Abercrombie & Fitch and the ‘Ni-CLANG! Brown’ Pants Affair

by ABL 2.0

A&F found itself in a bit of hot water today after The Internet found out that it was selling “nigger brown” pants in the UK.  Except they weren’t really, so you can uncream your Twinkie.  (I need to point out that A&F still sucks for trying to turn teenage girls into sex objects.)

I actually laughed when I clicked through to the fake Abercrombie website advertising “nigger brown” cargo pants. Maybe I’ve just hit my fuckery limit this week or something.  I think I’m in some kind of waking coma.

In any event, turns out that Abercrombie doesn’t have control over the website selling ni-CLANG! brown pants, which is being run by some Chinese cats who really need to update their translator software:

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March 22, 2012 5:46 pm Posted in: Crock Pot Craziness, Seriously  16 Comments

Scenes from Post-Racial America

by John Cole

Time to move the Ni-CLANG clock one minute closer to midnight:

John Hood, president of the conservative North Carolina-based John Locke Foundation, has apologized for a very special graphic that one of his bloggers, “Hot Talk WRNN co-host Tara Servatius,” included in her post for the think tank’s blog this week. What is the controversy? All it did was show “President Obama in chains and drag with a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken.” What is the controversy? Everyone loves Kentucky Fried Chicken! And look, Tara Servatius says she “didn’t think about the racial implications of the picture when I posted it. I simply don’t think in those terms.” She’s a fun one.

It’s really just absolutely killing them that Obama is black. They’ve all completely lost their minds in incoherent rage, and they are so filled with repressed hostility that every now and then they lose track of the plot and something like this slips out.

And how is it even remotely possible that you wouldn’t think of the racial implications of Obama in chains and drag with a bucket of fried chicken between his legs? How?

March 22, 2012 5:28 pm Posted in: Assholes, Because of wow., Post-racial America, Teabagger Stupidity  40 Comments

Not Just a John In Name Only

by John Cole

If true, this is totally unsurprising:

A call girl working for alleged “Millionaire Madam” Anna Gristina told investigators she was paid to have sex with former U.S. Sen. John Edwards when he was in New York raising money for his failed presidential bid, DNAinfo has learned.

Edwards is the first big name to surface in connection to Gristina’s alleged prostitution scheme run out of an Upper East Side apartment.

Edwards’ lawyer declined to comment when reached Wednesday. On Thursday morning, his attorneys issued a statement to Politico and other news outlets saying their client “categorically” denied the allegation. Later Thursday morning, DNAinfo was contacted by Edwards’ attorney, Abbe Lowell, demanding a retraction.

He’s really turning out to have been a grade A scumbag.

March 22, 2012 5:21 pm Posted in: Assholes, Election 2008  26 Comments

I Just Want to Post This Again

by John Cole

Sure, there is a ton of stuff going on, and lots I could write about, but really, I just want to again post this Rachel Maddow piece from last night:

Why can’t all journalists do this? Why can’t they simply call a lie a lie, and call someone who lies repeatedly a liar? Why can’t they do what Rachel did, which is go through the statements and prove how they are lies? Why can’t everyone do this?

At any rate, I maintain that was the best 14-15 minutes in cable news journalism in my lifetime.

March 22, 2012 5:08 pm Posted in: Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Excellent Links, Our Failed Media Experiment  34 Comments

Open Bar. Open Thread.

by Betty Cracker

Ever tried this beer? It’s pretty good.

What’s your favorite beer, if any? Open thread.

March 22, 2012 4:34 pm Posted in: Open Thread  128 Comments

James O’Keefe and the Case of the Purloined Panties

by mistermix

Nadia Naffe, who worked with James O’Keefe for a while and has filed some sort of harassment claim, is dumping core about their relationship, including an email where she says this:

James, this is not junior high. You need to grow up and be a man. Do not continue to make a fool of yourself by calling to offer me money, as you did on Oct. 24th. I was never with you for the money. I’m not looking for a payoff. Be a man and return my panties and scarf that were in the trunk of your car. Do not keep my undergarments as a trophy or souvenir to show off to your friends. We have been friends for two years, do not have Ryan contact me to discuss our personal and private affairs.

This is all wrapped up in another harassment suit about this incident:
Those documents shed new light on the “CNN Sex Boat Caper” that reportedly featured an attempt to strand then-CNN reporter Abbie Boudreau on a boat full of sex toys and hidden cameras. O’Keefe has maintained that he rejected the pornographic aspects of that plot, but whistleblower Izzy Santa’s allegations belie those denials.

Follow the links if you want to read about the whole fucked-up mess. (via Buffalopundit on the Twitter)

March 22, 2012 2:28 pm Posted in: Looks Like I Picked the Wrong Week to Stop Sniffing Glue  110 Comments

…and I’m pretty sure I plugged the deputy.

by Tim F.

More adventures in red America, via Charles Pierce.

Gov. Mitch Daniels has signed a law explicitly authorizing Hoosiers to physically resist police if officers are breaking the law.

Senate Enrolled Act 1, approved by the Republican governor late Tuesday night, permits a person to use reasonable force against a public servant, including police officers, to protect themselves from injury caused by the imminent use of unlawful force, to prevent illegal entry into a home or vehicle, or stop the unlawful taking of a person’s property.

You might wonder whether anyone with a strong opinion about getting arrested for drunk & disorderly can just pull out a gat and open fire. Let’s ask sensible conservative governor Mitch Daniels. I bolded the important part.

“Contrary to some impressions, the bill strengthens the protection of Indiana law enforcement officers by narrowing the situations in which someone would be justified in using force against them,” Daniels said. “Unless a person is convinced an officer is acting unlawfully, he cannot use any force of any kind.

“In the real world, there will almost never be a situation in which these extremely narrow conditions are met.”

I guess that settles things. If like many you think that cops for the most part act in accordance with the law, then you can pretty much forget this ever happened. On the other hand, maybe you belong to a sovereign citizen group, or to an anti-government militia (which, by some strange coincidence, exploded under a black Democratic president), or you spend too much time listening to Beck and Hannity go on about FEMA and gun-grabbin’ G-men. Could be that you just read this blog’s series on shitty cops and you had a really bad day. Maybe you’re an untreated schizophrenic with paranoia issues. Or let’s say you’re just drunk and belligerent. Congratulations! All those years of not going to law school have paid off. Now you can strap on and step a little lighter knowing that you’re safe from both the cops and that dusky fellow who won’t make way on the sidewalk.

Oy.

***Update***

In all earnestness, we get outraged over shitty cop stories is precisely because the police have all the power in a situation. And they should. The police are agents of the state and the state must have a monopoly on the use of force. Any alternative is anarchy.

Since you cannot get in the way of a cop who is determined to do something outrageous, the only remedy is to report misbehavior after the fact and hope that the threat of shame or worse (acquittal, restitution, a pink slip or jail time for the cop) encourage them and their bosses to step more carefully in the future. This is how democracies work. Empowering random citizens with zero legal training to make up their own mind about whether to comply with the police is either an inexplicable form of governmental self-destruction, or else a recipe for incredible inequality and oppression if (as I expect) local governments selectively enforce laws like this in order to keep the ‘wrong kind’ of people in a constant state of fear.

***Update 2***

Two comments offer some useful context. I understand that people often end up unjustly convicted when they respond to a no-knock wrong-address home invasion like any gun owner would (in key cases the cops never identified themselves as such), and I see that the Indiana Supreme Court ruled last year that you basically cannot defend yourself in court in that circumstance. If you have police increasingly militarize and grow fonder of no-knock invasions while red states go nuts with castle doctrines, these awful stories will get awfully common. I would make a suggestion that doesn’t involve violence (less no-knock invasions? take it easy on the stupid drug war?) but apparently red America is the wrong crowd for that.

I would love to hear that Indiana wrote their new law narrowly enough to avoid empowering every armed gomer with a grudge. Not being a lawyer I figure it would be best if I throw the question out to those of you who are.

March 22, 2012 2:17 pm Posted in: Teabagger Stupidity  85 Comments

The moderate Republicans were tied up in the back of the statehouse, unable to resist the Tea Party, until campaign season started

by Kay

“Moderate” Republicans miraculously find their voice, express “doubts” on union-busting, just in time for the start of campaign season:

For the first time in more than three decades, Minnesota Republicans are basking in majorities in both chambers of the state Legislature, so on matters that need no signature from the Democratic governor, they can do as they please.
And yet, on a recent afternoon, Senator Dave Thompson said he had grown doubtful that the “right to work” amendment he hoped to put before voters this fall — a proposition requiring no approval by the governor — would survive a vote of his fellow Republican legislators, or even find its way out of Republican-controlled committees.
“I’ve been told that no hearing has been scheduled and that a lot of people are concerned, so I guess this isn’t going to move anywhere,” Senator Thompson said on Friday, days after the proposal drew hundreds of protesting union supporters to the halls of the Legislature, and after an advertising campaign critical of the idea began airing around Minnesota. “It’s not about the policy. There is a tremendous fear of the political ramifications — it boils down to that, nothing more or less,” he said.
After costly, bruising political showdowns with union forces last year in Wisconsin and Ohio, Republicans in some state legislatures are facing a tugging match within their party — between passionate conservative members like Mr. Thompson, a freshman who was among hundreds of legislators swept into statehouses in 2010 who want to push forward, and a more moderate bloc not sure it is wise to take on labor so directly now.
The dueling pressure comes at a key moment in an election year — not only for the presidency, but for more than 5,900 state legislative seats around the nation — with Republican leaders eager to keep newfound legislative majorities in capitals like this one.
The much-publicized union battles last year, which led to a recall campaign against Gov. Scott Walker in Wisconsin and to the repeal of a bill limiting collective bargaining backed by Gov. John R. Kasich of Ohio, seemed likely to quiet such efforts. But some Republicans have pushed ahead, to the discomfort, in some cases, of their fellow Republicans.
Many right-to-work advocates were energized this winter when Indiana, with little debate within the Republican ranks that control state government, passed a bill making it the 23rd right-to-work state. It was the first state to take such a step in a decade, bringing new energy to similar proposals in Missouri and New Hampshire.

I understand the impulse to treat this as something other than a press release, but, really. At what point do we all just laugh at these carefully-timed-and-released claims of lessons learned and responding to their voters concerns? How many times can conservatives pull this scam?

They’re backing off these anti-working class measures not because there’s been any sort of “moderation” in conservative-libertarian anti-union dogma in response to public opposition but because they are worried about losing a certain crucial share of union voters in the next election. They’re afraid they’re going to lose their jobs. If they don’t lose their jobs, they’ll be back with a vengeance, because they’ll claim a “mandate” for the same anti-worker legislation they just carefully announced shelving.

I’m just going to quote media darling and principled conservative leader Mitch Daniels here, to get an idea on what their solemn vow on unions is worth:

“We cannot afford to have civil wars over issues that might divide us and divert us from that path. I have said over and over, I’ll say it again tonight: I’m a supporter of the labor laws we have in the state of Indiana,” he said in a speech to the Teamsters 135 Union Stewards Dinner on Sept. 23, 2006. “I’m not interested in changing any of it. Not the prevailing wage laws, and certainly not the right to work law. We can succeed in Indiana with the laws we have, respecting the rights of labor, and fair and free competition for everybody.”

Certainly not! Mitch Daniels was upset at just the mention of right to work. You’ll also notice Daniels talks about “respecting the rights” of labor. That language has completely disappeared from the Republican Party, but I expect it will reappear in states like Minnesota and Ohio and Michigan and Wisconsin, because it’s time once again for conservatives to run away from the policies and practices they support.

Daniels was, of course, lying to his union voters in 2006. Daniels promoted and passed union-busting laws in 2012. Republicans have every intention of pursuing union-busting in Midwest states. Like Daniels, they simply want to wait until after they retain their own jobs to pursue the anti-worker laws they’re committed to passing.

March 22, 2012 1:24 pm Posted in: #notintendedtobeafactualstatement, Republican Venality, The Decadent Left In Its Enclaves On The Coasts, What If Americans Worked As Hard As The Chinese  50 Comments

The GOP Front-Runner for 2016: Is It Palin?

by SteveM

It’s been argued that a Mitt Romney loss in November would leave Rick Santorum as the GOP presidential front-runner for 2016. But Geov Parrish flags this from a Public Policy Polling national survey of Republicans:

The talk of a brokered convention never seems to die down and one interesting finding on this poll was that Sarah Palin is far more popular than any of the actual Republican candidates in the race. Her net favorability is +48, with 68% of voters rating her favorably to only 20% with a negative opinion. That compares favorably to +29 for Santorum, +19 for Romney, and -26 for Paul.

Palin is someone GOP delegates might be able to unify around in the case of a hopelessly deadlocked convention. She is seen positively by Gingrich voters (85/7), Santorum supporters (80/10), and Romney ones (57/27) alike. That’s a contrast to Romney who is disliked by both Santorum (38/48) and Gingrich (32/54) voters and Santorum who is disliked by Romney (38/48) voters and only seen narrowly favorably by Gingrich (46/42) backers.

This is a change from, say, last August, when a Fox News poll reported that Palin was so unpopular that 58% of Republicans and 64% of conservatives thought she wouldn’t make a good president, agreeing with the vast majority of non-conservative America.

The difference, I think, is that back then she was spending a lot of time trying to get herself into the broader national spotlight. Since then, she’s retreated to the right’s bubble. She’s saying things right-wingers want to hear, but the rest of us are ignoring her—which means we’re not laughing at her. (When righties finally noticed how hard we were laughing at her, a year or so ago, their fantasies of Palin as conquering Queen Esther became harder to sustain.)

You know what’s hilarious? People who correctly predicted that she wouldn’t run this time said she was avoiding a run because she’d have to answer serious questions at debates. That’s probably true—yet look who shined at the debates. Herman Cain chanting “9-9-9.” Then Newt blathering about God-knows-what while accusing some debate moderator or other of treason. With interludes of Ron Paul getting cheers for talking about leaving people to die in ditches, because the Austrian economics demand it. Palin missed her opportunity! She was made for this clown show!

So will she realize her error and give it a go four years from now? I sincerely hope so.

(X-posted at No More Mister Nice Blog.)

March 22, 2012 12:01 pm Posted in: Clown Shoes, Crazification Factor, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, Peak Wingnut Was a Lie!  152 Comments

They’ve Always Been Banking On Failure

by Zandar

A lot of rightful facepalming has been made over GOP Rep. Paul Ryan’s odiously awful budget proposal adding some 50 million Americans to the ranks of the uninsured and basically handing over trillions to the one percent, but in addition to all that the GOP would end up obliterating Dodd-Frank and leaving us with the same “oversight” we had in 2007 when the financial meltdown came barreling through our lives.  Suzy Khimm over at Ezra Klein’s Kaplan Nerd Farm details the carnage:

The Ryan budget, however, would actually repeal the FDIC’s new resolution authority, arguing that it would have the opposite effect of what’s intended by allowing bank regulators “to access taxpayer dollars in order to bail out the creditors of large, ‘systemically significant’ financial institutions.” By doing so, Ryan says he would “end the regime now enshrined into law that paves the way for future bailouts.”

His blueprint doesn’t go into much further detail to explain why this is the case. But other critics of Dodd-Frank have argued that it could enable the FDIC to take control of failing firms and rely on taxpayer funds to keep the systemically important parts running through a government-run “bridge” financial company. That’s likely why Ryan believes the cost of the new resolution authority could far exceed the Congressional Budget Office’s $26 billion estimate.

While outside analysts across the political spectrum have shared Ryan’s concerns that Dodd-Frank doesn’t do enough to stop Too Big to Fail, their specific worry is often quite different than Ryan’s: they’re worried that bank regulators have too little authority, not too much, to quickly take down failing firms. It’s unclear, for example, how swiftly and forcefully the FDIC would use the new rules to liquidate a highly troubled, systemically important firm.

Repealing that authority as Ryan proposes eliminates a new government channel for intervention, but it wouldn’t explicitly prohibit future bailouts, which could become more likely if systemically risky banks aren’t wound down in an orderly fashion.


Of course they would be, that’s the point.  Banks are profitable now only because they got trillions in mulligans from the Bushies (and FOX News has done a terrific job of lying to the American people, convincing them that President Obama bailed out the banks, not Bush and Hank Paulson, and conflating the Obama stimulus with the Bush bank bailout on purpose.)  Here’s the thing: I know everyone says that Ryan’s budget proposal is just empty posturing that has no effect on the actual budget, but if there’s a GOP Senate to go along with the House in 2013, these proposals will end up on the President’s desk.

Let’s not pretend that the GOP getting into actual power will moderate the Ryan Plan.  This is their plan for America’s future, where the rising tide lifts all yachts and drowns the rest of us who can’t tread water.  And speaking of the Kaplan Nerd Farm, when Ezra Klein says things like this:

Today, the Republican Party is in a different place, and my theory is that it’s because they’ve committed themselves to a set of fiscal priorities — lower taxes, higher defense spending, no entitlement changes for 210 years, and lower deficits — that can only be reconciled through draconian cuts to programs for the poor.

The result is that when Republican politicians stop speaking for themselves and begin speaking for their party, their fiscal proposals have to reflect those priorities, and so they end up cutting deep into programs for the poor, even though that may not be their personal preference. But that is, of course, just speculation.


I have to have a good, long laugh, because the dude has it so backwards it’s actually funny.  Draconian cuts to the poor at the expense to give more to the rich was exactly what the Republican party has been engineering since 1980.  We’re just in the endgame now.  They didn’t “accidentally leave themselves no other choice” any more than any other fanatical group of nutjobs have throughout history.  The cuts have been the point all along, knucklehead.  Like I said, let’s stop pretending that a series of unfortunate and non-preventable accidents led the GOP to this sad fate.  This is deliberate, it has been deliberate, they believe this stuff period, and we have to recognize that first thing.

[UPDATE:]  Oh, and for the folks still convinced that none of this is deliberate and that the Ryan Budget will quietly die in the House because it’s an election year, well that’s not happening either.

March 22, 2012 9:46 am Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, C.R.E.A.M., hoocoodanode, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, Republican Venality, Tax Policy  84 Comments

Hey, Look, Another Decent Jobs Report

by mistermix

348,000 new unemployment claims, down 5,000 from last week.

March 22, 2012 9:32 am Posted in: Domestic Affairs  42 Comments

It’s the TV That Got Small

by mistermix

Is anyone excited about the Mad Men premiere this weekend? Scanning through this Guardian piece, my main thought was that the actress who plays Sally must be about 20 by now, but apparently she’s only 12.

For me, the squabbling over the contract that caused an extended hiatus turned me off a bit, just as I lost some interest in the Sopranos when David Chase decided that the breath and scope of his greatness dictated that some episodes needed to be a few minutes longer than an hour. If you’re so ready for your closeup that you can’t fit your TV show into the allotted time, and if you can’t settle your shit enough to run your show during its usual season, then you’re at the point where you’re too big for TV.

But maybe I’m in the minority here, and the rest of you are excited to see Sally’s loss of virginity to the low-IQ neighbor boy, Betty’s new tryst with an economy-size bottle of Miltown, and Don’s inevitable second divorce.

March 22, 2012 8:28 am Posted in: Television  62 Comments

Early Morning Open Thread: The Manchurian Etch-A-Sketch Candidate

by Anne Laurie



Anybody old enough to have played with the actual toy would agree that an Etch-A-Sketch isn’t a bad metaphor for the neverending Romney campaign: Hours of tedious calibration along rigid horizontal/vertical axes gave you a jaggety graphical image roughly caricaturing the subject you intended to draw, and after a few weeks’ use the ghosted outlines of previous sketches would obscure the newest image until you gave up and shoved the thing down to the bottom of the toybox. But this year’s True Republican Conservatives™ no longer have the luxury of switching to a new and less frustrating plaything, so they’ve decided to proclaim that getting stuck with The Candidate Nobody Wanted is somehow a proof that they’re #winning. Erick “Voice of the GOP Gated Community” Erickson, the man whose primary vote went to Rick Perry even though Perry had long since retired from the race, squares his beefy shoulders and sticks out his manly chins for “The Nominee“:

...[A]s Romney piles up more and more wins and neither the Gingrich nor Paul campaigns remain factors, let alone have pulses, the inevitable will set in. Conservatives may not really like Mitt Romney, but they do not want a fractured party too divided to beat Barack Obama. There will be no white knight, no dark horse, and no brokered convention. We have our nominee.

If, come November, Mitt Romney wins, he will owe it to a lot of Republicans who put their reputation on the line and it will be payback time. If Mitt Romney loses, party leaders will undoubtedly try to blame conservatives as they always do, but it will be really hard to cast blame when Romney’s supporters have billed him as Mr. Electable since shortly after they they billed Harriet Miers as a genius conservative pick for the Supreme Court.

Either way, conservatives have and no doubt will continue to make it very clear that Mitt Romney may be the standard bearer of the Republican Party, but he most definitely is not the standard bearer of the conservative movement. The disentangling of the movement from the party will continue. So too will our shared effort to oust Barack Obama from the White House.

Such we-are-Sparta displays & proclamations gave Jeb!, aka “The Smart Brother”, a reason to slither out from the parched remnants of the Florida swamplands he’s done so much to sell off to his corporate backers. As Dave Weigel nicely phrases it:

Noted “Stand Your Ground” Legislation Supporter Endorses Mitt Romney
Jeb Bush could have picked any week to endorse Mitt Romney. This week? Sub-optimal. The reason, though it might get ignored, is contained in this 2005 piece about the “Stand Your Ground” legislation that

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has signed a bill giving residents the right to shoot in self-defense anywhere they feel threatened by would-be assailants.

The bill was signed as the National Rifle Association’s lobbyist, Marion Hammer, looked over Bush’s shoulder....

Doghouse Riley isn’t impressed, either:

... Listen, you don’t have to tell me that “conservative” has no actual meaning in contemporary American politics, but if you’re obliged to use it anyway, could you do so with some consistency? When people say “Romney will have trouble with conservatives” they mean the red meat, gun-totin’, Jebus-spouting neo-Confederates who make up a third of the party, not “self-described conservative” members of the “conservative” party. This exchanges something approximating “reality” for the more comforting one in which people like John Dickerson don’t have to call those people “nuts”....

[H]e’s Mitt Romney, nobody’s sweetheart, and no liberal except to the knuckle-draggers of his own party. Fifty-one percent, or something approximating that, have repudiated them, at least as regards selection of a national candidate. The same thing happened last time, except last time the “real” “conservatives” had only tax-raisin’ Mike Huckabee to carry the banner; this time they’ve had a half-dozen to chose from, all duds. It’s time to acknowledge that Mitt Romney is the face of the national Republican party, or the face it wishes to show the rest of the country, neatly coiffed, tone-deaf, and vacant behind the eyes, rather than the ravening Bronze Age thinkers who represent 40% of its voters and most of it Congressional representatives. It’s the party which now admits that addled oligarchy, however unpopular, has to run things because that’s preferable to the alternative. Time for the rest of y’all to say so, too.

So, Willard “Mitt” Romney is every conservative’s moderate and every moderate’s conservative—just as Julius Caesar was every women’s husband and every man’s wife. As a Stoic in the classical sense, I am forced to agree with Mr. Charles P. Pierce:

I don’t know about the “Republican establishment” — I’m still not sure there is one — but, apparently, every smart pundit out there is of the opinion that it consists of the Bush family and their assorted hangers-on. This is, of course, despite the fact that, by 2008, C-Plus Augustus had turned the family brand into the political equivalent of a fast-food restaurant called Long John Salmonella. And let’s not forget the fine work that Jebby did as governor of Florida, meddling in the death of Terri Schiavo and developing such a warm relationship with the state’s various minority communities that they were sitting in at his office by his second year as governor.

The one thing that Jeb Bush’s endorsement does do is fairly well put to bed the lunatic speculation that he might mount a bid of his own. Was the country really prepared to take another chance on the Bush family? Even on The Smart One? Now, though, it has become plain that, by electing Willard Romney, the country will be electing something of a Bush manque — the third term of the Avignon Presidency. (I know. The link is to the blazing heart of Wingnuttia, but who are you going to believe on a story like this one?) Is it possible that there burns in the souls of the former Bush administration flunkies the desire to avenge their boss’s memory through the use of Mitt Romney to defeat the man who was elected in 2008 as the living embodiment of the country’s revulsion at the previous eight years, whether he was comfortable in that role or not? Remember, the entire campaign of George W. Bush was in some measure an act of revenge against the administration that had turned Poppy out in 1992. I put nothing past these people.

March 22, 2012 4:48 am Posted in: Assholes, Election 2012, Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin., Romney of the Uncanny Valley  31 Comments

Monkey See, Monkey Douchebags

by John Cole

It just never stops with these religious fanatics:

“The Senate approved a bill Monday evening that deals with teaching of evolution and other scientific theories,” the Knoxville News-Sentinel (March 19, 2012) reported, adding, “Critics call it a ‘monkey bill’ that promotes creationism in classrooms.” The bill in question is Senate Bill 893, which, if enacted, would encourage teachers to present the “scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses” of “controversial” topics such as “biological evolution, the chemical origins of life, global warming, and human cloning.”

Among those expressing opposition to the bill are the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee, the American Institute for Biological Sciences, the Knoxville News Sentinel, the Nashville Tennessean, the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, the National Earth Science Teachers Association, and the Tennessee Science Teachers Association, whose president Becky Ashe described (PDF) the legislation as “unnecessary, anti-scientific, and very likely unconstitutional.”

In favor of the bill is every bible humping semi-literate god-bothering douchebag in the Tennessee Senate. I can’t wait to see how Mr. Robot Sex “Heh Indeedy” contorts himself to make this seem appropriate.

March 22, 2012 2:40 am Posted in: Clown Shoes, Glibertarianism, Religious Nuts, Teabagger Stupidity  50 Comments

The Best 15 Minutes of Cable TV News You Will See This Year

by John Cole

Here:

I need a cold shower.

I seriously want to renounce my gender so I can act on the lesbian fantasies I am having right now. WHY IS IT SO HARD FOR OTHER PEOPLE TO DO WHAT RACHEL JUST DID? She called a liar a liar.

March 22, 2012 12:19 am Posted in: Excellent Links  127 Comments


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