A Little Job
It was a “sport” once favored by drunken slobs,
But the state put an end to the drunken lobs.
Now it’s a line Florida’s crossing
To bring back dwarf tossing —
And give those little people some badly needed jobs.
Month: October 2011
Did You Occupy Your City?
The Occupy Jacksonville protest was held during a Northeaster with 35 to 40 mile per hour wind gusts and bands of rain, but the weather didn’t seem to affect the turnout or the commitment from those who attended. And it was hard to find a misspelled sign in the bunch.
Pictures are from the WJXT web site.
Tell FOX You Support #OccupyWallStreet
FOX News is having a poll. You know what to do! (Hint: Vote early and often)
Do ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Protests Represent Your Views of the Economy?
Update: The option, “Yes. These folks are right about corporate greed and what’s happening to the little guy” has pulled out ahead with 63.73% of the vote!
Tea Party Announces It Will Focus on Helping Republicans Win Senate
As you read through the Reuters story excerpted here, keep in mind that the two national tea party spokespeople quoted here are actually employees of Republican Party shadow groups:
WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) – With their favored candidates for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination lagging or out of the race, many U.S. Tea Party activists are shifting focus to the struggle for control of the U.S. Senate.
The fizz has gone out of the presidential contest for some supporters of the fiscally conservative movement now that former Alaska governor Sarah Palin is not running and Texas Governor Rick Perry and congresswoman Michele Bachmann are slipping in polls.
“No one is going to get perfect in a general election candidate. That is why we think the Senate is a better place to focus,” said Matt Kibbe, president and chief executive of the libertarian FreedomWorks, a Tea Party group.
Obama Determined to Depress Voter Enthusiam in California
Federal prosecutors are threatening to shut down medical marijuana dispensaries throughout California, sending letters that warn landlords to stop sales of the drug within 45 days or face the possibility that their property will be seized and they will be charged with a crime.
The stepped-up enforcement escalates the Obama administration’s efforts to rein in the spread of pot stores, which accelerated after the attorney general announced in 2009 that federal prosecutors would not target people using medical marijuana in states that allow it.
“It’s coming out of left field as far as we’re concerned,” said Joe Elford, the chief counsel for Americans for Safe Access, which advocates for medical marijuana use. “I really don’t know what inspired this. It’s a complete about-face from what [Obama] said when he was campaigning.”
We’re Number One! Los Angeles Leads Nation in Gay Couples (Oh, Wait)
New reports from the 2010 Census show that California has nearly twice the number of gay couples than any other state — thanks for playing, New York and Florida! — and that Los Angeles is home to more same-sex couples than any other city:
The Golden State had 98,153 same-sex couples, followed by New York with 48,932, Florida with 48,496 and Texas with 46,401. North Dakota had the fewest same-sex couples with 559, just ahead of Wyoming with 657 and South Dakota with 714.
Among the nation’s largest cities … Los Angeles was No. 1 with 13,292, followed by Chicago with 10,849, San Francisco with 10,461 and Seattle with 6,537. [San Diego was fifth with 5,910 couples.]
The U.S. Census Bureau this week released revised estimates on same-sex married couple and unmarried partner households: There were 131,729 same-sex married couple households and 514,735 same-sex unmarried partner households in the United States.
But wait — uh-oh. Hold the confetti, L.A. Those are aggregate numbers. […]
A Mighty Wind
This guy at an Occupy Jacksonville protest has it right. It’s time to change the wind folks, and it’s up to us to do that.
Perry Preacher at Christian Conclave: ‘Mormonism Is a Cult’
The first real inkling that the Republican presidential primary race could devolve into a religious infighting between extreme right Christianists and Mormons — a repeat of the lowest moments of the 2008 GOP primaries — surfaced at the Values Voters Summit in Washington on Friday.
The Christian nationalist champion this time, at least for the moment, is Texas Gov. Rick Perry. The Mormons include this year’s perennial frontrunner former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as well as former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman,
In his introduction to Perry at the values conclave, Dr. Robert Jeffress, who preaches at the First Baptist Church in Dallas, wasted no time smearing Romney’s religion:
It’s Different When It’s My Mob
I sense a little hypocrisy unbound here. What we’re seeing on the streets of New York is a an expression of democracy. I think I remember how Mr. Cantor described protests of the tea party—I can’t understand how one man’s mob is another man’s democracy.
Jay Carney, White House Press Secretary, responding to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s statement that he is concerned about “the growing mobs occupying Wall Street and the other cities [sic] across the country.”
Cantor Hates Chanters
Eric Cantor’s all worried about the Occupy Wall Street “mobs.”
They’re just a bunch of First Amendment-exercising slobs.
Like all GOP asses,
Cantor wants to cut taxes
Because he foolishly thinks that’ll create new jobs.
