Archive for the 'civil rights' Category
Another Way To Save Money: REFORM THE DRUG LAWS
Did anybody see yesterday’s news about the drug informer who lied to the cops for years:
For seven years, Martinez has worked as one of the city’s most productive police informants, bringing down more than 200 drug and gun dealers.
But Martinez now says that some of the police jobs were tainted, rooted in lies and motivated [...]
TOTAL RECALL IN PHILLY
California voters kicked out Gray Davis. Philadelphians can do the same with the Mayor.
well, well, well! Here’s an interesting little chapter of the Philadelphia Home Rule Charter:
Article IX.
REMOVAL OF ELECTIVE AND APPOINTIVE OFFICERS
CHAPTER 1
Recall of Mayor and Other Elective Officers
[snip]
CHAPTER 1
Recall of Mayor and Other Elective Officers
Section 9-100
Officers Subject to Recall.
Any person holding any elective [...]
MICHAEL NUTTER STILL ISN’T LISTENING, STILL FULL OF BALONEY
We’re now within days of starting a new city budget process in which I’ll be asking for citizen input, ideas and priorities BEFORE I put together a proposed budget to present to City Council.
In recent weeks, I’ve been talking at churches, barbershops and homes. I’ve talked to block captains and folks in diners. I’ve told [...]
“Tough Times, Tough Choices”: Talk About Bogus!
Just the title of the Penn-sponsored budget forums “Tough Times, Tough Choices”, sets my radar off, as Philadelphians are set up to decide which programs we should cut, rather than how we can continue to pay for these essential services. A number of people I know have personal experience fighting what they called the University’s [...]
Read More..>>Siobhan Reardon and Michael Nutter: Bullshit Artists and Bullies
The saga of the arrogant fool continues:
Mayor Nutter, responding this morning to a judge’s refusal to overturn her order blocking the city from closing 11 branch libraries, praised her and pounded the seven library plaintiffs and three City Council members who won that legal victory last week. Nutter painted three options presented this morning [...]
Gay Teens and Suicide: Why the Warren Choice Matters
Shorter Stoller: By legitimizing the homophobic Warren, you legitimize the hatred that causes gay teens to commit suicide:
Gay kids learn that being gay is wrong, so they try to stop being attracted to the person of the same sex. And they fail. And they have horrible problems until they come to terms with [...]
Markos on Warren
My father and I had a breif discussion abut the Rick Warren appearance yesterday, which began with dad saying “Oh Come ON” about my objections.
There were a number of reasons I was upset, I explained, and the rhetoric about “reaching out” doesn’t impress me. Normalizing the beliefs of anti-reproductive rights, anti-gay, anti-evolution, war-mongering people like [...]
Council Needs to Stand Up
One of the most discouraging comments i have heard during this whole brouhaha over the fate of our libraries was when Jannie Blackwell’s office told me they had no plans to block the mayor. Anna Verna echoed those comments.
Why are you in City Council, drawing more than $100 thousand dollar salaries, if you’re not there [...]
Shorter Barack Obama
Fuck you, faggots.
That’s really essentially it in a nutshell. And I’m sorry if thaty kind of language hurts someone’s widdle feewings, but that’s exactly what barack obama is saying to gay people and quite frankly to anyone who’s in a domestic partnership, including straight people: Fuck You.
Is rewarding bigotry change we can believe in? [...]
More Than an Applause Line
One of the most infuriating comments from last night’s meeting was this remark by the mayor in response to the crowd’s chant of “tax the rich”: “That’s a wonderful applause line, but we’re actually a little more serious than just doing an applause line,” Nutter said. “We have to run this government and not run [...]
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