This year they have proposed a school voucher program that was already found to be unconstitutional (teaches Christian beliefs only), cost taxpayers money with idiotic tax breaks for rich people, closed public schools because of said idiotic tax breaks (like Chicago as well), and done everything they can to throw poor people under the bus, especially their children.
The school textbooks being promoted by the voucher program use Christianity as a base, claim the Loch Ness Monster is real (it isn't), the KKK are morally upstanding people (really?), black people can't read because commies run the government (WTF?) and Bill Clinton was elected only because the media lied about his opponent (that's not even possible). This is why our children are stupid and thank God the courts found this reprehensible as well. It also turned out that the referendum wasn't even properly ratified in the first place, only getting 51 votes and not the 53 needed, shades of the 16th amendment all over again. Jindal has stated the program will continue if lawmakers overrule the State Supreme Court's ruling, which it just might as these brainpowers have passed some really idiotic laws lately.
The state legislature recently passed a bill that would allow creationism to be taught in schools, in science classes nonetheless. To demonstrate how worthless these bozos are in critical thinking, state senator, and of Republican of course, Mike Walsworth asked a science teacher during a hearing about the matter about evolutionary experiment. When she talked about an experiment where students can watch e-coli evolve, Wadsworth asked if that experiment could evolve into a human. He actually said that, showing a complete lack of scientific knowledge that would make a six year old blush.
Not to be out done on the whole race to the bottom on abortion rights debate, their legislature have tried to pass many laws that infringe on a woman's reproductive rights, such as having a doctor present to use the morning after pill, forcing clinics to post signage that make women aware of others alternatives to abortion, criminalizing the procedure in direct violation of the Constitution and an idiotic idea to have patients Mirandized before getting the procedure done. Here's a quote from Jindal, "When officers arrest criminals today, they are read their rights. Now if we're giving criminals their basic rights and they have to be informed of those rights, it seems to me only common sense we also have to do the same thing for women before they make the choice about whether to get an abortion." Yeah no stupidity there, Jindal. One state senator, John LaBruzzo, proposed a "feticide" bill that would not only make it illegal to get an abortion, but would sentence women who have had one to 15 years hard labor. Unbelievable.
Jindal himself has become a one man party of stupid when he proposed getting rid of all income and corporate taxes and instead offered to raise sales and cigarette taxes which studies show would adversely affect poor people harder than anyone else. As a matter of fact, the Institute of Taxation and Economic policy said the measure would raise taxes by a huge amount for 80% of all people in the state. But notice the rich and corporations would have even more money which is all they are trying to do. The idea failed as no one liked it. Shocker.
And let us not forget the LGBT community, one of the few minorities left on Earth that some feel is okay to discriminate against still, which it isn't. Alan Seabaugh (R), proposed a law that prohibit gay people from obtaining any protection against workplace discrimination while punishing any who would have the balls to try.
Louisiana is not alone however. In Pennsylvania recently, the Governor Tom Corbett explained why his state is 49th in job creation. "Many employers say, "We're looking for people, but we can't find anyone that has passed a drug test." Nevermind the fact that 90% of these tests find traces of pot which can last in the system for months after use, but as drugs go,are far less harmful than cigarettes or alcohol, especially on health or workplace productivity. Corbett's approval rating is down to 38% in surprise to no one.
Then there is Steve Stockman (R-TX) whose election campaign had this bumper sticker "If babies had guns, they wouldn't be aborted." That's too stupid to even comment on. Louie Gohmert is another real winner here when he recently told a House subcommittee that Al Qaeda had set up radical Islamist camps on the the Mexican side of the border. He claimed the Mexican drug gangs are teaching Muslim radicals how to cross the border and how to act like Mexicans. Nevermind the fact that there is zero proof for any of this.
The worst of the bunch is Eric Cantor who can't be voted out of office soon enough. Anyone still voting for this moron has to immediately register with the Nazi party and wear the outfit 24/7 because if your going to vote for fascism, at least have the decency to wear the uniform.
This ass recently tried to pass a bill that would eliminate overtime for millions of people, like any of us are getting paid enough as it is. In the bill, "comp time" would be replacing overtime pay that could be used to take days off. Now this might not be such a bad idea except nowhere in the bill does it say your boss has to give you the time off you want of even any time at all. The boss could claim he needs you to work overtime for the next year and you can use your comp time sometime after. You know that tomorrow that never arrives. This bill could force people to work many many hours with no payoff whatsoever echoing forced slavery.This is yet another attempt by the fascist right to destroy everything FDR put into place.
While all this is going on are two really scary stories that no one is talking about. The first has to do with the FBI or Fucking Bunch of Idiots, whose story about the death of a Russian, Ibragim Todashev 27, is already leaking holes. As I have said the past, I really dislike the FBI as their investigative skills constantly run somewhere between Inspector Closueau, Johnny English and a brain damaged, spastic monkey. Supposedly while questioning this man late last night about the murder of three MA men in a drug deal gone bad (and possibly connected to the dead Boston Bomber) and about to confess, he grabbed a kitchen knife and the agents had to protect themselves. First, if he had a knife, why shoot to kill? It's not like a knife has bullets. And why such a late visit as it supposedly happened around midnight? Officials have already back tracked off the story and have had no further word on what really happened. As the FBI is notorious for killing innocent people, I suspect this story is vastly different than what they are telling us.
And then there is this story about a mysterious virus that killed two people in Alabama. The fact that tests show one of the victims had H1N1 in his system and, possibly, a new strain AH3. The two deaths were both healthy people in their thirties signifying a possible outbreak threat. The flu that swept the world in 1918 killed up to 30% of the world's population. Imagine what a flu like that would be like now. Worse, it is only a matter of time before it does happen again and it may be rearing it's ugly head now. Deaths from a new strain have killed 130 in China but so far, we haven't seen an outbreak yet and this Alabama strain may be nothing. What bothers doctors is that flu season is over and young people don't usually die from any strain of the flu. Of the twelve infected, two died, five more admitted to the hospital and the rest sent home. This is troubling and bears further watching. Just like the Republican party.
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