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It’s a doggy dog world.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

There is one struggling party in US right now, and it’s not the Democrats.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

President Biden is doing good where he can, and getting it done.

Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.

He imagines himself as The Big Bad, Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, Who Is Universally Mocked.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

I’m just a talker, trying to find a channel!

Come on, man.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

Ron DeSantis, the grand wizard, oops, governor of FL.

We’re not going back!

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OMFG, Guys, Rick Said a Naughty Word

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Rick Santorum, who wants people to believe that there’s no difference between Obama and Romney but doesn’t want to be caught saying it, said “bullshit” to a dirty liberal New York Times reporter who asked him a question about his latest attempt to call that dog with a whistle. According to the proto-commies at ABC News, here’s what Santorum said in his speech:

During the speech, as he railed against Mitt Romney for his healthcare plan in Massachusetts, Santorum said the former Massachusetts governor was the “worst Republican in the country” to take on President Obama.

“Pick any other Republican in the country. He is the worst Republican in the country to put up against Barack Obama,” Santorum said at South Hills Country Club.

No need for clarification there, unless you’re a liberal elitist. Here’s the Santorum campaign’s justification for Rick’s dirty word:

Earlier today, while campaigning in Wisconsin, I criticized Romney and Obama for their outrageous healthcare legislation. Predictably, I was aggressively attacked by a New York Times reporter all too ready to defend the two of them, and all too ready to distort my words. Let me assure you, I didn’t back down, and I didn’t let him bully me. I think it is high time that conservatives find the courage to expose the liberal press for what they are, a defender and enabler of Romney’s and Obama’s liberal agendas.

Again, no chance that Santorum thinks that Romney is as bad as Obama, and if you get that from the last sentence of that statement, your membership certificate for the bicoastal elite is in the mail.

Here’s my question: I realize that the 27% think that “blah blah elite liberal media blah blah” is a great excuse every time a candidate fucks up, and I’m sure that they’d be fine even if Rick repeatedly punched a Times reporter in the face, but isn’t “dirty liberal media” getting into “dog ate homework” territory for the non-27 percent?

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Why Does Newt Gingrich Behave in Ways That People Would Think He is an Asshole?

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Because he is an asshole. SATSQ:

Asked about polls suggesting many in the public continue to think Obama is a Muslim, Gingrich said in Louisiana that he takes Obama “at his word” that he believes in Christianity.

Then he launched into a riff on how Obama’s policies are excessively sensitive to non-Christian, non-Jewish faiths, suggesting it could raise doubts for some about where the president’s impulses come from.

“Why does the president behave the way that people would think that [he’s Muslim]?” Gingrich said. “You have to ask, why would they believe that? It’s not cause they’re stupid. It’s because they watch the kind of things I just described to you.”

Gingrich frequently rails against the administration for “anti-religious bigotry” and claims that he’s acting against Christian organizations. In his stump speech, Gingrich bemoans Obama “apologizing” to Muslims and juxtaposes that with what he sees as an assault on the Catholic Church.

Four and a half more years of this nonsense.

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Monkey See, Monkey Douchebags

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It just never stops with these religious fanatics:

“The Senate approved a bill Monday evening that deals with teaching of evolution and other scientific theories,” the Knoxville News-Sentinel (March 19, 2012) reported, adding, “Critics call it a ‘monkey bill’ that promotes creationism in classrooms.” The bill in question is Senate Bill 893, which, if enacted, would encourage teachers to present the “scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses” of “controversial” topics such as “biological evolution, the chemical origins of life, global warming, and human cloning.”

Among those expressing opposition to the bill are the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee, the American Institute for Biological Sciences, the Knoxville News Sentinel, the Nashville Tennessean, the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, the National Earth Science Teachers Association, and the Tennessee Science Teachers Association, whose president Becky Ashe described (PDF) the legislation as “unnecessary, anti-scientific, and very likely unconstitutional.”

In favor of the bill is every bible humping semi-literate god-bothering douchebag in the Tennessee Senate. I can’t wait to see how Mr. Robot Sex “Heh Indeedy” contorts himself to make this seem appropriate.

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Your Coffee Hates the Baby Jesus

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Here we go again:

The National Organization for Marriage (NOM), America’s largest group dedicated to preserving traditional marriage and the faith communities that sustain it, today announced it will lead an international “Dump Starbucks” protest of Starbucks Coffee Company to give voice to consumers around the world who support preserving marriage as the union of one man and one woman. Customers are invited to visit www.DumpStarbucks.com immediately to take action.

“Unlike our opponents, we do not target whole companies for the actions of an individual business executive in that company,” said Brian Brown, NOM’s president. “But Starbucks has taken a corporate position in support of redefining marriage for all of society. We will not tolerate an international company attempting to force its misguided values on citizens. The majority of Americans and virtually every consumer in some countries in which Starbucks operates believe that marriage is between one man and one woman. They will not be pleased to learn that their money is being used to advance gay marriage in society.”

The new protest campaign was announced after the annual Starbucks shareholders meeting today in Seattle, where NOM spokesmen queried the board on its new policies promoting gay marriage and demanded protection against discrimination for employees, vendors and customers who disagree.

“We respect the important role of businesses in providing goods, services and jobs, and that people of diverse moral views build great companies working together,” Brown said. “But Starbucks has corporately, as an organization, endorsed and helped pass gay marriage in the state of Washington. Its executive vice president of partner resources has stated that gay marriage “is aligned with Starbucks business practices and upholds our belief in the equal treatment of partners. It is core to who we are and what we value as a company.” Corporations should not take sides in a culture war that pits a company against half the American people, and nearly all its consumers in some international markets.”

I can think of a ton of reasons to boycott Starbucks. Their coffee flat out sucks (why do people think that when you burn the hell out of beans it somehow is good), it’s horribly overpriced, they’ve in large part Walmarted a bunch of small independent coffee shops, and the only thing that tastes remotely ok is the iced mocha, which isn’t really coffee but a chocolate coated espresso sugar bomb. But the notion that they should be boycotted for simply believing in equal rights for all American citizens is just ridiculous.

BTW- if you want some good Kona coffee, these guys make some great beans (plus, they are just great people). I order from them occasionally, although less frequently since I started drinking tea all the time.

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Good News From the Granite State

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Equal marriage rights are, for now, at least, here to stay in NH:

New Hampshire lawmakers have rejected a bill that would have made their state the first to repeal a gay marriage law through legislation — a move opposed by the governor.

The Republican-controlled House voted 211-116 on Monday to kill the bill that would have repealed the 2-year-old law and restored a law that allowed civil unions in 2008 and 2009.

Normally, you would think this would settle things once and for all, but you have to remember we are dealing with religious fanatics, so I am sure NH will be debating this, at least at the committee level, for years to come.

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Some Common Sense From the Court

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This is refreshing:

The Supreme Court has turned down an appeal from Christian groups that challenged a discrimination policy at California state universities.

The justices on Monday are leaving in place a federal appeals court ruling that found that the policy doesn’t violate the Constitution. The policy says officially recognized campus groups can’t discriminate based on religion or sexual orientation.

Basically, what these folks wanted was not their constitutional rights, but special rights to violate school policy and have an officially recognized campus group be given an exception to be bigots. It’s all outlined in conservapedia’s explanation of the 1st Amendment.

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It’d Be Easier To Just Paint a Bullseye on them

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New bill in Tennessee:

A new bill headed for a vote by a Tennessee House committee this week targets abortion providers by requiring the state’s Department of Health to publish detailed information about doctors on a public website.

Known as H.B. 3308, or the “Life Defense Act of 2012,” the bill would not actually level any real “defense” of human embryos. Instead, it would require the Tennessee Department of Health to publish more detailed information about abortions carried out in the state, including the names of doctors who performed them and the hospitals they work with.

It would also require detailed statistics on abortions, including time, date, the woman’s medical conditions at the time, the age of the fetus, the type of procedure performed, the location of the procedure, and the woman’s age, race and marital status, along with details on how many times she has been pregnant.

While all states collect some basic information on abortions, H.B. 3308 would make Tennessee’s reporting the most detailed in the nation.

Remember when it was just fringe extremist groups that did this stuff:

The threats started in 1995. It was the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, and the American Coalition of Life Activists decided to create a poster for their annual meeting listing the names and address of a group of doctors who performed abortions. They called them “the Deadly Dozen,” and declared each guilty of “crimes against humanity.” They offered $5,000 for information leading to their arrest, conviction, or revocation of their medical licenses. ACLA members distributed the poster at the group’s events and published it in an affiliated magazine.

Then later that year, ACLA unveiled a second poster, this time targeting Dr. Robert Crist, an abortion provider in Kansas City. The poster listed his home and work addresses and featured his photograph. It offered $500 to “any ACLA organization that successfully persuades Crist to turn from his child killing through activities within ACLA guidelines,” which prohibited violence.

The following January, ACLA created the “Nuremberg Files” — a series of dossiers it had compiled on doctors, clinic employees, politicians, judges and other abortion rights supporters. Dr. George Tiller of Wichita, Kans., who was killed Sunday, was among them. They would be prosecuted, ACLA wrote, “once the tide of this nation’s opinion turns against the wanton slaughter of God’s children.” ACLA sent copies of the dossiers to an anti-abortion activist who posted the information on a Website. There, the names of those who had been attacked by “anti-abortion terrorists” — as the court called them — were listed, with a strike through the names of those who had been murdered. The names of those wounded were grayed.

So I guess we have advanced somewhat in the last 15 years. Before, it was just fringe fanatics who wanted to publish the private information of doctors. Now it is fanatical legislators.

PROGRESS!

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