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After the Civil War a Constitutional Amendment was added to ensure that former slaves were not denied the right to citizenship by declaring any person born in the US to be a US Citizen.

Apparently large numbers of Republican lawmakers are currently taking issue with such a egalitarian fix. They claim 14th amendment was made for, and really should only apply to those dark skinned folks who were brought here against their will and had kids. Different dark skinned folks, those who parents came over the border and either stayed past the expiration of their papers or never had those papers, shouldn't get that right. Clearly their parents came here with the with only the nefarious purpose having children that we have to support.*

Maybe this actually is about economics rather than racism, but I certainly don't believe it.

(No, I haven't figured how they reconcile "Drop and Leave" with earlier cries of "They steal our jobs!".)

It is not only Oakland's injustices that I get angry over...

This article provoked my rage.

The fuckers kept young female children away from the world...presumably for the sake of making tractable wives.

I wish I believed in a hell suitable enough...

I find trial coverage of celebrity trials to be a waste of screen space... however this tagline for the Reiser trial (from the sfgate.com front page) had me in snickering:

"Elder Reiser says he warned his son about Russian mafia, "techno-geek S&M crowd." Then he does one-armed push-ups."


Minus the Russian bit, I apparently hang out with a really dangerous crowd.

I spend far to much time being dumbstruck by government asshattery...

What part of Environmental Protection Agency is unclear?

Hello! Even our Republican, Hummer owning governor is crying foul.

California sues the EPA for blocking state legislation aimed at environmental protection.