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You read that right. Mississippi may very well take a giant leap backwards in time today. With such laws being considered, why stop there? Why not christian-talibanize the whole state? Force women to cover up, after all it’s their own fault they get raped.. they WANTED it didn’t they? In fact, put a law on the books that says a raped women needs to pay damages to her attacker… I am sorry I mean her “victim”.

This from Talking Points Memos:

Mississippians will vote on a “personhood” ballot amendment Tuesday that would define life as beginning at the moment of fertilization, which would ban abortions as well as some types of birth control.

Personhood USA is a Colorado-based group that has been running a nationwide campaign to get states to define a fertilized human egg as a person, which would effectively label all abortions as murders. In Mississippi, Personhood Mississippi founder Les Riley drafted a ballot initiative called “Yes On 26” that collected over 130,000 signatures to get the measure on the ballot.

Today we learned that it’s more important to win a college football game than it is to bring a known child abuser to justice.

Let that sink in for a second.

Today we learned that the Penn State Athletics department covered up for a child abuser. Two men are to be indicted for knowing that one of their own was actively abusing children. Not just any children, but the neediest of children, in a foundation he had set up that was supposed to protect them.

We have reached a point where it is more important to “win” and protect those who help you win, rather than protect children.

For years, I had always been dubious of college athletics and the benefit they have for schools. How could it be possible for an athlete to get a full ride, when perhaps the next great scientist could have gotten that ride instead? The stories we have heard about college professors being under pressure to pass star athletes and look the other way. Stories of students receiving gifts in various and creative hush hush ways to avoid the “oversight” of the NCAA.

Now we can see the true extent of how dangerous college athletics are. Now, all of the naysayers who defend college athletic programs as they drain their schools of money, as they ignore the nerds on campus and reward jocks should hang their heads in shame. Shame on you for being part of the problem.

Maybe now, it should dawn on people that college athletics has to change. But, it will not. Like all scandals in the NCAA, this one will fade out of memory as the fictional myth of a national title become “important again”.

The sad thing is that I am sure there is more than one fan who might actually be thinking to himself right now (without ever saying it out loud)”yeah… if we could the national championship, I’d be okay with that.”

From WTAE in Pittsburgh:

MONROEVILLE, Pa. — In July, McDain’s Restaurant started a ban on children younger than 6. The story quickly spread from Monroeville and went viral on the Internet, being featured on CNN and Yahoo!
Four months later, owner Mike Vuick told Channel 4 Action News that he has seen a 20 percent increase in business at his eatery on Broadway Boulevard.

A Halloween-themed graphic featuring a zombie President Barack Obama with a bullet hole in his forehead provoked widespread outrage and the attention of the Secret Service Monday after a local Republican committee in Virginia used it to scare up interest in Halloween parade political activities.

The montage, a banner on a mass email to Loudoun Republicans, mingles seasonal images including a jack-o-lantern, a disfigured U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi and a throng of flesh-hungry zombie Obama supporters.

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The image was first reported in a post Monday on the conservative northern Virginia blog, Too Conservative. The post’s author, identified as a “Loudoun Insider,” said he’s no Obama fan, “but putting up a photo of him as a zombie with a bullet hole in his head?”

“Someone should send this to the US Secret Service,” the blog post concluded. The Secret Service is in charge of the president’s security.

read the full story here

Americans’ Approval of Congress Drops to Single Digits

So… read around the Internet today and everyone will have you believe that either A) ZOMG loans are 100k+ and are out of control or B) shut the fuck up, I worked through college and have no loans and you are a loser for taking your loans.

And do you know what we realize… that ONCE AGAIN… the middle class… the average citizen in American, has been suckered into a fight of extreme left versus extreme right. The two extremes that don’t give a shit about you and me, the average American.

You see, the extreme right… they can pay for everything they want/need. It’s easy, they just roll up their sleeves and elbow grease it, amiright? Or maybe, they just get a check written for them and then they are done & done.

The extreme left, well they just need a gub-ment hand out for their extreme levels of debt (100k plus) and then they will be done and done, amirite? You see, they were ENTITLED to get that expensive liberal arts degree just as much as mr right wing was, aren’t they?

But let’s talk REALITY for a second. Read the rest of this entry »

So… some overly sensitive PC police created this “campaign” to alert anyone thinking of buying a costume that you could be insulting someone by doing so. Who am I going to insult? The bombing people culture?! I think this is hilarious actually. The PC-police state that continues to grow in America every day never ceases to amaze me. Maybe it’s just me, but I appreciate offensive humor.

Someone might say “well that is because you are white” and I would say NO, douchebag, that is because I have a sense of humor. In fact, I never understood the big hubbub over mascots. Naming a team the redskins isn’t offensive. It’s in good fun. You might say “why not name a team the Guineas?” and I would reply to you (being half Italian) that I would find that hilarious, and would root for that team double hard if they were from my home state of New Jersey!

That is why the Internet has struck back and made a “meme” of this campaign. Parodying it with all sorts of characters… my favorite:

From RAWSTORY, but the headline is thanks to FARK:

Pat Robertson provided a statement Monday afternoon that some may consider a “pot meets kettle” moment.

On the latest installment of The 700 Club, the televangelist the televangelist admitted that even he believes many in the Republican Party have shifted too far to the right.

“I believe it was Lyndon Johnson that said, ‘Don’t these people realize if they push me over to an extreme position I’ll lose the election?’” Robertson said. “Those people in the Republican primary have got to lay off of this stuff. They’re forcing their leaders, the frontrunners, into positions that will mean they lose the general election.”

He added: “You appeal to the narrow base and they’ll applaud the daylights out of what you’re saying and then you hit the general election and they say ‘no way’ and then the Democrat, whoever it is, is going to just play these statements to the hilt. They’ve got to stop this! It’s just so counterproductive!”

It is telling that Robertson, a man renowned for his myriad of controversial comments, believes that the party he supports needs to scale back on its fervor. These comments are significant because Robertson was a co-founder of the Christian Coalition, which became the most powerful faction of the Republican Party in the 80s and 90s.

Within days of the coalition of free & democratic nations helping to rid the world of Moammar Khadafy, the fruits of their labor have been revealed more fully: Sharia Law and another religious state added to the world. While it is not clear whether Libya could become the next Iran, it’s “interim” leader’s words are surely no comfort to those in the western world.

From the New York Daily News:

During a ceremony Sunday marking an end of Libya’s eight-month civil war, Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, chairman of the National Transitional Council revealed the country will be ruled by Sharia law.

Islamic Sharia law, a controversial code for living that governs observant Muslims’ lives, will be the “basic source” of legislation from now on, said Abdul-Jalil.

Existing laws that contradict the teachings of Islam will be nullified, he said.