"Never before have so few with so much promised to take away so much from so many and then laugh their asses off as the so many with so little vote for the so few with so much." A James Pence Quote
TMP After no one took him up on his televised “lie detector challenge,” the man accused of scamming his co-investors in the failed television venture Tea Party HD is trying to make his case by calling a number of high-profile conservative witnesses like Michele Bachmann and Ann Coulter to his defense.
Aljazeera English Editor's note: Today, January 27, is the second anniversary of the death of Howard Zinn. An active participant in the Civil Rights movement, he was dismissed in 1963 from his position as a tenured professor at Spelman College in Atlanta after siding with black women students in the struggle against segregation. In 1967, he wrote one of thefirst, and most influential, books calling for an end to the war in Vietnam. A veteran of the US Army Air Force, he edited The Pentagon Papers, leaked by whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, and was later designated a "high security risk" by the FBI. Click here to read the entire article.
There's no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb, according to a new study that is bound to stir public controversy.
The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes as adults. These findings point to a vicious cycle, according to lead researcher Gordon Hodson, a psychologist at Brock University in Ontario. Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found. Those ideologies, in turn, stress hierarchy and resistance to change, attitudes that can contribute to prejudice, Hodson wrote in an email to LiveScience.
Social conservatives were defined as people who agreed with a laundry list of statements such as "Family life suffers if mum is working full-time," and "Schools should teach children to obey authority." Attitudes toward other races were captured by measuring agreement with statements such as "I wouldn't mind working with people from other races." (These questions measured overt prejudiced attitudes, but most people, no matter how egalitarian, do hold unconscious racial biases; Hodson's work can't speak to this "underground" racism.)
As suspected, low intelligence in childhood corresponded with racism in adulthood. But the factor that explained the relationship between these two variables was political: When researchers included social conservatism in the analysis, those ideologies accounted for much of the link between brains and bias.
I know it is hard to believe, but Senator Rand Paul and I are in agreement on this issue. We petioned Senator Rand Paul and Senator Mitch McConnell to oppose SOPA and PIPA. And guess what? Senator Rand Paul responded and Senator Mitch (crickets) McConnell didn't.
Tech Dirt As we noted in our post about peoplejust discovering ACTA this week, some had put together an odd White Housepetition, asking the White House to "end ACTA." The oddity was over the fact that the Presidentjust signed ACTA a few months ago. What struck us as a more interesting question was the serious constitutional questions of whether or not Obamais even allowed to sign ACTA .
In case you haven't been following this or don't spend your life dealing in Constitutional minutiae, the debate is over the nature of the agreement. A treaty between the US and other nations requires Senate approval. However, there's a "simpler" form of an international agreement, known as an "executive agreement," which allows the President to sign the agreement without getting approval. In theory, this also limits the ability of the agreement to bind Congress. In practice... however, international agreements are international agreements. Some legal scholars have suggested that the only realdifference between a treaty and an executive agreement is the fact that... the president calls any treaty an "executive agreement" if he's unsure if the Senate would approve it. In other words, the difference is basically in how the President presents it. Read More.
Kentucky.Gov FRANKFORT, Ky. — Unemployment rates fell in 114 Kentucky counties between December 2010 and December 2011, while six county rates increased, according to the Kentucky Office of Employment and Training, an agency of the Kentucky Education and Workforce Development Cabinet.
Woodford County recorded the lowest jobless rate in the Commonwealth at 6.1 percent. It was followed by Fayette County, 6.5 percent; Boone County, 6.9 percent; Ohio and Warren counties, 7 percent each; Madison and Shelby counties, 7.1 percent each; Caldwell, Franklin, Larue and Oldham counties, 7.2 percent each.
Jackson County recorded the state’s highest unemployment rate — 15.2 percent. It was followed by Fulton County, 14.9 percent; Magoffin County, 14.4 percent; Menifee County, 13.8 percent; Meade County, 13.7 percent; McCreary County, 13.6 percent; Bell County, 12.9 percent; Clay County, 12.8 percent; and Lewis and Wolfe counties, 12.6 percent each. Read more.
Democrat Kenneth S. Stepp has filed to run for congress in Kentucky's 5th Congressional District. Kentucky's 5th Congressional District is currently represented by Republican Congressman Hal Rogers. Below is a video we shot of Kenneth S. Stepp in 2008.
Senator Robert Stivers, we here at Hillbilly Report believe in a safe work place and repudiate violence and it is in that light we just have to ask: Is it possible to get bumps and bruises from double, triple or quadruple dipping? If so you may want to take a look at the place where you work from time to time (Frankfort) and some of the folks employed there. Hell who knows double, triple or quadruple dipping may be dangerous to one's health and cause bumps and bruises.
Senator Robert Stivers you have been quoted saying John Barton, a retired state trooper suffered “bumps and bruises” and we think that is terrible.
State Journal Stivers told the Lexington Herald-Leader that John Barton, a retired state trooper who is now a Senate doorman, suffered “bumps and bruises” during the altercation.
Senator Robert Stivers would you please leave us a comment and clear up just who John Barton really is? Surely he's isn't a double, triple or quadruple dipper. Or is he?
The Republican Party really has some nerve. They are constantly whining about having to sacrifice for the problems that they themselves created. They are a party of hypocrites suffering from mass selective amnesia. Their choice of a "responder" to President Obama's State of the Union speech should tell America all they need to know about the sorry state of the modern Republican Party.
