State Rep. and terror-baby aficionado Debbie Riddle of Texas camped out in a folding chair in front of the legislative clerk’s office yesterday to make sure she was the first (OF MANY! USA! USA! USA!) to introduce a version of Arizona’s racial-profiling immigration law into her grand state’s legislature. This is an interesting new tactic for state lawmakers. Sure, everyone knows it’s cool to be afraid of the brown people and all the times they are planning on murdering your precious white brat children, but it’s hard to tell who is the coolest. Yes, there are those who each come up with the new idea that breaks the previous world record of hate, but those guys are immigration nerds. The real cool people are those who are the first to make this hate happen, and the best way to do that is to sit outside all night in a folding chair like you’re waiting to buy concert tickets. CONCERT TICKETS FOR THE ULTIMATE HATE CONCERT!
This is some really jawsome scary-Mexican B-roll footage, Fox affiliate. Somebody is going to get called up to the Fox major leagues. Also, haha, when this lady is talking to the reporter she doesn’t notice two scary old brown people walk down the stairs RIGHT BEHIND her, here in the people’s legislative building.
Meanwhile, other Texas lawmakers say they want to stop giving children and Medicaid recipients health care, because the federal health care reforms are too stressful for them or something. It must be hard to be a Republican legislator in Texas. Everything is a dick-measuring contest. [Houston Press/Texas Tribune]
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In other news, Texas communities are following the lead of Arizona and are dismantling their curbside recycling programs.
Never forget!!!1!
Wait a minute, they have curbside recycling in Texas?
A bit of a stretch on my part, wasn't it…
Depends on the community. Some locales do, some don't, some seem to be trying but the asshats can't be bothered to actually put recyclables in a separate container.
Recycle, that is for liberal pussies trying to leave a better world for their grand kids. Everyone knows the rapture is coming and all of the good people will be outta here. These guys seem to think it will be soon.
http://www.raptureready.com/
I keep forgetting about that.
I hope it happens quick!
How does Debbie talk w/o her jaw moving like that? Can she even open her mouth?
I think I saw this women on AMC's The Walking Dead the other night. Fortunately, the compassionate sheriff put a cap in her head.
Bad dentures.
Only to suck Rick Perry's dick
Too much corporate cock sucking.
Who could have suspected that the state which seceded from two different countries to preserve slavery would have bigots in the legislature?
The Corrections Corporation of America wrote the Arizona law in order to incarcerate women and children and receive millions in federal funds for their trouble. Now Texas is following suit. Google Laura Sullivan / NPR for the story. This is the main reason the tea baggers want to cut funding for NPR. What a taxpayer ripoff. Fuck them!
I listened to that series. Writing legislation for profit is the newest hot industry apparently.
I heard this on the NPR a couple days ago and am quite shocked, shocked I tell you, that no other media outlet has picked it up. Now it's reduced to a Google search?
O tempora! O mores!
Talk of the Nation had Laura Sullivan on today to revisit this. Maybe once "On Point", "Diane Rehm", and Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me!" cover it, we'll see it on Yahoo News feed.
Read that story with much anger and contempt. If only there were a way to create an incentive to corporate 'Murka to incarcerate and mistreat the steaming pantloads like Debbie here.
In other news, Texas is still (mostly) populated by mouth-breathing booger-eaters. Yosemite Sam would win any election in a landslide there.
They've moved into my community, too. Oddly, the 'baggers are opposed to this.
My home used to be in a solid 2 on the Bortle night sky darkness scale, now thanks to the prison lights 10 miles away, I'm at least a 3.
And isn't CCA and offshoot of the Frist family's HCA which privatized the formerly non-profit hospital sector? Teabaggery has its benefits.
Also Multinational United (MNU), whom the state of Texas will contract to shoo the unwanted aliens out of District 9 and into District 10. It's for their own benefit.
Love the image of the Illegal wading across the Rio Grande: an authentic Wetback! Ah Texas…anybody else see Gayhair Perry on Stewart last night? He's so much like Bush it's scary.
Perry/Rubio '12
Corrections Corporation of America approves!!
Yeah, no doubt Washington would suffer most from dropping Medicaid. Haha, Washington buuuuuuuurn! In your face! Suck on this!
Holy FUCK, these people are INSANE! 40% of $40 billion is 16 billion. She thinks the state can provide better care than that afforded by a $40 billion program by replacing it with a state program that spends substantially less than $16 billion (remember, the whole point is to save money). FUUUUUCK!
No, the whole point is to kill the poors, obvs.
Well yeah, if it kills poor people, then it's better!
And you know they'll never protest because they'll be too sick.
Mostly who they'll kills is the olds. And as we were taught about why black people should encourage privatization of socialist security, old people in nursing homes where most of the Medicaid money goes, as white.
Yeah, b'but $40 billion/biennium = $20 trillion per millenium. This is the kind of out-of-control government spending that will mortgage our great-great-great-great-great-grandchildens' futures!
I don't really know what this Medicaid thing is, but I know it's socialism and it's bad.
Why are we even talking about this? Cut the program.
Math is hard. We can do it for Frehdhum!
The point is to break the government and every program in it so that private companies can do a worse job at it for a much higher price tag.
I wish the democraps had the balls to put that on a fucking tv ad.
WTF? Are you stoopid or sumpin? All you have to do is CUT TAXES!!! Then everything will be fine.
I used to think the Dead Kennedys were just kidding:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgpa7wEAz7I
Just think how much the death rate in Texas will go up – New study finds 45,000 deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage – http://goo.gl/fYlca
“The uninsured have a higher risk of death when compared to the privately
insured, even after taking into account socioeconomics, health behaviors, and
baseline health,” said lead author Andrew Wilper, M.D., who currently teaches
at the University of Washington School of Medicine. “We doctors have many new
ways to prevent deaths from hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease — but
only if patients can get into our offices and afford their medications.”
These people are insane. Who do they think funds their Larks and Rascals?
I bet they think the money can be saved by turning over management to a private company, for efficiency! Because that always works well! Never mind that private enterprise isn't all that much more efficient than the public one, in the long run, and that any amount saved is inevitably outweighed tenfold by out-of-control executive compensation schemes…
Privatization worked out great for Argentina. Menem privatized everything he could get his hands on and look where they ended up. If you think privatization is at all efficient look no further than I-rack.
Texas pays the most for the worst health care. Washington should just do them the express capitalist favor of cutting them off from all this crazy sokalist aid. Done and done. There, now they should stop bitching and whining . . .
She must have thought that if she filed it really early in the morning, all the brown people would be out collecting the white people's trash.
So I take it, the Private Prison Companies are behind this legislation also.
Eventually they will have locked up 1/2 of the undesirable population. For profit, of course.
Only HALF? What'll they do w/ the rest, hunt 'em for sport?
Not in the Peoples' Republic of California, praise Jeebus. Prisons– good old socialist prisons run by government employees — are our only growth industry.
Gaaahh! Jesus Christ wingnuts. Can you just take one day off from the hate and the crazy? Give us one fucking day where we're not viscerally reacting to some new monster. We're already deluged with the revisionist history that is Dubya's book tour. Enough. Uncle.
After yesterday's jar baby episode, its more like revulsionist history.
This kinda hooliganism wouldn't be happening if Texas had any kinda decent loitering laws.
Or a deeper river? I blame global warming
I call bullshit, she was just waiting so she could try and win back the love and respect of her disaffected teens' by bringing home the first copy of CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS when it went on sale last night.
Shit!!! that was last night????
Yup, and they sold them all, and they'll never make any more ever again, so if you missed it you are fucked.
Debbie Does Discrimination.
She obviously doesn't do Mexicans though
Can Rick Perry please just hurry up with that re-secession he promised us? Then the rest of this country wouldn't have to deal with that horrid state anymore.
When that happens, I'm applying for political asylum. Can I crash at your place?
If they just left then the Repugs would lose half their electoral votes…mostly.
I'll bet the Comanches are kicking themselves for not coming up with this "camping out to get rid of the Others" strategy first.
Wasn't "camping out" their primary mode of lifestyle?
Til they got hooked on those thirsty hungry petroleum products.
We just had a Walmart Superstore open in our town (Yay! More plastic Chinese shit, marked down.) The local paper had a story about the opening, in which some poor unemployed schmuck who camped overnight to be the first customer in the door. He was pissed when they didn't give him a prize.
Get used to it, sucker.
But he would've been greeted by a previously-unemployed Old in an orange vest, which is good enough for me!
You sure he wasn't just hoping to get a job?
Last time I saw a face like that it had a bag of oats hanging off of it.
Their suffering is truly a thing of beauty to watch this year.
It is a joyful thing, warms the cockles of me heart.
Racial profiling law? we don't need no stinking racial profiling law!
"Riddle proudly displayed her Anti-immigration Legislation t-shirt, faded with multiple washings over the years, thus proving that she had thought of the law first and was a fan of racial profiling before racial profiling was cool."
They'll be sorry when Obama finalizes the "Southern Tier States" sale to Mexico in 2011…
That's "Aztlan" to you, amigo. Let la Reconquista begin!
Shit – I better brush up on Espanol then …
I think I just came.
And I'm serious here. What do these assholes have against mild reforms of for-profit health insurance? They're calling it a "monstrosity" and HCR was referred to as Obama's "Tar Baby"
I honestly don't get why the coservatards are so outraged? All this insane HYPER-BOLE.
Is it spite?
All I can think of is it's BIG GUMMINT, it's too complicated to really describe in a sentence, and we had so many looks at the sausage-making involved that everyone was heartily sick of it by the time it came out.
It is Stupidity ( and news media complicity.)
My Facebook newsfeed is filled with barely literate mo-fos (who voted for Obama) and their status updates decrying "government run healthcare."
IT'S TOTALLY SOCIALIST/COMMIE/FASCIST/MUSLIN TO PUSH THROUGH LEGISLATION THAT LOOKS EXACTLY THE SAME AS REPUBLICAN PROPOSITIONS FROM A DECADE AGO!!!!1111111OMG
First off, the Demoncrats should have called it Health Insurance Reform. It would be more accurate.
Second, there's more than a little xenophobia floating around. Illegal immigrants are ruining everything. Moslems are ruining everything. The Kenyan is ruining everything.
America is a weird and wonderful place, but these people think it is Hell.
Fear of minorities + fear of change + high unemployment and a growing population over retirement age leaving a lot of people without much to do = a whole hell of a lot of negative energy to be spread about. Take into account most people's lazy unwillingness to find out what law actually entails and well-funded corporate-sponsored misinformation about the plan spewed indiscriminately and, well, here we are. Sigh. I'm glad my one remaining grandparent isn't bored enough to get swept up in this nonsense.
Obamacare might fund ways to get an abortion no matter if some hayseed state/local authority decides to deny a woman's civil rights to get one. That's scary cause, god.
The content of what they say may not be (overtly) racist, but the TONE is.
There's nothing I like better than a politician creating a law that is superfluous under current state law to give their bigoted constituents something about which they can toothlessly smile. If you think Texas law enforcement types don't profile or call in background checks on every brown person they take into custody…….well, you've never been to Texas.
My stupid friend who thinks that no other countries tolerate people speaking more than one language is married to an even stupider man who is as racist as all get-out. He told me that when he was a kid, whenever a car full of Mexicans would drive by his house, his mother would call up the neighbors to warn them ("There's a carfull of spics headed your way, Cletus!"), and the whole neighborhood would do the same, like a daisy chain of hatred, and all of their Aryan eyes would bore holes into the overloaded Toyota or whatever until it disappeared from view.
He was pretty proud of this united front against poor migrant workers. I was amazed that white people who live in a rural community that is approximately 30% Hispanic migrant workers would have the time to keep an eye out for every single car full of brown people that drove by, and then I remembered that most white people in the area live off of welfare, and it all came together.
Sounds like somebody needs new friends.
Eh, you know, you can cut people off or you can hope to learn from each other. For instance, Stupid Racist Husband has taught me how to fire a shotgun without falling over, and I have taught him that not all gay men are interested in him.
Don't forget selling meth/crank. It used to be the redneck answer to keeping themselves in dogs and pickups when welfare just didn't cut it. I am convinced a lot of teabaggers are pissed at Hispanics because mexican druglords ran most of the rednecks out of the meth trade.
Oh, god yes. My hometown economy is powered by meth and apple exports.
I'd take in the Mexicans and begin to deport all scary white people with bad overbite. I don't think the Constitution protects women with nasty orthodontic issues. I'm sure the Founding Fathers would have preferred the well dressed woman in the last frame over this evil crone (certainly in Salem).
That's a subjective statement. For many of us, this is the greatest Cowboy team of all time.
Heh. True, but I was looking at it from a Tejas perspective.
The only football debacle more enjoyable than a Dallas Cowboys meltdown is a Washington Redskins humiliation.
Watching 'Skins and 'Boys play next time will let us feel how Sarah Palin would have felt if Trig had been twins.
WTF is a Tomball? Is that the Texans use to teabag each other?
She talks like a number of the dumbasses down here in N. Fla. do; her enunciation shows that she heard those words somewhere, and they sound intelligent, but she has no idea what they really mean.
Should we make blonds on the steps of the statehouse fearz campaign issue for 2012?
You know, I'm no racist but when I see a blonde camped out at the clerks office, clutching her bill, I get a little nervous.
when the white racists start lynching the browns, that is when we are in serious trouble, for that is when the prices for foodstuffs will skyrocket. once that happens, we can expect the lynchers to start lynching each other. if we can stand being a little hungry for a little while, the problem will clear up once the last lyncher has hanged himself (from austin's treaty oak, no doubt).
Mexican rat dicks.
Republican cries of "They're taking our jobs!" needs to be heard more often on election day.
Riddle me this, how will the sickly obese great-grands be able to read about this much heralded 8 hour sit-in in the Texas school books when everyone is illiterate and / or blind from juvenile diabetes?
Trick question. They don't 'read' to get their news, they listen to Faux Noise! Do I get a prize? A nice Wonkette T-shirt? Hm? Hm? Well, NSS? WELL!?
At least I can be comforted with the notion that no matter how screwy my state can be, we will never be as fucked in the noggin as Texas. Not even close.
Debbie Riddle can't hide from her past. She's still Voldemort's sister.
"It must be hard to be a Republican legislator in Texas. Everything is a dick-measuring contest."
And you know everything is bigger in Texas so they must be out measuring of some HUGE dicks!
Henceforth, Debbie Riddle's dislocated jaw.
I don't know about that. For some reason, the phrase "over compensation" comes to mind. They drive those big-ass pickup trucks for the same reason.
She is a Riddle, wrapped in a mystery in an enigma, wrapped in a delusion, wrapped in bullshit.
I saw that logic-deficit freak on Anderson Cooper. She was deeply concerned about the browns pooping out terror babies which is ironic as she is making the terror babies by harrassing them all through their life. Ain't wish fulfillment grand?
What's the point? Texas is already way beyond racial profiling or random stops of brown people. They don't have stop and frisk they have stop and beat to a pulp.
Texas has a law that states: "When two trains meet each other at a railroad crossing, each shall come to a full stop, and neither shall proceed until the other has gone." So yeah, they've gone full retard. Mexico wouldn't take that rancid turd back if you paid 'em.
One day soon, all tourists within the United States will simply have those plastic pouches dangling around their neck with their passport in it, open to the appropriate page, so that they may go about their touristing unmolested.
Well, the non-white ones will, anyway.
Tomball, an exurb of Houston, is full of assholes, also
Hola, senior. As part of la policia I must tell you you look like an Englishman and I will need to see some proof that you are here legally.
You can't fool me, evil wizard! I read The Chamber of Secrets and know that "Debbie Riddle (R – Tomball)" actually rearranges to spell "I am Dribbled Rebel Dolt"
Somebody warn Dumbledore!
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