News of the Day-3/13/12

I'm going to try this as my carrot--news of the day that interests me or is important in the eyes of the media.
DOJ rejects Texas Voter ID Law
The Department of Justice rejects the Texas Voter ID law due to data that shows the law clearly discriminates, at least, against Hispanics.
Although Texas could not show any evidence of widespread voter fraud(or even a small piece of evidence) or voter impersonation, both of which could be used to require a specific photo id, the data did show that nearly 11% of registered voters with hispanic last names would be denied their right to vote due to not having a driver's license or other specific government ID compared to about 5% of non-hispanic voters. Another issue has been that to get the specific ID's, a person must go to the Public Safety office in the area. Only problem? There are about 80 counties that do not have an office so people must travel much farther--and these are people that don't have a driver's license so I doubt many of them drive!
Alabama, Mississippi and the 19th Century
This week, we learned that Alabama and Mississippi republicans are stuck on stupid, with about 2/3 of those polled thinking that evolution is not real, about 1/2 thinking President Obama is a Muslim and about 25% thinking that interracial marriage should be illegal.
But then half of them also like Rush Limbaugh. My biggest problem? I know that every one of those crackers are white and they really make if difficult for us white folks who actually listened in school! Sometimes we just need to pour some bleach in the gene pool.
And the preferred candidate of those that still think interracial marriage should be illegal? Newt Gingrich. I guess its lucky they are in the minority.
Surprise! Bank Officials are responsible in Foreclosure problems
It seems that all those problems with foreclosures and paperwork that was blamed on the little beancounters was actually part of the scheme to just steal OUR property! Bank managers told their underlings just to make up titles for themselves and run the documents through, even when the underlings were against it. The report is a result of an audit done by the Department of Housing and Urban Development . Many of the findings show just how greedy banksters can be when they have no regulations stopping them.
Rush Limbaugh and moments of silence
Well, minutes...long minutes....of silence since over 130 sponsors dropped him like the radioactive rabid gerbil that he is. Dead air is one of the worst things that can happen on radio and it happened for about 5 minutes on his show...go ahead Rush, spew forth your lies and hatred some more.
Well, that's all for now, hope everyone has a good evening!