This is wrong. Above is the picture of a G20 protester last week. Sure, he’s been detained, but now he’s a prop for the Pittsburgh PD. Like a deer whose tag has been collected.
You know, enforce the law, but don’t act like jackbooted thugs.
We are constantly reminded that the police do not serve you and I; they view you and I, collectively, as subhuman. Don’t let anyone fool you. You’re on their turf. There are no laws or government agencies that will protect you.
You know what this crap reminds me of? Those Minuteman bastards who patrol the border and harass migrants coming in to find work. Yes, they are breaking the law, but, then again, they aren’t trying to do the duty of the cops, ICE, or the military either. So why aren’t the Minutemen doing hard labor somewhere? Just asking.
Anyway, the above pic reminds me of when some Minuteman asshole made a migrant pose with him holding up a t-shirt before he’d give the guy water.
It galls me that we live in a society where people go out of their way to stop people from reading things that may be controversial. I personally can’t see me reading a Glenn Beck book, but I’m not going to stop anyone from reading one. Oh sure, I’ll probably consider them an idiot for doing so, but no more than I’d judge someone a douchebag for wearing a Yankees ballcap.
Instead we have these flag-waving (and -wearing) pseudo-patriot Talibangelical types who can’t stand kids reading about non-whites, or happy homosexual families, or, well, anything that isn’t the Bible apparently. If you follow this link and see how the list of books most banned have trended over the years, you’ll see an increasing amount of those books have themes that don’t fit into the narrow world view of most conservatives.
Look, everything these idiots do is wrong. Their attitudes towards women, race, sex ed, civil rights, war and peace, all have been proven wrong-headed, dangerous, and oftentimes lethal to those they purport to protect.
Ask any girl who escaped from an FLDS “marriage” or the average Iraqi, or one of the many “abstinence only” educated kid who either got knocked up or caught a STD because they weren’t properly educated. As a battered wife who can’t get help, or the family of some guy drug across East Texas because of the color of his skin.
Conservatives live in fear. They bask in it and want you in the pot with them. When you censor what people can read or watch or hear, you shut them off from free thinking. If people can’t think, they can’t create a challenge to the things that are wrong in a society. And whether they mean to or not, pro-censorship fools create conditions where Enron can rip off consumers, and Halliburton and pals can give our troops water that is ice melt from a truck hauling cadavers. A world where George Bush can con five Supreme Court justices and be president and to hell with how the people voted.
Censorship equals stupidity and stupidity leads directly towards a whole world of abuse.
We’ve got infrastructure problems across the board and while it is nice that we are looking into new roads and schools, what about our dams?
I mean, I love going over to Hoover Dam every so often, but really, it was built in the 1930s folks. And much of our nation’s big projects aren’t that much newer.
As a case if point referenced in the story, here are pics of the Russian dam disaster back on August 17th.
Yes, as this article points out there is something slightly unseemly about pouring booze of a jersey of a fallen teammate who died in a drunk driving incident, but I’m damn sure that’s not what was on the minds of the Angels as they celebrated winning their division.
They wanted to share their success with Nick Adenhart, wishing he’d lived long enough to enjoy the moment with them.
The Angels are one of those few AL teams I have no problems with – maybe because they used to own the atrocity now known as the Quad City Swing or whatever there name now is. So, it is nice to see them have some success. Now, of course, it is probably on their shoulders to make sure the Yankees never see the World Series.
It took awhile, but adrift in higher pregnancy rates and increased STD infections, the State of Texas wakes up to reality and figures out that abstinence-only “sex education” is a failure.
Well, not to gloat given the horrible results of your stupidity, but, um, not educating people is not how your prepare them for life.
Good luck racing to join the 21st century. I’m sure you’ll find another way to screw that up too.
Reposted in it’s entirety because Elvis deserves full credit for this post without any editorializing by me.
By BCAB Chief Insane Wingnut Watcher Elvis Dingeldein.
Just a brief note to remind you all that if, Teh Only True Honky God™ Forbid, Something Awful Happens to the President of the United States, it absolutely will not be due to Republican efforts to dehumanize him as something crapped out of Satan’s pustule-ridden Hades Hole and stitched together from Hitler Bits and wolf offal. Nooo, Rep. Trent Franks (R-Fucking Wingnutville) just wants to remind you that the democratically-elected President of the United States is simply “an enemy of humanity.” That’s all! No harm there, right?
Oh no, you heard that right! A sitting Congressman of the United States House of Representatives (“The House That Hope Forgot”) wants you to know that the president is an enemy of the whole of humanity. Not just to White Honky Taxpaying Taxpayers; not just to Old Peoples with their troublesome longevities; not just to Straight American Married Peoples terrified of Sudden Inexplicable Gayness Syndrome; not just to Decent Muslim-Fearing Christians with actual birth certificates not printed on Kenyan treebark! No, President Obama is the enemy of all humanity.
Nothing inflammatory or rabble-rousing about that.
As the title descibes, an article on the racism pervasive in the Republican Party.
Yes, I know there are plenty of Republicans who aren’t racist, and who aren’t Talibangelical End Times fanatics, and who don’t beat their wives and so on. That said, those folks sure the hell aren’t doing anything to silence the angry, violent, and seditious voices that are taking over their party.
Guilt by association is still a crime if you aren’t doing anything to improve matters.
