# 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:** 1669
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33362 "2017-04-01T18:46:47Z")
Nm ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33363 "2017-04-01T18:53:34Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > [Another reason](https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/04/01/truck-driver-that-hit-bus-killing-13-was-texting-while-driving-says-witness.html) why ex-Gov. Rick Perry should have his balls cut off, be thrown into a burlap bag with a rabid badger, and tossed into the nearest body of water. Fucker. It’s not the badger’s fault being rabid. Why not merciful euthanasia? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33364 "2017-04-01T19:00:31Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > It’s not the badger’s fault being rabid. Why not merciful euthanasia? Ex-Gov. Rick Perry does not deserve a merciful death, the Fucker. Regarding the badger, I hear they taste like chicken. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33365 "2017-04-01T19:24:29Z")
Chickens are easier to catch than badgers, and not nearly such an unfortunate choice. Feeding the chickens was my first chore as a boy. To this day, I fuckin’ _hate_ chickens. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33366 "2017-04-01T19:34:09Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Who wrote the book on gorgons? And does he have faith in Harry Morgan? ---
**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 1, 2017, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33367 "2017-04-01T20:14:45Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Chickens are easier to catch than badgers, and not nearly such an unfortunate choice. Feeding the chickens was my first chore as a boy. To this day, I fuckin’ _hate_ chickens. Me too. That’s why I eat them. That’ll show 'em! Sent from my SM-G920P using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33368 "2017-04-01T22:34:05Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Never mind that. Who wrote the book on gorgons? I think I own it; Who was that man? I’d like to shake his hand. He made my baby turn to stone for me. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33369 "2017-04-01T23:27:00Z")
[What it costs](https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/oreilly-fox-settled-multiple-harassment-complaints-since-2002/2017/04/01/5cdd75cc-16f7-11e7-833c-503e1f6394c9_story.html?utm_term=.a1f0af1f42f6) for Bill O’Reilly of Fox News to get a hummer. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2017, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33370 "2017-04-01T23:48:10Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > [What it costs](https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/oreilly-fox-settled-multiple-harassment-complaints-since-2002/2017/04/01/5cdd75cc-16f7-11e7-833c-503e1f6394c9_story.html?utm_term=.a1f0af1f42f6) for Bill O’Reilly of Fox News to get a hummer. $13 million? Just the cost of doing business for Fox News. O’Reilly’s salary, last time i looked, was in the neighborhood of $18 million a year, which means that he’s worth considerably more than that to the network, in terms of viewership and advertising revenue. Morality probably isn’t even a part of the equation when they add up the pluses and minuses of something like this. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2017, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33371 "2017-04-02T02:45:20Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Never mind that. Who wrote the book on gorgons? I think I own it; Awwww – I’m touched. You people remember. The epigraph I used for the first chapter of _Medusa – Solving the Mystery of the Gorgon_ is from Charles Finney’s wonderful _The circus of Dr. Lao_: > [@](#): > > I have made a study of this and several other medusas and. hence, am able to tell you a little about them. You see Finney’s Dr. Lao doing it, too – using “Medusa” interchangeably with “gorgons”. A lot of people do it, they same way they uses “Pegasus” for any flying horse. (And even in ancient Greece, there were other winged horses. Helios’ Chariot of the Sun was represented as drawn by them: [https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;\_ylt=AwrBT4IjZeBYygUAGV5XNyoA;\_ylu=X3oDMTE0OTI1ODc3BGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDQjM2MDRfMQRzZWMDcGl2cw--?p=Pelops+chariot+flying+horses&fr2=piv-web&fr=yfp-t#id=34&iurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.c.photoshelter.com%2Fimg-get%2FI0000tJme23uoMGA%2Fs%2F500%2FI0000tJme23uoMGA.jpg&action=click](https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=AwrBT4IjZeBYygUAGV5XNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTE0OTI1ODc3BGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDQjM2MDRfMQRzZWMDcGl2cw--?p=Pelops+chariot+flying+horses&fr2=piv-web&fr=yfp-t#id=34&iurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.c.photoshelter.com%2Fimg-get%2FI0000tJme23uoMGA%2Fs%2F500%2FI0000tJme23uoMGA.jpg&action=click) And Pelops, son of Tantalus, was given a chariot and team of winged horses by Poseidon. (THis might be them:) [http://alchemical-weddings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/wingedhorses.jpg](http://alchemical-weddings.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/wingedhorses.jpg) I don’t think anyone in antiquity called these “pegasi”, or called gorgons “medusa”, but it’s pretty common in modern times. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2017, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33372 "2017-04-02T02:46:20Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > yeah, it was cal. Gave it to Wife. As usual, haven’t seen it since You could always buy another copy, said Cal, rubbing his hands eagerly together. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2017, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33373 "2017-04-02T03:46:36Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I don’t think anyone in antiquity called these “pegasi”, or called gorgons “medusa”, but it’s pretty common in modern times. Actually… > [@Pliny the Elder](#): > > Lyncas vulgo frequentes et sphingas, fusco pilo, mammis in pectore geminis, Aethiopia generat multaque alia monstris similia, pinnatos equos et cornibus armatos, quos **pegasos** vocant > > Æthiopia produces the lynx in abundance, and the sphinx, which has brown hair and two mammæ on the breast, as well as many monstrous kinds of a similar nature; horses with wings, and armed with horns, which are called **pegasi**. > > -_The Natural History_, Book 8, Chapter 30 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2017, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33374 "2017-04-02T09:18:08Z")
The people of GILLETTE, Wyo. have the audacity [to hope](http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/trump-s-rollback-of-coal-rules-electrifies-energy-workers/article_4c65bdf9-3f7e-5145-b046-0083c8e8e899.html). ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2017, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33375 "2017-04-02T13:30:26Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2017, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33376 "2017-04-02T13:34:51Z")
A new [Trump community!]([http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/politics/article/Fears-for-Indonesian-park-s-rare-species-as-Trump-11035123.phpFears](http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/politics/article/Fears-for-Indonesian-park-s-rare-species-as-Trump-11035123.phpFears) for Indonesian park’s rare species). Be grateful you are not a [Gibbon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbon), Dopers. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2017, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33377 "2017-04-03T02:25:55Z")
With you guys hijacking the thread to discuss badger cuisine, gorgons, and O’Reilly’s pressing need to find whores for less than a million-dollars-per-trick, I feel no guilt reporting on [V.P. Pence’s encounter with a bottle of pancake syrup](http://www.theonion.com/article/mike-pence-asks-waiter-remove-mrs-butterworth-tabl-55661). > [@](#): > > Expressing concerns about the propriety of being left alone with a syrup container of the opposite sex, Vice President Mike Pence reportedly asked his waiter Thursday to remove Mrs. Butterworth from the table until his wife arrived to join him at a local diner. “Excuse me, sir, would you please take this out of my line of sight until my wife gets here?” said Pence … At press time, Pence had asked the waiter to pour syrup on his pancakes for him, as it would be unseemly to handle the curves of the plastic woman in such a public place. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2017, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33378 "2017-04-03T02:28:42Z")
It’s funny, but isn’t this thread crowded enough without including parodies? I mean, I get your point, but it just contributes to the hijack. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2017, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33379 "2017-04-03T02:35:16Z")
> [@Little\_Pig](#): > > The people of GILLETTE, Wyo. have the audacity [to hope](http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/trump-s-rollback-of-coal-rules-electrifies-energy-workers/article_4c65bdf9-3f7e-5145-b046-0083c8e8e899.html). If multi-million dollar industries were built around the crossbreeding of piranhas and killer bees, this president would shut down all safety measures “to keep American workers working”. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2017, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33380 "2017-04-03T03:24:53Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > With you guys hijacking the thread to discuss badger cuisine, gorgons, and O’Reilly’s pressing need to find whores for less than a million-dollars-per-trick, I feel no guilt reporting on [V.P. Pence’s encounter with a bottle of pancake syrup](http://www.theonion.com/article/mike-pence-asks-waiter-remove-mrs-butterworth-tabl-55661). I’m sorry **septimus** for hijacking this thread but yeah, Pence Is A Prick. He was the number one force behind [_this_](http://www.theonion.com/article/report-anxiety-disorders-induced-trump-presidency--55601), the peckerhead. A real “Christian Soldier”. Fuck him and the turtle he rode in on. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2017, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/33381 "2017-04-03T03:44:49Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > With you guys hijacking the thread to discuss badger cuisine, gorgons, and O’Reilly’s pressing need to find whores for less than a million-dollars-per-trick, I feel no guilt reporting on [V.P. Pence’s encounter with a bottle of pancake syrup](http://www.theonion.com/article/mike-pence-asks-waiter-remove-mrs-butterworth-tabl-55661). > [@Leaper](#): > > It’s funny, but isn’t this thread crowded enough without including parodies? I mean, I get your point, but it just contributes to the hijack. 🙂 I’m amused that Super Christian Pence can’t be left alone with alcohol or a woman. What happened to prayer in the face of temptation? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1668) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1670)