Michele Bachmann: Just When You Thought She Couldn't Be More Idiotic

Michele Bachmann never met an issue she couldn't mangle, and now she's knee-deep in another one.


See, when Obama announced the stimulus package, to help get the economy moving, Bachmann was vociferously vocal about it, criticizing Obama, saying it wouldn't work, calling it gay and, therefore, of Satan, you know, her usual rhetoric.


But, um, Michele? Honey? Wingnut? Liar? Why then did you eagerly accept the money?


In private, it seems that serial liar Michele Bachmann not only repeatedly sought stimulus funds from federal agencies, but justified her rabid requests by claiming that the funds would create jobs and strengthen the economy. And yet, publicly Bachmann denounced the stimulus as an act of "overspending" and "fantasy economics" that hurt jobs.


Of course, when asked by her usual two-faced approach, Bachmann replied; "I voted against the stimulus and I was very public against the stimulus. After the stimulus was passed and the money was there, why should my constituents or anyone else be disadvantaged?" 


So, she thought it was wrong, she thought it wouldn't help, she thought it was bad policy, but she stood in line with her hands out to take it.


Asshat say what?


Bachmann says she sought federal money to create jobs in her district, even though she preached, because let's face it, with her religious wingnutism, she does a lot of preaching, that government spending [i.e. the stimulus package] would, in fact, hurt the economy and destroy jobs. Again, she said publicly that it would destroy jobs and then took the money in the hopes of creating jobs.


It's the Michele Bachmann special, a Two-Step-Flip-Flop Lie.


Does she even understand economics?
Does she even understand anything?


And let's talk about the debt ceiling issue. Bachmann was very vocal in her opposition to raising the debt ceiling, which would allow the U.S. to continue to borrow money, while policy experts from both parties agreed it should be raised.


Now, Bachmann is claiming she had never advocated for default, but had put a plan on the table that would have denied an increase in the debt ceiling and instead required the Treasury Department to prioritize payments to US creditors, Social Security recipients, Medicare beneficiaries and the military. But, was she aware that her "plan" would have required defunding a majority of government programs, from unemployment benefits to the FBI?


Bachmann was not bothered by that prospect.
Another Two-Step-Flip-Flop Lie.


And then, when asked how she would work with the Democrats if....and it's a big If....huge....she was elected president, Bachmann said she would "work tirelessly" to ensure that the Republican Party picked up 13 seats in the Senate, giving Republicans a filibuster-proof majority to enact her agenda.


So, she wouldn't work with the Democrats, and she wouldn't work with anyone who doesn't agree with her asshatted policies, her wingnutism, her fucktarditude.


Two-Step-Flip-Flop Lie.
That's what you get with Bachmann.

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Me And AC: On The Same Page

So, this morning Carlos and I were discussing Michele Bachmann and her campaign and her refusal to answer any questions she doesn't like, but instead only says, "I'm running for the presidency of the United States....." And I said, "Oh, she's running all right. But she's not running for something, but away from answering questions about things she's said in the past."

Gay people suffer from a sexual identity disorder,
gay people are sexually dysfunctional.
Gay people live a life of bondage, of despair.
Gay people are of Satan.

She's not judging, mind you, when she calls us every foul thing that pops into her anti-gay head; things no doubt fed to her by her ambiguously heterosexual husband Marcussssssssss.

Still, after Carlos and I ranted and raged about the Missuses Bachmann, I was pleasantly surprised to find that Anderson Cooper, my husband in my head, had the exact same thoughts as I did.

Me and AC. Simpatico, dontcha know!

Seriously, Anyone Who Thinks This Asshat Is Presidential Material Is A F**king Loon

She cannot answer a question.
Or, when she does, she simply says, "I am running for the President of the United States."
She doesn't 'judge' but believes gay people are 'of Satan'.
Again, seriously, if you are thinking of voting for this delusional fucktard, then i would hazard a guess that you, too, are a delusional fucktard.
Just sayin'.

It's Not Just Her Eyes That Are Crazy.....

Lots of folks talking about the recent cover of Newsweek featuring Michele Bachmann looking, well, slightly crazed; okay, very crazed. Some folks, those with Tea Bags, are sayin' it's a deliberate attempt to discredit her campaign for the presidency.
Other folks, like Jon Stewart and, well, me, say she is crazy, and it isn't just her eyes, it's the stuff that comes out of her mouth.

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So, I present these without comment because that would be like shooting fish in a barrel. Let's listen in:

Michele Bachmann on the Theory of Evolution [2003]:
"Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat, which became a donkey, which became a human being? There’s a real lack of evidence from change from actual species to a different type of species. That's where it's difficult to prove."

Michele Bachmann on the Gay Marriage debate [2004]: 
"We're in a state of crisis where our nation is literally ripping apart at the seams right now, and lawlessness is occurring from one ocean to the other. And we're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time, where every man doing that which is right in his own eyes—in other words, anarchy."

Michele Bachmann on the 'good news' about Melissa Etheridge's breast cancer [2004]:
"Unfortunately she is now suffering from breast cancer, so keep her in your prayers. This may be an opportunity for her now to be open to some spiritual things, now that she is suffering with that physical disease. She is a lesbian."

Michele Bachmann on wiping out the minimum wage [2005]:
"Literally, if we took away the minimum wage—if conceivably it was gone—we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level."

Michele Bachmann's prayer for You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International, an anti-gay heavy metal ministry that promotes the gospel to public school students [2006]:
"I thank you for how you are going to advance them from 260 schools a year, Lord, to 2,600 schools a year. Lord, we ask by faith that you would expand this ministry beyond anything the originators of this ministry could begin to think or imagine."

Michele Bachmann on Iran planning to turn Northwest Iraq into a terrorist training camp [2007]:
"Iran is the troublemaker trying to tip over apple carts all over Baghdad right now because they want America to pull out. And you know why? It's because they've already decided, that they're going to territory, they're- they're going to partition Iraq and half of Iraq, the western northern portion of Iraq is going to be called, the United, uh, the, the uh, -oh, I'm sorry, I can't remember the actual name of it now, but it's going to be called, um, uh, the, the, uh, uh the Iraq State of Islam, something like that."

Michele Bachmann, on her opposition to a bill that expands AmeriCorps, the Peace Corps' domestic equivalent [2009]:
"I believe that there is a very strong chance that we will see that young people will be put into mandatory service. And the real concerns is that there are provisions for what I would call re-education camps for young people, where young people have to go and get trained in a philosophy that the government puts forward and then they have to go to work in some of these politically correct forums."

Michele Bachmann, rewriting history for the teabaggers New Hampshire [2010]:
"What I love about New Hampshire and what we have in common is our extreme love for liberty. You’re the state where the shot was heard around the world in Lexington and Concord."

Michele Bachmann Bachmann on how to fix the nation's long-term deficit [2011]:
"I think if we give Glenn Beck the numbers, he can solve this."

Michele Bachmann praising the Founding Fathers for their commitment to diversity [2011]:
"It didn't matter the color of their skin, it didn't matter their language, it didn't matter their economic status, it didn't matter whether they descended from known royalty or whether they were of a higher class or a lower class, it made no difference. Once you got here [to the United States] you were all the same. Isn't that remarkable?"

Michele Bachmann Said What!?!

Book Banning Still Goes On

What part of "public" education don't they get?

Public education applies to the public, no? Meaning everyone, no matter the color, the gender, the sexual orientation, the religious, or non-religious beliefs. Am I right, or does public education mean the education of the public by the will of the few.

See, that what seems to be happening in a place called, of all things, Republic, Missouri, where the school board voted 4-0 recently to ban Slaughterhouse-Five and another book, Sarah Ockler’s Twenty Boy Summer, after a local resident complained that the books teach ideas contrary to the Bible.

Ideas contrary to the Bible being taught in "public" schools.

Wesley Scroggins

That local crackpot resident religious wingnut, one Wesley Scroggins, originally wanted three three books banned, but the school board voted to keep Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak on the shelves. After the vote, which takes the books out of school curriculum and removes them from the school library, Scroggins crowed: "I congratulate them for doing what’s right and removing the two books. It’s unfortunate they chose to keep the other book.”

A public school succumbed to the religious rantings of one resident. One resident who believes public schools, that are paid for by all residents tax dollars, should not have any book on the shelf that contradicts or questions the Bible. Even if some of those public school students don't read the Bible, but read other religious texts, or read no religious books. Muslims students. Jewish students. Agnostic and atheist students must bow to the will of people like Wesley Scroggins.

People who don't seem to understand that this country is built on a Separation of Church and State. If you want to educate your children in the ways of the Bible, go to church. But don't force your religion down the throats of everyone, Wesley Scroggins. See, maybe one day, there will be another narrow-mined bigot like Wesley Scroggins who gets the school board to ban books about black people, gay people, Muslims, women, Socialists, Marxists, Communist. How can we every understand the world, and learn about the world, if we teach and read and learn only one thing?

Hopefully, as happened way back in 1982, the Supreme Court will strike down the ruling by the school board.  Back then, a school board in New York voted to ban eight books, including Slaughterhouse-Five, after a right-wingnut group started a campaign against them. Board members agreed, calling the books “anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and just plain filthy.”

But Justice William Brennan led a court plurality in striking down the censorship scheme: “In brief, we hold that local school boards may not remove books from school library shelves simply because they dislike the ideas contained in those books and seek by their removal to ‘prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion.’ Such purposes stand inescapably condemned by our precedents.”

And in 1993, a school board in Olathe, Kansas, ordered the removal of the book Annie on My Mind from a school library because it deals with homosexuality. Parents who supported the novel sued and won. A federal court ruled that public schools may not ban books “based on their personal social, political and moral views.”

Which is what Wesley Scroggins asked the Republic school board to do, and its exactly what they did.

It's time people understood that there are all sorts of people in the world, some who share our views, and some who don't But how are we to understand those people who are different if we ban books about them, and make the learning of anything other than one way, illegal?

If we don't understand one another, we'll never get along. Something many so-called Christians, like Wesley Scroggins, don't seem to understand. Maybe they ought to read a good book, and open their minds.

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A Tale Of Two Republicans

The GOP really wants to take the White House back in 2012, because, you know, the last time they had it they did such a bang up job, starting wars, toppling the economy, adding trillions to the deficit, while cutting taxes for the rich.

So, they want to take it away from the Democrats and go back to bad business as usual. And two of the candidates hoping to unseat Obama--and I giggle, because they can't--are the lovely and idiotic Michele Bachmann, and the lovely and RUMORED to be gay--I think because of his beautiful hair--Rick Perry.

But these two are running quite the different campaigns, and the way they run their campaigns is how they would run the country if they ever--and I'm still giggling because they won't-get elected president.

Michele Bachmann lies, and is so pathological about it, that she doesn't even know she's lying. Remember her old chestnut about Obama's trip to India costing the American people $200 million a day? Even when that was proven to be a lie she didn't back down because , to her, a lie becomes the truth if you keep saying it.

Now, however, Bachmann isn't talking. At least about her ex-gay husband and his ex-gay business turning gay people straight through prayer and brainwashing. No, that she won't discuss. Nor will she discuss her part in the business, as the owner, or how the clinic is funded by the American taxpayers, and recives Medicaid payments, or why her district has been dubbed a "suicide contagion area" by Minnesota officials.


Bachmann believes she can say whatever the hell she wants and then clam up if the questions get too hard, or too close to home, or too 'Your husband's a big ol queen.'
So, don't ask her about praying away the gay, she won't answer. And don't ask her about the money she took from Medicaid for her business while calling Medicaid and Medicare socialism. And don't ask her about the rash of suicides in her congressional district and how she voted against antibullying measures in 2006.

She won't talk. She'll walk away. She cut off the feed if she's doing the interview via satellite, and her 'people' will physically push reporters out of the way; just ask ABC News' Brian Ross who was shoved while trying to ask Bachmann about the ex-gay business.

So, that's what you get with Bachmann, You get the lies and the innuendo, all unproven, though she'll keep spreading them. But you also get non-answers, you get cut off, you get shoved, if she doesn't like the question. That would be a Bachmann presidency.

But then we have good old boy from Texas, Rick Perry. What kind of president would he make? Well, from all appearances, he'd be just like George Bush, a puppet president being controlled by people in the background.

I mean, there's no argument that while W was president, it was Dick Cheney and Karl Rove pulling the string while Bush did the lying wear-mongering, profiteering for big business two-step. But who's pulling the strings on Rick Perry? Let's see....

Ricky made headlines for his comments regarding the passage of marriage equality in New York by appearing to be pro-equality: "Our friends in New York six weeks ago passed a statute that said marriage can be between two people of the same sex. And you know what? That's New York, and that's their business, and that's fine with me. That is their call. If you believe in the 10th Amendment, stay out of their business."

But then Rick Perry apparently got a "talking to" by Bryan Fischer of the hate group, American Family Association [AFA], because he changed his remarks, saying, now, “I probably needed to add a few words after that ‘it’s fine with me,’ and that it’s fine with me that a state is using their sovereign rights to decide an issue. Obviously gay marriage is not fine with me. My stance hasn’t changed.”

But that isn't what you said, Rick. You said marriage equality was fine with you until the über conservative AFA got hold of you, and you realized you might be losing your right-wingnut, Tea Party conservative, religious zealot base.

So, he pandered to the AFA. And now he's out saying it again and again, how, although he said he was fine with states deciding the issue of marriage equality, he isn't really fine with it. In fact, he downright opposes it, dagnabbit.

So, there we have it, the tale of two Republicans, and glimpses of what this country will be if either one was ever elected to that office. One will refuse to speak when the questions get too hard, or too close to home, while the other will let groups like the AFA determine his position on the issues for him.

Is that really the directions anyone should be headed?

Bachmann Won't Talk
The Rick Perry Marriage Equality Two-Step

Oh, F**ksNews! You Slay Me!

Listen to the last sentence......after, of course, wading through the WMD stupidity to get there:

Yes, indeedy, there were no terrorist attacks on the country during 2000 to 2008.
And, in other F**ksNews:

No Jews were harmed during the making of WWII.
The Blacks weren't slaves, they were just unemployed and we helped by giving them jobs, a home, three squares a day, and beatings and rapes.
The gays invented AIDS so we could kill off the heteros and rule the world.

What other 'news' stories can we expect from F**ksNews?

Being Gay Isn't A Choice, Being A Homophobic Moron, However, Is

Out there in Iowa, where they have marriage equality, and corn, as well as a group of conservative asshatted wingnuts who have come up with a pledge that they wants all Republican presidential candidates to sign.

It, naturally, opposes marriage equality, but also opposes Sharia law and bans pornography; pornography? What will the GOP do without their porn?

But the pledge also contains a passage declaring that homosexuality is a choice, rather than a biological trait. Yes.....it does.

And the first Repugnant Republican to step up and sign it? None other than Married-To-The-Ex-Gay, Michele Bachmann.

Now, we all know that Bachmann was born straight, and probably born stupid. But she chose to be a bigot, a homophobe, and she chose to marry a man who professes the ability to get rid of the gay.

Is this really the leader the Republicans want? I mean, that would be their choice, right?

Hey Teabaggers? You Picked her!

Even though she already appeared in one Presidential Debate, where she announced she was running for President, Michele Bachmann went to Iowa this week to announce again that she wants to be our Crazy-Eyes-In-Chief.

Now, you may wonder why she's announcing again. Well, no one, except for her faithful wingnut minions, ever believes a word she says because she's known for her tendency to, um, lie, so she says everything twice.....or thrice.

So, there she was in Waterloo, Iowa, you betcha by golly wowing her fans as she announced she would be the next president of these Untied States. And during her announcement, she compared herself to one of the towns most famous residents, John Wayne, saying,  "That's the kind of spirit I have too."

Um, Michele? Honey? John Wayne wasn't from Waterloo. It was John Wayne Gacy, serial killer, to whom you compared yourself. Gacy, who has "that kind of spirit", as Bachmann reminded us, murdered 33 young men and teenage boys in the late 70s.

Oh, Michele.

You're dumb.
And you will never be president of anything.

Poor Mitt.....I Think We Need A Telethon

Failing that, does anyone have a teeny-weeny-itty-bitty-tiny violin to play for the poor man? Why? You ask. Well, it seems that Mitt Romney is unemployed, like so many other Americans and we should feel sorry for him.

Romney, aptly labeled "out of touch" by the Democratic National Committee, for the remarks he made in Florida this week, is now back-pedaling and shifting focus, and playing with smoke and mirrors so we don't look at the man behind the curtain.

See, Mitt was down in Florida, talking to, and ALLEGEDLY listening to, small business owners in that state, when the crowd began telling their tales of how hard it is to find work in this economy. So, um, what did Mitt do? Did he offer up a comprehensive plan on how to get America, and Americans, back to work? Did he propose a new, brilliant strategy for fixing the deficit?

No, Mitt Romney, multi-millionaire presidential candidate, said that maybe he should speak: “I should tell my story, I’m also unemployed.”

The DNC emailed bombed his campaign headquarters, and the Romeny Camp went into spin overdrive, saying the crowd laughed at Shecky, er, Mitt, and that he was just being self-deprecating.

Which is easy to do when you're worth millions.

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Seth Meyers Was Right: It WAS A Joke

Real estate mogul, reality TV celebrity, bad hair and serial bankruptcy filer, Donald Trump has announced he will not be running for president in 2012. In a related story, he did admit he is still considering a run for President of the Hair Club For Men, since he's already a client.

But Chump, er, Hump, er, Trump, said, in his statement, well, he said a lot of things, so lets listen in, and I'll make snide remarks as we go:

"After considerable deliberation and reflection, I have decided not to pursue the office of the Presidency. This decision does not come easily or without regret; especially when my potential candidacy continues to be validated by ranking at the top of the Republican contenders in polls across the country."

Um, Donald, being tied for fifth place with Ron Paul is not the TOP of the polls, unless you're reading them upside down.

"I maintain the strong conviction that if I were to run, I would be able to win the primary and ultimately, the general election."

So, you could win the nomination and the election, but you won't run? Really, Donny?

"I want to personally thank the millions of Americans who have joined the various Trump grassroots movements and written me letters and e-mails encouraging me to run. My gratitude for your faith and trust in me could never be expressed properly in words."

Sorry, Teabaggers, I care more about my wallet than I do yours.

"I will continue to voice my opinions loudly and help to shape our politician's thoughts. My ability to bring important economic and foreign policy issues to the forefront of the national dialogue is perhaps my greatest asset and one of the most valuable services I can provide to this country."

In other words, though I could run and win, I won't do it, but I also won't shut my mouth, because when I speak, people listen, but not if I'm president.

"I will continue to push our President and the country's policy makers to address the dire challenges arising from our unsustainable debt structure and increasing lack of global competitiveness....including getting tough on China and other countries that are methodically and systematically taking advantage of the United States, were seldom mentioned before I brought them to the forefront of the country's conversation."

Yeah, Donny, no one was talking about China until you brought it up.

Keep strokin' that ego, Chump, er, Hump, er, Trump, but rest assured that though you had scads of followers the chances of you getting elected to any public office higher than dog catcher were minimal, at best.

Now, be gone, before someone drops a house on you.

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He Won't Run, And A Great Sigh Of Relief Was Heard Throughout The Land

Sorry. I know you all hate this
picture, but it shows the True
Huckster in all his glory.

Once considered a front runner for the GOP nomination for president, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee has announced that he will not run for the office. And the scramble within the rest of the motley crew of GOP nominees begins.

Huckabee said, over the weekend: “All the factors say go, but my heart says no and that’s the decision I have made.” This, as I said on some other blogs, is Huckabee-speak for "I know I don't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning so I won't even try."

And yet, even while stating he wouldn't run, the Huckster talked about how he felt he could have won the nomination, and the office. He said his wife and children encouraged him to run. He said recent polls show that he could'a been a contendah. He said he could win voters outside the south. He said he could raise the money needed to run.

He could. He could. He could. He won't.

"I had come to believe I would be in the race," Huckabee said. "The external signs … point strongly toward running," he said. "But only when I was alone, in quiet and reflective moments, did I have not only clarity but an inexplicable inner peace."

I have inner peace, too, Mike, knowing I won't have to listen to your bigoted, anti-gay, holier-than-thou rhetoric for the next 18 months.

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Well, We Know She's Not Smarter Than A Fifth Grader

Judging by recent polls, most of America, including both the GOP and the Democrats--though the Teabaggers lag far behind--agree on one thing: that Michele Bachmann is....what's the word...what's the word....stupid.

And now someone wants to show just how stupid.

Even though Michele Bachmann is, shall we say, besides stupid, oftentimes reticent to have a dialogue with someone who disagrees with her, that hasn't stopped Amy Myers, a high school sophomore from Cherry Hill, New Jersey, from challenging the Minnesota Wingnut to a debate on the US Constitution, US history, and civics.

Do it, Michele. Do it.

See, Amy Myers is tired of Bachmann's mistakes, and misstatements, and her frequent errors [read: lies]. Amy says Bachmann's distortions are bad for civic discourse--and bad for women. And so Amy wants to take Michele to task and prove that Bachmann is neither a great Representative, Big R, not a great representative, little r, of women. Myers wants a debate.

Do it Michele. Do it.

And Amy Myer's put her challenge into a letter:

Dear Representative Bachmann,


My name is Amy Myers. I am a Cherry Hill, New Jersey sophomore attending Cherry Hill High School East. As a typical high school student, I have found quite a few of your statements regarding The Constitution of the United States, the quality of public school education and general U.S. civics matters to be factually incorrect, inaccurately applied or grossly distorted. The frequency and scope of these comments prompted me to write this letter.
Though I am not in your home district, or even your home state, you are a United States Representative of some prominence who is subject to national media coverage. News outlets and websites across this country profile your causes and viewpoints on a regular basis. As one of a handful of women in Congress, you hold a distinct privilege and responsibility to better represent your gender nationally. The statements you make help to serve an injustice to not only the position of Congresswoman, but women everywhere. Though politically expedient, incorrect comments cast a shadow on your person and by unfortunate proxy, both your supporters and detractors alike often generalize this shadow to women as a whole.
Rep. Bachmann, the frequent inability you have shown to accurately and factually present even the most basic information about the United States led me to submit the follow challenge, pitting my public education against your advanced legal education:
I, Amy Myers, do hereby challenge Representative Michele Bachmann to a Public Forum Debate and/or Fact Test on The Constitution of the United States, United States History and United States Civics.
Hopefully, we will be able to meet for such an event, as it would prove to be enlightening.

Sincerely yours,


Amy Myers

So, you think Bacmann will agree to match wits with Amy Myers, or will Bachmann utter some inanities and outright lies?

My guess is the latter, though the former would make for great TV.

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30% Of Republicans Are Brain Dead

The man has produced his birth certificate TWICE, yet 30% of Republicans still think Barack Obama was not born in this country. 

And, on a similar note, 30% of Republicans apparently think Hawaii is not an actual US state.

This new poll, which also shows that 16% of all Americans are as brain dead as that 30% of Republicans, was conducted the week of April 29 to May 2, AFTER Obama released the birth certificate AGAIN and addressed the news media on the topic.

Other groups who are not using their brains, are Conservatives, 34% of whom believe Obama is not an American citizen, and those without a college degree...DUH...21% of whom are clinically moronic.

Seriously, people, the man has shown his birth certificate twice now and yet you still don't buy it? That leads to just one conclusion, well, maybe two. 

You're all a bunch of idiots, or you're a bunch of racists.

Which is it?

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Just A Thought: SHUT! UP!

Sarah Palin.
What makes you think--and I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt that you actually do think--that showing the picture of a dead bin Laden is gonna makes things better in the world? That it is in any way "part of the mission?

What makes you think that those people that choose to fly planes into our buildings because they hate Americans, are now suddenly gonna bow and scrape and say, "Oops, sorry. Never mind." once we show their leader with a gaping hole in his head?

You self-centered narcissistic unintelligent amoral bitch.

Killing Osama bin Laden was a good thing. Good for American morale that the perpetrator of 9/11 was finally punished for his evil. And good for the rest of the world's morale to see that justice can be served. Justice.

But where is there justice in showing the world this man's body? It will only serve to make his minions more vigilant in punishing this country. It will only serve to make their view of America, and Americans, the popular view. That we killed a man, danced in the streets, and then printed up his picture for millions of people to blog about and Facebook "Like" and Tweet about.

You are a complete moron. Every single day that passes, you get further and further from being a potential candidate for president; and let's face it, you half-term-quitter, you were never really getting close anyway.

The difference between you and Obama, besides about a hundred IQ points, an education, a brain, and a heart, is compassion, and understanding. He understands that showing that picture serves no good. He has compassion for the dead man even though the dead man showed us no compassion. He understands that showing that picture will only feed the anti-American frenzy of the terrorists, not make them turn tail and run.

He thinks. You don't

So, seriously, Mrs. Palin, Shut.The.Fuck.Up.

Just For Giggles: THIS Is A GOP Presidential Hopeful

Iowa?!? WTF?!?

I used to have such high hopes for Iowa, and Iowans. They seemed to be free-thinking, equality-minded, live and let live kind of people.

When marriage equality became the law of Iowa, most Iowans just shrugged and went back to work. And when people, and by people I mean the GOP, who have nothing better to do than work to discriminate against the LGBT community, got all hot'n'bothered about same-sex marriage, the majority of Iowans asked their politicians to give it up. They were more concerned about war and money and jobs, and less concerned that John married Joe, or Jane got hitched to Helen.

Like I said, I had high hopes.

But then they elected people who seek to overturn equality, and remove judges from the bench who interpret laws in ways they don't see fit, and I began to wonder about my Iowans.

And now this:

It seems that nearly half of Iowan Republicans believe President Obama was not born in the United States. Seriously. Once their heads were screwed on straight, and now they're all askew.

Some 48% of registered Republican voters said Obama was not born in the U.S., while 26% say he is an American. Even more scary is the 26% who say they are unsure. Unsure? Seriously?

Let me set this queer for you Iowans. The people, and by people I mean Birther wingnuts and GOP goosesteppers who sidestep the issue, who don't think Obama was born in this country think so simply because of the color of his skin. I mean, black people becoming president! 

Or, they think because his name is Barack that he isn't from "here". I mean, if his name was George or Bill, we wouldn't be having this discussion, would we?

Say what you will, you Birther wingnuts, but you are riding this one-trick pony out of racism and fear and ignorance. Neither the color of a man's skin, nor his name alone, makes a man unAmerican.

And Iowans should know better. Or, at least, I thought they did.

And maybe now, since Obama has released his birth certificate AGAIN, we can focus on real issues.

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Trump Wants Your Vote, Yet He Doesn't Vote Himself

Donald Trump says he's considering running for president, while I think he's just stroking his over-inflated comb-over. But what's most interesting about all this is that Donald Trump, Mister Teabagger Darling, Mister God Loves America, Mister Gays Aren't Equal, Mister Birther, hasn't voted in any primary election for more than twenty-one years.

At least according to the folks who would know, the New York City Board of Elections.

He last voted in a primary way back in 1989, when Rudy Giuliani beat businessman Ronald Lauder, and then he took twenty-one years off. Records also show that one Donald Hump, er, Trump skipped the 2002 general election, when Republican incumbent, Governor George Pataki defeated Carl McCall.

Yet Trump insists he's voted in every general election.

Of course, he also insists the president wasn't born in this country. He also insists that the Obama administration and campaign must have paid off every single journalist in the world, including the "journalists" at FoxNews, to keep that secret. He also insists that Barack Obama didn't write both the books that Obama says he authored.

Donald Trumps insists: "You're going to pay a big price because you're wrong. I have records that I voted and so does the Board of Elections ... I signed in at every election."

Then  he had his lawyer defend his voting practices. But then his lawyer also said, that while Trump has always voted, he perosnally has no idea to which party Trump had belonged to in previous years.

Like I said, this is all to stroke his massive comb-over.

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Oh South Carolina, Look What You've Done.....

In the interests of fairness, I actually know one of these wingnuts. Well, 'know' may be a bit strong. I've spoken to him, once, way back in the fall of 2008, just before the election. He was sitting in a bar ranting about Obama and how much he didn't like him, and I thought, "Okay, he's a Republican asshat."

Then he added to his diatribe when he said, out loud, for all to hear, "If Obama gets elected there'll be no living with those people. You know they'll be dancing in the streets because they love to dance."

To which I replied, "Oooooh, me too!"

:::crickets:::

Now, I don't want to point him out, but let's just say he wants to vote for Duh-Duh-Donald Trump.

Also, watch as Bachmann spouts her drivel, and the American flag tips over and all those patriots rush to pick it up off the ground....not. Even Bachmann pays no attention to Old Glory hittin' the pavement.

Last, but not least, the guy who says we spend too much money on edu-mah-cation. Did he not listen to a single one of these illiterate fucktards? So, without further ado, I give you the Teabaggers, mouths filled to the rim with Donald Trump's hairy balls, of South Carolina:

The Bad Paintings Must Die!

It's been quite the week for wackos, and the week isn't even half over.
That teacher that posted pictures of a seven-year-old on her Facebook page so she could make fun of her [HERE].
Those parents who beat up a crossing guard who was stopping their son from beating up another child [HERE].
The Wisconsin Congressman who says it's hard to live on $175,000 a year [HERE].

And now this:

Susan Burns, 53, of Alexandria, Virginia, has been charged with attempted second-degree theft and destruction of property after she attacked a Gauguin--not the person, but a painting--last Friday at the National Gallery.

Ms Burns approached the painting stealthily, then grabbed the frame, pulling the bottom edge off the wall, causing two screws to fall to the floor; when the painting wouldn't come off the wall, she began banging her fists against it. Luckily, the painting is safe behind a plastic shield, so she did no actual damage to the piece.

The Gauguin in question, "Two Tahitian Women"--which depicts two women standing next to each other, one with both breasts exposed and the other with one breast showing--is valued at an estimated $80 million. And while it was not damaged during the attempted attack, it was removed from viewing over the weekend so it could recover from the trauma.

Burns offered this excuse for her attack on art: "I feel that Gauguin is evil. He has nudity and is bad for the children. He has two women in the painting and it's very homosexual. I was trying to remove it. I think it should be burned."

She was taken in for a psychiatric evaluation after saying: "I am from the American CIA and I have a radio in my head. I am going to kill you."

No one knows if she was talking to authorities when she made that threat, or to a Picasso in the corner.

Her lawyer, Sharon Weathers, has wisely declined to comment.
 
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