Fascist Democrat Senate candidate Gary Peters threatened TV stations with the loss of their Federal licenses if they do not pull ads by his opposition.
The Bill of Rights and the 1st Amendment has no meaning to whores like Peters. It is all about raw power.
Goofball liberal Democrat Gary Peters also just threatened a mom with cancer.
By Eric Dondero Libertarian Republican.net This could go down as election 2014's biggest flub, a Todd Aitken type of mistake. To recap, a libertarian group, Americans For Prosperity is running an ad in Michigan portraying a middle-class mom stricken with cancer, on camera talking about how Obamacare has made access to doctors, and ability to afford prescription medicine much more difficult. The campaign of Democrat Rep. Gary Peters sent a letter to the FCC suggesting that a local TV station pull the ad.
So the Democrats’ thugs are trying to silence Mrs. Boonstra. Contemptibly, the Obama administration’s lawyers have threatened to use the Democrat-dominated Federal Communications Commission to take away the licenses of television stations that run the AFP ad:
You have an obligation “to protect the public from false, misleading or deceptive advertising.” Licensee Responsibility With Respect to the Broadcast of False, Misleading or Deceptive Advertising, 74 F.C.C.2d 623 (1961). Failure to prevent the airing of “false and misleading advertising” may be “probative of an underlying abdication of licensee responsibility” that can be cause for the loss of a station’s license. See Cosmopolitan Broad. Corp. v. FCC, 581 F.2d 917, 927 (D.C. Cir. 1978).
In other words: Nice television station you’ve got here. Shame if anything should happen to it. The most likely outcome here, is that Peters and the Democrats will back off. The station will most likely continue running the ad. But in public opinion in Michigan it could be an entirely different matter. Daily Caller managing editor Christopher Bedford makes a very cogent point this morning, This "Democratic Senate wannabe just picked a fight with a mother who has cancer":
Mr. Peters will almost certainly be shown wrong. But even if he isn’t, what are the optics of all this? Let’s lay them out: Mr. Peters goes to Washington and votes for Obamacare. Because of this, back home, Ms. Boonstra, a mother who was given a 20 percent chance of surviving her cancer, looses her health insurance. It takes her two uncertain, sleep-deprived months to replace her plan, with Obamacare delaying every step of the way through its broken website, weeks of snail-mail delays and days of backed up phone lines.
Ms. Boostra finally ended up with a plan she doesn’t think is even comparable to the security of her old plan. And when she told her story, Mr. Peters, the politician who wants to be her senator — and represent her in Washington — sicced his lawyers on her, questioning her trials and, in a page right out of Richard Nixon’s playbook, threatening the license of the station that dared to air it. (BEDFORD: The (real) life of Julie)
In November, Mr. Peters is likely to face off against another mother, Republican Terri Lynn Land. (Emphasis added.)
Right on! How does this look to your average Michigan voter, say an independent who votes occasionally for Democrats, other times for the GOP? How does this look to the all-important single mom voter in Michigan who typically sides with Democrats? It's still in its early stages, but a week or two from now, we could be calling Democrat Gary Peters the Todd Aitken of 2014. . And as we've mentioned repeatedly here at LR, we Republicans do not need this seat to win the Senate. This is gravy. The GOP looks to already have enough seats to secure the majority. Republican Senator Terri Lynn Land from blue state Michigan, will just be the ultimate icing on the cake.
Moronic liberal "educators" who crap their pants at the thought of Jesus in a public school now are having female students dress up in Islamic hijabs.
(Atlas Shrugs) - A group of AP language students at Brighton High School spent a full school day wearing hijabs, the headdress worn by Muslim women in many parts of the world. AP students, our brightest ….. . The exercise gave students a chance to learn about an unfamiliar culture and religion. But in a school community where no students and only one teacher outwardly practice Islam, wearing the scarves was a good way to draw curious looks, questions and a few unfriendly comments.
“A few unfriendly comments.” What exactly? That they look silly? Well, they do.
More victimhood, more dawah, more proselytizing in our public schools. We never see this done with Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, etc., but we see it with this ideology. This propaganda is shoved down our throats and our children’s throats, an ideology that has done more harm and destruction to this country in the 21st century than any other on the face of the earth.
Where are the school lessons on the 1,400 years of jihadi wars, land appropriations, cultural annihilations and enslavements? Where are the women studies programs on the misogyny inherent in Islam — honor killings, child marriage, forced marriage, women as property? Parents must stop this inculcation in our public schools by idiot teachers.
This story is from December, but I did not see it until now.
Students don hijabs to explore literature, religion and identity
“Brighton High School students don hijabs to explore literature, religion and identity,” Michigan Radio News, (thanks to Creeping) December 16, 2013.
Maybe more than any other, high school can be a time when what you choose to wear has a huge impact on your sense of identity.
As students take their first steps into adulthood, they walk a fine line between fitting in with their peers and developing a unique sense of self.
Earlier this fall, a group of AP language students at Brighton High School were asked to read a memoir by Iranian author Azar Nafisi. The book detailed the experiences of women during that country’s religious revolution, including dealing with new standards of modesty in the way they dressed.
To experience the material first-hand, several girls in the class in Brighton chose to spend a full school day wearing hijabs, the head-scarves worn by Muslim women in many parts of the world.
The exercise gave students a chance to learn about an unfamiliar culture and religion. But in a school community where no students and only one teacher outwardly practice Islam, wearing the scarves was a good way to draw curious looks, questions and a few unfriendly comments.
Teacher Diana Mason and three students at Brighton who took part recently told Stateside about the experience.
Why employ American citizens? The Michigan GOP wants to ship in 50,000 immigrants on free unearned VISAs and let them do the work instead for 1/2 the price.
Gary Rule #1 - People are fucking idiots.
Really now, is it possible for the Republican Party to be even more stupid?
GOP Michigan Governor Rick Snyder will announced a plan to ask the Obama administration to set aside thousands of work visas to entice talented immigrants to live and work in bankrupt Detroit.
The Republican governor told The Associated Press in an interview he is seeking 50,000 work visas solely for the city over five years. The type of visas involved currently are not allocated by region or state, and go to legal immigrants with advanced degrees or who show exceptional ability in certain fields.
GOP Governor Rick Snyder (AP File Photo)
Under his unique proposal, one-quarter of the country’s 40,000 annual EB-2 visas would be designated for such immigrants willing to live and work for five years in Detroit, home to the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history and whose neighborhoods have been hollowed out by the city’s long population decline.
“This is very exciting. If you look at one of the key opportunities to accelerate the comeback of Detroit, it would really be this program,” Snyder said in an interview Wednesday after announcing planned legislation to commit state aid to shore up Detroit pension funds and prevent the sale of valuable city-owned art in bankruptcy proceedings.
Snyder unveiled the immigration plan this morning at the offices of the IDEAL Group, a family-owned manufacturing and construction company in Detroit whose founder is the grandson of Mexican immigrants. Mayor Mike Duggan, city council members and other community leaders also attended.
The governor said the proposal would require no federal financial bailout.
"This involves working with immigration rules and visa limits," he said. "Here's a non-cash way to significantly accelerate the comeback of Detroit. Why wouldn't this be a great thing?"
If the Democrats win the House plan on the US becoming
a one-party People's Republic like Venezuela
Democrats look very unlikely to pick up the 17 seats they would need to retake the House majority, and they could lose seats.
At the six year mark for an incumbent President the opposition party has picked up 30 seats on average in the House. From my viewpoint that projection is too high for 2014. I think a 20 seat GOP pick up in closer.
Here are ten congressional districts most likely to flip from one party to the other this November according to the National Journal.
Here are districts 11 to 20 likely to flip. See our previous story for districts one to ten.
11. California-52—Rep. Scott Peters (D) is running for reelection No serious Republican congressional candidate has drawn more attention for breaking the mold: Former San Diego City Councilman Carl DeMaio, who is openly gay, has also openly called for his party to deemphasize social issues and focus on pocketbook matters. Democrats successfully tagged DeMaio as over-conservative in his losing 2012 mayoral race, but both he and Peters have crossover appeal. A neat map from KPBS shows about two-thirds of Peters precincts also going for DeMaio where their races overlapped in 2012.
12. New Hampshire-01—Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D) is running for reelection This seat has switched parties three times in four elections, moving with the volatile national mood over that time. That's what gives Republicans their best chance to retake a seat in New England, where Shea-Porter and Democrats shut them out in 2012. Former Rep. Frank Guinta is running again and starts with a big name-ID edge for the Republican nomination, but recent polling suggests he's still bruised from the last election, which could be a liability. District voters gave Shea-Porter much stronger marks in the same survey.
13. Colorado-06—Rep. Mike Coffman (R) is running for reelection Coffman took over from ex-Rep. Tom Tancredo when he joined Congress, but Coffman has had to execute something of a political reinvention on issues like immigration since his district was redrawn into a swing seat last cycle, when he barely won reelection. Democrat Andrew Romanoff, the former state House speaker, has been running against Coffman for nearly 12 months already, though he may regret not chasing the seat in a presidential year. (Obama carried this district in 2012.) Given the district dynamics, Coffman and Romanoff's gangbusters fundraising pace (over $1.5 million each after the first three quarters of last year), the size of the Denver media market, and the high-profile statewide races also on tap for the fall of 2014, this is a solid early bet to be the nation's most expensive House race this year.
14. California-07—Rep. Ami Bera (D) is running for reelection Redistricting and the march of demographic change outside Sacramento helped Bera capture the seat in 2012, but three Republicans are linking him to the president's health care law and arguing he's part of D.C.'s problems in trying to replace him. The GOP battle for the second general-election spot could get nasty, if history is any guide: Former Rep. Doug Ose's last race was a Republican primary brawl against fellow candidate Igor Birman's old boss, Rep. Tom McClintock.
15. Florida-26—Rep. Joe Garcia (D) is running for reelection Garcia is raising money hand-over-foot, but he's been dogged by a weird scandal (staffers of his plotted to fraudulently cast absentee ballots, apparently without the candidate's knowledge). Republican Carlos Curbelo could be a strong challenger. One underreported fact about this district: Garcia's 2012 victory is attributed to then-Rep. David Rivera's complete campaign meltdown amidst scandal but Obama's margin over Mitt Romney in the district was almost exactly the same as Garcia's over Rivera. Cuban-heavy Miami is experiencing something of a Democratic shift in national politics. GOP Gov. Rick Scott's approval could also be a problem for Republicans in the Sunshine State in November.
16. Illinois-13—Rep. Rodney Davis (R) is running for reelection Davis has a March primary challenge, but that's not the obstacle here: He won one of the nation's tightest races—the closest one Democrats lost in 2012—against a perennial candidate, and Democrats have gotten behind former judge Ann Callis for a potentially stronger bid this time. Callis's long judicial tenure has left behind a record that the GOP is already picking away at, though.
17. Florida-02—Rep. Steve Southerland (R) is running for reelection Democrats had another near-miss in the Florida Panhandle in 2012, though the path to victory here slopes steeply upward toward the end, Heartbreak Hill-style. As Stu Rothenberg has pointed out, the last couple of percentage points are a very difficult climb for Democrats in the 2nd District, though Gwen Graham's family name, connections, and lack of a political record make her a legit threat to Southerland, who hasn't always fundraised well.
18. Michigan-01—Rep. Dan Benishek (R) is running for reelection Benishek also struggled struggled with his campaign at times in the last few years, and polls consistently showed him mired in the low-40s in 2012 before he pulled out a narrow victory over repeat candidate Gary McDowell. Now, Democrats have a fresh face in local sheriff Jerry Cannon, who would have to overcome the Upper Peninsula's generically conservative tilt to win.
19. Florida-18—Rep. Patrick Murphy (D) is running for reelection By the numbers, this race ought to go higher, with Romney having carried the district as Murphy just squeaked by controversial Rep. Allen West in 2012. But the GOP isn't so sure it has a marquee challenger here, and there's a reason why some Florida Republicans pined for former state House Majority Leader Adam Hasner, a prodigious fundraiser, last year. Then again, plenty of folks scoffed at Murphy's viability as he set out last cycle, too. No one will ever run away with this district, but Murphy's high fundraising and luck of the draw so far move him a bit further down the list.
20. California-36—Rep. Raul Ruiz (D) is running for reelection Republicans identified a candidate here early: Assemblyman Brian Nestande is a veteran of the Bono political machine. But he's started slowly, especially on the fundraising front. The Palm Springs-based district is changing rapidly, which helped fuel Ruiz's unexpected victory last term and helped Obama actually perform slightly better here in 2012 than 2008 despite losing ground nationally. If Ruiz can hold his seat and give that change another couple of years, congressional Republicans may never get another chance to retake the 36th.
California GOP Assemblyman Brian Nestande is in a tough race to retake a seat the Republicans lost in the 2012 Obama landslide. Brian Nestande for Congress
Palm Springs - The Key to Congress The People's Republic of California is key to having a non-Marxist majority in the House of Representatives. The Golden State currently sends 15 Republicans to the House (almost the entire GOP majority margin). Just ten year ago Republicans had 20 to 24 seats. . The 36th District (map below) is an example of the failure of the Republican Party and Conservatism. The district is based around solidly middle class communities like Palm Springs. The GOP has lost middle class seat after middle class seat. Simply, if the Republican platform is unable to win middle class districts then there is no future for the party.
