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I Have A Theory… Kentucky Republicans Are Idiots

Kentucky Republican Senators were all on board for educational standards until they discovered that those standards included *gasp!* evolution.

In an exchange with officials from ACT, the company that prepares Kentucky’s new state testing program, those lawmakers discussed whether evolution was a fact and whether the biblical account of creationism also should be taught in Kentucky classrooms.

“I would hope that creationism is presented as a theory in the classroom, in a science classroom, alongside evolution,” Sen. David Givens, R-Greensburg, said Tuesday in an interview.

Think that’s bad?  It gets worse.  Take a look at this:

Another committee member, Rep. Ben Waide, R-Madisonville, said he had a problem with evolution being an important part of biology standards.“The theory of evolution is a theory, and essentially the theory of evolution is not science — Darwin made it up,” Waide said. “My objection is they should ensure whatever scientific material is being put forth as a standard should at least stand up to scientific method. Under the most rudimentary, basic scientific examination, the theory of evolution has never stood up to scientific scrutiny.”

Zander (Balloon Juice) speaks the truth:

You sir are the dumbest mofo on Earth, and I am offended that you are an elected lawmaker in the Commonwealth.  Your ignorance is so astounding that I have to believe you actually don’t exist, because nobody can be this stupid and survive without collapsing under the density of their own idiocy.

Seriously, evolution has “never stood up to scientific scrutiny”?

Exactly.  It’s hard to believe that people can be this stupid.

Conservative 6 Year Old Auditions For The Next CPAC

What parent in their right mind would make this video of their child – and post it on YouTube?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOnHrAGKwJ4&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

Here’s the blurb under the video:

Isaac Anthony is a conservative six-year-old who knows where he stands on political issues and the upcoming Presidential election.

Yeah, right.

Grab-bag of Asshattery

We did away with the asshat of the day posts a while ago (too much to keep up with). So today I offer a grab bag of asshattery.

First, we have New Hampshire Republican legislator Bob Kingsbury who claims that kindergarten leads to higher crime.

Last week Rep. Bob Kingsbury (R-Laconia) told fellow Belknap County lawmakers that research he has conducted since 1996 shows a connection between the state’s kindergarten program and higher crime rates, attributing it to children being taken “away from their mothers too soon.”

My guess is that he also believes women should be barefoot & pregnant and stay in kitchen.

Next up we have everyone’s favorite sheriff (no not Jeff “Constitutionalist” Christopher) Joe Arpaio. The man who Orly Taitz has wet dreams about is claiming to have “explosive new evidence” that President Obama was not born. In America that is.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “Cold Case Posse” is claiming to have explosive new proof that President Barack Obama is ineligible to serve as president. According to a recent report with WorldNetDaily, the Maricopa County sheriff’s associate said they would release the birther evidence at a press conference on July 17.

“I can’t disclose to you what we’ve discovered, but it’s going to be a shocking revelation at our press conference,” Mike Zullo, head of the “Cold Case Posse,” told a Tea Party radio program in an interview, according to WorldNetDaily.

You have to wonder what happened to this schmuck along the way for him to be this batshit crazy.

But wait, there’s more. Ginny Thomas, wife of potted plant Clarence Thomas, apparently is still making money lobbying against the ACA.

Now, just days after healthcare law was upheld (with Clarence Thomas dissenting), new financial forms show that Thomas’s wife, Ginni, continued to rake in a profit from opposing healthcare reforms in 2011—even after she previously came under fire for doing so.

According to Thomas’s 2011 financial disclosure report form, filed on May 15 and obtained Friday by Whispers, Ginni Thomas made up to $15,000 working for political lobbying firm Liberty Consulting. The firm lobbied actively against the healthcare law, according to liberal news magazine Mother Jones.

Why is it again that Justice Kagan had to recuse herself from the challenge to Arizona’s immigration law, and very loud, very public demands were made for her to recuse herself again, but Thomas gets a pass?

There is a clear conflict of interest with the Thomases whose ethics are beyond questionable at this point. But you know the other old saying, “It’s OK If You’re A Republican.”

Finally, we have Ann Rmoney Romney who claims that President Obama’s strategy is to “kill” her husband’s name and reputation.

“They’re going to do everything they can to destroy Mitt,” Ann Romney told Jan Crawford, when asked about Democratic efforts to paint the GOP candidate as out of touch. The couple were interviewed from their vacation home in Wolfeboro, N.H.

“Early on we heard what their strategy was, It was ‘Kill Romney,’ Romney said, referencing a 2011 story in which a Democratic strategist told Politico that Obama “will have to kill Romney” to win.

“I feel like all he’s doing is saying, ‘Let’s kill this guy,’” she added, and promised to protect her husband: “Not when I’m next to him, you better not.”

Say, Ann, isn’t that what Mittens did to his opponents during the rethuglican primaries? Turnabout is fair play in my book.

See What Crazy Eileen Started – UPDATED

UPDATE: It looks as though the State of Hawai’s has learned how to play political chess with the birthers. TPM filed a public records request for emails and letters between AZ Secretary of State Ken Bennett and the state. The best ones are the those from the Deputy AG asking Bennett to provide a legal basis under AZ law for his request.

Here’s a sample:

From: Jill T. Nagamine
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 5:11 PM
To: Drake, Jim; Bennett, Ken
Subject: Re: Request from the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office

Dear Mr. Bennett and Mr. Drake—

My apologies for not responding immediately. I have recently been away from my office a great deal, including today. My client, the Department of Health, has forwarded your request for verification of President Obama’s birth record to me. We need more information to substantiate that you are eligible to receive verification. Hawaii Revised Statutes, section 338-18(g), provides:

(g) The department shall not issue a verification in lieu of a certified copy of any such record, or any part thereof, unless it is satisfied that the applicant requesting a verification is:

(1) A person who has a direct and tangible interest in the record but requests a verification in lieu of a certified copy;
(2) A governmental agency or organization who for a legitimate government purpose maintains and needs to update official lists of persons in the ordinary course of the agency’s or organization’s activities;
(3) A governmental, private, social, or educational agency or organization who seeks confirmation of a certified copy of any such record submitted in support of or information provided about a vital event relating to any such record and contained in an official application made in the ordinary course of the agency’s or organization’s activities by an individual seeking employment with, entrance to, or the services or products of the agency or organization;
(4) A private or government attorney who seeks to confirm information about a vital event relating to any such record which was acquired during the course of or for purposes of legal proceedings; or
(5) An individual employed, endorsed, or sponsored by a governmental, private, social, or educational agency or organization who seeks to confirm information about a vital event relating to any such record in preparation of reports or publications by the agency or organization for research or educational purposes.

As the Secretary and I initially discussed, it appears that you might be eligible for verification of the record based on subparagraph (2), but we need to see what your authority is “to update official lists of persons in the ordinary course of your activities.” Will you send me a copy of your law that allows this, and will you send me information that shows:

(1) What list are you updating?
(2) Is it your normal procedure to update all entries on your list by requiring birth data verification?
(3) Are you requiring birth data verification of all entries on your list, rather than just targeting one name on your list? (please provide evidence that you are doing so) (emphasis added).

You may address your response directly to me, and I will relay it to my client.

Thank you,
Jill T. Nagamine
Deputy Attorney General
State of Hawaii

Read the others for some great laughs.

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We all remember Crazy Eileen, one of the first birthers to go public. Well, Arizona, not satisfied with being the batshit crazy place it’s become, has just added a new ingredient to the mix – birtherism. Their Secretary of State has indicated he may not allow President Obama’s name to appear on the ballot because he’s not convinced he was born in the US.

The man in charge of running Arizona’s elections has gone to the birthers. Secretary of State Ken Bennett now says he’s not convinced Barack Obama was really born in the United States and so he is threatening to keep the president off the ballot in November.

Bennett’s comments came in an interview late Thursday with conservative radio talk show host Mike Broomhead on Phoenix station KFYI.

Bennett said he was following the lead of the state’s eccentric Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a fellow Republican who ordered an investigation into the president’s birth certificate last year and concluded the document released by the White House is a forgery. Bennett said he is now trying to get verification from state officials in Hawaii that the certificate is authentic.

Yeah, I’d base any decision I made on what Joe Arpaio says.

Sad thing about Bennett is that he’s the #2 person in Arizona state government, which means if anything happened to Gov. Terence Stamp Jan Brewer, he would become governor. Bennett claims not to be a birther but says he has a “responsibility as secretary of state is to make sure the ballots in Arizona are correct and that those people whose names are on the ballot have met the qualifications for the office they are seeking.” Sounds like a birther to me.

And he’s running for governor in 2014. Think he’s going to use this as a fundraising tool? Oh, I shouldn’t be so cynical.

Here’s the good part:

Broomhead, the radio host, pressed Bennett on what he would do if he didn’t get the right response back from Hawaii.

“If they won’t comply, if they refuse to comply with this, will you remove the president from the ballot?” Broomhead asked. “Will you exclude him from the ballot?”

“That’s possible,” Bennett said. “Or the other option would be I would ask all of candidates, including the president, maybe to submit a certified copy of their birth certificate. But I don’t want to do that.”

Now I wonder if Rmoney will be questioned about his eligibility to be on the ballot seeing that his father was born in Mexico and came into the US illegally.

NRO: Women Using Birth Control and Family Planning are Part of a “Suicide Cult”

I normally don’t visit the Crazy Corner (Yes, that is a link to crazy town, so consider yourself warned), but this article exposes the Conservative mindset vividly.  Michael Walsh is counting the numbers in a them vs us game and is panicked that his side is losing.  That’s really all this article is about – women deciding when to have children is a dangerous thing we need to stop, feminists have secretly formed a suicide pact to wipe out civilization, and the browning of the world population.

On the one hand — as NRO’s resident demography bore has been tirelessly pointing out — the Western world is facing an unparalleled demographic crisis brought on by a feminist-inspired modern twist on Lysistrata (showering sex but withholding children), while at the same time, the West’s vaunted “safety net” is collapsing because the system has been turned upside-down and a bevy of great-grandparents now coos over a single child.

Surely, this is the ultimate expression of the suicide cult that is the modern Left, a subset of libertine takers that so loathes itself that it will dragoon the makers into underwriting the chalices of tasty hemlock it’s so eager for everybody to quaff in order to put itself out of its misery. If, as long as it doesn’t hurt anybody, it feels good, do it! Alas, it does hurt somebody — it hurts society, by robbing it of its future and burdening those lucky kids who make it through the contraceptive/abortifacient gantlet with an unpayable debt to the very people who tried to get rid of them.

Oh, those evil feminists.  How dare they try and destroy the Western world!  Western world?  Hmm… what is different about the Western world?  Any guesses?

We really are heading toward every sexual act must be performed with an attempt to procreate.  Next up… enforcing that goal in a way that goes far beyond abortion and birth control.

Don’t believe me?  Then read this passage that follows this statement:  …women of child-bearing age demand that somebody — insurance companies, Washington, the pope in Rome — pay for universal contraceptive and abortion services in the name of “women’s health.” (Love the scare quotes, by the way.)

If this is not the definition of a suicide cult — one driven by the leftist insistence that sexual license be, well, licensed by the state, non-judgmentally and consequence-free — it’s hard to know what is. The Shakers had nothing on these people; at least they made furniture. But it’s what comes from treating pregnancy as a preventable disease, and viewing people as carbon-based pollutants instead of beings created in the image and likeness of God.

And while that’s a whole lotta crazy, we should pay attention because Mr. Walsh has laid out the Conservative agenda – Sex must have consequences.  Women are cheating by using birth control to avoid gifts from god.  This must be stopped.

BTW, the next time a Republican waxes lyrical about personal responsibility… point and laugh.

Contraception Debate Finally Goes There

There’s something refreshing when Republicans finally say out loud what we always knew they thought.

LIMBAUGH: What does it say about the college co-ed Susan Fluke [sic] who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex. What does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She’s having so much sex she can’t afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex.

Mr. Viagra speaks!  And I’m not even shocked.  The Madonna/whore scorecard was always in play, now it’s just out in the open.  The question now is… how many Republican politicians follow his lead?  My guess is quite a few.

What Were They Thinking?

Rmoney’s team of crack campaign staff had him deliver an economic address (YAWN) yesterday to about 1200 people in Ford Stadium. Ford Stadium that has a Sunday football capacity of 65,000. Think Progress has posted up a picture from Rmoney’s event and pictures from comparable Obama events from February of 2008. So take a look:

So what were they thinking? I mean, this is pathetic — especially since I gather that they knew the group the invites were going to would never fill that space or even come close. Have we gotten to the point in the GOP primary race where even Rmoney’s staffers don’t like him? I mean, if there is a way to remind people that Rmoney is as plastic as they think he is, show him in a big stadium that he obviously couldn’t fill.

Soylent Green is People

My guess is that it was a slow day in the Oklahoma State Senate. Why else would this rethuglican legislator introduce this bill?

An Oklahoma Republican is pushing a bill to outlaw the use of human fetuses in food, because, as he says, “there is a potential that there are companies that are using aborted human babies in their research and development of basically enhancing flavor for artificial flavors.”

State Sen. Ralph Shortey introduced a bill on Tuesday “prohibiting the sale or manufacture of food or products which contain aborted human fetuses.”

Though he has allowed that he is not aware of this occurring in Oklahoma, or anywhere for that matter, Shortey cited research he did on the internet that claimed that some companies use embryonic stem cells to help develop artificial flavoring. “It would be a public relations nightmare for a company to use” aborted human fetuses for R&D, Shortey told KRMG Radio, so when asked they usually say something like “we strive to do things ethically.”

Umm, senator, Soylent Green was a movie (the last one that Edward G. Robinson made before his death, by the way). Stick to serious subjects, like protecting Oklahoma’s sheep from farmers who decide to stray from their wives.