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Fresh new face of the Republican party!

I’m not even sure where to begin with this one.

Dear Mom, I’ve met the man of my dreams and I couldn’t be happier….

Dear Mom, I’ve met the man of my dreams and I couldn’t be happier….

Is Glenn Beck going to be a grandfather? ‘Cause insanity of Beckian proportions is the only way I can see someone thinking this was a good choice for a family portrait. Actually, the more I think about it, the more it seems likely that this is the new poster family of the Republican Party. Let’s go through the checklist:

  • White? Check
  • Male dominance? Check
  • Family values? Check
  • Appropriate use of firearm? Check
  • Appropriate use of sperm? Check

You know, there’s only one thing missing from this picture to make them the perfect poster family…

Go forth and multiply... and shoot anyone who disagrees with you

Go forth and multiply... and shoot anyone who disagrees with you

Fixed :-)

via Awkward Family Photos

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Greta Christina’s Blog: The Prop 8 Ruling: Discrimination as a Constitutional Principle

Greta Christina’s Blog: The Prop 8 Ruling: Discrimination as a Constitutional Principle.

Greta manages to put her finger on the thing that was bothering me about this decision that I couldn’t manage to articulate:

See, this isn’t just about gay rights and marriage equality. This is about the principle that certain rights are inalienable. This is about the principle that, as important as democracy is, as important as it is for people to be able to vote on the laws and policies that govern them, certain rights transcend that principle, and cannot be taken away by majority rule. This is about the principle that there are limits to mob rule: that the fears and hatreds and prejudices of one class of people towards another cannot be inscribed into law. This is about the principle that people have every right to be bigots, but they do not have the right to write their bigotry into law… even if that bigotry is shared by the majority.

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Lord, save me from your followers

Reconnecting with old high school friends on Facebook is like walking through a cow pasture; you never know when you’re going to step into a pile of steaming crap. You may find out that someone you thought was cool back then now thinks this is one of their favorite quotes:

“Let’s invade their countries, kill their dictators and convert them to Christianity.” – Ann Coulter

And that they list their political views as “I will be an apologist for George W. Bush as long as I live”.

I just threw up a little bit in my mouth.

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I think we need waterboarding license plates

If we’re going to have the state sponsor putting a person being tortured on a license plate, I say we need fair representation of all forms of torture. Waterboarding is big in the news, but let’s not forget our old favorites like being drawn-and-quartered, getting put in the iron maiden or being staked to an anthill. C’mon, we can do better than crucifixion. It’s so hackneyed. Let’s get creative on our next license plate.

h/t PZ

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Sounds like tea bagging left a bad taste in the republican’s mouths

Headline from the WorldNutDaily:

If you can’t beat ‘em, bad-mouth ‘em?
News anchors resort to sexual innuendo to criticize tea parties

“bad-mouth ‘em”

*giggles*

Jon Stewart chronicles this sudden reversal of roles in the mainstream media

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Isn’t this just a little over the top?

A REVOLUTIONARY IDEA
Palm Beach tea party: ‘Chains we can believe in’
Americans outraged by Obama’s perceived shift toward socialism

C’mon, seriously?!? For real? Our friends at the WorldNutDaily are practically having an orgasm over the hundreds of people who turned out for teabagging today.

Those braving rain showers to sound their objections to President Obama’s policies voiced a common theme, one suggesting America is rapidly racing toward socialism.

“We’re headed toward socialism, and socialism is anathema to everything this country’s ever stood for,” said Fritz Breland, a self-employed yacht broker from Boynton Beach. “I’m essentially unemployed because no one’s buying.”

Well boo-fucking-hoo. A goddamned yacht broker is “essentially unemployed”. He’s experiencing the results of a financial downturn years in the making by Republican control, but now that the O-man is in office, it’s time to revolt. I’m completely over these fuckers. These people have lost their grip on reality in a major way and now they’re being whipped into a frothing frenzy by the likes of Glenn Beck and Fox News. Where the fuck was their outrage when previous administrations were shitting all over the rights of the people through illegal wiretapping and goddamned torture? Where was the condemnation of the president when his administration was raping the poor and working class of this country in order to support the bloated carcasses of the oligarchy funding his power-hungry and delusional dreams? Oh, that’s right. During the Bush regime if you criticized the president, you were un-American, un-patriotic, a traitor. But now that their good-old-boy white network has been thrown out of power, it’s their patriotic duty to criticize the president. In fact, the man who is a constitutional scholar, who has managed to work and sweat and claw his way up through the disgusting process that has become politics, yet still managed to maintain a modicum of rationality, respect for others and a true desire to help people is the one who is destroying America. That’s been his plan from the beginning, you betcha, palling around with terrorists and all.

I’m all for criticizing our politicians and calling them on their mistakes. It’s called freedom of speech and it’s one of the great things about America. What doesn’t make any fucking sense is to start talking about secession and inciting revolution just because you lost an election. Hel-lo, that’s how the game is played. You people love to look down on those supposed developing countries, with their coups and dictators and all. Yet here you are, after having run roughshod over the country for the last eight years, ready to start another fracking civil war after only 90 days of a new, democratically elected administration? Have you lost your ever-loving minds?

The only positive result of all this teabagging and the like is that the lunatics are finally revealing themselves for what they truly are. They are joyfully revealing themselves as the racist, fanatical greedy bastards that they truly are.

end of rant

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Teabagging makes the mainstream

Nothing like rightwingnuts to get my panties in a wad. All this teabagging has got me all excited. David Shuster nailed it with this quote:

The people who came up with it are a familiar circle of Republicans, including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, both of whom have firm support from right wing financiers and lobbyists. … We can only speculate why widespread tea bagging made [Neil] Cavuto think of the Million Man march, unless he got them confused with Dick Armey. And in Cavuto’s defense, if you are planning simultaneous tea bagging all around the country, you’re going to need a Dick Armey.

David Shuster for the double-entendre win! Watch the video:

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Lay off the bible-speak, Obama

This is getting annoying. If it’s not opening every fracking public event with an invocation, it’s inserting quotes from the bible in his speeches. He gives lip service to America not being a christian nation, but he certainly doesn’t make it very convincing when he includes biblical mythology in his appeals to the American people, as he did in today’s speech to explain his administration’s efforts with regard to the economic crisis.

Now, there’s a parable at the end of the Sermon on the Mount that tells the story of two men. The first built his house on a pile of sand, and it was soon destroyed when a storm hit. But the second is known as the wise man, for when “the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.”

That parable refers directly to the belief in god and basing your life around that belief. What do you think the “rock” refers to? Sure, he attempts to avoid the implications of this parable by reshaping its meaning to apply to the current financial crisis, but we all know where it comes from.

Hey, Obama, lay off the Jesus-speak and just give us what we elected you for. You promised change, but as far as religion goes, it’s starting to smell the same as the previous administration.

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One more reason to like Vermont

Dunno how I missed this yesterday but,

Vermont becomes 4th U.S. state to allow gay marriage

Very cool, Vermont. Welcome to the Intelligent States Club.

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Honorifics, titles and uniforms

There is a big ol’ discussion going on over at the ScienceBlogs collective over the issue of whether Jill Biden should get to use the title “Dr.” Apparently, she has a Ph. D. in Education, but newspapers think only MDs should get to be called Dr. There’s some nonsense about avoiding confusion between Ph. D.s and “real” doctors, i.e. medical doctors.

IMHO, there is only one Doctor and he is The Doctor.

As far as being recognized and avoiding confusion, let’s all just wear color coded jumpsuits, like in Star Trek. A “Doctor” would have two little pips on their collar, but you’d know if they were an MD because they’d be in a blue jumpsuit. I know that my life would be much easier if I didn’t have to think about what to wear.

Of course, I would have nothing on my collar (no degree, remember?), but I would be in a bad-ass metallic silver jumpsuit ’cause I program computers and computers ROCK!!!!

Actually, I’d probably get lumped in with the Engineers and have to wear that ugly mustard yellow color.

*sigh*

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