If you’re not village people, you’re not gay.

What ignorant asshat made this ad?  I mean really . . .

Only 100 days left – Bush is almost gone.

Although I don’t underestimate his ability to fuck more shit up in those 100 days.

Sarah Palin Still Uses Hotmail

And other things that make her that guy.

http://palin.appspot.com/

Quote of the Day – Nancy Pelosi

I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels.

-Nacy Pelosi, Speaker of the House

Proving you don’t have to be a republican to be retarded.

Russia Saving the Human Race, One Rape at a Time

The Huffington Postis reporting that a woman in Russia took her boss to court for alleged sexual harassment.  The judge ruled in favor of the boss, not because of lack of evidence but because:

“If we had no sexual harassment we would have no children,” the judge ruled.

Russia’s population is shrinking, but this probably isn’t the best way to stop that.

Pat Robertson’s Liberian Connection

This is an old story, but it is news to me, so now it can be news to you.  I recently read this on Charles Taylor’s Wikipedia page:

According to a June 2, 1999, article in The Virginian-Pilot,[28] Taylor had extensive business dealings with televangelist Pat Robertson. According to the article, Taylor gave Robertson (who also had business dealings with dictator Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire) the rights to mine for diamonds in Liberia’s mineral-rich countryside. According to two Operation Blessing pilots who reported this incident to the state of Virginia for investigation in 1994, Robertson used his Operation Blessing planes to haul diamond-mining equipment to Robertson’s mines in Liberia, despite the fact that Robertson was telling his 700 Club viewers that the planes were sending relief supplies to the victims of the genocide in Rwanda. The subsequent investigation by the state of Virginia concluded that Robertson diverted his ministry’s donations to the Liberian diamond-mining operation, but Attorney General of Virginia Mark Earley blocked any potential prosecution against Robertson.

I wonder what Robertson did for Taylor in order to obtain these diamond mines?  Financial assistance?  I don’t know if it is a crime to fund a warlord who is currently in The Hague standing trial for war crimes, but it fucking should be.

Evidently though, it pays to have friends in high places . . . Attorneys General say.

As if we needed one more reason Pat Robertson is evil.

Hillary Clinton on Bill O’ReiLly

An excerpt from Clinton’s interview on the O’Reilly Factor, courtesy of Seth Grahame-Smith:

Bill: Level with me. Friend to friend here…if Obama’s elected, we can kiss the whole thing goodbye, can’t we? I mean, this guy’s gonna paint the White House gold — he’s gonna make Flava Flav Secretary of State, that wife of his is gonna go on tour with Mary J. Blige, and we’re all gonna be kneeling to a statue of Osama Bin Laden. Am I right?

Hillary: That may be the most racist thing anyone’s ever said.

Bill: No, no — the most racist thing anyone’s ever said is (omitted by Fox News).

Bill: Be honest…have you ever met a bigger d-bag than me?

Hillary: No, I haven’t.

Bill: Kind’ve weird that you agreed to be on my show, knowing what a misogynistic, racist, dim-witted, anti-American hypocrite I am, huh? Boy, you must be desperate.

Hillary: You have no idea.

Follow this link to read the full interview.

Stuff White People Like

Stuff White People Like is a satirical blog about, you guessed it, stuff white people like.

What is most interesting though is the people who don’t understand satire, as demonstrated by this comment:

Aryan Brother on March 30, 2008 at 8:03 pm
David Duke is proud of everyone on this blog!! We need to celebrate chaining black people, killing off the indians and all other forms of genocide that makes this country great!!! Kudos for this blog!

People are really stupid.

Update:

Hat tip to Kate for submitting this gem.

Douglas Bruce – Violent and Bigoted

Here‘s something that appropriately pisses me off:

A Colorado legislator who was censured for kicking a newspaper photographerin January was booted from the podium today after he called Mexican farmworkers “illiterate peasants.”

Republican Rep. Douglas Bruce’s remark, which drew gasps from the House, came during debate on legislation to help immigrants get temporary federal visas to ease Colorado’s shortage of farmworkers.

“I would like to have the opportunity to state at the microphone why I don’t think we need 5,000 more illiterate peasants in Colorado,” said Bruce, who represents Colorado Springs.

“How dare you!” snapped Democratic Rep. Kathleen Curry, who as debate chairwoman ended Bruce’s privilege to speak.

When not kicking people or making bigoted comments, Bruce enjoys long walks on the beech, candle lit dinners, and Garth Brooks.

Who elected this jackass?  I mean my god . . .

  Here he is, trying to contain his hatred of cameramen.

Obama on Abstinence

Barak Obama:

And we’ve actually made progress over the last several years in reducing teen pregnancies, for example. And what I have consistently talked about is to take a comprehensive approach where we focus on abstinence, where we are teaching the sacredness of sexuality to our children.

From the transcript of the so-called “Compassion Forum” on CNN.

Obama, you jackass.  I can not believe you said that.

Huckabee Thinks Eggs are People

That’s right.  This from the Huffington Post:

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee on Monday endorsed a proposed Colorado Human Life Amendment that would define personhood as a fertilized egg.

There is no reason to protect life (well, humans’ at least, who are not on the verge of extinction) unless it is to prevent suffering.  A fertilized egg is nothing more than a mass of cells (none of which are comparable to our nerve cells). 

But what about the soul you ask?  Show me scientific evidence that it exists (either at fertilization or at adulthood) and I’ll say it might be worth protecting.  Might.

I’m always embarrassed to read these stories that come from my home state – the square state with a giant festering sore on it’s face that is Colorado Springs – the location of Focus on the Family.  How do we know that people in Focus on the Family are humans anyway?  They don’t exhibit the intelligence that usually is the measure of a man.  If some of then had been aborted I dare say this world might be a better place.  There, I said it.

Lieberman Gives Waterboarding two Thumbs UP

On water-boarding:

It is not like putting burning coals on people’s bodies.

Holy shit.  Thanks Joe.  You are a fountain of knowledge and a wellspring of empathy. 

Joe Lieberman, the DemocraticRepublican senator, evidently doesn’t think water-boarding is torture.  His definition of torture is apparently limited to physical harm.  Every time this man opens his mouth, puppies die.

I’d like to water-board his ass – then he’d be singing a different tune.

This is one of those issues where I can’t believe we’re even having this conversation.  Haven’t we moved beyond torture?  I guess not.

Mike Huckabee Against Man-Beast Marriage

I never set out to write a blog solely about how awful Mike Huckabee is as a person, but recently it seems hard not to.  From TPM:

QUESTIONER: Is it your goal to bring the Constitution into strict conformity with the Bible? Some people would consider that a kind of dangerous undertaking, particularly given the variety of biblical interpretations.HUCKABEE: Well, I don’t think that’s a radical view to say we’re going to affirm marriage. I think the radical view is to say that we’re going to change the definition of marriage so that it can mean two men, two women, a man and three women, a man and a child, a man and animal. Again, once we change the definition, the door is open to change it again. I think the radical position is to make a change in what’s been historic.

I always knew that being gay was like fucking a sheep.  It’s also like pedophilia.  If we allow gay marriage we might as well allow people to marry inanimate objects – I mean my god it is a slippery slope.

Or, more reasonably, they’re all completely different things and Mike Huckabee is a sick fuck.  Yeah, that’s probably it.

Huckabee’s Christian Nation

From The Raw Story:

“I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution,” Huckabee told a Michigan audience on Monday. “But I believe it’s a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living god. And that’s what we need to do — to amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards rather than try to change God’s standards so it lines up with some contemporary view.”

Holy fuck.  What is going on in this country that this man has supporters?  Why isn’t he being laughed out of the race?  Here’s another thought: if elected president, this man will have access to the largest stash of nuclear weapons in the world.  I’m afraid of the Christians.  I really am.

Ron Paul’s Bigotry

Ever heard of Ron Paul?  No, not the politician, the guy who claimed that MLK was a pedophile.  Yeah, that Ron Paul.  What?  They’re the same guy?  You don’t say . . .

 According to The New Republic Ron Paul has written a lot of newsletters, and a lot of bullshit:

Martin Luther King Jr. earned special ire from Paul’s newsletters, which attacked the civil rights leader frequently, often to justify opposition to the federal holiday named after him. (“What an infamy Ronald Reagan approved it!” one newsletter complained in 1990. “We can thank him for our annual Hate Whitey Day.”) In the early 1990s, a newsletter attacked the “X-Rated Martin Luther King” as a “world-class philanderer who beat up his paramours,” “seduced underage girls and boys,” and “made a pass at” fellow civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy. One newsletter ridiculed black activists who wanted to rename New York City after King, suggesting that “Welfaria,” “Zooville,” “Rapetown,” “Dirtburg,” and “Lazyopolis” were better alternatives. The same year, King was described as “a comsymp, if not an actual party member, and the man who replaced the evil of forced segregation with the evil of forced integration.”

While bashing King, the newsletters had kind words for the former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke. In a passage titled “The Duke’s Victory,” a newsletter celebrated Duke’s 44 percent showing in the 1990 Louisiana Republican Senate primary. “Duke lost the election,” it said, “but he scared the blazes out of the Establishment.” In 1991, a newsletter asked, “Is David Duke’s new prominence, despite his losing the gubernatorial election, good for anti-big government forces?” The conclusion was that “our priority should be to take the anti-government, anti-tax, anti-crime, anti-welfare loafers, anti-race privilege, anti-foreign meddling message of Duke, and enclose it in a more consistent package of freedom.” Duke is now returning the favor, telling me that, while he will not formally endorse any candidate, he has made information about Ron Paul available on his website.

Like blacks,gays earn plenty of animus in Paul’s newsletters. They frequently quoted Paul’s “old colleague,” Representative William Dannemeyer–who advocated quarantining people with AIDS–praising him for “speak[ing] out fearlessly despite the organized power of the gay lobby.” In 1990, one newsletter mentioned a reporter from a gay magazine “who certainly had an axe to grind, and that’s not easy with a limp wrist.” In an item titled, “The Pink House?” the author of a newsletter–again, presumably Paul–complained about President George H.W. Bush’s decision to sign a hate crimes bill and invite “the heads of homosexual lobbying groups to the White House for the ceremony,” adding, “I miss the closet.” “Homosexuals,” it said, “not to speak of the rest of society, were far better off when social pressure forced them to hide their activities.” When Marvin Liebman, a founder of the conservative Young Americans for Freedom and a longtime political activist, announced that he was gay in the pages of National Review, a Paul newsletter implored, “Bring Back the Closet!” Surprisingly, one item expressed ambivalence about the contentious issue of gays in the military, but ultimately concluded, “Homosexuals, if admitted, should be put in a special category and not allowed in close physical contact with heterosexuals.”

Wow.  That’s what I call your words coming back and biting you in the ass.  Not in a gay way, obviously, but in a more straight, white, embarrassment to the human race kind of way.

I’d be interested to hear Ron Paul respond to these accusations.

Update -

Ron Paul’s response can be read here.  Thanks Thomas!

The quotations in The New Republic article are not mine and do not represent what I believe or have ever believed.  I have never uttered such words and denounce such small-minded thoughts.