Senate Derp, DERP. Derpitimus Maximus. Derpity deeeeeeerp...

My favorite part is where he acknowledges that there would be "criticism" but then goes on to state he doesn't care. Yeah, this stupid "university club" that's going to become anathema when future employers google your name, that's the ****ing post to tie your proverbial horse to.

 

Ah to be eighteen again!

 

I was never this stupid when I was eighteen.

 

Ted Cruz on shutting down the government(to try and defund Obamacare)

“There are some Democrats, some in the media and some Republicans who portray a shutdown as a horrible calamity. I think the term ‘shutdown’ is a misnomer,” Cruz said Tuesday during a luncheon with conservative activists and bloggers at the Heritage Foundation. “It’s actually a partial, temporary shutdown. We have seen them before.”
These “partial, temporary” shutdowns, Cruz argued, happen “every single week on the weekend. Saturdays and Sundays we see temporary partial government shutdowns, and the world doesn’t end.”

 

Ready??

Here we go: Ted Nugent in a Birther.

 

Not really knews. It's been known for awhile Nugent is a Birther.

 

I am not surprised, to say the least...

 

Beck calls Diane Sawyer a bigot.

Warning - Gendered slur in the link.

 

Yeah, we have seen government shutdowns before. Back in the nineties; people where I work, which is a government facility, still tell horror stories. People worked without pay for an extended period. It's quite a bit different than taking the weekend off; we're talking about massive numbers of people sent home without pay and a significant number told to keep working without pay. Those who work will get that pay when the government opens up again; for those sent home without pay, that's just lost time and lost money. And contrary to what a lot of people think about government jobs, a large number of people in my workplace live paycheck to paycheck. They can't afford that kind of nonsense talk.

 

One of the worst consequences would be that most federally-funded research would be shut down. Which would ruin most science projects, including ones that have been going on for years or even over a decade. Once funding was restored, they'd have to start all over again.

And since the shutdown would eventually end, the overall cost of restarting everything (not just research) makes a government shutdown actually increase the budget deficit and force the federal government to spend more overall.

 

And on the not quite so drastic scale (but would be the ones liable to piss the most people off sadly enough), would be all those federal parks, landmarks and museums that don't necessarily shut down on the weekends but would in a Federal shut - down.

Some Kentucky derp:

Kentucky petition for school prayer links ban on prayer to AIDS epidemic.

*facepalm* These people are still living in the 1980s/1990s aren't they?

 

It could very well just be that they're so over concerned about any and every little lawsuit in there, they put that in there so that if a parent was stupid enough to check the 'go outside in during lightening storms, they can turn around and say "see? you checked this off so you can't sue."

Still stupid, but then again, there ARE people who can and will sue for just about anything under the sun now. :-\

 

There is a law on their books that says the doctor must make a report within 24 hours. If this guy gets his way it'll be the responsibility of the woman to do so or else it is treated as a misdemeanor.

 

Oh wait there's more. Doubel wammy.

Pat Robertson says killing in video games is just like killing in real life

No really. "I think mayhem, killing, Grand Theft Auto, they get pretty bizarre. So if you're murdering somebody in cyberspace in a sense you're performing the act, whether you like it or not."

Also: "Jesus said, 'if you look upon a woman with thoughts lust in your heart, you've committed adultery with her, ' so that's a virtual sin," said Robertson




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And in the department of "You're not helping":

Rangel: Tea party is the same group of White Crackers who fought Civil Rights

See, he might be right, but the "white crackers" is not needed and it wind sup destroying the point.

 

*sighs* everytime Robertson magically makes sense on some issues (Pot, transgender issues), he takes one giant leap back with nonsense such as above.

I'm not even going to comment on the Virginia one. My blood pressure would rise too high.

 

There's the Pat Robertson I... uh... know and love?

Also, I love how you can always spot the ones who don't know what they're talking about as regards video games by their use of GTA. Yes, "family" "values" types, please continue to focus on the big fish that got away. Please do not ever notice what goes into your typical Shin Megami Tensei game. Kthanx.

 

In other Tea party related news...

*sigh*

 

HERP DERP herpity doooooooooooooo!

The Obamacare 10% tax on tanning beds is racist because only white people need to tan.

 

Are you kidding, it's like an unexpected present when he surfaces to try and explain away his failure.

Also, no amount of money will ever make him get over how he missed his one chance to fulfill his life long dream.
Poor guy, I bet his champagne tastes a little flat now.

 

Gay inclusive curriculum leads to child molestation and witchcraft

Read the red links too. This is basically "I don't have the right to cram my religion down your throat, but I have the right to cram my religion down your throat." And somehow anti bullying training(lectures?) is leading to gay indoctrination.

 

I wish I'd grabbed those chair throwing gifs while getting that article on Russia's anti - gay laws when I had the chance.