1. Racial issues do not exist. Negroes and White People worked out all that stuff as soon as Jesus showed up, and it doesn’t matter that those two black kids at Riverdale High have absolutely no grasp on their heritage, their oppression, or their naturals, for that matter;
2. The downfall of civilization as we know it is due to Mike and Carol Brady sharing a double bed in 1972;
3. You’ll never need Extenze® as long as your boyfriend is Jesus!
Of course, to hear her tell it, she was fired for — gasp! — being a Christian. Oh, poor little persecuted martyr! Jesus, Mary, and Carrie Prejean, whatever shall we do???
One Life to Live actress Patricia Mauceri says she was axed from the soap earlier this year because her religious beliefs were at odds with a planned gay story line.
The actress tells Fox News it wasn’t the gay plotline she objected to, but rather her character’s handling of the issue. A devout Christian, Mauceri says she objected to the way the writers wanted her character — a deeply religious, Latina mother — to react to her son coming out of the closet.
Mauceri says it was those objections that got her fired — she says her character would not have been accepting. …
Mauceri says she is exploring her legal options.
Your “legal options”? You either do your job as you’re told, or you get sacked — or you quit. That’s the way it works in the real world, Missy.
The [Washington] Post recently featured a story by reporter Monica Hesse that ran on the front of the Style section while she was on vacation. The day before returning, she logged on to check e-mails — and wept.
She was buried by an avalanche of messages angrily attacking her lengthy Aug. 28 profile of Brian Brown, executive director of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), the group leading the fight against legalization of same-sex marriage.
Hesse was stunned. She had expected to hear from anti-gay-marriage conservatives who might view the story as “snide.”
Instead, she heard from liberals who support gay marriage, accusing her of writing a puff piece about someone they believe fosters prejudice and intolerance. The story was shallow and one-sided, they complained.
Scores also contacted the ombudsman. It’s “one of the biggest pieces of crap The Post has published in recent memory,” wrote District resident William Grant II. “What’s next, a piece on how a KKK leader is just ’someone next door’ and ‘really a nice person’?” …
Much more at the link, including quotes from our friend Fred Karger.
Oh, and Hesse is bisexual. And she still doesn’t get it.
Keep weeping, Monica, until you do.
You have no quarter here.
Harsh? Tough. I’m tired of this. Tired of capitulaters. Tired of apologists. Tired of morons-in-denial — from “gay” Republicans to spineless Democrats — who think if we just “reach out” and make nice, the haters will be nice back.
“Reaching out” gets you one thing: your hand lopped off at the wrist.
Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) has said a few outrageous things in his political career, but this one may take the cake. …
“He […] spoke of a ’socialistic elite’ — Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid — who might use a pandemic disease or natural disaster as an excuse to declare martial law,” reports The Athens Banner-Herald.
He added, “They’re trying to develop an environment where they can take over. We’ve seen that historically.” …
In November, the Georgia lawmaker told a Rotary Club that President Obama was a “Marxist” and said his suggestion of a “civilian security force” made him eerily like Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. …
If stupid people are going to say stupid things, can’t they at least learn the difference between socialism and Marxism?
Not to mention the fact that Barack Obama is even less a socialist — or a Marxist — than Lucille Ball was a Communist. But to hope for that much to get through the cement skulls of goofballs like Paul Broun would be asking far too much from the Attention-Deficit Sound-Bite Generation.
More of Broun’s lunacy (”death panels” and all) at Raw Story.
“Francis Schaeffer is widely credited with being the most influential person in leading evangelical Christians to oppose abortion. Many, however, are unaware of how instrumental he was in moving evangelical Christians toward political action and in motivating some Christian Reconstructionists toward civil disobedience (sometimes violent).”
Nothing like rubbing sandpaper over a bleeding, raw nerve — and when the author drags Bristol Palin into it, and sinks to the level of making a coldhearted reference to Elizabeth Edwards’ breast cancer, you know you’ve won. Or at least, I know I have.
Enjoy the sound and the fury in the comments section (at what’s become a cesspool of lying, right-wing extremists):
“No matter what Daddy says about the Demoncrats and Anti-Christ Obama, please, God, grant us single-payer, or at least a decent public option, because I’m going to need therapy for the rest of my life!”
So much for having “reason to mention Rick Santorum when he’s not ragging on Those Horrible Homos.”
And forget Maggie “Let Mama Love Baby-Hubby” Gallagher’s booga-booga scarefest, “The Gathering Storm” — now it’s “The Gathering Grassfire” (and we can’t wait to see the parody videos!):
Addams Family’s continued distress over Daddy’s continued moronosity
For once, we have reason to mention Rick Santorum when he’s not ragging on Those Horrible Homos.
Either Icky Ricky is lying, or he’s just woefully misinformed (’cause, see, it would be wrong of us to call Rick Santorum a big, fat, pathological liar without giving him the benefit of the doubt and conceding that he might just be stupid):
And what’s most often blamed for Rhode Island’s reluctance to legalize same-sex marriage? Why, the state’s heavily-Catholic population, of course. But apparently those same Catholics take no issue with whoring out girl-children to clubs full of drunken slobs cracking a fat.
Let me put it this way: I’d vote to put Ronald Reagan back in the governor’s mansion first — as he was, or in his current condition.
Mock, Paper, Scissors has the lowdown on the quick unraveling of Meg Whitman’s “impartiality” and “objectivity” when confronted on her vote for Proposition 8 by a married lesbian mom:
H/T to Wonkette (where you can find the link; we won’t link to Freakerville), who opines: “This would be terrifying if it wasn’t about some lamer old wingnuts and their message board: The person who runs FreeRepublic.com is cold gonna overthrow the U.S. government … [T]hings are getting Seriously Weird with the wingnuts, birthers, paultards and other middle-aged white suckers who bought into that whole Reagan thing 30 years ago and, whoops, are still poor and doomed. …
“What will happen? How many will shoot up Holocaust museums, or start car-bombing the hip hop? And how thankful should we all be that these people are so goddamned obese that simply getting up from the ‘puter table is pretty much out of the realm of possibility?”
Actor Stephen Baldwin, brother of Emmy winner and “30 Rock” star Alec Baldwin, filed for bankruptcy in New York on Tuesday, according to a court document that says he is millions in debt.
The 43-year-old actor filed for Chapter 11 protection claiming he owes more than $2.3 million and owns a New York property valued at only $1.1 million. His wife, Kennya Baldwin, also is named in the document. …
This is the kind of story I’d love to see on “Cheaters” (one of my favorite guilty pleasures); I can just picture the parking-lot confrontation scene, in which she screams at his groin: “He has a girlfriend, bitch!” and his nether regions shout back: “He said he was single! I’m outta here! And I’m taking our testicles with me!”
JULY 15—Meet Rachel Ferrara. When the Wisconsin woman, 23, arrived home from work yesterday afternoon, she discovered her boyfriend “watching pornography on the TV and masturbating,” according to a La Crosse Police Department report. Chagrined, Ferrara argued with Christopher Strabley, 24, called him a “f*king cheater,” and kicked him in the groin. Ferrara then allegedly grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed Strabley in the abdomen. Strabley told cops that she then told him, “You deserve it,” while continuing to slash away (Strabley eventually escaped and drove himself to the hospital, where he was treated and released). …
More from the terminally paragraph-break-challenged (but always immensely entertaining) Smoking Gun, including mug shot and police report, at the link.
Joe the Plumber (who isn’t named Joe, but Sam Wurzelbacher, and who isn’t a plumber) is not someone we pay attention to, because he deserves no credence or validation whatsoever — there are many more dangerous idiots to worry about than this drip — but we just had to share this revelation, delivered Saturday by Wurzelbacher to an apparently equally braindead audience at the Independence Institute’s annual “Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms Party” (just what we need more of in this country: a bunch of drunk smokers with guns):
“This country has been great for over 180 years,” Wurzelbacher said after urging folks to study the Constitution. It wasn’t clear whether something happened in the late 1820s to make the United States great, but other than a few puzzled glances from the crowd, everyone went with it.
That, or Wurzelbacher thinks this is 1956 — which might explain his archaic worldview.
For instance, did you know that the government is run by secular humanists? And did you know that “a secular humanist believes he or she is a god and does not need the true God”? (Wow, I’m a god!)
And did you know that the “nearly 7 million American Muslims in our country today … enjoy incomes and educational levels that are higher than the American average”? (Where have I heard that before…? Oh, yeah! All gay people are rich, too! Which reminds me — I keep forgetting to inform my wife that we’re rich. We must be, because everyone who hates us keeps saying we are.)
rainlillie (150 posts) Mon Jun-22-09 02:20 PM Response to Reply #251 257. No, both the Clinton’s are moderates. Edited on Mon Jun-22-09 02:22 PM by rainlillie [Edited out: An admonition to “call out” the “cowardly Democrats” in Congress, rather than Obama] Kucinich was the only liberal in the race. Maybe that’s why I’m not whining about what he [Obama] hasn’t done thus far, I knew what I was getting before I voted for him.
Q Robert, on the issue of the DOMA brief, one of your colleagues over the weekend, Lisa Brown, said that she didn’t think some of the language that was in that brief should have been in there. Can you clarify from last week whether that brief was clear here at the White House, whether it represents the White House’s view?
MR. GIBBS: Lisa is the Staff Secretary. You didn’t ask her?
Q It wasn’t a press conference; it was a panel discussion. But can you clarify whether it was cleared —
MR. GIBBS: I don’t know the answer to that.
Q And do you know if there is any discussion underway about maybe modifying it or changing it?
MR. GIBBS: Not that I’m aware of.
H/T to Aravosis, who has some flipping good questions of his own.
What year is this again? What century? What planet— oh, wait, it’s Texas.
This is what it’s about — which the article (after the jump) doesn’t tell you until midway:
In 1999, pastor Rick Barr converted two homes he owned in the San Patricio County town of Sinton into halfway houses — which are classified as rehabilitational facilities — primarily for drug offenders recently released from prison. Up to 16 men lived unsupervised in the houses, court records show.
In response, Sinton passed a zoning ordinance three months later that banned correctional and rehabilitational facilities from being located within 1,000 feet of a home, school or church in the town of about 6,000 — effectively banning the halfway houses from the city and clearly placing a substantial burden on Barr’s ministry, [Texas Supreme Court Justice Nathan Hecht] wrote.
Now that you know it’s about halfway houses for ex-cons — and not even a real church, here’s rest of the story about the idiotic, patently un-American decision from the Texas SC:
The City of Bozeman has made a change in hiring policy, just two days and one worldwide reaction after we broke the story, Bozeman will no longer ask applicants for social networking user names and passwords.
“Effective at noon today the city of Bozeman permanently ceased the practice of requesting that candidates selected for positions under a provisional job offer to provide their usernames or passwords for candidates Internet sites,” said Chris Kukulski, Bozeman City Manager.
Kukulski says that following a 90 minute staff meeting held on Friday morning, officials decided asking applicants to provide their passwords to sites such as Facebook or MySpace, “exceeded that which is acceptable to our community”.
Kukulski also apologized for the negative impact the issue has generated from news organizations and blogs around the world. …
See? Sometimes, public shaming is the only thing that works to make somebody do what they should have done in the first place — ditch this rotten idea of such a massive invasion of privacy.
Actually, no, I wouldn’t, for three reasons: 1) You’d never catch me in Montana long enough to need a job, 2) I’d rather starve to death in the gutter than compromise my privacy like this, and 3) Greg Sullivan and the rest of the City of Bozeman can get knotted.
We’re sure this is all because the gays are getting married. We don’t know how, exactly, but we’re sure one of the Radical Righties will come up with a reason it’s Teh Gheyz’ fault!
One Desmond Hatchett in Tennessee, US, has become a superdad by having fathered a record 21 children at the age of 29.
The ages of the kids Hatchett has had with 11 different women range from a newborn to 11 years.
Hatchett even boasted of fathering four children by different women in the same year.
It was when authorities in Knoxville, Tennessee, dragged Hatchett to court for non-payment of child support that his giant brood came to light.
Hatchett claims that he never intended to set a record.
“It just happened,” the Daily Star quoted him as saying. …
Hatchett’s lawyer Keith Pope said: “The children can’t be supported all by Desmond, so the state of Tennessee has had to step in.”
People living in Knoxville gave bitter response over Hatchett’s court appearance, with some calling for him to be castrated.
“It just happened.”
“Sure, sure, it just happened. Could happen to anybody. It was an accident, right? You tripped, fell on the floor and accidently stuck your d*ck into my wife. ‘Oops, I’m sorry, Mrs. H, I guess this just isn’t my week.’” — Joe Hallenbeck (Bruce Willis), The Last Boy Scout (1991)
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