Remember John McCain’s other gift to his fellow Americans?
“Joe the Plumber” wrote an open letter to the parents of the murdered kids.
No matter how many innocent people get slaughtered, Joe the Plumber, Constitutional Scholar, will continue to defend the Constitutional Right of misogynistic psychopaths to summarily execute people who piss them off by having better social lives. I can sleep in safety now, knowing that conservative heroes like JoethePlumber are making sure every woman-hating loon has access to as many firearms and ammunition as he needs. Nothing anyone can say or do will convince the jackals at the NRA or 10 to 20% of its most ardent supporters to see reason. But for a guy who has had a totally undeserved soapbox for the last 7 years to deny Richard Martinez his say is really beyond reproach.
Just to review, this plumbing asshole came to represent the American Dream. To dream that one day you’ll make a lot of money, while sitting on the couch drinking beer and getting angry at the cable news. He came to the fore because he was worried that one day he might magically get enough money to buy his bosses plumbing business. This total fantasy of his own making apparently gave him the right to spew anything that his two working brain synapsis could conjure. Richard Martinez on the other hand has come upon his opinions the hardest way imaginable.
Shut the fuck up. Seriously, just shut the fuck up. No one asked for your fucking opinion on anything. Nobody wants your fucking opinion on whether we need a washer or a new valve seat for a leaky faucet, much less anything else. Just shut up. No one is planning on taking away your precious, precious penis substitutes. You will still have plenty of firearms to fondle and fellate so you can feel like the big, macho top chimp you are. You will still have all the guns and shit you need long after Mr. Martinez has buried his dead, handsome, sweet, 20-year-old son and disappeared from your sight.
New polling shows that about 2/3 of Americans think that global warming is affecting weather in the United States, which means that — brace yourselves — a startling two thirds of Americans believe that global warming exists. In 2009, just over half shared this view. Sustained deadly catastrophe was all it took!
In other news, 69% of Americans think that the other 31% are ignorant fools… because they are.
Idaho Republican gubernatorial candidates debated Wednesday night – it was a real hoot.
We had incumbent Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter, who’s running for his third term; and State Sen. Russ Fulcher, who’s challenging from the right (and has the endorsement of tea party congresscritter Raul Labrador); Harley Brown, a veteran gun nut and anti-PC warrior biker dude with ” a master’s degree in raising hell”; and Walt Bayes, a homeschool activist who says he spent time in jail for his religious beliefs and is the dictionary definition of an “Old Coot”.
Here are some of the many of the highlights of the evening…
Harley Brown’s opening statement Wednesday started out strong.
“Don’t think I’m crazy. Because I’m not.”
I’ve wondered occasionally why teabagger types haven’t complained about some of their portrayals in the lamestream media. Take Snuffy Smith, for instance. He’s violent, lazy, cheats at cards, steals chickens, makes moonshine, etc. It got me thinking…. are hillbillies still fair game?
Snuffy Smith is part of an inane comic strip that debuted in 1919. It is one of the longest-running comic strips in history, coming into popularity in the 1930s, which was another decade when Americans became over fascinated with hillbilly culture.
Snuffy is the banjo-eyed hillbilly hero of a shithole called Hootin’ Holler. He wears a huge, broken down Kentucky colonel hat and a pair of tattered, poorly patched overalls. He has a a corn cob pipe and a rifle. He lives in a shack with his fat, sycophantic wife who loves cooking and cleaning and milking and churning as well as henpecking her husband and gossiping with the other ugly and moronic parodic hillbilly wives. Snuffy abandons his fat wife and child for long periods of time to mooch off of his buddy Barney Google’s meager opportunities at grift. Snuffy Smith’s squalid adventures with his brain-damaged buddies attempts to deal with urban life are supposed to be hilarious.
“Maw” Smith is homely, obese, has boobs hanging past her waistline, acts as a slave to Snuffy’s lazy master, and gossips like hens with all the other useless women/chickens over a fence.
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America is thanking Jack in the Box for its statement out today that it will begin enforcing the company’s no-firearms-in-stores policy.
What got the patriots up in arms over the anti-liberty gun-grabbing moms?
The company’s statement comes in response to a social media campaign and national petition launched just over 24 hours ago by Moms Demand Action to ask Jack in the Box to enforce its policy after last week’s semi-automatic rifle carrying demonstration at a Fort Worth Jack in the Box store that terrified employees so much that they locked themselves in the freezer, according to local police.
Daily Caller also makes some good points:
“Most mass shootings occur in “gun-free zones,” because mass-shooters don’t care about signs. A “gun-free zone” is the safest place you can be, if you don’t want to get killed while you’re shooting people. Why do these moms demand mass shootings?”
Why do these moms demand mass shootings?” That’s funny, admitting that guns actually do kill people, Daily Caller. Why, it’s almost like guntard “logic” is internally inconsistent, and not legitimate points, but instead simply short phrases best suited to be squalked out by trained parrots.
June 14, 2002, U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan: suicide bomber kills 12 and injures 51.
February 20, 2003, international diplomatic compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: truck bomb kills 17.
February 28, 2003, U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan: gunmen on motorcycles killed two consulate guards.
July 30, 2004, U.S. embassy in Taskkent, Uzbekistan: suicide bomber kills two.
December 6, 2004, U.S. consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: militants stormed and occupied perimeter wall. Five killed, 10 wounded.
March 2, 2006, U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan: suicide car bomber killed four, including a U.S. diplomate directly targeted by the assailants.
September 12, 2006, U.S. embassy in Damascus, Syria: gunmen attacked embassy with grenades, automatic weapons, and a car bomb (though second truck bomb failed to detonate). One killed and 13 wounded.
January 12, 2007, U.S. embassy in Athens, Greece: a rocket-propelled grenade was fired at the embassy building. No one was injured.
July 9, 2008, U.S. consulate in Istanbul, Turkey: armed men attacked consulate with pistols and shotguns. Three policemen killed.
February 20, 2003, international diplomatic compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: truck bomb kills 17.
February 28, 2003, U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan: gunmen on motorcycles killed two consulate guards.
July 30, 2004, U.S. embassy in Taskkent, Uzbekistan: suicide bomber kills two.
December 6, 2004, U.S. consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: militants stormed and occupied perimeter wall. Five killed, 10 wounded.
March 2, 2006, U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan: suicide car bomber killed four, including a U.S. diplomate directly targeted by the assailants.
September 12, 2006, U.S. embassy in Damascus, Syria: gunmen attacked embassy with grenades, automatic weapons, and a car bomb (though second truck bomb failed to detonate). One killed and 13 wounded.
January 12, 2007, U.S. embassy in Athens, Greece: a rocket-propelled grenade was fired at the embassy building. No one was injured.
July 9, 2008, U.S. consulate in Istanbul, Turkey: armed men attacked consulate with pistols and shotguns. Three policemen killed.
Mortar attack misses embassy, hits nearby girls’ school instead.
September 17, 2008, U.S. embassy in Sana’a, Yemen: militants dressed as policemen attacked the embassy with RPGs, rifles, grenades and car bombs. Six Yemeni soldiers and seven civilians were killed. Sixteen more were injured.
(from a DailyKOS post)
Sadly, Republicans need to keep harping on #Benghazi!!&#$^!! until Hillary announces, or voters will not be inculcated- instead they will be trying to recall who Ben Ghazi is/was? Was it some Olympic doping scandal- what’s the Clinton connection?
The Obummer administration won a rare Supreme Court victory regarding the rights of the EPA to regulate pollution from coal plants. Instead of the usual 5-4 decision against anything the President wants, this decision was a 6-2 decision. Who the two idiots who opposed it? Well, Clarence Thomas, and the U.S. Supreme Court’s token white male, Antonin Scalia.
The minority dissent opinion was written by Scalia, in typical Scalia flourish tardo prose, and according a report from TPM Scalia really screwed the pooch on the opinion.
“This is not the first time EPA has sought to convert the Clean Air Act into a mandate for cost-effective regulation. Whitman v. American Trucking Assns., Inc., 531 U. S. 457 (2001), confronted EPA’s contention that it could consider costs in setting [National Ambient Air Quality Standards],” Scalia wrote in his dissent, which was joined by Justice Clarence Thomas.The problem: the EPA’s position in the 2001 case was exactly the opposite. The agency was defending its refusal to consider cost as a counter-weight to health benefits when setting certain air quality standards. It was the trucking industry that wanted the EPA to factor in cost. The 9-0 ruling sided with the EPA. The author of the ruling that Scalia mischaracterized? Scalia himself.
The conservative justice’s error was noted by University of California-Berkeley law professor Dan Farber, who called it “embarrassing” and a “cringeworthy blunder.”
But wait, it gets better.
“This gaffe is doubly embarrassing because Scalia wrote the opinion in the case, so he should surely remember which side won!…
“It is a mind-blowing misstatement of a basic fact of the American Trucking Association ruling which Justice Scalia himself wrote. And it’s not just a stray passage — it’s the basis for an entire section of the dissent,”
I had to think about this for a minute until I could wrap my head around it. Scalia inverted the 2001 facts to support his 2014 dissenting argument. This wasn’t a typo or a research error by a befuddled law clerk. This was a complete misunderstanding of the essential basis for the dissent. You can transfer authority, but you can never transfer responsibility. Antonin Scalia (aka George Zimmerman with a job), a self-proclaimed “faint-hearted originalist, is the “intellectual leader” of the conservative justices on the Supreme Court. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anything like this.
Sure, I can’t remember the name of the book I read two days ago, or what I had for breakfast, but when a Supreme Court fucking justice pointedly cites the facts in a decision he wrote, and gets them exactly wrong, methinks it’s time to RETIRE FROM THE BENCH. Former Justice John Paul Stevens said he realized it was time to go when he had trouble reading his own dissents from the bench. Scalia is having trouble recognizing reality. TIME TO RETIRE FROM THE BENCH. Scalia is the Fox News version of a Supreme Court. He only acknowledges the facts that fit the ideology he is trying to promote. Read his dissent in Cruzan. It could have been written by the Vatican. Scalia’s opinions weren’t generally elaborate justifications for his political opinions in the first place. Consistency and intellectual honesty have always seemed to come in second to ideological fealty, from what I’ve seen. Getting’ sloppy in his dotage, although it doesn’t seem all that inconsistent with his past behavior I guess.