Headlines - Saturday January 14

A third of Mormons say Mitt Romney's religion will count against him - almost half of Mormons believe they are more discriminated against than African Americans (that they wouldn't let in the priesthood until 1978), poll reveals

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There's nothing like just saying what you think. The Professor

 

 

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As much as Romney plays the "Europe" card by suggesting that A) all of Europe is socialist (especially France, of course), and that b) Obama wants to make America just like Europe, then Romney deserves the attack.  You just can't play the "the other guy is too close to those 'crazy' Europeans" while you speak fluent French. Read the rest of this post...

 

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Mormons feel misunderstood? Then maybe they should stop the gay-bashing.

 

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Every time I listen to wingnuts talk about family values, I wonder just what kind of fucked up family they come from. We're used to hearing conservatives talk about the corruption of the American soul, and usually the corruption they are talking about is stuff they just don't like- women controlling their own bodies, someone saying fuck on a tv show, gay people and brown people breathing, etc. I really did think, though, that at one point, there were a few things we all, from every political persuasion, agreed on. Torture got tossed off that list during the Bush years, and now it appears that conservatives have decided that desecrating corpses (heckuva job, CNN) and urinating on the dead should also be yanked off the list of things we all abhor. I wish I was surprised, but I'm really not. Fortunately, the military still at least is pretending to take this seriously.

And remember- the people defending this are the EXACT same people who wanted you to believe soldiers never told an off color joke in a cafeteria, or ran over a dog, or the other stuff they furiously attacked Beauchamp for a couple years ago.

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Kansas GOP House Speaker 'Prays' That Obama's 'Children Be Fatherless And His Wife A Widow'

Fuck these people.

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TENNESSEE: State GOP Rep Pushes Bill To Ban Trans People From Restrooms

"I believe if I was standing at a dressing room and my wife or one of my daughters was in the dressing room and a man tried to go in there — I don't care if he thinks he's a woman and tries on clothes with them in there — I'd just try to stomp a mudhole in him and then stomp him dry. Don't ask me to adjust to their perverted way of thinking and put my family at risk," he said. "We cannot continue to let these people dominate how society acts and reacts.