It's Not Just Faux News That We Should Be Worried About
RACIST SELMA, ALABAMA CITY COUNCILMAN ATTENDS RALLY HONORING KKK FOUNDERThat's the headline that the Selma Times Journal in Selma, Alabama should have written earlier this week. Including the caps...
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Happy Birthday Tarryl Clark
While we are all wishing a happy birthday to President Obama this weekend, we also should take a moment and also wish a Happy 49th Birthday to Tarryl Clark - the candidate so courageously taking on...
View ArticleCity Council President Admits Attending Rally Honoring Klan Founder
Update to It's Not Just Faux News We Should Be Worried AboutThe Selma Times Journal failed miserably if they believe today's update provided any more information or insight to this story. Yes, Cecil...
View ArticleNEO-Confederacy Rears It's UGLY Head:
For background on Selma City Council President Cecil Williamson and his ties to racist groups, read my past two diaries"Selma Times Journal's Verison of Fair and Balanced Reporting Fails" and Racist...
View ArticleA Picture Worth More than 1,000 words
Follow up to the stories written about Selma City Council President Cecil Williamson Attending the Birthday Celebration/Rally Honoring KKK Founder Nathan Bedford Forrest.Williamson, "former member" of...
View ArticleCelebrating the Voting Rights Act: No Dancing Allowed
Reminiscent of the movie Footloose, youth in Selma will not be allowed to dance on the Edmund Pettus Bridge tomorrow in conjunction with a 45th anniversary celebration of the 1965 Voting Rights Act....
View Article(Photo and Video Diary) Voting Rights Act 45th Anniversary - Youth March and...
Forty five years from today President Lyndon Johnson signed the 1965 Voting Rights Act. This weekend celebrations are taking in place in Selma, Alabama where marches as part of the voting rights...
View ArticleBlack Kids and White Kids Dancing Together: Divisive and A No-No
Last night at the end of a Voting Rights Act celebration on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, youth broke into the "Jai Ho" dance. The bridge was closed for the celebration at this point and dancers not...
View ArticleBest Way to Insure We Don't Have Speaker Boehner
We beat him. We literally beat him.Check out Ed tonight where Ed tees off on Boehner and Howard Dean hits some irons down the fairway on Boehner. Must see Ed TV. Ed also talks to Justin Coussoule ,who...
View ArticleFood Deserts and Food Imbalance in Urban Areas: What Can Be Done?
Eating healthy and focusing on nutrition can be difficult in urban American for one simple reason: access. I have long lamented that without better access to grocery stores in the downtown Birmingham...
View ArticleMichele Bachmann Compares Herself to Paul Wellstone
Bachmann said today that she's not the spokesperson for the tea party. Oh and also that she's very much like Paul Wellstone.Minnesota really doesn't like phonies. ... They appreciate a politician who...
View ArticleDon't Put your Mosque Next to My Strip Clubs, Off-Track Betting or Thunder...
So the Cordoba House would be going right smack down at Ground Zero?Well not exactly, it's actually going to be a couple of blocks awaySome of the tenants in the nearby area include an off-track...
View ArticleHow Many Blocks Away Does the Mosque Need to Be? Won't You Be My Neighbor
Seriously the amount of attention being paid to this issue is mind boggling. I turn on the Tee Vee this morning and see two members of Congress debating this non-starter of an issue. I get home from...
View ArticleBlagojevich is a better Defendant than Elvis Impersonator
My memory of meeting Rod Blagojevich, who for the sake of brevity I will simply call Blago, dates back to the 2002 election cycle. I was working as part of the State Coordinated Campaign in Mt. Vernon,...
View ArticleMen Gave Women the Right to Vote: Another GOP Myth Debunked ...
If we listen to such folks as former chair of Texas School Board member Don McLeroy, we are told that majorities have given minorities power and that men have given women the right to voteToday is the...
View ArticleUpdate: Ain't That America - Make Them Defend Every Seat (MO-09)
One of our own, one of our progressive E's, has announced they are a candidate for Congress. Jeff Reed, the king of Facebook Status updates, is in the arena. His face will certainly be marred by dust...
View ArticleBeat Boehner: Q and A with Justin Coussoule Tomorrow Night
Justin is running against the Orange Man himself and the aspiring Speaker of the House - John Boehner. Earlier this week Boehner launched his Speaker of the House campaign asking that Treasury...
View ArticleScott McAdams (AK-Sen) - We Can Do This
This is a candidate we all clearly need to get behind. Rand Paul, Sharrron Angle and Joe Miller are the Gifts that Keep on Giving.From Mudflats - who encouraged re-posts and excerpts be usedLess than...
View ArticleWorld According to Bachmann : A Million People Came
Again Michele Bachmann has no respect for the truth. As if we should expect anything less. As her mouth moves the lies are immediately spewedOn a day when crowd estimates could provide their respective...
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McAdams only trailing Miller by 8 (AK-Sen)
Good news out of Alaska via Swing State Project. Really encouraging that in a two way race right now Joe Miller only leads Scott McAdams by 8 points 47-39 with 14 % percent undecided.Meanwhile Joe...
View ArticleWhen An Elected Official is a Member of A Hate Group
We have been discussing the League of the South as Selma City Council President Cecil Williamson has been noted as a former member. Williamson was criticized for attending a birthday celebration for...
View ArticleDem Judge Under the Influence of Faux News Switches to Republican Party
The gun wielding Jefferson County (Birmingham, AL) Domestic Relations Judge Suzanne Childers announced today she is joining the Republican party. Apparently Faux Noise made her do it.Childers said...
View ArticleMurkowski Concedes: Window Opens for McAdams (AK-Sen)
This just in: Murkowski concedes. "It's been a long week," Murkowski told reporters at her campaign headquarters in Anchorage. "I don't see a scenario where we could win."Remember the latest poll from...
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Five Dollar Friday for Scott McAdams (AK-Sen)
Scott McAdams has a real chance to beat Joe Miller in the Alaska Senate Race. According to a Rasmussen Poll conducted earlier in the week he only trails Miller by 6 points.Rasmussen already moved this...
View ArticleJoe Miller's Supporters Carrying Guns in Parade (AK-Sen)
You must watch this You Tube video titled Help Us Scott McAdams You're Our Only HopeThe premise is that Joe Miller supporters are walking like Storm Troopers carrying assault rifles while marching in a...
View ArticleKoran Burning Back On Maybe - Major Media Fail
It appears that after being "lied to" Terry Jones says that the Koran burning may not be canceledMy first question: How are we letting this knucklehead control the national media narrative?My second...
View Article$arah, Glenn and Joe - 9/11 in Anchorage
h/t to A Girl From HomerTickets run from $75-$200 and supposedly some of the money is going to Charity after a public outcryYada Yada Yada. Another Glenn Beck Diary. Not so fast my friend. This is a...
View ArticleIt's Not Joe Miller, It's Job Killer (AK-Sen)
BTW - The Libertarian on the ballot will not move out of the way for Lisa Murkowski so the only option would be for her to wage a write-in campaign. See also front page at DKOS.The good news is that...
View ArticleWhy Can't Obama Just End DADT?
He can but he won't is the impression I'm getting.Earlier tonight we learned that the 9th Circuit temporarily stayed DADTSo once again we are left in that no man's land area of legal...
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UPDATE: A Rod Finally Gets Rangers to WS
Update - How rich is it that A Rod was the final out to end the series? A strikeout at that. Maybe a bit preemptive as the Chuck Norris Texas Rangers lead the I Loath New York Yankees 5-1 in the...
View ArticleTenn Vols football players like Germans during WWII according to coach
When are football coaches going to learn that you just don't compare anything having to do with War to Football?Before you call Derek Dooley just another idiot football coach - this isn't a dumb guy -...
View ArticleThank You Alan Grayson (FL-08)
Alan Grayson has been defeated in FL-08.Looks like he's going to be defeated by a large margin.Let's give Alan a round of applause. I heard him say many times something to the effect of he wasn't going...
View ArticleSugar Bowl Open Thread - Razorbacks or Buckeyes
College bowl season is well underway. Right now we have Ryan Mallet and the Razorbacks against the Ohio State Buckeyes. I'm SEC do or die, ride for life, through and through so I"m yelling Pig...
View ArticleThoughts on Gov Bentley's (AL) Brothers and Sisters Comments
Freshly inaugurated Alabama Governor Robert Bentley created a firestorm with his remarks at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church on Monday. Bentley said that only Christians were his brothers and sisters....
View ArticleAlabama Senate Senator on Immigration: Empty the Clip and Do What Has to be Done
As we endured the violent rhetoric of health care last year, it appears we could enter the same atmosphere with the immigration debate. Yes, Alabama State Senator Scott Beason really said“ The illegals...
View ArticleBook Review: The Courting of Marcus Dupree by Willie Morris
Philadelphia, Mississippi is known to many as the city where three civil rights workers named Cheney, Goodman and Schwerner were murdered in the sweltering summer of 1964. Not less than 20 years later,...
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Update: 193 confirmed fatalities in Alabama with New Photos
Over 160 fatalities have been reported in my State today as a result of yesterday's ravaging storms. Update at 4:58 central 193 reported dead (pictured above Tornado touches down in Tuscaloosa)....
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Pratt City, Alabama - Photos from Tornado Aftermath - Surreal
I spent several hours today with my wife and some friends volunteering in the Pratt City area. One of the friend's church, in the heart of this community, was serving as a relief center. This is a...
View ArticleGOP House So Petty That It Won't Honor SEALS Bin Laden Mission
The Senate passed a resolution honoring the successful but risky military mission that lead to getting OBL.The majority GOP House will not follow suitThe decision by GOP leaders follows new rules...
View ArticleAlabama School Reverses Policy on "Pro Gay T-Shirt"
First diary in a long - long time. Months. Seems like decades. Extremely busy with work and other hobbies. But since this issue is directly related to the high school for my home I thought I should...
View ArticlePaterno and Spanier out at Penn State : Good Riddance
Presser from PSU Board of Trustees live right now.Reports are also that a federal investigation is underway.In case you have been under a rock all of these incidents relates to the Jerry Sandusky...
View ArticleI'm Thankful for Free Speech
I hope that we can all agree that when we pontificate about the meaning of Thanksgiving, that for Americans we are all thankful for the right to express ourselves freely.Unfortunately, that...
View ArticleI'm Back in the Game : Obama 2012
So hopefully this is like the old adage about riding a bike. Once you learn how to ride it's easy to get back on even after being away from a while. I use to post almost daily during periods from...
View ArticleThe Big Dog Just Destroyed Clint Eastwood, Chuck Norris
If there is a soul who watched Bill Clinton tonight and didn't get inspired then their nose is growing. That inspired me to jump off the couch and start cheering. I'm pretty sure my conservative...
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After 90 years our family retail store is closing its doors
Yesterday my folksannounced they were closing the doors of our retail store in Birmingham Alabama that opened in 1922. It's really hard for me to write this even as we speak because of the history in...
View ArticleEqual Pay for Women is Fair and Right (opinion by Lilly Ledbetter)
I had a friendshare an opinion written by Lilly Ledbetter with me this morning. I am so glad that it was the first article I read this morning. It really inspired me to keep working over the final few...
View ArticleOpen Season For White Male to Shoot Black Kid with No Consequences
This is essentially what I wrote on my facebook page after hearing the news. I was reminded in a couple of private messages that "Zimmerman considers himself Hispanic". I took down my message a few...
View Article"No one sang the blues"
As one of the best as well as smartest and wisest people I know responded to this segment of the Duck Dynasty doofus's remarks --"nobody could hear them singing from the colored only restrooms and...
View ArticleI won my primary last night!! On to November
As many of you know, I've been busy campaigning since February for the Jefferson County Circuit Court Place 3 Judicial position. The current Judge was appointed by our Republican Governor.We won our...
View ArticlePhoto Diary - #blacklives matter Birmingham
I posted my thoughts on the last few days on my facebook page this morning leading withReal discussions that move the needle on any important issue generally happen off Facebook. Just a few items to...
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