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TODAY’S QUOTE
“Just when you thought there wasn’t a dime’s worth of difference between the two parties, the Republicans go and prove you’re wrong.” — Molly Ivins
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BUTT-HEAD MORALITY
Here’s all you need to know about the anti-abortion crowd. Last night, four of the devout men — emphasis on men, just in case it slipped your notice — running for the Republican nomination for president genuflected at the altar of the “pro-life” god in South Carolina.
That would be the god, I remind you, who frets obsessively over the safety of those blobs of cellular material the “pro-lifers” call “persons” and then promptly ignores once the blobs develop into what the rest of us would consider human.
Don’t these people know personhood begins the moment papers are filed to establish a corporation?
If This Is A CEO, Then It’s A Person
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Anyway, Personhood USA gathered “pro-lifers” together so they could tell each other how righteous they are and to listen to Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Ricky-girl Santorum, and Rick Perry each claim to be holy.
Good to know that when our economy is teetering on a precipice, when the country seems to be in the throes of a seizure, when there’s not enough money to keep schools and libraries running properly, when climate change and nuclear proliferation threaten our very future, the pious folks of Personhood USA can keep their focus on women’s uteri.
Last night’s seminar was actually a dialectic musing over precisely when a human being comes into existence. Believe it or not, it’s a question that racks the brains of these folks. Not too long ago, they pushed for a law in Mississippi that would declare “personhood” begins at the moment the egg is fertilized.
So, in other words, if you snuff the life out of a fertilized egg, you’d be committing murder.
Now of course, the problem with that is many, if not most, forms of contraception entail killing the fertilized egg. Which would mean, say, birth control pill users would really be no different than Tucson shopping mall shooter Jared Loughner.
As Bad As One Of Those Birth Control Pill-Takers
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A lovely bunch of thinkers, these “pro-lifers,” no?
The debate moderator (a guy) asked Rick Perry (ditto) when he thought life begins. Perry responded, “When the sperm and the egg come together….”
At which point — get this — many in the crowd started tittering.
Yeah, that’s right. Tittering.
Hilarious
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As in, “Tehe, he said sperm.”
As in a couple of twelve year-olds sitting around giggling about sperm and dicks and vaginas.
As in Beavis and Butt-head.
Personhood USA.
Pro-life?
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THE GAY DISEASE
Some members of the titterering set got together after a Texas confab last weekend and declared front-runner Mitt Romney to be suffering from the dread disease of “homophilia.”
I shudder to think of it. Romney’s office must be decorated with posters for Broadway musicals at the very least.
The First Symptom
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“… [M]ost South Carolinians and I have a sane and healthy homophobia,” said the Rev. Huey Mills, some big-shot evangelical.
Sane?
Huey?
Anyway, some other big evangelical leader named Tony Perkins will make a personal appearance with the anointed one, Ricky-girl Santorum, today in South Carolina, two days before the state’s primary. Ricky-girl was tabbed by the Texas evangelical gang as their fave for president.
Endorsing Santorum?
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GAY CAR PRIDE
The world hasn’t completely lost it mind — and least not just yet. The state of Indiana this week became the first in the nation to issue a “gay” license plate.
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The proceeds from the $40 plate will go to the Indiana Youth Group, which helps gay teens.
Of course, people who have a “healthy and sane homophobia” probably are certain the IYG “helps” teens by luring unsuspecting adolescents into their nefarious clutches.
Because, you know, it’s as easy as Mom’s apple pie to convince a hormone-flooded 15-year-old high school jock he really prefers Clay Aiken to Megan Fox.
Typical Teen Boy: “Gee, Clay Aiken Or Megan Fox — I Can’t Decide!”
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I would offer my sincerest congratulations to the great state o’Indiana but the decision to issue the gay plate was forced upon it by a Supreme Court ruling.
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