US teen pregnancy and syphilis rates rose sharply during George Bush’s presidency, Centres for Disease Control finds | World news | guardian.co.uk

Yet another failed policy of the Bush hegemony. It turns out that preaching abstinence in schools – as opposed to providing proper sex education – aids in increasing teen pregnancy and the spread of STDs like syphillis and AIDS.

The rates of increase are highest in the southern states where the policy of choosing fantasy over fact were the strongest.

Go figure.

Op-Ed Columnist – Pharisees on the Potomac – NYTimes.com

Maureed Dowd points out that the GOP has gotten bad at the only thing they’ve ever been good at: Here is a list of the Rethug crazy train rolling through his district.

Meanwhile, some Rethug car dealer in Missouri is offering a free AK-47 with the purchase of a pickup truck. One, rednecks need less weapons, not more given their tendencies towards killing doctors and blowing up decent Americans. Two, why are so-called patriots lining up to get Soviet/Russian/Red China-made assault rifles? Are you too traitorous to actually want an AR-15 when you plot to destroy America? Is THAT the limit of your hypocrisy?

Look, at this point, I could never voting Republican, even if the Democrats turn into the Flying Demon Bat Party tomorrow. In that case, find me a viable third party, but I am NEVER EVER going to side with those racist morons. Ever.

(Granted, I only voted GOP once and he was running for coroner, for God’s sake.)

Think Progress » Executives receive one-third of all pay in the U.S.

Does anybody seriously believe that it’s a good thing that business execs earn a third of all payroll in this nation?

This is, frankly, utter bullcrap. Yeah, let’s tax the bastards to pay for health care. Let’s not forget that a bunch of these bastiches pushed for the Iraq War, got rich off of it, and still are.

Others are oil execs. Some are the same bankers we’re bailing out because they screwed our economy up.

Tax ’em. Then cut their damned pay.

Think Progress » Jindal takes credit for stimulus, presents constituents with jumbo-sized stimulus check.

So….

Governor Piyush Jindal* hates the stimulus plan. He came on TV and gave an incredibly awkward speech to tell me so.

So why the hell is he trotting out press conferences to give out stimulus checks?

Oh wait! He’s not calling them stimulus checks. And he’s putting his name on them instead of Obama’s or the federal government in general.

So you stole the money Jindal? Just asking.

Either way, clever in that lying, double-faced GOP kind of way we are all too used to.


* As you may know, Governor Jindal likes to be called Bobby, after the youngest son in The Brady Bunch. No, I’m not kidding.

But as he is in a party that a) is incredibly racist, and b) went out of it’s way to point out that the president’s WHOLE name is Barack HUSSEIN! Obama, I think it is only fair that we remind them that one of their governors who hasn’t either quit, or cheated on his wife lately does not have an Anglo-Saxon name.

You know, just in case they need their noses rubbed in it.