Bigotry...

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/28/court-university-expel-student-opposes-homosexuality/

I can see both sides of this argument. That being said, I absolutely agree with this decision. The school years are a fragile period in any child's life, even more so for a child who is or thinks they might be gay. The last thing a kid who is questioning his sexuality needs is a counselor who is anything but supportive and non-judgmental. Having a counselor tell a kid in this state that he's a sinner and is going to hell could very well lead to serious consequences for the child including suicide.

Not that any of this matters since we all know the Supremes will take up this case and they will overturn the ruling.

Abortion...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/us/28abortion.html?src=twt&twt=nytimes

It's unfortunate that in this country, a country where abortion is supposed to be legal, so many states seem to think they can restrict that right with impunity. I wonder how many women sit in the Oklahoma Legislature, I'd bet not too many. Most of the idiots so adamant about this bill will never have to worry about having an abortion. They'll never have to worry about being raped and then having to sit through a lecture from a male gynecologist telling them about the fetus' legs and arms while their rapist is essentially allowed to abuse them again by proxy. This is nothing but state sponsored abuse of women designed to guilt them into making a decision that is against their own interest. It's disgusting.

The second part is equally bad. Not only is a woman forced to endure a anti-choice lecture from a doctor before exercising her rights, she also can be lied to by her own doctor if that doctor doesn't agree with her rights. This is unimaginable in any other context but somehow anti-choice zealots feel they can do this to women. I would like to think that this law will be easily struck down the second it reaches the Supreme Court, it is unconstitutional after all by any measure of precedent, but I know better than that. There are enough right-wingers on the Court, with enough disdain for the Constitution and precedent, that I think it far more likely it'll be upheld.

I guess the moral of this story is that any woman of child bearing age better choose her gynecologist well and make sure that you know exactly how he feels about your rights because otherwise you might find him making decisions for you that you can't live with.

Keep Him Busy...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/23/glenn-beck-liberty_n_549723.html

Good, I for one think it's a great idea for him to give the speech there. Anyone who goes to Liberty University is already so far gone that one speech from Glenn Beck isn't going to change their opinions one bit, he's preaching to the choir, they already drank the kool-aid as it were. This provides one less opportunity for him to preach his gospel of hatred to those who are still capable of being saved from right-wing ideology. One less opportunity for him to corrupt someone on the fence. Glenn Beck's speech at Liberty will not change anyone's mind and will not create one more right-wing lunatic teabagger, of that we should be happy.

Crocodile Tears...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8628244.stm

Evidently Ratzinger thinks he can get out of this with a few fake tears for the victims and some pretend empathy. I really hope he's wrong but he's gotten out of scandals before.

Playing with fire...

http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/news_details/article/62/2010/april/12/okla-tea-parties-and-lawmakers-envision-militia.html

Yeah, this sounds like a great idea. Get a bunch of teabaggers together and act like they're a real military unit with the authority to challenge the government, nothing bad could come of that.

Frustrated by recent political setbacks, tea party leaders and some conservative members of the Oklahoma Legislature say they would like to create a new volunteer militia to help defend against what they believe are improper federal infringements on state sovereignty.

Anybody else starting to notice that this country is looking less and less like America? This kind of shit, starting an armed group and committing violent acts because a democratic election didn't go your way, is what happens in other parts of the world. It's not supposed to happen in America.

Even the proponents say they don't know how an armed force would be organized nor how a state-based militia could block federal mandates.

Yes, that would appear to be a flaw in their plans...unless of course they actually intend to shoot federal agents.

"It's not a far-right crazy plan or anything like that," Berry said. "This would be done with the full cooperation of the state Legislature."

But it is a "far-right crazy plan", it's just that the Legislature of Oklahoma is full of far-right crazies.

State militias clearly are constitutionally authorized,

Yeah, and every state has one, it's called the National Guard.

said Glenn Reynolds, a law professor at the University of Tennessee and an expert on the Second Amendment.

And a far-right wing crazy. And an extremely anti-Obama conservative blogger. You forgot to mention that.

Democratic Gov. Brad Henry's communications director Paul Sund also discounted the militia discussion, saying the National Guard handles state emergencies and security.

Yes, but what you don't realize is that they don't want a group to "handle state emergencies and security." They want a group to shoot US soldiers and federal agents in cold blood when they try to enforce federal laws. They're afraid they wouldn't be able to get the Nat'l Guard to do that. It's much easier to raise a group of whackos with no honor and no brains than it is to convince professional soldiers with honor and loyalty to their country to go against their oaths.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-rutten30-2010jan30,0,2358302.column
http://money.cnn.com/2010/01/29/news/companies/mancrunch_ad_super_bowl/index.htm?cnn=yes&hpt=T2

So an ad about a dating service is too controversial because it's involves gay men but an ad that suggests that women who have abortions are horrible murderers whose children would have all grown up to be super star football players is just fine? This is a fucked up country.

Right-wingers are all up in arms with false indignation because they claim that pro-choice people are attacking this ad for no reason. Nobody cares that this woman took considerable risk upon herself, with very little chance of success or survival for her or her son. That was her choice, we're all pro-choice. The problem comes when you air an ad designed to suggest that all women should take that same risk upon themselves. She got lucky but what they don't acknowledge is that millions of women would die (along with their fetuses) if abortion wasn't an option. No doubt many women have died because they were convinced that God wanted them to go through with the hopeless pregnancy. They can dress it up whatever way they want, this isn't some feel good ad about a happy family, it's an attack on every women who has made that difficult choice.

I wouldn't have so much of a problem with the ad if they hadn't denied the dating site ad, or if there weren't a long history of rejecting "controversial" Super Bowl ads (only, it seems, when they're liberal ads). The fact that they're essentially saying that Focus on the Family's hate group money is greener than the dating site's money is the major problem. The anti-gay bias involved in this decision becomes even clearer when you look at the Snicker's ad from last year with the two men inadvertently kissing because of a Snicker's bar and then going to elaborate ends to beat the shit out of each other. I guess it's ok to show two men getting close as long as there's some sort of violence involved so the kids don't forget that being gay is a horrible, horrible thing. We'd hate for them to learn tolerance after all.

I hope he never sees freedom again...

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/1/28/830334/-Roeder-Trial:-Jury-Will-Not-Be-Allowed-to-Consider-Voluntary-Manslaughter?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos%29&utm_content=Twitter

I don't see what differences witnesses would make to his defense. He's admitted killing the guy. His defense is that Tiller deserved it. Since Tiller was performing a completely legal, highly needed, service that argument falls flat on its face regardless of how many loonie radical anti-choicers you bring in to whine about the "babies".

Scott Roeder, admitted killer of Dr. George Tiller, took the stand today, the only witness for the defense after the judge refused to allow former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline to testify on Roeder's behalf. Kline was expected to testify that he had gathered evidence that Dr. Tiller was performing illegal abortions, even though Dr. Tiller was tried and acquitted of all such charges.

Figures that that ass would try to get Roeder off for murder. All he cares about is his ideological hatred. He tried, and failed, for years to make any charge stick to Tiller. I'm sure he danced a merry jig when he found out Tiller was dead. It disgusts me that there are people like this out there, who are supposed to be enforcing the laws and taking care of the people, who instead try to enforce their hateful "morals" on an unwilling populace.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/01/28/kansas.abortion.roeder.verdict/index.html?hpt=Sbin

It's not surprising that this was the verdict, or that it came down so quickly. Roeder's absurd defense couldn't even gain traction in Kansas.

Crusaders...

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/01/us_trijicon_rifle_scopes_in_iraq_and_afghanistan_f.php

And we wonder why they hate us...

Trojan Horse...

http://www.bluejersey.com/diary/14194/tornoes-take-on-christie-schundler-and-the-signal-sent-to-teachers-unions

Putting Schundler in the Education Commissioner position is akin to Bush putting John Bolton in the UN Ambassador position. Schundler will gut the department, he will interfere with the schooling of children, and at the end of the day he'll destroy what makes NJ's education system one of the best in the nation. I weep for the children in schools right now with this parasite set to have so much power over their futures.

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day...

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. –Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, Dec. 10, 1964

"I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law." -Martin Luther King Jr.

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. -MLK Jr.

Sad...

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/12/world/AP-CB-Haiti-Earthquake.html?_r=2&hp

I hope they're wrong about how many people died, they're saying "thousands of people", that's a lot on such a small island.

Concern trolling...

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/12/31/new-years-resolutions-for-obama-from-karl-rove/

I'm sure Karl Rove really has the best interests of Barack Obama in mind in making these suggestions. More likely he just wants Obama to do everything the Republicans want for the next 3 years. He'll still run attack ads against him in 2012 though saying he's to the left of Pol Pot.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/01/03/kean-unsuccessful-bomber-probably-did-us-a-favor/#more-83784

Kean is such a Republican shill. Why does anyone still act like he's some sort of moderate. His opinion on Obama shouldn't matter any more than any other Republican.

Kean said Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, the 23-year-old Nigerian who failed in his attempt to set off an explosive on an airplane about to land in Detroit, “probably did us a favor.”

Why is it that Republicans always seem to think terrorism is a good thing? Can you imagine if Joe Biden had said this?

“We had an administration which was not focused, as it should be, on terrorism and that’s understandable,” Kean said. “They were focused on health care and global warming and the economy. That’s very understandable. Secondly, we weren’t really focused on Yemen and the terrible things that are happening there. Now we are and that’s a good thing. And, thirdly, there were holes obviously and the [intelligence gathering] system wasn’t working well. We found out it wasn’t working well and the president understands it’s not working well and now we’re focused on fixing it.”

Unlike Bush, Obama is perfectly able to multi-task. Obama wasn't ignoring terrorism but you're never going to catch every terrorist no matter how hard you try.

Not the smartest move for a wanted cop killer...

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/12/01/washington.suspect.shot/index.html

I can't say I feel sorry for the guy. The last thing you should do when you're wanted by cops is to be uncooperative. Those cops had no reason to want him alive.

I'm glad the whole thing is over. Now if only Mike Huckabee had not let this guy out of prison... I think this might just be ol' Mike's Willie Horton moment.

Fail...

http://mediamatters.org/blog/200910130041

Glad to see that the NFL isn't going to allow Rush to destroy a team for the sake of his ego. It would have been nice though to have one less team to worry about in the postseason.

Idiots...

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/08/dont_need_to_be_a_rocket_scientist.php

Conservatives really are completely divorced from reality. Where exactly do they think Stephen Hawking lives?

Hypocrite...

http://www.sunjournal.com/node/101863

Pope Benedict XVI strongly criticized atheism in a major document released Friday, saying it had led to some of the "greatest forms of cruelty and violations of justice" ever known.

The Pope accusing atheists of causing some of the "greatest forms of cruelty and violations of justice" takes some balls. The Papacy is responsible for the most violent acts of religious repression, the most horrible crimes against humanity, the worst violations of human rights ever experienced on earth. Most of the horrible torture methods in practice to this day were invented by the Church in an effort to find ever more painful ways of punishing Jews and non-Catholics.

Stupidity...

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/8/8/763586/-Idiot-Nation,-Idiot-Press

Has Palin never had private insurance? They don't care if you get care or not, in fact they benefit by denying you care. There are many examples of private insurance companies denying people care right up until their death despite that person paying for their insurance all their lives. I would much rather have a government bureaucrat handling my case unencumbered by profit requirements or corporate boards than I would a private insurance company employee who only cares about how much he can stiff you in order to give the CEO a bigger bonus and give the shareholders a bigger dividend.

Pathetic...

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20090708_Phila__camp_alleges_racism_at_Montco_swim_club.html

It's disgusting that this is happening in 2009, in Southeast Pennsylvania which is supposed to be rational progressive country. Very little has changed in this country.

Grasping...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/28/AR2009062802436.html

What bullcrap. She's not the hero in all this. If anyone's a hero here, it's the media which didn't buy Sanford's staff's lies and dug up the truth about where he was. Sanford's wife enabled him just like everyone else. She knew, or should have known, he wasn't hiking the Appalachian Trail but instead of saying that she plead ignorance and said she didn't know where he was. She knew about the affair months ago and yet she didn't leave him, she hasn't even left him now that it's been made clear he continued the affair after she told him to break it off. She will probably never leave him and I don't consider that the least bit heroic. I know it's hard to find an example of a strong woman in the Republican Party, Republican men don't exactly value women for their brains, but give me a break.