Mitt Romney Panders to the Religious Right With Phony ‘War on Religion’ Ad

More lies from mendacious Mitt
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Remember the concept of separation of church and state? You know, that vitally important principle that’s spelled out in the Constitution, without which the United States probably wouldn’t even exist?

Well, the Republican Party is working constantly to subvert and undermine this concept, and one of the ways they do it is by fomenting grievances, and by instilling a false sense of victimhood in the religious right base.

And Mormon Mitt Romney is right in there with the worst of the far right fundamentalist Protestants, fear-mongering about a nonexistent “war on religion” in his new campaign advertisement.

Romney’s bogus “war on religion” is not only a blatant lie — as governor of Massachusetts, Romney himself instituted measures almost identical to the Affordable Care Act’s provisions on contraception.

As governor, Romney greatly expanded access publicly-financed contraception through his 2006 health care reform law. The state’s Commonwealth Care, established under Romneycare, offers subsidized, low or no-cost insurance to low-income residents and provides primary and preventive care that includes “family planning services” and prescription contraceptives. In 2005, Romney also “signed a bill that could expand the number of people who get family-planning services, including the morning-after pill” and asked the Department of Health and Human Services to require Catholic hospitals to issue the morning after pill to rape victims.

In fact, the Obamacare rule Romney is now characterizing as an affront to religious liberties is very similar to a 2002 state law he tacitly supported. Like more than two dozen states across the country, Massachusetts required insurers that provide outpatient benefits to cover hormone replacement therapy and all FDA-approved contraceptive methods — well before Obamacare became law. The Massachusetts rule exempts “an employer that is a church or qualified church-controlled organization” from the mandate, but prohibits institutions such as hospitals, universities, and nursing homes from denying their employees birth control coverage.

Not just a lie — a hypocritical lie. Par for the course for Mitt Romney, who’s running the most dishonest, pandering campaign I’ve ever witnessed.

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175 comments
1 Kragarghazi  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:11:07am

If he didn't lie, he wouldn't have anything to campaign with.

2 jamesfirecat  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:12:05am

"Well Mitt Romney is clearly telling another lie at this point."

"How can you tell that?"

"His lips are moving."

3 AK-47%  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:15:32am

In this corner, the Democrats' War on Religion!

In this corner, the War on Women!

Given that 98% of Catholic women ignore their own church's teachings on
contraception, who ya gonna bet on?

4 Kragarghazi  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:15:44am

Can someone tell the Evangelicals that being told "No, you can't have everything your way" is not an attack on their religion?

5 Decatur Deb  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:15:47am

Bad idea all around. A bunch of people in Mitt's TPGOP base have a list of religions that are fair game. Including his.

6 darthstar  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:16:56am

Desperate candidate is acting desperate...again. I do like how his voice goes up an octave when he tries to sound even more convincing than he thinks he does. It's like a kid trying to get out of a speeding ticket. "But Off-iii-ceerrr...Obama was driving faster!"

7 makeitstop  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:17:13am

Isn't that 'Endorsed by Lech Walesa' a lie as well? I thought Walesa issued a statement backing off of any type of endorsement.

8 darthstar  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:17:45am

re: #5 Decatur Deb

Bad idea all around. A bunch of people in Mitt's TPGOP base have a list of religions that are fair game. Including his.

They'll be throwing Mitt's religion around like a used oil rag after the election...

WE SHOULD HAVE PICKED A CHRISTIAN!!!

9 dragonath  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:19:38am

Check out these frenzied headlines from Fox Nation:

VIDEO: OBAMA CAUGHT WITH HIS "TOP DOWN"

MALKIN ON OUTRAGEOUS ANTI-ROMNEY AD: 'REAL MURDERERS' ARE THOSE IN THE WHITE HOUSE

POLICE OFFICER PUNISHED FOR BUYING CHICK-FIL-A

With friends like these... who needs friends?

10 Kragarghazi  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:20:06am

re: #7 makeitstop

Isn't that 'Endorsed by Lech Walesa' a lie as well? I thought Walesa issued a statement backing off of any type of endorsement.

I think he wished Romney good luck.

11 dragonath  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:21:09am

re: #10 Kragar

I think he wished Romney good luck.

COMMUNIST INFORMER WISHES MITT ROMNEY LUCK

film at 11

12 darthstar  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:21:27am

OT: Watching the decathlon competition. US is 1 and 2 after six events. But after the hurdles race, US #2(in points) is getting hugs from his opponents after winning while US #1 looks like he's ready to spit nails for coming in second. Yesterday, US #2 was giving US #1 the evil eye...but when it comes to the medal ceremony (assuming they both medal) it will be all good I'm sure. Still, right now it doesn't look like either one of them cares if the other does well. Competition...it brings out the best in people.

13 Obdicut  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:22:06am

re: #5 Decatur Deb

I kind of think most mainstream devout US Christians, though they may have doubts about Mormonism, don't really know that much about it. And if they knew more, they'd be even more hostile to it.

Mormonism believes that each of is capable of perfecting ourselves into the image of god. I don't have any problem with that thought, but it is very, very opposed to most of Christianity except for perhaps Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

14 Kragarghazi  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:22:41am

Joe Walsh Accused Of Racial Insensitivity For Referring To Obama As ‘Son’

At a campaign barbecue in his district Sunday, Walsh was explaining what he hopes will be the tea party’s role in the election:

“There’s something different on the ground, and I think it’s going to overtake us all again, think it’s going to overtake the political class. I think it’s going to respectfully pick this president up and pat him on the head and say, son, son, son, Mr. President, you were never ready to be president, now go home and work for somebody and find out how the real world works.”

Fucktard - Noun - Definition: see Joe Walsh

15 darthstar  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:23:47am

re: #10 Kragar

I think he wished Romney good luck.

Mitt Romney flew all the way to Poland to kiss his ass in front of the cameras. A passing "good luck with using a 30 year old Polish movement in your domestic elections" seemed in order.

16 Randall Gross  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:25:03am

Synagogues get desecrated, Mosques get burned down, temples get shot up, but Christians are the persecuted ones.

Doctors get murdered, clinics get bombed, family planning gets defunded, and women who use birth control are labeled "sluts" but somehow Christians are the persecuted ones.

Gays get excluded, murdered, and denied the rights everyone else has but somehow Christians are the persecuted ones...

I could go on, and on and on about the Orwellian doublespeak in this ad.

17 Decatur Deb  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:25:06am

re: #13 Obdicut

I kind of think most mainstream devout US Christians, though they may have doubts about Mormonism, don't really know that much about it. And if they knew more, they'd be even more hostile to it.

Mormonism believes that each of is capable of perfecting ourselves into the image of god. I don't have any problem with that thought, but it is very, very opposed to most of Christianity except for perhaps Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

Teilhard is my favorite priest-paleontologist. Was relieved when they let him off the hook for Piltdown Man.

[Link: www.amazon.com...]

18 Bulworth  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:25:32am

Romney actually wasn't governor of Massachusetts and he didn't actually propose or have passed the legislation known as "Romneycare". Nor did Romney ever work at or head the corporation known as "Bain". Just stop with all the liberal lies you lamestream media! //

19 AK-47%  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:26:17am

re: #13 Obdicut

I kind of think most mainstream devout US Christians, though they may have doubts about Mormonism, don't really know that much about it. And if they knew more, they'd be even more hostile to it.

Mormonism believes that each of is capable of perfecting ourselves into the image of god. I don't have any problem with that thought, but it is very, very opposed to most of Christianity except for perhaps Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

Mormonism is a very opaque, male-dominated religion. In that sense, it fits in very well to the GOP worldview.

20 AK-47%  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:27:02am

re: #18 Bulworth

Romney actually wasn't governor of Massachusetts and he didn't actually propose or have passed the legislation known as "Romneycare". Nor did Romney ever work at or head the corporation known as "Bain". Just stop with all the liberal lies you lamestream media! //

And Romney did not sneak into the hospital to suffocate that steelworker's wife with a pillow, so stop spreading those unfounded rumors!!!

21 Bulworth  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:28:03am

re: #16 Randall Gross

Synagogues get desecrated, Mosques get burned down, temples get shot up, but Christians are the persecuted ones.

Doctors get murdered, clinics get bombed, family planning gets defunded, and women who use birth control are labeled "sluts" but somehow Christians are the persecuted ones.

Gays get excluded, murdered, and denied the rights everyone else has but somehow Christians are the persecuted ones...

I could go on, and on and on about the Orwellian doublespeak in this ad.

Yeah, but Sam Harris has been on television somewhere so Persecution!! //

22 Kragarghazi  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:29:12am

re: #15 darthstar

Mitt Romney flew all the way to Poland to kiss his ass in front of the cameras. A passing "good luck with using a 30 year old Polish movement in your domestic elections" seemed in order.

Mitt Van Winkle is still adjusting to the fact the Soviet Union collapsed already.

23 Shiplord Kirel  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:29:36am

I don't think calling someone "son" is demeaning, racially or otherwise, if:
-The other man is substantially younger.
-You know him personally.
-The purpose is to show affection and approval.

Walsh, world-class anus, is 4 months younger than the President and the other counts are obvious.

24 Charles Johnson  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:29:44am

New talking point all over the right wing sites -- Obama is running a terrible dishonest campaign.

It was predictable.

25 darthstar  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:29:53am

re: #22 Kragar

Mitt Van Winkle is still adjusting to the fact the Soviet Union collapsed already.

We must stop the Bolsheviks!

26 Gus  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:30:09am

Ironic seeing him in Poland which has an absurd and archaic blasphemy law. Make that fitting rather than ironic. Not including the fact that Mitt also took part in some of those Mormon postmortem LDF baptisms. Mitt of course will continue to pursue the typical right wing blogger account of a fictional Obama that doesn't exist. This is probably the first ever "wingnut campaign" ever held. Mitt Romney, regardless of his past or alleged moderation, is the manufactured wingnut "Bob Roberts" of our time.

27 Gus  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:30:43am

re: #24 Charles Johnson

New talking point all over the right wing sites -- Obama is running a terrible dishonest campaign.

It was predictable.

Does that mean Obama won't be able to count on their votes?

//

28 Decatur Deb  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:30:54am

re: #23 Shiplord Kirel

I don't think calling someone "son" is demeaning, racially or otherwise, if:
-The other man is substantially younger.
-You know him personally.
-The purpose is to show affection and approval.

Walsh, world-class anus, is 4 months younger than the President and the other counts are obvious.

Yup, no real racial content--just dickishly condescending to the elected leader of the nation.

29 Kragarghazi  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:30:58am

re: #24 Charles Johnson

New talking point all over the right wing sites -- Obama is running a terrible dishonest campaign.

It was predictable.

I want to get a hold of that GOP reality inversion tech and see how it works.

30 Daniel Ballard  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:31:15am

At the risk of being Captain Obvious a second-Religious liberty should not be an issue of what you prevent access to, or forbid. In other words Christianity (Not even those fire breathing Baptists) have no right to refuse general access to anything by way of contraception.

Religious freedom means Christians are free to refrain if they choose from extra marital sex. So those Christians can just not partake of contraception, abortion etc. Atheists are free to do as they please. The very idea that making some optional medicine or procedure available, even subsidized is not an encroachment at all.

31 AK-47%  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:31:19am

re: #24 Charles Johnson

New talking point all over the right wing sites -- Obama is running a terrible dishonest campaign.

It was predictable.

He is running a campaign on the same level as his opponent, which is not supposed to happen.

32 darthstar  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:31:19am

re: #24 Charles Johnson

New talking point all over the right wing sites -- Obama is running a terrible dishonest campaign.

It was predictable.

But he's winning. Markos Moulitsas had a nice positive diary on the election this morning.

33 Interesting Times  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:31:37am
34 Kragarghazi  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:32:03am

re: #25 darthstar

We must stop the Bolsheviks!

We must stop the Communist plot to taint our manly essence by putting fluoride in the water.

35 darthstar  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:32:14am

re: #31 Expand Your Ground

He is running a campaign on the same level as his opponent, which is not supposed to happen.

And with less billionaire dollars backing him up.

36 AK-47%  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:32:38am

re: #30 Daniel Ballard

At the risk of being Captain Obvious a second-Religious liberty should not be an issue of what you prevent access to, or forbid. In other words Christianity (Not even those fire breathing Baptists) have no right to refuse general access to anything by way of contraception.

Religious freedom means Christians are free to refrain if they choose from extra marital sex. So those Christians can just not partake of contraception, abortion etc. Atheists are free to do as they please. The very idea that making some optional medicine or procedure available, even subsidized is not an encroachment at all.

They have the right to tell their employees that they are opposed to contraception and advise them not to use it. That is covered by the First Amendment.

Everything beyond that, not.

37 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:33:40am

re: #33 Interesting Times

Why is Romney responsible for things that Mormons that he never met did?

38 Kragarghazi  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:34:23am

re: #30 Daniel Ballard

At the risk of being Captain Obvious a second-Religious liberty should not be an issue of what you prevent access to, or forbid. In other words Christianity (Not even those fire breathing Baptists) have no right to refuse general access to anything by way of contraception.

Religious freedom means Christians are free to refrain if they choose from extra marital sex. So those Christians can just not partake of contraception, abortion etc. Atheists are free to do as they please. The very idea that making some optional medicine or procedure available, even subsidized is not an encroachment at all.

Next you're going to try and argue if someone is against gay marriage, then they shouldn't marry someone who is same sex as them and that they should stay the hell out of other people's business.

39 erik_t  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:35:13am

re: #31 Expand Your Ground

He is running a campaign on the same level as his opponent, which is not supposed to happen.

Obama's running a campaign ten miles above the filthy muck that Mitt puts out on a daily basis.

40 ArchangelMichael  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:35:54am

re: #34 Kragar

We must stop the Communist plot to taint our manly essence by putting fluoride in the water.

E
O P E
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41 HappyWarrior  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:37:31am

More outright lies from the Romney campaign about Obama's record and hypocrisy? Shocked!

42 Sheila Broflovski  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:38:46am

Where is the Scary Pope Shadow?

43 allegro  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:39:34am

re: #31 Expand Your Ground

He is running a campaign on the same level as his opponent, which is not supposed to happen.

I disagree. Obama is running a vastly superior campaign in every sense. I like it. :D

44 Randall Gross  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:39:44am

re: #42 Learned Mother of Zion

Where is the Scary Pope Shadow?

Exactly.

45 ArchangelMichael  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:41:03am

re: #42 Learned Mother of Zion

Where is the Scary Pope Shadow?

I don't know but you apparently found a Scary Jew Shadow™ sneaking up on the pope once.

Does that sort of count?

46 allegro  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:41:21am

re: #37 Mostly sane, most of the time.

Why is Romney responsible for things that Mormons that he never met did?

Has he not served as a church leader for quite a few years?

47 Daniel Ballard  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:41:26am

re: #38 Kragar

Next you're going to try and argue if someone is against gay marriage, then they shouldn't marry someone who is same sex as them and that they should stay the hell out of other people's business.

Now you're just gonna get me in trouble. :-0

48 Kragarghazi  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:41:50am

re: #42 Learned Mother of Zion

Where is the Scary Pope Shadow?

Close enough

49 AK-47%  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:41:51am

re: #39 erik_t

Obama's running a campaign ten miles above the filthy muck that Mitt puts out on a daily basis.

still far above, but close enough for comparison. which is not necessarily a bad thing...

50 Shiplord Kirel  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:42:26am

I think the Romney campaign is seriously over-estimating the percentage of voters who are gullible religious cranks or outright bigots.
I don't understand how they could do this with the hordes of pollsters and consultants they have lurking around, but it seems to be the case nevertheless.

51 Decatur Deb  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:42:38am

re: #42 Learned Mother of Zion

Where is the Scary Pope Shadow?

You rang?
[Link: t2.gstatic.com...]

52 dragonath  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:42:42am

I don't really have much to say about Mormonism, but perhaps it would be a good time to reassess the church's political outlook when it's two most visible members are Mitt Romney and Glenn Beck.

53 Interesting Times  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:43:04am

re: #31 Expand Your Ground

He is running a campaign on the same level as his opponent, which is not supposed to happen.

Romney's epic fail of a campaign only seems less so due to:

1) Ever-spewing propaganda from Fox
2) Other helpful assists and cover-ups from the rest of the Corporate Media™

If the US had honest mainstream journalism, Romney's poll numbers would be lower than Oklahoma rainfall totals.

54 Sheila Broflovski  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:43:22am

re: #45 ArchangelMichael

I don't know but you apparently found a Scary Jew Shadow™ sneaking up on the pope once.

Does that sort of count?

That's what launched the Scary Jew ShadowTM meme.

55 Bulworth  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:44:26am

"Welfare", "War on Religion". I'm seriously starting to wonder whether they are just mailing it in now.

56 engineer cat  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:44:26am

re: #1 Kragar

If he didn't lie, he wouldn't have anything to campaign with.

"hi, i'm mitt romney. if elected president, i promise to do everything i can to make this a better country for millionaires and corporations

if we want to compete in the global marketplace, we need our corporations to have a level playing field. that's why i'll work ceaselessly to make the wages and benefits of our american worker assets match those of the third world countries we are competing against"

57 allegro  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:44:37am

re: #52 Fred Galt

I don't really have much to say about Mormonism, but perhaps it would be a good time to reassess the church's political outlook when the it's two most visible members are Mitt Romney and Glenn Beck.

In all fairness, Sen Reid has been pretty much up there as well. Kickin' ass and takin' names.

58 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:44:55am

re: #46 allegro

Has he not served as a church leader for quite a few years?

He served as a local church leader in Boston. That's like blaming a local Catholic leader in Des Moines for what a Catholic in Houston was doing--with the Vatican City people telling the Catholic in Houston to stop.

59 Kragarghazi  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:45:28am

re: #54 Learned Mother of Zion

That's what launched the Scary Jew ShadowTM meme.

The Slender Man is cooler.

60 jamesfirecat  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:46:19am

re: #34 Kragar

We must stop the Communist plot to taint our manly essence by putting fluoride in the water.

I believe you mean our purity of essence.

61 Gus  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:46:46am

re: #37 Mostly sane, most of the time.

Why is Romney responsible for things that Mormons that he never met did?

I don't think it's about him having to answer for it but he did take part in these:

When asked by Newsweek if he has done baptisms for the dead—in which Mormons find the names of dead people of all faiths and baptize them, as an LDS representative says, to “open the door” to the highest heaven—he looked slightly startled and answered, “I have in my life, but I haven’t recently.”

62 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:47:31am

re: #52 Fred Galt

I don't really have much to say about Mormonism, but perhaps it would be a good time to reassess the church's political outlook when it's two most visible members are Mitt Romney and Glenn Beck.

Harry Reid suddenly ceased to exist?

63 engineer cat  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:47:57am

re: #24 Charles Johnson

New talking point all over the right wing sites -- Obama is running a terrible dishonest campaign.

this ought to make a big impression on anybody who is already voting against obama

64 Varek Raith  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:48:31am

re: #61 Gus

I don't think it's about him having to answer for it but he did take part in these:

[Link: alldeadmormonsarenowgay.com...]
/Going to hell anyways.

65 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:48:47am

re: #61 Gus

I don't think it's about him having to answer for it but he did take part in these:

Were they Jewish names or names of people whose descendants would object?

They were probably his wife's ancestors.

66 Decatur Deb  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:48:52am

re: #62 Mostly sane, most of the time.

Harry Reid suddenly ceased to exist?

Making Glenn Beck a Mormon spokesman is like making Bill Donohue a bishop.

67 iossarian  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:49:37am

re: #61 Gus

I don't think it's about him having to answer for it but he did take part in these:

What an idiot. "The objectionable parts of my faith? I haven't taken part in those recently."

68 makeitstop  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:49:58am

re: #27 Gus

Does that mean Obama won't be able to count on their votes?

//

I was arguing with a wingnut on Facebook yesterday who said that 'Obama had a chance to get his vote' but the new ad was a deal-breaker.

Practically every other member of the FB group did the online equivalent of laughing in his face.

69 Sheila Broflovski  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:50:31am

Mormons baptizing dead people is way down on my list of stuff to seethe over.

70 SpaceJesus  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:50:34am

I don't know about "non-existant." I've been fighting the war on religion with my rifle and fixed bayonet going on at least a decade.

71 Gus  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:50:52am

re: #65 Mostly sane, most of the time.

Were they Jewish names or names of people whose descendants would object?

They were probably his wife's ancestors.

I don't think it's a topic or practice worth getting stuck on WRT to Romney.

72 Shiplord Kirel  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:51:26am

re: #52 Fred Galt

I don't really have much to say about Mormonism, but perhaps it would be a good time to reassess the church's political outlook when the it's two most visible members are Mitt Romney and Glenn Beck.

There is also the Mormon politician who has benefited the most from tea party craziness, Harry Reid. Environmental icon Stewart Udall and brother Morris were also Mormons.

73 Varek Raith  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:52:06am
74 Kragarghazi  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:52:14am

Rep. Steve King Wants To Repeal Everything Obama Has Ever Signed

At a campaign event in Humboldt, Iowa, King told an audience that he is planning to sue the Obama administration over its recent decision to stop enforcing deportations of undocumented immigrants and floated a novel idea afterwards.

“King added that he’s thinking about introducing a bill, which if it became law, would repeal everything Obama has signed into law,” reports The Messenger, a local newspaper in Iowa. Such an extreme proposition would certainly do away with the biggest Republican bugaboos like Obamacare and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, but King’s “reset button” bill will come with many more casualties:

75 Decatur Deb  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:52:58am

re: #70 SpaceJesus

I don't know about "non-existant." I've been fighting the war on religion with my rifle and fixed bayonet going on at least a decade.

If there's a war against Catholicism, it's being waged by their officer corps against their grunts.

76 NJDhockeyfan  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:53:10am

re: #69 Learned Mother of Zion

Mormons baptizing dead people is way down on my list of stuff to seethe over.

If that will make the economy improve tremendously and help create lots and lots of jobs than I am all for it!

77 wrenchwench  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:54:02am

re: #30 Daniel Ballard

Religious freedom means Christians are free to refrain if they choose from extra marital sex. So those Christians can just not partake of contraception, abortion etc. Atheists All people are free to do as they please. The very idea that making some optional medicine or procedure available, even subsidized is not an encroachment at all.

FTFY.

78 Varek Raith  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:54:42am

re: #76 NJDhockeyfan

If that will make the economy improve tremendously and help create lots and lots of jobs than I am all for it!

Jobs! Abortion!
-GOP

79 Killgore Trout  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:54:56am

Democrats have adopted Bush's tactics says guy who wrote book on Bush's tactics.
Another factchecking fiasco

When so many reporters are practicing this style of journalism, it should not be surprising that politicians have become adept at targeting its weaknesses. In All the President’s Spin, my Spinsanity co-editors Ben Fritz, Bryan Keefer, and I documented how the Bush administration relied on misleading half-truths and strategically ambiguous language to promote its agenda. Because few of these claims were outright falsehoods and debunking them often required detours into policy specifics, they were typically reported without challenge or in a “Bush says X, Democrats say Y” framework.

The conclusion to the book warns that Democrats were starting to embrace similar tactics. Reid’s attacks on Romney are a case in point.
...
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, for instance, acknowledged that Reid’s claim is “totally unsubstantiated,” but still used the PolitiFact rating as a vehicle to dismiss the site, telling her viewers that “it’s ok to not take them seriously on anything ever.” A better approach would consider whether claims can be supported and whether they are consistent with the best available evidence without assigning labels to them (full disclosure: this is the approach we used at Spinsanity).

The controversy over Reid’s claim is likely to be a minor blip in the 2012 campaign, but it perfectly illustrates why the media is still losing the spin arms race. In a world where establishment figures in both parties are increasingly willing to smear their opponents publicly, journalists need to be more cautious about amplifying partisan attacks and more careful about how they evaluate the accuracy of those claims. Without smarter coverage, reporters and factcheckers will continue to get exploited.

80 Daniel Ballard  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:55:06am

re: #52 Fred Galt


I'll see your Glenn Beck and raise you one Eliza Dushku

(Just scroll down a bit, she's there in all her "glory".

81 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:55:58am

Speaking of genealogy, the 1940 census is now available online and searchable.

I found my grandparents and used maps.google.com to look up the houses. My grandmother is still alive and was able to confirm her childhood home as well as the childhood home of my grandfather.

The other two grandparents I already had been to those homes, one to visit, the other just to take pictures of.

This census has less interesting information than other censuses, in my opinion.

82 Sheila Broflovski  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:56:26am

re: #76 NJDhockeyfan

If that will make the economy improve tremendously and help create lots and lots of jobs than I am all for it!

The baptizing will be outsourced to China and India.

83 SpaceJesus  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:56:53am

re: #75 Decatur Deb

They're a tough bunch. Last time Al Sharpton and I tried to take all the Christmas trees away from the people in my neighborhood, we were jumped by the Swiss Guard. Those guys are very well trained.

84 Gus  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:57:45am

re: #78 Varek Raith

Jobs! Abortion!
-GOP

Gays! Gays everywhere!
-- GOP

85 SpaceJesus  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:57:48am

fuck yeah, goal for US women's team!

86 NJDhockeyfan  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:58:12am

re: #82 Learned Mother of Zion

The baptizing will be outsourced to China and India.

Their holy water is cheaper.

87 Varek Raith  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:58:35am
88 HappyWarrior  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:58:40am

re: #74 Kragar

Rep. Steve King Wants To Repeal Everything Obama Has Ever Signed

King's an idiot. Yeah a law that repeals everything a past president signed into law is totally constitutional and feasible. King needs to lay off the drugs and actually legislate rather than be Michele Bachmann's heir in the Obama is Satan caucus.

89 Decatur Deb  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:59:00am

re: #83 SpaceJesus

They're a tough bunch. Last time Al Sharpton and I tried to take all the Christmas trees away from the people in my neighborhood, we were jumped by the Swiss Guard. Those guys are very well trained.

They tightened up after the Sack of Rome.

90 Gus  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:59:15am
91 Kragarghazi  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:59:17am

Missouri ‘Right To Pray’ Amendment Will Allow Creationists To Refuse To Study Evolution

Amendment 2 isn’t simply a superfluous reinforcement of existing protections, however. Although the ballot summary did not explicitly mention the section of the amendment that far oversteps the precedent of the separation between church and state, the “right to pray” amendment will also allow students to refuse to participate in any school assignments they believe violate their religious beliefs.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that advocacy and legal groups are already gearing up to fight against the new amendment:

“This was misleading in its presentation and possibly unconstitutional in its application, so now we’re headed for the courts,” said Karen Aroesty of the Anti-Defamation League of Missouri and Southern Illinois. “We’ll let the next branch of the democratic process do its part, and I suspect a case will be on file pretty soon.”

Critics have warned the amendment will indeed open the door to taxpayer-funded lawsuits.

“This is going to be a nightmare for school districts, which will end up getting sued by individuals on both sides of church-state debate,” said Alex Luchenitser, associate legal director for Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. “This is the most far-out constitutional amendment we’ve seen in the church-state area.”

The ACLU warns that giving students the power to reject any part of their academic assignments represents a “truly profound change in educational law” that will “adversely affect the quality of education in Missouri.” However, it is filing suit over yet another problematic aspect of the far-reaching law: while the amendment strengthens religious protections for students in state-funded schools and legislators on government property, it actually lessens the religious freedom of the state’s inmates, stripping prisoners of their state constitutional protections for religious expression.

92 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 11:59:47am

re: #80 Daniel Ballard

I'll see your Glenn Back and raise you one Eliza Dushku

(Just scroll down a bit, she's there in all her "glory".

Only some of those people are still practicing LDS.

How about this gal: [Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

I'll claim her!

93 Varek Raith  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:00:02pm

re: #90 Gus

Didn't that pass on Tuesday?

And they have the nerve to wonder why we are falling behind...
Idiots.

94 allegro  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:00:15pm

re: #87 Varek Raith

Derp!
-GOP
Missouri ‘Right To Pray’ Amendment Will Allow Creationists To Refuse To Study Evolution

Does it mean those students won't fail their biology classes as a result? If they don't do the work, they don't get the grade.

95 Kragarghazi  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:00:18pm

re: #90 Gus

Didn't that pass on Tuesday?

Yup, Lawyers are already gearing up.

96 AK-47%  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:00:54pm

re: #61 Gus

I don't think it's about him having to answer for it but he did take part in these:

“I have in my life, but I haven’t recently.”

In other words, "I still believe in it, but I figured it would be bad publicity to be actively associated with it"

97 Gus  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:01:28pm

re: #95 Kragar

Yup, Lawyers are already gearing up.

Awesome. Sue the bastards...

With all but two precincts statewide counted, 779,628 voted yes on the measure and 162,404 voted no, roughly a 5-1 ratio.

Pathetic.

98 Kragarghazi  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:02:01pm

Look on the bright side, every fucking idiot Missouri produces means one less person competing for jobs and scholarships my kids can apply for.
///

99 iossarian  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:02:40pm

re: #96 Expand Your Ground

“I have in my life, but I haven’t recently.”

In other words, "I still believe in it, but I figured it would be bad publicity to be actively associated with it"

This is it. I don't want to go giving advice to Romney that might actually help him, but he has to realize that part of being president (!) is being a leader, and part of being a leader is presenting yourself in a straightforward way without trying to triangulate and evade responsibility all the time.

100 Gus  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:02:47pm

Meanwhile in Louisiana...

101 Gus  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:03:01pm

Jobs.

102 Kragarghazi  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:03:16pm

re: #97 Gus

Awesome. Sue the bastards...

Pathetic.

Reading comprehension and critical thinking skills: Not a conservative priority.

103 dragonath  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:03:37pm

re: #80 Daniel Ballard

Hey, I wasn't saying all Mormons were dirtbags or something. The Udall family, in particular, are some of the most underappreciated politicans in the entire country.

But I don't forget that the Mormon church supported "Yes on 8" and continues to oppose civil rights for gay couples.

Although I suppose Wilford "Oatmeal" Brimley makes up for that a little.

104 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:04:06pm

re: #96 Expand Your Ground

“I have in my life, but I haven’t recently.”

In other words, "I still believe in it, but I figured it would be bad publicity to be actively associated with it"

No, actually because that's something normally done by teenagers. Passing the sacrament is also usually done by teenagers. In my ward, the only time that I see adult men passing the sacrament is if a man is passing with his son or grandson who has just turned twelve and is passing the sacrament for the first time. It doesn't mean that they can't, it's just usual to have teenagers do it, unless there aren't enough teenagers, which could happen.

105 blueraven  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:04:54pm

re: #79 Killgore Trout

Funny how you never comment on the outright lies from the mouth of Romney himself.
Not Harry Reid, or some super pac; Romney lies!

106 makeitstop  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:05:19pm

re: #96 Expand Your Ground

“I have in my life, but I haven’t recently.”

In other words, "I still believe in it, but I figured it would be bad publicity to be actively associated with it"

'I'm running for president, for Pete's sake!'
/

107 darthstar  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:07:00pm

You know, Romney could level the playing field a bit by baptizing Obama.
/

108 Gus  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:07:12pm

re: #105 blueraven

Funny how you never comment on the outright lies from the mouth of Romney himself.
Not Harry Reid, or some super pac; Romney lies!

He's concerned!

109 darthstar  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:08:26pm

Fox does it again...

[Link: gawker.com...]

110 Decatur Deb  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:09:03pm

re: #107 darthstar

You know, Romney could level the playing field a bit by baptizing Obama.
/

I don't think Free Republic could handle a Mormon/Communist/Muslin/Liberation Theology candidate.

111 Kragarghazi  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:09:25pm

re: #109 darthstar

Fox does it again...

[Link: gawker.com...]

/facepalm

112 makeitstop  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:09:54pm

Radio Silence From Romney As Conservatives Demand Answers On Health Care

Fucking cowards.

Would someone please explain the the Republican presidential candidate that avoiding the media is not an option for the Leader of the Free World?

113 darthstar  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:10:34pm

Synchronized dancing with rubber balls? WTF?

114 SpaceJesus  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:11:07pm

Japan getting lucky.

115 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:12:07pm

re: #114 SpaceJesus

Japan getting lucky.

You leave Japan's personal life out of this.

116 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:12:17pm

Sorry, door was wide open on that one.

117 SpaceJesus  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:12:49pm

Much like their defense

118 Gus  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:13:03pm

In case you haven't heard:

119 Kragarghazi  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:14:47pm
120 iossarian  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:15:10pm

re: #118 Gus

In case you haven't heard:

[Embedded content]

Ain't nothing subtle about Republicans and money.

121 SpaceJesus  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:15:22pm

ouch

122 darthstar  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:16:17pm

re: #114 SpaceJesus

Japan getting lucky.

Thanks for reminding me...1-0 USA right now...so much better than ballet ball dancing.

123 The Ghost of a Flea  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:19:36pm

re: #118 Gus

In case you haven't heard:

I guess Dracula was otherwise engaged.

124 Gus  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:22:08pm

Joe Walsh is the same age as Obama. Calling him "son" is not only disrespectful, because Obama remains the POTUS, but it's stupid. What a loser.

125 Interesting Times  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:24:08pm

re: #100 Gus

Meanwhile in Louisiana...

[Embedded content]

Now this seems even more appropriate:

126 Shiplord Kirel  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:24:14pm

I've mentioned before how impressed I am with Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson. I won't vote for him, obviously, since I am emphatically not a libertarian. Even so, I think he is the strongest candidate the libertarians have ever put up, and he has real potential to drain off some Romney votes. He has no chance with the religious element, of course, but any remaining non-religious conservatives are likely to go over to him.

His job seems to be to coax the Libertarian Party out of the asylum and into real-world political society. This is nicely timed to coincide with the Republican Party's imminent demise as a national political force.

127 SpaceJesus  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:25:53pm

re: #126 Shiplord Kirel

I know of several Republicans in NM who are voting Johnson. Part of the reason Obama will carry NM without a contest.

128 blueraven  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:26:04pm

re: #124 Gus

Joe Walsh is the same age as Obama. Calling him "son" is not only disrespectful, because Obama remains the POTUS, but it's stupid. What a loser.

Not only that, but coupled with the "pat on the head", he might as well have called him "boy".

129 SpaceJesus  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:26:24pm

Has Romney ever had a beer?

130 lawhawk  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:26:57pm

Wow. Just heard that one of the US runners in the 4x400 relay, Manteo Mitchell (the guy who ran the opening leg) did so on a broken leg. Docs confirmed it after he limped off after his handoff. Oh, and he did that leg in 46 seconds. That's probably still a minute or two faster than I could do it - healthy.

131 Daniel Ballard  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:27:15pm

re: #103 Fred Galt

Hey, I wasn't saying all Mormons were dirtbags or something. The Udall family, in particular, are some of the most underappreciated politicans in the entire country.

But I don't forget that the Mormon church supported "Yes on 8" and continues to oppose civil rights for gay couples.

Although I suppose Wilford "Oatmeal" Brimley makes up for that a little.

No offense taken at all! I was kidding around, just thought to give us a more pleasant mental image than Mr Beck provides.

132 Gus  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:27:20pm

re: #128 blueraven

Not only that, but coupled with the "pat on the head", he might as well have called him "boy".

I missed that part. What an asshole a Republican.

133 Jadewater  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:27:40pm

Hi all!

134 darthstar  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:27:44pm

Is it my imagination, or are women soccer players less likely to roll around pretending to be in pain every time they get tackled than men are? I'd like to see a women's team play a men's team some time...could be entertaining.

135 Gus  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:27:59pm
136 darthstar  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:29:02pm

re: #129 SpaceJesus

Has Romney ever had a beer?

He has, but he baptized it and made it milk after he finished.

137 Kragarghazi  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:29:06pm

I still think Super Squad would be a great Olympic event.

138 Daniel Ballard  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:29:17pm

re: #133 Jadewater

Hello!
And welcome back.

140 Kragarghazi  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:29:33pm

re: #129 SpaceJesus

Has Romney ever had a beer?

Does root count?

141 The Ghost of a Flea  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:30:23pm

re: #124 Gus

Joe Walsh is the same age as Obama. Calling him son is not on disrespectful, because Obama remains the POTUS, but it's stupid. What a loser.

I dunno. As Southern-isms go, referring to someone as "son" has variable meaning...tone and context matter a lot. It can be affectionate, but it can also be terribly dismissive and condescending.

And at least in my own experience there's always been a racist component, in that it's a form of address that asserts both authority and intimacy...which dovetails pretty neaty with a certain form of Southern genteel racism wherein a black people are infantilized.

142 Jadewater  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:30:37pm

oh my. My mother is ranting about US politics on the phone right now. She read some articles or something and she is all" Did you know this? And that? Blah blah blah."

My response, 'yep, uhuh, yep'

She doesn't pay much attention to any sort of politics. Even up here so it's pretty funny.

144 Gus  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:32:41pm

re: #143 Gus

Image: 20120121_inq_sturzai21-a.JPG

Oops. Wrong guy. He's still another freak:

Mike Turzai: Voter ID helps GOP win state

145 darthstar  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:32:51pm

re: #139 Gus

More Republican fun:

GOP California Lawmaker Opposes Texting And Driving Fine Because It's Not What 'The Founders Intended'


@PatrickHenry: Give me Liberty to text whilst operating a motor vehicle or give me Death

146 Gus  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:33:35pm

re: #144 Gus

Oops. Wrong guy. He's still another freak Republican:

Mike Turzai: Voter ID helps GOP win state

147 wrenchwench  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:33:52pm

re: #126 Shiplord Kirel

I've mentioned before how impressed I am with Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson. I won't vote for him, obviously, since I am emphatically not a libertarian. Even so, I think he is the strongest candidate the libertarians have ever put up, and he has real potential to drain off some Romney votes. He has no chance with the religious element, of course, but any remaining non-religious conservatives are likely to go over to him.

His job seems to be to coax the Libertarian Party out of the asylum and into real-world political society. This is nicely timed to coincide with the Republican Party's imminent demise as a national political force.

Don't be fooled. Johnson is as morally unmoored as the rest of the Libertarian nuts. In 2008 he voted for Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party for president. And he hangs out with these people.

148 Gus  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:33:53pm

re: #145 darthstar


@PatrickHenry: Give me Liberty to text whilst operating a motor vehicle or give me Death

Bozos.

149 The Ghost of a Flea  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:34:33pm

re: #136 darthstar

He has, but he baptized it and made it milk after he finished.

Ah. The retroactive Aga Khan IV Maneuver.

150 Gus  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:35:10pm

re: #145 darthstar


@PatrickHenry: Give me Liberty to text whilst operating a motor vehicle or give me Death

DONNELLY: And I think the fact that you might cause a death, someone else’s death or your own, is such a powerful prohibiter of that, that we really don’t need to be increasing the fine. And I don’t think we need to have the cops pulling people over and giving them texting tickets. I see the cops driving down the street texting. So when a cop is driving down the street texting, and then he’s going to give me a ticket for texting, I think it’s wrong. And I think ultimately, there’s a great consequence to that kind of behavior. And as intelligent, rational human beings who live in a free society, is it too much to ask that we just police ourselves? It just seems that’s what the founders intended. And I feel like this is just more of a nanny state government that costs us a lot of money, and ultimately abridges more and more liberties to the point that – is the government going to tell me where I can go next? Or how many miles I can drive?

151 Mattand  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:35:22pm

re: #139 Gus

More Republican fun:

GOP California Lawmaker Opposes Texting And Driving Fine Because It's Not What 'The Founders Intended'

Right. Because writing with a quill and pen while driving a horse drawn wagon is what the Founders really meant.

By this moron's logic, anything written on the internet isn't protected by the First Amendment.

I've been getting bombarded lately with a lot of "both sides are bad" crap, but it's hard to take that seriously when the GOP fields morons like this one.

152 Jadewater  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:36:48pm

Okay I have to tell people because I'm so durn excited. Started planning a big adventure and documentary project. Hopefully if it all works out I'll be walking and documenting the creation of this really cool trail/walking route that goes from Vienna to Istanbul.

The Sultans Trail -Path of Peace

Here's a video. It's in Turkish (I think) but still shows it.

How cool is that!!!

153 SpaceJesus  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:36:53pm

re: #150 Gus


Uh huh. Following that logic, we don't even need laws anymore.

We are all rational now.

154 Kragarghazi  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:37:22pm

Ten Demonstrably False Claims Made by David Barton

Keep in mind, there are not simply crazy things that he has said - like life begins before conception or that Jesus opposed the Minimum Wage or that the government should regulate gay sex - but rather verifiably false claims that can be easily refuted with a basic Google search.

The Southern Poverty Law Center called him a "domestic terrorist." Nope.

There are no grocery stores within the city of Detroit. Wrong.

An elementary school student was yelled at for praying before lunch. Didn't happen.

Mentions of Jesus were banned at military funerals. Not quite.

Hate Crimes legislation was designed to imprison pastors. Please.

Abstinence will make you richer. Guess again.

God created our system of elected government. Nice try.

The Constitution quotes the Bible "verbatim." Huh?

Again claiming the Constitution quotes the Bible "verbatim." Still not true.

Many of the clauses in the Constitution are "direct quotations out of the Bible." Are you seeing a pattern here?

Those are just ten examples we pulled together from recent months, though there are several others we could have also included.

155 Kragarghazi  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:38:32pm

re: #153 SpaceJesus

Uh huh. Following that logic, we don't even need laws anymore.

We are all rational now.

HUZZAH!!!

No need for these pills anymore.

156 SpaceJesus  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:38:34pm

Need to go back to work. But there is no soccer on at work. Work will have to wait.

157 S'latch  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:39:08pm

Maybe Mitt would argue that the 10th Amendment guarantees that the power to declare war on religion is reserved to the individual states, and that the federal government is not empowered to wage war on religion. (At least it wouldn't be hypocritical. Insane maybe, but not hypocritical).

158 Varek Raith  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:41:42pm

re: #154 Kragar

Ten Demonstrably False Claims Made by David Barton

The Bible also contains every Grateful Dead song.

159 The Ghost of a Flea  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:43:18pm

re: #158 Varek Raith

The Bible also contains every Grateful Dead song.

The Godzilla films are actually based on the Book of Revelations.

160 AK-47%  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:43:21pm

re: #158 Varek Raith

The Bible also contains every Grateful Dead song.

"but whichever way your pleasure tends/
if you plant ice you're gonna harvest wind"

161 The Ghost of a Flea  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:44:24pm

re: #157 S'latch

Maybe Mitt would argue that the 10th Amendment guarantees that the power to declare war on religion is reserved to the individual states, and that the federal government is not empowered to wage war on religion. (At least it wouldn't be hypocritical. Insane maybe, but not hypocritical).

Clearly you do not have the Conservative Secret Decoder Ring for the Constitution.

162 S'latch  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:46:46pm

re: #161 The Ghost of a Flea

Maybe not. But I am fairly confident that Mitt Romney has a golden Conservative Secret Decoder Ring encrusted with diamonds.

163 Sionainn  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:48:10pm

re: #57 allegro

In all fairness, Sen Reid has been pretty much up there as well. Kickin' ass and takin' names.

I don't know if Reid is a practicing Mormon, though. He never mentions it.

164 Gus  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:51:01pm

re: #162 S'latch

Maybe not. But I am fairly confident that Mitt Romney has a golden Conservative Secret Decoder Ring encrusted with diamonds.

There's also a Diamond Encrusted Conservative Secret Decoder Elevator for that.

165 erik_t  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:51:09pm

re: #163 Sionainn

I don't know if Reid is a practicing Mormon, though. He never mentions it.

Wikipedia says yes.

166 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:53:01pm

mmmm 5 guys...

167 Sionainn  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:53:29pm

re: #98 Kragar

Look on the bright side, every fucking idiot Missouri produces means one less person competing for jobs and scholarships my kids can apply for.
///

No sarc tags required...it's the frickin' truth.

168 Kragarghazi  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:57:00pm

re: #166 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

mmmm 5 guys...

Harlot.
/

169 Gus  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:58:59pm

Ha. Obama's in Colorado Springs. See, Romney would never go to Denver. He went to Golden instead. This is rather typical for Republicans. Instead, Obama has the bigger balls and goes to the Springs and yesterday he was in Grand Junction.

170 Gus  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 12:59:45pm

2-0

171 darthstar  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 1:00:13pm

USA 2 - JPN 0 This is a good game...

172 Sionainn  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 1:02:03pm

re: #165 erik_t

Wikipedia says yes.

Ah, you mean a politician who quietly practices his faith and doesn't bother other people with it? That's refreshing!

173 HappyWarrior  Thu, Aug 9, 2012 1:08:50pm

re: #169 Gus

Ha. Obama's in Colorado Springs. See, Romney would never go to Denver. He went to Golden instead. This is rather typical for Republicans. Instead, Obama has the bigger balls and goes to the Springs and yesterday he was in Grand Junction.

He did many of the same things in Virginia. County I live in hadn't gone Democratic since LBJ and he did a rally in the county seat. He did another one again just last week. That's one of the things I like about Obama is that he's not afraid to go to areas that are normally not likely to vote for him or his party.

174 Thorzdad  Fri, Aug 10, 2012 1:08:59pm

That's the sound of Mitt scraping the bottom of the barrel.

175 labman57  Fri, Aug 10, 2012 6:34:59pm

The degree of hyperbole in Mitt's speeches and ads is directly proportional to the degree of desperation felt among his campaign staff with respect to his prospects in the 2012 election.


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