Category Archives: Wingnuttery at work

Dominionist revisionism is so last week

So…the Constitution is written in Hebrew, Mr. Barton? How else could something from the Old Testament be verbatim in Article 3?

How wrong-headed could people be?!

Here are two books that every wingnut perv/conservative politico ought to have on the bookshelves:

Here are two books, one written by Karen Santorum (and foreworded by Joe Paterno, FFS!) and the other written by George “Lift my luggage” Rekers. Here are two books involving people who have allowed or encouraged adults to abuse children sexually and/or psychologically.

I thought these were both bad jokes. They are not, and they are both for sale at your favorite bookstore. Be sure to give them a pass today.

Riddle me this, children.

I am doing work at a customer site, and I decided to scan through my favorite webcomics while waiting for a meeting to start.

When I try to go to the website that would show a cartoon like this

I get this instead.

However, the same customer allows this webcomic that contains material like this…

…and this.

The forbidden comic states a truth about apostasy in the Muslim world, and the second one contains obscenity.

I have no objection to obscenity itself, as long as it’s appropriate to the situation.

However, I also have no problem exposing uncomfortable truths about religions either.

But I’m guessing somebody does.

Uncovered asshattery over at NOM

Anyone who doubts that the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is an evil, divisive, and disruptive group of homophobic morons (whose bills are being paid by a few rich donors who refuse to publicly admit who they are) should take a gander at these excerpts from a confidential study done by NOM and purposely hidden from public view until the Maine court system forced the document’s release:

  1. “Drive a wedge between gays and blacks” by convincing them to fight over the language of “civil rights”.
  2. Bait Latino voters to oppose marriage equality as “a symbol of resistance to inappropriate assimilation”.
  3. Interrupt the “attempt to equate…sexual orientation with race” so that marriage inequality is not perceived as discrimination.
  4. Draw attention to the “bigotry and intolerance” displayed by equality advocates and “document the victims” through a rapid response media team.
  5. Emphasize the importance of “religious liberties” to limit the impact of marriage equality’s legislative advancements.
  6. “Develop side issues to weaken pro-gay marriage political leaders” like pornography, “protection of children”, and religious liberty at the federal level.
  7. Expose Obama administration programs that “have the effect of sexualizing young children” or threatening “childhood innocence”.
  8. “Find, train, and equip young leaders” to become a “next generation of elites” capable of opposing marriage equality.
  9. Foster closer relationships with Catholic bishops to “equip, energize, and moralize Catholic priests on the marriage issue”.
  10. Focus on “the consequences of gay marriage for parental rights”.

I find #8 particularly chilling; I can imagine training films for such groups of young people, but I keep hearing the narration spoken in German.

If NOM ‘fessed up and admitted that the Catholic Church is their big mover and shaker, and used that as the reason for their proselytizing, I could understand them.

I’d still kick ‘em in the stomach at my first opportunity, but I’d understand them.

 

Right, but for a large number of wrong reasons

I’m not going into this tonight, but while I think big-L Libertarians are a bunch of pie-in-the-sky numbskulls and I agree with a number of the entries, I  have quibbles with portions of the content:

My biggest argument is that Libertarianism would be morally correct if we lived in a world populated by nothing except morally correct angels who can live in complete isolation from any other social networks.

But we don’t and they can’t.

How can “Limited government!” and “No abortions!” be stated in the same (Republican) political platform?

Here’s one of the Doonesbury cartoons recently censored by several newspapers, and a message your friendly neighborhood white, middle-aged male Republican legislator doesn’t want you to read:

The Kansas City Star was one of the newspapers which refused to run the current comic thread concerning a new Texas law, heartily supported by Governor Rick Good Hair Perry, that requires intrusive sonogram examinations prior to receiving an abortion.

“God says, ‘Black people are scary!’ “

From the wisest of political cartoonists…here is today’s creation by Mr. Trudeau:

Just remember, kids. When you have a president who has a list of accomplishments as long as this, and the barking ignorant (birthers, neocons, Republican Party nominees, etc.) claim that he’s done little or nothing, what other possible reason is there for denigrating him?

What’s sauce for the goose isn’t necessarily sauce for the gander. Right?

In old Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman. She innocently opened a buried urn she had found and released the evils of the world that the gods had purposely confined and buried. (Sounds like Eve, doesn’t it?) This was part in parcel with the gods’ efforts to punish humanity for receiving the gift of fire given to them by Prometheus.

Pandora is now a member of the Kentucky state legislature. She’s in the guise of state senator Jimmy Higdon (a Republican, naturally). Higdon is sponsoring Senate Bill 158, which is a proposed state amendment designed to

“…prohibit any human authority from burdening actions that are based on religious beliefs, except in support of a compelling governmental interest using the least restrictive means to further that interest.”

The Family Foundation of Kentucky and the Catholic Conference of Kentucky both endorse this attempt to add an amendment to the Kentucky state constitution that would allow people to legally perform actions based upon religious belief, even if those actions are illegal.

Isn’t it ironic that this same bunch of self-congratulatory nincompoops who want to “expand” religious freedoms (presumably for fundie Christians and Catholics) don’t want those same freedoms allowed for fundie Muslims? All groups would presumably be allowed to arrange for forced marriages, prevent women from owning property, and even presumably allow for “honor” killings.

The rush to dump Rush

I have been staying out of the latest Limbaugh misogyny debacle. He’s an ignorant toad that thrives on the attention of the media, loathes women/gays/minorities, and as such deserves no notice at all. (Notice he has the wet end of a large phallic symbol shoved in his mouth at every photo op?)

However, there are those on all points on the political spectrum who claim that the movement to devoid his media presentations of advertising dollars has gone too far:

However, those who demand a cessation to the “witch hunt” fail to recognize something. Other media celebrities have made disparaging remarks about women they don’t like, but Limbaugh has made a career out of fear, hatred, and misogyny. This rush to strip him of the ability to speak on his own public forum (which is not censorship — a fact realized by anyone who knows how to use a dictionary) is nothing more than a reaction to his lifelong career of woman-bashing:

Don’t you loathe Limbaugh’s claim that a woman “wanting sex” = a woman “with no morals”?

Now do we all understand why Limbaugh’s tepid apology hasn’t been accepted by so many advertisers? Particularly in light of his latest verbal attack on a woman?

Attention scientists! I’ve discovered an alternate reality!

“So many of the Jews in this country are atheists.”

“The Jewish vote in this country is so confused.”

“Most of the Jews in this country are far left.”

“Their hearts are with this president…they’re with him on all the issues, abortion, all the things that you might list.”

“They like the identify [of Judaism] for some reason — they still want the identity.”

“Some of the Jewish atheists…who have some dealing with Judeo-Christian ethics sometimes turn out to be the worst enemies of this country in my perspective in terms of its future and its goals, in terms of its moral issues.” (emphasis mine)

This all clearly shows that I’ve caught a glimpse of some sort of alternative world, where the white, God-fearing people of America are the only ones who are morally correct, and are the ones who should calling the shots in the United States. Anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-Semitic, and anti-sex attitudes all seem rife in this reality.

I’m surprised no one mentioned the Illuminati.

(Sandy Rios is the former president of Concerned Women for America and a Faux News commentator. The grey-haired yahoo on screen is the AFA‘s very own Bryan Fisher.)

Got hit by a tornado? You’re shit out of luck in Paul Country.

Ron Paul from yesterday’s State of the Union from CNN:

Interviewer: “You have frequently been critical of FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the federal money that is given to some of these home owners and those that are also — other victims of storms like this. Is there a role for federal money in helping all of these citizens get their lives back together?”

Ron Paul: “Not really, because it’s not authorized and there is no such thing as federal money. Federal money is just what they steal from the states and steal from you and me. So there is no federal money unless you say, well, they can print it and cause internal problems…

“And to point out, well, they might give you a home, yes, they bought a lot of trailers for Katrina, you know, and it’s just so wasteful, inefficient. But, you know, the Guard units and other things within the states certainly is there. The people who live in Tornado Alley just as I live in a hurricane alley, they should have insurance for doing this.” (Emphasis mine.)

Way to go with that tiny shriveled thing you call your humanity, Mr. Paul.

The next time one of you PaulBots returns to your home the morning after a tornado strikes and you see this,

What do you think the chance is that your insurance agent is standing out there with cash, waiting for you to show up?

remember his words.