Jonnienohands gave us a link today; a link to the truth; a link to injustice; a link to the America I despise.

There has been some outrage over KeithO's outrages recently. He goes too far some think. Whether it's fascists on Fox or idiot pols, KeithO seems unrestrained.

Well I become unrestrained a lot these days. What exactly is the correct manner of approaching rush Limbaugh and his like? When he plays Barack the Magic Negro and then claims it's okay because some African American was paid to write it. Do we remain silent when rush calls out Colin Powell-- one of our finest Americans and one of the country's finest repubs--for backing Barack Obama for POTUS because General Powell happens to be an African-American.

Do we remain silent and hopes he goes away along with his ten million viewer?

Do we just nod and wink at each other and say: "Oh that's just old rush and he don't mean nothin' especially bad on anyone?"

Do we quote him on MSM and say: "Well, you have heard both sides--now you decide?"

Jonnie sent me to this:

South Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer, who is running for the Republican nomination for governor, held a town hall meeting yesterday where he argued government should be tougher on families whose children receive free and reduced-price lunches. Bauer said that parents should be required to "pass drug tests or attend parent-teacher conferences or PTA meetings." To make this argument, however, he compared people receiving government assistance to stray animals:

"My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that. And so what you've got to do is you've got to curtail that type of behavior. They don't know any better," Bauer said. [...]

Later in his speech, Bauer said, "I can show you a bar graph where free and reduced lunch has the worst test scores in the state of South Carolina," adding, "You show me the school that has the highest free and reduced lunch, and I'll show you the worst test scores, folks. It's there, period.

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/01/23/bauer-stray/

I heard one repub a couple months ago claim that welfare is just a waste of time. The undeserved poor will just use it for cigs, liquor and lottery tickets.

That pisses me off.

But this bauer asshole is saying that its contraindicated to feed poor children. This has nothing to do with the withholding of cigs, liquor and lottery tickets.

A lot of folks in SC are under the 'poverty threshhold' as they like to call it.

Now we also know that a lot of rich folks get in trouble. They fightin' dogs in rings; they drinking too much; they usin drugs too much; they like straight out adultery; some like serial marriage or no marriage at all; some beat their wives; some take bribes and give out bribes; and some feign the good Christian life as long as they aint caught for indiscretions. In short some rich folks and some fairly rich folks have trouble followin all the Commandments of The Lord. Of course their attorneys take care of most of the legal hassles related to this activity.

Well, some poor people are drinkin too much, usin drugs too much, committin adultery too much, beaten the mothers of their younguns and just not carin for their littleuns as they should.

But if you have a program available at local schools throughout the school year and into the summertime to provide children with ONE PROPER MEAL A DAY....well something is accomplished here. The kids find themselves in better physical shape, in better mental shape and in better spiritual shape. There is no shoplifting in the schools. With some help and caution, there can come a time when there are no guns or knives in school. With some help and caution there might be less gangland killin of young folks as long as they are in a safe school. Even if the school lunch program can keep the kids off the street for an hour, lives are saved. Permanent health issues evaporate. Why the kids might even stick around for a little basketball or even attend a little musical exposition.

Bauer would, of course, vote against any provision that might save the mother from real health risks or even death by abortion.  Hell, let us wait  until the mother is dead, the child born...and we can kill the tot later; in a more legally satisfying manner.

But bauer would take even this away from them. AND HE IS NOT THE ONLY REPUB POL TO ADVOCATE THIS ABOMINATION.

Remember, South Carolina is the home of some of the most tyrannical and racist and fascist pricks in the history of this country including John C. Calhoun and Strom Thurmond. And if there is anyone listening out there, both of them were goddamnable fascists.

Lindsey Graham http://www.votesmart.org/npat.php?can_id=21992

Well ole Lindsey is about the sanest politician in ole SC, but he wishes to build more prisons, incarcerate more people for longer periods of time, cut Social Security Benefits, cut benefits to the poor, increase military spending.

Oh and his last famous interjection involved his belief that SC is being punished for having to many Black folks and that means they have more poor people of course. Not because of any latent--let alone patent--discrimination that may go on down there. It's just the African-Americans have more difficulty getting with a game plan.

Jim DeMint

Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.  

I do not think he was referring to his own governor.

Health care will be Obama's Waterloo. http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/president-obama/audio-of-jim-demint-saying-health-care-will-be-obamas-waterloo/

"Unfortunately the president has been downplaying the threat of terrorism since he took office. He waited eight months to even nominate someone for this position, and then he wanted him approved with no debate or no vote," DeMint said. "Senator Reid could have done that months ago, but the fact is they've been working on other things and have not seen airport security as a priority."  http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/12/29/demint-senate-couldve-voted-on-tsa-chief-months-ago/

Just look at his goddamn voting record. He would not hand a dollar to a starving child or vote for funds that might provide lodging for the homeless.

Joe Wilson

Well, what can anyone really say about Joe Wilson that has not already been said. YOU ARE A LIAR MR. PRESIDENT!!

This fascist bastard represents again, just about everything I hate about America. http://www.votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=3985  If the bill keeps money going to the Department of Defense, or to keep wars going and armaments flowing...if the bill gives money to the rich; well this jackass is for it.

If the bill would help the struggling masses, he would nix that legislation in a second.

The other three repubs from SC in the House are these musketeers and you can just find their voting records easily enough:

J. Greshem Barrett

Bob Inglis

Harry Brown Jr.

ARE THERE NO GOOD PEOPLE IN SOUTH CAROLINA? You might ask me.

Of course there are. There are a couple of wonderful Representatives since the bastards who rule could not gerrymander the dems out of there.

But how exactly is SC doin?  Well its poverty rate boggles the mind When working-class people are isolated to specific geographic areas and sections of major cities, a negative stigma can make matters even worse. 

With a poverty rate of 15.0%, South Carolina has the 9th highest poverty rate in the United States, a position that it shares with the state of Tennessee.

Read more at Suite101: Poverty Rates in South Carolina: Isolation of the State's Poorest Multiplies the Problem http://poverty.suite101.com/article.cfm/poverty_in_south_carolina#ixzz0dTrnNHqx

And what exactly is SC's literacy rate?

• One-third of South Carolina students reading below state standards in eighth grade (in 2002).

• The third-highest adult illiteracy rate in the United States.

• Illiteracy rates higher than 40 percent in five counties -- Allendale, McCormick, Williamsburg, Clarendon and Lee   http://www.sc.edu/cmcis/news/column/literacy.html

Again, There are wonderful people in South Carolina. And there are lying cheating bastards like Guiliani toward the northern part of our great country.

But this state attempted secession twice...the only state in the Union to act in this manner. Compare SC's illiteracy rate  or poverty rate to Minnesota's illiteracy and poverty rates. And regardless of pricks like Coleman and Pawlenty, we have a progressive state based upon progressive value. Hell, we have universal health insurance up here. Every frickin time one of these fascists starts talking out of his butt telling you progressive legislation does not work, show him the statistics and compare places like Minnesota with South Carolina.

But is KeithO so out of it? Because if he is, I am. I cannot sit with these types of people, eating crumpets and sipping tea and politely discussing the issues of the day. bauer is a pig and he should be treated like one. So is Dimint. So is smokin joe wilson. People like this must be harangued, shouted out, and contradicted by all evidence available at every opportunity.

It is therefore difficult for me to sing any lilt concerning South Carolina, but I will try:

In my mind I'm goin' to Carolina

That's Fort Sumter

Can't you hear the thunder
Can't you see the hypocrisy

Separatin' you from me
Yes I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind

Bauer, he's a Southern Son

You best talk his way, ignore the sinnin'
Watch him bemoanin' these times

No silver tears appearin' now
Cryin' aint for him
Goin' to Carolina in my mind

There ain't no doubt in his own mind

That hates the finest thing around
Never whisper things soft and kind
Listen not to what babes require
They're dyin', he's lyin'
Gone to Carolina in my mind

In my mind I'm goin' to Carolina

That's Fort Sumter

Can't just you hear the thunder
Can't you see the hypocrisy

Separatin' you from me
Yes I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind

Stark, defiant hate fills the night

I think I might have heard the Christ Child calling

I might have heard the small one's bawling
Cowards in flight and Bauers that bite
Signs that might be omens say I'm going, I'm going
I'm gone to Carolina in my mind

With a holy host of others standing around me

We'll fill the streets, we'll howl at the moon
We'll make them think the howlin's  on forever
You must forgive me
But there's little love for Carolina in my mind

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LvhF0uSEAE