In the wake of Tuesday’s sharp rebuke to conservative policies, wingnuttia needs a boost, and they may have already found it. A fifteen cent tax on fir trees heavily endorsed by — some could argue implemented at the behest of — live tree growers may serve as a convenient conversation changer and opening salvo in the annual War on Christmas facade, this time with 100% more Obama! [Read more…]
Five "people" according to proponents of personhood
Personhood was defeated in Mississippi, soundly, by double digits. It was a good night all around for progressives and common sense. But if you think these protoplasm worshipping creeps are giving up on controlling women’s bodies, you don’t know how they roll. Mississippi was just warm up for a state by state and federal push to force 12 year-old rape victims to bear the thug’s child and turn millions of women, doctors, pharmacists, and parents into criminals. This is their full-time fucking job: [Read more…]
It’s not hard to win elections, you do that by doing one thing: vote. Every vote you cast costs the billionaire boyz money. Every vote you cast tanks their investments. Voting is asymmetrical class warfare. Ohio and Mississippi proved that again last night. If you don’t vote, your feelings literally do not count.
I’m sure I’ll write more on this and include with useful websites by state, but for now if you’ve moved, are just reaching voting age, are deployed overseas, if you currently lack ID, check with your local state office and Rock the Vote. [Read more…]
On the two biggest contests, Mississippi’s Initiative 26 aka Personhood (AP) and Ohio’s Union Busting bill (Latest results), the good guys won walking away by double digit margins. I feel good!
But the bad guys made a few gains also. More results, links, and comments below the fold courtesy of Daily Kos Eelections. [Read more…]
Do you believe in miracles? Well obviously not, but this is an unexpected triumph!
MS – INITIATIVE 26 asks voters: “Should the term ‘person’ be defined to include every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning, or the equivalent thereof?”
Update: Personhood, this race is called! With half the precincts in, good guys lead … No 58%, to Yes 42%, up by over 50,000 votes out of about 344,000. [Read more…]
Latest updates reposted below the fold courtesy of Daily Kos Elections and David Nir
Update: AP is calling Ohio issue 2 for the good guys!
Update: At last count Ohio good guys are crushing the Darth Vaders of the state 63% to 37%, it’s not a done deal on the union busting bill with 80% reporting only 19% reporting. I’ll have results on Mississippi’s personhood bill shortly — DS [Read more…]
Two important votes in two very different states will test culture warriors and common sense today. Ohio voters go to the polls to vote on a recall of a recent bill pushed through by GOP Governor John Kasich restricting public employee unions — because nothing says constitutional liberty and small government like making it illegal for citizens to assemble and petition the government. Thankfully, polling is trending against this measure, but it’s not over til its over. The other vote in Mississippi will determine if blastocysts are people, polling there shows it coming down to the wire: [Read more…]
Once a self-described stalwart protector of Medicare, Mittens has pulled one his characteristic spine-snapping flip-flops and now wants to deprive millions of Americans of the benefits we paid for: [Read more…]
Unemployment extensions expire at the end of this year, along with the Bush tax cuts, and it’s a near metaphysical certainty that conservatives will hold the former hostage to benefit the same zillionaires we bailed out: [Read more…]
A second protestors has been seriously injured by police in Occupay Oakland, this one also a veteran:
Kayvan Sabehgi, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, is in intensive care with a lacerated spleen. He says he was beaten by police close to the Occupy Oakland camp, but despite suffering agonising pain, did not reach hospital until 18 hours later.
The spleen is a vascular organ, it bleeds profusely when damaged. People die every day from that exact injury. Sabehgi survived 18 hours with no treatment in a jail cell before officers took his condition seriously. At last report he was being prepped for surgery.