December 22, 2013

Ian Bayne, GOP Congressional Candidate: 'Duck Dynasty Star Is Rosa Parks Of Our Generation'

Source: Huff Post

Embattled "Duck Dynasty" star Phil Robertson has been suspended from his show by A&E for his remarks about gays and African-Americans, and now some high-profile conservatives are rallying to his side and defending him. On Friday, GOP congressional candidate Ian Bayne went all in, comparing Robertson to civil rights icon Rosa Parks.

"In December 1955, Rosa Parks took a stand against an unjust societal persecution of black people, and in December 2013, Robertson took a stand against persecution of Christians," Bayne said in an email to supporters.

"What Parks did was courageous," he added. "What Mr. Robertson did was courageous too."

Robertson's anti-gay remarks in an interview with GQ comparing homosexuality to bestiality have received quite a bit of attention. But he also commented on the state of African-Americans during the Jim Crow era, claiming that they were all carefree and totally happy with their (unequal) status:

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It's courageous to be a racist, bigoted asshole? Then I guess David Duke is one of the most courageous people in the county.

December 18, 2013

Top Ten Conservative Idiots of the Week

[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]The Lily White Christmas Edition[/font]

Megyn Kelly’s dreaming of a white Christmas, with no blacks or browns or off-whites (1). Where pastors are raping (2) and Russians are gay baiting (5) to see Domino’s firing workers refusing to work for less than minimum wage (8). May your days be merry and bright, and may all rich princelings get off for killing someone with their cars because they’re white (and rich) (10). And as always, don't forget the key. Remember, you can run your mouse over the icon to see what it means. At the end, the writer will give a small tribute to one of the greatest men of the past 100 years.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Megyn Kelly[/font]
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Another week, and more Fox News drivel to look at. This time, Fox News rising star and spokesmodel Megyn Kelly decided to weigh on the Fox Noise’s contrived War on Christmas. At issue is Aisha Harris’s Slate.com article where she says America needs to give up “Santa-as-fat-old-white-man” and maybe make the gift giver of Christmas a penguin.

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Logical. Santa as a white guy does sound like White Man’s burden to me. . .giving gifts to the downtrodden while those selfish minorities don’t do anything. Maybe making the gift giver sexless, raceless and ageless will make it more egalitarian.

Never mind that. Megyn Kelly stepped right up and told Harris she’s gone ”way off the rails,” which is the nice, Fox way os calling someone a damned, anti-American, un-American flag burning, apple pie hating scumbag!

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“Just because it makes you feel uncomfortable doesn’t mean it has to change, you know?” she added. “I mean, Jesus was a white man too. He was a historical figure, that’s a verifiable fact, as is Santa — I just want the kids watching to know that.”

Santa is white? Who cares? Honestly. . .does it matter, since Santa is make believe? Apparently, it does to Megyn Kelly, because she doubled down hard on her statement earlier over the next few days.

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“Just because it makes you feel uncomfortable doesn’t mean it has to change, you know?” she added. “I mean, Jesus was a white man too. He was a historical figure, that’s a verifiable fact, as is Santa — I just want the kids watching to know that.”

Yes, because kids watch Fixed News all the time. Screw Cartoon Network. Screw sports. Hell, even screw WWE. When kids get home, they flip on Fixed Noise and zone out. Cue Rev. Lovejoy’s wife “won’t someone please think about the children” whine from The Simpsons.

She didn’t stop there!

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“Many questioning whether I understand that Santa is a mythical figure, others’ suggesting that I am a racist who is outraged at the idea of a black Santa,” she continued. “Well, this would be funny if it were not so telling about our society, in particular the knee-jerk instinct by so may to race bait and to assume the worst in people. Especially people employed by the very powerful Fox News channel.”

The point of humor is to be funny, Megyn. There is little funny in you. Now, George Carlin. . .that’s funny. Chris Rock, Bill Maher. . .hell, even Jeff Dunham. . .they’re funny. Your humor is just sad. And the reason there is a “knee jerk” reaction is being you’re a jerk. Simple and easy.

Still, one of her followers decided that since it’s okay to be a racist asshole on Fixed Noise, it’s okay to be a racist asshole in the classroom as well.

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The move came after students at Cleveland High School were told they could come to class dressed as Santa, an elf or a reindeer.

Michael Rougier said his ninth-grade son, Christopher, arrived wearing a Santa hat and beard, and the teacher asked the boy: "Don't you know Santa Clause is white? Why are you wearing that?"

Wow. . Just wow! Thanks, Megyn. Your bullshit gave the clueless morons that watch your drivel the cue to be racist to 14 year old boys.

Next story on Fixed Noise: Should Murphy Brown be a role model to all female television characters due to her out-of-wedlock pregnancy? Joining us are the Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, Frosty the Snowman and a talking unicorn.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Jacoby Kindred[/font]
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God is a great excuse for people to do some of the most heartless things to other people. People kill for God. People hate for God. People murder each other because the voice in their head is God and God told them it’s a good idea. People torture in the name of God. In Jacoby Kindred’s case raped girls in the name of God.

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The St. Paul Pioneer Press reported that a complaint filed in Ramsey County District Court on Wednesday said that Jacoby Kindred began sexually abusing the girls when they were only about 6 years old.

Wow. Six year old girls have demons inside them and only the unlawful injection of a man’s penis will end the torment? Wow, religion is amazing!

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“He told her the devil was inside her and he could take the demons out of her,” according to the St. Paul Pioneer Press.

Blowjobs for Jesus? This couldn’t get any sicker.

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And apparently ladies also means six year old girls. Just when I think this man couldn’t do something or say something to make himself look more stupid and worse, he keeps right on talking.

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“These are not really kids,” Kindred insisted the St. Paul Pioneer Press on Thursday. “They have the mind of the adult.”

“All a woman has to do (in Minnesota) is make an accusation, true or false, and the man’s going to be in trouble,” he explained.

Wow! People normally don’t rape a child in public, pastor. Most people would frown on shit like that.

Second, a six year old has the mind of an adult, so they aren’t really kids? Well, their minds may be adult, but the law says they are still kids.

Third. . .it’s very difficult to convince a jury that a six year old kid has the ability to make up rape. I don’t believe they are that cunning. Now, making excuses for eating cookies, yes. Trying to lie out of getting into trouble, of course. Making up being orally and vaginally raped. . .umm, not so much.

So the next time you have a demon inside you, go see Jacoby Kindred. But, don’t worry, ladies. According to “Dr” Todd Akin, you won’t get pregnant if it’s legitimate rape. And we all know that since you opened up your legs and let the goodness of the Lord shine through, it isn’t legitimate rape. It’s divine intervention.

Now, are those demons gone yet? Or will the demon stay in prison after his conviction?

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Donald Trump[/font]
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The New York Combover burped out more bullshit and went the birther route again.

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Selective killing in a plane crash to hide the fact he’s a Kenyan? Makes perfect sense.

Nothing more to say here. The Top Ten doesn’t want to insult the obviously insane. So moving on. The Top Ten spent 14.59 seconds writing this, which is all the shelf-life The Donald has left of his 15 minutes.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Glenn Beck[/font]
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After being kicked off CNN and Fixed Noise, Glenn Beck is running his own worthless TV network with S.E. Cupp that few people watch and care about while bloviating from his microphone being a mini-Rush. He loves to attack progressives and apparently now, he has targetted the Pope.

Recently, the Pope won Person of the Year. Normally, whenever the Pope says does something, most of the world cringes. But Pope Francis seems to be different. And he actually seems to take his job seriously as one to help the poor, downtrodden masses without requiring them to be Catholic. For that, the Pope is becoming wildly popular. But Beck sees a conspiracy theory.

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“He makes me a little concerned on his Marxist tendencies,” he explained. “When you’re not on prepared remarks, Marxism starts to creep into your language. When you’re asked questions by people, you start to say, ‘Look, I don’t want to hurt you, I just think that redistribution of wealth isn’t so bad.’”

Jesus was a fucking Marxist. All that love thy neighbor, help the poor, tax the rich. . .he’s a communist. Republican Jesus loves the wealthy and hates the poor. “Fucked be the poor” and “Blessed are the warmongerers.” I’m sure the New Testament says that someplace.

No fear. Beck chose his personal “Man of the Year.”

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Ted “Booze” Cruz. Because his 21 hour Ted “Cruz” Talk did so much to help the poor in Congo (the poorest nation in the world) or advance civil and human rights that he deserves to be mentioned.

As always, Beck, like all conservatives like to mention that Time also picked

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They did? Right Wing Watch researched that. He’s half right.

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Whoops! And checking out Wikipedia, Beck lied again. However, one can see the Winston Churchill, Dwight Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson, George W. Bush, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan were all elected Person of the year twice. So was Deng Xiaoping, Josef Stalin and Mikhail Gorbachev. I guess Churchill is a Marxist too. Oh, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama were POTY twice. . .FDR thrice. Please proceed, Alex Jones prototype.

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Oh. . .so because Pope Francis won, Time is fascist. I wonder if he thought that when the BFEE won it three times (once with Poppa Bush, twice with Bush the Lesser).

So, there we have it. Ted Cruz is Glenn Beck’s “person of the year” and progressives are fascists. There’s no punchline here. Glenn Beck is a punchline all by himself.

BTW, Francis wasn’t the first Pope. Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII won too. Fascists. All of them! Even Chiang Kai-Shek and Soong Mei-Ling are fascists. THE ENTIRE WORLD IS FASCIST!!! Glenn Beck sees them everywhere. So buy gold from his sponsors to protect yourself from the creeping fascism.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Ivan Okhlobystin[/font]
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Wow, Russia is in a world of shit now. Between Edward Snowden’s temporary asylum (the Top Ten is not touching that one with a ten foot pole) and their gay bashing laws in the face of the 2014 protests and growing boycotts of the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia is looking bad. With Putin consolidating power and looking like he wants to bring back the old style authoritarian rule (sans the Communism) of Stalin, Russia has numerous black eyes. Maybe someone can make the country look good in the eyes of the world.

Step forward, Ivan Ohklobystin. He’s a “famous” Russian actors whose biggest claim to fame was running for, and being trounced in, Russian President two years ago. He has something to say to all you gayo-people and gayo-supporters out there: Go screw yourselves.

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Oh goody. . .a nazi reference, from a country with a history of pogroms against Jews. Genocide of gay people. The “one time priest” has more to say.

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Would you write the Russian translation of “Arbeit Mach Frei” over the oven doors? Zxylon B gas?

Gay people are a threat to your children how? Clashing colors after they finish interior decorating your house? Giving your kids headaches after your gay stylist messes up your hair. I know. . .the threat to your kids is completely imaginary because there is no fucking threat.

But, Ivan went to the Megyn Kelly school of foot-in-mouth and decided to double down on his bigotry.

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Well, he’s right. He can express his opinion. And most normal people will express theirs too. Morgan Freeman says it best though.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Scott Bach[/font]
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Nazi reference #2. This time it comes to us from the Good Old U.S. Of A. In Chris Christie’s backyard (enter jokes about his size here), Jersey City mayor Steven Fulop has decided to try to ask gun vendors for help in gun control policy development. According to Think Progress:

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Sensible. Logical. Forward thinking. Loooong overdue, but it’s a start. Ask those who sell and those who enforce laws for their input and ideas for enforcing current laws and strengthening new ones.

Never mind that shit. Scott Bach, NRA flunkie, sees Nazis everywhere with that. While on the NRA’s vanity show, Bach uttered this drivel.

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Oh. . .there’s the talking point. Nazis took guns away from Germans which enabled them to take over Germany, destroy Jewish lives and start the worst war in the history of humanity. It was gun control. Except when it’s wrong, which it is, which makes it wrong.

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Never mind those leftist facts or that liberally biased reality, Bach sees Nazis. And he has an edict for Steven Fulop.

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Let’s see. According to the NRA, no one should bring up gun control:

01: Before a mass shooting, because it doesn’t happen.
02: Immediately after a mass shooting, because you’re politicizing a tragedy
03: Long after a mass shooting, because it doesn’t happen much.
04: After a cop is killed in the line of duty, because you shouldn’t punish the law abiding.
05: Any day that ends in “y,” because God doesn’t like it.

After his little diatribe, Mayor Fulop went home, had dinner, took a big shit, climbed into bed and fell asleep, apparently not giving a tinker’s damn what some uber-loon at the NRA thinks.

Which is what all politicians should do. But don’t.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Fox “News”[/font]
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A year ago last week, a gun nut went into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT and shot and killed 20 students and six teachers. No one gives a damn that the psycho killed himself. Which is the way it should be.

Fox News decided to honor those who died by bringing on a gun nut.

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Balance? BALANCE??? Seriously? Sensible gun control advocate v. Fringe right wing gun nut? Some people don’t need a forum. Okay, bring on Gary Pratt

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"We're not really going to able to talk about a victory until we get rid of the laws that prohibit people from having guns to protect themselves in schools and in other places," Pratt explained. "Every one of our mass murders in our country has occurred in places where guns were prohibited."

Really? A military base has no guns? There was a mass shooting there. And schools now need guns? Issue the students books, supplies and a Glock as standard school equipment. And if they “stand their ground,” they can kill at will.

Dumbo didn’t stop there.
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"It is killing people," he insisted. "All of these gun-free zones are murder magnets, and we've simply got to get rid of them. It's an illusion to think that somehow we're going to be safer because we can't have a gun in a particular area because the bad guy is going to have a gun."

Really? Parks are murder magnets? Supermarkets? My God. . .do these people listen to themselves.

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"The problem is when are we going to stop good guys from having guns to protect themselves so that when of when of one of these dirt bags goes into a mall or a school, somebody is able to protect themselves and others by having their own gun," he said.

Oh. . .parrot Wayne LaPierre’s good guy-bad guy bullcrap. The Archie Bunker “everyone should pack heat” nonsense.

Maybe he can parrot this debunked nonsense. What needs to be explained is his idea that people getting killed is proof that God was “judging” unarmed Americans and “blessing” the gun owners.

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“But the only way to avoid that is to be on our knees and to be asking for God’s pleasure,” he added. “If the country comes back to the Lord — as he told Solomon in that great prayer — then he will repent of what he’s done to the country, he will heal the land, restore it and put his blessing upon it.”

“And we should be praying that we will all be able to go around armed because that will be one outward indicator that we have God’s blessing.”
And these people need a forum for this? Thanks, Chris Wallace, for shitting all over twenty dead children. Your father would be proud.

Oh, and never forget Newtown. Here are twenty six reasons why the US needs stronger gun laws.

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Side note from writer: This one hits hard. I taught elementary school before I went to Asia. That could have been my class.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Domino’s Pizza[/font]
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After Pizza Hut fired a middle manager for daring to allow people to take Thanksgiving off and closing the restaurant, their main competition decided to up the greed and the shock value.

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Yes folks, because workers didn’t want to work for less than minimum wage in a non-tipped job, Domino’s fired them. Yes, that’s how you deal with the peon that wants to work and have a job that allows them to eat and live rather than eat or live.

Republicans around the country will rejoice, as shown by the comments section of this Yahoo News story on this travesty. Apparently lost on the conservatives is that these people WANTED to work for minimum wage, not less. But the dismissive “easy job, low learning curve, get more skills, don’t be lazy” meme is still being used and most of the time.

Back to the article. Well, apparently the issue is the excess work, not the job. According to Opposing Views:

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Nice little system they have at that store. Work as a driver and if there is nothing to do, do work that is not part of your job and don’t get paid for the extra. Isn’t slavery and indentured servitude illegal?

According to the Yahoo article, the owner of these stores, a Mr. Robert Cookston, decided to do the right thing and re-hired his workers only have this story leaked to the media and the State Attorney got involved. Yes, all it took to get this assclown to do the right thing was a State Attorney’s probe and a media probe.
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The store, located in upper Manhattan's Washington Heights neighborhood, agreed to reinstate the fired employees by Sunday, the office said. The workers, 25 in all, said they lost their jobs because they had denounced their wages as too low. "The delivery workers ... were let go after complaining that they were still being paid the 'tipped wage' of $5.65 per hour even though they were performing tasks, like kitchen cleaning, that should qualify them for the state's minimum wage of $7.25," the Huffington Post reported Friday.

What is amazing is that people aren’t outraged at the modern day slavery. What has America become? Get used to it. It’s too expensive to hire Americans to do the good jobs, to those jobs go to places like India and China. While the bosses get wealthy, the rest who were not born to the elite class starve.

Too bad God punishes those who don’t succeed. Ayn Rand and social Darwinism taught us that. But American Idol is on. . .and I hear Domino’s is having a special on pizza today. Buy two and kick the underpaid delivery driver in the nuts for free. Tip optional.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Rick Santorum[/font]
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Rick ”Frothy Mix” Santorum seems to be back in the News alot these days. Apparently, Ricky of “Keeping Dead Fetus, Naming It and Tormenting His Children by Showing It to Them Land” is planning another run for president, so the verbal diarrhea keeps coming, in large amounts quickly.

Last week, he was on the news comparing his fight with Obamacare to Mandela’s 25 years in prison for fighting South African Apartheid. . .going as far as saying that the things Mandela wanted to do, did and wanted to accomplish were “not always the right thing.” That meme that Mandela murdered white people got around fast. This week, he’s back on Obamacare with a different line of attack. Obamacare is designed to kill you.

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Ummm. . .what? That happens absolutely nowhere in industrialized countries. No where! Not. One. Fucking. Country! (side note: I lived in South Korea with single payer socialized medicine before moving to China. It works amazingly, is cheap and refutes everything Lil’ Ricky is saying now).

Now, instead of death panels, we have voting panels. Some guy in a German accent wearing the Republican Star will look over people:

“You didn’t vote der right way, Comrade-ski. No Health Care! In to der oven!”

“No. . .I just want aspirin.”

1984 over going to the doctor. The horrors.

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But the British do have nationalized medicine and Margaret Thatcher never euthanized anyone who voted Labor instead of Tory. Sick man, this Santorum is. He is obviously talking out of his ass, which is where Santorum is made, according to Dan Savage.

So keep spreading that Santorum, Ricky. You might be able to be elected Speed Bump soon enough. Because you will NEVER occupy the Oval Office. Maybe a Rubber Room.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Vicky Hartzler[/font]
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And finally;

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This is the face of a moron. A racist moron. A racist, idiotic moron. And all of you who have a brain that live in her district, I feel so bad for you.

This is Congresstoad Vicky Hartzler (R - Klanhood). She represents Central Missouri from someplace on the moon and has decided to declare war on Barack Obama.

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After a visit Tuesday to the Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital in Columbia, Hartzler was looking for a place to do interviews with reporters.

Wait? You don’t like Obama’s IMAGE??? As in a picture of him?

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WTF??? What. . .will your teabagger base not like you standing in front of his photos? Is Obama so powerful that his mere photo or painting can bend the will, curve the spine and force teabaggers to vote for a Democrat? Of all the petty, nonsensical bullshit!

What is it with Missouri and their elected officials not liking art? Remember this shit from last decade?

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Initially, Eight thousand dollars of taxpayer money were spent to cover the statue with blue drapes but now, the Ambassador from Saudi Arabia has presented the Justice Department with a gift. "Lady Justice" will be clad in a burqa.

Asscroft did this with Lady Justice and spent $8,000 on covering her up because his sensibilities were bothered by a woman’s body.

Don’t worry. Missouri made out in the long run.

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Spend $8,000. Get back $10. Good Republican economics at work. And they still covered the wrong boob!

The Top Ten will take a week off. My Chinese Buddhist wife wants to take her American Jewish husband out for a holiday he doesn’t even celebrate and she knows nothing about.

An end of the year special will come out on December 30th China time, to acknowledge the best of the best of Conservative Douchebaggery. It will be a list of Five.

Here are the nominees. Please vote.

Ted Cruz
Marco Rubio
Rand Paul
Jan Brewer
Louie Gohmert
Chris Christie
Paul LePage
Pat McCrory
Nikki Haley
Michele Bachmann
Rush Limbaugh
Paul Ryan
Rick Scott
Scott Walker
Steve King
Darrell Issa
John Boehner
Charles and David Koch
Teabaggers
Rick Perry

December 14, 2013

Police: Minnesota pastor told girls he could ‘take the demons out,’ raped them for years

Source: Raw Story

A 61-year-old Minnesota pastor was charged this week with raping two girls for nearly a decade.

The St. Paul Pioneer Press reported that a complaint filed in Ramsey County District Court on Wednesday said that Jacoby Kindred began sexually abusing the girls when they were only about 6 years old.

After a letter was found referencing sex acts with Kindred, the girls, now ages 14 and 16, disclosed the relationship to their mother. Police were notified in July.

The younger of the two girls told a nurse at Midwest Children’s Resource Center that Kindred began digitally penetrating her at the age of 6. He later forced her to perform oral sex on him and then progressed to intercourse, the girl said.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/12/police-minnesota-pastor-told-girls-he-could-take-the-demons-out-raped-them-for-years/

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Evil with a side of scumbag!

December 11, 2013

Top Ten Conservative Idiots of the Week

[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]The Remembering Greatness EDITION[/font]

“Now, he is for the ages.” Last week, the world saw the passing of Nelson Mandela, one of the examples of true class an humanity. The world is a better place because of Mr. Mandela and he may never be replaced, if greatness like that can be replaced. However, political vulture (1, 2, 3, 4) decided to either rain on the parade or use Mandela to support their narrow political bullcrap. In other news, Scott Brown (6) is dumb, the CA GOP is dumber (7) and Ted Cruz is the dumbest (10). And as always, don't forget the key. Remember, you can run your mouse over the icon to see what it means. At the end, the writer will give a small tribute to one of the greatest men of the past 100 years.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Rick Santorum[/font]
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Sometimes great men are made. Sometimes great men are born. But for every great man made or born are 10,000 morons. Step up Rick Santorum (R-Frothy Mix). Mr. Fecal Matter had the nerve to get onto Fix Noise and compare Mandela’s fight to end Apartheid to the GOP’s fight to deny health insurance coverage to Americans.

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Deconstruction time:

01: “Nelson Mandela stood up against a great injustice.” Dismissive at best, racist at worst. Injustice? The torment of black people by racist white people (supported by the US Government because South Africa was anti-Communist) is an injustice? No! Get busted for doing 70 MPH in a 65 MPH is an injustice. Apartheid was state sponsored and sanctioned racism, cruelty, barbarism and subjugation. Similar to the desire to deny gay people the right to marry. . .eh, Ricky?

02: ”I mean, what he was advocating for was not necessarily the right answer.” Yes, I mean, after all, according to St. Ronnie of Raygun, Mandela was a terrorist. And a Communist. And ending state sponsored brtuality and racism is never the right answer. Ask the southern states that supported slavery right until they lost the Civil War. What an asshole!

03: ”we have a great injustice going on right now in this country.”. Leonard Peltier? Gay marriage denials? Life sentences for drug offenses? What injustice are you talking about, Ricky?

04: ”an ever-increasing size of government that is taking over and controlling people's lives, and Obamacare is front and center in that." Health insurance is bad? And it’s the same as being locked up in prison for 25 years for nothing? What a dick!

However, nothing is more insulting than Bill O’Reilly coming out and, in the same article, gassing about

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Based on what, Billy? Your crystal ball? Your bullshit-o-meter? Tea leaves? You people love to throw that word around. It’s one of your favorite attack words.

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:::speechless::::

Ricky compares his fight to kill health insurance coverage with Mandela’s struggle and O’Reilly attacks Mandela, then claims he would never do that.

People should be shocked, but this is typical. Wonder what will be said when Aung San Suu Kyi dies in Burma. Probably something like “what she did wasn’t the right answer. The Burmese MIC needs to have control to stop Communists” or some such nonsense.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Mandela Hating Conservatives[/font]
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So the dice have been rolled. The talking point has been made. No one who is a good American should mourn the loss of Nelson Mandela because he was a terrorist and communist.

Of course, conservative and Republican lawmakers don’t see it like that, because if they did and spoke out publicly, it would be political suicide. So, they all praised Nelson Mandela with as much praise as they could. Even Ted “Booze” Cruz jumped on the bandwagon. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) [link: https://www.facebook.com/tedcruzpage/posts/10152099242462464|wrote on his facebook] that Mandela "will live in history as an inspiration for defenders of liberty around the globe." One commenter took a different view of the anti-apartheid leader's legacy, urging "all you Mandela lovers head on over to South Africa and see what's going on now that 'Mandela's people' have control of the nation."

Can’t have that! Here’s what a Republican posted on his facebook.

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Damn turncoat! White people claiming reverse racism can be assuming if they weren’t serious about thinking they are truly oppressed.

Here are more against Ted Cruz from his followers. Baggers are so rational and intelligent.

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02: Mr. Cruz, not exactly. Nelson Mandela was a communist who murdered many people. He caused that capital of South Africa become a place where rate of rape was in first ten at whole world. I won't cry, because in history were many people who were real advocates of freedom.

03: Nelson Mandela was a socialist terrorizer of white Africans, hated Capitalism and didn't think commoners had a right to private property, and thought government should control and distribute wealth …

04: He was a convicted terrorist and a leader in the Communist Party … good grief Ted!!!!

05: I disagree Mr. Senator. Do not fall victim to the media's lies. The man was a Communist, a terrorist and a racist. He was a murderous communist serving in prison for thousands of white murders. Don't whitewash the true history of this murdering villain. Instead of buying into the media glorification, read the violent history of South Africa Marxist murdering scum … I'm done wasting my time thinking about this

Time to get out the primary challenge. Maybe the Texas Baggers can get Fred Phelps to run.

Marco Rubio said “Mandela "showed South Africans and the entire world what the power of forgiveness truly means and can accomplish." Can’t have that! Cue Conservative poutrage!

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Damn. . .that second one said Rubio has no balls! Amazing! Racist, ignorant and sexist! Notice the meme! Nelson Mandela = Communist, reverse racist terrorist. Sounds like the same crap these troglodytes scream about President Obama.

Lastly, the Ohio Tearduct spoke up on the passing of Mandela, praising “Mandela's "perseverance in fighting the apartheid system.” Cue the simple sound byte response.

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And the media thinks those people should be listened to and their views accepted? Yes. . .there is no difference between Republicans and Democrats. None at all. . .unless one looks at the reality. Then there is a difference, but no one will say that. It isn’t in the meme.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Rush Limbaugh[/font]
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El Lard-bo decided to put down his Oxycotin for a while to weigh in on the passing of Nelson Mandela. And the train wreck begins.

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Hmmm. . .sounds like a good start. Maybe the Gasbag knows this is someone that should be honored and not slammed. Maybe Rush is turning a new leaf. Please continue, kinder, gentler Rush.

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Can’t pull out of the skid, can you? Media Matters posted the entire diatribe (if you want to waste precious moments of your life listening to that scumbag) so there is no refuting it! Rush is a racist!

Just for fun, caption this photo in the comments.

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“Where are my viagra and oxycotin pills?”
“Why am I a big fat gasbag?”
“Oh shit. . .I just shit my pants”

So, Nelson Mandela would not have been a leader of the American Civil Rights movement. Let’s see what the man said about that in 1990 at Yankee Stadium.

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He also believed in labor unions, hated the Iraq War and the War on Terrorism. He didn’t approve of drone attacks and labeling people terrorists without due process of law. He didn’t turn his back on people who helped him because it was politically expedient (like Castro). He blasted American imperialism, blasted poverty and those that enable and profit from it and called out the United States for his racism and its racist past.

No wonder Baggers hate him. Mandela handed them a mirror and said look at yourself. And Baggers don’t like what they see. Instead of changing, they do what they always do. Attack!


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Rick Clark[/font]
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Last on the Mandela tributes, we have Sheriff Rick Clark of of Pickens County, SC. He loves Mandela so much, he told people that, even though flags should be flown at half staff to honor his passing, he will tell President Obama to go screw himself.


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I ask Boss Hogg here to read this then go do what the law says. If this guy can read.

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I wonder what will happen when Tony Blair dies. Or a foreigner that Republicans like dies.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]NH Legislature[/font]
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What does a Legislature run by Republicans do to improve the lives of the people in their states? In New Hamsphire, they take a pledge. But not a pledge to help people, a pledge to allow a shadowy PAC to to have their loyalty first and foremost.

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“I will act with loyalty and put the interests of the organization first.” Isn’t it nice to know that George Orwell’s Animal Farm is now a political idea in the United States. Party first. All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

ALEC has been part of some of the worst legislation ideas in the past 20 years. Let’s look at the results.

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So, they pretty much back everything anti-American. Love America, hate Americans. What are these “peoples’” plans for 2014?

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One was forgotten: To change the pledge of allegiance to:

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And to the Republic they seek to destroy
One nation, Under a good Christian God
Divided among the upper 1%
With liberty and justice for all those that can buy it

The rest of you peons go fuck yourselves while you watch American Idol.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Scott Brown[/font]
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Gaffs happen when a politician speaks. Everyone remembers Dan Quayle’s “potatoe” and Obama’s “57 states comment.” Gaffs happen. It’s expected.

Scott Brown is no exception. Playgirl pinup knows he can’t win in MA anymore, so now he’s running for the US Senate in New Hampshire. Except he can’t seem to tell people in New Hampshire that he is in New Hampshire.

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Oopsy. Londonderry, NH is not in Massachusetts, Scott.

I’m sure the Republicans in the Granite State are proud that this political carpetbagger still thinks he’s in Boston. I’m sure that will go over well in Manchester, Concord and where he was speaking Londonderry.

Maybe Brownie needs a map. . .or a brain. Or both!


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]CA GOP[/font]
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The GOP really hates the idea of people not going bankrupt because they got sick. They hate it so much they have spent all their time and energy to destroy it. Over 40 times in the House. GOP Governors refusing to implement it in their state. Pundits claiming it will destroy America. And now it looks like political parties wasting money to make fake websites that look like the regular state exchange website.

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Republicans in California are so happy with this. Their hard earned money they donated to their party is being used to fund a website that anyone with 1/2 a brain and six seconds of time can see if bullcrap. Imagine the time, energy, bandwidth, servers, graphics and money it took to create the lie.

Stay classy, GOP. . .and keep wondering why, other than your ignorant, froth at the mouth base, voters in America are abandoning you.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Ralph Hudgens[/font]
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But California isn’t the only place where Republicans are losing their minds over health care. Georgia is another place. Insurance Commissioner (!) Ralph Hudgens made a few interesting comments to a group of Republican women last week, stating that a pre-existing medical condition is similar to having an accident on your driving record and that medical insurance companies should have the right to charge more or deny coverage outright. It’s all your fault.

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Please tell us which companies said that Ralphie. Let the world so people know who they can avoid in the marketplace.

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Oh boy. . .here comes the “health insurance is like car insurance” argument again.

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Cancer is always my fault. So is Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes. PKU! You were in the womb. You should have known what was going to happen. Besides, the sperm cell that went into the egg should have known.

“Shania, they bought their tickets. They knew what they were getting into. I say let ‘em crash!”

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Rabbi Moshe Meiselman[/font]
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These are the words of one Moshe Meiselman, an ultra orthodox Jewish rabbi who seems to say the Torah and bible sanction child molestation if it is done by a Mohel. For those not up on Jewish culture, a mohel nips the tip for a biblical and culturally accepted circumcision.

According to the rabbi, this is all safe and good. Giving a baby oral sex in order to stop bleeding is acceptable and perfectly normal. And safe. Except when people die. Which seems to be often.

The article lays out two arguments on why the rabbi is an idiot.

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The second is that Meiselman claims that anytime a rabbi of the Talmudic era said anything definitive about the physical world, science or medicine and the Talmud does not contradict him, that opinion is the truth and has to be followed because "Chazal understood the situation better than the physicians." And Meiselman says this about metzitzah b'peh – despite the well-documented deaths, injuries and maiming that have killed and sickened so many babies.

I guess saying “the rabbi is using the bible to allow pedophiles to molest children in the name of God” is a little too raw. Gotta keep it classy.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Ted Cruz[/font]
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And finally, Ted “Talk” Cruz rounds out this week of moronic BS by producing a coloring book in time for Christmas. Just what no child around the country wants. A coloring book with Ferret Face Cruz teaching us things approved in the mind of Ted Cruz and the hearts of Teabaggers everywhere.

Yes, if you go to Amazon and give Ted Cruz, with Amazon as a conduit $5.39, you too can spend your time with your kids learning fun facts about Booze Cruz while coloring in his picture. Look at the fun lessons people can learn about Ted Cruz.
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Try explaining to your kid what virility means. And out of shape, old and fat? Is he looking at you, Michael Enzi?
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Quick. Ted can see the future. Ask him for this week’s Powerball numbers.

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Except that 14th amendment that insures equal protection under the law. Ask him his position on gay marriage.

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Jews around the country should feel good Ted Cruz thinks they are second class citizens. Same with Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists and the rest of all those heathen non-Christian religions.

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No one died getting health insurance, Ted. And what do you know about war, Mr. I never served.

Yes for $5.39 from Amazon, you can buy this “trees had to die for this crap” book.

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Even in a coloring book, he looks like he needs to take a dump.

Funny thing is, according to Amazon, it is currently unavailable. And the reviews are just the most snarky things you could ever read.

Ted Cruz makes himself sound like a savior. That he should crawl into the casket with Nelson Mandela and absorb all that Mandela goodness. Ted might even think he is the second coming of Mandela. Or Jesus. . .or maybe just the second coming of a bad dinner that one ate that upset the stomach and is leaving the body from the in hole rather than the out hole.

See you next week.

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Mohandas Gandhi
Nelson Mandela
Aung San Suu Kyi
Desmond Tutu
The American leaders of the Civil Rights Movement (Evers, King, Chavez)

I first learned about Nelson Mandela when I watched Lethal Weapon 2 for the first time as a kid. I didn’t understand Apartheid and why Danny Glover was involved in a protest. So, unlike most of my classmates, I ran into the library and just started reading. Then I learned about the plight of Mandela. I remember at that moment, my social conscience turned on. I was ten years old.

I began talking to my classmates about the things I learned. I began beginning the school to help me do something, anything, to stop the injustice. I was ten years old and in 5th grade. Young, idealistic and truly passionate about working to end Apartheid.

As I went into HS and university, I began reading more on Mandela’s life and his struggle. And it began to mold my political outlook. I tried to truly put myself in his shoes and worked on the same issues he devoted his life to. As such, I became a teacher and used my classroom as my forum to work to bring change one student at a time.

There are only a few people that have truly influenced my life. Most died before I was born. Gandhi, Harry Chapin, Franklin Roosevelt. . .Nelson Mandela.

The world lost an angel last week. We lost one of the greatest people to ever live. And now, free of the shackles of prison, of illness, of suffering and of torment, Nelson Mandela’s true greatness as a man and a fighter can be studied, examined and emulated.

This was a man. This was a hero. This is God’s image for mankind.

I never met the man. But he changed my life. Goodbye, Mr. Nelson Mandela.

And thank you for everything.

Nanjing to Seoul


Nelson Mandela
July 18th, 1918 - December 5th , 2013

December 5, 2013

Silent thread for a moment of silence for the passing of a great, amazing man, Nelson Mandela

December 4, 2013

Education articles like this piss me off so much

http://news.yahoo.com/asian-nations-dominate-international-test-100159386.html



As an A-level and IGCSE teacher in China, these results are to be expected. The education here is to teach to a test. Same when I was in Korea. All students are taught to a test.

Chinese schools do not fail students. Lowest grade a kid can get is a 70. If they get lower, they keep taking the same test until they pass it, then that score is recorded. The schools encourage teachers (usually with classes of 60 - 70) to teach to only the kids who care and are not asleep in class. Social promotion is the norm, as is lying about grades. All that matters in China is Gao Kao. The Chemistry teacher in my school goes nuts because they cannot conceptualize a simple chemistry concept. I teach Geography and History. Same in my classes, especially history.

I taught in the crappiest public school in Hebei province and now in one of the best international school in Suzhou. Education in Asia teaches to to a test. They are some of the best test takers in the world. Knowledge retention, conceptual development, abstract thinking, critical analysis and innovation are impossible for most students here. The test is most important. I hate articles like this. TESTS DO NOT SHOW THE ENTIRE STORY!!!

December 4, 2013

Top Ten Conservative Idiots of the Week (Graphic Warning on #6)

[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]The Slimmed down EDITION[/font]

Okay, it’s the week of Thanksgiving. Apparently, conservative idiots can’t do stupid things and speak moronically while filling their face with turkey, celebrating the sanitized holiday that honors invading white people killing off the native populations. Happy Thanksgiving, all. But, some still manage to dumb or say some crap. Congressional Republicans (1) are worthless, Mitch McConnell (3) is brainless, Bob McDonnell (7) is jobless , Pizza Hut (9) is shameless and Sarah Palin (10) is clueless. And as always, don't forget the key. Remember, you can run your mouse over the icon to see what it means.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Do Nothing Republicans[/font]
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It’s now December and it’s time to look at everything the Republicans have done or allowed to be done this year in Congress. Hint: It isn’t much.

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Wow. 52 bills and most are meaningless crap like naming something else after Ronald Reagan. 52. Damn. Bills. Way o justify that single digit approval rating, folks!

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Yes. . .because naming a public outhouse is more important than dealing with issues that are destroying the planet, country and the economy.

And everyone knows sexual assaults aren’t real because she was wearing a tight skirt. Besides, she won’t get pregnant because the body has protections and shut-off valves in case of legitimate rape. And everyone know no rape is legitimate.

Their approval rating is five points higher than crotch rot and they earned every point of it. Worst. Congress. Ever!


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]John Boehner[/font]
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One of the reasons Congress sucks as much as it does is because of Speaker of the House, John “the Ohio Tearduct” Boehner.

You see, Orange Glo has a problem. The tea party Congressmen don’t trust him, his leadership team doesn’t like him and most, if not all, Democrats don’t respect him. Politically, he is impotent. Professionally, he’s past his prime. But he still gives off that Orange Goodness through those massive tear stains on his face.

Anyway, according to Mother Jones:

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Wow. Maybe that near negative number approval rating isn’t justified. There is working in the two chamber to help farmers. Usually farm bills are loaded with more pork than a ham sandwich, but the working together is a start.

Maybe Speaker Tearduct will help the process.

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Oh, not surprised. Speaker Worthless McOrangetears needs to balance the budget on the backs of the poorest, most vulnerable of Americans. And of course (to quote the Young Turks) Orange Crush’s mouthpiece denies it. Can’t do anything to make the boss look worse. HE does a good enough job of that himself.

Please continue.

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So there was compromise. There was working together. There was bipartisanship. And the Speaker of the House screwed it all up.

2014 is coming and November is a long time away. One wonders how tissue and vodka sales will be around Boehner’s office the day The Worst Speaker in the History of Forever has to give the gavel back to the Best Speaker in the History of Forever, Madame Nancy Pelosi.

Worst. . .Speaker. . .Ever!


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Mitch McConnell[/font]
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Mitch McConnell is one of the most slimy pieces of tweed to ever sit in Congress. His passive aggressive projection, his hypocrisy, his flag-like approach to any issue. He has no convictions, no courage and little brains. And last week, he showed he has no shame either.

Time to listen to a quote Turtle-boy gave to the media through another mouthpiece (why can’t these people talk for themselves).

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Well, he showed that by giving you a job, Allison. Does the record reflect the rhetoric? Computer says no.

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Well, maybe that was just three mistakes. I mean, I’m sure he will explain himself as to why the VAWA was so bad. Maybe he’ll do it after a rousing round of wife beating jokes. You know something about telling your wife someone, two black eyes and not having to do it again. Hyck, hyck, hyck!

Oh well, so in The Chinless Wonder’s eyes, beating women is a-okay. Maybe women’s pay is different.

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Four times, this champion for women voted down laws stopping the salary glass ceiling. Four. Damn. Times! McConnell is a supporter of woman’s issues in the same way David Duke supports racial issues.

Be prepared for McConnell’s next bill: The “Women belong in the home making my dinner, except for my wife who can become Sec. Of Labor” Act. Sure fire plan to win over dem women folk.

Worst. Liar. Ever!


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Darrell Issa[/font]
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Yes, suspected arsonist and car thief Darrell “Fisherman” Issa is back and on another “fact-finding” mission to look for anything he can impeach Barack Obama for. The idiot’s “Joe Friday” is on the mission to get that socialist, communist, fascist, black power supporting, Muslim Kenyan and nothing will stop him. . .because he if he can’t find “just the facts,” he’ll make them up!

Since the rollout of Obamacare’s website has been plagued with problems, Darrell Issa has decided to take it upon himself to ask the question “”What did the president know and when did he know it” yet again. So, he asked Aetna, BC/BS, Humana, Kaiser, UnitedHealth and others specific leading questions.

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Start the fishing trip, please. Issa’s trying to reel in a blackfish!

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All that can be heard is Issa standing over these people saying “Ve haft ways ov making your speak!” Followed by “Get the Comfy CHAIR!”

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After, he then demanded blood samples, DNA samples, urine test results, a stool sample, six letters of canonization and a record of all phone calls made by each member of their families going back to their great-grandparents. Because, their great-grandparents might have come in contact with the man who carried the pants of the man who lived next to to the woman who might have known Obama’s father, which proves Obamacare is a sham.

Nah. . .that couldn’t happen. Obama’s a Kenyan.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Mark Halperin[/font]
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Any time right wing media is mentioned, be sure a lie will be spoken within six seconds. Mark Halperin, a man famous for being suspended for calling Obama “a dick” on “Morning Blow,” decided to challenge his inner Palin at that echo chamber knows as Newsmax and fart out one of the biggest lies of Obamacare and the ACA.

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Death panels? Please tell us. Markie, where that is. Where in the law are the death panels?

Speechless, except for. . .

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Martha MacCallum[/font]
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When it comes to lying, nothing holds a candle to the USA’s answer to Pravda, Fox News. . .Rupert Murdoch’s personal vanity news agency.

One of their spokesmodels, Martha MacCallum, decided to do what Fox News jackasses always do. . .Put her foot in her mouth. Sometimes, using horrific events to prove your point only makes you look like an obtuse asshole.

Take it away, Martie!!!!

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Umm. . .what? Not sure I follow you, Martie. . .there seems to be stupid in my ear! Please speak again.

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Ummm. . .what? Obamacare cares touches more live than the Iraq War and Hurricane Katrina.

Let’s see what’s worse:

This:
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This:
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Or this:
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Unless MacCallum is implying that the people that died in NOLA, the soldiers that died and came back mutilated on a war based on lies and the Iraqi civilians aren’t human (which would make her heartless, stupid and racist), then maybe something is askew.

Or maybe this harpie is just heartless, stupid and racist.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Bob McDonnell and Scott Walker[/font]
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A two-fer in jackass Republican Governors. First, Virginia ex-governor and soon-to-be DOC#VA45304533, Bob McDonnell. What a said tale he is, He entered politics as a firebrand right wing blowhard, trumping himself as a breath of fresh air in Richmond and soon became one of the most corrupt slimebags in the country. Puts smiles on alot of faces watching this prick’s fall from grace.

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"What a great governor you have," Romney told cheering Virginians. "What a terrific man and a terrific leader. Way to go."

Yes, Bobby is a terrific man and a terrific leader. But underneath the veneer of his smile lurked the heart of a man who used the governor’s mansion as his own personal commissary and depository account.

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Risks? Tarnishing? It’s over, AP. O. V. E. R.

But, only far away, professional toad and Koch-sucker Scott Walker (R-Also Soon-To-Be Inmate) knows his prospects of re-election suck. So he did the next best thing to get money since the fund raising is drying up: Played Grinch.

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Yes, he has declared war on Christmas. Call Bill O’Reilly and Fox News. Scott Walker hates Christmas.

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Wow, talk about pandering. Explain that to your child. Sorry, you won’t get the XBOX. Our leader needs money. All praise the leader! Eastasia for all. . .oops, that’s only if you’re a Communist!


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Robert Kerns[/font]
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You’re all asking. Who is Robert Kerns? Well, here’s his mugshot.

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Kerns is so full of love he can’t help getting a little of it a girl. . .who’s passed out. Impaired. . .and drugged up. At least that’s what the police report says.

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Sources told several news outlets last week that Robert Kerns had gotten drunk and assaulted a woman following a GOP dinner in October.

She was asking for it. She was wearing clothing and passed out in a provocative position. But was it legitimate rape? Need to call in Todd Akin to tell the woman she won’t get pregnant.

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Damn. . .he went to town on this poor woman. How did he go this? What else is he charged with?

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Drugs, rape. . .sounds like good family values from Republicans.

Thank God Mitch McConnell voted against the VAWA three times. Maybe he can protect a fellow Republican.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Pizza Hut[/font]
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Tis the season to be jolly, fa la la la la, la la la la. . .deck the halls with pink slips and slander if you decide to celebrate! We all need to be at work on every national holiday. Screw tradition and your family, fa la la la la, la la la la!

Yes, it’s the holiday season. . .enough avarice to last an entire year. Pizza Hut decided to jump on the holiday spirit bandwagon by firing a middle manager that refused to work on Thanksgiving. The man’s name is Tony Rohr and he has worked for Pizza Hut for more than 10 years.

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Good for him. People should be home with family, not serving people crappy pizza on a national holiday, even if the reason for the holiday is repugnant.

[div class="excerpt" style="background-color:#F4E0E0; border:1px solid #E8C0C0; box-shadow:-1px -1px 3px #C66666 inset; border-radius:0.6em; margin:0.5385em 0em 0em 0.5385em;"]"I said, 'Why can't we be the company that stands up and says we care about your employees and you can have the day off?'" Rohr told CNN affiliate WSBT Wednesday. "Thanksgiving and Christmas are the only two days that they're closed in the whole year. And they're the only two days that those people are guaranteed to have off to spend with their families."
Rohr told the affiliate he refused to quit and detailed his frustration in the letter.
"I accept that the refusal to comply with this greedy, immoral request means the end of my tenure with this company," he says he wrote. "I hope you realize that it is the people at the bottom of the totem pole that make your life possible."

Wow! I wish I knew this guy. What a model citizen! And a model leader. He fell on the sword for his fellow employees against an act of corporate tyranny and greed.

This crap gets worse as the restaurant Rohr worked at went into full on spin mode.
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Oh, I see how it works. Tell a guy to write his resignation letter, then when the press gets bad, inform the world that he quit. Passive termination. We know it will look bad if we fire you. So give us a letter of resignation so we can cover our ass.

Did Pizza do the right thing?

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(Pizza Hut) sent CNN a statement that said the store has agreed to hire him back.

"We fully respect an employee's right to not work on a holiday, which is why the vast majority of Pizza Huts in America are closed on Thanksgiving," the corporate office said in a statement. "As a result, we strongly recommended that the local franchisee reinstate the store manager and they have agreed. We look forward to them welcoming Tony back to the team."

Thank God this has a happy ending. Still, how many of Rohr’s bosses will be fired for this shit? I guess none.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Sarah Palin[/font]
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And finally, Gidgot released a new book. Another screechfest of the worst odor. “Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas.” I say released, because it was ghost written of course.

What a good gift for the staunch teabagger (if they can ready more than coloring books). Saran Palin’s new “trees had to die for this crap” tome. How is it selling?

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But Amazon just updated their top 100 list and Delaney is now at 62 as of this writing with “Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage.”

To quote George Takei: Oh My!

That poorly huh? Didn’t conservative website buy this book in bulk to shore up the sales so she would be on the best seller’s list with an asterisk??? No. . .time to sink or swim on your own, Sister Sarah.

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Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!

Please, continue. This is too rich!

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Buyer’s remorse (snicker). Didn’t like the book. (gaffaw).

[div class="excerpt" style="background-color:#F4E0E0; border:1px solid #E8C0C0; box-shadow:-1px -1px 3px #C66666 inset; border-radius:0.6em; margin:0.5385em 0em 0em 0.5385em;"]George Waters wrote, “Despite its title, there is no “great joy” to be found in this book. I also could not find the good tidings. In fact there is mostly petty griping about various entities seeking to “destroy” Christmas (but only Christmas as defined by Sarah Palin). Palin manages to both rehash the War on Christmas and wage her own war on hope and charity (AKA love). Her sense of irony is as dead as is her sense of reality.”

That does not sound too uplifting. Maybe there is a better one?

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Killjoys. Surely there is one better.

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Sure, Rob Delaney “has been named the “Funniest Person on Twitter” by Comedy Central and one of the “50 Funniest People” by Rolling Stone, according to his website. But let’s face it – no one is funnier than Sarah Palin. She doesn’t even have to try. After all, they’re claiming she “wrote” this in “English” — punk’d, because we can tell by the bitterness that it came from the very angry person that is Sarah Palin.

ROFLMFAO!!!!

See you next week.

November 27, 2013

Top Ten Conservative Idiots of the Week

[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]The Nuclear Bomb EDITION[/font]

So, the Democrats finally did it. They dipped the filibuster ball into manure and shoved it down the throats of the GOP. Of course, there is self-righteous indignation on that side over it (1). In other news, the Miami Gardens PD is racist (3), as are Young Texas Conservatives (4), Michelle Bachmann is insane (6), filthy rich CEOs hate the old (9) and the two largest American businesses hate their employees (10). And as always, don't forget the key. Remember, you can run your mouse over the icon to see what it means.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Senate Republicans[/font]
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He finally did it. Harry Reid let that little cancerous tumor he has develop into a fully functioning backbone. After years of threats, letters and pretty much selling the farm to the Republicans, Harry Reid instituted the nuclear option. No more filibusters of judicial nominees. Straight up or down votes. Amazing, isn’t it? The Republicans have had their one weapon of obstruction taken from them. Now, American people won’t have to listen to how a nominees for the bench needs to be blocked because some old, white, fat Republican senator feels slighted because his viagra isn’t working or his mistress didn’t have sex with him the night before or just because it’s Tuesday.

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The vote was one that members of both parties had threatened for the better part of a decade, but had always stopped short of carrying out. This time, with little left of the bipartisan spirit that helped seal compromises on filibuster rule changes in the past, there was no last-minute deal to be struck.
The vote was 52 to 48.

So, what did Republicans have to say? Well, let’s look at the things Republicans had to say about judicial nominee obstruction when George W. Bush was pResident. It should be enlightening.

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“Any President’s judicial nominees should receive careful consideration. But after that debate, they deserve a simple up-or-down vote” (5/19/05).

“Let's get back to the way the Senate operated for over 200 years, up or down votes on the president's nominee, no matter who the president is, no matter who's in control of the Senate” (5/22/05).

2. John Cornyn (TX)
“[F]ilibusters of judicial nominations are uniquely offensive to our nation’s constitutional design” (6/4/03).

“[M]embers of this distinguished body have long and consistently obeyed an unwritten rule not to block the confirmation of judicial nominees by filibuster. But, this Senate tradition, this unwritten rule has now been broken and it is crucial that we find a way to ensure the rule won’t be broken in the future” (6/5/03).

3. Lamar Alexander (TN)
“If there is a Democratic President and I am in this body, and if he nominates a judge, I will never vote to deny a vote on that judge” (3/11/03).

“I would never filibuster any President's judicial nominee. Period” (6/9/05).

4. John McCain (AZ)
“I’ve always believed that [judicial nominees deserve yes-or-no votes]. There has to be extraordinary circumstances to vote against them. Elections have consequences” (6/18/13).

5. Chuck Grassley (IA)
“It would be a real constitutional crisis if we up the confirmation of judges from 51 to 60” (2/11/03).

“[W]e can’t find anywhere in the Constitution that says a supermajority is needed for confirmation” (5/8/05).

6. Saxby Chambliss (GA)
“I believe [filibustering judicial nominees] is in violation of the Constitution” (4/13/05).

7. Lindsey Graham (SC)
“I think filibustering judges will destroy the judiciary over time. I think it’s unconstitutional” (5/23/05).

8. Johnny Isakson (GA)
“I will vote to support a vote, up or down, on every nominee. Understanding that, were I in the minority party and the issues reversed, I would take exactly the same position because this document, our Constitution, does not equivocate” (5/19/05).
James Inhofe (OK)

“This outrageous grab for power by the Senate minority is wrong and contrary to our oath to support and defend the Constitution” (3/11/03).

10. Mike Crapo (ID)
“[T]he Constitution requires the Senate to hold up-or-down votes on all nominees” (5/25/05).
11 . Richard Shelby (AL)

“Why not allow the President to do his job of selecting judicial nominees and let us do our job in confirming or denying them? Principles of fairness call for it and the Constitution requires it” (11/12/03).

Orrin Hatch (UT)
Filibustering judicial nominees “unfair, dangerous, partisan, and unconstitutional” (1/12/05).

Seriously? They actually said these things. Filibustering is bad when the Democrats do it to people like Harriest Miers and threaten it with people like Sam Alito and John Roberts who are completely unqualified, as is/was Clarence “Justice Oops” Thomas. But Republicans think it’s good when the president is a Democrat.

That is called being stunningly and embarrassingly full of shit. Something the Republicans have been for decades.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Trey Radel[/font]
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We all need blow. Blow is good. Blow is great. Blow is amazing. Blow is blow and we all need it. The movie, of course. . .not the drug. People can do without the drug blow. The movie Blow was amazing.

Enter Trey Radel, teabagger Congressman from Florida and current poster boy for all that is wrong with the GOP. See, he likes to buy cocaine from undercover DEA agents. According to Miami Herald:

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Wow. A sitting Congressman with a drug problem? Damn. He needs to resign. What did he say after his arrest?

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Then shouldn’t you explain that to your voters. “Hi, I’m Henry. I’m an alcoholic. Please vote for me over the liberal drug addict that wants drug legalized.” And if you are an alcoholic, why are you caught with cocaine? Shouldn’t the work be Cokehead?

What makes it worse is people like this want stiffer punishments for drug offenders.

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Oh, lucky him, he got busted in The District instead.

I wonder if, with his drug and alcohol problems, he would be more compassionate towards those the state of Florida wants to drug test to get welfare? Trey, could you answer this simple questions please?

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Wow! Maybe drug testing should be mandatory for all people looking to run for elected office!

That is called being stunningly and embarrassingly full of shit. Something the Republicans have been for decades.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Miami Gardens PD[/font]
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So begins the story of Earl Sampson, a poor black man living in and working at a local C-Store in Miami Gardens, Florida. He has been arrested 56 times over four years. He must be a bad man. What has he done wrong?

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What? Pot possession? That’s all they got him on?

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Almost every citation was issued at the same place: the 207 Quickstop, a convenience store on 207th Street in Miami Gardens.

But Sampson isn’t loitering. He works as a clerk at the Quickstop.

So how can he be trespassing when he works there?

Trespassing at your place of business? My God, do these cops even read the law? Apparently not.

So Sampson’s boss set up cameras. Not to protect his store, but to protect his employee. What did this camera show?

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Wow. An arrest looking for a crime without the pretense of probable cause. And the police and badge sniffers around the country wonder why people don’t trust the boys in blue!

So what do city officials and the police say about this obviously police abuse and gross misconduct?

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Boyd did release a statement, saying that the department is committed to serving and protecting the citizens and businesses in the city.

Save that face! Polish that turd! It’s committed to harassing people going to work 258 times in four years? It’s committed to falsifying police reports?

Is anyone surprised at the obtuseness of the answer and the lack of reply?

There is more at this link, but sad to say it’s completely sickening. Mr. Sampson needs to sue the pants off everyone involved. . .the cops that harass him and lie, the police fat-cats that enable it and the city that supports them! Earl Sampson needs to go from “Earl Sampson, resident of Miami Gardens” to “Earl Sampson, owner of Miami Gardens.”

But what do you expect from state that elects people like Marco Rubio, Rick Scott and Jeb Bush? And lets people like George Zimmerman walk.

That is called being stunningly and embarrassingly full of shit. Something the states run by Republicans have been for decades.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]University of Texas Young Conservatives[/font]
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Texas brings the US such embarrassments as Louie Gohmert, Ted Cruz, Dick Armey, Karl Rove, Rick Perry and the biggest pox on the US, George W. Bush.

Maybe higher education will help end this cycle. Especially in Austin, the liberal mecca of Texas. Well, not with this group of future klansman.

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In a statement, the YCT chairman and event’s organizer Lorenzo Garcia acknowledged that staging a mock hunt for illegal immigrants on campus and offering $25 rewards was “misguided” and “intentionally over the top.”
He added that members of the chapter feared retaliation.

I see how it works. Dress them up in a peasant shirt, sombrero, pockets of tamales and a bottle of Tequila. Have them speak “illegal alien” (as G. Gordon Liddy has referred to Spanish as) and set them loose on the streets of Austin. And you can spot them by their mustache, brown skin and desire to pick lettuce, wash dishes or just sit around collecting welfare and drinking Tequila.

These people are in college??? Really? Honestly? What are they majoring in, Race Baiting???

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Safety issue means “we don’t want to get our asses kicked by people telling us we’re racist assholes that need our asses kicked.”

Yet conservatives and the GOP want to win over these brown people with this shit?

That is called being stunningly and embarrassingly full of shit. Something the conservatives and Republicans have been for decades.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]ACA Liars[/font]
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Okay. . .lie about death panels to try to kill the ACA as a bill. Done.

Run the Supreme Court to get it overturned after it is signed. Done.

46 votes to destroy the ACA. Done.

21 hour Ted Talk to kill the ACA. Done.

Shutdown the government to blackmail the repeal of the ACA. Done.

Threaten to impeach Obama over the ACA. Done.

Tell people it’s a failure and then lie about its provisions. Time to try this tactic again.

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Now the ACA will steal your information and sell it to people. . .next the GOP will claim the ACA raped their mother and molested them when they were children. Republicans hate the ACA for some reason. . .maybe because Obama wants it. But their issue comes with Navigators. . .the people who help those get insurance under the ACA exchanges.

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Mitch McChinless has swung way to the right in his primary battle. Too bad Republicans in dirt poor Kentucky want to become Democrats after getting health insurance under the ACA.

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"Isn't it true that there is no federal requirement for navigators to undergo a criminal background, even though they will receive personal -- sensitive personal information from the individuals they helped sign up for the Affordable Care Act?" Cornyn inquired.

Okay, Man-on-box-turtle Cornyn. When there is drug testing for Republicans in Congress, then you can get your background checking on the Navigators. Step up and introduce the bill, Slappy.

The point of all of this is that the GOP’s undeclared war on Obama is now in full desperation mode, because 2014 isn’t looking good for them. Then comes the leak of this internal GOP memo.

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The document, the product of a series of closed-door strategy sessions that began in mid-October, is part of an increasingly organized Republican attack on the Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s signature legislative initiative. Republican strategists say that over the next several months, they intend to keep Democrats on their heels through a multilayered, sequenced assault.

The idea is to gather stories of people affected by the health care law — through social media, letters from constituents, or meetings during visits back home — and use them to open a line of attack, keep it going until it enters the public discourse and forces a response, then quickly pivot to the next topic.

Let’s go over the checklist of GOP political victories.

01: Civil Rights - lost
02: Women’s right to vote - lost
03: Income Tax - lost
04: Environmental laws - lost
05: Child labor laws - lost
06: Minimum Wage - lost
07: New Deal Legacy Laws - lost
08: Medicare/Medicaid - lost
09: 18+ voting age - lost
10: Gay marriage - lost

Time to add ACA to the list.

How can a party that has been pretty much wrong on all social issues since 1865 still be around?

This is what is called being stunningly and embarrassingly full of shit. Why does that sound so familiar?


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Michelle Bachmann[/font]
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Batshit Bachmann is the political equivalent of herpes. She is truly the gift that keeps on giving. And her noise hole keeps pumping out more and more shit that farmers would have fertilizer for years.

Always on the brainless attack, she showcases another GOP tactic against the ACA: Mindless shilling of lies. This time, she claims that she will go to court to sue Obama over the ACA. Moron at the bar, please give us your case.

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After Obama's violated his promise that the health care law would allow people to keep their insurance plans if they liked them, he decided to allow companies, for one year, to offer policies that don’t meet the health care law's standards.

I am sure I can figure out the other morons who want this: Steve King, Louie Gohmert, Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan, Blake Farenthood and a few other teabagger boobs are in on this. You know, the Fascist wing of the wingnut party.

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Really? Since it is a law, where is the separation of powers? The law has been signed. It is the executive branch’s job to enforce the law. Where does Congress need to be in this? The law falls under HHS. Someone doesn’t know her Constitution.

No matter, step forward, Mouthpiece!

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Again. . .what is unconstitutional? Seriously, you people love the Constitution but hate reading it. That’s called being stunningly and embarrassingly full of shit.

Hmm, has that been said before in this week’s edition? I forgot.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Ted Cruz[/font]
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Ted Talk Cruz is back and vomiting more bullshit at the speed of light. See, Batshit Bachmann wants to sue Obama. Senator Asshat wants to impeach him. Why? Because he’s “lawless.”

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In an interview published on Saturday, Newsmax’s Steve Malzberg asked Cruz what could be done about the “abuse of power” by the Obama administration.

So, in the wingnut echo chamber of Newsmax, Ted Talk decides, on his own, that the Obama adminstration has abused its power by trying to insure people don’t go bankrupt due to hospital bills. I guess he must have hated that abuse of power the Iraq War was. . .what. . Don’t be silly. Gung-Ho Ted loved the war so much he didn’t fight it.

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When has Obama said that? And what laws are you talking about, Teddy?

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So, does that apply to your Canadian kids? Or the fact that you are the son of a Cuban immigrants. Young immigrant work permits. HOW DARE HE!!!

Remember the know-nothings during the Gilded Age. This asshole is worse because he knows nothing and is proud of it.

BTW, Senator. . .you can’t impeach Obama. The House does. The Senate votes to convict. Jackass.

So Ted Cruz is bloviating again. That’s called being stunningly and embarrassingly full of shit. Damn, that phrase again!


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Rand Paul[/font]
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Late time the Kentucky Rug Doctor talked about the motor city, he basically wanted to see if destroyed and broken. He flipped off Motown and told the residents to go screw themselves. This is as Senator Rug Doctor.

Now he’s possible 2016 presidential candidate Rug Doctor and I guess his handlers told him blowing off a state with 16 electoral votes when the only real Big States in the GOP’s pocket right now is Texas isn’t always smart. Remember, Michigan is a “swing” state, even though it hasn’t gone Republican since 1988.

So Rug MD goes to Detroit to give his Ayn Randian solution to fix Detroit. This ought to be good.

First a little history about Paul and his idea of helping Detroit “over his dead body.” Or his deadhead, or his empty head. . .whatever!

Now, he sings a different tune.

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Okay, energized, he needs to try to win Michigan’s 16 electoral votes. PANDER AWAY!!!

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So, instead of investing in changing the landscape of Detriot’s dying manufacturing sector in a Post-Industrial economy where quaternary sector jobs are increasing, namely in research, development, innovation and engineering, Paul will trot out tax cuts again.

More tax cuts to stimulate job growth. Tried that in 1986. . .didn’t work. Again under Bush Lite. . .failed again.

Same Rand Paul, same bullshit. . .different logic. He is truly working hard to finish second in the 2016 Presidential race.

Saying one thing and then saying the exact opposite when it is politically opportune. That’s called being stunningly and embarrassingly full of shit. I need to stop saying that!


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Filthy Rich CEOs[/font]
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Meet David Cote, the CEO of Honeywell. He has more than $134 million in his personal retirement fund. He has more money than he can spend in a lifetime. So what does a multimillionaire business criminal do with his time and his money when he is bored? Apparently, attempt to convince retirees that they need their Medicare and Social Security cut while telling working adults that their retirement age needs to be pushed backed.

This from people who will never need to worry about there their next viagra will come from when they go to Thailand or the DR to bang an underage girl in forced prostitution because they can.

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Nice. Let’s see who is doing this, other than Mr. Cote.

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Fix the Debt? On the backs of grandma and grandpa. We can’t tax your motherfuckers, but grandma and grandpa can be put into the poorhouse so you can fund your yachts and buying of politicians.

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Why not 100? Why not you can collect your first social security payment two weeks after your heart stops beating?

These people are just disgusting in their avarice.

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People who earn $86,043 a month after retirement for doing nothing should not tell people that earn less than 1% of that to take a pay cut.

Better yet, maybe the tax code should go back to 1960 levels. And supertax these fucks.

But that will never happen. They are job creators. And they want to destroy grandma and grandpa. That’s called being stunningly and embarrassingly full of shit. Okay, there is a pattern here!

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Walmart and McDonalds[/font]
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Anyone see anything wrong with this photo? It can’t be real. But it is. Walmart held a foot drive for its employees because that costs less than paying your employees.

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$41.09 dollars a day gross. That’s their pay at Wal-mart. Amazing, huh? Right wingers and no information voters who buy into this “American made” crap love Wal-mart. So do the politicians the Walton family buys off. It gets worse.

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Speaking with ABC News, Lundberg also talked up Walmart's Associates in Critical Need Trust — a Walmart nonprofit funded by Walmart employees through payroll deductions or direct contributions that grants up to $1,500 to associates undergoing extreme hardships such as homelessness.

Obtuseness is a right wing respond. How does Kory Lundberg put his clothing on without the snake oil oozing off his body removing the clothing? I know, Mr. Lundberg. . .it’s just a job and you’re just a messanger. But your overlords suck. $1,500 for “extreme hardships such as homelessness.” HAVING A JOB SHOULD EXCLUDE PEOPLE FROM BEING HOMELESS, YOU ASSHOLE!!!

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Nice circular ponzi scheme the Walton’s have. This company is beyond evil.

However, not to be outdone by the World’s Largest Retailer, the World’s Largest Company dedicated to making people obese with their shitty food, McDonald’s, decided to get into the heartlessness attitude for the Holidays.

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Why not sell drugs too? That wil give employees quick cash. Tell the female employees to sell their bodies too. Maybe selling unwanted children into slavery, bloody and organs will help. Anything to prevent McDonald’s from paying more than minimum wage to its employees while raking in billions.

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Eat slowly, poor wastrel slob. We aren’t going to pay you, but we’ll teach you how to eat the crumbs you have efficiently after we work to put you on food stamps, even though you have a job.

How can we end this gallivant into greed? Why, returning to Wal-mart.

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Enjoy Thanksgiving. Now get back to work, slave! But we support our workers.

This is what is called being stunningly and embarrassingly full of shit. . .oh, you get the point!

See you next week.

November 24, 2013

Top Ten Conservative Idiots of the Week will be a day or two late

Due to cooking an early Thanksgiving bird for my friends in China this week, this week's top ten will be a day or two late.

Please pardon any irresponsibility on my part. Next week will go out on time.

Nanjing to Seoul

November 22, 2013

Living in China part 1 - Basic Chinese language lesson

Six years in the PRC, I am pretty much fluent in the language. Still working on the writing part of the language, but speaking and reading is pretty good now.

In China, if you can read about 1,000 characters, you can read a newspaper with ease. So, let's begin with the lesson.

Writing Chinese is rather simple. I will use Simplified Mandarin because I am on the Mainland and not in Taiwan or Hong Kong.

There are three basic rules:

01: Left before right
02: Top before bottom
03: Outside before inside

Let's take a simple character 口. That's "kou," and it means mouth or opening.

To write it correctly it's very simple.

01: write the left down stroke first.
02. write the top stroke and the right down stroke next without lifting the pen
03. fill in the box.

Let's take another. 江 which means "river." This is jiang (pronounced gee-on-guh).

01: write the three dashes first top to bottom
02: write the top stroke
03: write the downward stroke
04: write the bottom stroke

Stroke order is extremely important in the language. Trust me, Chinese people can tell if the character was written in the correct order by looking at it. It's a bit frustrating for beginners, but you pick it up quickly.

Practice with these ten simple one:

见 - jian, means look
十, shi (pronounced sure), means ten
太, tai (pronounced tie), abverb too
火, huo (pronounced who-oh), means fire
公, gong, means public
女, nv (the v should be a u with an umlaut over it), means woman
三, san, means three
小, xiao (pronounced she-ow)， means small
大, da, means big
园, yuan, means garden

Mandarin is not a difficult language, except for the tones. The thing is, when people talk, I don't hear the tones at all. I just hear the speaking. What makes it easier is context. If someone is talking about men, 男 (nan) means man. They don't mean 南 (nan) which means south.

It is getting colder here in Suzhou. What is amazing is the sea convection currents around here. Shanghai, no matter the weather conditions, during the day, is always five degrees warmer than here in Suzhou, which is less than 30 miles away.