Refusing to rest on their laurels after passing their creationism-in-public-schools legislation, Tennessee senators have approved a bill updating the abstinence based sex-ed law that would discourage “gateway sexual activity”, naming such dangerous activities as “holding hands” and “kissing.”
Tell me that is an Onion headline. Please.
Tennessee Boy: “Say, Joan, I was wondering if I could kiss you.”
Tennessee Girl: “Kissing! That’s a gateway to pregnancy. Just put it in my butt.”
HA! Take that, Arizona!
More Little League, clean wholesome activity! Always good to see a young boy get to first base!
I know, two in one day probably isn’t in the spirit of this thread, but this one’s too fun to save till tomorrow:
Missouri Rep. Todd Akin suggests that it’s time to look at impeaching Obama for such heinous crimes as: “[he] ignores the Constitution, he ignores the laws, he wants to impose all of the czars, he completely ignores the train wreck of the economy, which he’s causing with trillion-dollar-plus deficits every year you go along.”
Well, I never. Maybe one or two czars, they could let him get away with, but ALL the czars? Get him out of there.
And if this all leads to a shortage of czars? A gulf, a czar chasm?
He wants to have a czar excission? Jack Dean Tyler would be mortified!
I’m sure we can outsource any number of our shadowy, unelected, unaccountable freedom-killing jobs to China.
First they imposed one or two of the czars, and I didn’t speak up…
Can we go on a brief tangent to explain the whole “czar” thing? I see it in tea-bagger online comments, but of course it never comes up in any of the MSM media I peruse. So how many czars has Obama appointed? Do they all wear furry hats, long beards and crosses around their neck?
It’s just an informal title for an appointed official in charge of various governmental departments. Instead of saying some guy is the “Administrator, Federal Energy Administration, Assistant to the President for Energy Affairs, Executive Director of Energy Resources Council,” which is his official title, he’s the “Energy Czar.”
First time I remember hearing about a president appointing a “czar” was Reagan and his “Drug Czar” back in the days of “Just Say No.” Wikipedia says the use of the term for US Government appointees has been around since Wilson. It’s fallen in and out of use since then. Now that Obama’s the president, suddenly it means he’s a friggin’ COMMIE or something, and the appointment of government officials (like EVERY SINGLE PRESIDENT has EVER DONE) is a PROBLEM.
I think Carter had an Energy Czar before Reagan had a Drug Czar.
But I was wondering about the volume of Czar’s (as measured in russoliters, I guess)…has there been some explosion in quasi-cabinet-level administrative positions?
Worse still, I heard on the BBC that he was getting a socialist from Hollande to depose the cosy czars.
At least, I think that’s what they said with their crazy Britland accents.
More than you could ever want to know about Executive Branch “czars”: List of U.S. executive branch czars - Wikipedia
Upshot? Pretty much the same between GWB and Obama. Really all it tells us is that some time during the Bush administration it became acceptable to call any and every executive appointee a czar.
Unintended irony, thy name is “Tea Party”.
Mmmm hmmm. Let’s remember that in the USA’s most glorious moment, we allied with the commies to fight… the fascists! We didn’t become communists in the process, far from it. American history suggests fascists are even worse than communists, at least as a choice of friends. Any group in American politics today remind you of fascists? Anyone?
Wake me up when someone in Congress suggests abolishing the stock market so that all businesses may be converted into state-run entities.
He must be directed to say stupid shit. He’s taking one for the team so that other pubbies can call Democrats “socialist” and look reasonable.
Teabagger nostalgia. I remember when they used to carry around signs with, “MORE CZARS THAN THE USSR”. It was fruitless to point out to them that the USSR had done away with the whole Czar/Tsar thingy.
(And yes, I will use “teabagger” as long as “Obamacare” is bandied about.)
Or that the term had been applied to political appointees in every administration since Woodrow Wilson.