VOTE!!

Election time is fast approaching. I'm urging everybody of every political stripe to go out and vote.

Despite what my conservative friends say voter turnout is usually pretty low in the African-American community. The last presidential election may have been the exception. This needs to change. Many black and white folks risked their lives so you and I could vote today. Don't let their sacrifices go to waste. VOTE!!

Tea Party-Backed Gubernatorial Candidate Paul LePage Says He'd Tell Obama To 'Go To Hell' (VIDEO)

Obama should beat him to the punch and tell this loon to kiss his black azz!

What's with these guys? Had a Democratic Candidate said this about Bush there would have been hell to pay. Their patriotism would have been called in to question and the whole nine yards.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Chris Redfern, Ohio Democratic Party Chairman, Not Apologizing For Calling Tea Partiers 'F--kers'

Good for him. Most of the tea baggers come across as a bunch of hate filled, misinformed whack jobs. I wouldn't apologize to them either.
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Dear Angry American, Joining the Tea Party Is NOT Your Only Option

I'm not surprised it has come to this. Billions of dollars have been spent yet the average American has

seen very little if any improvement in their daily lives or prospects for a better future.
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Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Colin Powell: Newt Gingrich's Obama Critique 'Doesn't Make Any Sense' (VIDEO)

Colin Powell seems to be one of the few THINKING Republicans left out there.
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Obama To Tea Party: 'Identify, Specifically, What Would You Do?'

It's easy to be the guy lobbing grenades from the sidelines. But it's an entirely different thing to have to actually come up with WORKABLE solutions. I look forward to the Tea Party's response.
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If MLK were alive today

  Tom Tomorrow nails it again with this one!

Rapper arrested at RDU on gun charges

Why Petey why? Here we have yet another Rapper getting arrested for carrying a gun.
Why? Can anybody tell me why these idiot rappers feel like that have to carry guns with them everywhere they go? If they want to carry guns and show how much of a bad ass they are, why don't they just enlist in the military and go to Afghanistan. At least there they can do something useful.

Muslim By Default

Some of these folks just won't let this one go.

Anti-PowerPoint Rant Gets Colonel Kicked Out of Afghanistan

The Colonel said what needed to be said. It's too bad he got canned, but that was not unexpected.
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Brown Man Thinking Hard: NYC Mosque Protestors Mistake Black Construction Worker For Muslim

Brown Man Thinking Hard: NYC Mosque Protestors Mistake Black Construction Worker For Muslim

The Fringe of the Fringe | Southern Poverty Law Center

The Fringe of the Fringe Southern Poverty Law Center

Restore The Constitution Rally

So some folks want to hold a rally with guns to demonstrate their constitutional rights. Honestly that's cool with me. I have no problem with folks exercising their rights, even if they want to parade around in cammies carrying guns while doing so.
But while reading their website I ran across this little gem:

"Here’s a little history for you;
On February 1, 1960, four negroes (term used in 1960) from NC A&T University, decided to sit at a “Whites Only” lunch counter in a Woolworths Store in Greensboro. This was their peaceful way of protesting segregation.

Times haven’t changed that much folks. 50 years ago, people were fighting for Truth, Justice & the American Way. Today, the majority of Americans are in the fight of our lives. To preserve our great country & to Restore The Constitution."

What's with all these right-wing folks comparing themselves to the Civil Rights activist of the 1960's? This is just downright bizarre. I'm sorry but there is no comparison between people fighting to receive rights that other Americans already enjoyed with people protesting to ...... Hell I don't even know what they're protesting. Their right to bear arms? They'll be doing that. Their right to protest? They'll be doing that to.

If they insist on comparing themselves to civil rights activist maybe the police should turn some dogs and fire hoses on them to give them some street cred.