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Another Anti-Gay Christian Bigot with a wide stance?

May 5, 2010 in Anti-Gay, Hypocrisy, Religious Right, Right Wing | 1 comment

I keep telling myself, Schadenfreude is bad karma, Schadenfreude is bad karma, but still… BWAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA!

Fucking hypocrites.

The pictures on the Rentboy.com profile show a shirtless young man with delicate features, guileless eyes, and sun-kissed, hairless skin. The profile touts his “smooth, sweet, tight ass” and “perfectly built 8 inch cock (uncut)” and explains he is “sensual,” “wild,” and “up for anything” — as long you ask first. And as long as you pay. On April 13, the “rent boy” (whom we’ll call Lucien) arrived at Miami International Airport on Iberian Airlines Flight 6123, after a ten-day, fully subsidized trip to Europe. He was soon followed out of customs by an old man with an atavistic mustache and a desperate blond comb-over, pushing an overburdened baggage cart.

You may wonder who the “old man with an atavistic mustache and a desperate blond comb-over” is? None other than George Alan Rekers, a Baptist minister and one of the most prominent anti-gay activists and leading scholar for the Christian right, and co founder of the Family Research Council who’s annual Values Summit is a litmus test for Republican presidential hopefuls, and who’s vehemently anti-gay lobbying group has become a standard-bearer of the nation’s extreme right wing.

To arrive at Lucien’s site, Rekers must have accepted Rentboy.com’s terms of use, thereby acknowledging he was not offended by graphic sexual material. He then would have been transported to a front page covered with images of naked, tumescent men busily sodomizing each other. Then Rekers must have performed a search. Did he want a “rentboy,” a “sugar daddy,” or a “masseur”? In what country? And what city? If Rekers searched for a rent boy in Miami, he would have found approximately 80 likely candidates. He must have scrolled down the first page, past the shirtless bears and desperate ex-models, and on to page 2. There, at last, was Lucien.

Reder is affiliated with the Church of the Wholly Hypocrites no doubt! This hypocrite will almost surely claim that he was only trying to reform his escort into a straight Christian man.

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Eric Cantor Praises Stimulus Project!

February 18, 2010 in GOP, Hypocrisy, Stimulus | No comments

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WTF?!?!?!

But, but, spending! Tyranny! Founding Fathers!

He literally stood there and said that projects and job creation should have been the focus of the stimulus, but that’s exactly what the focus of the stimulus project was!

If I recall, Cantor, you wanted the stimulus to be mainly tax cuts, not spending money for jobs. Didn’t Micheal Steel say “Gov doesn’t create jobs, only work”.

Remember that Cantor, like every other GOP member of Congress, voted against the stimulus bill which included money for high speed rail.  The only train Cantor supports is the post-Bush crazy train that is the Republican Party.

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Focus On The Family Christian Super Bowl Commercial

February 2, 2010 in Anti-Gay, Hypocrisy, Religious Right, abortion | No comments

I am mildly bugged about this. The commercial that Focus On The [right wing] Family paid to have aired during the Super Bowl. The frauds over at CBS actually allowed Tim Tebow to appear in a commercial to pitch pro-life propaganda. CBS….you ought to be ashamed of themselves. It’s the damn Super Bowl! I want to see athletes get their game on. I don’t need to get preached to from someone standing on a holier than thou soap box. And besides, didn’t they tell a a church group who wanted to embrace Gays no to an ad a few years back?

“I know some people won’t agree with it,” said Tebow of the 30-second ad at a press conference in Mobile, Ala., on Sunday, in preparation for next weekend’s Senior Bowl. “But I think they can at least respect that I stand up for what I believe. I’ve always been very convicted of [his views on abortion] because that’s the reason I’m here, because my mom was a very courageous woman.”

You know what Tim…? Your mom’s story doesn’t really add up. She says she had complications in the Philippines during her pregnancy with you, and was told by doctors in the Philippines to get and abortion. Problem is abortion had been outlawed in the Philippines since the 1930’s under all circumstances including rape and incest. Why would doctors tell her to get an abortion when their own advice was illegal and they could have faced 6 years in prison?

You know, I try to be careful with subjects like this… I’m a skeptic, and have become accustomed to opposing sides stretching the truth (and on occasion, outright lying) to push their own agenda, but Tim Tebow and his mom tenderly telling women they are sinners if they do anything other than carry every pregnancy to term during the Super Bowl broadcast is absurd. Brought to you by the exact same people who freaked the hell out when Janet Jackson’s nipple made a half second appearance. You judge which is more offensive and which really matters.

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Just who is supposed to be our enemy here?

January 6, 2010 in Cheney, Health Care, Hypocrisy, Obama Administration, Religious Right, Republican Party, Right Wing, Terrorism, Wingnuts | 1 comment

Just a few short years ago wasn’t terrorism supposed to be the the existential threat facing the West in the 21st century? Didn’t Dick Cheney say in 2004 “the 21st-century terrorism threat presents a new and far greater peril”

… than what?

“Today, we face a sophisticated global network of terrorists who are opposed to the values of liberty, tolerance and openness that form the basis of our societies. Their hatred and sense of grievance are not directed at any one government or nation or religion, but against all governments, nations and people that stand in their way.”

Sure seems like he was talking about al Qaeda.

Today religious leaders, right-wing blowhards, and Republicans the like are saying entirely different things.

Neal Boortz is arguing, “ObamaCare will do more damage than a successful terrorist bombing of an airliner … and kill more people as well.”

Allen Quist, a Republican congressional candidate going up against Rep. Tim Walz (D-MN), has made a serious accusation:

“It’s because I, like you, have seen that our country is being destroyed. I mean, this is — every generation has had to fight the fight for freedom. This is our fight. And this is our time. This is it. Terrorism, yes — but that’s not the big battle. The big battle is in D.C., with the radicals. They aren’t liberals, they’re radicals. Obama, Pelosi, Walz — they’re not liberals, they’re radicals. They are destroying our country. And people all over are figuring that out.”

Rep. Walz, the one Quist is describing as a radical enemy of the U.S. and a more serious threat than al Qaeda, is a 24-year veteran of the National Guard, retiring as a command sergeant major and the highest ranking enlisted soldier in southern Minnesota. But he is worst that al Qaeda?

Rep. Virginia Foxx’s (R-N.C.) looked pretty ridiculous in November when she said Americans have “more to fear” from health care reform than “from any terrorist right now in any country.”

Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.) said that the health care debate is more consequential than the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

According to Sen. Jim DeMint, a right-wing Republican from South Carolina protecting the American public from terrorism is a priority, but for DeMint, preventing government workers from organizing is a much higher priority.

And finally according to religious right leader Pat Robertson who argued on ABC’s This Week that the “runaway” federal judiciary constitutes the gravest threat to American life. Robertson says the “tyranny” of the federal judiciary is a bigger threat to America than the Nazis during World War II and the Civil War and poses a “more serious [threat] than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings,” referring to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, in which nearly 3,000 people were killed.

Do Republicans take terrorism seriously, or do they merely use it as a political tool to attack their enemies — and NOT a set of policy pronouncements?

After all it was an excuse to attack Iraq.

Do we assume that Republicans somehow care if terrorists attack America, especially if that means they get to attack Obama as well? If a terrorist attack occurs under a Republican president it’s the fault of the last Democrat to hold office. If a THWARTED attack occurs under a Democrat it’s because the administration didn’t take “the terrorist threat seriously!”

But, NOTHING could possibly qualify as “taking the terrorist threat seriously” as far as Republicans are concerned — except for Obama to resign and appoint Dick Cheney president.

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Couldn’t you just imagine the headlines?

December 29, 2009 in Bush Administration, Hypocrisy, Obama Administration, Republican Party, Terrorism, Violence | No comments

Obama’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) failed to screen for bombs lead to Christmas Day bombing of Airline!

The problem with this headline is that it was Republican lawmakers who opposed funding for the TSA, including money for screening operations and explosives detection systems.

President Obama doesn’t take the terrorist threat seriously! TSA leadership is seriously lacking.

The problem with this healine is that one right-wing GOP senator (Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C.) won’t let the Senate vote on the president’s clearly-qualified nominee (Erroll Southers, a former FBI special agent and a counterterrorism expert).

Terrorist released by Obama return to strike America!

The problem here is:

Two of the four leaders allegedly behind the al Qaeda plot to blow up a Northwest Airlines passenger jet over Detroit were released by the U.S. from the Guantanamo prison in November 2007 (by President Bush), according to American officials and Department of Defense documents. Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for the Northwest bombing in a Monday statement that vowed more attacks on Americans.
American officials agreed to send the two terrorists from Guantanamo to Saudi Arabia, where they entered into an “art therapy rehabilitation program” and were set free, according to U.S. and Saudi officials.

Just imagine the Republican response if Barack Obama or Bill Clinton had released prisoners to enter an “art therapy rehabilitation program.” This sounds almost as silly as an American president in the Nuclear Age, sitting and reading a children’s book for seven minutes all the while told the country is under attack.

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Republicans don’t like getting picked on.

December 3, 2009 in Hypocrisy, Republican Party, Right Wing, Wingnuts | 1 comment

In 2005, Jamie Leigh Jones was gang-raped by her co-workers while she was working for Halliburton/KBR in Baghdad. She was detained in a shipping container for at least 24 hours without food, water, or a bed, and “warned her that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, she’d be out of a job.” (Jones was not an isolated case.) Jones was prevented from bringing charges in court against KBR because her employment contract stipulated that sexual assault allegations would only be heard in private arbitration. So newly minted Senator Al Franken (D-MN) proposed an amendment to the 2010 Defense Appropriations bill that would withhold defense contracts from companies like KBR if they restrict their employees from taking workplace sexual assault, battery and discrimination cases to court.

Franken’s measure passed, 68 to 30, which means 75% of the entire Republican Senate caucus — voted against this, and now these GOP senators are pissed they’re facing criticism over the vote. Did you fools not think people would be outraged over your vote? This is what happens when you always reflexively support your corporate sponsors rather than your constituents. Perhaps now you’ll put your rubberstamp away and think about what you’re doing and how it actually affects people. But what else can we expect from the party of phony victimization? Too bad boys! Franken is right as rain to paint you as not minding that women get raped! I am sure you put that right there with the right to be pedophiles, which you have quite a few of in your party! Oh, and lets not forget the Christian Adulterers! You got a bunch of them too! Senator Franken makes your head explode and it is so much fun to watch!!!!!!!!!

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A Republican purity test?

November 24, 2009 in Hypocrisy, Republican Party, Right Wing, Wingnuts | No comments

You have got to be kidding me!

The Republican National Committee could be on the verge of imposing a strict purity test on GOP candidates and officeholders, if a proposed resolution passes at their upcoming meeting in January: If you disagree with the party line on three or more out of a list of ten key issues, no money or official party support for you.

  1. We support smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by opposing bills like Obama’s “stimulus” bill;
  2. We support market-based health care reform and oppose Obama-style government run healthcare;
  3. We support market-based energy reforms by opposing cap and trade legislation;
  4. We support workers’ right to secret ballot by opposing card check;
  5. We support legal immigration and assimilation into American society by opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants;
  6. We support victory in Iraq and Afghanistan by supporting military-recommended troop surges;
  7. We support containment of Iran and North Korea, particularly effective action to eliminate their nuclear weapons threat;
  8. We support retention of the Defense of Marriage Act;
  9. We support protecting the lives of vulnerable persons by opposing health care rationing and denial of health care and government funding of abortion; and
  10. We support the right to keep and bear arms by opposing government restrictions on gun ownership;

So you have to score better than 70% to be a real Republican? This is absurd.

So who is not a good Republican?

George Bush would fail because he exploded the deficits, he supported an immigration bill with amnesty, and he opposed a troop request for the military in Afghanistan in his final year of the presidency. He also weakly supported the cap-and-trade bill offered by Lieberman, Warner, and others.

Reagan would fail because he exploded the deficits and raised taxes, he supported amnesty to illegal immigrants, he supported the Brady Bill and other gun control measures.

Neil from the comments at TPM hits the nail on the head.

wait… only 7 of ten bedrock principles? Gotta love Republicans.

It’s just like when Moses came down from Mt Sinai with his multiple choice, seven-outta-ten commandments.

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Governments never give up power.

November 3, 2009 in Bush Administration, Department of Justice, Hypocrisy, Obama Administration | 1 comment

Glenn Greenwald tells us that…

The Obama administration has, yet again, asserted the broadest and most radical version of the “state secrets” privilege — which previously caused so much controversy and turmoil among loyal Democrats (when used by Bush/Cheney) — to attempt to block courts from ruling on the legality of the government’s domestic surveillance activities.  Obama did so again this past Friday — just six weeks after the DOJ announced voluntary new internal guidelines which, it insisted, would prevent abuses of the state secrets privilege.  Instead — as predicted — the DOJ continues to embrace the very same “state secrets” theories of the Bush administration — which Democrats generally and Barack Obama specifically once vehemently condemned — and is doing so in order literally to shield the President from judicial review or accountability when he is accused of breaking the law.

It was the Bush Administration that took the position that they could arrest and hold, without trial, anyone on the planet for as long as they saw fit, for any reason or for no reason.

I’m still glad we have this guy in the Oval Office (particularly when I pause to remember who his competition was…), but I will be honest: The disappointments are real, they are legitimate, and they get me pissed off to say the least. I guess now we will hear “well, we’ve changed our mind, we’ll torture people if we want to.” Thanks to George W. Bush, Richard Cheney and now, sad to say, Barack Obama, there seems to be no check on this power once aggregated to the presidency.

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18 U.S.C. § 1001 : US Code – Section 1001

November 2, 2009 in Bush Administration, CIA, Cheney, Criminal, Hypocrisy, Republican Party, Right Wing | No comments

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, whoever, in any
matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or
judicial branch of the Government of the United States, knowingly
and willfully -
(1) falsifies, conceals, or covers up by any trick, scheme, or
device a material fact;
(2) makes any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent
statement or representation; or
(3) makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the
same to contain any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent
statement or entry;
shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 5 years
or, if the offense involves international or domestic terrorism (as
defined in section 2331), imprisoned not more than 8 years, or
both.

Citing faulty memory, former Vice President Dick Cheney told federal investigators in a 2004 interview he had no idea who revealed to reporters that Valerie Plame, the wife of a Bush administration critic, worked for the CIA…

Yet Libby’s own notes produced at his trial reflect that Cheney told him about the CIA employment of Wilson’s wife in mid-June 2003, a month before Plame’s CIA job became public knowledge. Libby told Cheney again in mid 2004 when he discovered these notes reflecting Cheney’s involvement.

I think it is so important for Americans to hold their politicians accountable, and punish them and their party for gross wrong doing. There are 2 systems of justice in the US – one for the powerful & the wealthy, and another for all the rest of us. And if one is powerful enough, one can commit any number of serious crimes imaginable, with impunity, regardless of how much harm it does to our country.

Justice, therefore, is blind. How can it not be?

It is a fact that Libby was advised on or about June 12, 2003 by the Vice President of the United States that Wilson’s wife worked at the Central Intelligence Agency in the Counterproliferation Division. Libby understood that the Vice President had learned this information from the CIA. Cheney provided the classified information to Libby – who then told the press, yet Cheney’s only defense is I don’t recall!!!!

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Dithering

October 29, 2009 in Afghanistan, Bush Administration, Foreign Policy, Hypocrisy, Obama Administration, Republican Party, Right Wing, Wingnuts | 1 comment

dithering
–noun
1. a trembling; vibration.
2. a state of flustered excitement or fear.
–verb (used without object)
3. to act irresolutely; vacillate.
4. North England. to tremble with excitement or fear.

Seems Joe Tobacco over at Cadillac Tight sees President Obama’s patient and thorough process towards the Afghanistan troop issue is indeed dithering.

Let’s not talk about the public dithering this president is engaging in with regards to Afghanistan, which is unseemly, unpresidential, and unproductive.

…not only is he a liar, he’s a wishy-washy, indecisive limousine liberal who is so afraid of how a decision on Afghanistan, a war we have troops currently engaged in will affect his domestic policy that he’s literally paralyzed. Get this: The president of the United States promulgated an approach to a shooting war that he now refuses to support. Barack Obama doesn’t support his own war policy, where the hell does that leave our commanding officers in the field, our allies, the Afghani people who don’t know whether the United States will be in their country next year or whether the Taliban will be conducting beheadings in stadiums again?

The Washington Post said:

“President Obama has asked senior officials for a province-by-province analysis of Afghanistan to determine which regions are being managed effectively by local leaders and which require international help, information that his advisers say will guide his decision on how many additional U.S. troops to send to the battle.”

This is what the right wing and Joe Tobacco apparently calls “dithering” – doing what McChrystal ASKED HIM TO DO IN HIS REPORT.

From McChrystal’s report:

“
”[I]t must be made clear: new resources are not the crux. To succeed, ISAF [the NATO command in Afghanistan] requires a new approach — with a significant magnitude of change — in addition to a proper level of resourcing. ISAF must restore confidence in the near-term through renewed commitment, intellectual energy and visible progress.”

Got that? McChrystal ASKED for a NEW APPROACH – and later in the report said that a new approach MUST be found BEFORE any increase in troops.
But please – go ahead Joe and call doing what the general on the ground suggested that he do “dithering” – even though the Bush administration had a general’s request to increase troops in Afghanistan sitting on their desk for 8 MONTHS and did NOTHING about it – and it took Obama to sign it when he came into office to get it done in May of this year.

But please, keep talking nonsense – keep being ignorant instead of knowing the actual facts. It seems it makes you comfortable.

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