Stupid shit idiots say

Some of these are a bit dated, but still relevant as I try and play catch up,,,

Theodore Shoebat Unhappy With Nomination Of A 'Flaming Fag' To Serve As Army Secretary

"In 2012, Obama got rid of Don't Ask, Don't Tell," Shoebat declared, "which basically means that fags can be out in the open in their flaming fag ways, regardless of the fact that they are decreasing the morale of fellow soldiers. It doesn't matter, they can be flaming homos right there in the U.S. military, they can be sodomizing each other right there in the military barracks."

The nomination of "Eric Flaming Fag," as Shoebat put it, by the "pro-fag, pro-sodomy, anti-family, anti-Christ president" is just further "evidence as to the bullcrap that we have been seeing throughout the years from this satanic administration."

FRC Official: Call Gay Marriage 'Garriage' And Lesbian Marriage 'Larriage'

"A proposal," Fagan said, "something along this line, that we in the pro-family movement start using related terms, but keep ‘marriage’ for what it always was. So we might call — and this is to be worked out — but something like, if you're talking about gay marriage you call it ‘garriage.’ If it’s lesbian, you call it 'larriage.' If you want a generic homosexual marriage it’s ‘harriage.’ But getting these words into use I think is key. And that will take time, but whomever holds the language ultimately holds the whole game.”

Staver: Gay Marriage Is Leading America 'Into The Very Pit Of Hell'

"We need to stop playing charades," Staver thundered, "thinking that five individuals can re-write God's natural, created order of marriage as a union of a man and a woman, and 320 million Americans are simply just going to follow them like the Pied Piper off the cliff into the very pit of Hell. If that's what they think, they have something else coming because as for me and my household, I will not obey those five! I will obey God rather than man and they have shaken their fist in the face of the Creator and we must resist that."

Just because he is out of the Presidential race doesn't mean that Perry isn't still dangerous,,,

Rick Perry: 'Christian Warriors' must use 'Spiritual Warfare' against 'Satanic' Separation of Church and State

This separation of church and state, which has been driven by the secularists to remove those people of faith from the public arena… there is nothing farther from the truth. When you think about our Founding Fathers, they created this country, our Constitution, the foundation of America upon Judeo-Christian values, biblical values and this narrative that has been going on, particularly since the ’60s, that somehow or another there’s this steel wall, this iron curtain or whatever you want to call it between the church and people of faith and this separation of church and state is just false on its face.

We have a biblical responsibility to be involved in the public arena proclaiming God’s truth. You know, are we going to get up and say ‘you are going to vote for X’? No, but we’re going to talk about Christian values. When you think about the issue of life and protecting life, it’s so important that we as Christians put legislation into place, that we elect men and women that defend life. The idea that we should be sent to the sidelines I would suggest to you is very driven by those who are not truthful, Satan runs across the world with his doubt and with his untruths and what have you and one of the untruths out there is driven — is that people of faith should not be involved in the public arena.

Does anyone still listen bloviating piece of dung?

Limbaugh Says Water on Mars a Liberal Hoax: NASA Has Some Evil Plan

You know me, I’m science 101, big time guy, tech advance it, you know it, I’m all in. But, NASA has been corrupted by the current regime. I want to find out what they’re going to tell us. OK, flowing water on Mars. If we’re even to believe that, what are they going to tell us that means? That’s what I’m going to wait for. Because I guarantee, let’s just wait and see, this is September 28, let’s just wait and see. Don’t know how long it’s going to take, but this news that there is flowing water on Mars is somehow going to find its way into a technique to advance the leftist agenda. I don’t know what it is, I would assume it would be something to do with global warming and you can — maybe there was once an advanced civilization. If they say they found flowing water, next they’re going to find a graveyard.

Linda Harvey: US Must Fight Gay Rights, Not Climate Change

But one lesson that’s omitted is the high-risk and low-return of homosexuality, gender-switching and sexual promiscuity. Sexual sin, it turns out, is an unsustainable human activity of the first order. The reality is, the sexual anarchy movement is unsustainable.

Real humans are damaged and destroyed. Disease, emotional trauma, mutilation, family division, domestic violence and self-harm follow in the wake of ‘LGBTQetc’ identities and ‘reproductive rights.’ There’s no way to disguise or adequately manage the wreckage left in the wake of these unnatural, life-rejecting behaviors
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Human sexual excess consumes vast amounts of energy. And what’s the return? Once we account for the clean-up, the management and the waste, our culture’s current embrace of sexual license is an environmental disaster. The Gulf oil spill is pond scum in comparison.”

Continuation of,,,Hyperbole gets you no where

H/T: Dave Foda for this story

NY pastor: Justin Bieber is trans and ‘cut off his breasts’ because Obama’s ‘evil spirits’ misled him

“We’re talking about young girls, 6 to 10 years of age,” Atlah World Missionary Church Rev. James David Manning said in a YouTube video that was posted on Friday. “They can be led or influenced to cut off their breasts once they get into puberty. They can be led to have operations — like Justin Bieber — they can think that the best choice for their life is to cut off their breasts.”

“And then by the time they reach the age of 20 years old, they say, ‘I wish I had never cut off my breasts, I wish I had never mutilated my flesh, I wish I had never cut off my penis, I wish I had never done that, I was just young. And the people in the church or the people in the media said or gave the impression that I had a right to choose any kind of sexual orientation that I wanted to choose, and so I cut off my penis or I cut off my breasts.’”

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest::Shit on the Floor

The Little Mermaid - Under The Sea

 Creationists Freak Out Over Evolutionary ‘Back To The Sea’ Super Bowl Commercial (VIDEO)

99 Bottles Of Beer On The Wall by Atticus

Rick Perry's Comparison Of Homosexuality To Alcoholism Is Nothing New From The Anti-Gay Right

 Then Rick Santorum jumped to Perry's defense. The problem with that, Santorum once said, in regards to "redefining" marriage, "It’s like saying this glass of water is a glass of beer. Well, you can call it a glass of beer, but it’s not a glass of beer. It’s a glass of water. And water is what water is. Marriage is what marriage is."

Which later morphed into this inane analogy:  “I can call this napkin a paper towel,” the former Pennsylvania senator explained. “But it is a napkin. And why? Because it is what it is. Right? You can call it whatever you want, but it doesn’t change the character of what it is.”"

Now we have Mike Huckabee throwing his two-cents into the ring, Huckabee compares being gay to drinking, swearing,,,

Human Rights Campaign statement regarding Rick Perry's comparison of homosexuality to alcoholism.

Others that suffer from head in ass syndrome

Republican National Committeeman Dave Agema recently got in trouble with his own party after he, among other offensive remarks, compared gay people to alcoholics. So did top Religious Right leaders Mat Staver and Tony Perkins. Robert Jeffress, a Texas pastor close to Perry, also “equates being gay with alcoholism or a genetic proclivity toward violence,” according to the Dallas-based D Magazine.

Stories I will be contemplating for next week::Unicorns, War On Little Free Libraries, Evidence that Jonah was Swallowed by a Whale, and another Bad Analogy

Huckabee compares being gay to drinking, swearing - CNN.com

What is it with politicians and bad analogies? "First" there was Rick Perry:

“Whether or not you feel compelled to follow a particular lifestyle or not, you have the ability to decide not to do that,” Perry said. “I may have the genetic coding that I’m inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way.”

Then Rick Santorum jumped to Perry's defense. The problem with that, Santorum once said, in regards to "redefining" marriage,

It’s like saying this glass of water is a glass of beer. Well, you can call it a glass of beer, but it’s not a glass of beer. It’s a glass of water. And water is what water is. Marriage is what marriage is.

Later that analogy morphed into napkins v. paper towels,

“I can call this napkin a paper towel,” the former Pennsylvania senator explained. “But it is a napkin. And why? Because it is what it is. Right? You can call it whatever you want, but it doesn’t change the character of what it is.”

Now we have,,,

Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee says expecting Christians to accept same-sex marriage is "like asking someone who's Jewish to start serving bacon-wrapped shrimp in their deli."

He also called homosexuality part of a lifestyle, like drinking and swearing.

The former Arkansas governor, winner of the 2008 Iowa caucuses and likely 2016 contender's comments came during an appearance Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union," as he defended an excerpt from his new book in which he says he has friends and associates who are gay.

"People can be my friends who have lifestyles that are not necessarily my lifestyle. I don't shut people out of my circle or out of my life because they have a different point of view," Huckabee told CNN's Dana Bash, while deflecting a question about whether he believes being gay is a choice.

Once again it is the same ole "pray away the gay or you can change -that- mentality."  A point responded to by the HRC in regards to Perry's assertion.

Many right-wing religious groups promote the concept that an individual can change his or her sexual orientation, either through prayer or other religious efforts, or through so-called "reparative" or "conversion" therapy. Research on such efforts has disproven their efficacy, and also has indicated that they can be affirmatively harmful. Beyond studies focused solely on reparative therapy, broader research clearly demonstrates the significant harm that societal prejudice and family rejection has on LGBT people, particularly youth. Furthermore, there is significant evidence of harm to LGBT people resulting from attempts to change their sexual orientation. Based on this body of evidence, every major medical and mental health organization in the United States has issued a statement condemning the use of reparative therapy.

Oh and Mike, no one wants to "close someone's business down." If the business that chooses to break the law can't afford the punishment, that is on them - not the victims of their wrong-doing.

Huckabee compares being gay to drinking, swearing - CNN.com

Rick Perry: The Bible proves that poverty is inevitable - Salon.com

Texas may have the country’s highest rate of people who lack health insurance and rank in the top 10 states with the highest poverty levels, but Gov. Rick Perry can’t be bothered. In an interview with the Washington Post published today, Perry suggested that the Bible proves that poverty is “always going to be with us.”

As he prepares to hand over the reins to Gov.-elect Greg Abbott next month, Perry is turning his attention toward mounting a second White House bid, despite facing a criminal indictment and vivid memories of how he spectacularly imploded during his disastrous 2012 presidential campaign. It remains to be seen whether Perry will succeed in his effort to have the abuse of power charges against him tossed out, but for now, the Republican is beefing up on public policy, seeking to avoid the kinds of embarrassing stumbles that doomed his last campaign. Among the issues on which he’s consulted experts, the Post reports, is income inequality.

But Perry doesn’t see inequality as a particularly big problem, and he’s certainly not going to champion an all-out war on poverty.

“Biblically, the poor are always going to be with us in some form or fashion,” Perry told the Post.

Rick Perry: The Bible proves that poverty is inevitable - Salon.com

To Straight and Back - POLITICO Magazine

Although I was exposed to the teachings and preachings of the Paulk's, I guess I was one of the lucky ones. Even at a younger age I knew "society" would have issues with who I was, but I didn't (and still don't) care. I am who I am, I never "internalized [the] homophobia."

It could be that I was battling other "demons" (my mental illness and trying to stay sober) or the fact that Paulk's popularity came after my so-called formative years. I had already left the church and was heading for full blown apostasy, those still in my circle who attempted to use the Paulks as an example where cut off or out of my life. But their influence and the damage they caused was still felt. "You can change" was the oft heard slogan.

I am thankful that I never, as Paulk puts it, had to maintain a "veneer of heterosexuality"
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There was a time in my life when I used to sound a lot like Rick Perry. In fact, for more than ten years I was one of the nation’s leading spokesmen for the “ex-gay” movement. I traveled the country telling audiences that being gay was a preventable condition, and it could be treated if only you followed a simple plan, obeyed God and sought repentance for your sins. “Ladies and gentlemen, homosexuality is not a genetic, inborn condition,” I would say. “It is the result of traceable causes that, once unraveled, can bring about understanding and transformation in the life of one who is motivated and submitted to God.”

Oh, I was a believer: Homosexuality was just WRONG. And I was Exhibit A, a self-declared convert who had managed to overcome my own shameful gay past. I even appeared on the cover of Newsweek magazine in 1998, posing alongside my wife as a poster boy for “going straight.” And I was happy to do it: Those stories gave me a national platform to advocate for what is called “gay reparative therapy”—basically, convincing gay people that they were sexually “broken” and could be provided with a way to change. My wife Anne—herself an ex-lesbian—and our three sons were often put forward as evidence of how to accomplish this. Anne and I even wrote a book together preaching the gay-to-straight gospel, Love Won Out: How God's Love Helped 2 People Leave Homosexuality and Find Each Other.

But I was in denial. It wasn’t in fact true, any of it. Worse than being wrong, it was harmful to many people—and caused me years of pain in my own life. Which is why I have this to say to the Rick Perrys of the world: You don’t understand this issue. At all.

To Straight and Back - POLITICO Magazine

BarbWire Pundit Says Rick Perry's Anti-Gay Remarks Made Him Presidential Material | Right Wing Watch

WTF is - Big Gay - seriously? I foresee a new rally cry, BIG GAY, BIG GAY!! WTG Jeff Allen your now relevant, NOT!

“I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m a Christian, but you don’t need to be in the pew every Sunday to know there’s something wrong in this country when ‘gays’ can serve openly in the military but our kids can’t openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school,” Perry declared in the advertisement. And he also pledged to stand against the “liberal attacks on our religious heritage.”

Fortunately, Gov. Perry’s latest remarks demonstrate his resolute refusal to back down to the bullies of Big Gay. That’s what presidential poise under pressure looks like.

BarbWire Pundit Says Rick Perry's Anti-Gay Remarks Made Him Presidential Material | Right Wing Watch

Rick Santorum Defends Rick Perry's Gay-Alcoholism Comparison, Says Hillary Clinton Isn't 'Bling' Enough | Right Wing Watch

In an interview with USA Today’s Capital Download today, Rick Santorum defended his one-time — and possibly future — presidential rival Rick Perry’s comparison of homosexuality to alcoholism, arguing that homosexuality is indeed a choice.

Santorum, who has notoriously attempted to explain his opposition to marriage equality by speaking about beer and paper towels, told USA Today that while politicians should avoid making comparisons, Perry’s larger point was “accurate.”

Back in 2011, the former Pennsylvania senator back in 2011 insisted that homosexuality is a choice because he knows of “people who were gay and lived a gay lifestyle and aren’t anymore.”

Rick Santorum Defends Rick Perry's Gay-Alcoholism Comparison, Says Hillary Clinton Isn't 'Bling' Enough | Right Wing Watch

In S.F., Rick Perry compares homosexuality to alcoholism - SFGate

I'm confused, is he saying not only is he an alcoholic but he is gay as well?? How else could one make such a comparison as this:

“Whether or not you feel compelled to follow a particular lifestyle or not, you have the ability to decide not to do that,” Perry said. “I may have the genetic coding that I’m inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way.”

The stupid runs deep in Perry as the Human Rights Campaign so aptly points out,

"Although he may not have the 'genetic coding' to think before he speaks, Rick Perry, M.D. should have a real conversation with actual doctors before voicing his expertise on these issues,” said Fred Sainz, HRC vice president for communications. “Every major mental health and medical organization in the country has condemned practices aimed at changing a person’s sexual orientation.”

Many right-wing religious groups promote the concept that an individual can change his or her sexual orientation, either through prayer or other religious efforts, or through so-called "reparative" or "conversion" therapy. Research on such efforts has disproven their efficacy, and also has indicated that they can be affirmatively harmful. Beyond studies focused solely on reparative therapy, broader research clearly demonstrates the significant harm that societal prejudice and family rejection has on LGBT people, particularly youth. Furthermore, there is significant evidence of harm to LGBT people resulting from attempts to change their sexual orientation. Based on this body of evidence, every major medical and mental health organization in the United States has issued a statement condemning the use of reparative therapy.

In S.F., Rick Perry compares homosexuality to alcoholism - SFGate

Senate Candidate Doesn't Think The Government Should Set A Minimum Wage | ThinkProgress

For those that have said to me, "no one wants to repeal minimum wage" how much more proof do you need? Keep voting for the Reich and we will be down to pre-1950 wages and pre-1930 working conditions.

I can guarantee this will be in the Reich's platform for 2014 and 2016!!

At a Meet & Greet in Bettendorf, Iowa, Republican Senate candidate Sam Clovis said that he doesn’t think the government should set a minimum wage except in the few areas where employers have monopolistic control.

After an audience member said in reference to the minimum wage, “The U.S. government has got no right to dictate to any business owner what they pay their employees,” Clovis responded, “Exactly.”

He went on to explain, “I don’t think the U.S. government should talk about minimum wage. Because every time you raise the minimum wage, you increase unemployment.” He said he does support a starting wage for those who work in an area where employers “could collude and offer lower wages,” but “not in cities, not where you have competition for workers.” He also called the minimum wage “a form of taxation.”

Meanwhile, he claimed that just 1.2 percent of the workforce works for minimum wage and that the majority are “men 16 to 25 who live at home.” He also claimed, “Not a single worker I know of in the city of Sioux City that works for minimum wage. Not a single one.”

Senate Candidate Doesn't Think The Government Should Set A Minimum Wage | ThinkProgress

So everyone is bitching about Obamacare but when asked for an alternative all I hear is

• Nothing 
• Leave healthcare alone it's fine the way it is 
• Get a job/better job so you can get your own, or 
• Anything is better than what HE is proposing, damn ______ (commie, Marxist, socialist, fascist, Nazi, Muslim or any other "derogatory" word you can think of but I won't print) 

 Lets look at these in order.

The "I hear Nothing,,," 
People in this category either are clueless or just don't care, they vote straight party line and are one issue voters. It's either anti-equality (specifically LGBT), anti-immigration or anti-abortion. No other issue(s) matter and how a candidate votes in regards to infrastructure, jobs, veteran issues, domestic and foreign policy is moot as long as the candidate vows to eliminate protections for one (or all of) the aforementioned issues. They will ignore their economic well-being to prove a point. This group tends to be in the a pro-Israel camp which can mis-align their views. They may vote for a pro-Israel candidate who is considered weak in support for other concerns.

As for alternatives they offer none as they have no opinion since it doesn't affect them. Either they have insurance or are a strong supporter of the Bush Jr. mindset from 2007:

"The immediate goal is to make sure there are more people on private insurance plans. I mean, people have access to health care in America," he said. "After all, you just go to an emergency room."

If one remembers this is also "the plan" that Romney called being a form of socialism in 2007:


"Leave healthcare alone it's fine the way it is,,,"
This group is similar to the first group but realizes that there is a problem in regards to healthcare. Though not clueless per se they just don't have a full understanding of the issues as it has never affected them. In their mind universal healthcare was passed in 1986 with the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) which requires hospitals to provide care to anyone needing emergency healthcare treatment regardless of citizenship, legal status or ability to pay. There are no reimbursement provisions. Participating hospitals may only transfer or discharge patients needing emergency treatment under their own informed consent, after stabilization, or when their condition requires transfer to a hospital better equipped to administer the treatment.

This mindset is superbly echoed by Rick Perry in 2011:

,,,everyone in the state of Texas has access to health care, everyone in America has access to health care,,, from the stand point of all people in this country, our government requires that everyone is covered.

What is at issue with this line of thinking, the ER does not provide preventive medicine, individuals (have to) wait until their illness, injury or sickness puts them in a life threatening situation. Instead of a $25 co-pay doctor's visit and a $10 prescription becomes a $5000+ emergency room bill and bankruptcy. Author and novelist Upton Sinclair sums this group up best, "It is difficult to get a politician to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

"Get a job/better job so you can get your own,,,"
I have a job, one that I like (for the most part). Actually I have two jobs and neither pays a "liveable" wage, hence why I also receive SNAP; I work 45-55 hours per week sometimes more. So even with the offer of health insurance from my primary employer, I can't afford it and the deductible is too high. I also qualify for Medical Assistance for Workers with Disabilities (MAWD), a health insurance program for working individuals with a disability. But again due to my low wages, paying my premium is difficult, why I had to return to my second job as I can no longer go without insurance. (This getting old shit is for the birds!)

Now some would say, "get a better job that pays more." Well considering that the "better paying jobs" where I live are manufacturing jobs, I run into the issue of my disability. I can no longer physically handle working in a factory. Also please define "better paying," as most of the peon line jobs pay $10-$12 per hour with starting pay at around $8.50. Losing 3 years seniority, schedule flexibility, and $30 a week in wages to start would be foolhardy. Also these "better paying jobs" are victim to lay-off; on average 3-4 months out of the year.

"Well move!" Uhm, need money to move, and given our economy jobs are not easy to come by despite the 3.9 million openings Republican Representative Dave Joyce asserts are available. I also live in a decent area in regards to cost of living. The $400 a month rent I pay for my apartment would not even rent me a room in Boston.
Why should I have to move away from "family" and friends to a place lacking in a proper support system., not only on a personal level but also in regards to my health. Changing medical providers is not an easy task. I do not drive, can't afford to, so would have to "hire" someone. So this "well move" solution is not a solution at all.

"Anything is better than what HE is proposing,,,"
This group IMHO is the funniest of them all and is currently being led by Heritage president and former South Carolina senator Jim DeMint:

DeMint said opponents don't have much time to try to make changes to the law before a March 2014 deadline for people to enroll. Benefits will kick in Jan. 1 for those who enroll earlier.
"This might be that last off-ramp to stop Obamacare before it becomes more enmeshed in our culture," he said.
"This is not about getting better health care." DeMint said uninsured Americans "will get better health care just going to the emergency room."

Yet again the alternative to the Affordable Care Act is the emergency room of your local hospital, the so-called “free” care provided by (EMTALA). So if you have a chronic condition (diabetes, asthma, dialysis, cancer) with a need for medication or treatment, guess what your shit out of luck. Also, if your lacking in private insurance, good luck if you suffer a traumatic injury, a 2009 study shows that not all emergency room patients have equal outcomes. That's reassuring, NOT!!

What makes this such an oxymoron, the Heritage Foundation is now lambasting a plan they once advocated for and supported.

I believe that we have a responsibility to our fellow man and that we should help when and where we can: "We are all one. When one is harmed, all are harmed. When one is helped, all are healed." Healthcare is not a privilege for a wealthy few, but a basic right for all citizens. But according to the Reich only the top 1% deserve a chance at "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," for the rest of us it's a crap shoot at the ER . I know I would be willing to pay and extra fourteen cents for a pizza or sixty-eight cents for a BigMac, what about you?