Drug Testing, The Bell Curve, Tenure, War and Torture, Oh My!

Let me see if I have this right (pun intended), the great state of Alabama say's it's broke, that we can't afford to participate in the Affordable Health Care Act, have to cut teachers and other services but they want to spend tax dollars drug testing people who receive public money before they can qualify? I think the legislator who came up with this idea should be drug tested because they are obviously on some serious drugs. As a matter of fact I think all elected officials should be drug tested before they qualify to run for office.

GOP Honcho Hugh McIinnish and GOP 5th district Congress Critter Mo Brooks believe whites folks have a higher IQ than black folks because they are...white, or because they've bought into the Bell Curve foolishness. Anyhoo, they might want to rethink their position after reading THIS.

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, a Stanford geneticist, said in 1995 that “The Bell Curve” (1994) by Charles Murray and Harvard psychologist Richard J Herrnstein is wrong on the science.

You know how the righty's and some progressives claim Tenure Laws make it impossible to fire so called bad teachers and it's all the Alabama Education Association's fault? Well that's a bald face lie. AEA doesn't grant Tenure....Principals and Administrators do. They also hire the teachers. So if so called bad teachers are hired, blame the Principals and Administrators not AEA.

The gop and the media are always yakking about what the American people want or what the American people did or did not vote for. Well listen up....Two-Thirds of Americans Favor Full Withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan

In the context of reducing the budget deficit, a new Bloomberg poll (PDF) asked Americans if they would support pulling all troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan. The poll found an overwhelming 66 percent would favor this action, while only 30 percent oppose it

And Mr. President, Don't even think about getting involved in Libya. Stay the Hell Out!

Mr. President, there are too many white boys on your staff and in the news media and in the cartoon character gallery (this means you, Newt Gingrich), white boys that have never served a day in their god damned lives in any branch of this country’s military who have a got a tremendous hard-on these days for simply whipping out the artillery and going to town on some Libyan ass.

Contrary to popular belief, blue balls have never killed anybody. But can I guarantee you, Mr. President, that if you start sending our troops to Libya, less of them will come back alive than you sent there. Men with loaded guns in foreign countries, even when they are on humanitarian missions, can turn small battles into huge regional conflicts overnight. And in case the geniuses on your staff forgot, WE DON”T HAVE ENOUGH SOLDIERS LEFT TO FIGHT ANY MORE WARS RIGHT NOW than we are already in.

You've got your own problems over here, like some Peace Prize Torture.

The United States, governed by a Nobel Peace Prize winner, tortures political prisoners. That truth is on display for all the world to see, in the treatment of Wikileaks defendant Private Bradley Manning, who is stripped naked every night in an effort to crush his psyche. “The enemy is anyone, anywhere who dares to consider revealing the truth about how this country actually conducts itself around the world.”

I'm just saying...