Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Look Out For Those Religious Atheists!

Yes, the arrival of the radical Islamist/secular atheist coalition should have all good Americans shaking in their boots, right after that capitalist/communist group takes over General Motors...

Newt Gingrich warned churchgoers on Monday that an unholy (semi-holy?) combination of Islamic theocrats and secular atheists could seize control of the United States within decades.

"I have two grandchildren -- Maggie is 11, Robert is 9," Gingrich said at a church in Texas, according to Politico. "I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time they're my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American."

SOURCE: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/newt-gingrich-america-in-danger-of-becoming-atheist-islamic-country.php?ref=fpblg

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Constitutional Revisionism

Bryan Fischer, a ridiculous person who spews his venom in the name of the "American Family Association", offers his assessment of the first amendment: 

"The First Amendment was written by the Founders to protect the free exercise of Christianity. They were making no effort to give special protections to Islam. Quite the contrary," Fischer wrote on his Renew America blog.  He continued:
Islam has no fundamental First Amendment claims, for the simple reason that it was not written to protect the religion of Islam. Islam is entitled only to the religious liberty we extend to it out of courtesy. While there certainly ought to be a presumption of religious liberty for non-Christian religious traditions in America, the Founders were not writing a suicide pact when they wrote the First Amendment.
SOURCE: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/bryan_fischer_muslims_have_no_first_amendment_righ.php?ref=fpblg

On Strike? Your Kids Can Starve.

The latest salvo against working people and unions, from the folks bringing you the repeal of child labor laws.  Re: legislation regarding the allocation of food stamps --

Much of the bill is based upon verifying that those who receive food stamps benefits are meeting the federal requirements for doing so. However, one section buried deep within the bill adds a startling new requirement. The bill, if passed, would actually cut off all food stamp benefits to any family where one adult member is engaging in a strike against an employer:

SOURCE: http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/23/buried-provision-food-stamps/

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Business Complains, LaPage Listens!

Don't like history?  Just get rid of it!

It's Diego Rivera Redux in Maine, as Governor Paul LePage is taking down a mural in the state Department of Labor building depicting the history of the labor movement and changing the names of conference rooms that he deems too pro-labor.

The 11-panel installation depicted such figures as Rosie the Riveter and FDR-era Labor Secretary Francis Perkins as well as events like a 1937 shoe mill strike and 1986 paper mill workers' strike. Several rooms are named after historic labor figures including Perkins and Cesar Chavez.

A spokesman for LePage told the Lewiston Sun Journal that business had complained about the piece and "The message from state agencies needs to be balanced." He added that the rooms could instead be named "after mountains, counties or something."

SOURCE: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/maine-governor-orders-mural-depicting-labor-history-removed-from-labor-department.php?ref=fpb

False Equivilancy, Much?

Huh?

Georgia State Rep. Bobby Franklin's remark was first revealed by the liberal blog Georgia Politico.
"This is nothing but pure evil," Franklin said in response to the US assault on Libyan air defenses. "How would we like it if other countries launched attacks upon these United States because of our regime's war on the unborn? May the Lord have mercy on us!"

SOURCE: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/20/gop-state-lawmaker-america-like-gaddafi-because-of-abortion/

Big Thinkin' From Texas

Rep. Louie Gohmert, (Insane, TX), discusses some of the non-existent ramifications of the health care law.

GOHMERT: We take control of vending machines, of restaurants and of course big brother, your federal government will have every one of your personal medical records. Oh yea, we’re farming that out to a good loyal corporation, General Electric, that’s been very loyal to our President. And so, General Electric and the federal government will have access to everyone’s personal records and will be able to keep watch on people and make sure they’re doing what we think they should and will be able to tell who’s being a bully or who’s getting bullied. All of those federal issues that we’re hearing from the Democrats need to be ruled from Washington these days.

SOURCE: http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2011/03/21/gohmert-medical-records/

Pot Meet Kettle, Herman Cain Edition

Herman Cain, former pizza magnate and now hopeless Presidential candidate, educates us on the Muslim faith:
CT:When speaking about your battle with cancer at the Milner church, at one point, you indicate that you were a little uncomfortable when you found out that your surgeon’s name was Abdallah, until you found out he was a Lebanese Christian. So what’s your perspective on the role of Muslims in American society?
CAIN: The role of Muslims in American society is for them to be allowed to practice their religion freely, which is part of our First Amendment. The role of Muslims in America is not to convert the rest of us to the Muslim religion. That I resent. And so I push back and reject them trying to convert the rest of us. And based upon the little knowledge that I have of the Muslim religion, you know, they have an objective to convert all infidels or kill them.
Thank goodness evangelical Christians also understand that it is not their role to convert the rest of us to their religion, either.

SOURCE: http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/22/herman-cain-muslims-kill/

Health Care Smealth Care

New polls are out claiming only 39% of Americans like the new health care law, while 59% disapprove.  Ah HA, pounce the Republicans, proof this legislative scourge needs to be eradicated.  Because obviously, trying to make sure Americans have adequate health care is a ridiculous abuse of power.

Except when you dig a little deeper, turns out 15% of those polls are against the health care plan because it doesn't go far enough.  And even larger percentages approve of certain parts of the legislation, but not all.

I only hope I live long enough to enjoy the postmortem reports on this short burst of Republican/conservative madness.  Anti gay rights, anti women's rights, anti-religious freedom (if the religion isn't Christian)... historians will be scratching their heads over this tragic electoral bump for many years to come... 

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2011_03/028586.php

Friday, March 18, 2011

You Can Relax Now, Per Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter claims that, counter the evidence, radiation is actually good for us.  *Whew*.  That's a weight off for the folks in Japan and anyone in the line of the radiation plume emitting from the reactors!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/18/ann-coulter-radiation-is-_n_837512.html

Thursday, March 17, 2011

The Compassionate Conversative: She Deserved It Edition

Re: a "saggy pants" bill aimed at high school students, GOP Florida lawmaker Kathleen Passidomo — taking a page from Fox News host Bill O’Reilly’s book — applauded the measure with an offensive justification:
There was an article about an 11 year old girl who was gang raped in Texas by 18 young men because she was dressed up like a 21-year-old prostitute. And her parents let her attend school like that. And I think it’s incumbent upon us to create some areas where students can be safe in school and show up in proper attire so what happened in Texas doesn’t happen to our students.
The full story is at: http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/16/gop-gang-raped-prostitute/

Limbaugh Compassionately Discusses The Japan Situation, 3/15/11

Rush Limbaugh discusses a Diane Sawyer news report from Japan with a listener:
RUSH: My god, she sounds like she saw her husband for the first time in six months there. Oh, it's recycling, look, organized for -- these people are in the midst of earthquake devastation and the credit they're getting is for recycling and our caller Chris with a great question. The Japanese have done so much to save the planet. He's right. They've given us the Prius. Even now, refugees are still recycling their garbage, and yet Gaia levels them [laughs], just wipes them out. Wipes out their nuclear plants, all kinds of radiation. What kind of payback is this? That is an excellent question. They invented the Prius. In fact, where Gaia blew up is right where they make all these electric cars. That's where the tsunami hit. All those brand new electric cars sitting there on the lot. I like the way this guy was thinking. It's like -- it's like Gaia hit the Prius in [inaudible]. It's like they were in the crosshairs, if we can use that word, it does. What is Gaia trying to tell us here? What is the mother of environmentalism trying to say with this hit? Great observation out there, Chris.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Words of Wisdom 3-15-11 Edition

(On The Japanese Disaster)
“The human toll here looks to be much worse than the economic toll, and we can be grateful for that.”  CNBC Financial Commentator Larry Kudlow, discussing the economic implications of the Japanese earthquake and its aftermath.  (Kudlow later tweeted an apology.)
(On Immigration)
"It looks like to me if shooting these immigrating feral hogs works maybe we have found a [solution] to our illegal immigration problem." Kansas State Rep. Virgil Peck (R) suggested Monday that the best way to deal with the illegal immigration problem may be the same way the state might deal with the problem of "feral hogs" -- by shooting them from a helicopter.  (Peck later said he was joking “Kansas style.”)
(On the Handicapped)
"The world population has gotten too big and the world is being inherited by too many defective people… I mean all the defective people, the drug addicts, mentally ill, the retarded -- all of them… I believe if we had a Siberia we should send them to this and they would all freeze and die and we will be rid of them." New Hampshire Representative Martin Harty (R) speaking to a constituent.  Harty is a first term representative and 91 years old.  (Harty resigned a few days later.)
(Just Kidding Around, Japanese Tsunami Edition)
From Haley Barbour press secretary Dan Turner’s daily e-mail: “Otis Redding posthumously received a gold record for his single, "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay". (Not a big hit in Japan right now.)” (Turner resigned.)
(On Eating Their Own):
“On a good day, he’s a socialist. On a bad day, he’s a communist,” - Darcy Van Orden, a co-founder of Utah Rising, on Jon Huntsman, former Utah governor, US Ambassador to China, and now presidential candidate.

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