Tuesday Afternoon Thread: I Am Trayvon Martin

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You can thank @rolandsmartin @toure @CharlesMBlow @CapehartJ and a few others who were with us from Day 1 on this story.

Sigh. Ok, yeah it’s great y’all were pushing the story. But the pats on the back and the high fives are just really unseemly to me. And telling us to “thank” y’all? Come on, people. Get over yourselves and just do your damn job. This is not about the reporters, it’s about a murdered child! It’s like it’s a damn requirement to be a egomaniac in order to be a journalist these days.

The War on Women

Battleground: Idaho

In his closing debate in favor of SB 1387, Sen. Chuck Winder, R-Boise, said, “This bill does not require a trans-vaginal exam. … It leaves that up to the patient and the physician to make that determination.” He said, “Rape and incest was used as a reason to oppose this. I would hope that when a woman goes in to a physician with a rape issue, that physician will indeed ask her about perhaps her marriage, was this pregnancy caused by normal relations in a marriage or was it truly caused by a rape. I assume that’s part of the counseling that goes on.”
http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/boise/2012/mar/19/closing-debate-winder-compares-abortion-us-war-casualties/

.Tue Mar 20, 2012 at 12:38 PM PDT.

Mitt Romney outspending Rick Santorum by nearly $100 million
by Jed Lewison

Now that Rick Santorum has announced his cash on hand as well as fundraising totals for February, we know that his campaign and Super PAC has spent at least $19.6 million thus far. That figure doesn’t include spending by his campaign itself during March, but it does include his Super PAC spending, which accounted for $6.5 million of his total spending.
Mitt Romney, meanwhile, has spent at least $103.4 million on his campaign, $36.5 million of which came from his Super PAC. As with Santorum, that number does not reflect spending during March by his campaign.

If you assume both Romney and Santorum have maintained their February spending paces during March, then Romney’s current spending total is roughly $111 million and Santorum’s is $25 million. That gives Romney an estimated $86 million spending advantage over Santorum, leading his rival by a 4.5-to-1 ratio since the start of the campaign.

As Markos wrote yesterday, Romney’s campaign is relying on big donors to fill its coffers. It’s the same story with his Super PAC: One donor alone contributed $3 million, half of Romney’s Super PAC fundraising for the entire month of February.

.http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/20/1076152/-Mitt-Romney-outspending-Rick-Santorum-by-nearly-100-million

Thirty Five Soldiers Offered Jobs in One Day at Texas Job Fair

http://govne.ws/item/Thirty-Five-Soldiers-Offered-Jobs-in-One-Day-at-Texas-Job-Fair?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter#

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/state/florida-kkk-leader-says-law-enforcement-officers-are-169139.html Apparently Florida cops love the klan

CBS’s Mark Knoller Falsely Claims Debt Has Increased More Under Obama Than Bush
By Blue Texan

Mark Knoller is the White House correspondant for CBS Radio, and a first-class right-wing tool. Monday night, he posted an article titled, “National debt has increased more under Obama than under Bush,” which sent wingnuts scurrying to their Twitter accounts. The problem is, the piece is BS. Here’s Knoller’s key graf:

The Debt rose $4.899 trillion during the two terms of the Bush presidency. It has now gone up $4.939 trillion since President Obama took office.

Don’t you just love the way he capitalizes “debt”?

What Knoller doesn’t specify, naturally, is what the debt was when Bush began his presidency. And that’s a glaring omission, because unless you don’t know that, you can’t accurately compare the records. So here it is.

In 2001, the national debt Bush inherited was around $5.7T, give or take. Some of that debt in 2001 has to be attributed to Clinton, just as some of the debt in 2009 when Obama took office has to be attributed to Bush. When W. left office in 2009, the debt was nearly $11T. That’s an increase of 89%.

Under Obama, the debt has increased from about $11T to about $15T, about 40%.

And what’s behind that increase? Historically low taxes and historically low revenues — and the worst financial crash since the 1930s. There’s been no “binge” in spending, as Knoller wants you to believe.

And PS, this isn’t the first “look how Obama’s bankrupting the country” hit job this guy has written.

This clown should leave CBS and go to Fox News. He’d fit right in.

http://crooksandliars.com/blue-texan/cbss-mark-knoller-falsely-claims-debt-h

Paul Ryan’s Budget Is a Cowardly Political Joke
By Charles P. Pierce
at 1:58PM

The only reason that the zombie-eyed granny-starver Paul Ryan gets to present his own federal budget, as though he were the shadow president and not a guy elected by roughly 180,000 people in and around Janesville, Wisconsin, is that he managed early on to convince people that he was not your run-of-the-mill zombie-eyed, granny-starving, trickle-down Randian snake-oil salesman of the kind that have been running Republican economic policy since half-past Ronald Reagan’s lucidity. No, indeed. Ryan was a Serious Man Of Public Policy, interested only in disinterested pursuit of answers to the country’s pressing economic needs. You might disagree with him, we were told, but you can’t dispute the fact that the man knows his stuff. Even liberal wonks found themselves charmed by Ryan’s charts and graphs, all of which, remarkably, came to the same conclusions that a generation of conservative fiscal cranks had been proposing for 30 years. Shift the country’s wealth upward and soak the poor and the middle class. Create a functional oligarchy in the national economy and lay in sufficient budgetary traps and snares that the oligarchy you have created is unassailable in the future.

Nonetheless, the ways of the Village are what they are, so Paul Ryan got to bring forth his own budget on Tuesday, and its fiscal bullying is matched only by its towering political cowardice. Ryan is forever meeping about making the “tough choices” necessary to get our economic house back in order, but faced with actual tough political choices, he and his pet budget duck every single one of them. He’s still a zombie-eyed granny-starver, but he pushes all the actual zombie-eyed granny-starving down the road a decade, so as not to anger the various grannies in the First Congressional District of Wisconsin. (Ezra Klein seems to find this alarming, although I don’t know why, since at least there will be less granny-starving in the short term.) And Ryan and the other Republicans are breaking all kinds of rock trying to defang the automatic defense cuts in the Budget Conrol Act of last summer. Republicans rushing to protect the defense budget — there’s change we can believe in.

The fact that this budget is shot through with political chickenshit is relevant because this is primarily a political document, a campaign blueprint for the Republicans this fall. (It’s also an attempt to establish bargaining position in the upcoming budgetary brawl with the White House. Whether that succeeds, of course, is completely dependent on whether the White House takes any part of this bag of horrors seriously enough as an actual budget to negotiate on it.) As a plan for governing, it’s yet another blueprint for economic dystopia from a man who either doesn’t know, or doesn’t care, what life is actually like for the people who don’t buy him $4000 bottles of wine in restaurants far from the Time Out Pub in Janesville. It’s a supply-sider’s wet dream, in technicolor, with Jenna Jameson serving you popcorn at intermission. Food stamps and Medicaid — which loses $770 billion anyway, according to Ryan’s plan — get handed back to the states in the form of block grants which, if our experience with stimulus money and the tobacco settlement are any indication, the states will then use to fund those things that get their governors re-elected, and you may have noticed that healthy poor people are rarely one of those things. There’s what amounts to be a flat-tax: two basic income-tax rates, the top being 25 percent. Also the corporate tax rate gets cut to 20 percent. Because he has to pretend that he’s visiting this radical restructuring of the American economy on us because of his great concern over The Deficit — and we’ll get to that particular canard in a moment — Ryan proposes to close “loopholes”, which means that the upper one percent loses some boutoniere money while you lose your mortgage interest deduction, but you and Steve Forbes will be paying the same flat rate, so it’s all good!

Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/paul-ryan-budget-fail-7480175#ixzz1phVPAg11

Live Stream: Rally For Trayvon Martin http://www.wftv.com/s/watchlive/

Miranda – - – —-HOLLYWOOD IN DA HA-OUSE!! – - –Woo! Hoo! – – –

– - – -Stars Demand Arrest of Trayvon Martin’s Shooter; Grand Jury to Get Case — – –

– - – - Cher, John Legend, Mia Farrow and Wyclef Jean are among a growing number of celebrities calling for police to arrest George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch captain in Florida accused of fatally shooting unarmed black teen Trayvon Martin.

– –Director Spike Lee, rap mogul Russell Simmons, rapper Talib Kweli and actresses Gabrielle Union and Alyssa Milano have also been tweeting about the shooting and have urged their followers to join the more than 435,000 people who have already signed the Change.org petition, demanding the arrest of Zimmerman.
THERE IS MORE.

— – –THANK U! :>) – –

– - – — -TEA annnd SKITTLES!! – - – - –RIHEP – -TRAYVON.

Miranda – - – -COMEDIC TRUTH – - -

– — Bonus Cartoon of the Day- Paul Ryan budget baskets — – -

– - – MOST of the EGG$$$$$ —in the BASKETS f da RICH!! – - – -geesh!!

Miranda – - – - – -***tears** – - – - -RESPECTFULLY POSTING THIS – - -

— –Feds, Florida authorities probe Trayvon Martin shooting — -

– — WORDS FROM HIS FATHER annd MOTHER [VIDEO] — -

– - – - – - -FAMU STUDENTS[VIDEO] – –

– — -THIS – - – ->Zimmerman was handcuffed after police arrived and taken into custody for questioning, but was released by police without being charged. Crump called the treatment patently unfair and asked if Martin would have received the same treatment if he had been the shooter. – –

THIS SESSION SHOULD B ABLE 2 B –SUBP – — – —errrrr – —SUBPOE — – — -errrr – - —FORMALLY REQUESTED. :>)

WHAT DID THEY AXE HIM?? WHAT DID HE ANSWER?? – - –VERY CRUCIAL!! —-’CUZ- —THEY RELEASED HIS MURDERIN’ –ARSE!! – —

FROM the TAPE: – POLICE 2 “z-man” — – -DO U WANT MEET WITH the OFFICERS??? – -WHA’???? — -He had a CHOICE!!??? – —

- – — — -OPEN SEASON ON “BLAH” MALES —-in sanford!! – –BRAG yer WEAPON of CHOICE – - -SPONSORED by the NRA!! – -

— – - – - – - -I’m 2 THA-ROUGH!! – — -

RIHEP —TRAVON. [He WILL B TAKEN CARE OF!! ] –

Miranda – - – -FROM- -REV. AL – —- – - -

—-Rev. Al Sharpton: Why race matters in the Trayvon Martin tragedy — -

—- –I wait for an era when young black men will no longer have to live in fear. Decades after the abolishment of slavery, we were haunted by the reality of being hunted down, beaten and lynched by both everyday citizens and law enforcement. Young boys like Emmett Till were openly and viciously murdered because of the sentiments of bigoted individuals who believed they had the right to carry out their own brand of injustice.

– - -On Thursday, March 22 at 7 PM, National Action Network (NAN) and I will convene an urgent rally at the First Shiloh Baptist Church in Sanford, FL. to demand justice for Trayvon Martin. We will be joined by community leaders and concerned citizens, from all ethnicities, backgrounds and walks of life, who cannot even begin to comprehend this nightmarish situation.
THERE IS MORE.

I feeel comforted that the – –CHURCH BUILDING – — is the SITE of CHOCE 4 DEALIN’ with THIS MATTER. – –

– — -Whitney Houston ” I Go To The Rock” – - -RIHEP — -DEAR LADY♥

THANK U REV. AL —4 ALWAYS BEING — – –IN DA “STRUGGLE”. – - -BLESS U. :>)

Miranda – - -:>) These TV COMMENTATORS –R strugglin’- – - trynta PRONOUNCE – - -young Mr. Martin’s NAME. –

We R hearing – — Travon –like[short A] — – — pronunciations. :>)

RESPECTFULLY – –PEOPLE – —IT IS – -–TRAY -[Long A] - – -von. – -

JUST sayin’. . . . . .***sigh***

Guys Black Snob has a great post up about the Trayvon Martin case. Please read the whole post, I can’t even blockquote a segment of it, the whole post is really good.

No Apologizes: On The Killing of Trayvon Martin And Being “Good”

It’s ON in PENNSYLVANIA!!!

This lame-ass Governor of ours (Gov. CUT IT Corbett) has pushed for and won a new law that, for the first time, makes all voters (not just first time voters) show a government issued ID to vote this coming November.

The state is making State issued IDs free, but getting the birth certificate or replacing the lost SS card to GET that ID is going to be the problem. US passports are accepted, but they aren’t cheap to get.

WE HAVE OUR WORK CUT OUT FOR US!!

Encouraging news, though. Virginia has even more onerous “anti”- voter ID laws and we won VIRGINIA. So WE WILL DO THIS!!!

OBAMA/BIDEN 2012~~

WE WILL WIN.

Miranda — —Ummm — Maybe she got tired of him — -FLIPPIN’/Movin – - all those DANG CHARTS!! – - -LOL – - -

– - -CNN Stars John King, Dana Bash Separate
Pair have been married 4 years – - -

– — CNN’s married political reporters John King and Dana Bash have separated, friends tell the Washington Post. The couple, married almost four years, have been living separately for several months, insiders say. King converted to Judaism prior to their marriage. “They continue to co-parent their young son”—Jonah, born last year—”and to work together with the utmost professionalism,” says one friend. King is 48, Bash 40. – - –

***shrug****