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Tennessee GOP’s idiotic ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill requires teachers to tell parents if their kid is gay!
01.31.2013
07:42 pm
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Isn’t that a face you’d just like to punch?

The newest version of SB 234, Tennessee’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill—which would prohibit any mention whatsoever of homosexuality to Tennessee students in kindergarten through the 8th grade—includes an updated provision requiring teachers and guidance counselors to tell parents if their child self-identifies as LGBT.

What could possibly go wrong in a state where idiots turn in their “gay” dogs to be euthanized?

Remarkable, isn’t it?

The same closet-case dickhead who authored the first bill (which was introduced in 2011 but died) State Sen. Stacey Campfield (NATURALLY A GODDAMNED REPUBLICAN), reintroduced SB 234 this time as well. Campfield is, yes, the very same fucknut who proposed cutting welfare payments when kids get bad report cards just last week!

“The act of homosexuality is very dangerous to someone’s health and safety,” says Campfield.

From the new bill:

The general assembly recognizes that certain subjects are particularly sensitive and are, therefore, best explained and discussed within the home. Because of its complex societal, scientific, psychological, and historical implications, human sexuality is one such subject. Human sexuality is best understood by children with sufficient maturity to grasp its complexity and implications [...]

A school counselor, nurse, principal or assistant principal from counseling a student who is engaging in, or who may be at risk of engaging in, behavior injurious to the physical or mental health and well-being of the student or another person; provided, that wherever possible such counseling shall be done in consultation with the student’s parents or legal guardians. Parents or legal guardians of students who receive such counseling shall be notified as soon as practicable that such counseling has occurred.

WTF???

As Think Progress points out:

Family rejection is a serious risk for LGBT youth. Kids who are LGBT often face alienation, if not outright abandonment, because they come out. Forty percent of homeless youth are LGBT, and many of them report that the reason they left home was to escape an environment hostile to their sexual orientation. LGBT youth who experience family rejection are at high risk for depression and suicide.

Annoyed that his opponents dubbed the first go-round the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, this year Campfield called it the “Classroom Protection Act.”

“Protection from who?” asked Chris Sanders, chairman and president of the Tennessee Equality Project.

“It’s kind of like ‘Don’t Say Gay’ on steroids,” Sanders told The Tennessean. “He’s listened to the objections and ended up making it worse.”

Campfield is known as a particularly bellicose, arrogant and ignorant conservative Republican, the kind of combative not as smart as he thinks he is loser who’s one rung lower than, say, former Tea party-backed congressman Joe Walsh, with about half of Walsh’s wit, charm and intelligence (Walsh possesses none of these attributes, of course). There was a debate last year about whether or not to remove Campfield’s photo from his former high schools Wall of Fame. This guy is a dick.

If you’d like to give Stacey Campfield a piece of your mind—he’s obviously got none of his own—you can do so here. A Facebook page was also set up to organize getting rid of this jackass who seems intent on giving Knoxville a bad name. Here’s his phone number—(615) 741-1766—and his email address: sen.stacey.campfield@capitol.tn.gov

Below, a (flaming) ignoramus speaks his tiny, tiny little mind:
 

Posted by Richard Metzger
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01.31.2013
07:42 pm
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Glenn Beck’s own employee makes his boss look like the megalomaniacal asshole he really is


 
When Glenn Beck started his online network, The Blaze, one of his stated intentions was to find the Jon Stewart of conservatives.

Predictably, any attempts to bring the funny to The Blaze have fallen way, way short, but finally, at long last, one of his talents—writer/comic/voice-over guy Brian Sack, host of BS of A—actually has produced something that is as funny as something you might see on The Daily Show—no really—but the problem is, it’s Glenn Beck’s megalomania and completely batshit bad craziness (not to mention the gullibility of his idiot fanbase) that provides the ripe target for Sack’s pointed satire.

Sack really sticks it to him.

To his credit, Beck must have found this funny, but at the same time, it really does mock him mercilessly and make him—and his biggest fans—look like a total asshole! There’s no pretense here, is there?

Color me confused, but highly amused.
 

Posted by Richard Metzger
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01.31.2013
05:29 pm
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Dog to have been euthanized because it was gay!
01.31.2013
11:37 am
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Some witless asshole dropped off his male pitbull/American bulldog mix at the Jackson Rabies Control Animal Shelter in Tennessee yesterday because he deemed his dog as “gay” for mounting another male dog (by that criteria ALL dogs would be “gay”!). Apparently the fucking idiot owner didn’t want a “gay dog.” The pooch, who displayed no signs of aggression, was scheduled to be euthanized today at 1pm!

Good news, though, a kind soul on Facebook who goes by the name “Jackson TN Euthanasia,” shared the hell out of this poor pup’s story and photo and got this doggie a new home. The dog was lucky, but the old owner will probably always be stupid.

Via BuzzFeed

Posted by Tara McGinley
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01.31.2013
11:37 am
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‘Stop the Witch Hunt Against Michele Bachmann’ ???


 
A thing of oblique beauty, no?

Brought to you by the obviously irony-free crazy people at The David Horowitz Freedom Center.
 

 
Via Joe.My.God

Posted by Richard Metzger
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01.18.2013
06:44 pm
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Fox News personality bursts out laughing at the dumb shit she’s expected to say
01.18.2013
03:48 pm
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In which one of the Fox News network’s newsreaders breaks the fourth wall, if only for a moment:

“No, no, who wrote that? Are you kidding me?”

Kimberly Guilfoyle is probably wondering why she left a promising legal career for this. Having a brain and being on the same program as Eric Bolling, Andrea Tantaros and Greg Gutfield five days a week must be an especially annoying way to make a living even if the money is good. Imagine that it’s you who had to read this copy coming across a teleprompter…
 

 
Via Media Matters

Posted by Richard Metzger
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01.18.2013
03:48 pm
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‘Obama is coming for the guns of anti-gay fundies’ claims anti-gay fundie


 

“What if the Attorney General, and listen the reason I say this might happen is because if you remember the first report put out by the Director of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, when the President became President of the United States, she put out a paper talking about the people who are the categories of people who might be homegrown terrorists.

In that list she put people who believe in the second coming of Jesus Christ, people who believe in pro-life issues, people who don’t believe in having illegal aliens here, they put a lot of good, decent categories of people in that paper.

Well here’s what number four says, the Attorney General can put who he wants to on the list of people who are too dangerous to get guns. What if he decides radio talk show hosts who don’t believe in gay marriage, they’re dangerous, so they shouldn’t get guns? What about pastors who preach against abortion and homosexuality? They’re too dangerous to get guns? That could happen.”

—“American Family Association” radio host Buster Wilson.

Wilson is the same fucking idiot who tried to get conservative Christians to boycott Google over their “Legalize Love Campaign” and who announced this boycott on Google-owned YouTube. The phrase “Dumber than a bag of wet hair” probably wasn’t coined to describe Buster Wilson, but it could have been.

Back in August, chucklehead Buster blamed Hurricane Issac on a New Orleans LGBT festival!

As one YouTube user commented on the clip below:

Tell me then, genius, why did the power of the most high manifest itself by destroying tiny Joplin in a state that’s 77% Christian? Why does he flood massive areas of Mississippi—the most Christian state—every year? Why is it that he makes NYC the centre of the global economy & LA the centre of global culture, yet does nothing to stop their decadence? A hurricane flattened Joplin, it didn’t even dent Manhattan. Sounds like your god is incompetent.

This guy is out of his mind. More at Right Wing Watch.
 

Posted by Richard Metzger
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01.17.2013
07:15 pm
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What’s the most popular conspiracy theory in America?
01.17.2013
03:24 pm
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If you guessed something about how the moon landing was faked or if you think it has to do with reptilians, the JFK assassination or fluoride sapping our precious bodily fluids, keep guessing…

In a new nationwide survey of American voters, Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind project took a look Americans’ belief in political conspiracy theories. The researchers asked respondents about four relatively common-held conspiracy theories: Birtherism (which 36% of all Americans believe in); that the government had advance warning about 9/11 (25% believe that to be true); that Obama stole the recent election (only 19% believe this one, which is surprising); and that George W. Bush stole the 2004 election via rigging the vote (23% believe this).

It was hardly news to read that 64% of registered Republicans voters were “birthers” but so many of them still are? Nearly two-thirds of GOP voters—64% of ‘em—believe that it’s “probably true” that Barack Obama is lying about his birthplace. Remarkable! It’s like it hasn’t abated at all.

Via Alternet:

Belief in conspiracy theories is not unique to Republicans — 56 percent of Democrats believe in one of the four popular myths researchers asked about — but it is more common. Among registered GOPers, 75 percent said at least one of the four theories was likely true.  Moreover, researchers noted: “Generally, the more people know about current events, the less likely they are to believe in conspiracy theories — but not among Republicans, where more knowledge leads to greater belief in political conspiracies.”

THAT’S pretty revealing, isn’t it? Read that last bit, in bold, a second time before continuing, won’t you?

“There are several possible explanations for this,” said Fairleigh Dickinson political scientist Dan Cassino, who helped conduct the poll. “It could be that more conspiracy-minded Republicans seek out more information, or that the information some Republicans seek out just tends to reinforce these myths.”

I can name a bunch of “possible explanations” off the top of my head: Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Sarah Palin, Fox and Friends, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, Donald Trump and so forth. If you fill your head with shit all day, don’t be surprised when you turn into a complete shithead.

...Republicans are more likely to believe that Obama stole the 2012 election, while Democrats are more likely to think the same about 2004. Thirty-seven percent of Democrats think Bush or his supporters engaged in significant voter fraud to win that year, compared to just 9 percent of Republicans and 17 percent of independents.

9/11 conspiracy theories were also more popular among Democrats, with 36 percent believing that Bush knew the towers would be attacked, while young African-Americans are particularly likely to believe this myth — fully 59 percent believe it.

Dan Cassino from Fairleigh Dickinson has a plausible reason why “birtherism” is still so prevalent (aside, of course, from standard run-of-the-mill American idiocy):

“This conspiracy theory is much more widely believed mostly because it’s been discussed so often. People tend to believe that where there’s smoke, there’s fire – so the more smoke they see, the more likely they are to believe that something is going on.”

I think that’s being a little too kind, but he does have a point. As Robert Anton Wilson once told me “People just tend to believe the last darned thing they heard.”

Below, the “Conspiracy Theory Rock” animation by Robert Smigel that was “mysteriously” cut from SNL, obviously at the behest of Lorne Michaels’ puppet masters!
 

Posted by Richard Metzger
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01.17.2013
03:24 pm
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Theocrat evangelist wants to keep God’s ‘diabetes cure’ all to himself (and Chinese Communist party)
01.15.2013
03:33 pm
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On the Trinity Broadcasting Network’s Praise the Lord program, kooky “Seven Mountains Dominionist” evangelist Lance Wallnau claimed that Christians—and ONLY Christians—will soon have “technology that can heal diabetes, literally heal diabetes, in a matter of months” as well as technology “that is going to revolutionize our dependence on oil and energy.”

Wallnau stressed that these holy discoveries will only be “given to Kingdom-minded believers.” Wallnau further claims that these secrets will never be sold to the heathen general American public.

He is urging his associates, “the stewards” of this “disruptive technology,” to share the supernatural diabetes cure with “top layers of the political elite” of the Chinese Communist Party to gain access to them. This, Wallnau says, would help spread the Gospel where it is the most desperately needed.

Nothing nutty about Lance Wallnau, now, is there? Just the other day, theocrat Wallnau claimed that the government, the economy and the media are all governed by Satan.

See also:
Lance Wallnau Explains The Seven Mountains Mandate
 

 
Via Right Wing Watch

Posted by Richard Metzger
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01.15.2013
03:33 pm
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Glenn Beck’s ‘visionary’ two-billion dollar Ayn Rand-inspired survivalist amusement park commune!
01.14.2013
08:09 pm
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None dare call him a “cult leader”: Who says Glenn Beck is just an ordinary megalomaniac? Oh Sweet Jesus… last week Beck gave his audience a look at what’s been rattling around in his feverish noggin’ lately: He wants his own city! Beck even has a name already picked out for his proposed “visionary” hybrid amusement park cum Libertarian city dream project: “Independence, USA” (for what else could he call it? “America, USA”?)

Taking his cues from Ayn Rand (Beck says Independence will be his very own “Galt’s Gulch”), Walt Disney and the survivalist movement, Beck is proposing his city-theme park (to be built in Texas) to be a fabled land where all of his empire’s interests—live events, stores, educational projects, charity, entertainment, news, and technology R&D—would come together in one place. American ideals of hard work, personal responsibility, and freedom would form the bedrock of Beck’s fantasy separatist city.

They would, of course, grow their own food there. Schools would “deprogram” students under the guidance of Christian “historian” David Barton! Politicians could visit Glenn’s very own city “to learn the truth” (Beck’s words, not mine).

Did L. Ron Hubbard himself ever have such grandiose plans? (Oh, yeah, he had his sights fixed on being the king of Rhodesia).

From Beck’s website, The Blaze:

The ambitious project, projected to cost over two billion dollars, has been heavily influenced by Walt Disney. As Glenn has been explaining throughout the week, Disneyland was originally intended to be a place where people would find happiness, inspiration, courage and hope. Over time, Walt Disney’s original vision has been lost. While hundreds of thousands still flock to the town, it’s become commercialized and the big dreams and the heart have been compromised.

Glenn believes that he can bring the heart and the spirit of Walt’s early Disneyland ideas into reality. Independence, USA wouldn’t be about rides and merchandise, but would be about community and freedom. The Marketplace would be a place where craftmen (sic) and artisan (sic) open and run real small businesses and stores. The owners and tradesmen could hold apprenticeships and teach young people the skills and entrepreneurial spirit that has been lost in today’s entitlement state.

There would also be an (sic) Media Center, where Glenn’s production company would film television, movies, documentaries, and more. Glenn hoped to include scripted television that would challenge viewers without resorting to a loss of human decency. He also said it would be a place where aspiring journalists would learn how to be great reporters.

Across the lake, there would be a church modelled (sic) after The Alamo which would act as a multi-denominational mission center. The town will also have a working ranch where visitors can learn how to farm and work the land.

Independence would also be home to a Research and Development center where people would come to learn, innovate, educate, and create. There would be a theme park for people to recharge and have fun with their families.

People would also have the option to live in Independence, with a residential area where people of different incomes could all come together and be neighbors.

That last bit is probably the most outlandish part of the whole thing. In the video, Beck makes a curious aside about the reason why mansion dwellers don’t want to live next door to the poor in the trailer park because, well, it would just look weird. Of course, he’s got a plan to fix all that and rich and poor will live side by side in Glenn Beckistan!

In any case, Beck and his real estate developer buddies might want to start with building just a few of the more modestly priced homes first, and then try to gauge how much interest the wealthy might have in living side by side with his less successful in life fans before they go all in. I mean, can you fucking imagine???

As one wag quipped at TPM, “Atlas puked”! That about sums it up.

There has to be a documentary made about this!!! If it ever happens, of course. Let’s hope it does so we’ll know where they all live and can keep an eye on them. Don’t miss the brain-addled comments on Beck’s site. Howdy neighbors!
 

If you can’t help yourself, catch the rest at The Blaze.

Posted by Richard Metzger
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01.14.2013
08:09 pm
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Shockingly Bad Book Titles: ‘Helping the Retarded to Know God’
01.11.2013
11:56 am
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retgodhnmskilofnmdjaklmnchekmn
 
The first in what I hope will be a series of “Shockingly Bad Book Titles”:

I wonder who came up with this epic (and why?) - the questionably titled: Helping the Retarded to Know God. I think we can guess what the content is like, but I’d still like to read a copy…
 
With thanks to Mark Ebner
 

Posted by Paul Gallagher
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01.11.2013
11:56 am
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