‘My best friends are minority!’

The past election brought forth a bumper crop of conservative racists and general loons. They even took over the legislature here in Minnesota.

So now, these folks feel like they can say what they truly believe. Normally, I’ll all for that.

Actually, I’m *still* for it, but it is frightening that American citizens willfully vote for people who blame our poor schools on integration.

You know, this from the same party who don’t pay teachers well and then accuse them of being rich “parasites” for daring to form unions and have rights.

This from the same idiots who love to ban – and sometimes burn – books, try to alter the history books to ignore large groups of people, not to mention reality. The same kind who hate science and want to teach creationism. Who loathe the concept that children might actually learn about their bodies and thus try to force abstinence only ed and ignore that kids have sex, whether they should or not.

The same folks who hate that kids are fat but don’t see the correlation between that and the soda machines and food company sponsorships all over the buildings and sport arenas.

The same folks who mock the First Lady, often in hateful racist tones, when she tries to address why our kids are unfit.

I’m ranting, but these are the kinds of people who should be kept far, far away from the levers of power. Hey, the left has them too. But Nader is an election spoiler, not a primary candidate of the Dems. When you look at the Palins, Trumps, Huckabees, and Gringrich types having a serious chance to hold power – and who have in the past – you gotta question the sanity, logic, and, yes, patriotism of those who vote for that kind of person.

Poll: Miss. Republicans think inter-racial marriage should be illegal

Yeah, I know, this shouldn’t be that big of a surprise. The South is racist, Mississippi even more so.

And Republicans? Yeah, they’re cornering the market on bigots lately, even after Hillary Clinton’s PUMAs in the mix.

But 46 percent of those angry bigots openly stating they want to make my marriage and other “race mixing” couples illegal? That’s some bold honesty in this day and age.

Why are bananas radioactive?

Bananas are actually radioactive. I remember learning this is school but it’s a fun article to read in these days where we in the US are more scared of radioactivity than the Japanese who a) HAVE been nuke bombed, and b) HAVE a nuke plant in trouble.

Are they freaking out? Well, maybe a little, but since their culture runs on stoic adult behavior and science instead of reality show hysterics and “intelligent design” they actually have a handle on things.

Incidentally, don’t tell Republicans about this thing about bananas. Between their end times hysteria and their hatred of all things brown people grow (and eat, and make, and reproduce) they’ll ban the fruit in mere moments.

Other Countries Pay Their Teachers More. And We Want To Start Paying Ours Less? | The New Republic

Compared to the civilized world – which we are moving away from in alarming ways – we don’t pay our teaches enough. Nor do we give them the proper respect. Nor do we try to recruit the best people for the job.

And now we’ve got Republicans trying to punish those who do the job despite the low level of respect for the work they do? I may be unemployed but I’m kind of glad I got out of the field.

Death By a Single GOP Cut? | Mother Jones

Republicans are so convinced that spending our tax dollars on anything but bombs to drop on brown people and bonuses for rich people is socialist evil that they are now planning to cut funding for vaccinations.

That’s right, the GOP is going to succeed where Jenny McCarthy did not quite persevere. Our children are gonna catch whooping cough and die. But not before spreading the disease to anyone outside of a gated community.