It’s happening in Egypt right now.

What will the president do. Condemn it while it happens here?

Perhaps Bloomberg can say something.

UC Davis?

The Mayor of Oakland?

Nicely done, folks.

You’ve shown America to be empty words, truncheons, night sticks and pepper spray and the world has taken notice.

C’mon, Gingrich. Tell those people in Egypt they need showers and jobs.

To every politicians on the left and right that decided it was okay to attack people for protesting, this is what you have sown. From our President’s silence down, congrats.

The world is a worse place for your efforts.

Been looking for this for a while.  Found it via Wonkette

Look:  Not that there’s anything wrong with telling kids to wait.  

Just that making that part of a school curriculum DOES NOT for work.  Here’s just one of many articles.  Sadly, it’s fact based, so it will be instantly ignored.

But more importantly for this piece… here’s a guy who came in screaming it’s all about fixing things, creating new jobs, and instead… it’s all about a social agenda.  

Anti-Union.  And now, anti-science.   Seems like Huffpo found more proof that Wisconsin got a Right Wing Fundamentalist in sheep’s clothing.

Wisconsin is facing a jobs crisis. The state’s official unemployment rate, down to 7.1 percent in January, has risen to 7.8 percent since Republican Gov. Scott Walker took office. But Walker and the GOP-led Legislature have a plan: First, they curtailed collective-bargaining rights and threatened to lay off government workers, including teachers, cops, and firefighters. Then Walker called a special jobs-focused session of the Legislature, which he dubbed “Back to Work Wisconsin,” to pass even more “job-creating” laws. At the top of the jobs agenda? Gutting the state’s sex ed standards and replacing them with abstinence-only education.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) Scott Walker for Governor/Flickr

Man, I want this thing to go down because it’s a shot across the bow at Scott Walker.  

This law gets over turned, the Republicans are forced to rethink their over-reach.  It starts the discussion about exactly how far right is “too far right” in the 2012 election.

But now that quitty-McQuitterslacks has stuck her babble into it?  I REALLY want this law to get overturned.  

A slap on the hand for the tea party AND Sarah Palin humiliation?  What, is it Christmas already?  C’mon, Ohio… if you can’t do it for your teachers, first responders and the people… can you at least do it for me? 

Ohio’s Issue 2, a referendum on a controversial law curtailing collective bargaining rights for public employees, picked up the endorsement of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin Friday.

A “yes” vote on the issue would uphold S.B. 5, which bans public employees from being able to collectively bargain for benefits and requires employees to pay a certain percentage of their health and pension benefits. A “no” vote repeals the law.

Palin said on Facebook, “As a proud former union member and the wife, daughter, and sister of union members, I’m encouraging you to learn the facts about Issue 2 in Ohio.” She added: “To the hard working, patriotic, selfless union brothers and sisters in Ohio and throughout our country: I believe that Issue 2 is needed reform. It will help restore fairness to Ohio taxpayers and help balance the budget.”

Issue 2 looks, however, headed for defeated in next week’s vote. Recent polls show it losing by double digits.

Conservative nonprofits are spending their funds to pass the measure. Alliance for America’s Future, a conservative group whose leadership includes Mary Cheney, sent out mailers tying the measure to President Barack Obama.

“Liberals Want You to Help Him by Voting NO on Issues 2&3” reads one mailer showing Obama. The second page of the mailer reads: “This November, Stop Their Momentum Before it Begins,” showing a picture of Obama and Vice President Joe Biden. (Issue 3 is a state constitutional amendment that would prohibit a federal, state or local government from mandating people to buy health insurance, rebuking the president’s health care law.)

Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R, of course) jammed this thing through the assembly in about four minutes (well, two months) and watched his poll numbers drop like a stone.

Couple that with the beginning of a recall attempt in Wisconsin, and things aren’t looking so spiffy in the middle of America for the Tea Party and their Koch corporate masters, is it?

This could be a great one-two punch.   Here’s hoping Ohio lands the first of a knock out combo.

Forwarded by @dorienrose on twitter.

In the meantime, enjoy some people in Chicago letting him know that he’s unwelcome in the region, not just his state!

First this, from Neighborhood Scout

With a crime rate of 73 per one thousand residents, Oakland has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes - from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One’s chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 14. Within California, more than 94% of the communities have a lower crime rate than Oakland.In fact, after researching dangerous places to live, NeighborhoodScout found Oakland to be one of the top 100 most dangerous cities in the U.S.A.

So, with that in mind, what were the Oakland police doing yesterday?  

That’s right.  Beating and gassing #OccupyOakland protesters.  Nice priorities, guys.

Oakland Interim Police Chief Howard Jordan said arrests were continuing and the total number might rise. Eight-five of those arrests were made early Tuesday, when officers raided the Occupy Oakland encampment on the plaza along with an annex in a park near Lake Merritt.

PHOTOS: Occupy Oakland protest

Jordan justified his department’s use of tear gas.

“We were in a position where we had to deploy gas in order to stop the crowd and people from pelting us with bottles and rocks,” he said.

Isn’t this the kind of sh*t we frown upon unless it’s done in a country where we buy oil?

“Interim Police Chief” Jordan needs to become “Assistant Manager at Foot Locker” Jordan as of yesterday.  

Cops in that city have better things to do than worry about people not being able to hit “Tully’s Coffee.”

Ridiculous.

From @Huffpo.  What a wuss.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) has canceled a speech he planned to give at the University of Pennsylvania on income inequality, due to the fact that many people who currently earn unequal incomes decided to attend. Because who knows? The subject matter may have been of particular interest to them, or something? Jake Sherman reports for Politico:

According to the report, Cantor had presumed that the speech would be something exclusively for the University of Pennsylvania community — specifically, as Cantor spokesman Brad Dayspring described, “students, faculty, alumni, and other[s].” 

But according to The Hill, “Cantor’s office also said it learned Thursday night that university security planned to allow the first 300 people in line to attend the speech, regardless of affiliation, raising the possibility that Cantor would be addressing a room full of protesters.”The speech was to be titled “A Fair Shot at the American Dream and Economic Growth.”

That’s an odd subject to discuss exclusively in front of the University of Pennsylvania community, seeing as the fact that their status as students or alumni or professors at an elite Ivy League institution probably lends them the necessary insight to know they’ve all essentially received a “fair shot” at the “American dream.”

But the ongoing Occupy Philadelphia demonstrations are what tore it for Cantor, who decried the movement at this month’s Value Voters Summit. In a speech at that venue, Cantor said that he was growing “increasingly concerned about the growing mobs occupying Wall Street and the other cities across the country. And believe it or not, some in this town have actually condoned the pitting of Americans against Americans.” As Jon Stewart of “The Daily Show” pointed out, that’s a pretty ironic stance for Cantor to take, given the fact that when the Tea Party was the hot new thing in public protest, Cantor was giddily encouraging “mobs” to “pit themselves against Americans.”

Boy, you gotta love these guys. (No you don’t)

The smallest hint of pressure, and they run.  From Town Halls, from speeches… no wonder they have lockers at Fox News.  At least there they can get have the ideological equivalent of a make-out session regarding their views without having to fear the slightest difficult question.

It’s why these GOP debates have been so interesting.  Unlike all their planned appearances, somebody actually challenges them on their ideas and statements.  Sure, I’m disappointed Hermain Cain didn’t turn around and go “You don’t get to call me brother, not after that whole n*****head thing,” but it’s still intoxicating to watch.

But Cantor - after spending all of last year whipping the tea party into whatever fury he could, now weeps for the divided American that exists because of the #OWS movement.  Or, if I may be more clear, Cantor doesn’t like the fact that people he disagrees with have started to learn how to be heard as well.  It took a while.  And the media wanted to ignore it.  But they’re being heard.

And because there was a chance Cantor might have to hear them, he caved.  Fingers in the ear.  ”La La La,” taking his empty talking points and ran home to Washington. 

Typical hard-right tool.:  In the same way he only cares about debt when there’s a Democrat in office, he only cares about Freedom of Expression and a robust public debate when he’s sitting in a room with people who agree with him.

Back that day care center I’m partially funding… I mean, the House Of Representatives.  .  

I didn’t create this.  I humbly pass it along.