Plus, Tom Perkins thinks more wealth should mean more votes.
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February 15, 2014
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1.Ted Cruz’s ‘heart weeps’ because of marriage equality gains.
Our
favorite nut-job senator from Texas was holding forth again this week,
and our ears were hurting. Texas Senator Ted Cruz explained to Family
Research Council president Tony Perkins how his proposed State Marriage
Defense Act would, “make it more difficult for married same-sex couples
to receive legal recognition.”
Thanks, Ted. We were worried about that.
But
the crusading lawmaker didn’t stop there. He explained how the Obama
administration’s support for gay equality was “an abuse of power and
lawlessness.”
“Our heart weeps for the damage to traditional
marriage that has been done,” Cruz sobbed. Or at least his heart did.
“Marriage is under attack,” he warned. “There will be pushback from the
country when people see the consequences of this redefinition of
marriage.” Curiously, he did not elaborate on these dire consequences.
An oversight, we’re sure.
Anyway, we’re confident Senator Ted
will save us. As soon as his heart stops weeping, that is. Messy
business. We know a good cardiologist if he needs one.
See more
here.
2. WSJ’s James Taranto says intoxicated young women are equally to blame for their own rapes.
James
Taranto graced readers with another glimpse into his “war on men”
theory in a column Monday, which promised “a balanced look at college
sex offenses.” Taranto is very concerned that young men are mostly being
blamed when they have sex without a young woman’s consent, in other
words, rape, them. He thinks that when both parties are drinking, the
young women who are assaulted are equally to blame. “If both parties are
intoxicated during sex, they are both technically guilty of sexually
assaulting each other," he argues.
Girls drinking too much, and dressing too provocatively are the problem, all right.
“What is called the problem of "
sexual assault"
on campus is in large part a problem of reckless alcohol consumption,
by men and women alike. (Based on our reporting, the same is true in the
military, at least in the enlisted and company-grade officer ranks.)
So,
wait, does that include gang bangs and the use of roofies too? Maybe so
in Taranto’s deranged world, where, wait, a woman could be charged with
sexual assault for having sex without her own consent.
Maybe we should consult Bill Cosby on this question.
3. Tom Perkins: Wealthy Americans should get more votes.
Visionary
one percenter, Tom Perkins, who sees Nazis when he sees Progressives,
and increasing taxes on the rich as a totalitarian takeover of
democracy, piped up again this week. This deep thinking venture
capitalist suggested that only taxpayers should have the right to vote
at all, and wealthy Americans who pay more taxes should get more votes,
especially guys like himself.
"The Tom Perkins system is: You
don't get to vote unless you pay a dollar of taxes," Perkins said, at a
Fortune magazine forum. "But what I really think is, it should be like a
corporation. You pay a million dollars in taxes, you get a million
votes. How's that?"
When the audience guffawed—he had to be
kidding, right?—he stuck to his guns. It makes total sense to him.
Democracy should be just like a corporation.
Yeah. One man, one vote. That’s so yesterday.
4. Clarence Thomas: Funny, race never even came up in the 60s.
It’s
always comforting when a lifetime member of the highest court in the
land says something that leaves your jaw hanging agape.
Justice
Clarence Thomas does not make a lot of public statements, but when he
does, well, it makes you realize why he does not make a lot of public
statements.
Thomas recently told a bunch of college students that
race relations in America were better when he was a kid in the 1960s.
Yes, he did. He said that.
“My sadness is that we are probably
today more race- and difference-conscious than I was in the 1960s when I
went to school. To my knowledge, I was the first black kid in Savannah,
Georgia, to go to a white school. Rarely did the issue of race come
up.”
Hmmm. Perhaps the subject of race did not come up because you
could be lynched for bringing it up. Let’s see, it was the height of
the Civil Rights Movement when Thomas was a kid. Segregation was pretty
much the norm, throughout the south, and parts of the north—certainly in
Georgia. and African-Americans who protested racial injustice put
themselves in grave danger. But little Clarence Thomas was a happy
little camper.
The real problem, Thomas continued, is that everyone is just too dang sensitive these days.
“If
I had been as sensitive as that in the 1960s, I’d still be in
Savannah,” he said. “Every person in this room has endured a slight.
Every person. Somebody has said something that has hurt their feelings
or did something to them — left them out.”
Yeupp, that’s all institutional racism is, Clarence. Just a bunch of black people getting their feelings hurt.
5. Anne Coulter: Obama acts like he’s from Kenya, weed is like ‘retard’ pill.
Vitriol-spewing
conservative author Ann Coulter offered up a twofer this week. First,
she argued: Obama may not be a brain-washed, foreign born agent of
destruction like some latter-day “Manchurian candidate,” but he may as
well be. “Let’s just think for a thought experiment for a moment,” she
said Monday on the Howie Carr radio show.
“If Obama were born in another country, had no love for this country,
and had set out to destroy America, what would he be doing differently?”
Think about it. America’s enemies, even now, plotting to impose healthcare on all of us. Terrifying! Thanks, Ann.
Next
topic: that old devil weed, systematically reducing the IQ of millions
of Americans by up to 8 points, Carr claimed a study said.
“And a hundred points off your initiative and ambition,” Coulter chimed in. “It is as if they have legalized retard pills.”
She has such a lovely way with words.
h/t:
Rawstory
4. Laura Ingraham: Obama treats the Constitution like an abusive spouse.
Not
to be outdone by the previous blonde blowhard—yep, we’re talking to you
Ann—Laura Ingraham dished out her own colorful metaphors this week:
Obama is to America as an abusive spouse is to his victim. Kids, listen
up, this analogy may turn on your SAT test.
You have to follow
some pretty twisted logic to understand this, but we’ll try. Ingraham,
as most will remember, does not like immigrants, especially Latino ones.
She recently
questioned the patriotism of Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor, and has said Mexicans are “jingoists” out to destroy the English language.
So,
she really does not like how this Obama fellow is pushing for
immigration reform, and she does not even believe the fact that he has
deported two million undocumented aliens for minor crimes, because that
would make her like him, causing a severe case of cognitive dissonance.
So imagine her horror that someone like Rep. Paul Ryan is voicing
his support
for possibly, eventually, granting legal status to undocumented
immigrants. And she does not give a hoot about all the “enforcement
mechanisms” Ryan is promising will be in any immigration reform bill he
votes for.
Ready, here comes the domestic abuse analogy.
“It’s
like spousal abuse!” Ingraham fumed, referring to Ryan and other
Republicans’ willingness to trust that Obama will enforce the laws.
“It’s not going to be different. They are abusers! The administration,
led by Barack Obama, are abusers of our Constitution. And just when you
think that maybe they’re going to see that [Obamacare] isn’t working,
this is hurting our health care system, they abuse the Constitution once
again.”
If this all seems reall confusing, perhaps
thiswill help.
6. Rush Limbaugh’s absurd rant about Michael Sam: Heterosexuals are under attack!
Sputtering
right-wing fool Rush Limbaugh was very confused this week. He knew he
had to say something about this whole horrifying business of Michael Sam
coming out as the first openly gay player projected to play in the NFL.
Rush knew he had to protect heterosexuality from this terrible threat.
“Heterosexuality has no political agenda and there is no agenda attached
to it,” he helpfully pointed out. “Heterosexuality does not have
activists.. . .
[Heterosexuals] may be 95, 98 percent of the population —
they’re under assault by the 2-5 percent that are homosexual.”
Under assault, do you hear him?
Rush
has so many questions about this, his head is spinning, and green venom
is spewing forth. “Why is it OK now for a gay man to play football? I
thought it was dangerous and leads to concussions, that it was barbaric .
. . Why is it heroic for a gay man to play football?”
Yeah. Wait. Huh?
Well,
it turned out that Rush was just playing with us. He knows the answers.
It’s because the media wants a gay football player to succeed.
File it under the vast left-wing-gay-mafia-libera-throw-in-Jewish-and-other- minority-groups-conspiracy.
7. Colorado Sen. Bernie Herpin: It was a “good thing” the Aurora movie theater shooter had a 100-round magazine.
It
might be useful to remember that this gun-nut was elected to replace a
legislator who voted for gun control in Colorado after the Aurora
shooting. So, we knew where he stood. We just did not know that he was
standing on another planet, altogether.
“Perhaps, James Holmes
would not have been able to purchase a 100-round magazine,” he said this
week. “As it turned out, that was maybe a good thing that he had a
100-round magazine, because it jammed. If he had four, five, six
15-round magazines, there’s no telling how much damage he could have
done until a good guy with a gun showed up.”
Yes, it was a good
thing he had so much firepower, because the more the firepower, the more
chance of the gun jamming? Right? And so, we should supply all of our
mass murderers with these, then there is just that much better of a
chance that the good guys with the guns will show up before hundreds of
people are slaughtered.
Unsurprisingly, victims’ families were not cheered by Herpin’s totally unhinged theory.
Just when you think the far right could not be more outrageous, they come out with a bigger load...
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