I Agree With Glenn Beck and Joe Scarborough...this time

Miracles do happen and today I find myself agreeing, nay, applauding Glenn Beck.  

You:  "Applauding Glenn Beck?  WTF?"

Me:  "Well, he's on the side of the angels right now.  As Bullwinkel liked to say 'Just listen'"

Link to video in case embed code doesn't publish:  http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/mika--why-is-beck-facing-border-backlash--301028931780

Glenn Beck calls out the hypocrites; those who profess to be Christians yet will not extend a kindness to those in need.  Joe Scarborough points this out after they run the Beck clip.  And Mike Barnicle points out this is "...a humanitarian crisis...we are capable of handling..."

In the end, it was Jesus who said

Matthew 19:14King James Version (KJV)14 But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.

GOP: What Took So Long?

Liberal Californians could have told the GOP they were ignoring a large and growing class of potential voters 33+ years ago.  

At that time, I worked in the marketing dept of FOTOMAT, a cutting edge company when it came to marketing.  FOTOMAT's creative was by the then fledgling Chiat Day in Venice California who later became famous for the Apple "1984" ad.  We carefully targeted our customers in 80 markets throughout the U.S. by age, geographic location and...race.   We were producing commercials en Espanol and buying Hispanic and Black formatted radio stations when few main stream companies even bothered.  

lifted from 2/11/13 feed of Political Carnival

Forty of the eighty markets were my responsibility, i.e. targeting, visiting and buying newspaper and radio according to the statistical research in each.  We went a step farther taking into account the demographic makeup of each area and producing accordingly.  I bought radio and newspaper advertising in forty markets including Chicago, Miami/Ft. Lauderdale, Detroit, New Orleans, Cleveland.  

When I see the GOP going after  groups of voters they've long ignored, I can't help but wonder 

"What took them so long?"   and

"Are we buying this?"

Repubs Find President's Immigration Policy Repugnant

There is nothing like Republican indignation over a political ploy designed to get Latino voters over to the Dark Side of re-electing President Barack Obama.

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Governor Wannabe Meg Whitman & Her "Domestic" Problems

Jill Armstrong, a former full-time nanny for Meg Whitman's family, came to the defense of another onetime member of the GOP gubernatorial candidate's household staff on Tuesday.

Nicky Diaz, who is Mexican and is not a citizen of the United States, recently charged that Whitman employed her as a housekeeper for nearly a decade despite knowing that she was in the country illegally.

While Whitman has strongly denied the allegations and has accused Democratic rival Jerry Brown of facilitating the controversy, Armstrong told the San Francisco Chronicle that she believes Diaz's claim because she "know[s] the family" and "what it was like."

"I set up her apartment. I did the unpacking," and other jobs to get the place ready for the children, Armstrong said.

But she described Whitman as "cheap" and said she was surprised when her boss at first balked at paying the agreed salary - arguing that Armstrong didn't "deserve" it because she wasn't yet working full-time as a nanny.

Armstrong said she was also surprised to hear Whitman's explanation last week that her husband did not recall receiving a letter from the Social Security Administration in 2003 that asked the Whitmans to double-check their information on Diaz because the information on file did not match the agency's records.

"[Whitman's husband Griff] Harsh would not forget something like that," Armstrong said. "He had his thumb on everything."

For the "rest of the story" visit the Huffington Post.