# 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:** 438
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8741 "2013-02-22T14:02:52Z")
> [@rogerbox](#): > > Who says Sharia Law should be law of the land? Usually on conspiracy theories you can at least find one loon espousing any given view, but I’ve only ever heard it from Republicans that they’re saving us all from Sharia, I’ve never actually heard anyone claim they wanted Sharia law in the USA. It’s like conspiracy theory nuttery squared. **BLACK HELICOPTERS!!!** The irony being that if you looked at all the laws/regulations/etc… that a lot of GOP members want to pass, and compare it to what a lot of Democrats want to pass, it’s pretty easy to see who is more in favor of “Sharia”-type laws, and it sure as fuck ain’t the ones that are always claimed by the other to be doing so. I’m always reminded of the American Dad episode where the family relocates to Saudi Arabia, and surprise-surprise, it’s the staunch conservatives wet dream. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8742 "2013-02-22T15:10:08Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Beats me, but I couldn’t possibly resist comenting. Ask **'luci** why he put it in this thread… They were Republicans in their previous life. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8743 "2013-02-22T15:49:23Z")
OK, just having a bit of fun, there. But nonetheless, its striking how the most Communist of all the Communists seem to have become born-again capitalists. Turning their air into poison gas and their rivers into industrial waste repositories. Google “China cancer villages” if you want to run screaming from the room… ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8744 "2013-02-22T16:25:55Z")
With the greatest possible respect, **luci** , it really should be elsewhere than in the SRIOTD thread. Maybe the SDIOTD thread. I’m sure **Clothy** will be so thrilled to have some participation that he won’t mind… ---
**Author:** ![Strassia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e8c25b/32.png) [@Strassia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strassia)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8745 "2013-02-22T17:38:01Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Beats me, but I couldn’t possibly resist comenting. Ask **'luci** why he put it in this thread. > > Ritualizing reincarnation (what does tat even mean? you can ritualize particular events involved with reincarnation, but “ritualizing reincarnation” is like “ritualizing existence”) may be o ne thing, but “stipuloating the procedures” is another. Unless this reeport was badly or incorrectly trabnslated, it’;s also hilarious. Just to finish off this hijack, here is some [info](http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_is_a_new_Dalai_Lama_chosen) about what I meant: > [@](#): > > The search is the responsibility of the High Lamas of the Gelugpa Tradition and the government of Tibet. It can take around two or three years (or more) to identify the new incarnation of the Dalai Lama. > The High Lamas conduct several rituals to increase the odds of finding the reincarnation quickly. They look for omens and seek hintsin their dreams. They also devise tests for candidates they feel may be the reincarnation. Familiarity with the possessions of the previous Dalai Lama is considered the main sign of the reincarnation. > Having been found, the child is brought to Lhasa (or a similar location) for training in Buddhist thought and knowledge The important thing here is that these monks are not just religious figures. They were the government prior to China taking over. Some Tibetans still consider them the government. The two most important are the Dalia Lama and Panchen Lama. They are responsible for identifying the next incarnation of the other. China has had a deep interest in this process for a while. Right now China has custody of two candidates for [Panchen Lama](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panchen_Lama). > [@](#): > > The present (11th) incarnation of the Panchen Lama is a matter of controversy: the People’s Republic of China asserts it is Gyancain Norbu, while the 14th Dalai Lama asserted it was Gedhun Choekyi Nyima on May 14, 1995. The latter vanished from public eye shortly after being named, aged six. Chinese authorities stated that Gedhun had been taken into protective custody from those that would spirit him into exile and is now held in captivity against the wishes of the Tibetan people.[1] Tibetans and human rights groups continue to campaign for his release.[2] This seems like a perfectly logical step to insure that once the Dalia Lama dies, they will have complete control over who is determined to be the next incarnation of the Dalia Lama. This is about cementing political control of Tibet. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8746 "2013-02-22T17:40:36Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > They were Republicans in their previous life. Bull shit. If that were true they’d have come back as cockroaches or dung beetles. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8747 "2013-02-22T20:51:04Z")
Move over, Rand Paul, [there’s a new candidate for biggest kook in the Senate;](http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/02/22/1626661/ted-cruz-claims-he-has-a-list-of-communists-who-have-infiltrated-harvard-law-seriously/) [QUOTE=Ted Cruz] There were fewer declared Republicans in [Harvard Law School] when we were there than Communists! There was one Republican. But there were twelve who would say they were Marxists who believed in the Communists overthrowing the United States government. [/quote] ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8748 "2013-02-22T21:07:48Z")
Nitpick: he identified the Marxists as faculty. The quote could be misinterpreted to mean that he was talking about students, the usual understanding of being “in Harvard Law School”. Isn’t it astonishing how one can be educated as well as he and yet remain as ignorant as a block of wood? ---
**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:** [February 22, 2013, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8749 "2013-02-22T21:16:01Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > Bull shit. If that were true they’d have come back as cockroaches or dung beetles. Only if they were very, very good. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8750 "2013-02-22T21:47:08Z")
I’m thinking Teddy may be my new favorite Senator. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8751 "2013-02-22T23:40:26Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > When this goes into effect, I’d love to see the (translated) Required Forms (“Request for permission to Reincarnate in a Higher Form” – “I’m soory, but our records indicate that you haven’t acquired sufficient karmic points to reincarnate as a human being. Please choose one form of animal from the folowing list…”) Uhm, it’s apparently been in effect _ **since 2007** _ … which is when that post is from. 🙂 More dumbassery: [Oklahoma May Deny Women Affordable Birth Control Because It ‘Poisons Their Bodies’](http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/02/22/1627441/oklahoma-birth-control-poison/) One state lawmaker wants to continue stripping insurance coverage for reproductive health services, advancing a measure that would allow employers to refuse to cover birth control for any reason — based solely on the fact that one of his constituents believes it “poisons women’s bodies.” [INDENT]Jolley said the measure is the result of a request from a constituent, Dr. Dominic Pedulla, an Oklahoma City cardiologist who describes himself as a natural family planning medical consultant and women’s health researcher. […] Women are worse off with contraception because it suppresses and disables who they are, Pedulla said. “Part of their identity is the potential to be a mother,” Pedulla said. “They are being asked to suppress and radically contradict part of their own identity, and if that wasn’t bad enough, they are being asked to poison their bodies.” The bill has already cleared a Senate Health committee and now makes it way to Oklahoma’s full Senate.[/INDENT] [Sen. Rand Paul ‘not familiar with the details’ of anti-abortion bill he sponsored](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/21/sen-rand-paul-not-familiar-with-the-details-of-anti-abortion-bill-he-sponsored/) At a press event in Kentucky, LEO Weekly asked Paul why he supported the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act, but not the Violence Against Women Act. Paul replied he was “not familiar with the details” of the anti-abortion bill. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2013, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8752 "2013-02-23T01:31:18Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > More dumbassery: > > [Oklahoma May Deny Women Affordable Birth Control Because It ‘Poisons Their Bodies’](http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/02/22/1627441/oklahoma-birth-control-poison/) > > One state lawmaker wants to continue stripping insurance coverage for reproductive health services, advancing a measure that would allow employers to refuse to cover birth control for any reason — based solely on the fact that one of his constituents believes it “poisons women’s bodies.” > > [INDENT]Jolley said the measure is the result of a request from a constituent, Dr. Dominic Pedulla, an Oklahoma City cardiologist who describes himself as a natural family planning medical consultant and women’s health researcher. […] > > Women are worse off with contraception because it suppresses and disables who they are, Pedulla said. > > “Part of their identity is the potential to be a mother,” Pedulla said. “They are being asked to suppress and radically contradict part of their own identity, and if that wasn’t bad enough, they are being asked to poison their bodies.” > > The bill has already cleared a Senate Health committee and now makes it way to Oklahoma’s full Senate.[/INDENT] :eek: What’s next, a bill to compel every parenting-age Oklahoman to join the Quiverfull Movement (complete with an Oklahoma State Department of Quiverfull Membership Enforcement)? ---
**Author:** ![LeeshaJoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@LeeshaJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeshaJoy)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2013, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8753 "2013-02-23T02:26:05Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > “Part of their identity is the potential to be a mother,” Pedulla said. “They are being asked to suppress and radically contradict part of their own identity…” Replace “mother” with “parent” and this same rhetoric can be used to ban vasectomies. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2013, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8754 "2013-02-23T02:36:44Z")
Said it before. Say it to Jesus if he asks. Parenting is the most rewarding, fulfilling and worthwhile experience in my life. And I wouldn’t do it again for all the whiskey in Ireland. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2013, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8755 "2013-02-23T02:36:44Z")
> [@LeeshaJoy](#): > > Replace “mother” with “parent” and this same rhetoric can be used to ban vasectomies. Or condoms. Or the rhythym method. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2013, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8756 "2013-02-23T02:44:41Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > I’m thinking Teddy may be my new favorite Senator. I looked him up, and this guy should be a superstar. By all accounts, he was a brilliant student, speaker, and debater, editor of the Harvard Law Review, dream legal career, etc. Now he’s saying that the Harvard Law faculty is riddled with commies who want to overthrow the US government, and demanding answers to questions about Hagel taking money from North Korea, which he just made up. Why do people like this turn to the dark side? ---
**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2013, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8757 "2013-02-23T03:09:40Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > Why do people like this turn to the dark side? Cookies? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2013, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8758 "2013-02-23T03:30:50Z")
Just going home. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2013, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8759 "2013-02-23T19:14:10Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > I looked him up, and this guy should be a superstar. By all accounts, he was a brilliant student, speaker, and debater, editor of the Harvard Law Review, dream legal career, etc. > > Now he’s saying that the Harvard Law faculty is riddled with commies who want to overthrow the US government, and demanding answers to questions about Hagel taking money from North Korea, which he just made up. > > Why do people like this turn to the dark side? While Joe McCarthy might be the politician Ted Cruz most resembles, I’d say in some ways he’s more like that other red-baiting scum, Richard Nixon. And it worked for Nixon, that’s why he did it. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2013, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/8760 "2013-02-23T19:28:25Z")
A joke from radical leftys of the 1950’s: You know which Communist Party members are undercover FBI agents? They’re the only ones who pay their Party dues on time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=437) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=439)