In Virginia, Bob McConnell pretty much tells
his own State Attorney General to STFU on the whole removal of non-discriminatory language from state colleges and universities. McConnell's own words:
"It was very important for me... to say discrimination will not be tolerated, and there will be sanctions for anyone that engages in discrimination." Now, that's what I call COMEDY! He told Mr. Cuccinelli to shut his shit the fuck up on the political grandstanding against LGBTs in Virginia. Also McConnell is covering his own ass so he won't be seen as an overt bigot but not as a "traitor" to the socially conservative cause.
The officials in Itawamba County, Mississippi,
decided to cancel the main county high school's prom because of a lesbian couple want to attend together as a couple. Now, unlike
what went down at Thraptown High School in Franklin County last year in Northwest Alabama, these students both attend this high school, so the circumstances have a more internalized effect. Whereas, the Franklin County situation was their "justification" of outside-of-district, but
it was soon resolved when the lack of logic and rationale of the argument was exposed for the world to see. However, in the case of Itawamba County in Northern Mississippi, the officials are standing by their guns so one of the teens has filed a lawsuit against the school district in federal court.
In all likelihood, she will win because the school isn't violating any real policies since they are both students of the school at an event just hosted by not an official event of the school.
In Texas, a state that I've always considered a lost cause socially and politically, the state board of education has
approved a referendum that would enforce an ultra-conservative curriculum in state public schools. An ultra-conservative faction within the Texas Board of Education was successful in injecting conservative ideals into social studies, history and economics lessons that will be taught to millions of students for the next decade. They want to remove mentions of the Enlightenment period and Thomas Jefferson from the state curriculum and replace these with the discussion of John Calvin and the Judeo-Christian ideology of the nation. Also mention the nation is not a democracy, but constitutional republic.
Now, that is true about the last part, but the rest is bologna. However, I stand my statement that Texas is a lost cause politically because it is one of those places where you see more ignorance-based emotional foolishness pedaled than logic. Let's be real, the only real election there is the Republican elections because outside of Dallas, Houston, and Austin, there is little to any progressiveness in the state, and even then I wouldn't waste my time trying to move there. Honestly, Austin doesn't count because it is too damn whitewashed for politically because the non-white population is too small to make any real affect, so that "Keep Austin Weird" crap is for the birds. It's a crazy state where you have to give the side-eye to altogether.
Also in Oklahoma, another lost cause, the state senate has approved a bill that would become
an amendment of the state constitutional allowing the law enforcement to chose not to assist federal officials in the investigation of hate crimes. Here's some of the bill's language:
Under the new provisions of Senate Bill 1965, reports that were collected during investigations of possible hate crime that did not end in a conviction would be destroyed or kept by the Oklahoma Bureau of Invesigations. The bill originally was to investigate the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association, but state senator Steve Russell, a socially conservative Republican from Oklahoma City and former army commander at Fort Hood in Texas, was the one who perverted the bill into its current form. I'm going to take some words from Dr. Martin Luther King, "an injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere". Especially in a racially-aversive state like Oklahoma, where if you are non-white, LGBT/SGL, or anything out of the WASPy-ordinary then you are subject to be a victim of this ignorant law.
Meanwhile, here in Alabama, a caravan of idiots, OOPS! I mean
Birmingham City Council members, mayor, and some of their staffers are going to the National League of Cities conference in DC this week. However, they are practically leaving the city without any really leadership. The jackal, William Bell, just announced last week that the city is going to have to make cost-cutting measures such as delaying funding and contracts for the rest of the fiscal year, yet he along with the rest of the caravan of idiots are going to DC blowing $31,000 of city funds. Now, Carole Smitherman is staying behind and politically grandstanding saying "somebody has to man the shop".
Yeah, the judgment is clear that all of the leadership in Birmingham is idiotic and irresponsible as hell as far as I'm concerned. Who in the fuck goes on a trip and then takes their staffers as well to when you have a $77 million gaping hole in the budget? Smitherman, you are just as irresponsible as the rest in my book because you knew what has been going on since jump and just trying to reconcile your reputation with folks, but it's tarnished so save the drama for ya mama. SMDH
Oh yeah, the jackal and that xenophobic third-generation Greek immigrant mayor of Hoover, Tony Petelos,
wanted to question the financing of
the monstrosity that is being forced-fed on people in the Greater Birmingham area.
Here's a clue you two morons, why don't you flat out and oppose the thing instead allowing this bullshit to be constructed? Also the Battle Royale of 2 white women with power trips is amusing to me, Jefferson County Commission President Bettye Fine Collins and Jefferson County Treasury Jennifer Parsons Champion
over the distribution of federal funds that were allocated from the federal stimulus package last year.
CUTE, BUT YOU BITCHES ARE BOTH STUPID...
That's what been going on that I want to talk about in the past week, and I'll be back to regularly posting probably this week...
