"I'm sure it's just one of Michelle's ancestors -- probably harmless." — prominent GOP activist Rusty DePass, on report that a gorilla had escaped from a Columbia, South Carolina zoo
Ira Hansen, the Nevada Republican assemblyman slated to become the chamber’s next speaker, has put forth a litany of white supremacist, misogynist and homophobic views, statements that have been chronicled by the Reno News Review. In newspaper writings over the years, Speaker-designate Hansen has assailed Jews; Israel; women who see themselves as more than vessels for delivering children; fellow Republicans deemed insufficiently conservative; civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.; critics of the Confederate flag; and gay men, whom he falsely alleges are disproportionately likely to be child molesters. In his columns attacking King, Hansen wrote that “King’s private life was trashy at best. … King Jr. is as low as it gets, a hypocrite, a liar, a phony, and a fraud.” Such language eerily echoes a 1964 letter the FBI sent King in an unsuccessful attempt to convince the civil rights leader to commit suicide. Weighing in on the school voucher debate, Hansen wrote, “[t]he relationship of Negroes and Democrats is truly a master-slave relationship, with the benevolent master knowing what’s best for his simple minded darkies.”
"In his columns attacking King, Hansen wrote that “King’s private life was trashy at best. … King Jr. is as low as it gets, a hypocrite, a liar, a phony, and a fraud.” Such language eerily echoes a 1964 letter the FBI sent King in an unsuccessful attempt to convince the civil rights leader to commit suicide." I do not support the litany of white supremacist, misogynist and homophobic views that this character put forward. However his comments about MLK actually align closely with those from people who worked with him directly in civil rights campaigns. King regularly cheated on his wife, lied about affairs & finances, and projected himself as things he was not. While his Civil Rights work was critical and meaningful & helped make America better, King's personal life was a mess.
On Nov. 4, Republicans won control of the Nevada Assembly for the first time since 1985, and three days later they selected two-term backbencher Ira Hansen as their speaker-designate. On Sunday, after almost a week of revelations from his 13 years as a columnist for the Sparks Tribune and turns as talk radio host, Hansen said that he is withdrawing from the position, blaming a "carefully orchestrated attack to remove a conservative Republican from a major leadership role in state government," according to a letter obtained by Nevada journalist Jon Ralston. Among other things, Hansen proudly keeps a confederate flag above his writing desk, recently asked why public health advocates don't seemed concerned that male "homosexual conduct shortens lives by 15 to 20 years," and seems to argue that the Clinton administration is responsible for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. You can read about Hansen's paper trail at the Reno News & Review, Reno Gazette-Journal, and Las Vegas Review Journal. Ralston concludes that despite charges of political witch-hunting, "Hansen's own pen was mightier than any of the swords unsheathed by those who never wanted him there": At some point, a story about man who used the words "simple-minded darkies," even just in an analogy, a man who equates homosexuality with bestiality and pederasty, a man who essentially thinks women should have babies and cook dinner, a man who believes there is no science to back up evolution.... at some point, that story transcends politics. [Ralston Reports] Nevada Republicans haven't yet picked a new speaker-designate. --Peter Weber
"When one race or culture overwhelms another culture, they run them out or they kill them. And it's a bigger issue than just being Democrats...Once the numbers are so bad, they can pretty much do whatever they want to do." -- radio caller concerned about a future majority of Hispanic citizens in the U.S. --------------------- Sort of like English colonists and the American Indian . . .
Police: Slain Austin gunman fired more than 100 rounds at Mexican consulate, other buildings Typical Teadiot. Given that the republican mind doesn't exist in the hard sciences, it's difficult to justify their existance.
Youre really going to go there after the hundreds of millions of dollars in damages liberals have recently caused all over the country as they refuse to accept the facts in the Michael Brown case? LOL, just more evidence that the liberal mind is impervious to facts.
Texas Approves Textbooks With Moses As Honorary Founding Father - The Texas State Board of Education approved several dozen social studies textbooks after a contentious battle over their treatment of subjects including climate change, the role of slavery in the Civil War, Islam, and biblical influence in America’s founding. One major publisher, however, withdrew a book from consideration, saying that it was unable to meet all the standards set by the school board. The Texas Freedom Network, which live-blogged today’s vote, said that much problematic material had been removed from the proposed textbooks, including climate denial and “offensive cartoons comparing beneficiaries of affirmative action to space aliens,” but that references to Moses as an influence on the Constitution and the Old Testament as the root of democracy remained. But TFN notes that publishers posted a number of last-minute changes to the textbooks yesterday, leaving board members and observers without time to figure out exactly what was in the approved texts: - See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/conte...honorary-founding-father#sthash.eGejDjqs.dpuf