Similar vein but this LBJ quote is so true on every level: "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
I'm surprised he had harsh words for the black actor who made some stuff up before the terrorist who wanted to murder his enemies
OR....the market would dictate that consumers will still only pay so much for things - so (gasp) senior leaders just might have to make a little less relative to their other employees. Plenty of companies can pay people well and provide value to their consumers. I know it's weird but just try and go with it.
more of the best people The Head Honcho on Trump's New Climate Change Panel Compared Carbon Dioxide to Jewish People Both, he said, have been wrongly persecuted. Spoiler Haven't we had enough of these old codgers who won't be alive when the worst consequences of climate change are upon us telling us it's no big deal? Certainly, the President of the United States is in that group. Privately, the 72-year-old probably views the issue in the same terms he does The National Debt: "Yeah, but I won’t be here." In public, he can be found "joking" that global warming isn't real because it's cold outside. Reportedly, he can also be found looking to assemble a so-called "Presidential Committee on Climate Security," which will be tasked with questioning the findings of climate scientists and the Pentagon that climate change is real and poses a national security risk. Here is the person who will "spearhead" the panel, on television back in 2014. Surely, the Jewish People appreciate being compared to a molecule that an overwhelming majority of scientists who have studied the issue agree is fueling a phenomenon that endangers life as we know it on Planet Earth. Surely, climate scientists appreciate being compared to Nazis because they went to Greenland to study ice loss or have constructed models based on the Greenhouse Effect. Meanwhile, we actually are overseeing the sixth mass extinction event in this planet's history. Jesus Christ, these people. Sometimes, you have to wonder whether the human race deserves to survive. We have wreaked destruction on this planet and, now that it is fast becoming uninhabitable for human civilization as we know it, we have elected not to address the issue but to elevate people who dispute that it's happening and, in the case of Mr. William Happer here, to claim that Actually, More CO2 in the Atmosphere Is Good. Well, at least that's what the United States of America has decided to do. Around this time two years ago, I attended the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) and stumbled upon a panel organized by the CO2 Coalition, of which Happer is president. He is now, also, a senior director on the White House National Security Council. Here, from my story at the time, is how the panel explained that More CO2 Is Good: ...a pair of men besuited in various shades of olive and brown discussed how the increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (which they granted were up 40 percent since the Industrial Revolution) had led to a phenomenon called "global greening." Plants need CO2 to grow, they told a captivated audience of a couple dozen people, and when there's more of it, they grow faster, larger, and—since they need less water—in drier areas... The CO2 Coalition panel at CPAC. Jack Holmes ...Because of increased CO2 levels, "the Earth is in a far better place today," [said] Craig Idso of CO2Science and the board of directors of the CO2 Coalition...Taken by itself, the greening argument is solid enough. In fact, it does not contradict the scientific consensus on climate change, which holds that higher carbon dioxide levels lead to warmer temperatures and, in turn, among other things, to melting sea ice and rising sea levels. Both can be true at once. Except the CO2 Coalition's shtick is effectively a red herring; these guys also don't believe in man-made climate change."Temperatures have not risen very much, and most of the temperature rise is probably completely natural, and has nothing to do with increasing CO2," William Happer, the coalition's president, told me over the phone. "Industrialization probably played a small role, but I think it's very hard to tell how much." This directly contradicts the scientific consensus on climate change, which Happer has long disputed in his many roles at various conservative think tanks. It also tells you Happer's newest group is not actually committed to lionizing CO2, but to muddying the waters around climate science. Before he founded the CO2 Coalition, Happer chaired the George Marshall Institute and developed a reputation as one of the nation's premier climate "skeptics." The Institute received $865,000 from ExxonMobil between 1998 and 2011. (Elsewhere, ExxonMobil-funded think tanks have been found offering scientists $10,000-a-pop to undermine climate reports.) With a degree in physics from Princeton, Happer is unusually qualified to serve in this area—the various other deniers I spoke to for the story had degrees like a bachelor's in political science or a PhD in geography—but he is a professional denier all the same. Also, there's this: Now this fine gentleman will lead a planned Presidential Climate Change Panel that, according to the Washington Post, will "question" the peer-reviewed findings of experts in science and the American military—the latter of which has long acknowledged climate change is real and poses a threat to our way of life. I wonder what conclusion he will come to? Surely he will evaluate the evidence on the merits.
nope, not radicalized and only vote on conservative economic philosophy 'Get the f**k out of my country!': West Va. woman attacks restaurant manager for speaking Spanish Sergio Budar is just trying to run a racist-free restaurant or two A white West Virginia woman became social media’s latest viral bigot over the weekend, thanks to a xenophobic stream of hatred she aimed at an American citizen working in a Parkersburg Mexican restaurant. In the undated pair of videos recorded by Miranda Castillo and first posted to Facebook by her mother on Feb. 16, diners in the sunlit Tampico Mexican Restaurant dining room look on as a woman, addressed only as “Jill,” channels her inner Aaron Schlossberg: “I lived in California for 20 years and … English is our first language, so you need to speak English!” Spoiler The first video begins as the angry bigot is caught mid-rant against restaurant manager Sergio Budal as Castillo, a hostess at Tampico, struggles to get a good angle on the situation. Jill is seated in a booth, while Budal stands just behind her. Jill’s white-haired dining partner, whom we’ll call Quiet Kyle, is standing in front of Jill at the start of the video, doing a whole lot of nothing. A seated customer in the foreground of the video is clearly listening to the altercation, but he doesn’t speak up until Jill takes things to the next level, after Budal politely tries to calm her down. “I’m sorry about you, ma’am, and … I’m okay, but—” “Well, I’m sorry about you, too,” Jill interrupts. “Get the fuck out of my country.” Jill points at Budal for emphasis. The restaurant erupts in a chorus of wows as Quiet Kyle offers a soft and unconvincing “Hey” before taking his seat in the booth and watching the show. Budar tells Jill that he’s a U.S. citizen; she responds that she doesn’t think that he is. Budar chuckles and tells Jill that means her issue must be with how he looks: “So you see, that’s the problem. That’s in you. That’s in your mind.” Jill repeatedly barks that she doesn’t “have any problem with the way [he] look”, so Budar asks her what her problem is, reminding her that he’s a U.S. citizen. As a front-of-house employee approaches and begins politely shushing everyone, Quiet Kyle leaps up again. He tries to silence Jill by whispering at her while gently grabbing her face, which, in the history of everything, has never worked on anybody. Jill smacks his hand away, telling Quiet Kyle to shut up before returning to Budar to repeat her declaration of monolingual martial law, saying, “I don’t have any problem with the way you look, but you’re in America, you need to speak English.” “What do you think I’m doing?” Budar replies in English, visibly exasperated with her hateful nonsense. Just then, a bearded man clad in camo, identified as the restaurant’s chef, steps up and calls Jill out and tells her to leave: “If you’re gonna be racist here, you’re gonna leave.” “I AM NOT RACIST,” Jill shouts racistly. “No, that’s racist,” the chef says. “These people take care of me, and you better get out of here or he’s gonna call the deputy. So don’t do that here.” ”I lived in California for 20 years,” Jill loudly reminds the chef. Quiet Kyle suddenly orders Jill to shut up again. “Don’t talk to these people like this, they’re good people. Don’t do that. You can leave,” the chef says. The first video comes to an end (and the second video begins) just as Jill reminds the entire restaurant that she called the Golden State home for two decades. “I lived in California for 20 years,” Jill shouts (again). “I don’t care where you lived. You don’t talk to these people like that, not here you don’t,” the bearded guy says. “These people take care of us.” This rebuke silences Jill for a moment, and Quiet Kyle, who is behaving as though he may be a Tampico regular, takes advantage of the lull and apologizes for his dining companion’s blatant bigotry, while Budar has moved on to getting Jill out of the building. “I’m sorry. She was just a friend, I’m sorry I brought her here,” Quiet Kyle pleads. Budar responds, “Let me do this. I’m going to pay for what you got, okay? So can you please exit the restaurant, please?” Jill: “No, I’m not gonna exit.” Budar: “I’ll take care of that, I’ll take care of everything, all you got, okay. Please, if you guys can leave, and you can feel better, in a better place.” Quiet Kyle grabs his coat and begs Jill to come with him, as the front-of-house employee starts clearing the table. Jill stands up, mostly full margarita mug in hand; even as Budar and Quiet Kyle snatch it out of her hands, Jill tries to justify her outburst with events from her past, making at least one woman groan. “So I got raped, I got raped by illegal aliens who can’t speak English, and you want me to be nice to you?” Jill tries to lunge at Budal, but Quiet Kyle stops her. “Jill!” Quiet Kyle pushes her towards the door. “Oh my, my, my.” “Fucking rapist.” Jill throws a napkin at Budal, who stands still, but waves his hand at onlookers. “Do you see?” Budal says, desperately. Quiet Kyle apologizes to the restaurant patrons as he continues to shuffle Jill out the door, as she continues screaming about being “raped by illegal aliens” and calling Budar a “fucking rapist.” As Jill finally approaches the exit, two unseen women chime in. Woman 1: “White men rape women too.” Woman 2: “Also, a lot more.” Woman 1: “All men do.” The video ends there, as Castillo makes it behind the host stand. In her Facebook post, Irma Deleon explained that her daughter was scared at the time. My daughter captured this situation while working. My poor baby was frightened but cannot believe this continues to happen. We should be united as a country but there is much hate. We are all human trying to help each other out. I will pray for this woman to be a better person, but you can only educate the ignorant. First they must listen. The story went viral, and was quickly picked up by U.S. Latino news org Latino Rebels, whose founder, Julio Ricardo Varela, tracked down Tampico’s general manager Sergio Budar in about a day. In a conversation on Monday, Budar confirmed that he was speaking with two of the owners of the three-location chain in Spanish before Jill came to their table and went full xenophobe. He said nothing like this has ever happened to him before, though he’d seen such things on social media, and they thought she was joking at first. How am I supposed to get out of your country when this is my country too? I am a citizen too. I really, I can tell you, I feel sorry for her. Budar said he was angry, but “it wasn’t worth it” to let the situation go any further. He wasn’t sure if Jill came in intoxicated, as she’d only had one margarita at the restaurant before the mostly full one the staff seized. Budar also said the restaurant was flooded with sympathetic members of the community on Sunday, the day after the video was published. Varela asked Budar what it’s like to operate Mexican restaurants in West Virginia, and he conceded that “there’s not a lot of Hispanics” in the area, before revealing that he only joined the company about a month before the incident. When asked for his final takeaway on this, Budar encouraged people who encounter bigots to “act differently,” so they can “keep their dignity.” ”Don’t say a thing to them. I know it’s hard. It’s not easy.” It sure isn’t. But it shouldn’t be so hard. Budar’s advice is sadly crucial as incidents like these continue to increase. While viral video-captures of blatant bigotry aren’t tracked, it’s undeniable that hate crimes are happening with much greater frequency. Local CBS affiliate WOWK reports that Jill is now banned from the restaurant.
Yea you think that's bad? Just wait until you hear about a semi-famous actor who faked a police report.
So Mark Harris is calling for a new election now and also said he has had two strokes in the past few months. Perhaps he should step aside?
The fact that his son testified that he knowingly hired someone who was working a scheme to defraud absentee voters should be disqualifying from ever pursuing public office again.
The video of Harris crying while his son testified against him was pretty incredible. Saw it in passing on CNN. trying to find it
just incredible greed and arrogance from the harris campaign they probably win this election even without the ballot conspiracy and now he's going to energize mccready's supporters and get slaughtered in the new election
I have no idea what his health conditions are, but him stepping aside is exactly what the GOP wants now. He’d be toxic in the new election and a new name has at least a decent chance to hold the seat.
so uh that election tampering isn't going to result in harris going to prison? he's allowed to run again for the same office he tampered w/ winning in november?
there is a new law that would require a new primary in the event of a new election so harris likely won't even be the nominee he's asking for a new election in a desperate attempt to avoid prison let's see if it works out for him
Isn't his son a federal prosecutor? "Yeah I bet he'll just perjure himself for me and if not I'll pretend I'm having strokes."
he doesnt have a prayer in a primary at this point with how tainted his campaign is. he'll likely use health reasons as an excuse to step down. also he's probably going to prison which makes the whole campaigning for office thing a tad bit difficult