Untying the Knots
Jane Spahr is a good Presbyterian
Who’s accused of being a contrarian.
The church laid the charges
For eleven gay marriages,
After she was sanctioned for marryin’ lesbians.
Day: August 24, 2010
Florida Democrats’ Long Nightmare Ends Today
It’s finally primary day in Florida, which means, if you’re a Democrat, you can stop screening your calls. The battle between U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek and billionaire jet setter Jeff Greene ends today, not a minute too soon. And while the postal service will miss the business, those of us on the receiving end of the deluge of mailers won’t.
For all I know, Republicans are going through the same thing in the contest for governor between disgraced HCA Columbia CEO Rick Scott and state Attorney General Bill McCollum. I’m hoping Scott will prevail in that match-up, because a general election campaign between Florida CFO Alex Sink on the Democratic side and McCollum on the GOP will make paint drying seem like the next Harry Potter movie. In 3-D.
Meek and Greene are staying true to type on election day. Here are the two men’s schedules, according to Tampa’s Creative Loafing:
Kendrick Meek
4:30 a.m., AFSCME Member Bus Terminal Stop-in, 16150 Northwest 42nd Avenue, Miami.
6:15 a.m., Breakfast at Jimmy’s Place, 11901 NW 7 Ave., North Miami.
7:15 a.m., Polling site stop, South Kendall Community Church, 16550 SW 147 Ave., Miami.
8:45 a.m., Polling site stop, Palm Beach Co. Fire and Rescue No. 42,. 14276 Hagen Ranch Rd., Delray Beach.
5 p.m., Sign waving, N. University Dr. and Sunrise Blvd., Plantation.
5:45 p.m.,. Polling site stop, Hollywood Hills High School, 5400 Stirling Rd., Hollywood.
Evening, Watching election returns, Westin Diplomat Hotel, 3555 S. Ocean Dr., Hollywood.
Wow, 4:30 a.m., huh? Meek is working it. Wonder what Greene will be doing to ensure every vote he can get.
Jeff Greene
9 a.m., Voting, Palm Beach Fire Station #3, 2185 S. Ocean Blvd., Palm Beach.
7 p.m., Watching returns, Marriott Hotel, 1001 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach.
All righty then.
If you live in Florida and didn’t vote early, please do so today. These races will be decided by a relatively small number of voters, but we’ll all be stuck with the choices for a long time. Go vote!
Tea Bagger Racism Rears Ugly Head at Anti-Park 51 Rally in New York
Notice in the video of this tea-bagger style rally against the Park 51 Islamic center near City Hall in Manhattan, that one of the few — if not the only African American in the crowd is harassed and even threatened.
They will say he provoked them by daring to wear a white Muslim-ish cap where the crowd could see it. But given the tea baggers’ record on race, why should they be given the benefit of a doubt?
To their credit, no one spat on him or called him a “nigger” loudly enough to be heard on the video.
Here’s a play by play of the incident in the video, via TPM LiveWire :
Huge Rat Jumps Ship: Gingrich Abruptly Withdraws from 9/11 Anti-Park 51 Rally Organized by Hate Group
First, on Sunday, George Will, perhaps the leading regurgitator of conservative conventional wisdom in Washington, declared the fervor over Park 51 “an August story, that is, it’s a slow news time … And you can always tell a fundamentally weak story because it turns on sensitivity.”
Yesterday, Dr. Ron Paul chastised the tea bagger base for buying into Republican spin demonizing Islam.
And now Newt Gingrich, the biggest rat in the GOP-Tea Party, has jumped ship, reneging on appearing at an anti-Park 51 rally planned for Sept. 11 — just one week after he raised the hopes of the GOP faithful by comparing the liberal, peace-seeking Muslims behind the Park 51 Islamic center with Nazis:
