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Thursday, March 12, 2015

Today in Stupid

This is going to be something of a link dump -- there's just so much out there in the past couple of days.

Do you know why frat guys do racist chants? Dan Savage. At least, so says Ken Blackwell of FRC.

"Dan Savage, who is now having his life story being portrayed on a new sitcom on ABC, you know, here’s a guy that’s responsible for the coarsening of civil discussion and conversation being celebrated, at a time when there are knuckleheads who are still spewing from their lips the sort of nonsense that we’ve heard from these fraternity members."

Yes, that's the same Ken Blackwell who did his best to rig the 2008 election results from Ohio.

And let's not forget Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-Where?), who wants to hold Congress at gunpoint until they add to the already bloated defense budget:

Here is the first thing I would do if I were President of the United States: I wouldn’t let Congress leave town until we fix this. I would literally use the military to keep them in if I had to. We’re not leaving town until we restore these defense cuts. We’re not leaving town until we restore the intel cuts.

I wonder how many defense contractors have facilities in South Carolina.

And which Senate committee do you suppose invited Tony Perkins to speak on religious liberty?

And it's Ken Blackwell again, comparing marriage equality rulings to not only Roe v. Wade, but to Dred Scott.

I believe the Court may be headed for more than a Roe II ruling. It is also headed for another Dred Scott opinion. That 1857 ruling of the Supreme Court said it was legal to take slaves from slave states into free territories and the slaves would remain slaves.

Note that his sole claim to originality is combining the two.

And finally (at least, I think so, but you never can tell), a group of state senators in South Carolina are trying to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban same-sex marriage. (Yes, you read that right.) The reason it's so important?

“It has to do with the propagation of our species,” [Sen. Larry] Grooms said today, according to The Post and Courier. “It is what is in the best interest of our species."

Yeah, we're obviously in danger of extinction Real Soon Now.

That's it, but who knows? There may very well be more.


2 comments:

Pieter said...

Bloated defense budget indeed. It wasn't too long ago that the Dept. of Defense was telling Congress that they had waaay more than enough funds to do to their work and they didn't want or need their budget increased. The Repubs, however, are deaf to calls for thrift when it comes to military toys; they can't play cowboys and Indians any more, so they play Army and Star Wars instead. Children masquerading as legislators.

Hunter said...

Republicans see military force as the first recourse, since diplomacy requires negotiation, and as the party is presently constituted, that's not in their repertoire.