Traitor Rick has to be incredibly flexible today. First, after screaming about government spending and how he rejects stimulus money while whispering secession, he now wants the Feds to cough up flu meds for his state’s citizens.
Hold on there jackass. That Tamiflu was bought with FEDERAL tax dollars. You know, the same money you don’t want on principle. I, in general, don’t wish harm on Texas residents, but practice what you preach, ya know?
Oh, never mind. Turns out Traitor Rick has NO problem whatsoever in drumming up $2.7 million in campaign contributions from folks in DC. It technically isn’t the same thing, but at the same time it is.
Bob starts this entry on torture loving idiots. And truly, how degenerate are you that you can call yourself a Christian AND lust after torturing people at the same time?
Over at Political Irony, some more deep thought has been put into confronting this issue. Arianna Huffington frames it as it should be considered, as a “What does this say about America?” question.
Meanwhile, even FAUXNews talking heads like Shepard Smith question his network’s stance, not to mention the GOP’s, on cheerleading torture. To be fair, Smith is the only employee over there who doesn’t drink all of Murdoch’s Kool-aid, but still a bold move for him, if genuine:
Indeed, say it with me: Torture NEVER Works. Not for the Spanish Inquisition, the Nazis, the KGB, a pack of Neanderthal hunters. Not the Bush-era CIA or roving bands of West Virginia National Guardsmen and -women. It. Does. Not. Produce. Viable. Intelligence.
“But on the plus side, if Texas did secede from the Union, we could then invade them for the oil.”
– Jay Leno
So…more on the whole Texas secession concept. This is just the latest spin on disgruntled Texan behavior. It happened when I moved down in 1982 and spawned a militia during the 1990s.
Here’s a comedic look at this idiocy:
And here is a list of where Texas stands in relation to other states. It ain’t pretty. Five Thirty Eight lays out some other benefits to ditching the Lone Star State.
There isn’t much a chance for an independent Texas to improve things either. After we pull out the military bases, nuke bombers and MX missiles in the silos, there is going to be some pretty big unemployment. Since the US isn’t using the Houston Ship Channel and the Navy will be ditching Corpus Christi and the Air Force rides out of San Antonio – not to mention moving NASA – there are a lot of jobs leaving.
Plus, and this is key, apparently 35% of Texas’ income comes from – (drumroll) – American federal dollars. And yes, this is an amount far more than Texas pay in taxes.
Bonus fun: either the State Department is playing along or is just infested with Clintonite numbnuts but they had temporarily listed Texas as a foreign country recently.
Damn, if this keeps up I’m going to have to create a whole other category.
As I imagined, a lot of the asshats protesting for the rich last week were the same racist Palinite ilk we saw advertising their bigotry last year. Check out some of the images here for more proof.
In California, just for fun, racism had to compete with anti-Semitism.
You know, my father-in-law keeps trying to give Gabriel little plush elephants to turn him Republican. I know he’s a member of that party for economic reasons that haven’t made sense for decades. The ideas aren’t all bad, but the party obviously doesn’t push them. That said, at some point this trying to steer my son towards a racist, bigoted, Talibangelical point of view is eventually going to piss me off. Besides, he’s part Mexican, the GOP doesn’t want him.
On a lighter note, check out The Daily Show’s English correspondent John Oliver confronts some of the whack jobs in his own special way.
Some grudging respect to Gloria Borger for giving an honest assessment of the childish and unhelpful behavior of the GOP since the election.
As a Republican herself, I’m a bit surprised she actually put her thoughts out like this, but it is a welcome surprise.
Look, after the warmongering, the racism, the hijacking of religion and the general philosophical idiocy of the GOP, I can’t envision ever voting for any member of that party. That said, they do speak for a section of our society and I truly wish they get back to a rational platform that doesn’t involve calling for armed revolution whenever they lose at the polls.
A quick discourse on how religious conservatives twisted their religion to beg for GOP support and lost anyway.
You almost want to feel bad for them except that they’ve created terrorist acts and soured people like me on organized religion. Plus, look at all the lives they’ve taken by chanting for bombing anyone they didn’t agree with.
And THAT, my friends, is why we have separation of Church and State.
