It was a turkey baster, dammit. She had an accident with a turkey baster. She really loves those things.
eschereal the seriously twisted:
It was a turkey baster, dammit. She had an accident with a turkey baster. She really loves those things.
I am NOT have Thanksgiving dinner at her house.
If by some unfortunate turn of events Sarah Palin had become president, there’d be no Thanksgiving turkey-pardons because that only coddles criminals.
Sure, we can even be dogged and ruthless.
(I wonder where Ruth went?)
davidm
June 26, 2015, 7:20pm
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In the wake of today’s SCOTUS ruling extending marriage rights to everyone, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has stated that state officials may withold benefits from same sex couples if it violates their religious beliefs.
They are going to fight this, kicking and screaming, every damned inch of the way. They’ll try every damned stalling tactic and loophole they can find. They’ll eventually lose, but only after wasting a lot of tax dollars in the fight.
davidm
June 26, 2015, 7:31pm
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From the “unnecessary laws for the sake of political theater” category:http://www.knoxnews.com/news/state/gop-bill-would-shield-tn-pastors-from-samesex-weddings_06229039
NASHVILLE — Two Tennessee Republican state legislators announced Friday that they are drafting a bill to shield Tennessee clergy from having to perform same-sex marriages and churches from having to host same-sex wedding ceremonies.
State Reps. Bryan Terry, R-Murfreesboro, and Andy Holt, R-Dresden, said they will co-sponsor a “Tennessee Pastor Protection Act” for presentation to the 2016 legislative session, which opens next January. No Senate sponsor has been identified, and legislation must win approval in both chambers to become law.
Damn shame! Just think of all those gay people just itching to force someone to perform a wedding ceremony when they didn’t want to! What could bring more joy to that special occasion than having the wedding solemnized by somebody who hates your guts!
jsc1953
June 26, 2015, 7:41pm
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davidm:
In the wake of today’s SCOTUS ruling extending marriage rights to everyone, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has stated that state officials may withold benefits from same sex couples if it violates their religious beliefs.http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Abbott-order-6351661.php
I’m trying to envision a state bureaucrat in charge of signing…let’s say, pension checks … stopping short on a particular form. “Hold on. The deceased is named Steve, and the beneficiary is named Fred! [swoons, fans self] I cannot in good conscience sign this check! My right to practice my religion is being infringed!”
davidm
June 26, 2015, 7:44pm
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jsc1953:
I’m trying to envision a state bureaucrat in charge of signing…let’s say, pension checks … stopping short on a particular form. “Hold on. The deceased is named Steve, and the beneficiary is named Fred! [swoons, fans self] I cannot in good conscience sign this check! My right to practice my religion is being infringed!”
You joke, but that’s exactly what they want to allow, and you know there’ll be at least a small number who try it.
eschereal the seriously twisted:
It was a turkey baster, dammit. She had an accident with a turkey baster. She really loves those things.
Something like those guys who have to go to the ER after falling on the vacuum cleaner, penis first?
I just wanted to pop in share my gleeful anticipation of a huge burst, a blossoming you might say, of stupid Republican ideas in the coming weeks. These court decisions are going to blow their fucking minds.
He’s following Tx Gov Greg Abbott’s lead. Recently, he held a ceremonial signing of the Pastor Protection Act , ensuring no clergyman would be forced to marry a gay couple. Of course, current law already allows a pastor to refuse to marry anyone–for any reason.
Equality Texas withdrew its opposition to the Pastor Protection Act, which had been championed by anti-LGBT groups, after it was narrowed to apply only to wedding ceremonies. And it passed the House 141-2, with support from the two openly LGBT representatives. However, after more than 20 anti-LGBT proposals filed in the 84th Legislature all died, Abbott may feel the need to break off some red meat for the GOP base, however lean.
Some members of that base have demanded that Abbott—who vigorously defended the marriage amendment as attorney general—call a special session to revive a bill aimed at undermining the high court’s likely ruling. But Abbott, apparently realizing the potentially harmful economic consequences, says he doesn’t plan to do so.
House Speaker Joe Straus, in what was a rare public mention of LGBT issues for him, alluded to those consequences Tuesday, when asked by The Texas Tribune‘s Evan Smith about the demise of anti-gay marriage legislation.
“On some of the volatile issues that you mention, the fact that we weren’t jumping headlong into that, and to kind of blow up the session with these very emotionally volatile issues, the fact that we didn’t do that I think is a good thing in terms of the perception of Texas, in terms of our ability to attract talent from out of state and around the word,” Straus said. “We’re out there trying to bring the world’s best scholars to Texas, the best researchers, the best doctors, the best businesses. … I think our record of being thoughtful and deliberate about the most emotional issues was appropriate and a good thing in the long term for our state.”
Of course Straus is Republican. He’s also the state’s first Jewish House Speaker…
bup
June 26, 2015, 7:48pm
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I hope they include protections from Christian pastors being forced to perform Jewish and Muslim weddings as well. It’s terrible all the weddings clergy are forced to perform against their will.
carrps
June 26, 2015, 7:49pm
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Gyrate:
That she pledged to be abstinent and yet got pregnant out of wedlock for a second time is unfortunate.
That she tells other people to be abstinent and yet got pregnant out of wedlock for a second time is hypocritical.
**That she has made over a quarter of a million dollars promoting abstinence-only education **and yet got pregnant out of wedlock for a second time is a fucking travesty.
Travesty, that’s what she’s gonna name the kid.
I see Travesty growing up to eventual gender identification as male, becoming Travis, and then having a reality show.
smithsb
June 26, 2015, 8:59pm
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Screaming leaps of unsupported conjecture, brought to you by blonde bimbos, Faux News - who’d a guessed.
For those who think Huckabee is one of the more reasonable GOP candidates:
Mike Huckabee warns that the country is “moving rapidly toward the criminalization of Christianity.” …
Ted Cruz portrays the rapid of advance gay rights and other forms of social change as assaults on Christianity. Bobby Jindal complains that President Obama and other liberals are more tolerant of Islamic terrorists than wholesome, God-fearing traditional Christians here in the United States.
I think you just won the thread.
E-DUB
June 27, 2015, 12:16am
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Ted Cruz wants to be able to vote out supreme court justices. I just saw the headline so I don’t know if he meant just him and just the ones he doesn’t like.
Boyo_Jim:
I just wanted to pop in share my gleeful anticipation of a huge burst, a blossoming you might say, of stupid Republican ideas in the coming weeks. These court decisions are going to blow their fucking minds.
Salon reports on the ever-reliable:
Ted Cruz is in full Ted Cruz mode following Supreme Court rulings late this week affirming Obamacare insurance subsidies and legalizing gay marriage nationwide.
“Today, it’s some of the darkest 24 hours in our nation’s history,” Cruz told Sean Hannity on his radio program.
Slamming the rulings as “naked and shameless judicial activism,” the Texas senator and 2016 GOP presidential candidate promised to continue his crusade for repeal of the health care reform law signed by President Obama in 2010, and touted his proposed constitutional amendment to allow states to ban same-sex marriage.
Really? 9/11? December 7th? Several assassinations? Various natural disasters? This is the worst? He’s an attorney who’s dealt with the Supremes. Now he’s forgotten just how the Constitution works.