Just When You Thought She Hit Stupid Bottom...

...the dope shows us her stupid underground garage.

This Statue of Liberty was gifted to us by foreign leaders, really as a warning to us, it was a warning to us to stay unique and to stay exceptional from other countries. Certainly not to go down the path of other countries that adopted socialist policies.

Sarah Palin

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Did I mention it's a multilevel stupid underground garage?

I tell my parents all the time there is no better gift that they could have given me than besides such an appreciation for family and for faith and patriotism, it's been an upbringing in America in this most perfect state in America - Alaska, where we are independent and we have the pioneering spirit that more of America should hopefully get to look into the state and understand and really try to emulate because it's that pioneering spirit that America needs more of.

I get more coherent sentences out of the illegal immigrants around here.

Somebody Smack This Has-Been

Former House speaker Newt Gingrich called the decision "an outrageous disrespect for our Constitution"...

"Congress now has the responsibility to act immediately to reaffirm marriage as a union of one man and one woman as our national policy," Gingrich said in a statement.

For Newt, marriage has been between 1 man and 3 women. Not at the same time, of course; that would be too traditional.

Prop 8 Overturned, 14th Amendment Next

Chief Judge Vaughn Walker (a gay, libertarian conservative first nominated to the bench by known socialist and butt-cancer survivor, Ronald Reagan) overturned California's Prop 8, stating that,

The freedom to marry is recognized as a fundamental right protected by the Due Process Clause. See, for example, Turner v Safely, 482 US 78, 95 (1987)...

Uh oh, it's the Republican/Tea Party's new worst enemy: Amendment XIV!!! But what about "traditional marriage" in the US?

The evidence shows that the movement of marriage away from a gendered institution and toward an institution free from state-mandated gender roles reflects an evolution in the understanding of gender rather than a change in marriage. The evidence did not show any historical purpose for excluding same-sex couples from marriage, as states have never required spouses to have an ability or willingness to procreate in order to marry. FF 21. Rather, the exclusion exists as an artifact of a time when the genders were seen as having distinct roles in society and in marriage. That time has passed.

Don't tell that to the fussbudgets over at Concerned Women for America. Those pious, submitting broads might rend their maternity aprons and stomp on them in disgust with their bare feet.

After going on about how the government must have a very compelling reason to restrict rights of a group of people--or some communist French nonsense like that--up comes my favorite part (which is a header, no less):

PROPOSITION 8 IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL BECAUSE IT DENIES PLAINTIFFS A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT WITHOUT A LEGITIMATE (MUCH LESS COMPELLING) REASON

The whole thing is a scathing page-turner. Early in the ruling, Chief Judge Walker describes how the defendants only called two witnesses, one of whom was not qualified to enter expert testimony. It's as riotous as dry legalese can get, and it reminds me of Judge Jone's ruling in Kitzmiller vs. Dover.

Cheers to Gov. Schwarzenegger for refusing to defend Prop 8. And cheers to Chief Judge Walker for including this nugget:

That the majority of California voters supported Proposition 8 is irrelevant, as “fundamental rights may not be submitted to [a] vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.” West Virginia State Board of Education v Barnette...

Cue "activist."

I [Heart] The 14th Amendment

Never do I want my loved ones or anybody else (including me) stripped of the guarantees of the US constitution based on the accusation of treason, terrorism, or anything else. I would just as well strip myself of them by walking down the street.

I have my rights. Any naturalized citizen has the same. Any potential mass murderer from another country has the same. The US constitution clearly distinguishes between "citizen" and "person," and here's the 14th:

nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Our predecessors didn't fight Triple George, the Confederacy, and Nazi Germany so to coward at extremists. The ideals of an independent judiciary and of a democratic republic based on individual rights should not be so capriciously discarded just because someone could bomb a popular New York intersection.

If we are better than them, let's be better than them.

Still Funny, Sadly Still Relevant

I [heart] Tom Lehrer:

Andrew Sullivan On The Teabaggers

I tend to agree with Andrew Sullivan more than I care to, as in this great analysis:

And this is why, despite my own deep suspicion of big government, I remain unmoved by the tea-partiers. Their partisanship and cultural hostility to Obama are far more intense, it seems to me, than their genuine proposals to reduce spending and taxation. And this is largely because they have no genuine proposals to reduce spending and taxation. They seem very protective of Medicare and Social Security - and their older age bracket underlines this. They also seem primed for maximal neo-imperial reach, backing the nation-building efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq, favoring war against Iran, etc. Only Ron Paul, peace be upon him, extends his big government critique to the military-industrial-ideological complex.

I can't speak for Mr. Sullivan, but here is my own brusque protestation of the Teabaggers: I won't be a tool of corporate-funded, superstitious imbeciles who casually use the words of my ideology to herd benighted mooncalves towards an anti-individual, Christian corporatist autocracy.

The Pious Reject Shame

It's a long video, but it has to be watched in its entirety: Republicans are now as pious as they are shameless.

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Why I Loathe The Republican Word "Dither"

If you haven't heard the Republican apologetics concerning Afghanistan, their asserted criticism of the current administration is that Obama is "dithering." The few remaining sane Republicans have pointed out that additional troop requests were repeatedly rejected by Bush the Younger, and that Obama already sent more troops to Afghanistan in March.

But Republicans have one Army General (ahem!) complaining publicly, one who would have been fired before he had a chance to get on TV were Cheney still around. And so, every Republican sad-sack now uses the word "dithering," as though taking time to formulate and contemplate strategy is somehow gay and French. And as though 7 years didn't pass when they were in charge. How did we get to a point where 40,000 more troops were SO important to our strategy that not deploying them in a short few months allegedly becomes the difference between "surrender" and "victory?"

Note to Republicans: you lost power because you are not serious people who care about anything important. Proof?

Osama bin Laden was unquestionably within reach of U.S. troops in the mountains of Tora Bora when American military leaders made the crucial and costly decision not to pursue the terrorist leader with massive force, a Senate report says.

Yet, somehow, if a guy in office 11 months decides to take his time before sending 34,000 people into one of the world's worst shit-holes, he "dithers."

Recoil In Horror

Glenn Beck is the voice of the resistance. And he is a horror.



I have plenty of problems with idolizing any President of the United States. I had the same problems when Republicans did it to Bush the Younger. When I questioned their policies in Afghanistan and their grossly optimistic invasion strategy in Iraq, I was called anti-American, anti-patriotic, anti-military, and pro-defeat. As an atheist, I have been called worse by both sides. But this tirade is indicative of the modern Republican party, ruled now by the fetishists of the Christian moral authoritarians. No matter what the Democratic Party does from here on, it will be blamed on two groups: atheists and gays. We are their bete noir, their Michael Myers slashing their "rights" (read: Christian exceptionalism) through countless fantasy-narratives of invented persecution.

Adulterer Or Homo?

That seems to be the choice for South Carolina now that Michael Rogers at BlogActive has outed the Lt. Governor of South Carolina.

And one of the Governor's appointees to the SC Board of Education, an evangelical who home schooled her four kids, writes "hardcore erotic fiction."

These Republicans and their sexual hang-ups...

Which Letter Is Missing, Glenn?

In another chapter of "Republicans Turning Into The Parodies Of Themselves:"

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Republicans Continue To Turn The Whackaloon Up To 11

Shouldn't SOMEONE in the Republican Party publicly repudiate this?

If You're Going To Ass-Fuck Your Straw Man Until It Bleeds While Calling It "Faggot" To Get You Off, Please Do It In The Privacy Of Your Own Church

Friday was the National Day of Silence sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network, an organization that, "works with educators, policy makers, community leaders and students on the urgent need to address anti-LGBT behavior and bias in schools." All the students and teachers participating in the National Day of silence do is remain silent unless speaking is required for schoolwork. Students CHOOSE to do this to support GLBT students who are ridiculed, mocked, and bullied.

Well some Christer church in Illinois decided to take that simple, non-violent, non-aggressive approach to awareness and turn it into full-blown Nazi, fascist, communist, socialist, anti-religion, anti-expression, bible-burning, Jesus-hating, Roman-lion executions, and Anti-Christ worshiping loonacy.

Try not to choke on your own sick as you laugh and cry during this piece of work, sponsored by the Prince of Peace and brought to by some precious Lambs of Yahweh.



Why would any homo not turn to drugs, alcohol, and promiscuous sex after hearing that? I was hoping to die of AIDS by the 5th minute!

Why Everyone Needs A Gay

If you decide to make a political statement and you don't have any gays to go, "Eghh, eghh, eghh... Let's reconsider that name," you're likely to be sorry.

And the people with gays? They'll do this:

Why We Fight

The adherence to the ancient proscriptions of dead ignoramuses hurt living people now. It hurts people who have hurt no one, just some homos and lesbos and trannies who want a family. And it does hurt:

For most gay couples, missing out on such federal rights is a small setback in a much larger victory. But for binational couples like Sissi and Janet, it doesn’t solve the single biggest problem they face: the need for a green card. The right that matters most to them—the right to sponsor a spouse for immigration benefits—happens at the federal level

DOMA must be repealed, and this injustice must be revoked. And for now on, whenever anyone advocates an amendment to a constitution (state or federal) stating, "Marriage is between a man and a woman," we should all insist that it includes a final phrase:

"for life, no exceptions."

It's easy to defend marriage against made-up demons based on ignorant bigotry; let's see them defend it against themselves.

No more Mr. Nice Gay.

Note To Republicans: Tea Bagging Is Naughty

I hope they don't decide to have a Million Satchmo March next.

And I have one question for these tea baggers: where the hell have you been for the past 8 years? It's as if a bunch of dopey rich Republican machine types decided to rile some clueless Christers to hold protests promoting fiscal responsibility now that said dopey rich Republicans' spend-crazy fetus lover is out of the White House and they don't control the earmarks and pork in Congress anymore.

Oh...

The Republican Party Is Dead, And Rush Is Eating Its Carcass

Newt Gingrich has proposed that the state give money to teenagers not to get pregnant.

In other news, the Democratic president has proposed reforms that would curtail earmarks, a wise (conservative?) fiscal policy that Republicans just didn't get around to during the last 8 years.

And constitution-humping drug-addled gasbag Rush Limbaugh thinks that the "inalienable" rights of "life," "liberty," "freedom (?)," and "the pursuit of happiness" granted by our "creator" is written in the preamble of the constitution! Funny that he constantly pushes that foreign citizens don't necessarily have rights, and can therefore be detained and tortured, but somehow can say "inalienable" without choking on it. Then again, many of us believe that Rush lost his gag reflex in the 80's...

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Wherein Lies The Blame

A new study finds that race was not the deciding factor of California's Prop 8 passage (emphasis mine).

Although support for Prop. 8 in the African-American community had been pegged as high as 70 percent by one previous postelection survey, this study — which not only reviewed pre- and postelection polls, but also crunched precinct-level election results and census data from Alameda, San Francisco, Sacramento, Los Angeles and San Diego counties, in which two-thirds of the state's African-Americans reside — found the number was between 57 percent and 59 percent.

And that number is more about religiosity than race, study co-author and New York University assistant professor of politics Patrick Egan said. While higher than the level of support among white and Asian-American voters, it's due to the higher rates of African-American church attendance: Fifty-seven percent of African-Americans attend church at least once a week, compared with 42 percent of whites and 40 percent of Asian-Americans, he said.

Unfortunately, superstition and misplaced allegiance to the corrupt sages of a compromised ideology trumped personal relations with the gays.

Even personal relationships with lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people paled in comparison to these factors, said study co-author Kenneth Sherrill, a political-science professor at Hunter College in New York City. Although two-thirds of California conservatives said they know or are related to LGBT people, four of five conservatives supported Prop. 8.

But hey--we've all known for years that our conservatives aren't really conservative (much less libertarian) anymore. Let's give it up for Bob Barr, the--still thinking--conservative come libertarian author of DOMA, who now supports its repeal:

In effect, DOMA’s language reflects one-way federalism: It protects only those states that don’t want to accept a same-sex marriage granted by another state. Moreover, the heterosexual definition of marriage for purposes of federal laws - including, immigration, Social Security survivor rights and veteran’s benefits - has become a de facto club used to limit, if not thwart, the ability of a state to choose to recognize same-sex unions.

Let's be clear: we have a federal government dictating what states should do, and states dictating the rights of a minority through the votes of the majority. All over religious-based sexual hang-ups concerning tax-paying citizens who want the same privileges afforded their civic equals.

No one reads history anymore...