May 22, 2013

Not Oprah. Sarah Palin. See the 'O' here?

Sarah Palin Sculpture To Roast A Pig At Bridgeport Arts Complex

CHICAGO (CBS) — Democratic politics are responsible for the colorful history of the Bridgeport neighborhood, but on Friday afternoon, a prominent Republican politician will be in the spotlight.

Visitors on Friday to the Bridgeport Art Center, 1200 W. 35th St., will be greeted by a giant metal sculpture of Sarah Palin’s head, and the wide open mouth on the sculpture isn’t just intended to suggest Palin’s expression at her most indignant.

The sculpture, called “We’re Havin’ a Tea Pear-ody,” doubles as a working stove, and at 5 p.m. Friday, it will cook a whole suckling pig, which will be roasted right in the mouth. The smoke from the roasting process will billow from the sculpture’s head, which is adorned with hair ratted up in a high bun just like the real Palin...

The artist, J. Taylor Wallace of the Ukrainian Village neighborhood, unveiled his Palin sculpture last year at the National Ornamental Museum in Memphis. The sculpture also cooked a pear-stuffed suckling pig for that occasion.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/04/20/sarah-palin-sculpture-to-roast-a-pig-at-bridgeport-arts-complex/?hpt=us_bn6#photo-1

Sorry about that... Hope you don't have nightmares now.

May 22, 2013

Actually, since HAARP's in Alaska, and Infowars sez it created Katrina, Ike, Sandy and this tornado,

it's time to put the blame where it belongs:



This is divine retribution from Our Lady of Guns, Sister Sarah. Naturally, people will blame Obama.

May 22, 2013

Thanks, President Obama and Secretary of Defense Hagel:

Obama: 'No tolerance' for military sexual assault

By Michael O'Brien, Political Reporter, NBC News 5-7-2013

President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he has “no tolerance” for sexual assault in the military, comments made in the wake of a new Pentagon report showing the instances of such crimes have spiked since 2010.

The president said he had spoken today with Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to urge him to “exponentially step up” efforts to identify suspects in assaults, and aggressively prosecute those cases.

“The bottom line is: I have no tolerance for this,” Obama said at a press conference following his meeting with South Korean President Park Geun-hye.

‘I expect consequences,” Obama added. “So I don’t just want more speeches or awareness programs or training, but ultimately folks look the other way. If we find out somebody’s engaging in this, they’ve got to be held accountable – prosecuted, stripped of their positions, court martialed, fired, dishonorably discharged. Period.”

http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/07/18107743-obama-no-tolerance-for-military-sexual-assault?lite

May 21, 2013

The Koch brothers have directly threatened Obama to force him to agree to this for years.

As a nation, we need to reject the Koch brothers method of governance such as Synder's emergency managers in MI and Walker's selling off WI, and not buy their propaganda which is designed to keep Democrats away from the polls in 2014. Under every scandal and loose charge is a Kochroach.

May 20, 2013

Thanks, sheshe! TOD and the pictures there and at the Atlanta-Constitution are beautiful.

A joyous day in Atlanta. I haven't been to Atlanta in many years, but I did enjoy a summer there. My Irish grandmother and some of her sisters lived there.

On the youtube page it said Obama is the first POTUS in 80 years to visit Morehouse College. History is continuing to be made by our 44th President!

~ Forward ~

May 19, 2013

The thrice repeated phrase in the OP 'expected to survive,' doesn't prove much.

A GSW to take out part of the face, shatter the cervical spine, jaw or teeth, shredding the lip, tongue or throat won't repair itself with time, only surgery and years of expensive care, if at all.

Survive does not mean thrive, the child may be end up being disfigured or disabled for the rest of his life. Emotional or nervous trauma is a possibility.

But no funeral, not yet, so it's just an 'accident', a preventable event, but it was not negligence according to the law there. Yup.

May 19, 2013

It took a civil war to make that happen, you know. Most of the same crowd that refuse gun control:

States with the Most Gun Violence

10. Georgia
9. Arkansas
8. Missouri
7. New Mexico
6. South Carolina
5. Mississippi
4. Arizona
3. Alabama
2. Alaska
1. Louisiana

Much more detail at the link:

http://247wallst.com/2013/04/15/states-with-the-most-gun-violence/2/

Note they now are majority GOP and or Teabagger. With the exception of AZ, NM and AK, they were all slave states. This mentality still exists.

May 19, 2013

People treat guns like toys, or a religious relic. Gun worship is the fastest growing religion now.

Legislators give away AR-15s for donations. Banks, radio stations, charities give them away. And Libertarians give free rifles to people in zero tolerance cities, and they all defy all regulations. They are favored as Christmas and birthday gifts for children.



Gun owners open carry so they can intimidate people at public meetings. Some cities and states mandate a gun in every home. This won't stop in states calling deaths and injuries accidents. It will keep going on.

I'm less affected at the deaths in these gun worshipping families than I was before. They have escaped this blighted world, it's possible their families will learn nothing, since the law keeps on giving them a free pass.



The people I'm concerned with are the peaceful ones who have to live alongside this mentality. And how easily gun owners are believing they have reasons to kill others. Some say they are ready to kill a lot of people for political reasons, or just for coming for their guns. Buying a machine gun or assault rifle with the ability to shoot many rounds as if in a war zone is a plan to commit mass murder.



See the pregnant mother. No doubt this picture will be an iconic image in their home as her child is born and grows up. We will have to live with these gun worshippers.

May 19, 2013

Yep. Case in point after we read all these stories, first one I ever read charged with a crime:

He Has A Name: 3-Year-Old Jadarrius Speights Shoots & Kills Himself With Uncle's Gun



...Jadarrius shot himself and now, Walker...is being charged with culpable negligence, which is a third degree felony.

His Uncle, 29-year-old Jeffrey Walker, left the gun in the room he shared with the toddler, where he found it in a backpack. Walker purchased the gun at a gun shop in the Tampa Bay area and also had a concealed weapons permit.

Tragically, the child's parents, 21-year-old Jasmine Bell and 22-year-old Trentin Speights, were in their bedroom at the time of the shooting...

http://globalgrind.com/news/3-year-old-jadarrius-speights-shoots-kills-himself-uncles-gun-tampa-photos

This was a permitted gun. Not saying he should not be charged, but the application of these laws seems uneven given so many are not charged. That may mean that the law is going to take a harder look at these deaths, which seem to be happening every day now.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014477845#post89

I don't see any difference in this case, and this Uncle appeared to have done everything right, including keeping it out of sight, except the gun was loaded.

Walker was a law-abiding gun owner, did it all the right way, even had a CCW. But it wasn't called an accident, was it?

My conclusion is that just being 'blah' in the USA carries an inherently unjust penalty.

May 19, 2013

There is something seriously wrong with all of this. That mom thinks it's hilarious. No matter how

many children are wounded or die daily from this, they won't give up those guns.

Now the law says melting down guns is wrong. Guns are people. People are just target practice.