Why do…Republicans Love Drug Dealers?

A couple weeks ago, I read this article on how some miscreants are illegally planting marijuana in our national parks and forests. It seems they take joy in abusing our public lands for illicit gains.

And now the GOP slid in an amendment to the recent credit card bill (which passed) that allows you to bring firearms into national parks. First, some actual concerns. Next, I imagine that come next year there will be a rash of drunken hillbilly Rethugs shooting up fellow campers. And not a damn thing will be done about it.

But what about future implications? Now, illegal pot growers can LEGALLY set up spots to shoot at anyone who might “threaten” them. Sure, that’s not the intent of the law, but it’s a very short logical leap to that conclusion.

What the real concern is that all these Quislings probably pushed the law so that they can set up some kind of fundamentalist, racist redoubts in our national parks so they can run from the “socialist” government they hate and fear so much.

Basically, today the GOP unwittingly support drug dealers. Tomorrow, they set up their hate-filled theocracy in the Smokies.

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To be fair, here is one outdoorsman who thinks this is an incredibly stupid idea.

Plus, some actual details concerning the new law.

Why do…Republicans Hate Women?

Women legislators are a severe minority in the Republican Party. Enough to warrant special attention.

I mean, it’s pretty obvious why given their policies, but it is still quite alarming. You expect this stuff from a Third World nation, just not here. Hell, even Pakistan has had a female leader, but we have a party actively against the rights of women recently hold all the levers of power in the United States.

Case in point: in Rethug Texas, if you are a woman who is raped and work with the police to prosecute your assailant, they will charge you for your rape kit. The implied message is “rape is okay, don’t raise a stink”. A similar charge was exacted in Palin’s Alaska.

The point was really drove home recently when Rethug Hero (and Felon) G. Gordon Liddy launched a race and gender-based attack on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor which included the following statement:

“Let’s hope that the key conferences aren’t when she’s menstruating or something.”

Stay classy GOP.

Colbert Study: Conservatives Don’t Know He’s Joking

I read this article awhile back and was actually dumbfounded by the idea. Apparently, a substantial amount of conservatives think Stephen Colbert’s character is for real.

Granted, I have my issues with the show. I think it toes the line into even pretend angry bigoted too often and too close to be real. Also, it isn’t all that funny overall. That said, I’m still pretty convinced he’s play acting. Don’t take my word for it, here’s an interview Colbert recently did with the Los Angeles Times.

For more on the study, go here.

New Surprising Results on Abortion and Religiosity | LiveScience

Apparently, girls who get pregnant and go to religious schools are more likely to get an abortion than their public school peers. So says the results of a study on the matter.

Gee, girls are forced into abortions because of the shame they are bludgeoned with by their narrow-minded zealot adult parents and teachers? I can’t imagine!

This is the danger of theocracy and hatred folks. I feel bad for the girls who think they have no real choices or even a voice in the argument.

Sotomayor and the Republicans

Robert Reich weighs in on the topic of Rethug vitriol against Judge Sonia Sotomayor. They’ve gone to the standard plan of letting Limbaugh, O’Reilly et al speak the racist BS while the elected types go “aw shucks, them guys” and pretend to focus on issues.

So far, no one has really called them on it. Hell, Mitch McConnell doesn’t even pretend to speak out against the bigoted statements.

Ignoring it doesn’t make it go away. They’ve attacked her for “having feelings”, re: being a woman. As mentioned in another post, Traitor Liddy had some VERY chauvinistic things to say about her.

Aside from calling Spanish “illegal alien”, the GOP has also gone out of it’s way to label Sotomayor a racist. What is telling is that since they are damn near ALL saying it, doesn’t that kind of make them the racists? Or is calling her “Sonia from the block” not a racist statement.

Among the racist fearmongers are Liddy (see above link), Tom Tancredo, and Limbaugh and Beck and their ilk. Trust me, it isn’t hard to find links to this.

And while trying to pin a racist label on a federal judge, one of Tancredo’s aides (who also worked for Pat Buchanan) confessed to accosting an American-American woman on the street, karate chopping at her head and calling her the N-word. And he has not been fired from Tancredo’s employ.

Seriously, you can’t make this stuff up.

But they aren’t the racists. Right.