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When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

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Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

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Everybody saw this coming.

When I was faster i was always behind.

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Monday Evening Open Thread: State Religion

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guns become religion a e kieren
(Gun Religion, A.E.Kieren)
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From The Gun Show, via Van Jones’ Rebuild the Dream.

I like Kieren’s poster because it really captures how the NRA and its paymasters have turned the Second Amendment into a a (red) state religion — a tribalist touchstone for the hoi polloi, and an infinitely useful tool of control for the Owner Class.

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Assuming we’ve all survived the worst of the practical jokers, what’s on the agenda for the evening?

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  1. 1.

    Zifnab

    I just finished bug-bombing my apartment and now I get to scrub everything until it shines so I don’t get cancer and die.

  2. 2.

    MattR

    I think this wins the award for cutest April Fool’s joke.

    Governor Jerry Brown shocked political observers today when he announced he will be appointing his family pet, Sutter Brown, to fill the vacancy soon-to-be created by outgoing Assemblymember Bob Blumenfield in the 45th District.
    …
    Legal experts questioned the constitutionality of Brown’s move, but the California Supreme Court quickly tossed out a motion to stay the appointment. In his opinion for the majority, Associate Justice Marvin R. Baxter wrote: “Who’s a good Assembly doggie? Is it Sutter? I think it is!”

  3. 3.

    Ben Franklin

    I hope those of you who have any interest in not becoming Third World have buried some junk silver in your backyard.

    BRICS is coming….http://islandbreath.blogspot.ru/2013/04/usdollar-ring-fenced-checkmate.html


    EXCLUSION OF UNITED STATES
    The many years of abusive control of the FOREX currency markets, intervention in the sovereign bond markets, manipulation in the important commodity markets, devious propaganda in the communications networks, with support role played by the aggressive USMilitary and nefarious activity by its security agencies have guaranteed exclusion of the United States.

    The unspeakable abuse of the US$ credit card will end, as the global reserve currency is dismissed from its throne. The US leader crew, led by fascist bankers, can print money and counterfeit bonds all they wish, but the currency will be required to submit to grand devaluation if they wish to purchase supplies for the massively lopsided and imbalanced USEconomy, the greatest travesty in marketplace history.

    While the Keystone Pipeline is corrupted by the USGovt with hidden beneficiaries such as Halliburton and Burlington Northern, essentially divvying up the gangrenous paunch of the exhausted bloated American torso, the vast pipelines of the European and Asian continents are merging. They will not include the Americans, whose pathetic gambit fell on its face, the Trans-Pacific Partnership pushed by the Obama Admin. It actually attempted to form a trade zone with Asia, on condition that the lead nations Japan and South Korea excluded China. How incredibly moronic and amateurish! What a pathetic return on the dime for votes for this leader in the new police state.

  4. 4.

    Corner Stone

    what’s on the agenda for the evening?

    Still recovering from some food poisoning I made friends with over the weekend. It has knocked my django right in the dirt, I’ll tell you.

  5. 5.

    Corner Stone

    Also trying to find out a bit about this DA and wife murder in TX. This seems to be a fascinating story if indications are accurate about where the suspects trails may lead.

  9. 9.

    quannlace

    This had to have been an April Fools, but it’s funny, can’t find anybody commenting on it.
    A segment in the middle of the Leonard Lopate show-featured a doctor who had the rights to sell the HandyScan (said with a distinct Swedish accent) in the States. Your own personal medical scanner. So useful when your doctor/insurance carrier turns down the request for a MRI, catscan, etc. Hey, and IKEA carries it. But you have to order it from the catalog; the stores don’t stock it.

  10. 10.

    Josie

    @Corner Stone: My middle son is an assistant D. A. in a nameless Texas county, and I have been nervous ever since the first shooting in late January. If you find out any information that is not in the news, please post it. I know it’s silly to worry, but moms are not always rational.

  13. 13.

    Corner Stone

    @Josie: So far just seeing blurbs here and there. But if this is a deliberate escalation against LEO by the Aryans then this could get really frackin’ nasty for the racist criminal org.
    One hopes the backlash crackdown is swift and certain with no further loss of life.

  14. 14.

    David Koch

    Wingnuts are shitting a brick over “Presidential Pastor” Rev. Luis Leon slapping religious right for their hate:

    “It drives me crazy when the captains of the religious right are always calling us back . . . for blacks to be back in the back of the bus . . . for women to be back in the kitchen . . . for immigrants to be back on their side of the border,” Leon said.

    making matters hilarious the wingers are attacking Rev. Leon for …. wait for it…. politicizing religion.

    They must have some genetic deficit regarding self awareness.

  18. 18.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    @Zifnab: Get the Hot Shot gel sold in a syringe I have never known anything so effective that does not bother people who are allergic to most pesticides (like me)it literally works for months.

  19. 19.

    Chris

    I like Kieren’s poster because it really captures how the NRA and its paymasters have turned the Second Amendment into a a (red) state religion — a tribalist touchstone for the hoi polloi, and an infinitely useful tool of control for the Owner Class.

    I like this.

    As someone mentioned a couple threads ago, they’re all fundamentalists, but not necessarily all Christians or even religious. The GOP’s beliefs, of which the Second Amendment are one tenet, have become their version of a state religion on par with German fascism or Russian communism.

  21. 21.

    22over7

    @Chris:

    Well, it’s a religion of convenience, if it’s one at all. Certainly it’s not open to anyone not of the pasty-hued variety, and perhaps some of their womenfolk. I think it’s all about the power. Some guy shows up in a public place with a gun, and everyone gets really nervous. That’s power, and it must be intoxicating.

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    MathInPA

    My SSDI phone appointment is tomorrow, and I’m terrified that my combination of various interacting medical issues won’t be enough. Well, alternating terrified with thinking myself selfish for believing it might be enough. I don’t know whether or not I should ask for luck or if even that would be a selfish act. I don’t know if I’m worthy of society’s pity; if there’s any reason to save me from my breaking body, scattered mind, and failure. I feel guilt and fear and a need to beg and plead with someone, anyone, for guidance.

  25. 25.

    Ben Franklin

    @MathInPA:

    Be confident when you state your case. Be prepared to seek legal assistance.

    SS has improved immeasurably in the last few years. SSDI may be more hardcase (as is their habit)

    Best wishes.

  27. 27.

    Chris

    @22over7:

    Convenience and power have never been incompatible with religion. Either the “real” ones, or the political ones like communism and fascism.

  29. 29.

    JoyfulA

    @MathInPA: SSDI isn’t pity. It’s insurance that you’ve been paying for in case you can’t work at some point.

    If you can’t work, you somehow have to keep a roof over your head and food in your stomach, and that’s what the insurance is for. You may face aggravation and have to acquire legal help to press your case, but here’s hoping it’s easy and you pass go right away.

  30. 30.

    Debbie(aussie)

    @MathInPA:
    I am sorry that you feel so conflicted. Never feel bad for needing help. We ( western societies ) are so wealthy, helping those less fortunate should be a given.* best of luck for your interview, hope all goes well:)
    * I am lucky enough to receive a disability pension her in Aus.

  31. 31.

    Maude

    @MathInPA:
    Don’t worry about the phone interview. It is your doctor that you talk to to fill out the forms.
    Where you get to write to them on the forms, just tell them about all of it.
    Please comment here.
    I spent 26 months in the process and now it is better than that.
    The SSA people are great. They will help you. If you have any questions, call them.
    I felt like a useless worm though it all. I only feel like a worm now. I’ve been on it for a time.

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