Redeye's Original Thought Blog Stroll down Memory Lane

It's time for another installment of an "original thought" blog stroll down memory lane in recognition of the first anniversary of my being booted from the front pages of Left in Alabama. Note: These are my original thoughts from my tenure at Left in Alabama, not links to other diarist at LiA, if you find any factual errors , not to be confused with typo's and grammatical errors, please let me know so I can correct them. :)

In light of the fact one of the first orders of business for the red republican legislature in the reddest state in the union is to get rid of them there gerrymandered voting districts, and the right wing outrage over State Senator Hanks Sanders' mad as hell robo call about returning to the days of Jim Crow, please read The right to vote today. The right to vote tomorrow. The right to vote forever. Posted on the 49th anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act.

On this day in 1965, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (D. Texas) signed the National Voting Rights Act. For my fellow Americans who've always had the right and the privilege to vote today may not be a big deal to you, but to me and mine it's a very big deal.

The right to vote is sacred to African Americans. I know it sounds cliche, but it's steeped in blood, sweat, tears, courage and sacrifice. That's why we don't think Voter Suppression with the State Seal of Approval is funny. It's why we shake our heads at The Tough Voter ID Laws. It's why we get weep silently when the real voter suppression gets a slap on the wrist and the imagined voter fraud is prosecuted to the full extent of the law. It's like pre 1965 all over again.

The republicans are coming! The republicans are coming! This is what we have to look forward to under republican rule. This is their battle cry!

Seriously, what has the present day gop ever been right (pun intended) about? Why are they constantly being rewarded for bad behavior? Why do democratic candidates pander to the wrong at the expense of what's right, and against Progressives/ liberals/democrats who btw are right (pun intended) on the issues?

Why are we treated like the no family values, culture of cronyism and corruption?

Why is Alabama a "majority republican state"?

Why do Alabama voters consistently vote against their self interest?

What is wrong with this picture?

It was the stoopid racism then and it's the stoopid racism now.

I believe most of us can/will agree that racism is stupid and that it takes power to exercise racism. Meaning, a person can have all the racial prejudice against a certain group of people in their hearts and minds they want to, but when they have the power/authority to act on those beliefs it's racism.

And we wonder why the right wing is so misinformed...

A good friend of mine told me they take their blood pressure medicine and watch Faux News every night. When I asked why they would do something stoopid like that, they replied because forewarned is forearmed and so they would know how and what righty's think (now there's an oxymoron for you). Prior to tuning in to the Faux News Talking Pundit Heads I started to pour a stiff drink of my favorite alcoholic beverage, but I didn't want my perception to be, cough, cough, impaired :). So, armed with an arsenal of sock bombs to throw at the TeeVee if needed, I settled in for an evening of watching Faux News.

Yo President Obama! I tried to tell you...

If we had wanted to keep Bush's political prisoner operation we would have voted for John Mc$ame. If we had wanted an Attorney General whose first act was to free former Senator Ted Stevens (r. Alaska) we would have voted for Mc$ame. If we had wanted to keep Don't ask don't tell we would have voted for John Mc$ame. If we had wanted to continue the same economic polices as Bush we would have voted for Mc$ame. If we didn't want the single payer option we would have voted for McSame.

Now, I won't go as far as my friend BeulahMan and call you a "lying piece of sh^!" on the front page of LiA, but I HOPE you get my drift. We the people are suffering and under siege. We are loosing HOPE.

Click on the links to read the full text and don't forget to read the comments.

Keep HOPE alive y'all. Keep HOPE alive.