A wealthy insurance executive who traded favors for a badge, gun, and false training records was sentenced to 4 years in prison for accidentally* killing an unarmed robbery suspect by grabbing his gun instead of his taser. At age 74 and in failing health, Robert Bates doesn’t have 4 years to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Bad States’
May 21st, 2016 - 10:58 pm § in Politics
Oklahoma Republicans panhandle for Obamacare money
Oklahoma’s Republican politicians hate Obamacare almost as much as they hate abortion. But now that their Republican-austerity budget is blowing up in their faces, look who’s begging for Obamacare money: “Despite bitter resistance in Oklahoma for years to President Barack Obama’s[...]
May 13th, 2016 - 3:12 pm § in Politics
Gov. Walker defaults, blames Obama
Would you lend money to this welsher? Wisconsin failed to make a $101 million debt payment due May 1. The state has the money, but its GOP governor wants to keep it, just in case: “The bottom line is we have concerns about the Obama economy nationally and we want to make sure Wisconsin’[...]
May 13th, 2016 - 3:02 pm § in Uncategorized
Racist barber pulls gun on black guy asking for haircut
Larry Thomas, 65, faces criminal charges after displaying a gun to a black man who entered his barber shop and asked for a haircut and shave. According to neighbors, this isn’t the first time Thomas has run off African-Americans. He says, “I don’t do black hair.” Meanwhile, t[...]
January 15th, 2016 - 5:22 pm § in Uncategorized
A Republican governor’s shocking disregard of history
“We’ve never in the history of this country passed any laws or done anything based on race or religion. Let’s not start that now.” — South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley The only thing you can conclude from this is that Gov. Haley doesn’t think of black people as human and therefore her s[...]
January 10th, 2016 - 5:31 pm § in Politics
Florida cops ticket 90-year-old veteran for feeding the poor
https://youtu.be/nSGD45D8URM[...]
November 25th, 2015 - 4:54 pm § in Politics
Georgia sheriff has a chip on his shoulder
Photo: Sheriff Mike Jolley and his sign. Tourists may be well advised to drive around his town. He judges people by their political and religious beliefs, and not everyone is welcome there.[...]
November 22nd, 2015 - 1:57 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Texas bars college professors from vetting high school textbooks
Apparently the State Board of Education, a partisan body dominated by a Republican majority, doesn’t trust academics to know anything about the subjects they teach. So these people, who think evolution is bunk and want school children to read textbooks that refer to slaves as “workers,&#[...]
November 2nd, 2015 - 3:55 pm § in Politics, Schools & Colleges
Red state education
Alabama’s GOP governor filled a seat on the state board that oversees public schools by appointing a 28-year-old conservative activist who has never attended a public school, whose children don’t attend public schools, and who made his mark in politics by campaigning against public schoo[...]
October 30th, 2015 - 6:36 pm § in Politics
North Carolina turns its back on hungry people
Not so long ago, America was a country committed to allowing no person to go hungry within its borders, but that’s changing thanks to mean-spirited Republican policies. North Carolina is one of the states where the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour is also the state minimum wage. No one ca[...]