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White Man Shoots And Kills Black Student In Florida After Argument Over Loud Music

Cross posted in part from Think Progress….titled by TP and linked back to TP.

The Killing Season continues!!!!  

Let’s make certain we are equally quiet if the “roles” turn the other direction.

So, we have a model now of first words after killing young black men, boys, kids….”I felt threatened”.  

Think Progress and Gawker....

White Man Shoots And Kills Black Student In Florida After Argument Over Loud Music

Less than nine months after Trayvon Martin was shot and killed in central Florida, another black teenage student was killed under suspicious circumstances. Michael David Dunn, a 45-year-old vice president of Dunn; Dunn Data Systems in Vero Beach, was in Jacksonville this past weekend for his son’s wedding. The Orlando Sentinel details what happened [...]

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I should state, a great distaste for the  playing of music such that it intrudes into my vehicle while stopped at traffic signals.  Why not will raise the window if the next vehicle is intruding on one’s auditory space?  Do I see the need to personally act as judge, jury and executioner when interactions ensue after showing a lack of emotional intelligence via challenging the passengers in the next vehicle? There is something basically wrong with that logic. Some may say, well he is not a logical and rational person. Au contraire! Actually, it depicts a clear case of perceived privilege that many Americans do not assume they posses.

It should be noted the ‘killer’ appears a man of great technical ad business skills.  The days of hooded low life’s trodding around the dark of night countryside seeking innocent victims or victims who stood tall against tyranny passed many years ago. There is no need to cloak one’s self in ‘cheap sheets’.  We now see evidence of killing for killing sake, yelling “I felt threatened“, hiring a high powered lawyer and sitting back in waiting for your release date.

Do you think this killer will call Sean Hannity? How about a website to abscond money from  the like minded or sympathizers?

Tim Wise: White Power is not History

Reblogged from cadesertvoice:

http://blip.tv/grittv/tim-wise-white-power-is-not-history-6453718

"You're White, You're Old, You're History!" That was one Newsweek writer's message to the GOP November 10. It's been a media mantra for weeks.  However, anti-racist activist and author Tim Wise says white power is far from over yet - just follow the wealth.

Great insight from the great man himself.

Excerpt...

"You're no longer the prototype, you're no longer the model for what America looks like is threatening.

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The Daily GOP Ignominious: Voter Suppresson A Failed GOP Strategy

Most progressives or liberals, as I prefer, know of the former Florida State GOP Chair who has spoken publicly and loudly about GOP Voter suppression efforts. Before we go any further,  we will state Jim Greer is immersed in a criminal fraud case. During the 2012 election campaign we only fleeting mentioned Greer based on his current involvement in a criminal case. He is on trial on felony charges for funneling GOP money to a private company he formed.  Whether Greer is guilty as charged  it seems fair to separate his inside knowledge of how his party works to suppress votes. The two issues seem direct opposite and not related, unless we find Greer has been offered some sort of deal to speak publicly about his intimate knowledge of suppression.

Greer is again in the news are other GOP officials. They are speaking about Florida suppression efforts.

Huffington Post reported, today, on recent comments from Greer.

Jim Greer, Ex-Florida GOP Chair, Claims Republican Voting Laws Focused On Suppression, Racism

The Huffington Post  |  By Ian Gray 

Posted: 11/26/2012 2:34 pm EST Updated: 11/26/2012 2:38 pm EST 

Jim Greer, the former head of the Florida Republican Party, recently claimed that a law shortening the early voting period in the state was deliberately designed to suppress voting among groups that tend to support Democratic candidates, the Palm Beach Post reports.

“The Republican Party, the strategists, the consultants, they firmly believe that early voting is bad for Republican Party candidates,” Greer told the Post. “It’s done for one reason and one reason only…‘We’ve got to cut down on early voting because early voting is not good for us.”

Former Florida Governor Charlie Crist spoke out on election about GOP suppression efforts focused on the hope voters would leave long lines without exercising their right to vote.  

In an interview with The Huffington Post earlier this month, Crist said the new law is clearly aimed at curbing turnout among Democrats. 

“The only thing that makes any sense as to why this is happening and being done is voter suppression,” he said.

We move to MSNBC’s The Ed Show with Ed Schultz for the a video segment that includes reports of GOP officials and comment about suppression.

The tragedy of voter suppression is deep rooted and about as un-American an act as I can imagine   It has to rank among the tho three shames in American History.  I actually find it hard to place the strategy to deny Americans the opportunity to vote in proper perspective with outing an active CIA agent, and government sanctioned torture of prisoners.  

Yet, 47 percent of US voters voted for a party that so publicly practiced suppression. They voted for a party that clearly attacked all Democratic voting blocs after winning the 2010 elections.   It was irrelevant Mitt Romney was as shadowy a character as has even run for the presidency  It did not matter that a candidate for president literally maintained off-shore tax shelters sprinkled across the globe.  It did not seem to matter that Romney/Ryan perpetrated a campaign of lies unparalleled in US politics. 

But, of it all, we find it deplorable that so many Americans could actually cast a vote for a party that would so wantonly and with great effort work to deprive millions an opportunity to vote. The strategy is almost fascists.

…..AND THE BAND PLAYS ON……

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A quick run through the Facebook Gallery always enhances one’s day.

And is the perfect example of not the sharpest light in the store!

Losers All, Myths and the Got Yas!

BIG CHART explodes taxes = growth myth. The thing about lies and myths in politics? If you repeat them enough times, people start to believe them. So, when the right wing says over and over that more tax cuts are needed to fuel the economy, and the media doesn’t call them on it (mainstream media), people believe it’s true. And unless enough people on TV and online explain that it’s NOT true (Paul Krugman, Robert Reich), it remains an accepted “fact” of modern life. But here’s thing about that specific assertion. It’s not true. In fact–whaddya know–just the opposite is true! Since World War II to the present, tax rates have steadily fallen–and so has GDP growth, over time. Today, tax rates are the lowest they’ve been in 30 years, yet the economy remains sluggish. There are obviously other factors at work, but lower taxes DO NOT lead to more growth. As Marketplace’s Kai Ryssdahl would say, “Let’s do the numbers.” ~ Groobiecat Call

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Romney has been claiming that the “world” wants to see new American leadership. Well, BBC World asked the world, and the results are in. And they’re pretty dramatic — NO ONE except Pakistan (Yea that’s where Obama got Bin Laden!) is even remotely interested in a Romney presidency…

VOTE!!!!! The Washington Post Editorial Board on Romney

The Washington Post Editorial Board…….Romney  and the Voters

The Post’s View

Mitt Romney’s campaign insults voters

By Editorial Board, Published: November 2

THROUGH ALL the flip-flops, there has been one consistency in the campaign of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney: a contempt for the electorate. 

How else to explain his refusal to disclose essential information? Defying recent bipartisan tradition, he failed to release the names of his bundlers— the high rollers who collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations. He never provided sufficient tax returns to show voters how he became rich.

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What Do Republicans Frankly Think About Mitt Romney

No words to accompany this one!

Obama the 44th President!

If you have a few minutes………………….