Day: April 11, 2011

Mississippi Goddam

Jon Ponder

“Thank God for Mississippi.”

– Unofficial slogan of Alabama

A new survey from Public Policy Polling finds that 46 percent of Mississippi Republicans not only oppose interracial marriage, they believe that individuals who marry someone of another race should go to jail.

On a positive note, it is at least progress that these Mississippi racists see prison time — not lynching — as an adequate penalty for race mixing.

Just 40 percent of GOP voters in the state say they think interracial marriage should remain legal, while 14 percent are not sure.

These results are especially interesting considering the fact that there are few places where Pres. Obama, the product of an interracial marriage, is more despised than Mississippi.

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Global Muslim Population to Reach 2.2 billion by 2030

Buck Banks

2.2 billion

World’s total Muslim population will grow by 2030 — roughly a 35% increase. Over the next two decades, the Muslim population will grow at about twice the rate of the non-Muslim population. Therefore, if current trends continue, Muslims will make up 26.4% of the world’s total projected population of 8.3 billion in 2030, up from 23.4% of the estimated 2010 world population of 6.9 billion.

Congress: Give ‘Em a Medal, Then Tar and Feather ‘Em

Buck Banks

On the one hand, this is the single largest year-to-year cut in the federal budget, frankly in the history of America in absolute terms… probably for that we all deserve medals, the entire Congress. Relative to the size of the problem, it is not even a rounding error. In that case we probably all deserve to be tarred and feathered.

— Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), in an interview on CNN.

Trump: Opponents’ ‘Worst Nightmare’ or Unemployable?

Buck Banks

Obviously I hit a nerve because they’re fighting me. I don’t hear them talking about Mr. Pawlenty or anybody else. They are talking only about Trump. I can tell you I’m their worst nightmare. I am not the person they want to run against. They know it and I know it.

— Donald Trump, in an interview on Fox & Friends.

I saw Donald Trump kind of rising in some polls and given his behavior and spectacle the last couple of weeks, I hope he keeps on rising. There is zero chance that Donald Trump would ever be hired by the American people to do this job.

— Obama adviser David Plouffe, in an interview on ABC News.