What looks like crazy on the left and the right on an ordinary day in Alabama Politics

 

Well, well, well.  Look what I stumbled upon on my morning Blog stroll...... those crazy republicans are trying to send crazy back to the attic.  That's right (pun intended), Radio Boy,  who enabled the birthers and crazy conspiracy theorists that have taken over the local Republican Party… is now trying to help a group called Republican Refresh defeat them at the ballot box.  Snicker

"Republican Refresh is a group Madison County residents tired of the embarrassing antics of the Madison County Republican Executive Party. We have decided to unify under the idea of getting new competent Republican Leadership on the Madison County Republican Executive Committee. For too long, us everyday Republicans have been embarrassed, ashamed, and confused by some of the current members of the Madison County Republican Executive Committee. The time for a refresh is now and starts with you voting on Tuesday June 3rd in the Republican Primary for new local leadership in the Republican Party."

RedEye's Translation:  It's time to send the crazy Aunts and Uncles who say out loud what we say behind closed doors back to the attic.  Uh...good luck with that.  Have you ever heard the saying you can't un ring a bell?

Happy Birthday Left in Alabama!

Speaking of un ringing a bell, lets mosey on over to slightly Left in Alabama, the Informed. Involved. Progressive. blog of record for Alabama politics, where Blogger Smedley  asks readers:

Talk to me.  Tell me what you like, or don't like, about the two Democratic candidates for governor this year, Parker Griffith and Kevin Bass. Parker Griffith I know is a Democrat  Republican Democrat who has served in the State Senate and the US House.  He has a history of right-wing votes. Kevin Bass I know is a former minor-league baseball player with no history of elected office.

And..

 What do you know about these two?  Why should a voter choose one over the other?  Are there reasons to vote for one of them, as opposed to against the other?

I've been giving that question a lot of thought and I'm glad Smedley posed that question, since I'm banned from Left in Alabama for life, allow me respond here in my own sandbox.  I believe in second chances, therefore I'm willing to forgive Parker Griffith for walking on the wild side, but I can't forget Parker Griffith walked on the wild side.  That said, we all make mistakes, ask former Governor George C.Wallace.  Griffith is talking the talk when it comes to jobs, health care, and education, I'm willing to give him the chance to walk the walk.  As my Daddy used to say... vote for the candidate with the smallest foot so when they kick you in your Donkey it won't hurt as bad. 

RedEye tiptoeing away from the computer keeping an Eye on the Reddest of the Red States....

Memorial Day Activism for Activist

Why hasn't this been all over the TeeVee?  Never mind.  We know.  It's not a bunch of Birthers demanding to see President Obama's birth certificate. Or, Reverend Jeremiah Wright saying God damn America that's in the bible  for killing innocent people.

 Snark.

Sign the petition at Change.Org in support of Dr. Head

Celebrating the deaths of countless humans for political gain

If it's Sunday it's time to Meet the Pest

H/T Keith Olberman Fan Page

Stop Questioning the Faith of the President just because he's an African American.  Just stop!

Game Change.  McCain's Unforgivable  Desperate Hail Mary Pass.  It was a Game Change all right (pun intended).

The Road from Selma.

An Open Letter to Donald Trump

Open Letter to Donald Trump by MES on Friday, April 1, 2011 at 1:09am
Links inserted for clarity~Redeye

Dear Don,

Your ignorance is encyclopedic, I think you should apply to Fox as a comedic blogger for the notion that you can successfully run for president. You have a fidelity problem, (3 marriages) and a financial problem...you know filing for bankruptcy twice. Oh, let's not forget the monuments to your ego, buildings and buildings named TRUMP and your whore pageants that seem to have one boozed up train wreck after another one step away from either porno or a stint on celebrity rehab.

After the popularity of your show The Apprentice has waned, you have now decided to threaten us with the prospective run for the White House in 2012. Are conservative republican's so desperate for a strong personality that whenever one emerges they go ga ga? “If I run and if I win this country will be respected again. This country will be respected again!” That will be an amazing feat. You think that you can sit Putin and Medvedev at the boardroom with Ivanka and over talk them? Do you believe that you can "fire" one of the Saudi Royals or one of the tin pot dictators in North Africa and the Middle East and have them escorted out the building?

You are going to spend a billion dollars "allegedly" to run for president as a conservative, but you need to know one thing. YOU WILL NEVER EVER WIN THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION. For you to win the republican nomination it would require memory loss and a suspension of disbelief of the most epic proportions. I'm talking Glenn Beck, suspension of belief. You were a republican, then you became a independent, and between in 2001-2009 became a Democrat, now you are switching back to the Gop. So we are all over the political spectrum, but you backed up your leftist leanings with cash donations to *gasp* Hillary Clinton, Charles Rangel and Rahm Emanuel. Back in 1999 you stated that you were pro-choice, advocated health care reform, so to speak. You recently told fox resident Scientology's Greta Van Sustern, I’m pro-life. I think that’s a big social issue.” And on health care? You promise to end it, because it's unconstitutional.

Another, thing you want to try is raise a 25% tariff on Chinese goods so they can revalue their currency. I didn't go to business school, but I do know that the consumers will eat the cost of whatever you are proposing, and people like you will be fine but people like me will most certainly experience the consequences of your game of chicken with the global markets.


When I hear you talk, the image of Fredo Corleone exclaiming, "I'm smart", to Michael right before he set's him up and has him murdered for betraying him. Now it seems that you have become a birther and you don't believe President Obama was born in the US. Here we go again with this b.s....Now you think that the "reason" Obama is hiding is birth certificate is because he is hiding secret Muslim affiliations, even though his birth certificate has been available for 3 years and there is no mention of religion on birth certificates as far as I know. Is that rug on your head so tight that it has cut off circulation to your brain? You do know that Hawaii is a state? Even if his religion were listed as "Muslim" on his birth certificate, he would've been a baby. His mother could've put martian warlock and it wouldn't affect anything with his faith AS AN ADULT.

It's pathetic that you want to play the "if you aren't a christian, or the screwed up Americanized version of Christianity, then you aren't worthy of holding public office, holding a job, or living game. You have the money, but it's obvious that you don't have the brains, it's a good idea to watch out for someone that wears roadkill on their head. Will any respect that I once had for you return? I thought at some point it could return, but after this birther nonsense, I realized that it's gone for good. You are just another bigoted bully that will say and do anything to win. You are jumping in the cesspool with the rest of the sharks that don't know much about anything. When someone is tugging at the rope as hard as you are, it's best to let them have all they want, because they usually get tangled up and eventually hang themselves.

Enjoy playing the "stupid card", but what it won't get you is what you want and that's to hear two words: "You're hired".

An open letter to John Boehner~corrected

You knew it was coming.. H/T MES

Dear Mr. Speaker,

Is the gavel to compensate for something? They say that men want large cars to compensate for a small phallus, Freud would say that your gavel would be an attempt to compensate for a lack of sexual prowess. You would have to in order to walk around looking like a goldfish and crying more than a virgin at a prison rodeo.

Where are the jobs? That's what you in your wonderful John Wayne cowboy charm told the mindless masses as you convinced them to vote against their interests. To once again, pull up to the picnic table for the fish fry along with Opie and Floyd and have a mint julep with the honey suckle on the veranda at Tara waiting for the vapors. Yes, we love to gasp and swoon for the vapors...You promised jobs, because the axis of evil, Obama, Pelosi and Reid was going on a shopping spree with the Nations credit card trying to get the nation out of the quagmire that the Duke of Hazard and his band of Merry Thugs got the country into.

Now, you decide it's a good idea to penalize federal employees and cut their jobs in your effort to trim the deficit. So...to create jobs you cut jobs? How does that make logical sense? Aren't you a federal employee? So, couldn't you cut your job in your pathetic effort to cut the deficit? "So be it", is what you say. You remember how people were trying to compare Michelle Obama to Marie Antoinette because of a top she wore, even though she didn't make the "let them eat cake" statement? This is a let them eat cake statement if I ever heard one.

Maybe if you left the tanning alone, this is something you would know. Making more people unemployed will do what to the deficit? It will ADD to the deficit because these people will be filing unemployment insurance, along with people like me, who can't get a job. If they were making over $50k, what kind of job do you think they are going to get? Outside of a greedy corporate lobbyist, if they are in that field, but those people aren't going to be one's that's going to get screwed. It's going to be post office workers and other lowly people that no one thanks or cares about until election year.

30 days and what have you accomplished other than systematically attempt to repress women's reproductive rights and go back on your campaign promises. I thought you idiots said you were done with social issues.

Here is a tip, don't tell anyone, it's a secret: Don't start a pre-emptive war based on lies before you end the first war. That's really expensive. I don't recall anyone pissing and complaining about "spending" when the US government was outsourcing everything to Haliburton and Blackwater during the Bush retard years, but now the Nubian Sharia Law terrorist is in office, so now it's bad....They wasted billions of tax payer dollars, contractors sent to Iraq got $100k tax free. Sure, they ran the risk of being beheaded, but still it was tax free.

You are third in line to the presidency and I truly am fearful for the future. Every interview you give you can't even say that the President was born in America and he has a legitimate birth certificate. Any birther bill should automatically be tabled because you are a leader of a major party and not a group of lunatics. Or are you? I can understand your need to connect to your base, but some topics should really be mentally draining to a person over the age of 12.

Get a map explain that Hawaii is one of the 50 states in the union along with Alaska where caribou Barbie originated from. If Obama has to show his birth certificate yet again, then I need to see Palin's kindergarten, middle and high school graduation certificates. I'm not sure she can walk and chew gum at the same time...she's better suited for being a pop artist than a politician. Easy on the eyes, no talent, no substance, just a stylist and some makeup and a catch phrase. I don't see her dry humping a mic stand in a bathing suit with fringe singing off key, but maybe God will answer our prayers and get her off the political stage before she "refudiates" more historical facts.

Have fun when your limo breaks down in the potholes and there is no one to fix it on the broken down highways in Dept of Transportation, or no policeman when you get car jacked from the scores of unemployed that you decided to sacrifice for your political agenda. I hope your family doesn't get sick and need to use the ambulance, that goes back to my first point. They won't have "Obamacare" or should I say "Romneycare", they can have the hope and pray medical program. Where they pray to God and hope that he answers. You can have power outages because no one replaces the bulbs in the street lights and no one trims the trees...You get my gist.

We can use you for light, you practically glow in the dark.

It seems that Nancy Pelosi is more of a man and leader than you and to think she had a smaller gavel than you, and she never cries. Boner, I am going to send you a box Kleenex. Hopefully if you sit in a seat you will disappear.

Where in the World is the real President Barack Obama?

We're broke? Who knew? Maybe if we bought our troops and our tax dollars home from Iraq and Afghanistan the country wouldn't be broke and President Obama wouldn't be trying to reduce the deficit on the backs of the elderly, college students, the middle class and low income citizens. Also known as the people who voted for him.

What the heck is wrong with President Obama? Has someone kidnapped the Barack Obama that ran for President and replaced him with a clone? Because it looks like to me he is more interesting in winning the approval of the wing nuts than he is the people who put him in office.

President Obama is pandering to people who think he is an African Interloper at the expense of the people who voted for him. People who think he perhaps not eligible for the office based on the right wing media enabled birth certificate conspiracy. When is President Obama going to realize there is nothing he can do to appease these people?

.... House Speaker John Boehner (R-Va.) doesn't want to talk about it. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) doesn't want to talk about it. But their Republican allies in state legislature don't mind talking about it at all.

The opening of 2011 state legislative sessions has been accompanied by a spate of birther-related bills, the clearest indication yet that the controversy surrounding President Barack Obama's place of birth will continue to simmer throughout his reelection campaign.
Lawmakers in at least 10 states have introduced bills requiring presidential candidates to provide some form of proof that they are natural-born citizens, a ballot qualification rule designed to address widespread rumors on the right that Obama was not born in the United States.
This is more than just annoyance about idiotic jokes at CPAC, this is about 10 legislatures advancing actual legislation in response to insane conspiracy theories.

If I wanted to feel the pain of budget cuts I would have voted for John McCain and Sarah Palin.

I wonder when the TeaPublicans are going to wake up and smell the Tea?

Paul Krugman noted some of the cuts that jumped out at him, including deep reductions in aid for pregnant women and women with young children, NOAA, NASA, energy efficiency programs, scientific research, counter-proliferation, FEMA, environmental protections, community health centers, and Centers for Disease Control. Summarizing the Republican philosophy, Krugman concluded, "Don't start thinking about tomorrow."

This is the Batsh*t crazy the Batsh*t crazies voted for

Now we know what life will be like if the House Republicans get their way: Financial aid for college will decline, food-borne illness will spread more easily, Head Start programs will shrink, and Big Bird might be out of business.

After a difficult week of negotiations, the House Appropriations Committee on Friday evening released a detailed list of spending cuts that would reduce non-defense federal expenditures by about $60 billion* between now and September, when the fiscal year ends.

In so doing, House leadership addressed the concerns of Tea Party activists and newly elected Republicans, who were angry that previous spending plans didn't shrink the size of government sufficiently. But that is an awful lot of money to take out of the budget in such a short time, particularly if none of it can come from either the Pentagon or the large entitlement programs (Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security) that comprise the majority of federal spending.

President Obama needs to ask former Alabama CD7 Congress Critter now white collar criminal defense attorney Artur Davis how that pandering to the right at the expense of the base thingy worked out for him.

The American people are hurting. Strike that. The American people are suffering. We can't take anymore pain.

An Open Letter to Bill O'Rielly

I just had to share this letter posted on Face Book. When asked what took them so long to pen this letter the Writer said Keith Olbermann has been doing a good job making fun of him, so I never had to. It's raw. It's rude. It's on point.
Redeye

Dear Bill O the Clown,

One of my pet peeves is stupidity. Not ignorance of a fact or subject matter that one has never heard of, but complete and total foolishness on a subject that is established scientific fact is unacceptable. You attended Harvard University,not to some degree mill or Joe and Ernie's school of bull. You attended an Ivy League school and for some reason you can't scientifically explain the tides, the gravitational forces and the relational relationship they have with the moon. As a result, it can't be science, then it must be God. "Tides go in, tides go out, there's never a miscommunication. If it isn't God, then you explain it", you exclaim to a guest. Surely, your middle school teachers taught about gravitational pull of the earth, the poles, and how the moon affects the tides of the ocean. This is not the Dark Ages where something we can't explain happens and it becomes conclusive proof of Satan's work and we start burning witches or have trials by ordeal.

What am I saying? You probably have no idea what I am talking about...The Bible is not, I repeat NOT a compendium of scientific data. It's just not. If anyone seriously reads the Bible and believes that anything is scientific in there then they should join ranks with Palin and Beck right now. Tides go in, tides go out...that's what's supposed to happen. But that can be and is explained scientifically for about 500 years, there's nothing head scratching about that like curing cancer or Beck's blackboard communist conspiracy theories.

So, since you got rightly made fun of for your tides come in nonsense we get this gem. "Okay, how did the Moon get there? How'd the Moon get there? Look, you pinheads who attacked me for this, you guys are just desperate. How'd the Moon get there? How'd the Sun get there? How'd it get there? Can you explain that to me? How come we have that and Mars doesn't have it? Venus doesn't have it. How come? Why not? How'd it get here?" Well, again in most middle school science classes, we learn that the moon was formed from an impact with earth and that Venus and most of the planets have moons, several in fact. All facts that can be easily verified if you simply looked into a telescope. Who figured these things out? Galileo, Isaac Newton, Copernicus...any of these ring a bell?

We know that your show has nothing to do with logic, facts or common sense. I can get more rationality from an episode of sesame street. Next you will have an expose about how the moon is made of cheese, or that there is a homeless Acorn New Black Panther member living there getting ready to mount an attack on all the white middle aged women named Susie. Maybe Noah put the moon there, then installed rocket boosters after the flood to get the moon there. We have the tooth fairy, Santa, so maybe the moon got there from the cheese fairy. Maybe Michael Jackson put it there. Oh, here is something for you to ponder, we only see one side of the moon, is God hiding something on the other side? The average menstrual cycle is 28 days which is the lunar cycle, coincidence or conspiracy?

I don't know our origins, we can argue till we are horse about whether we came out of a primordial soup or whether the earth was formed in 6 days. However, what I do know, we as Americans and a western culture are behind the times based on the idiocy that I just described above. Religion and science cannot coexist because one operates on facts and logic, the other on faith. Is is a leap that in the Genesis story, that maybe our 6 days may not be Gods 6 days? Could his day be 2 days, 100 days, 1,000 days, 1,000 years? How do we know? We have a book that was orally dictated, handwritten and translated from Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and English and edited by Catholic Bishops who decided which gospels should be included and who should be changed a little to seem more interesting. Mathew, Mark, Luke and John recount the same story with some discrepancies.

If you have ever heard, "this strain of virus is resistant to antibiotics", then you are dealing with evolution and it can't be discounted as crap because you just want to believe in the Genesis intelligent design story. With all of all that, we are supposed to take everything in the as Bible 100% literal? I don't think so, if they did people wouldn't eat seafood or work on Sundays.

This is the 21st Century all unexplained things are not conclusive evidence of Jesus or Satan at work. The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, that should be Fox New's motto. Science is not a liberal conspiracy in order to turn people against God. Religious fundamentalism is a scourge on the planet that robs people of their ability to think and apply even the most basic level of common sense. When I hear such foolishness come from the mouth of a person that went to Harvard, get's paid millions of dollars a year and the best they can come up with is tides comes in, how does the sun get there...this is something I expect from Bachmann or Palin, but not you. You were really serious. You need to give Harvard their degree back or, they need to break in to your penthouse and steal it, because you are not representing a smart Harvard alum if you don't understand gravity.

I pray that you are pandering to the religious right because you know they disregard evolution and science. If so, you deserve a special place in hell for manipulating people based on their faith for political and economic gain. You are one of the most cynical of broadcasters, feigning the bumpkin upbringing and misunderstanding of the world so that you can goad your listeners into supporting the corporate system that feeds your own elite existence. Of course, Jimmie and Susie aren't thinking about that when they hear you talk, all they hear are those buzz words, "Jesus, patriotism, terrorism, christian, 9/11".

What horrendous sin did the people on this planet commit to be plagued with your tragic lie filled show? How many hail Mary's, confessions, sack cloth and ashes do I need to roll in end the suffering? If only I could go back and take out the person that invented the tv. While you were out sticking felafel's into hookers, you should been reading National Geographic, and taking remedial astronomy. Not astrology with Ms. Cleo, that's not the same thing. This is why Rome fell and why America is on the decline, gross ignorance that people like you perpetrate on a mass scale. Your stupidity is like a black hole, I fear it will suck all common sense, I.Q's, rationality inside and you will start watching cluster fox. All of the real journalists are in Egypt getting punched, threatened and tear gassed, but you are ok. Fox's new slogan should be: All ignorance, All the Time, You Don't Have to Feel Bad Watching Us." Bill, please stop talking out of Uranus.

Damn I miss Keith Olberbman.

Redeye's greatest hits continued

This is the third installment in my series of memory lane blog strolls leading up to the first anniversary of my front page privileges at Left in Alabama being yanked for allegedly making up stuff.

According to the Talking TeeVee Pundit Heads and the Polling Pollsters who Poll them, the majority of the American People are mad as hell at the Obama administration and they aren't going to take it anymore! I wonder how come they didn't get mad until the President was a democrat named Barack Obama? Why are they really mad? Where was their outrage pre Obama? I mean, really?

I'm talking to you Birthers, Deathers, Teabaggers, conservatives, republicans, moderates, independents, blue doghograts and DINO's. What are you really mad about? h/t pams listserve via MagginKat via ZJ via a British friend in email

Keep your eyes on the prize and hold on President Obama

October 20th will be ten months into President Obama's administration. If we will only give this man time and support, I believe he will full fill the promises he made. I believe his eyes are on the prize, but there is just so much to do. It can't all happen as quickly as I want, but the faith I have in my vote on November 6th gives me hope that we are on the right track with the right leader. I'll say it again, give this President time and support.

Stoopid is as stoopid does

I'm asking the parents of HCS school students who didn't want their students "brainwashed" by the President's political agenda if they are happy they taught their students about bigotry, racism, pettiness live and in living color? Children are our future, how can they move forward and make this world a better place if they are taught to hate someone because of the color of their skin? How are we going to move forward together, one nation, under God, with Liberty and Justice for ALL, if the children of the future are full of the prejudice and racism of the past?

Some suggested questions for gubernatorial candidates then and now

In light of the fact the gubernatorial candidates (except Ron Sparks) have agreed not to "play the race card" that may not be a good thing because in my mind "agreeing not to play the race care" is nod nod wink wink for "we are going to ignore black folks issues and concerns, and marginalize those who try to address them". So just in case I'm right (pun intended) here are some questions for ALL the candidates (republican and democrat) from a Redeye point of view.

Socialist is the New N word

PTCruiser at jackandjillpolitics.com reminded me of the historical use of the word;

the terms "socialist" and "communist" were among the favorite epithets hurled at Black Americans, their allies and organizations such as the NAACP before, during and after the Civil Rights Movement. In fact, these terms have been used since the early 20th Century, if not before, to discredit and stigmatize men and women fighting for social justice.

Proud Socialist signing off!

Annoy the Media and the Pollsters, elect Martha Coaxly!

If you listen to the Talking TeeVee Pundit Heads and the MSM, the Massachuettes Senate race is over and Scott Brown won because his oppenent Martha Coaxley ran a terrible campaign and made a baseball gaffe. Why do we know more about Martha Coaxley's campaign and her baseball gaffe than we know about the issues? Because that's what they want us to know about. It's called dumbing down the electorate with dumb stuff so they'll forget about the real issues.

According to the TTPH's and the MSM this is a referendum on President Obams's socialist agenda and white Obama voters are feeling voters remorse. Let them tell it, the majority of Americans don't approve of the health care reform bill and the direction the country is going, Obama has lost independent(white) voters and blue collar (white) voters and a grassroots (teabaggers) black, I mean back lash against the democratic agenda. Blah, blah, blab blab. How do they know all of this? Because the polls and the polling pollsters who poll them told them.

The real poll's open at 7AM and close at 8 PM. Don't let the media decide who the winner will be. Let the people decide. It's of the people, by the people for the people, not of the media, by the media for the media.

Annoy the media, the pollsters, the teabaggers, the deathers, the birthers and the anti health care reformers. Elect Martha Coaxley.