#NOMfail
Because when I’m looking for someone to exemplify the sacred institution of marriage and all of its lofty ideals, I ALWAYS ask the guy who “bravely” wouldn’t marry his Baby Momma.
I cannot begin to imagine the horror the people in Moore, Oklahoma felt yesterday, and will feel for some time to come.
I cannot imagine being the parent of a child in that class of third graders who didn’t make it out of School alive.
I cannot imagine being one of the first responders who had to dig their poor little bodies out of the rubble, or being one of the surviving teachers who tried so valiantly but in the end could not save those children.
CAN NOT IMAGINE.
Don’t WANT to imagine.
It hurts to much.
What I also cannot imagine is being the kind of soulless, insensitive politically charged douchebag who would use this tragedy as a chance to pounce on my political opposites, or to grandstand for cuts to social programs. Erick Erickson. Liz Winstead, and Oklahoma’s own Senator Tom Coburn are all colossal douchehats who need a swift kick in the reproductive bits and a time-out from Twitter and their jobs.
Because his party of favor is getting nowhere with BENGHAAAAAAZI! (and has been revealed to have sat on the IRS “scandal” since last summer because they really have nada since the IRS is known to have targeted liberal groups, too), Erickson thought a devastating natural disaster was a GREAT time to take potshots at the President : 
When called on it , Erickson’s first response was this, 
but when even conservatives began to pile on him he deleted the Tweet.
(Guess Erickson forgot about that neat little invention called the screenshot)
His Facebook page is a stream of outraged comments that echo the sentiment Steve Marmel expressed so well: 
Liz Winstead, creator of The Daily Show, had a moment of stupidTweety, too…….
Bombarded by pissed off libs and conservatives alike, Winsted weakly apologized 
but excuse me if I say “fuck off, Winstead” . It’s a goddamn TORNADO. Devastation is almost always part and parcel of a tornado touch-down, much less on that is classed at F-5.
I expect that kind of “those people were asking for it/ God hates group X” dumbassery from Pat Robertson or Bryan Fischer.
Yeah, we’ll let you have it, all right, Liz.
And last but not least, Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn has looked at the devastation to his constituents, heard the lamenting of anguished parents whose children were buried beneath their school, seen the teary faces of rescue workers who were pulling bodies out of rubble, seen the entire subdivisions flattened to their foundations, and has stated that “federal aid to victims should be offset with cuts elsewhere in the budget because fuck sick, poor, hungry, illiterate people……….multi-national corporations and rich people with Cayman bank accounts need tax cuts, bitchez!”
Seriously……what the FUCK is wrong with people?????
Floating around the Book of Faces lately:
UGH.
Fucking REALLY?????
As a woman, my most pressing issue is the (erroneous) price of groceries*.
NOT receiving fair pay for the same labor.
NOT the rising levels of domestic violence and the casual, pervasive acceptance of rape culture in our society.
NOT my children being able to attend schools that teach real-world, USEABLE and accurate information instead of simply teaching them how to score well on standardized tests, and then being able to go on to an affordable, rewarding college education afterwards.
NOT being able to afford basic healthcare for my family.
NOT be able to afford the kind of genetic testing for cancer that Angelina Jolie revealed she underwent, because my insurance does not cover it.
NOT having my biological functions treated with the same dignity and priority by my insurance company as my husband’s are.
NOT being sure that my children will be treated the same under the law if they turn out to be gay as they would if they turn out to be heterosexual.
NOT being confident that my children will not face harassment, obstacles, and Jim Crow-like bullshit when they reach voting age because racially they look a little too “south of the border” for some people’s tastes.
FOOD PRICES are my main concern, Mr. President, because I have a uterus, and that’s “woman stuff”.
Anyone who posts ANYTHING suggesting that anyone thinks women are mainly after free abortions and condoms needs a punch in the reproductive bits.
There are no “Obamabortions” any more than there are “Obamaphones”, and to suggest that there are is lazy, stupid, sexist, partisan dumbassery of the highest level.
Do a little research before you post things.
Make sure your meme contains accurate information.
Just because it sounds good and confirms your own bias does not mean it speaks truth.
Don’t let your party loyalty and dislike of the person currently in the White House allow you to look like a total fool.
And never, EVER try to defend women from perceived insults to their intelligence and concerns by COMPLETELY INSULTING THEIR INTELLIGENCE AND CONCERNS.
THE END.
*Want a more realistic look? Go here and here and here, rather than a meme based off some crap blog post that doesn’t offer anything other than “I say so, so it MUST be true….religious people NEVER lie or have an agenda!”
There’s a cartoon making the internet rounds that compares Tim Tebow to Jason Collins.
There’s a Tweet going around, too:
I get what they THINK they are trying to convey, but here’s why it comes off as a whiny, self-indulgent false equivalence……….
BECAUSE IT IS A WHINY, SELF-INDULGENT FALSE EQUIVALANCE.
I have seen where some players, media and fans have said that perhaps Tebow should back off with the proselytizing,and have even thought so myself, but I have never heard anyone say that he should be fired for expressing his faith, nor have I heard anyone say that they would refuse to share a locker room or quit a team over it, or infer that somehow Christians are an insult to the sport or to “manliness”.
I have never heard anyone threaten a Christian player with physical harm simply because they are Christian.
I HAVE heard fans, players, and some media figures say that gay players should stay in the closet because they would not be welcome by teammates, fans, or management, and that their jobs would be in jeopardy if they admitted to being gay. I HAVE heard fans, players, and some media figures say they should stay in the closet because they would face physical danger on the field and off were they to be open about their homosexuality.
Just before the Super Bowl, San Francisco player Chris Culliver went on the record with the following statement regarding potential gay teammates:
“Can’t be with that sweet stuff. Nah…can’t be…in the locker room man. Nah.”
Thankfully, the team released a statement rebuking Culliver’s statements:
“The San Francisco 49ers reject the comments that were made , and have addressed the matter with Chris. There is no place for discrimination within our organization at any level. We have and always will proudly support the LGBT community.”
Culliver went on to apologize for his statement the following day, saying
“The derogatory comments I made yesterday were a reflection of thoughts in my head, but they are not how I feel. It has taken me seeing them in print to realize that they are hurtful and ugly. Those discriminating feelings are truly not in my heart. Further, I apologize to those who I have hurt and offended, and I pledge to learn and grow from this experience.”
Whether he meant it or was forced to make the apology is up for debate, but intended or not, Culliver put a very public voice on what has been whispered, if not shouted, for a very long time in professional male sports:
Keep that shit in the closet or you are done here.
Religion and sexuality have NO bearing on how well either man plays his sport, and they should have no bearing on whether either man stays employed or employable.
Tim Tebow may lose his job for sub-par performance, but he will never be legally fired for being Christian or heterosexual.
Jason Collins, and others who are still in the closet for all of these reasons, can not say the same.
By all means, Tebow fans, have and defend your opinions………………just be mindful that Christian privilege is everywhere, and saying two situations are equal does not make it is so.
Tebow is not Jesus, so don’t place him on a cross.
Home-state embarrassment and congressional candidate Mark Sanford has, by virtue of his Argentinian Appalachian Trail Adventures, found himself as the rather clever (and, inconvenient for his campaign) crux of a new billboard from Columbia, SC-based dating service, Ashley Madison.
AshleyMadison.com specializes in “ infidelity and married dating”, something Sanford knows a thing or two about. The company put up a new billboard on the Interstate 26 pathway through the state’s capital city, and it looks like this:
WELL PLAYED, ASHLEY MADISON.
April 29, 2013
BREAKING: Pathetic Assclown Angry At Pathetically Not Being Invited to ‘Pathetic Assclown Nerdprom’
So the annual White House Correspondents Dinner was held last week, and Snowbilly Snooki is in a tizzy because the Kenyan Socialist Secret Muslim Abortion Death Panel Lover had a party with the Lamestream Media and she didn’t score an invite. So upset at not being relevant enough to be invited outright or lugged along like a pathetic “Plus One” with good pal and former co-worker at Faux News Greta Van Susteren, Palin took to Twitter and Facebook to talk about her bitter and hurt feels.
Hilarity ensued.
Because if anyone knows working their ass off, it’s a woman who walked away from her Governorship two years into her term in order to do the hard work of filming TLC reality shows while charging up to $75 K to speak at events (in addition to the demand of First Class airfare, deluxe hotels, chauffeured SUV’s, and plenty of bendy straws), being a ‘News Contributor” at Faux News, and continually serving up idiotic, mis-informed word salads that Teabillies inexplicably lap up like kittens at a milk trough.
I feel so badly for Mrs. Palin and all of those ungodly taxes she is burdened with now that her Bush tax cuts have been allowed to expi…….oh shit, wait a minute – she still HAS her tax cuts, while she supported Republican ideas and plans that have actually ADDED to the middle class burden while allowing corporations and the über rich to ship their money offshore, non-taxed. And oddly enough, it seems that this outrage has been sparked by her new knowledge of the fact that people in America are struggling. I mean, this economic meltdown and trampling of basic rights (like the ability of consenting adults to marry another consenting adult regardless of sex, and for said consenting adults to be able to visit each other in the hospital, inherit property, share benefits, etc. ……) JUST STARTED IN 2013.
It was NOT going on in 2011, when daughter Bristol attended the actual Dinner, and Palin attended many White House Correspondents Dinner after-parties(after first attending a pro-life event to give herself a tad more credibility with the rubes she grifts):
“Look, Ma – I do “me” almost as well as Tina Fey!”
or in 2009, when her husband Todd attended (with Van Susteren,) in her stead when she had to be all Governor-y back in Alaska due to flooding:
Palin (and those who still think she has a shred of credibility) seem to forget that there’s this awesome gadget known as the internet, that keeps track of where you go and what you do and say publicly, FOREVER.
I mean, just LOOK at Sarah Palin, yukking it up with the media and pols while Americans are working their asses off to afford healthcare and housing and education and equality under the law and the right to not be shot dead by racist vigilante neighborhood watchmen with itchy trigger fingers.
Oh, and by the way, even her gal pal Greta thinks Sarah and her brainless followers should take a big fat chill pill and STFU:
Conclusion:
Sarah Palin is, was, and always shall be A HUGE ASSCLOWN.
Just in case you didn’t already know that.
Oh, and here’s a bit of the Kenyan Socialist Secret Muslim Abortion Death Panel Lover being really awesome at the Dinner With No Sarah.
Enjoy.
Please, please, PLEASE share this with everyone you know.
Emily Paul is the daughter of an old high school friend of mine, and she disappeared from Southport, Florida on the same day that my father passed away.
She has been missing twelve days now, and her mother and family are beside themselves.
If you’ve never shared one of my posts before, PLEASE share this one.
Let’s get Emily home.
Boy, did I miss a BUNCH of shit while I was away.
Boston………….my father’s hometown.
Horrific, ugly asshattery.
Texas……………ironically needing the same disaster relief they voted against for Hurricane sandy victims.
That whole secession thing went RIGHT out the window, didn’t it?
We don’t need no background checks, that shit is unconstitutional……………….unless you’re gay and you want to get married. Then we get to get ALL up in your biznass, and then we still tell you “no”. At least in the non-cool states.
Luckily for my friend Ken and his partner of 19 years, Chris, they live in a cool state, and happily, they got married last Saturday. It does my heart good to know that a day that was pretty somber for me was filled with happiness and optimism for someone I care about a hell of a lot, and i wish them all the happiness in the world. They’ve been doing it for 19 years, so it shouldn’t be much of a struggle now.
Life is good, despite it all.
I will be back to blogging on Monday…………until then, I leave you with this amazing video for “Can’t Hold Us”, by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. It took them three months to shoot this, and it just speaks to the passion and authenticity these artists have.
TOTALLY obsessed.
Enjoy.
