Sorry, George, but you can’t follow a person, attempt to “apprehend” them, and when they fight back because they think they are being mugged, suddenly “stand your ground” and use deadly force. Not even in an alternate reality such as Florida. Enjoy your life in prison.

Another Profile In Courage brought to you by the Political Calculation Committee.

If they can’t take a stand on something this basic, what good are they? Really, someone, please tell me.

And of course who can forget Florida House Bill HM 685 which had ALEC’s mission statement as the first paragraph.

http://www.commonblog.com/2012/01/31/alec-exposed-for-24-hours/

Yes, there was. Commodity trading wasn’t quite limited to traders who could actually take delivery, but it was restricted to parties who had an actual interest in the underlying asset. The Commodity Futures Modernization Act changed all that. Now anyone with a computer and a margin account can buy and sell as much oil or gas or copper that their credit limit will allow. Look at some long term charts for oil, base metals, industrial metals, agricultural commodities, whatever. It’s easy to see when the market was turned into a casino.

This unfortunate turn is only going to harm women’s health that much more. Not only will Planned Parenthood suffer, so will the Susan G Komen Foundation, through lost support from people who do not appreciate their pandering to right wing politics.

Reminds me of what my father used to say. Beware of ideologues – Ideas mean more to them than people.

Many Americans tend to see things in absolutes, black and white. Gay, straight.
I think too much is being made of Cynthia’s comments. Here’s my way of seeing it.
Cynthia chose happiness. And if being with another woman makes her happy, then good for her. That’s what matters.

The way Republicans have been thumbing their noses at the entire country, even their own constituents, makes me wonder if they don’t have something up their sleeve to guarantee their “victory” in the 2012 election. Surely they are reading the same polls, but they are forging ahead with a very unpopular agenda regardless. In a world of free, fair, and open elections, it would be suicide. But this is not that world.

My guess is they flew an AWACS type aircraft alongside the drone and overpowered the frequency that was controlling it from the satellite, took control of it, and managed to get it down in one piece. They are covering the bottom of it so it was probably landed without wheels and has some damage. JohnJ is right about flying wings, they won’t glide by themselves. Fall like a leaf is more like it.

On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month the Great Powers of the World signed the armistice laying down arms after four years of the bloodiest war in history. That was 1918.
What caused the armistice was the refusal of soldiers to fight. They refused ‘to go over the top’ anymore. In Russia, France, England, Italy they refused to participate in the slaughter which had begun in 1914.
What we learn from Armistice Day is that the soldier is the front line of the peace movement.

What this is really about is Perry and his AG consider the prospect of executing an innocent man to be preferable to the prospect of admitting they made a mistake and executed an innocent man. You should hear the pretzel logic they come up with to defend convictions that have been proven to be wrong. They can’t live with the idea that they convicted and innocent man, so they simply rationalize an excuse to protect their consciences. This is the lowest form of cowardice.

The Kochs and the folks down at the Chamber of Commerce along with every Republican strategist on the payroll must be shitting their pants at what a real grass roots movement looks like. They couldn’t pull this off with ten times the money spent on charter busses and professionally printed signs.

Republicans used to say “November can’t come soon enough.”

Now they are probably trying to figure out how thay are going to postpone it.

Pitting one group of Americans against another is not leadership, eh?

Project much, Mr. Boehner?

Now if we could just get Democrats to come out and tell the truth, take a stand about Republican voter supp- I mean voter ID laws. I was watching some Democrat from Alabama on MSNBC talking about how the Republican legislature just passed a voter ID law and how it’s so important to protect people’s right to vote ’cause they marched and died for it and all. Come on, dammit, I thought, just say what needs to be said. Republicans pass these laws to prevent Democrats from voting. But they don’t, and that’s why they are losing both the battles and the war. After the next elections, if Republicans win majorities in the Senate and the White House, we will never see another Democratic majority, ever. The GOP will simply redistrict and legislate the opposition into irrelevance. Mark my words.