I don’t know about false imprisonment, but that’s got to be a fire code violation.
Any evidence that the person(s) who caused this were Republicans? Because the thread title says “Stupid Republican idea of the day” not “Stupid Religious Fanatic idea of the day” or “Stupid Fundamentalist idea of the day”.
Yeah!!! We can’t discount the 0.00001% chance that these were hardline, Democrat fundamentalists in deep-red rural Mississippi.
Assuming Republican upon seeing certain types of stupidity is a “fallacy” I’ve made myself in this thread. But the assumption hasn’t been wrong yet.
I have a counter-question: If you were a bookmaker, what odds would you offer on this person’s voting alignment?
If you can’t stand the heat, whine and pout until it dies down:
Good job giving an extra round of attention to the issue raised by the cartoon, Rick.
To its credit, the newspaper is standing behind the cartoon. Personally, I would have sent a reply saying I’d consider the request for an apology if Rick can, off the top of his head, support it with three arguments. 
Name one, or shut the fuck up.
Jim Nabors should have sued him for demeaning Gomer Pyle’s intelligence by his similar name.
That all depends. Might be enacting regime change.
And then Stockman comes up with something even more bizarre: If babies had guns, they wouldn’t be aborted!
Huh?
Now, now. Everyone knows we didn’t go in to Iraq to further any political goals; that was all about economic goals.
Were I that bookmaker, I’d probably put odds at around 99:1. That’s not the point though. There are stupid people the world over and there’s no end to Republican stupidity, as a subsection of it. But what this thread is about is stupid Republican ideas, which means policy-makers, conservative news organizations, and current and former elected officials, not merely a stupid person who happens to vote Republican.
We have to keep reminding the people trying to post in the “stupid Liberal ideas of the day” so I felt it hypocritical not to bring it up here as well.
I did about ten minutes of internet research on the county Republican Party, the church and the principal who were all named. I did not see any connections. The church’s Facebook page did not have any reminders on it back in Oct/Nov to vote the right way and no one with the principal’s name was mentioned on the county Republican website.
That little bit only proves it isn’t easy to connect the GOP to the incident at the school.
I did see a PDF of the complaint letter:
http://www.americanhumanist.org/system/storage/63/17/b/4074/Letter_to_Northwest_Rankin_High_4-11-2013_D2.pdf
*Apply the Islam test
Offer the same e-mail with forced attendance and a Muslim prayer at the end. Would they go for it?
First they questioned DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano about the Drudge and Forbes article about a conspiricy - now we have the bill taking shape.
OK Lawmakers Introduce Bill To Boost Domestic Ammo Supply
The article title is somewhat misleading. Our good Sen. Inhofe (christian zealot, crappy pilot, anti-gun control nut) and some other forgetable Rep. Frank Lucas see government conspiricies to take away all our ammo.
Some of the money quotes from guys who devote all day searching for ammunition so they can [del]go shooting and terrorist hunting[/del] put meat on the family table.
“It’s a rat race to try to get ammunition everywhere you go. I come here every day,” said ammunition buyer, Chuck Butler.
“You basically go all day if you’ve got the time, you go around and try to find someone who’s even got a small shipment. And even then, you only get one box per day, at a time, per caliber,” said ammunition buyer, Jim Mitchell. “I think it would be a good bill because the people is what it’s all about. And we’re the ones who are wanting and needing the ammunition.”
Jim Inhofe: Federal Government Has ‘Taken’ All The Ammunition - Huffington Post
“The federal government is so opposed to firearms, in fact, that it has gone on an ammunition-buying spree so that there won’t be any bullets left for law-abiding Americans,” Inhofe charged Monday.
Seems Federal agencies getting together and buying ammunition in bulk so they get the Defense Department contract price and SAVING tax dollars is a topic on the gun boards. (Note this stuff has been mentioned before - “THE’RE STOCKPILING AMMO SO THEY CAN ARREST AND SHOOT US ALL”, “WHY DO THEY NEED ALL THIS AMMO - IT’S AN OBAMA PLOT”).
Isn’t the ammo shortage because so many people, have been buying guns lately? And aren’t so many people buying guns lately because they’re afraid the government is going to pass major gun control legislation?
Some people just never seem to grasp the Streisand Effect.
WA state senator Mike Hewitt is sponsoring a bill in the legislature that would make it legal for businesses to discriminate against gays. That’s pretty stupid in itself, in addition to being blatantly in violation of the state and federal Constitutions.
The real stupid here, however, comes from one of his staffers. During a phone conversation yesterday, a caller asked how the bill would affect gays living in rural areas if the only store in town refuses to sell them food or gas, as the bill would allow them to do.
The staffer, who refused to give his name, had an interesting response;
[QUOTE=Anonymous staffer]
Well, gay people can just grow their own food.
[/QUOTE]
On behalf of my home state, I’d like to apologize that our educational system produced this man.
Sadly, not so. At least not yet.
How the hell are they going to know? Has functional and practical gaydar become a reality?
They’ll probably ask for Gay Bacon.
Seriously, though, the articles notes that the bill is a response to a lawsuit against a florist for refusing to provide flowers at a same sex wedding.
Ironically, they’ll have to hire a gay guy to use his gaydar to tell them which customers are gay.
But to make sure only people with accurate gaydar get these jobs, there will have to be some kind of testing and licensing set up, where a bunch of mixed gay and straight people are mulling about. The testee has accurately pick out a high percentage of gays to be licensed.
This firm might have to operate out-of-state, since in WA they might discriminate against hiring gay people for the test, rendering it useless…