GOP: If what Jesus would do costs money, f--- it.

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Tuesday July 21, 2009 · 4:49 PM PDT

2009/07/21 · 16:49

Not long ago, GOP Chariman Michael Steele asserted the ridiculous argument that gay marriage would be "bad for small business." If you believe this, Ol Mom and Pop could not compete in a true free market economy with Pop and Pop, Mom and Mom-like the ink is just going to fall off the money if a gay person touches it. It's total bullspit, but it's the kind of bullspit that's being used as ostensible cover: code. The core of the GOP's gay marriage opposition lies in the Old Testament.
Last Saturday, I saw Man of God Mike Huckabee on Fox News, huddled up with some guests to guide viewers through the "bad for small business" game plan for health care. Obamacare is bad for small business. Socialism. Blah blah blah.
Same slogan, different twist, and a hole in the rift between fiscal and religious conservatives big enough to drive a circus through. In the case of gay marriage, the "bad for small business" argument is being used to cloak a religious objective as a financial argument. In the case of health care, "bad for small business" is a financial argument used to enable the religious right to ignore one of Jesus' basic tenets of Christianity: Healing the ill, and helping the poor.
Is GOP God Jesus, or the Free Market Economy?

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Will the GOP...

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Will the GOP...

...continue to disguise their religious opposition to gay marriage as a fiduciary concern by claiming it's "bad for small business."

4 votes

...conitune to ignore Jesus Christ's righteous example of love and healing for the sick and impoverished, because overhauling our ass backwards health care system costs money, and is therefore, allegedly, "bad for small business."

32 votes

"No apologies 'til Jesus returns!" Glenn Beck, radio, today

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Monday July 20, 2009 · 5:28 PM PDT

2009/07/20 · 17:28

Yeah. Midway through a meandering, seemingly themeless rant, Glenn Beck pops up with "I'm sick of apologizing for America! No more apologies 'til Jesus returns!"
I swear. Went looking for the exact quote, but I refuse to subscribe to his site. If I'm wrong, and I am not, I'll apologize "when Jesus comes."

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Glenn Beck: "No apologies 'til Jesus returns!" Because...

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Glenn Beck: "No apologies 'til Jesus returns!" Because...

ain't no sense letting a neighbor die for my sins all for nuthin!

6 votes

Jesus was God's way of saying you have carte blanche to be as much of an asshole as you please, so long as you apologize at the end.

40 votes

when the Christ's away, Glenn Beck will play.

21 votes

Glenn Beck doesn't really believe Christ is going to return.

49 votes

Ridiculous pro-Ahmadinejad propaganda critique

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Friday June 19, 2009 · 6:54 PM PDT

2009/06/19 · 18:54

So, why would a hip young flag burning, "DEATH TO AMERICA!" shouting, pro-Ahmadinejad shill dress like an emo kid in girl jeans who just walked off the set of an Mtv reality show, if not for the sake of desperate pandering?

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Saturday April 18, 2009 · 1:22 PM PDT

2009/04/18 · 13:22

Heard the following on National Public Radio's All Things Considered on June 17th, 2008, as part of the article Octogenarian Gay-Rights Pioneers Wed in California

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom officiated one of the first same-sex weddings Monday night. Two elderly lesbians — icons of the gay-rights movement — held a private ceremony at City Hall.

Phyllis Lyon, 83, and Del Martin, 87, became a couple more than half a century ago and went on to start the first national group for lesbians. After marrying in a small ceremony in Newsom's office, the elderly women emerged to an adoring crowd.

Second thing thing that came to mind, (after '50 years!') was: Well, wasn't that little legal problem a missed opportunity on a 15 to 30 year paid mortgage for a committed and stable couple?

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Do you see marriage as a contingent factor in buying a house?

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Do you see marriage as a contingent factor in buying a house?

Yes.

12 votes

No.

20 votes

Maybe.

10 votes

Cockpit or Foxhole? A netrage allegory.

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Friday April 17, 2009 · 4:38 PM PDT

2009/04/17 · 16:38

Flying back into Iraq after R&R in 2005, our pilot makes an inflight announcement: "There's a bunch of shit blowing up by (the post I happened to be stationed at)! I wish you guys could see this! It's really fuckin' cool!"
There was no sympathy or enthusiasm for this in back. Explosions might look really cool from 30k feet, but it's a whole different story when you're on the ground. This reservist pilot didn't know, bless his heart. Now that I look back, this guy didn't have to serve at all. He could have stayed home the whole time. He could've just flown for commercials the whole time. Nobody forced this guy to volunteer. I love him for it.
But I didn't a single nice thing to say about it at the time.

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When's the last time you had a face to face discussion about politics with someone you disagree with?

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When's the last time you had a face to face discussion about politics with someone you disagree with?

Lunch.

8 votes

Carpool.

0 votes

Weekend.

2 votes

Month or two ago.

10 votes

Last year.

4 votes

Twenty-aught-three.

0 votes

20th Century.

1 vote

Texas and/or Alaska could not withstand Chinese or Russian belligerence on their own, period.

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Thursday April 16, 2009 · 10:29 AM PDT

2009/04/16 · 10:29

This is a revision, the earlier version found to be potentially offensive to netsurfing Amish. A Quaker convinced me of this. I'm absolutely delighted with the overall American-ness of an online argument with a Quaker. Here in Colorado, offending the Amish does not come up very often, but I see how things would be a lot more sensitive in Pennsylvania. The point is this: Secession is strategically assinine. Having abandoned nearly all of my "Amish Security in the 21st Century" allegory, I'm keeping the statement:

Dry drunk cowboy tough talk from Tx Gov. Rick Perry; Ak Gov. Sarah Palin's husband, Todd; hack pundit Glenn Beck; and peacetime Chair Force veteran and Hollywood poseur Carlos "Chuck" Norris offers Texas, Alaska, the greater United States of America as a whole, Canada, Mexico and our various Carribean allies no greater security than the Amish would technological expertise to the internet.

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Seriously, WTF?

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Seriously, WTF?

Dude, man. I don't know.

4 votes

They're just talking shit.

2 votes

No, man. This is serious shit right here.

5 votes

The States delegate certain authorities to the Fed.

2 votes

The Fed delegates certain authorities to the States.

1 vote

Shut up!

1 vote

You shut up!

1 vote

All ya'll need to just chill out. Take a deep breath and count to ten.

5 votes

Patriot Act vs Tea Party

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Tuesday April 14, 2009 · 11:45 PM PDT

2009/04/14 · 23:45

First a quote:

"The greatest danger was that terrorist organizations secretly financed and supported by a foreign power would smuggle a nuclear weapon into the US and explode it in a large city, probably Washington, D.C., or New York. This was inevitable. The proposed solution was the formation of task forces to use counter-intelligence and then the utmost punitive measures against these terrorists and whoever backed them. It would require special laws that would abridge the rights of American citizens. The scenarios acknowledged the impossibility of these laws until somebody finally succeeded at blowing up a good portion of an American metropolis. Then the laws would pass easily."
---Mario Puzo, Omerta

Mario Puzo died in July of 1999, just after completing his ms for Omerta. In an odd way, it was a shame that he never lived to see 9/11. The passage of the Patriot Act would not have surprised him, and he would have been relieved the attack itself wasn't worse. The Patriot Act was ready and waiting, based in part on the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), years before 9/11, and would have passed regardless of Bush vs Gore and the overall balance of Partisan elected officials.

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Is President Obama...

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Is President Obama...

a secret Islamic mole?

6 votes

the Antichrist?

7 votes

a stem cell clone from Area 51?

3 votes

from the FUTURE?

11 votes

a space alien?

2 votes

Glenn Beck's secret homosexual crush?

30 votes

What tragic historic event will Glenn Beck dry hump next?

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Wednesday April 08, 2009 · 9:44 PM PDT

2009/04/08 · 21:44

Hmm... We got the 9-12 dry hump, promoting his Dick and Jane Glenn Beckifesto. Check. Got the Glenn Beck desk before the Nazi march job. Cute. What tragic historic events will Glenn Beck dry hump next? Perhaps he'll photoshop himself riding shotgun with Jack Kennedy through Dealey Plaza. Ooh! Maybe he'll have the boys (who'll "do your homework for you") work up a My Lai massacre barbecue, starring Glenn Beck in a "Kiss the Cook" apron. That would be adorable. Remember the 9/11 tourist on the WTC hoax? Yeah. That's right up his alley. I know! maybe he should work himself into Hiroshima, stratched out on a deck chair with one of those suntan reflectors and the whatchamacallit on his nose! Yeah! Such "entertainment" makes Glenn Beck look like so much more than a malicious pundit, it makes him look like an actual historic figure!

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What infamous historic tragedy, in which people Glenn Beck never had a damn thing to do with DIED, should Glenn Beck dry hump next?

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What infamous historic tragedy, in which people Glenn Beck never had a damn thing to do with DIED, should Glenn Beck dry hump next?

The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand

14 votes

The Hindenburg explosion

7 votes

The rape of Nanking

23 votes

The Blitzkrieg

4 votes

Pearl Harbor

20 votes

Nagasaki

5 votes

To Tongkin Gulf incident

6 votes

Chernobyl

7 votes

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