Okay, this is not Repulican per se, but it has the Republican reek about it, and it is pretty goddam asinine – and I was loath to start a new thread, so I am dropping it here
though admittedly maybe not literally “stupid”, as such – instead of bombing clinics with bombs, they appear to be trying the litigate-them-to-death approach.
They’ve got house-eating snails, too, although it looks as if they may be well on the way to eradicating those. They warn people not to touch the snails with their hands, but frankly, if I see an 8-inch by 4-inch gastropod, the *last *thing I’m thinking about is *touching *it.
Where’s that puking smiley when you need it?
This isn’t the first time. I started working for Florida’s Dept of Agri shortly after the conclusion of the Giant African Snail Program in the 1970’s. It was what the bureaucracy called a “special program” meaning it was created for a single purpose (elimination of these snails) and was dismantled afterward. Us “regulars” inherited all sorts of equipment bearing the brightly colored logo GASP. We had no end of embarrassment and annoyance explaining this unfortunate acronym to members of the public who saw it on everything from clipboards to vehicles. And yes, those damned snails would eat the stucco off a building! I saw the places it happened.
Diane Black (R-Tenn): Abortion leads to breast cancer, and is not actually health care.
To do what?!?! Fuckin’ Aggies!
To look like he’s still tough, even with those weenie glasses and normal shoes.
One of those Central American immigrant kids goes on Jose Diaz-Balart’s MSNBC show; Ann Coulter awards her an Oscar.
Has this already been covered? In the eating-their-own department: Glenn Beck’s announced plans to send food, water and toys to those detained immigrant kids draws him RW hate-emails and death threats.
There are people in the world who actively draw attention to themselves. Some are better than others; some are genius-level. These elite few who have perfected the craft of attention whoring appear in many circles, from pop music to fake political discourse. In my view, people who say outrageous things just so people will point their finger at them in outrage dilute the SRIotD thread. Of course they have a stupid idea, that’s what they’re paid to do. DNFTT.
By way of our good friends at Daily Kos. (Liberal cootie warning. Big time)
Gist of it is, McConnel stepped into that Mississippi mud with the Tea Party candidate getting just barely beat by the standard Republican candidate in the primary.
Furthermore:
Hey, we lefties have a long experience of picking fights with your allies because they aren’t pure enough. Works great! Go for it!
I don’t think you’re referring to Beck here, and the hate mail he got appears to have been mostly anonymous, as such usually is.
Ron Paul: “Russia hasn’t hurt anybody in Ukraine and they have no reason to have shot down the Malaysian airliner”.
I’d love to hear Rand’s response.
I guess you can’t really tar Ken Ham as a Republican, but he’s a wingnut, so it probably fits here: “Stop exploring space, even if we find aliens they’re going to hell anyway.”
“Adam’s sin affected the whole universe”
Does he mean Adam Baldwin (Jayne, on Firefly/Serenity)?
I think the only thing Ron Paul said in that writeup that made sense was that you have to be careful about propaganda. I’m sure both Russia and Ukraine are propagandizing up the wazoo about the plane shootdown
I knew Ham was the ultimate creationist, but that crazier than I would have expected of him
This topic has its own thread where Freddy the Pig points out that Ham’s point was rather the opposite: God wouldn’t create naturally damned creatures; therefore intelligent aliens cannot exist. The paraphrase (“aliens are going to hell”) is similar to taking the start of a reductio ad absurdem proof (“assume pi is algebraic”) to produce a slander (“Lindemann claims pi is algebraic”).
Yet if I Google to find Ham’s actual views, I see
“even if we find aliens they’re going to hell anyway”
“even if we find aliens they’re going to hell anyway”
“even if we find aliens they’re going to hell anyway”
“even if we find aliens they’re going to hell anyway”
“even if we find aliens they’re going to hell anyway”
“even if we find aliens they’re going to hell anyway”
…
I am not a creationist and indeed think Ham’s intelligent point can be turned against his cause. But why invent strawmen and caricatures?
Ya think maybe that was a slow-acting poison pill that came along with the Southern Strategy?
We might have to erect a statue to Nixon, after all.
Equipped with a dedicated flock of specially-trained pigeons, of course, just so nobody misses the larger implications of his legacy…
Of course they can, they just wouldn’t have souls. You know, like the Japanese.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/cruz-suggests-flight-ban-boycott-israel-24684849
Ted Cruz (wing-nut-Tx) switches Republican tactics and uses “facts” to blame Obama for the FAA shutdown of flights to Israel. Of course, had an aircraft/passengers been hit/killed/injured - “facts” would have blamed President Obama for failure to order a Federal agency at his beck and call to cancel flights. Just sayin’.:rolleyes:
“The facts suggest that President Obama has just used a federal regulatory agency to launch an economic boycott on Israel, in order to try to force our ally to comply with his foreign-policy demands,” Cruz said in a statement in which he posed five questions about the agency’s actions, including whether it was politically motivated.