Quote of the Day

"And, suddenly, the dogwhistles have turned into air-raid sirens.
I think, maybe, it's time for the nation to rise up and point out to the Republican party that, root and branch, it is a racist embarrassment to democracy and a blight on this nation that all the world can see." ~ Charles Pierce

Cassandra

If you watch nothing else this week, watch this.

And in case you don't get the reference to Cassandra, you need to do some reading.

Quote of the Day

"The radical religionists have confused 'freedom of religion' with the notion that means they can force everybody else to comply with their own religious tenets and rules.

The Christianists don't just want prayer in schools. They want teachers to lead the kids only in prayers to Jesus the Lord God and Savior and his angry vengeful sky-daddy.

They don't just want their Christmas crèches and Ten Commandments plaques in public spaces. They want those to be the only things allowed.

They don't just want their particular definitions of what is and is not a valid government-recognized marriage or child adoption to be codified into law. They want all other faiths' definitions—including non-religious secularism—to be outlawed.

Once again, it's projection. What they accuse others of advocating—special rights and all that twaddle—is what they themselves want. In short, to make everybodyincluding those who do not belong to, adhere to, or believe in their religion to have to follow their rules anyway."Becca Morn, commenting on this post at AMERICAblog.

BRA-VO!

 

Hypocrisy, Thy Name is NOM


Newt Gingrich would like to remind everybody that that marriage is between one man and one woman whom you abandon riddled with cancer on her hospital bed while you fuck the shit out of your mistress whom you later marry and cheat on with a third woman while screaming with Godly moral outrage about the infidelities of the president.

And NOM's Brian Brown, one of the nation's leading "defenders of marriage," an allegedly devout Catholic for whom divorce is forbidden, is raising money to make Gingrich president. Brian Brown: "Everybody is allowed to fuck anybody they want, married or not, as long as they tell Jeebus: 'My bad!' after every adulterous encounter. But not homos. Definitely not homos. They belong to Satan."

Quote of the Day

"Newt Gingrich's mind is in love with itself. It has persuaded itself that it is brilliant when it is merely promiscuous. This is not a serious mind. Gingrich is not, to put it mildly, a systematic thinker. His mind is a jumble, an amateurish mess lacking impulse control. He plays air guitar with ideas, producing air ideas. He ejaculates concepts, notions and theories that are as inconsistent as his behavior. He didn't get whiplash being a serial adulterer while impeaching another serial adulterer, a lobbyist for Freddie Mac while attacking Freddie Mac, a self-professed fiscal conservative with a whopping Tiffany's credit line, and an anti-Communist Army brat who supported the Vietnam War but dodged it." – Maureen Dowd