocket with her racist rants, and this time she opened that big mouth of her to call the President a “retard.” According to Huffington Post: Ann Coulter called President Obama a “retard” on Monday night. She made the remark on Twitter after the third and final presidential debate between Obama and Mitt Romney. “I highly approve of Romney’s decision to be kind and gentle to the retard,” she tweeted. Coulter was met with some backlash from people on Twitter, who called it “offensive and disrespectful” and asked her, “Are you out of your f-cking mind?” At the end of the debate, voters gave the victory to Obama. The showdown, according to pundits, was notable for how aggressively he attacked his rival and how much Romney seemed to agree with the president. SMH.
