"Why I Don't Date White Men" by Kristen of Feminspire.com

http://feminspire.com/why-i-dont-date-white-men/

There's a lot of haterade and derailing on the part of right-wing conservative men regarding racial/gender privilege. 

Limbaugh: Obama The Master, Christie The Servant!

Still bitching about President Barack Obama, the conservative agitator takes aim at his appearance with New Jersey governor Chris Christie. The agitator invokes the 18th Century phrase "master servant".

Conservative agitators are fumed up with the Republican governor Chris Christie of New Jersey.

King Hippo rumbling through his stack of stuff. He takes a moment to look into the daily ramblings off The Guy Who Throw Shit On The Wall's website and see the bromance between the president and the Republican governor.

In the minds of the conservatives, Christie is not viable among the Republican presidential candidates due to his association to that "Communist" Barack Obama.

King Hippo managed to take a dig at the two. President Barack Obama goes to New Jersey to check on the progress of the Jersey Shore. Last year, Hurricane Sandy, a superstorm that destroyed most of New Jersey's coastline.

Republicans are steamed at New Jersey governor Chris Christie. The governor defeats Republican arguments that the president is too partisan. Christie throws cold water on Republican arguments about President Barack Obama,

The president and federal assistance immediately came to the aid of victims, and Governor Chris Christie praised the rapid response. That was considered treasonous to the Republican Party.

The perennial loser Mitt Romney "was leading" in the polls and he would had nailed it, if Christie didn't "bear hug" Obama.

On Tuesday's show, the conservative agitator runs his mouth about the president and Republican governor.

KING HIPPO: Let me tell you what this bipartisanship is, the president and Governor Christie taking another stroll on the beaches of New Jersey. Never mind, folks, that seven months after Hurricane Sandy there are still a lot of people that haven’t been helped. That’s not the point. Oh, no, no! Seven months after the hurricane came and went, there are still a lot of people who haven’t been helped.

But the point is that Obama and Christie want to help. They really want to help! They really want this to be fixed and solved. So it is a case of the good intentions overwhelming any of the results. The good intentions matter far more than the results. Now, this bipartisanship that the media is salivating over? There isn’t any bipartisanship here. Obama has money. Governor Christie wants the money, Governor Christie needs the money, so the people will be helped. So Christie praises Obama.

It’s a master-servant relationship. That’s exactly the kind of bipartisanship that the Drive-By Media wants. Master-servant. That’s “bipartisan” That’s what’s going on here. (interruption) Master-SERVANT. Master-STAFF. Don’t take it any further than that, Snerdley. I’m not going on going there. I’m just telling you. Obama’s got the money; Christie needs the money. “Obama wants to walk the beach; that’s what we’re gonna do. Obama wants a photo-op; it’s what we’re gonna do.”

Michele Bachmann Is Bouncing Off The Walls, Literally!

Controversial politico Minnesota Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann announced she is leaving after her term ends. Many in the junk food media wonder if there's more to the story. She is under investigation by the FBI. 

Last night, the controversial politico announced that she is leaving the Congress. She is not seeking another term. The politico is a mainstream figure among the Republican Party and its Tea Party movement. She has been more of a nuisance to President Barack Obama due to her ongoing obsession to repeal his signature health care law. She is known to say pretty ignorant stuff. Only equaled to Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa).

Is there questions being raised about Congresswoman Michele Bachmann's (R-Minnesota) former run for president?

Here's the announcement.



The FBI is investigating her for misuse of federal campaign funds during her ill-fated 2012 Republican presidential primary run.

And the 6th Congressional District she represents in Minnesota is considered likely Republican. The suburban areas around the metroplex of Minneapolis/St. Paul is more conservative than the city.

Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota) represents a majority of the Twin Cities.

The Republican must scramble for a candidate that is viable. The Democrats are relining up their former nominee Jim Graves.

But her constant camera rushing and misstatements have also doomed her if she was to run for reelection.

Chewing down at the Iowa State Fair.

The New York Times  Michael D. Shear reports that Bachmann made the announcement just six months after being re-elected in what was her most challenging Congressional campaign since she was first elected to the House in 2006. Her announcement also comes as her former presidential campaign faces inquiries into its fund-raising activities.

“I have decided next year I will not seek a fifth Congressional term,” she said in a video on her campaign Web site. “This decision was not impacted in any way by the recent inquiries into the activities of my former presidential campaign or my former presidential staff,” she added.

Mrs. Bachmann is known for her strong anti-abortion stance and adherence to Tea Party values but her presidential campaign was marked by frequent stumbles and her candidacy failed to catch fire in a crowded field of candidates that included Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas and Herman Cain, who all eventually lost to Mitt Romney.

In her congressional race last year, Mrs. Bachmann won re-election by just 4,200 votes out of 356,000 votes cast, beating the hotelier Jim Graves, who was greatly outspent. Mr. Graves recently announced that he would seek the seat again.

“My decision was not in any way influenced by any concerns about my being re-elected to Congress,” she said. “If I ran I would again defeat the individual who I defeated last year.”

Her announcement comes as the Office of Congressional Ethics looks into claims by Ms. Bachmann’s former campaign aides that she may have improperly used money raised by one of her House-affiliated political action committees to help her presidential bid in the run-up to the Iowa presidential caucuses in January 2012. She came in sixth in that race, even though she campaigned heavily in the state. The defeat led her to pull out of the race the next day.

While her presidential bid initially excited Tea Party supporters, Mrs. Bachmann would later find herself upstaged by conservative opponents like Mr. Cain and Mr. Santorum, and she was prone to misstatements, including saying the vaccine against the human papillomavirus was linked to “mental retardation.”

But her campaign was not without impact. Her victory in the Ames, Iowa, straw poll in the summer of 2011 forced Tim Pawlenty, the former Republican governor of Minnesota, to drop out of the contest early, after he did poorly in his neighboring state.

In her video announcement, Mrs. Bachmann did not rule out returning to politics in the future.

“There is no future option or opportunity, be it directly in the political area or otherwise, that I won’t be giving serious consideration if it can help save and protect our great nation for future generations,” she said.

The Tea Party Queen is Resigning!

She also said she expected “the mainstream liberal media to put a detrimental spin” on her decision not to seek re-election, calling its attention to her political fortunes “a true compliment of my public service effectiveness.”

Ms. Bachmann had been a largely obscure member of Congress from Minnesota before the emergence of the Tea Party in 2010. She seized on the movement to brand herself a national voice of conservatives and become the leader of the “Tea Party Caucus” in the House.

In January of 2011, Ms. Bachmann delivered her own, unofficial “Tea Party” response to President Obama’s State of the Union address. She mocked the president’s fiscal policies and urged a repeal of the president’s health care plan known as Obamacare. But the brief, televised response prompted comedy sketches because of its low production values and because Ms. Bachmann appeared to be looking off to the side throughout her remarks.

The Tea Party response goes against the Republican response in which the party selects a Republican to deliver a counter proposal to President Barack Obama's State of The Union address (and Joint Session of Congress).

Let's go in the past and dig this gem up!

Without Michele Bachmann around, who will take the helm of the crazy train?

Well we still got Ted Cruz and oh that Rand Paul fella.

Here's the Tea Party Response by Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota).

No Más George Zimmerman!

Only a fool would use a victim's past drug use as an excuse to justify the killing!

Idiot on trial for the death of Trayvon Martin can't use the "he's a thug" excuse.

The folks over at Loserville were posting the pictures of the teenagers smoking the weed and holding gun.

They're clearly trying to paint the victim as the aggressor and the one who started the fight. They're trying to say: "Well since [Trayvon Martin] was suspended from school, smoking weed, and taking pictures of holding a gun, there's proof he's a thug and [George Zimmerman] was defending himself from this thug."

This stuff isn't relevant in a second-degree murder charge. That was what the judge told the Zimmerman defense team. Basically, the judge said this isn't "evidence" and it's not going to be used in the trial.

So got any new plans?

What the Washington Post is reporting attorneys won’t be able to mention Trayvon Martin’s drug use, suspension from school and past fighting during opening statements at the trial of a former neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot the teen, a judge ruled Tuesday.

However, Circuit Judge Debra Nelson left open the possibility that the defense could try again later during the trial if it could show relevance.

George Zimmerman is charged with second-degree murder in the 17-year-old’s killing and has pleaded not guilty, saying he acted in self-defense. He did not attend Tuesday’s hearing.

In another key motion Nelson refused to allow jurors to travel to the shooting scene during trial, and rejected a defense request to delay the trial set to begin June 10.

The judge called the request to let jurors see the crime scene “a logistical nightmare.”

Zimmerman’s attorney, Mark O’Mara, said Nelson’s decisions would not affect how he presented his case.

Idiot and attorney Mark O'Mara gotten their advice from That Guy Who Helped Obama Win. Cause only an idiot would try to blame the victim for his death!

“We were hoping that we would have some limitations on people commenting upon information that is not yet relevant,” O’Mara said. “So the idea that the state will have to be careful about how they present their case — and certainly we’re going be careful about how we present ours — is exactly what we were hoping for.”

He acknowledged, however, that with the judge not delaying the trial the defense would “have a lot more work to do than we can get accomplished between now and June 10.”

The judge also ruled that some of the Martin’s texts and other social media statements won’t be allowed in opening statements, though it, too, could be allowed later with a ruling from the judge depending on how the case progresses.

Sybrina Fulton and Tracey Martin. They along with millions of others demand stricter background checks for firearms.

O’Mara told the judge that Martin’s marijuana use and past fighting was central to the argument that Zimmerman used self-defense when he confronted Martin last year at a gated community in Sanford, Florida.

“We have a lot of evidence that marijuana use had something to do with the event,” O’Mara said. “It could have affected his behavior.”

An attorney for Martin’s family, Benjamin Crump, said the teen’s parents were pleased with the judge’s rulings on information they consider immaterial to the February 2012 shooting.

“Trayvon Martin is not on trial,” Crump said.

The judge ruled against a defense request that the pool of 500 jury candidates be sequestered during jury selection. She said jurors will be referred to by their jury numbers and prohibited their faces from being photographed. Nelson denied a prosecution request for a gag order that would prohibit attorneys from talking about the case.

O’Mara said he is concerned potential jurors could be affected by publicity the case is receiving.

The defense attorney had asked to push back the trial date because he said prosecutors had delayed turning over evidence as required. O’Mara is seeking sanctions against prosecutors, but a hearing on those sanctions was delayed until next week.


Before the judge decided to postpone the hearing on sanctions, a former prosecutor who used to work in the same office as the attorneys prosecuting Zimmerman testified he had told O’Mara about photos and text messages from Martin’s cell phone that hadn't yet been turned over to the defense.

Former Assistant State Attorney Wesley White resigned last year from the State Attorney’s Office that covers northeast Florida.



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The stupid guy that slapped Beyoncé

Oh, no he didn't!

Marines Post Racist Rants About Obama!

Show discipline.

The United States Marines is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing power projection from the sea, using the mobility of the United States Navy to rapidly deliver combined-arms task forces. It is one of seven uniformed services of the United States. The Marine Corps is a component of the United States Department of the Navy, often working closely with naval forces for training, transportation, and logistics; however, the Marine Corps is a separate branch.

The best of the best. There's a report about some active duty Marines going to the social networks to disrespect the president. The U.S. Secret Service is investigating those involved in threats to the president.

But since the conservative rancor (namely from The Guy Who Throws Shit To The Wall) over the president getting umbrella service and the latest outrage over the president not saluting a Marine some are posting racist outrage about it.

Of course, President Barack Obama doesn't disrespect military. He's the Commander and Chief of the United States Armed Forces. He overseas the lives of men and women who serve in the military. He is responsible for every mission that is carried by the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard.

He has the utmost respect for those serving. And no matter what the president does, conservatives will find some issue about it. And some conservative are enlisted in the military.

This bullshit is being read by members of our military. There are some Marines who felt that their Commander-and-Chief shows lack of respect for their service.

Guess who tipped of the conservative agitators?

Pres Obama boarded Marine One without returning salute of US Marine at the steps. The Pres then came back out to shake the Marine's hand.
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) May 24, 2013

Forgot to attach photo of Marine One takeoff this morning for Annapolis. twitter.com/markknoller/st…
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) May 24, 2013

Pres Obama returns salute from US Marine as he steps off Marine One on WH South Lawn. twitter.com/markknoller/st…
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) May 24, 2013

Despite the constant mentions by President Barack Obama about our men and women serving in the military,  the numerous talk about seeing the injured and the American draped coffins, some of our military members are solely getting their news from the conservative agitators of talk radio and Loserville.

Well there's a report from USA Today about a few Marines posting on the social networks threatening Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-California) and President Barack Obama.

Wonder how the Marines got the notion to attack President Barack Obama? 

The congresswoman is leading a coalition of representatives to tackle military sexual assaults.

USA Today reports that this incident comes at a time when top military officers say they are facing a crisis of sexual harassment and abuse within the ranks.

Federal law enforcement officials are investigating a former Marine and several active-duty Marines after they allegedly posted threatening and lewd messages on social media sites that targeted President Obama and a California congresswoman, according to a government official informed of the investigations.

The former Marine was interviewed last week by the Secret Service for the threatening post against President Obama, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigations are ongoing.

The Secret Service does not discuss its protective actions, said spokesman George Ogilvie.

Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-California)

Investigators from the U.S. Capitol Police have been investigating several threatening posts against Speier, the Capitol Hill source said. Capitol Police do not comment on their investigations.


Several Marines also have been referred to their commanders for non-judicial punishment in recent months, said Marine Capt. Eric Flanagan, a spokesman. That punishment can range from raking leaves to loss of rank to dismissal from the service, he said.

The Marines have received complaints about a number of social media sites, Flanagan said, including the Facebook page F'N Wook, which prompted Speier, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, to write letters of complaint to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos. Facebook took down the page, but similar postings have been made elsewhere.

Some of the posts suggest female Marines achieved their rank by performing sex, another shows a female Marine on her knees with a snake being put in her mouth. A recent post about Speier refers to her in vulgar terms and accuses her of trampling First Amendment rights.

Speier was targeted after her letter called attention to the posts, and she spoke out about what top military officers have described as a crisis with sexual harassment and abuse in its ranks. The Pentagon estimates that there were 26,000 instances of sexual abuse in the military last year, an increase of 35% compared with 2010.

A series of military sex scandals in recent weeks has underscored the problem: an Air Force officer in charge of sex abuse prevention programs awaits trial for his alleged drunken groping of a woman in Arlington, Va., not far from his Pentagon office; an Army sergeant first class is being investigated for running an alleged prostitution operation at Fort Hood; and an Army non-commissioned officer has been charged for allegedly videotaping nude cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

On Friday, Obama told graduating midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy commencement in Annapolis, Md., that sexual assault and harassment had no part in today's military. Hagel expressed similar sentiments Saturday during the graduation ceremony at West Point.

Employers Will Cut Workers Hours To Avoid Obamacare!

This was the Latham Square Mall in Albany, New York. The mall was demolished in 2013. 

Greed over safety. Greed over happiness.

A good productive worker will show up at any given expense. When a worker calls off, the boss will call the most reliable worker to fill the void. The ones who the boss rely on will benefit from the hours given. The ones who are least productive will likely suffer the fate of losing hours due the employers' fears of Obamacare.

American businesses are trying to loophole the Affordable Health Care Reform law (aka Obamacare).

The employers are going to have ways to get to their bottom dollar. Of course at the expense of our dedicated workers (part time and full time) who build the stable of the middle class, the healthcare law's negative side effects will reign in upon 2014.

When unemployment numbers dropping, many Americans are searching for the jobs. Service jobs (i.e. retail,  food service, hospitality, and education) are plentiful. But are they paying good? Not really.

The service industry is the majority of America's job market. Manufacturing is downsizing and shipping out of the localities to other regions or places overseas.

The service industry provides the most employers so it's a requirement of the companies to provide health insurance to the employees. In order to eliminate the requirements under the law, they'll cut hours of part-time to avoid giving their employees health insurance.

The greed market is plentiful in our corporations.

Conservative business leaders want to punish the employees for their bitterness. The price paid when President Barack Obama won reelection they say. We'll save our money by laying off workers.

Not concerned about the worker's daily routine or family. Not concerned about their workers expenses or wages. Not concerned about the rising prices of food, gas, heating oil, water, public transportation fares, air travel, and electricity. As long as they can't own an island or an airplane, the conservative business leader will punish the company by letting workers go.

Somehow workplace discrimination is relevant when your boss tells you that if you vote for Barack Obama, you may loose your job. Somehow if the hours are getting cut and you're wondering how the heck you're losing hours, the boss will say that the business is slow and based on sales we give the hours.

History was made in 2010.

By cutting workers hours, its assured that dedication will drop immediately. The workers who are part-time will suffer first. Under the United States Occupational Safety and Health Adminstration (OSHA) the goal is to "assure safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach, education and assistance".

The New York Daily News reports that Obamacare may end up hurting many of the part-time workers the President had hoped it would help.

Under the far-reaching health care law, large employers are required to offer health insurance to part-time employees working at least 30 hours a week.

But that’s not how it’s played out.

Instead of granting insurance plans to part-time employees, a growing number of larger firms are actually cutting back on workers’ hours altogether, the Los Angeles Times reported.

In the process, the employers are stripping part-time workers not only of their ability to get company health insurance but of their much needed wages as well.

More than 2 million workers at large restaurant chains, retailers and a variety of other companies that employ more than 50 people across the U.S. are facing similar consequences.

The benefits of Obamacare helps bring down healthcare costs. The problems with Obamacare will be the employers who will cut your job in order to save their dollars.

Republicans lead the way to convince conservative business leaders to punish workers. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota) is the most outspoken critic of Obamacare. She proposed eight bills that included a repeal of the president's signature health care law.

Republicans have put the fear of god in the legislation. They've tried over 30 times to repeal the law.

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota) is one of the leading advocates of repealing Obamacare.
Of course, she has no alternative nor a solution to solve the revolving door of health expenses.

All she wants to do is please the conservative agitators of talk radio, the blogs and Loserville.

The Republican Party has no replacement to health care reform. The president is willing to allow changes to the law, however he wants something that benefits the middle class not the greedy.

So what's your thoughts on the employers cutting hours to avoid Obamacare?

Is it good or bad?

We're waiting for your response.

Memorial Day!

We want to send our thanks to the men and women who fought for our freedoms. We wish those in active duty, our military veterans and the fallen a dedication to their service.

We are still in times of war.

Afghanistan will finally be over in 2014. The battles that the United States must face here and abroad require a great deal of military endurance and expediency.

And while those who volunteered to become our nation's heroes made sacrifices for our children, our wives, our husbands, our mothers and our fathers, you're always told: You'll never be forgotten.

This Memorial Day once again gives us the blessings for a good plate of barbecue, a nice swimming pool, a good drive on our nation's roads, and of course the start of summer. But while we're here in the United States having a day off from the daily routine, you always remember that our military serves 24/7.

If you have to time, say thanks to our brave heroes. The fallen will never be forgotten.

The people who serve in the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marines, the National Guard and the U.S. Coast Guard deserve our thanks on this Memorial Day.

GOP: Understaffed Federal Workers! Good!

The IRS scandal, the Benghazi scandal and the Department of Justice trying to silence classified leaks are being hyped up by the Republican Party and its allies in the conservative movement.

Would you expect the lack of federal services due to the sequester are probably a reason to why these controversies happened?

No.

Well here's a shocker for you! Many federal appointments weren't confirmed during the first term of President Barack Obama. And today it continues because of the Republican senate's abuse of power on the filibuster.

As we celebrate Memorial Day, our federal workers who serve the needs of the United States government will lose a portion of their pay. While our lawmakers are taking another vacation, they leave the Capitol with many bills undone and lack of corporation between the two opposing parties. They are leaving from the very jobs we the American people voted them in for.

The sequester's effects on the federal government are starting to show and our the low approved Congress failed to stop it.

With the tornado destroying much of Moore, Oklahoma, many Americans are relying on FEMA. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is going to face stiff cutbacks come this summer. With a possible strong hurricane season, many FEMA and National Weather Service workers will be furloughed for a few days as well as the "scourge of the junk food media", the IRS will be affected.

The U.S. Postal Service is asking Congress to save the mail service by eliminating Saturday. Congress turned a blind eye.

Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood is leaving soon. But he gave the strong warning about the nation's crumbling infrastructure. We seen two bridges collapsed, a devastated city in Oklahoma, a rail line destroyed and many construction on highways grounded to a halt because of Congress.

So if we're to cut government in the ways of Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Senator Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) to save this nation, then we're doomed!

The Republicans are screwing up this nation by stalling the president's agenda. The president won the election, and the mandate was set. The junk food media obsesses over Benghazi, the IRS or whatever else the Senators John McCain (R-Arizona) or Lindsey Graham's (R-South Carolina) whine about.

I will kindly stress that the real problem here in the United States. Demographics.

As the nation grows, so is our non-white population. President Barack Obama overwhelmingly won almost every demographic but the White working class.

The Republicans are going to end up the all White party.

Lawmakers off to another vacation. When they come back, there will be more talk about Benghazi, the IRS and repealing Obamacare. Of course, slight mentions of tornado relief, bridge repair and looming sequester cuts.

To piss off a government worker is one thing, but to allow lawmakers take vacations, work 132 days out of a year, and pass laws that may effect the nation as a whole. I just can't wait to see them rush to the ballot box to remove those politicos from Washington.

Republicans led us to the Great Recession. They won't get it through their manure filled heads that the key to growth is spending. We need to spend on infrastructure and innovation. We can't cut while the economy is rebounding.

But since this is the Black man talking to you, I guess you're not comfortable with it.

Bob Dole: My [Republican] Party Is Totally Screwed Up!

Former presidential candidate Bob Dole tells Loserville host Chris Wallace that the Republican Party is screwing up "big time" and it's probably too late to stop the damage.

Former Kansas senator and two time presidential failure Bob Dole makes an appearance on Loserville Sunday with Chris Wallace. The former majority leader had some choose words for the current aspects of the Republican Party.

A party that should shut the doors and stay closed for repairs. Come back in the next business days says the 90-year old Dole.

The Republican and his wife Elizabeth Dole were once proud moderate Republicans. Dole retired from the senate in 1996 and left politics. His wife Elizabeth served one term as senator from North Carolina. She was defeated by Kay Hagen.

The president's agenda is too radical. Our jobs as Republicans is to see forth its failure - Minority Leader of The Senate Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky)

Dole isn't the burly voice of the Republican Party these days. Just like George H.W. Bush, the former majority leader now is in a wheelchair and suffering from partial blindness. But his criticism of his own party is just as sharp as ever.

"It seems almost unreal that we can't get together on a budget or legislation," he said on "Fox News Sunday." "We weren't perfect, by a long shot, but at least we got our work done."

Dole, who served in the Senate from 1969 to 1996, wasn't fully critical of the president, but said part of the problem is that he "lacks communication with Congress" and should have gotten together with members earlier in his presidency.

Dole joked at first when asked by host Chris Wallace to quickly give his thoughts on President Barack Obama. "He's a great golfer, very articulate," Dole responded.

Still, he acknowledged it's not easy to work with the Senate, where he said "no doubt about it," cloture is being abused. He didn't spare the Republican Party his criticism, saying they need to be "closed for repairs" and come up with more plans and a vision for the future before the end of the year. Wallace asked him whether he'd even fit in with the Republican Party today.

"I doubt it," Dole replied. "Reagan wouldn't have made it, certainly Nixon wouldn't have made it, because he had ideas. We might have made it, but I doubt it."

No more backroom deals! - Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) 

It's tough to be a leader, he said, but his strategy was to get people together and then ask them to call him when they came to a deal. In the end, the leadership gets the blame when things go wrong, he said.

"Howard Baker said running the Senate is like herding cats, and it takes leadership," he said. "Somebody has to stand up and say, 'We're not going to do this.'"

King Hippo, The Guy Who Throws Shit On The Wall, That Guy Who Helped Obama Win, Turd Flipper, Chalk E Becker and Palin Da Ass are primarily the reasons to why the Republican Party is so screwed up!

Yet, Trayvon Martin Didn't Have A Gun!

Taking advice from That Guy Who Helped Obama Win, George Zimmerman is playing upon fear of the rebellious NIGGER.

This is what George Zimmerman defense team trying to do.

They're trying to say that the slain teenager Trayvon Martin was a no good punk and his cell phone pictures and of him holding a gun, smoking weed and talking about getting kicked out of school should be a reason for self-defense.

It's the "I put the nation out of it's misery" excuse. Just because the teenager was smoking weed, holding a gun and throwing up the middle finger, that doesn't mean he's prone to criminal behavior.

Far as I am concerned, the teenager didn't have a firearm. He didn't shoot George Zimmerman. Martin used his two fists. Maybe that's the only weapon Martin had but that's it.

The Orlando Sentinel reports that the Zimmerman defense team will use the Trayvon Martin's bad behavior as a reason for self-defense.

The evidence that George Zimmerman's attorneys have uncovered on Trayvon Martin's cellphone paints a troubling picture of the Miami Gardens teenager: He sent text messages about being a fighter, smoking marijuana and being ordered to move out of his home by his mother.

And photos from that phone offer more of the same: healthy green plants — what appear to be marijuana — growing in pots and a .40-caliber Smith & Wesson handgun.

Defense attorneys on Thursday gave formal notice to prosecutors that they intend to use those and other reputation-damaging pieces of evidence about Trayvon once Zimmerman's second-degree-murder trial begins June 10.

Conservatives don't concern themselves over the fact the teenager didn't have a gun upon his death. They are concerned with him taking pictures of him holding a gun. Or taking self-pictures with a gold grill.

Prosecutors say they're not relevant and should be barred.

Circuit Judge Debra S. Nelson must decide. Those issues may come up at a hearing Tuesday in Sanford.

Overall, the evidence made public Thursday by Zimmerman's attorneys portray Trayvon as a wannabe gangster who couldn't stay out of trouble.

The high-school junior had no arrest record, but he had been suspended from school more than once.

The evidence packet contains more than two dozen photos, including one that shows Trayvon with gold teeth and two of him making an obscene gesture. Those have been widely circulated online since shortly after the shooting, and it's not clear where defense attorneys found them, but as of Thursday, they officially became part of Zimmerman's criminal case.

The text messages that Trayvon wrote about fighting may be the most damaging to the state.

In October, the judge said any history of violence on his part might be relevant. And violent and aggressive is how Zimmerman, a former Neighborhood Watch volunteer, described Trayvon's actions the day he shot the teenager in Sanford on Feb. 26, 2012.

Zimmerman told police that after the two exchanged words, Trayvon punched him, breaking his nose and knocking him to the ground, then climbed on top and began hammering his head on a sidewalk. The defendant told police he fired in self-defense.

One eyewitness initially described Trayvon as standing over Zimmerman and fighting "MMA-style," a reference to mixed-martial-arts fighting.

The text messages released Thursday were heavily redacted but made no reference to "MMA fighting." They did, however, include references to Trayvon being in fights.

On Nov. 22, 2011, three months before the shooting, Trayvon wrote about being involved in a fight. His unnamed opponent, he wrote, "got mo hits cause in da 1st round he had me on da ground an I couldn't do ntn."

Six weeks earlier he wrote a text message about problems at school involving a fight: "I was watcn a fight nd a teacher say I hit em."

He also exchanged text messages with friends about smoking marijuana.

Defense attorneys are expected to argue the marijuana use is relevant because in a phone call to police a few minutes before the shooting, Zimmerman described Trayvon acting as if he were on drugs.

In texts on February 20th, 2012, Trayvon wrote about hiding his "weed," and tells someone he is going to the Orlando area for several days.

 That appears to be a reference to his being suspended from school for 10 days after being found with an empty marijuana baggie in his backpack.

On Feb. 13, he sent a text to a friend, acknowledging that 10-day suspension: "I got in sum trouble 2day."

The friend responded, "Ok so wen u comin bck 2 skool."

Trayvon's response: "Da 29th."

The defense evidence packet also includes other information from Trayvon's school records, among them five videos from a Miami-Dade schools police investigation that turned up several pieces of women's jewelry in Trayvon's backpack and a screwdriver, what authorities there described as a burglary tool.

Those records were not made public because of student-privacy laws.

In a prepared statement, Benjamin Crump, the attorney for Trayvon's family, described the new pieces of evidence as "irrelevant red herrings" and "a desperate and pathetic attempt by the defense to pollute and sway the jury pool."

He predicted the judge would find them irrelevant and ban them at trial.

This man is giving George Zimmerman bad advice.

After Zimmerman's attorneys released the text messages and photos, Assistant State Attorney Bernie de la Rionda filed a new motion asking for a gag order that would prohibit attorneys from discussing the case with reporters.

That's his third such request. The judge is expected to take up the issue Tuesday.

And late Thursday, Zimmerman's attorneys filed paperwork asking the judge to delay the start of his trial for six weeks.

His attorneys said last week they would ask for a delay because they need more time to hire an audio expert to counter the testimony of a state witness expected to testify that the voice heard screaming for help in the background of a 911 call was Trayvon's.

Staff writer Arelis R. Hernández contributed to this report. rstutzman@tribune.com or 407-650-6394. jeweiner@tribune.com or 407-420-5171.

This is the shameful video from Fox News turdchor Megyn Kelly. She and the other jerks on television defend Zimmerman.

Bridge Collapse In Washington State!

The low approved Congress at work again! The Republicans obsession with budget cuts leads to this type of stuff.

Would you believe that I told you so?

Why can't our politicos focus on real issues?

The sequester and the low approved Congress are destroying America. Of course, you can't tell that to conservatives. They'll blame President Barack Obama for this disaster and yes, the numerous "scandals" that plague his second term.

Here we have an example of what's going on in America. Crumbling infrastructure. Last week an Amtrak train derails injuring dozens. We had a major sinkhole swallow a man earlier this year. We had a tornado level the state of Oklahoma. We had major gun crimes in America. And what the junk food media is talking about, is Benghazi, the IRS and the Justice Department's snooping on the Associated Press and a Fox News reporter. Stuff that doesn't put food on the plate. Stuff that doesn't bring back the dead. Stuff that doesn't bring in revenue. The only thing this stuff does is rile up the conservative/white supremacist bubble.

Now we see what happens when the low approved Congress doesn't fund infrastructure. They haven't passed a bill that would help bring jobs to our crumbling infrastructure since President Barack Obama's been in office.

A dire warning from U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood was ignored. He asked Congress to pass a law that will bring funds to bridges and highways. That was ignored by the Republicans.


Did I happen to mention that LaHood is a Republican?

And the results of slow or just inept action leads to a massive gridlock is now occurring in Washington. A bridge collapses on Interstate 5 near Mt. Vernon, Washington.

The Skagit River Bridge collapsed. The bridge takes over 200,000 travels from Seattle to Vancouver, Canada. Now the people will have to find an alternative route that will disrupt the residents of communities near Mt. Vernon and Burlington.

Interstate 5 highway bridge collapsed Thursday night, sending cars and people into the water, authorities said. The Associated Press and ABC News report that it could have been a massive causality but it was reduced due to time. The collapse of the bridge happened at the end of a rush hour period.

Skagit Valley Hospital in Mt. Vernon, was expecting two patients taken from the accident, according to Kari Ranten, a spokeswoman. She believed a third patient was transported to another hospital. She did not know the patients' conditions.

From Canada to Mexico, Interstate 5 serves Seattle, Portland, Sacramento, Los Angeles and San Diego and has over 2.4 million travelers on the highway.

ABC News affiliate KOMO-TV in Seattle reported rescue crews with boats were operating at the scene and rescues had taken place.

Officials were looking into reports of an oversized load "immediately" causing the collapse, said Travis Phelps of the Washington State Department of Transportation and Washington State Patrol.

The collapse occurred on the portion of Interstate 5 over the Skagit River, about two hours north of Seattle.

"N/B and S/B lanes of I-5 Skagit River Bridge collapsed," Washington State Trooper Mark Francis posted on Twitter. "People and cars in water."

The collapse occurred around 7 p.m. and the portion of the that collapsed was four lanes wide, The Associated Press reported.

Xavier Grospe, 62, who lives near the river, told the AP he could see three cars partially submerged in the water with what appeared to be one person per vehicle, with drivers on top of vehicles or sitting on open window openings.

"It doesn't look like anybody's in danger right now," Grospe said.

The bridge was built in 1955, according to The Associated Press, citing federal records.