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RandySF's JournalCalif. city official quits after backlash for complaining ‘illegals should have to work like slaves’
A neighborhood official in Silver Lake, California resigned from office on Thursday after residents complained over disparaging remarks she made online regarding immigrants, KCAL-TV reported.
The backlash against Karen Speitel began after she complained about immigrants in the comment thread for a KNBC-TV story about a tunnel used to smuggle drugs between the US and Mexico.
“All illegals should have to work like slaves for free for every single citizen who came here the right way!” Speitel wrote. “Shame on the sneaky, lawless dregs who have no respect for the law and how hard real citizens have had to work to become legal.”
In another post, Speitel blamed immigrants for spoiling their “pockets” of Los Angeles, writing, “the distruction [sic] I see all over is from Mexicans.”
According to LAist, Speitel’s colleagues on the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council began getting emails criticizing her remarks, leading them to ask her to resign her position during a meeting on Wednesday....
“While a person has free speech, I think that you have to call into question their judgment when they are going to be voting on things that affect the community at large, and they have a skewed opinion of a large percentage of that community,” he said.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/calif-city-official-quits-after-backlash-for-complaining-illegals-should-have-to-work-like-slaves/
Loved Avengers 2, but walked out wanting to watch Daredevil again.
I realize that you can't compare a 2.5 hour movie with a 13 episode series, but Daredevil set the bar so high in my mind for superhero shows and films that everything else feels lacking.
Tory majority plausible
They are decimating the Liberal Democrats and picking off Labour seats in key constituencies.
London Mayor Boris Johnson elected to Parliament
Watching on ITV. They say he's likely to succeed Cameron as Conservative leader in the future.
George Galloway likely to lose seat in Parliament.
George Galloway is the latest senior politician set to lose his seat this election.
Twitter is the main source of these rumours at present.
There was speculation that there was going to be a recount in his constituency, Bradford West, but that is no longer going ahead.
It is still unsure whether the Respect Party candidate has lost his seat.
Bradford Council has also allegedly reported Galloway to the police for allegedly breaking election laws after tweeting about election polls before they closed.
http://www.yourelection15.co.uk/news/05/08/george-galloway-tipped-lose-seat/
Let's go, point by point, how Pam Geller's "exhibit" was NOT the same as Charlie Hebdo.
1. It was not just an exhibit. She had a series of prominent anti-Muslim figures as speakers.
2. The event was held by her organization which has been classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
3. The keynote speaker, Dutch politician Geert Wilders, wants to kill all the Muslims in Amsterdam.
4, it was held in a town where there has been ongoing tensions between Muslim residents on one side and pretty much everyone else on the other.
5. Charlie Hebdo jabbed all religions equally while Geller was been a one-person campaign against Islam.
No. No one has the right to kill another human being (I kind of thought that's a given). And Geller may not have planned for police officers to get shot. But don't be fooled by her false tears. She did this in the hopes something will happen that grabs enough headlines to further her cause.
Scottish National Party set for landslide in U.K. election
GLASGOW—An expected Scottish National Party landslide victory in Scotland on Thursday promises to shake up British politics—and keep dreams here of independence alive.
The SNP was projected to win 58 of the 59 Scottish seats up for grabs in the U.K. election, according to exit polls, significantly higher than pre-election polls. The result would propel the party past the Liberal Democrats to become the third-largest group in the 650-member lower house of Parliament in London.
Even if the final tally falls short of projections, the performance is still almost certain to mark the party’s best ever in a U.K.-wide election; the SNP won just six seats in 2010, and the most it ever won was 11 in 1974.
It also raises fresh doubts about the future of the U.K. and the 300-year-old union between Scotland and England at its heart. Energized by their showing in the polls, the nationalists have refused to rule out a repeat of September’s referendum on independence.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/scottish-national-party-set-for-landslide-in-uk-election-2015-05-07
Study: 17 million More Americans insured under Obama
Around 17 million people have gained health insurance since the core of ObamaCare took effect in 2013, according to a RAND Corporation study released Wednesday.
The study finds that 22.8 million people signed up for coverage between September 2013 and February 2015, while 5.9 million lost coverage, leading to a net gain of 16.9 million.
“The Affordable Care Act has greatly expanded health insurance coverage, but it has caused little change in the way most previously-covered Americans are getting health insurance coverage,” said Katherine Carman, the study's lead author and an economist at RAND.
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/241259-17m-gained-insurance-under-obamacare-study-finds
NDP wins Alberta Provincial election.
This is like Democrats winning Texas.
Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley has won a majority government, ending the 44-year reign of the Progressive Conservatives, CTV projects.
Notley’s NDP will form the next government and Jim Prentice’s PCs will find themselves in opposition alongside the Wildrose Party.
Although not all votes are counted, Notley appears to have won enough seats to form a majority government in the 87-seat legislature.
Notley’s victory is a major upset, considering her party held only four seats when the election was called on April 7. The New Democrats had never before won more than 16 ridings.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/alberta-ndp-wins-majority-government-ctv-projects-1.2359035
If one needed proof that the anti-Muhammed exhibition was intentional provocation....
Many TPM readers first encountered Geller in the mid-2000s at her blog Atlas Shrugs, which combined uber-conservatism with cheesecake photos of herself. She has veered in recent years into an evermore virulent form of anti-Islamic activism. She was a leading rabble-rouser in the Ground Zero mosque controversy, and her group had plastered some big city subways with a posters that read: “In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.” She and Robert Spencer, who co-founded American Freedom Defense Initiative with her, were denied entry to the United Kingdom in 2013 because of their extremism.
The American Freedom Defense Initiative was apparently co-sponsoring the provocative Muhammed cartoon contest with Spencer's Jihad Watch. Spencer wrote that the purpose of the sold-out event was "to stand for the freedom of speech and free society against violent intimidation."
It's not clear whether Geller was in attendance at the contest, but writing on her website after the shooting, she said: "This is a war. This is war on free speech. What are we going to do? Are we going to surrender to these monsters? ... The war is here."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/pamela-geller-shooting-muhammed-cartoon-contest
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