Following in the grand tradition of Heavy Metal Parking Lot, I was overjoyed to find Sarah Palin Parking Lot. How dumb are people willing to wait in line for 8 hours to meed a vice presidential failure and gubernatorial quitter? This dumb. (via Boingboing)
You think the socialist takeover of healthcare is bad? There are already several “social” services that need to be delivered back into the hands of caring, private corporations. Anything less would be un-American. (via MADATOMS)
“Anti-divorce” proponent is a master of dry sarcasm.
John Marcotte doesn’t think California’s prop 8 did enough to protect traditional marriage. He’s trying to make sure that nobody can sully the sacred pact of marriage by getting divorced. His goal is to get this anti-divorce legislation into the 2010 ballot as a voter initiative. He should have no trouble getting all the people who voted for prop 8 to vote for this legislation as well, right?
We’re going to set up a table in front of Wal*Mart and ask people to sign a petition to protect traditional marriage. We’re going to interview them about why they thing traditional marriage is important, and then we’ll tell them that we are trying to ban divorce.
People who supported Prop 8 weren’t trying to take rights away from gays, they just wanted to protect traditional marriage. That’s why I’m confident that they will support this initiative, even though this time it will be their rights that are diminished. To not support it would be hypocritical.
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Sometimes other people need to sacrifice in order to protect my ideas about traditional marriage. It’s just a fact of life. It’s not about their soul-sucking sham of a marriage, it’s about what we value as a society.
Classic. (via Boingboing)
What if I told you that the US could save about 15 thousand lives a year, pay for universal health care without raising taxes, and be a lot more mellow? Someone in a position to know the facts has crunched the numbers, and it turns out it’s really easy. Mexico did it just last week. (via Digg)
With all the news stories about birthers, town hall teabaggers, and willfully ignorant lunatics whipped into a frothy rage against affordable healthcare, you might be tempted to think that a sizable portion of the country has suddenly gone batshit bonkers. As it turns out, there’s nothing “sudden” about it. Staunch conservatives have a long and colorful history of being adamantly opposed to every social advancement you care to name.
Before the “black helicopters” of the 1990s, there were right-wingers claiming access to secret documents from the 1920s proving that the entire concept of a “civil rights movement” had been hatched in the Soviet Union; when the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act was introduced, one frequently read in the South that it would “enslave” whites. And back before there were Bolsheviks to blame, paranoids didn’t lack for subversives — anti-Catholic conspiracy theorists even had their own powerful political party in the 1840s and ’50s.
Conservatives opposing positive change despite all reason is nothing new. They’re just a bit more organized an publicized these days. Luckily, if history is any indicator, they are always eventually dragged kicking and screaming into a better, fairer and more humane future. (via Digg)
We already have a “socialized” school system, “socialized” roads and a “socialized” military. Why does a sizable percentage of the population get all bent out of shape about socialized health care? There has to be a better reason than “They’re not smart enough to know any better”, but I’ll be damned if I can think of one. (via Digg)
Bill Maher is kind of a douche, but he’s a funny douche. He’s also dead on with his commentary about the lunatic fringe that refuses to accept the mountains of evidence that President Obama was actually born in the US.
And there’s nothing anyone can do to convince these folks. You could hand them, in person, the original birth certificate and have a video of Obama emerging from the womb with Don Ho singing in the background … and they still wouldn’t believe it.
Which raises the question: Why, in this country, is it always the religious right that won’t take anything on faith?
So far, the reaction from Democrats is to laugh this off, and I understand why. If you seriously believe that President Obama is an African sleeper spy, get out of your chat room and have your house tested for lead.
He’s also right that these people are dangerously crazy. Why is it that anti-war protesters and freedom of speech advocates are investigated as terrorists while certifiably insane birthers are allowed to run around unchecked? (via Boingboing)
EDIT: Here’s a fun graph of birthers by region. Some stereotypes exist for a reason.
Why must patriotism and stupidity always go hand in hand? I know correlation does not necessarily equal causation, but the evidence really is mounting. (via Digg)
