SARAH PALIN CALLED A FAMILY MEETING AND THE RABBIT LIVED… « Margaret and Helen

Holy crap.

You MUST read this blog entry from an 82-year old Palin non-fan. Reading through some of the older entries I truly wish I’d have found this during the campaign last year.

My favorite part of this particular entry?

“She actually stood there and talked about how the Palins had a family meeting and everyone agreed it was time for her to step down as Governor. Well, I call bullshit. The only family meetings the Palins have usually involve someone peeing on an early pregnancy test stick.”

Republicans And Race :: FITSNews

This is a litany of the bizarre racist behavior by just the South Carolina Republicans.

And this is another view on the whole Young Republicans racist Facebook fiasco I mentioned the other day.

Oh, and this is a moronic piece of drivel trying to stand as an excuse by Audra Shay, the women at the center of the spectacle. It’s a conservative site and the comments to this “explanation” gives me hope that maybe, just maybe, the racist core of the GOP can be marginalized some day by these folks.

But that day sure the hell isn’t today.

Pool Boots Kids Who Might “Change the Complexion” | NBC Philadelphia

Hi. This is the 21st Century calling. Could you Republican pricks get with the program?

In Philadelphia, the Valley Swim Club kicked out a summer youth club that didn’t fit the skin shade they were looking for. And this is after the group paid upwards of two grand for the “privilege” of being discriminated against.

A couple key quotes:

“When the minority children got in the pool all of the Caucasian children immediately exited the pool….The pool attendants came and told the black children that they did not allow minorities in the club and needed the children to leave immediately.”

– Horace Grant, parent of one of the children

“There was concern that a lot of kids would change the complexion … and the atmosphere of the club.”

– John Duesler, President of The Valley Swim Club

How would you like to be a parent that hears this racist crap? I’d like to kick a lot of somebody in the tailbone, personally. Oh, and some of the racists at the pool are teachers at those kids school.

Click here for another report and for the video posted below if it doesn’t come up.

UPDATE: The pool/swim club “went bankrupt” in the face of lawsuits. Yeah, right.

The Great American Bubble Machine : Rolling Stone

Think Goldman Sachs is just some innocent banking machine caught up in the financial shitstorm with the rest of us? According to Matt Taibbi, this is part of a sick trend of their’s. In short, they have a history of creating and/or being a trigger of every big collapse in our recent financial history.

And just for chuckles, he takes on Hank Paulson’s “genius” as well.

Arizona is 6000 years old? | Discover Magazine

Recently I brought up a couple stupid legal moves in Arizona. Now I know why this happens there.

Some numskull Republican mentions – twice – that the Earth is 6,000 years old. Look, believe whatever you want to, but please do not develop public policy when your belief system flies in the face of proven science.

As pointed out in the article, the irony is that the legislator is arguing in favor of uranium mining. You know, uranium, the element used to prove the Earth is billions of years old? Maybe she wants it all mined so that we lose the proof of our science? I don’t know.

Creationists and politics should not mix. Much like creationism and education should not mix. Or apparently Republican politicians and ethics and morality.

Here’s the video.

Some Docs Resist Repeal Of Bush-Era Abortion Regs : NPR

Sigh.

Once again, you’ve got to wonder why we in America are burdened with zealots. Talibangelical doctors are threatening to close their practices if their ability to reject procedures on “religious grounds” is taken away.

Let’s be blunt about this. Bush only gave them this cover on his way out the door so it isn’t like years of precedence exists here.

Let’s be more blunt: do your f’in jobs. Cops don’t *legally* refuse to protect minorities and firemen don’t let synagogues burn because they are racists. They might want to appeal to their worser natures, but they chose jobs to serve the public – the WHOLE public – and they do the damn job.

Doctors, nurses, pharmacists, etc. ALSO serve the public good. Except for these jackasses apparently.

Besides, most pediatricians aren’t also abortion doctors. If you don’t want to perform an abortion or prescribe birth control, shut up and find another area of practice where – duh! – you won’t be presented with your precious “ethical dilemma”.

In short, shut up and do the job and leave your theocratic BS at the door.

Letterman Takes On Palin Resignation: Something I Said? (VIDEO)

Leave it to Dave to have the last laugh. Freaking genius. Seriously, click for the video or check out the whole monologue here.

Also, some quick shots considering her unfit for political office, and another falsehood from Caribou Barbie on the existence of a “Department of Law” that supposedly shields the Executive Branch from ethics lawsuits.

And to think she was almost president! Yeah, you know that would’ve happened Republicans. What the hell were you smoking? Sheesh!