Politics: The Dark Ages edition

[dreadgeek]

Originally Posted by Dylan

Since you're off topic again, and since I feel a desire to wave Mahhh Texas Flag nice and high

You oughtta come to Texas. We're still givin' out paps and mammos for free

Just had one about two weeks ago as a matter o' fact (p.s. the tranny T ensures I won't be havin' no babies no time soon...thank god)

Haven't had the mammo, and I'm not really in the mood. They've been bugging me for a month to go get it...even offered to pay for a cab to come and get me, take me there, and bring me home afterwards. Yep, been calling me at least twice a week for a month to come and have this mammo. I've had to come up with new excuses as to why I'm not going.

So, I don't know what y'all are doin' up there in OR, but feel free to stop by Texas and get all your lady flowers checked out...for free. We're still givin' it away here.


Dylan

[channeling=Glen Beck]
Free?! Why, that's, that's SOCIALISM! And Texas is a RED state! And who else was associated with the color red? That's right, Communists! So let's see what we have here:

Gives necessary medical care for free? Check.
Is a 'Red' state? Check
Has red in its flag? Check
Has oil? Check

I KNEW it! The Soviet Union didn't just dry up and blow away, the USSR became TEXAS! It all fits! They're 'Red', they have socialism and their own (secret) police the Texas Rangers!

So Comrade Dylan...free mammograms, eh? Giving needed medical care free makes the Magic Baby Buddy Christ with the Kung Fu Grip (TM)* cry.

Cheers
Aj

*(Magic Baby Buddy Christ with the Kung-Fu Grip does not come with the Buddy Christ Church which is sold separately)

[Linus]

Originally Posted by dreadgeek

[channeling=Glen Beck]
Free?! Why, that's, that's SOCIALISM! And Texas is a RED state! And who else was associated with the color red? That's right, Communists! So let's see what we have here:

Gives necessary medical care for free? Check.
Is a 'Red' state? Check
Has red in its flag? Check
Has oil? Check

I KNEW it! The Soviet Union didn't just dry up and blow away, the USSR became TEXAS! It all fits! They're 'Red', they have socialism and their own (secret) police the Texas Rangers!

So Comrade Dylan...free mammograms, eh? Giving needed medical care free makes the Magic Baby Buddy Christ with the Kung Fu Grip (TM)* cry.

Cheers
Aj

*(Magic Baby Buddy Christ with the Kung-Fu Grip does not come with the Buddy Christ Church which is sold separately)

.. that was just skeery.

[dreadgeek]

Originally Posted by Linus

.. that was just skeery.

The scary thing is that I've never seen a full Glen Beck show. I tried, the FSM *knows* I tried to get through a whole show last week when he had Eric "Massage Therapy" Massa on. I think I made it to the first commercial break before I was lying on the floor, whimpering "the dumb! It burns!"

Cheers
Aj

[Cyclopea]

http://ghosthauntings.org/The_Texas_Demon.aspx

[Jess]

Maybe it's just Texas... ( just kidding, idiots are everywhere)..

Other messed up news out of TX

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_497440.html

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...ryId=124515520

[Dylan]

Originally Posted by June

I am confused, both by this "Kinder, Gentler, Martha-esque" Dylan and also, are you trying to tell me that Texas has A Communist Healthcare System?

Or was that Socialist? Those goddamn republicans use the words inter-changebly )sp), and it's screwing me up.

Here's how Texas works, Juney

We have lots o' commie stuff and programs

We don't want the whole damned country movin' to Texas, so we don't tell anyone about our commie programs (not to be confused with pogroms) (that oil pays for, including education)

In order to keep out all the folks we don't want, we send morons to the white house to say really stupid things, so the rest of y'all will think we're complete hicks

'Cuz if the rest of y'all think we're all a bunch of dumb hillbilly rednecks, y'all will stay where ya' are

That way, we have more money for our commie programs, and we can make sure Texans are taken care of first...it keeps all of those coastal liberals away...while y'all feel sorry for us <snifflezzz>

We also make sure that we really media-blitz all of our really inane news stories (it adds to our image as dumb hillbilly rednecks)


This Is Our Way Of Makin' Sure We Don't End Up Bankrupt Like California,
Dylan

AJ...Satan is also associated with the color red...hence the 'demons'

[Dylan]

Originally Posted by June

You'll notice our Little Commie Friend from the TUSSR hasn't come back to refute. This means it's all true. Every bit of it.

EEEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz there, Tiger


Dylan

[Queerasfck]

Originally Posted by Dylan

EEEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz there, Tiger


Dylan

Hey, what?

[Toughy]

Some idiot member of the House (I think it's the same guy in Aj's OP) said the MA Supreme Court decided that the only requirement for marriage is the establishment of intimacy......(a lie)

and he followed with this line of reasoning: some good ole boy could marry his horse because he had intimacy with his horse.....

why are they so focused on bestiality??????


thank the goddess textbooks are going digital so TX will not have the HUGE ASS influence on what is in American History textbooks.....

[Jess]

Originally Posted by Toughy

Some idiot member of the House (I think it's the same guy in Aj's OP) said the MA Supreme Court decided that the only requirement for marriage is the establishment of intimacy......(a lie)

and he followed with this line of reasoning: some good ole boy could marry his horse because he had intimacy with his horse.....

why are they so focused on bestiality??????


thank the goddess textbooks are going digital so TX will not have the HUGE ASS influence on what is in American History textbooks.....

You may want to check out the links I added earlier. TX IS creating a huge influence on texts there. Unfortunately, that story may get buried under the "demon" junk.

[Linus]

Originally Posted by Toughy

Some idiot member of the House (I think it's the same guy in Aj's OP) said the MA Supreme Court decided that the only requirement for marriage is the establishment of intimacy......(a lie)

and he followed with this line of reasoning: some good ole boy could marry his horse because he had intimacy with his horse.....

why are they so focused on bestiality??????


thank the goddess textbooks are going digital so TX will not have the HUGE ASS influence on what is in American History textbooks.....

Close but not quite: http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/...horse-marriage

[dreadgeek]

Originally Posted by Dylan

This Is Our Way Of Makin' Sure We Don't End Up Bankrupt Like California,
Dylan

AJ...Satan is also associated with the color red...hence the 'demons'

Now that you mention it. Satan has a beard. Lenin had a beard. They even have similar beards!






That just *can't* be coincidental!

Cheers
Aj

[MsDemeanor]

Originally Posted by June

I am confused, both by this "Kinder, Gentler, Martha-esque" Dylan and also, are you trying to tell me that Texas has A Communist Healthcare System?

Or was that Socialist? Those goddamn republicans use the words inter-changebly )sp), and it's screwing me up.

You forgot Fascist. They're all socialist fascists.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0...42.html#s74266

[MsDemeanor]

Another touch of the disgusting. Go to the 50 second mark in this video and see what the anti-healthcare folks do to a man with Parkinsons.

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content...l?video=949486

If I believed in hell, I would surely believe that these folks would burn there.

[Apocalipstic]

Originally Posted by MsDemeanor

Another touch of the disgusting. Go to the 50 second mark in this video and see what the anti-healthcare folks do to a man with Parkinsons.

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content...l?video=949486

If I believed in hell, I would surely believe that these folks would burn there.

Thanks for posting! I had not seen this one.

The guy who said "I decide" and threw money at the man with Parkinson's. Wow!

I just do not get how, if one believes in the Bible, this absolute lack of empathy, sympathy or any other positive feeling for one's fellow human, makes any sense. Maybe when one is illogical in the first place and believes in the Celestial Dictaphone version of the Bible, misinterpreting it to one's own gain is pretty easy?

Demons? Really? I bet dude is a deacon at his church. Who is the deamon really?

UGH.

[dreadgeek]

Originally Posted by MsDemeanor

Another touch of the disgusting. Go to the 50 second mark in this video and see what the anti-healthcare folks do to a man with Parkinsons.

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content...l?video=949486

If I believed in hell, I would surely believe that these folks would burn there.

You know, it's interesting. One of the arguments that conservatives/libertarians/Tea Partiers make is that "government shouldn't be in the business of charity, only private individuals and churches should provide charity". The question I have asked and which I've never gotten a truly satisfactory answer to is this: "if you begrudge paying, say, 1% more a year in taxes then why should anyone believe that you'll *give* more money to charity?"

When the young man in the tie threw money at the man with Parkinson's as if he were not a human being and when we heard the people saying "no handouts here" we saw what a world where they held sway would look like. What charity there *was* would be given by the church which would only provide you food, what-have-you if you were willing to listen to a sermon (and accept their religion). Other than that people would be on their own.

Cheers
Aj

[AtLast]

Originally Posted by dreadgeek

You know, it's interesting. One of the arguments that conservatives/libertarians/Tea Partiers make is that "government shouldn't be in the business of charity, only private individuals and churches should provide charity". The question I have asked and which I've never gotten a truly satisfactory answer to is this: "if you begrudge paying, say, 1% more a year in taxes then why should anyone believe that you'll *give* more money to charity?"
When the young man in the tie threw money at the man with Parkinson's as if he were not a human being and when we heard the people saying "no handouts here" we saw what a world where they held sway would look like. What charity there *was* would be given by the church which would only provide you food, what-have-you if you were willing to listen to a sermon (and accept their religion). Other than that people would be on their own.

Cheers
Aj

No, they won't because they don't have a clue as to the meaning of charity really.

Yes, the bastards throwing money at this man ought to burn in hell! Or, develop Parkinson's. Sure, they probably have good health-care, but, there is no cure and the meds for it arn't exactly a picnic as well as dying from it.

What I have learned through the years is that there is a very big difference between how the wealthy view charity in that is really is just a tax write-off for many. And a means to be adored. Hasn't a damn thing to due with charity as part of one's being or spirit of goodness. It is just another IRS line to place an amount in for a deduction.

I do know that this may not be true for contributions made by small business within their communities. But, usually in these situations, the owners are present at functions and events and remain involved. thinking about local businesses that contribute to youth sports firlds, etc. and go to the games, continue to help with uniforms and equipment and scholarships to families that can't pay for their kids to join or equipment costs. Can also be things like Shriner's hospitals.

To me, charity is mich more than throwing (no pun intended) money at something. It is an active process of giving your time as well.

[Jess]

Originally Posted by June

So here's the deal. I will bet you an unspecified amount of money that most of those Yahoos out there protesting the Healthcare bill, don't even fucking have it! Because unless you work for a major company, city, state, county, feds, the chances of you having access to REASONABLY priced healthcare is pretty slim.

What they appear to be doing in these "Rallies" is to express their outrage that "their" President is black under the guise of some of the most ridiculous and outlandish signage I have ever seen. They are grasping at metaphorical straws and outright lies told to them by their equally racist Senators in order to have something to bitch about that is not going to get their forehead painted with 3K's.

The problem here is not that they don't want Healthcare reform. It's that they don't want this President and so they are willing to screw everyone with their constant jabs and innuendo.

I know that most people are not stupid and mean, it just seems that way sometimes. AND BOTH the Republicans and Democrats are responsible for making that document so bloated with pork and special "deals", that it is not even readable.

SHAME ON ALL OF THEM!

This Quasi Rant has been brought to you by 4 cups of coffee and a Diet Coke (r)

thank you for this.

[Bit]

Originally Posted by The June on Caffeine

This Quasi Rant has been brought to you by 4 cups of coffee and a Diet Coke (r)

...and by some serious analysis. It shows.

I agree, btw, about these people's likely motivation. But I don't think we can afford to underestimate the contribution of health insurance industry lobbying to this "movement." After all, who stands to be reined in if it passes? There's a lot of profit to be lost... and so what better than a little classic misdirection, a little fanning of certain dying sparks into open flames?

After all, who would be able to point a finger at the health insurance lobby if this is a "grassroots movement," and yet how do we know who all the people were at the beginning of it? How do we know who the people are who champion it now, or more importantly, who they work for? There's no way to keep track of things like that.

[apretty]

Originally Posted by Toughy

Some idiot member of the House (I think it's the same guy in Aj's OP) said the MA Supreme Court decided that the only requirement for marriage is the establishment of intimacy......(a lie)

and he followed with this line of reasoning: some good ole boy could marry his horse because he had intimacy with his horse.....

why are they so focused on bestiality??????

here's the guy, running against mccain: http://www.facebook.com/pages/JD-Hay...3051210?ref=nf