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.
Tags: Ann Romney, Birthers, Clarence Thomas, Obamacare, Republican Crazy
Adding on — Ted Nugent writes a column for the Washington Times thinking that the country would be a better place is the South had won.
That somehow the United States (which wouldn’t be the United States) had lost to the traitors and seditionists who felt that the ownership of other people was a moral foundation to their idea of states rights.
Nothing screams patriotism like secession.
For once, I agree with Ted Nugent. Now, mind you, the South would have never won the Civil War. The best they could have hoped for was a stalemate and then a negotiated treaty recognizing the independence of the South.
And on that count, I agree, the United States would be a much better country today, all other things being equal, if we were separated from the South.
I love alternative histories. From what I’ve read, nobody thinks that the Confederacy would have continued as a stable state. It would have collapsed and lost most of its territory to the United States (when the idiots came crawling back), some to Spain and some to England. There would be a couple of struggling principalities, but nothing like a modern self-perpetuating state could have resulted from a southern win or draw.
But like all spoiled children, they need to learn that lesson on their own.
More asshattery — file this under We’ll Stop Calling You Racist When You Stop Acting Like It:
So, wait:
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This is the thing that makes me see red with modern conservatives — they rewrite what we know, even language. And somehow the rest of the world is wrong for calling them on it. And when did this *lighting* business start? Summer of 2009.
Down in Louisiana – can open, worms all over the place:
W. T. F?
Now I want to open a madrassa in Louisiana. I’ll be down there in a few weeks, maybe I’ll call her office to inquire.
With an oud on your knee?
“Lousiana Madrassa” – isn’t that a Tom Waits song?
Lousiana is about to become, literally, an educational Mecca.
By Zeus! I’m currently accepting applications for my Louisiana based necromancy school.
Rep. Valarie Hodges also sponsored a bill in Louisiana that is now law.
“Sponsored in the Senate by Democrat Sharon Weston Broome and in the House by Republican Valarie Hodges, S.B. 708, drafted by the pro-life Bioethics Defense Fund and aggressively supported by the Louisiana Right to Life Federation, will require abortion facilities to allow a mother to hear the beating heart of her unborn baby at least 24 hours prior to ending the baby’s life, unless she signs an opt-out form. Additionally, the law will require an abortionist to place an ultrasound screen in view of the mother as he performs the ultrasound procedure, thus giving the mother an opportunity to view her pre-born baby if she wishes.”
http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/family/item/11677-louisiana-governor-signs-pair-of-pro-life-bills
Apparently, Muslim babies are exempt from this requirement. Hodges has offered to perform those abortions herself.
Republicans finally found something they hate more than government.
Here’s one more who’s actually a local asshat, “Dr.” Michael Hurd.
So can someone explain to me how being a “personal life coach” qualifies one to claim they’re a healthcare provider?
BTW, there were 11 letters to the editor tearing Mr. Hurd a new asshole in today’s Cape Gazette.
Cass – is that a picture of Collier on your link? If so, ’nuff said.