# Stupid Republican idea of the day **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 26, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897 "2009-03-26T18:48:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1040
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20782 "2015-04-03T21:03:52Z")
There is only one message: _cake now, pie later_ ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20783 "2015-04-03T22:35:44Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > One of the founders is the son of [a genuinely vile woman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Schlafly) who just about makes the [nastiest “female” RW hack I can think of](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Coulter) look as sweet as Laura Ingalls Wilder. > > That said, one could note that [one of the sons of Madalyn Murray O’Hair](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Murray) became a religious nutcase, so the argument that Conservapedia could be a sly false-flag-ish operation is not wholly without merit. I didn’t mean that Schlafly himself intends it to be a false-flag operation. I think he’s probably totally sincere. But I’m pretty sure he doesn’t edit it all by himself. I don’t think that it’s as open to public editing as Wikipedia is, but it’s conceivable that there are people who managed to get past whatever screening processes he uses who intentionally edit it in ways that make it look even stupider than it is. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20784 "2015-04-03T22:45:09Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > I didn’t mean that Schlafly himself intends it to be a false-flag operation. I think he’s probably totally sincere. But I’m pretty sure he doesn’t edit it all by himself. > > I don’t think that it’s as open to public editing as Wikipedia is, but it’s conceivable that there are people who managed to get past whatever screening processes he uses who intentionally edit it in ways that make it look even stupider than it is. Well, [the sysops have a scorched-earth editing policy](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:Burning_the_Evidence). ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20785 "2015-04-03T23:04:26Z")
Read Conservapedia’s article on Obama. They’re still full-on birthers. Especially read the article’s Talk page. ---
**Author:** ![DeptfordX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DeptfordX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeptfordX)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20786 "2015-04-03T23:18:03Z")
The Something Awful forums, where I am also a member, have two long running threads dedicated to Conservipedia and the Free Republic. Join us over there, [Hellraiser - "We have such sights to show you" - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKfupO4ZzPs) ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20787 "2015-04-04T02:51:17Z")
Tennessee state legislator: [Shootings of children are Acts of God, and there’s nothing we can do to prevent them — they’re something that just happen, like bicycle accidents.](http://aattp.org/tennessee-state-rep-proclaims-child-shootings-an-act-of-god-like-bicycle-accidents/) ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20788 "2015-04-04T05:57:23Z")
> [@](#): > > Shootings of children are Acts of God I certainly hope this God character is apprehended soon. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20789 "2015-04-04T07:33:03Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Tennessee state legislator: [Shootings of children are Acts of God, and there’s nothing we can do to prevent them — they’re something that just happen, like bicycle accidents.](http://aattp.org/tennessee-state-rep-proclaims-child-shootings-an-act-of-god-like-bicycle-accidents/) So if you shoot children in Indiana, are you protected by the religious freedom law? (Don’t need answer fast.) ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20790 "2015-04-04T14:10:29Z")
Fast-rising SRIOTD star Tom Cotton says [he eats birthday cake every day](http://www.mediaite.com/online/sen-tom-cotton-claims-to-eat-birthday-cake-every-day/). With ice cream. Well, the sugar highs might help explain him, to a point. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20791 "2015-04-04T14:12:21Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > So if you shoot children in Indiana, are you protected by the religious freedom law? Stand Your Ground might cover it in Florida. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20792 "2015-04-04T14:35:44Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > So if you shoot children in Indiana, are you protected by the religious freedom law? > > (Don’t need answer fast.) You can have my guns when you pry them out of my child’s cold dead hands! ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20793 "2015-04-04T19:13:00Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > Welcome to a scary cult where the thinking is that everyone who holds a slightly different idea is the enemy, treasonous, and a threat to all things American. ☹ Hey, just because some liberals are like that doesn’t mean it’s a cult. > [@DeptfordX](#): > > The Something Awful forums, where I am also a member, have two long running threads dedicated to Conservipedia and the Free Republic. > > Join us over there, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKfupO4ZzPs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKfupO4ZzPs) Is it still pay to play only? > [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Well, [the sysops have a scorched-earth editing policy](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:Burning_the_Evidence). So does Wikipedia. ---
**Author:** ![DeptfordX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DeptfordX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeptfordX)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2015, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20794 "2015-04-04T21:21:59Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#): > > Is it still pay to play only? It varies. It goes open for varying periods, I have no idea if it’s open at the moment. It’s not very much for a basic membership. $10. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20795 "2015-04-05T00:21:56Z")
> [@DeptfordX](#): > > It’s not very much for a basic membership. $10. And your eternal soul. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_stamos_left_ear/32/3198_2.png) [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Stamos_Left_Ear)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20796 "2015-04-05T04:55:03Z")
[Kansas bans Welfare recipients from using cruise ships](http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/7001116) That’s ridiculous. But this is simply insidious: > [@](#): > > Kansas welfare recipients will be unable to get more than $25 per day in benefits under a new law sent this week to Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s desk by the state legislature. > > Under the new rule, a three-person family receiving the maximum benefit would have to go to the ATM more than a dozen times to get the full benefit, which would be whittled away by an 85 cent fee for each withdrawal after the first one. That’s more than $10 a month for cash-strapped Kansasans which instead of feeding their kids goes to banks making billions of dollars a year in profits. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20797 "2015-04-05T05:09:02Z")
> [@DeptfordX](#): > > It varies. It goes open for varying periods, I have no idea if it’s open at the moment. It ain’t. It’s been paywall’d since mid-february or something like that, and it’s a pain in my arse :). But then I suppose that’s the point. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20798 "2015-04-05T06:35:31Z")
Welfare clients spending money on fortune-tellers is a problem in Kansas? They need a law? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20799 "2015-04-05T06:54:21Z")
Course, if a welfare bum puts a couple of bucks in the collection plate down at the Cleetus Baptist Church, that there is freedom of religion! But your local neighborhood necromancer? Oh, hell no! ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20800 "2015-04-05T06:55:48Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Welfare clients spending money on fortune-tellers is a problem in Kansas? They need a law? The fortune tellers in congress predicted it might happen. They aren’t very good at seeing the future though or they might have seen how their budget would bankrupt them. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2015, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/20801 "2015-04-05T11:31:24Z")
> [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](#): > > [Kansas bans Welfare recipients from using cruise ships](http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/7001116) > > That’s ridiculous. But this is simply insidious:That’s more than $10 a month for cash-strapped Kansasans which instead of feeding their kids goes to banks making billions of dollars a year in profits. Nevada is one of the 37 states that use debits cards for various benefits, including unemployment compensation. The thing is, you can only get money out in $20 increments. AFAIK, any money left in an account becomes the bank’s money. Even if it reverts to the state, it’s certainly not helping the intended recipient. Banks being the middleman between governments and citizens is a bad idea, IMO. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1039) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1041)