Saturday, December 6, 2014

Mary Landrieu Goes Down......It's Cassidy in Landslide!

Based on Early Vote AP Calls Election for Cassidy 

If You Like Your Senator, 
You Can Keep Your Senator

NY Protests Descend into Chaos Amid Confused Slogans

Middle Finger News Service

Protests in New York City over the decision by a grand jury not to indict a police officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner descended into chaos  as protesters chant a bewildering array of contradictory and often ungrammatical slogans.


While protest leaders were trying to organize chants of “I can’t breathe,” the words heard being said by Garner on video footage of the incident, some demonstrators on the fringes of the crowd were still using the chant of “No justice, no tree” taken up on Wednesday night as an angry mob tried to disrupt the official lighting ceremony for the Rockefeller Plaza Christmas tree.  As a result, people in the middle of the crowd became disoriented and began shouting “No tree, I can’t breathe,” “No justice, I can’t tree,”
and even “Justice? No! Candy for me!

The situation deteriorated when several bus loads of protesters from Ferguson, Missouri arrived to show solidarity with the New York demonstrators. Unaware of the the facts of the Garner case, they proceeded to employ the chant of “Hands up, don’t shoot” which has become synonymous with protests over the shooting death of black teen Michael Brown.


“It was a complete mayhem,” said Maya Brooks, an 18-year-old trainee pet mortician from Brooklyn. “When people in the crowd heard the chants of the Ferguson guys, they started shouting "I can’t shoot,’ ‘Hands up, no tree’ and ‘Don’t justice, up the shoot.



Jamal Harris, a tree surgeon who had travelled to New York with the Ferguson contingent, was critical of the New York protesters. “They are just trying to rip off our idea of having a catchy slogan. If you can shout, "I can’t breathe" then c’mon man, you are clearly not having trouble breathing,” he said. “And anyway, their stupid slogan is just the actual words the guy was heard saying on the video, while our slogan is much more effective ‘cause it’s totally made up,” he added.  “Whoops. Did I say that out loud?”

One clearly angry black youth was heard dismissing the group of mostly white students as “uppity crackers” before become involved in a shoving match with a young white woman who had apparently informed him that he was wearing his baseball cap back-to-front.

“It was horrible seeing scuffles break out at a violent protest,” said Sunshine Corrigan, a middle-aged Manhattan resident who joined the protests in a desperate attempt to regain her lost youth. “There was this one group of white guys who were just shouting ‘Fish! Fish! Fish!’ over and over again.  “Still,” she added, “it was exactly like being at a Nuremberg rally.”

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio called late Friday night for mandatory remedial protest training for organizers of demonstrations, with additional training strongly advised for those wishing to attend protests and chant or shout slogans.


Relatives of the late Mr. Garner, best known for starring in the hit 1970s TV show “The Rockford files,” were unavailable to comment on the protests.

Friday, December 5, 2014

Obama's Early Romance Movie In the Works

Arriving Soon in the DVD Markdown Bin at Your Local Wal-Mart

Deadline Hollywood
The White House legend that is Barack and Michelle Obama’s romance is heading to the screen. Southside With You, a drama in the vein of Before Sunrise, chronicles the summer 1989 afternoon when the future President of the United States of America wooed his future First Lady on an epic first date across Chicago’s South Side. Get On Up’s Tika Sumpter will play Michelle Obama (née Robinson), while the search is on to cast the young Barack.
As Presidential lore has it, the date took some convincing. Obama, then an idealistic first-year Harvard Law student, took a summer job as an associate at Chicago law firm Sidley Austin where he fell for lawyer Michelle Robinson, his younger boss. Southside With You spans the day she agreed to go out with him when the two visited the Art Institute, took a long walk, and caught a showing of Spike Lee’s new film, Do The Right Thing. They were married in 1992.

The Last Day of Southern Congressional Democrats


Jonathan Tobin

The outcome of tomorrow’s Louisiana Senate runoff election is not in much doubt. With the most recent state poll showing Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy with a whopping 26-point lead over incumbent Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu, it is a virtual certainty that the last vote of the 2014 midterms will ensure that the GOP will have a 54-46 Senate majority in January. Even before the votes are counted, the result is being rightly touted as the end of the Democratic Party in the South. But while the reasons for this are worth examining, it’s also important to point out that the implications of this trend have more than a regional impact.

Just as the Democrats have developed a built-in advantage in the Electoral College in presidential elections, a new solid South in the hands of the Republicans means they have now acquired an equally potent edge that should allow them to retain control of Congress for the foreseeable future.

As Nate Cohn writes in the New York Times’s Upshot section, though most put the shift of the South into the GOP column down to race, it’s a lot more complicated than that. Democrats survived and even thrived at times in the Deep South decades after Richard Nixon’s “Southern strategy” enabled Republicans to flip the region into the GOP column in presidential elections. But the steady drift of the Democratic Party to the left on social, cultural, and economic issues has now alienated most voters in these states and left moderate Democrats like Landrieu increasingly isolated from both their constituencies and their national party.

As Cohn notes, blaming this solely on alleged white racism or on a backlash against President Obama ignores the fact that Democratic losses in the South can be traced to the way the party has embraced liberal issues that energize its northern and urban base but which alienates southerners:


Excusing Black Criminality Doesn't Always End Well

Instant Karma Is Gonna Got You
DownTrend
A prominent writer for the Southern Poverty Law Center was gunned down by two black males while hiking in Oakland Californa last Tuesday. The irony of his murder is that according to Colin Flaherty at American Thinker, David Ruenzel had made a living using the notion of white privilege to excuse any and all black crime:
"As a writer for the Southern Poverty Law Center, one of this favorite topics was rooting out racism. And how white racism is permanent. White racism is everywhere. And white racism explains everything. Ruenzel was writing about white privilege for the Southern Poverty Law Center as far back as 1997 — long before it became the rage at college campuses, newsrooms, churches, high schools and even grade schools.

By the time of his death, Ruenzel had accumulated many of the trappings of the white privilege he exposed: The job. The home. The intact family. And most importantly in his case, white privilege endowed Ruenzel with an expectation of safety in the Oakland neighborhood where last week two black people are suspected of killing him.
This mantra of the Critical Race Theory and the Southern Poverty Law Center applied to all white people because, even if they were not personally cracking the whips, or breaking the skulls, white people benefitted from a racist system that did all that — and a lot more."
The greater irony, as Flaherty astutely states, is that Ruenzel was basically an “enabler of black violence” who for whatever reason believed that he was somehow magically “exempt from it.”
Not to sound coldhearted, as a man lost his life, but I guess he had to learn the brutally hard way that there is no excuse for any sort of criminal violence, regardless of whether it is committed by an allegedly victimized black person or an allegedly privileged white person – and that anyone can be a victim of criminal violence, including even those who make a living out of excusing it.

Mallas Viernes

Thursday, December 4, 2014

Al Sharpton Takes Part-time Job to Help Pay Off Taxes


After an advisory meeting with the President and prominent members of the race-baiting community after the recent Grand Jury decisions, Al Sharpton will tune up his bullhorn and lead a march for justice Sharpton style, pass the hat and work off some of the 4.5 million in taxes he has managed to weasel out of while his buddy has sat in the White House. 

The Hill
"Al Sharpton’s National Action Network is organizing the National March Against Police Violence for Saturday, Dec. 13. His action comes, after separate grand juries declined to indict white officers in the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and Eric Garner in New York City.
A flyer on the group’s website says Sharpton will be joined by the families of Garner, Brown, and Akai Gurley, a black man accidentally killed by a New York police officer in November. He described the march as promoting “jobs and justice,” and likened it to the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the famous 1963 march that culminated in Martin Luther King’s “I have a Dream" speech.
“Marches and boycotts led to the ’64 Civil Rights Act, the ’65 Voting Rights Act,” Sharpton said, adding that he hopes next week’s march will inspire federal action."
Maybe Rev Al should consider doing a march for respect of law and authority and the civil rights of law abiding people of America that his constituency of thugs fail to recognize, and causes mistrust of black males he so seems needs defending. But then again, guess there's no money to be made there. 

Hillary Makes Early Bid For Worst Campaign Song Of 2016


Hillary isn't saying whether she's running yet or not, but that hasn't stopped her toadies from continuing to float the boat on her behalf (wink wink). So now they give us this little gem,  a terrible, face-melting Hillary Clinton Super PAC ad/generic CMT music video. And here is a list of actual theories about its provenance that  have been tossed around because the Washington Post’s story on it is too boring

* It’s a Rand Paul false-flag operation.
* The NYPD slapped it together to get us all to stop talking about Eric Garner.
* The Stand with Hillary PAC hired the Raining McCain   ladies and gave them a bigger budget.
* It’s actually an ad for a stock footage house specializing in gauzy, soft-focus scenes of Americana.
* The video contains a series of clues about where President Obama was on the night of BENGHAAAAAZI!!1!
* Hillary Clinton really wants us to think she’s tough. Ford tough. 

The National Journal has also helpfully annotated the lyrics if you’re really feeling masochistic. Vote Hillary, we guess, or Blake Shelton will eat your face.

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

House Votes to Stem Tide of White House Vacation Spending

The First lady Will Leave for Hawaii Christmas Vacation Ahead of the President Again this Year

The Toleration of Intolerance Shall Not Be Tolerated

Another Government Backed “Green Energy" Company Disappears (along with your money)


Your tax money which flowed to the plethora of “green energy" projects in 2009-2010 was“special welfare for the rich.” The green energy initiative was politically connected money and was a direct line from taxpayers to the pockets of “investors.” But everybody felt fine about it because “they were doing good while doing well.”

And  if you buy that I've got an algae farm to sell you. 
"The Economist magazine wrote a dispatch about Xunlight and its 100 employees under the headline “Greening the Rustbelt:” “Green investment presents new hope,” the magazine declared.
Federal Election Commission records show the company’s founder, Xunming Deng, donated $3,000 to the campaigns of Marcy Kaptur, a Democratic congresswoman from Ohio. In 2010, he gave $4,500 to the campaign of Ohio’s governor, Ted Strickland, a Democrat, Ohio state campaign finance records show.
U.S. Senate lobbying records show Xunlight spent $100,000 total in 2008 and 2009 to hire lobbyists at the PMA Group, which closed in 2009 after being raided by federal prosecutors..."
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Monday, December 1, 2014

Remembering Frank Page

This Time of year it’s hard not to remember a gentle man who left a legacy to be admired by all who work in the broadcast or music business where I live.  Frank Page, who's voice boomed across the airwaves of the south on radio station KWKH for more than 65 years was also the legendary voice and producer/director of the Louisiana Hayride radio broadcast in the 1940s and 50s.

A tour of the Municipal Auditorium dressing rooms where the Hayride broadcast originated reveal walls signed by those who came to perform over the years at the historic venue.  Scrawled on the walls like a an unfinished puzzle are the signatures of  some of the greats of the music business of the 1940s, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland and Xavier Cugat. In the Hayride years you find the signatures of Hank Williams, Faron Young, George Jones, Loretta Lynn, Slim Whitman and later still you find the likes of Jerry Lee Louis, Buddy Holly and Fats Domino.  In the 1960s, before rock concerts were moved to the larger Hirsch Coliseum, you will find the signatures of Joni Mitchell,  Mick Jagger, Grace Slick and Jimi Hendrix, who performed even despite death threats. 

But one performer's autograph will always remain to many a reminder of the man who we called Papa Frank. 

In 195os, at the height of Country Western music and the Louisiana Hayride popularity, 25,000 watt KWKH radio and the Hayride broadcast could be heard on a clear night as far as Denver, and on 25 smaller stations across the country and Arm Forces radio.   

On an October night in 1954, Frank Page stepped to the microphone and introduced a 19 year old young man who's voice would be heard by most of America for the first time, and began to change the course of American Music forever. That young man was Elvis Presley.

Elvis continued to performed for Frank and the Hayride for next year as his popularity grew. Months after his first appearance, Frank was responsible for first uttering the iconic phase ”Elvis Has Left the Building” after the crowd demanded more. 

The gentle and humble radio announcer was always helpful to the people of his business.  I became friends with Frank after entering the Music business myself,  and only one of many who owe much to him and his knowledge of the ropes he passed on to those here where I live.  
We lost Frank 2 years ago this Jan 9th.  

Below is a short clip of Frank Page and a recollection of Elvis Presley and his time at the Hayride. 

Rest in Peace Frank Page. You touched so many with your kindness.




Photo: Noel Memorial Library Archives - LSU Shreveport

Choom Gang Sends Early Christmas Gift to WH

In anticipation of the Presidents Christmas vacation visit to the Hawaiian Islands again this year, his fellow Choom Gang members sent a gigantic genetically modified, Grade A Maui Wowie Bud to the WH. for the Holidays.