Remember the sun-ravaged assbeats from Westboro Baptist “church”, whose rule is follow Jesus’ example and just hate the fuck out of everyone who isn’t exactly like us, without even the willingness to at least try to pull the gay demons out of our butts before throwing us in the lake of fire forever? Loons so far down the rightmost infra-red spectrum of the crazy right that even the KKK repudiates them? Because there is no end of subgroups that hate each other as much as they hate us normals, usually over some minor schismatic point like the preference of semi-automatic over fully automatic weapons, which is why there are 1100 different denominations of Baptist churches in America, with memberships in double digits. Anyway, someone is finally willing to take these circus freaks on and I am pretty sure those shriveled up methbillies will have the bejeebers scared out of them by this very creepy video. Also, call Ryan Murphy, because I think I’ve found the storyline for the next season of America Horror Story!
You can get a new registration every 4 years, with the proper photo ID, birth certificate with a raised seal, etc.- ✓
You can stand in line like everyone else, for 7-12 hours to get your registration – ✓
One man, one gun. ✓
You can get another gun at the next registration, in 4 years. – ✓
2. Make gun registration as onerous as terminating a pregnancy:
48-hour waiting period before you purchase a gun – ✓
Mandatory counseling about the dangers and options of owning a gun- ✓
Trans-vaginal or Trans-anal probe to see if you are hiding anything – ✓
Crossing a picket line of shrieking non-gun owners holding jars of body parts blown off by guns – ✓
3. Require gun owners to take out insurance for their guns, say $500 per month per gun. Let them pay for the carnage they cause.
4. Make every gun owner serve in an actual state militia. You own a gun? You are required to head to the state militia training base one weekend a month and do drills. Isn’t that why the Second Amendment exists?
5. If someone working at a gun store says that they don’t want to sell guns or ammunition because they’re a Christian and object to selling weapons, the gun store owner should have to keep them on payroll and find non gun-selling duties for them.
Also, we should not be able to buy guns at places that also sell cheddar cheese.
Is a certain pro-gun group, on the receiving end of tremendous backlash after a massacre at a Connecticut elementary school Friday morning, going into hiding? The National Rifle Association canceled a planned “Tweet & Greet” with country musician Colt Ford that was scheduled for this afternoon. “Apologies for the inconvenience, but the @ColtFord Tweet & Greet will be rescheduled. Please check back for more info!” a announcement said. The event is part of a series that features country artists “involved in causes that defend our values,” according to the NRA. The NRA has not yet commented on whether the cancellation came in light of the shooting.
I’ve tried to write something but failed. I stayed off the twitter because there’s no good snark and that’s all I do and because there were 20 5-year olds slaughtered today, and all I could do was sit numb at my computer and avoid it. I was just starting to feel a tiny spark of Christmas spirit….and a little hope for the future. How wonderful to find that there’s always somebody out there somewhere, just waiting to snuff that spark out with insane acts of horrifying violence. I always enjoy Christmas shopping for my adopt-a-family. Today at Target I didn’t enjoy buying 2 shopping carts worth of pink 6X clothing because that’s the 6 year old’s favorite color. How could I, when there were little girls dead in that room. But, I know there are better people. And they will disarm, unlock their doors, and share recipes again. It is time to let go of our fear, and transcend it into something resembling love.
“Fox “News” seems to have jumped the line from propaganda to agitprop as it trumpets a new story on violence – Attack of the Union Thugs™ – in front of Michigan’s Capital. Seems a major douchenoozle called Steven Crowder, a Fox News correspondent, got his giant jaw cracked by a labor protester, angry about Michigan’s passage of a Right to Work law.
From this apparently edited (why at 0:38 was the fat union guy on the ground, before he jumped up and punched the asshole in the face?) video, it appears to me that Fox News was on a little fishing trip for some violence at the Lancing protests. [click to continue…]
My friend and hero Paul Wellstone died 10 years ago this week. I miss him. And so does pretty much anyone who cares about economic and social justice. Paul was the kind of progressive many of us strive to be — feisty, fearless, and energetic.
When today’s progressives remember Paul, they tend to focus on his sheer political courage. Paul was the only senator up for re-election in 2002 to vote against the Iraq War — a vote he told people he was convinced would cost him his job. (He was wrong, by the way — polls showed him winning at the time of his death.)
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
Remember the sun-ravaged assbeats from Westboro Baptist “church”, whose rule is follow Jesus’ example and just hate the fuck out of everyone who isn’t exactly like us, without even the willingness to at least try to pull the gay demons out of our butts before throwing us in the lake of fire forever? Loons so far down the rightmost infra-red spectrum of the crazy right that even the KKK repudiates them? Because there is no end of subgroups that hate each other as much as they hate us normals, usually over some minor schismatic point like the preference of semi-automatic over fully automatic weapons, which is why there are 1100 different denominations of Baptist churches in America, with memberships in double digits. Anyway, someone is finally willing to take these circus freaks on and I am pretty sure those shriveled up methbillies will have the bejeebers scared out of them by this very creepy video. Also, call Ryan Murphy, because I think I’ve found the storyline for the next season of America Horror Story!
