# 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:** 956
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2015, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19102 "2015-02-09T03:35:37Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > **Co-host Ainsley Earhardt said that Obama’s remarks were “completely inappropriate” because there were many evangelical Christians at the National Prayer Breakfast. “Know your audience,” she recommended. “No one expected the Inquisition to be mentioned at the National Prayer Breakfast.”** The **Evangelical Inquisition**? Is Ainsley Earhardt trying to [cover for Catholics](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisition) at the breakfast, or does she just not know her history? ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2015, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19103 "2015-02-09T04:42:02Z")
Alabama’s Chief Justice is at it again. [This time, he’s ordered state judges to ignore a federal court ruling to start issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.](http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2015/02/08/3620690/alabama-chief-justice-orders-state-judges-defy-federal-order-block-sex-marriages/) ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2015, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19104 "2015-02-09T04:43:51Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > Exactly. David bought his wife with [DONATED Philistine foreskins. 😃](http://www.thebricktestament.com/david_vs_saul/david_mutilates_200_gets_married/1s18_27b.html) Not the best example. He did that for love. 🙂 However, there are plenty of better examples, e.g. [QUOTE=Moses (Deut 13, KJV)] 12 If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying, 13 Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known; 14 then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you; 15 thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword. 16 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for the Lord thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2015, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19105 "2015-02-09T06:18:21Z")
So Moses was a Republican? Who knew? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2015, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19106 "2015-02-09T15:23:07Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > The **Evangelical Inquisition**? Our chief weapon is smugness! Smugness and self-righteousness . . . Our chief _two_ weapons are smugness, self-righteousness, close-mindedness and ignorance. . . I’ll start again . . . ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2015, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19107 "2015-02-09T16:28:20Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Over in Kansas, which seems to be trying very hard to become the stupidest state in the union, a legislator has introduced a bill that would “[require the governing boards of community colleges and state universities to implement policies prohibiting employees from providing titles when authoring or contributing to newspaper opinion columns, which includes letters, op-eds and editorials.](http://cjonline.com/news/2015-02-05/legislation-bans-professors-using-titles-newspaper-columns)” That’s if what they’re doing is writing about “lawmakers, the governor or other elected officials”. > > Free speech, anyone? _shrug_ They’re state employees. Their freedom of speech is already curtailed by the Little Hatch Acts. Using the name of a state institution arguably sends the message that the columns are endorsed by the institutions. Nobody is limiting their _speech_. That is not to say I think this is a good idea. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2015, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19108 "2015-02-09T16:35:48Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Alabama’s Chief Justice is at it again. [This time, he’s ordered state judges to ignore a federal court ruling to start issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.](http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2015/02/08/3620690/alabama-chief-justice-orders-state-judges-defy-federal-order-block-sex-marriages/) I hope Roy Moore appreciates the irony of ignoring the SCOTUS when other clerks and judges ignore him. “Oh because I ignored the Supreme Court, you guys are…ahahahaha! I get it now! That’s a good one! Well I’ve sure got egg on my face!” said a laughing Roy Moore, giggling to himself as he rescinds his order to state judges. One can hope 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2015, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19109 "2015-02-09T16:41:09Z")
Dustbin of history awaits that dumbass judge. Go right up there will all the other “justices” which stood in the way of justice, become infamous for being the last remaining roadblock between people and their justified happiness, you ignorant dumbfuck. The only way humanity improves is when the previous generations die the fuck off. I feel bad the more intelligent members have to die off, too, but it’s a net gain when all is said and done. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2015, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19110 "2015-02-09T16:48:58Z")
I’ll be taking my time about that, if its all the same to you, thank you very much… ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2015, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19111 "2015-02-09T16:52:39Z")
By way of our good friends at _Talking Points Memo_ > **[Federal Appeals Judge Compares People Who Say Bush Lied To Rise Of Nazis](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/laurence-silberman-bush-lied-nazis)** > > A federal appeals judge wrote in a column published on Sunday that people who accuse former President George W. Bush of lying about the Iraq War are peddling myths like those that led to the rise of… **Federal Appeals Judge Compares People Who Say Bush Lied To Rise Of Nazis** > [@](#): > > …“I am reminded of a similarly baseless accusation that helped the Nazis come to power in Germany: that the German army had not really lost World War I, that the soldiers instead had been ‘stabbed in the back’ by politicians,” he wrote… ---
**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:** [February 9, 2015, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19112 "2015-02-09T17:00:34Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > By way of our good friends at _Talking Points Memo_ > > [Federal Appeals Judge Compares People Who Say Bush Lied To Rise Of Nazis - TPM – Talking Points Memo](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/laurence-silberman-bush-lied-nazis) > > **Federal Appeals Judge Compares People Who Say Bush Lied To Rise Of Nazis** WTF was his point? I mean, wait, if that was his point, how the fuck did he get there? How is this idiot deciding people’s and or law’s fates and why? ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2015, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19113 "2015-02-09T17:09:24Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > _shrug_ They’re state employees. Their freedom of speech is already curtailed by the Little Hatch Acts. Using the name of a state institution arguably sends the message that the columns are endorsed by the institutions. Nobody is limiting their _speech_. > > That is not to say I think this is a good idea. So if I am Professor Jones and I’m working at Georgia State University, I can’t sign a letter to the editor stating that I am Professor Jones of Georgia State University? And that’s not limiting my speech? Ummmm … how is that not limiting my free speech rights? Can I at least claim that I hold a professorship? Or use my name? Or have an opinion? IMHO you are so far down the old slippery slope that you are about out of slope to slip on. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2015, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19114 "2015-02-09T17:22:02Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > By way of our good friends at _Talking Points Memo_ > > [Federal Appeals Judge Compares People Who Say Bush Lied To Rise Of Nazis - TPM – Talking Points Memo](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/laurence-silberman-bush-lied-nazis) > > **Federal Appeals Judge Compares People Who Say Bush Lied To Rise Of Nazis** I have sometimes encountered instances on the Intertubes of an Iraq-War [_Dolchstoßlegende,_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in-the-back_myth) but in all such instances the **Dems** are the Jews. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2015, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19115 "2015-02-09T18:47:33Z")
Huckster Mike on the threat of Islam vs. climate change: [“A beheading is much worse than a sunburn.”](http://www.salon.com/2015/02/09/mike_huckabee_on_the_threat_of_islam_v_climate_change_a_beheading_is_much_worse_than_a_sunburn/) Well, yes. OTOH, if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2015, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19116 "2015-02-09T18:52:16Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > So if I am Professor Jones and I’m working at Georgia State University, I can’t sign a letter to the editor stating that I am Professor Jones of Georgia State University? And that’s not limiting my speech? Ummmm … how is that not limiting my free speech rights? Can I at least claim that I hold a professorship? Or use my name? Or have an opinion? IMHO you are so far down the old slippery slope that you are about out of slope to slip on. So far down the slippery slope from what? What slippery slope are you talking about, for that matter? Yes, you can use your name and the fact that you hold a professorship. You can’t use the name of any Kansas state educational institution. ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2015, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19117 "2015-02-09T18:53:41Z")
Of note, the sun is far more lethal than the islamic state. > **[Skin Cancer Facts & Statistics](https://www.skincancer.org/skin-cancer-information/skin-cancer-facts/)** > > Get the latest skin cancer facts and skin cancer statistics. Learn more about the most common cancer in the U.S. and worldwide. Cancer facts. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2015, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19118 "2015-02-09T19:10:01Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > So far down the slippery slope from what? What slippery slope are you talking about, for that matter? > > Yes, you can use your name and the fact that you hold a professorship. You can’t use the name of any Kansas state educational institution. In the story, proponents of the bill draw an analogy to private-sector employees whose employers will not allow them to so identify in letters to the editor, etc. Against that, however, we have the concept of “academic freedom,” which is absent from the commercial sphere, and which is supposed to apply equally in all academic institutions, public and private. ---
**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:** [February 9, 2015, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19119 "2015-02-09T19:21:25Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Yes, you can use your name and the fact that you hold a professorship. You can’t use the name of any Kansas state educational institution. linked article: \*… the legislation explicitly states that the governing boards of colleges, “shall adopt and implement, or require to be implemented, a policy and plan which prohibits an employee from providing or using such employee’s official title when authoring or contributing to a newspaper opinion column.” The legislation only addresses newspaper columns, and doesn’t extend to other forms of media … The bill prohibits the use of university titles in newspaper opinion articles only when the subject matter concerns a current elected official, a candidate for office or a matter pending before the Legislature or another public body in the state. Employees could still use their titles when opining on other topics.\* Which seems to mean that a writer could be identified as “Dorothy Gale, Ph.D.”, but not “Professor Dorothy Gale”, because “Professor” is an official title. Of course, this could lead to letters or columns that explore a particular issue that relates to a person or bill in a way that never directly names that person or bill but has a very obvious implicit message. That would be pretty hard to prosecute. ---
**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:** [February 9, 2015, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19120 "2015-02-09T20:03:56Z")
I wonder of Justice Moore will stand in the doorways of the courthouses to prevent those marriages from happening, and then tell the Governor to call out the National Guard to enforce his order. ---
**Author:** ![CGav8r](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@CGav8r](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CGav8r)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2015, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/19121 "2015-02-09T20:44:28Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > I wonder of Justice Moore will stand in the doorways of the courthouses to prevent those marriages from happening, and then tell the Governor to call out the National Guard to enforce his order. How retro! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=955) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=957)