Motley Moose – Archive

Subtitled: Cautionary Tales from the Great Orange Satan.

Well I’m home from my holiday day trip to Philadelphia, but much of my Christmas Eve, and time in the last week was taken  up with a strange and twisted adventure in blogging over at GOS.

Colorlines had this story:

The DREAM Act would put young undocumented immigrants with a clean criminal record on a long path to citizenship if they commit two years to the military or higher education. In order to qualify, young people must have lived in the country for at least five years, entered the country before the age of 16 and still be under 30 years old. The bill passed the House earlier this month.

In the end, the bill, which has always enjoyed bipartisan support, actually got enough Republican votes to secure its passage. But the Democratic caucus disintegrated when North Carolina’s Kay Hagan, Arkansas’ Jon Pryor, Montana’s Max Baucus and Jon Tester, and Nebraska’s Ben Nelson all voted against ending debate on the bill. Meanwhile, some key Republicans voted for the DREAM Act: Lisa Murkowski from Alaska, Richard Lugar from Indiana and outgoing Sen. Bob Bennett from Utah.

Is the title of yesterday’s column in the San Francisco Bay Chronicle, by Mark Morford.

Morford, writes Notes & Errata every Wednesday.  

Thought you all might enjoy  giving it a full read (if you haven’t already).  It is making a rapid round of the web.

His scathing critique of Tuesday’s election losses and his conclusions about the reasons for them won’t sit well with many young liberals.  

Letter to a whiny young Democrat

 

in a video and blames the usual suspects for the decline and fall of his Amerikkkka (Blacks, Jews and Mexicans).

Young women on the way to the 10-2-2010 rally

Continuing the struggle

As I clear my head and think back over my impressions of the rally in Washington, I will take away with me images of the many young faces I saw there; on the buses, in the DC Metro, in the crowd, and as speakers on the program.  

Not that there weren’t plenty of middles and silver-hairs in the crowd.  

But what gives me hope for the future was the engagement of youth.  For they will continue a struggle begun before we were born and they will continue that struggle long after many of us who are reading here have passed on.

Cross-posted from Black Kos Tuesday’s Chile

Making the rounds of the internet, you tube and facebook is a photo taken at The National Federation of Republican Women’s Conference, in South Carolina

South Carolina Senator Glenn McConnell (in Confederate Navy costume) with re-enactors

Last year I posted a diary at Daily Kos called Coalition Building 101 , calling for a massive march on Washington, using the image from the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.  

You all are aware of the fact that  Maxine Waters, Congresswoman has vowed to fight the charges being leveled against her in Congress.   I say – fight on my sister!

Perhaps it’s time to remind the progressive community about just who she is and why her voice is not only needed in the House – but in this nation.

KKK March Washington DC, 1925

The photo above was 1925…over 85 years ago.

As a 62 year old black person raised by parents and grandparents who lived during those years, 1925 is not so long ago and far away.

According to the  AP: Paul opposes citizenship for babies of illegals

“We’re the only country I know that allows people to come in illegally, have a baby, and then that baby becomes a citizen,” Paul told RT, an English-language station, shortly after his win over GOP establishment candidate Trey Grayson. “And I think that should stop also.”

Mr Paul obviously knows zilch about countries other than the US.  Which is not surprising, giving his propensity for spouting jingoistic rhetoric.