Gasp! Terror Babies Are Already Here!
Thanks to some diligent work by the brightest minds in America, a nefarious plot by Al Qaeda to recruit poor pregnant Mexican women to come to the United States illegally and have a baby here so that baby can grow up in America as a citizen (thanks to that terrible 14th Amendment) and ultimately become a terrorist undetected by the system thus being able to carry out a terror plot undetected by the unsuspecting American population has been exposed.
God, I can’t even write it so it makes sense. I’m assuming they (the brightest minds in America) don’t think Al Qaeda will try and sneak a woman from the Middle East into America illegally to have a baby since Americans are hypersensitive about illegal Middle Easterners at the moment. So who does that leave? Canadians? Mexicans? People from Michigan?
I’m also assuming they (the brightest minds in America) have figured out how someone born in America but then whisked away to Iraq or Afghanistan for the rest of their life only to be returned to America at the age of 18 will escape detection as a possible threat. Or will Al Qaeda keep the babies here to grow up undetected. If that’s the case, I’m assuming they (the brightest minds in America) will figure out how Al Qaeda will be able to prevent a teenager living in America from being exposed to all the fundamental freedoms that make America so great (like Facebook) and have tapped in to a way to keep teenage hormones under control so they won’t want to rebel against their parents.
The sad truth is terror babies are already here without Al Qaeda having to do anything. It’s called being born in Michigan. (Just kidding). Have they (the brightest minds in America) ever looked at the culture in America that creates militias, Tim McVeighs, and James Earl Rays? Have they gone after the families that have already produced terrorists? Terrorists like Terry Nichols, Scott Roeder, Ted Kaczynski, John Walker Lindh, John Hinckley, Jr., or Eric Rudolph who were born to parents who were already here as American citizens?
So how on earth do we track the babies that are being born right here in America that will turn into homegrown terrorists? I guess, since we’re just amending the Constitution willy-nilly, we could make it a requirement that everyone pass a “Are you a terrorist?” test at the age of 13 before being allowed to have citizenship. Or, we could take a look at everyone’s genealogy. If you have some terrorists in your past, like John Wilkes Booth, Robert E. Lee (or Ulysses S. Grant depending on your perspective), or Benedict Arnold then you have to pass a rigorous three part exam conducted over a period of years before it’s determined you won’t become a terrorist. Or maybe we can just start revoking citizenship to women who’ve given birth to some of our greatest terrorists.
I think we’re surrounded. The only thing left to do is to take over Canada.
The Least of These – The Christian Case Against Reforming the 14th Amendment
I’ve generally been led to believe, by myself, and certain public polls, that many in the Republican Party/Tea Party, consider themselves to be Christians. Whether or not they act as Christians is debatable, as I suspect it is with most of us. However, it has become increasingly disturbing to me to see what I consider to be a basic tenet of Christian philosophy violated by these so called “God fearing” groups. And that is this statement from Christ:
He will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’
Jesus is telling us in Matthew 25.45 that we are to treat all those who hunger, or thirst, or are a stranger, naked or sick or in prison with love, compassion and kindness. For all that we do for the “least of us” is what we do for Christ. If you do nothing to help the least, you do nothing to help Christ.
So how does that bring me to the Tea Party/GOP (and probably some Democrats)? There is a movement to reform the 14th Amendment. The 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to any one born in America. You’re born here? You’re a citizen.
You’ll notice, our current President, Barack Obama, was born to a United States citizen and a citizen of Kenya. You’ll notice there also has been a rather large “birther” movement to “discover” where President Obama was actually born. (He was born in Hawaii and the state says so). The birthers desperately want to prove he wasn’t actually born in America because then they can say he’s not a “natural born” citizen and thus not able to be President pursuant to Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution.
All this talk of Obama’s birth right citizenship must’ve got the creative minds at Tea Party Headquarters thinking. And Rand Paul, in particular, thinking. The good “doctor” (*cough* eye doctor *cough*), who isn’t really certified to practice medicine, is running for United States Senate in Kentucky. He’s a “tea partier” in some ways, but running as a Republican. He’s said he doesn’t think that children born to illegal immigrants should be automatically granted citizenship and thinks the 14th Amendment should be overturned.
All Rand’s talk, in turn, got Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (also of Kentucky) thinking. McConnell realized that you can’t just overturn the 14th Amendment because, after all, it is the Amendment that allows the Supreme Court to apply Constitutional rights of citizens to the states. In other words, the 2nd Amendment, as written, only applies to the Federal Government. Therefore, a “state” government can come in and restrict your right to bear arms all it wants because the Constitution doesn’t apply to “state” governments. However, the Supreme Court has ruled on almost every major Amendment, including just recently the 2nd Amendment, that the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment means that all citizens are entitled to their constitutional rights no matter whose making the laws, states or federal governments. McConnell realized, therefore, to take away the 14th Amendment would take away gun rights. Duh.
So McConnell just wants to “reform” the 14th Amendment so that babies can’t become citizens just because they had the good fortune to be born here. Which brings me back to Jesus. Babies. They’re going after babies. They want to punish a child because they can’t punish the parents. If there was ever a group that embodied the “least of these” it is babies. Is that really at whom they want to point their pitchforks? Babies? Are they not therefore attacking the least of us and therefore in turn hurting Christ?
What has happened to my party? I’m pretty sure that Bob Dole never suggested amending the 14th Amendment. I don’t recall Reagan floating that idea. Hell, even Dick Cheney wasn’t that heartless. In fact, the 14th Amendment is one of the Republican parties greatest legacies, and aides to President Bush and Dick Cheney have said so. The same aides are also stepping up and denouncing this disturbing rhetoric as would any decent human being who wasn’t out to appear more conservative for their constituents (that’s you Lindsey Graham).
Babies?
Do unto others…. Right….
Moran Defeats Tiahrt, Palin, Rove, Hannity and the Tea Party
In a victory for sensible Republicans, Jerry Moran has won the Republican primary for the United States Senate seat being vacated by Sam Brownback. Moran defeated Fourth District Congressman Todd Tiahrt, a candidate who had drawn a personal visit from Karl Rove, had been endorsed by Palin, Sean Hannity and the Tea Party Express. It is a moral victory for those of us who believe the Republican party has been hijacked by the crazies. Moran is very conservative and not nearly progressive as I want him to be on many issues, but I’ll take him any day over Tiahrt.
Now, if only the Democrats would get their act together and start bringing in solid candidates to challenge these Republicans and force them to move back towards the middle. If only….
Meanwhile, moderate Republicans were dealt a setback when conservative come lately Mike Pompeo defeated Jean Kurtis Schodorf, a candidate endorsed by Nancy Kassebaum Baker. Pompeo will go up against Raj Goyle, a state senator and very conservative Democrat. Goyle may stand a chance if enough of the Schodorf Republicans cross over and vote for him. But it’s not likely.
GOP Shame: Abuse of 9/11
We saw it at the Republican Convention in 2008 when the GOP used the 9/11 attacks to try and strike fear into the hearts of Americans in hopes they would vote for John McCain. Now, we’ve seen it again with the GOP’s biggest representatives decrying a “mosque” that is allegedly going in at ground zero (despite the fact that you can’t even see Ground Zero from what is not even a mosque). And in the very next breath, while using 9/11 as a rallying cry, they’re voting to deny funding to 9/11 responders. It is shameful and indicative of the current GOP’s willingness to put party loyalty before God and country.
New York Congressman Anthony Weiner, for one, has had enough with the abuse. Check out his response to Republican efforts last night to defeat a bill that would’ve given $7.4 billion in aid to 9/11 responders:
From the Huffington Post:
At the heart of the debate was a procedural maneuver made by Democrats to suspend the rules before consideration of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act. The move allowed leadership to block potential GOP amendments to the measure (there was worry that Republicans would attach something overtly partisan in hopes that it could pass on the otherwise widely-popular measure). It also meant that the party needed a two-thirds majority vote.
When the final tally was announced, there were 255 representatives for the measure, 159 against. The defeat of the bill, which would have provided free health care to those affected during the 9/11 rescue and recovery, likely means that the court system will have to settle compensation issues.
Weiner did not stop there continuing to attack this morning hammering the GOP leadership for blocking the bill.
I understand that there may be people who think the courts are better equipped to handle this and that the federal government shouldn’t be spending this kind of money. But at what point do you stop voting against the laws against rape and money for 9/11 victims for some sort of “idealistic” notion and instead start doing the right thing?
Beck, fearing for life, Apologizes to Urlacher
Turns out Beck is an equal opportunity stereotypist, even including white people in his Nazigasims. Beck was named to TheRoot.com’s list of “The Blackest White Folks We Know.” Said The Root:
The emotional right-wing talk show was probably the last person on earth we’d put on this list until he discovered that blacks have been all but removed from the history of America’s founding, and actually gave a black history lesson on his cable TV show. Yet we suspect we’ll have to revoke it after his upcoming rally at the Lincoln Memorial on the “I Have a Dream” speech anniversary.
So what did Beck do? He put photos of the 32 other people named to the list on his “black”board and started to try and identify them. His first fascist smear was to call Emeril Lagasse Hugo Chavez. Then, when he got to Brian Urlacher, he said he was a “Neo-Nazi.”
Beck apparently was told Urlacher could do severe bodily harm to him so he actually “apologized” to Urlacher, or as Beck calls him, “U-Lick-Her.” Beck says he only made the fascist joke because of Urlacher’s white skin and short hair. Oh…..that makes it okay! I guess Emeril got called Hugo Chavez cause he has dark skin and dark hair. Here’s the so-called “apology.”
I hope Urlacher sees the “apology.” If you think he was mad at Gale Sayers, I can only imagine what he’ll say about this.
Also posted at Daily Kos and Glenn Beck Check.
Rick Warren Copies Beck Blind Trick
God has struck blind another conservative. Only this time it’s apparently real. I hypothesized that Beck’s claim he may or may not go blind was all made up to garner more people at his August rally. Now, Rick Warren gets in on the act. From CNN:
“My eyes were severely burned by a toxic poison,” Warren wrote on his Twitter page Thursday morning. “Hospitalized Mon. Excruciating pain. Now home. Pray my sight loss is restored.”
The sap of the firestick plant is toxic and can cause skin irritation and temporary blindness if it comes in contact with the skin or eyes, according to the website gardenguides.com. The firestick is a succulent with spiky orange branches.
At least it only causes temporary blindness, unlike Beck’s which could be for the rest of his life. Or not.
I have to ask, is God attacking all the conservatives in a fit of blind rage? What would Jesus do? According to John 9:3, Jesus said of a blind man, he did not go blind because of his sins (or his parents sins) but rather “so that the work of God might be displayed in his life.” For Rick Warren, yep. Beck? Uh….judgment day has yet to come.
Daily Caller: Top Five ShakesPalin Quotes
Chris Moody at the Daily Caller rounds up the best of the Twittersphere’s slapdown of Palin after she compared herself to Shakespeare.
The Twittersphere can be a very cruel — and clever — place.
Only moments after Sarah Palin compared herself to William Shakespeare for using the non-existent word “refudiate” on Twitter, literary nerds and political junkies did not hesitate to spread the word far and wide.
“English is a living language,” Palin tweeted last weekend. “Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!”
Using the hashtag #ShakesPalin, the race was on to pen the best satire of Palin’s literary comparison. Here are a few of our favorites at The Daily Caller:
1. @normative: “To suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous liberals, or to quit halfterm, and by opposing, rake in speaking fees” #shakespalin
2. @spsenski: “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some are just picked by John McCain’s aides.” #shakespalin
3. @Zagrobelny: “O Levi, Levi, wherefore art thou Levi?” #shakespalin
4. @chriscesq: “Two households, both totally devoid of dignity, in fair Wasilla where we lay our scene.” #Shakespalin
5. @jerekeys: “But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is Russia, and Putin is in the airspace.” #Shakespalin
Shakespeare was known to invent new English words in his plays, including “accommodations,” “obscene,” “generous” and perhaps most fittingly, “laughable.”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/19/palin-as-shakespeare-the-top-five-shakespalin-quotes/#ixzz0uHKCHjEd
Here’s my input:
“To read or not to read, that is Katie Couric’s question.”
Liberals Have No Sense of Humor
After a brief foray into the world of liberal blogging, I have had to retire. After only a month. I kid you not.
So Daily Kos. The liberal stronghold. It’s comprised of a few sanctioned writers who’ve proven their liberal fortitude, hundreds of “diarists” who are supposed to blog about things that help get Democrats elected (per Kos rules) but who also weigh in with comments on other things like Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck’s latest idiot sayings. Of course, if you bring up substantive issues, you’ll never know what you’re going to get. For instance:
I wrote a diary about Glenn Beck claiming to have macular dystrophy (which I subsequently deleted in a fit of frustration). The whole point of the diary was that Beck would use this kind of thing to his advantage. Nowhere in there did I say, “All blind people are idiots. Especially Glenn Beck. And yahoo! He’s going blind. Isn’t that awesome!” In fact, I said this:
So Beck has set it up so that he can go blind. Or not. According to his doctor, he “might not” go blind. Of course, Beck isn’t going to act privately about his health like some other more noble, famous people (see Dean Smith). He’s going to go out there and squeeze every inch of sight out of this turnip. Just one more way to reel them in. I know he has some sort of Kool Aid, Doomsday scenario planned. I just hope to God it’s not going to occur in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
I’ll admit, I shouldn’t be so harsh. Perhaps he will turn out like Saul/Paul. God will make him blind only to remove the “crazy” scales from his eyes so that he can become a liberal and lead Democrats to the Promised Land. Plus, if he does go blind, for he and his audience, it will truly be the blind leading the blind.
The last paragraph is my total lame attempt at sarcasm and humor. In response, from the bleeding heart liberal crowd, who love to hate Glenn Beck, I get these comments:
“My Grandpa is blind. This is a serious issue. You shouldn’t make fun of Beck.” AND
“What a heartless diary. I wouldn’t wish blindness on anyone.”
About my diary. About Beck!! No mention in the comments about how Beck made fun of blind people a few years ago, about how he hasn’t donated a cent of his $32 million salary to researching a cure for macular dystrophy. Only, “gosh you’re mean.”
Then, I posted this diary about the Gun Owners of America trying to lobby to repeal a federal law that outlaws anyone convicted of a domestic violence misdemeanor from owning a gun. I figured, slam dunk, liberal do-gooders love this shit. Nope. They actually attacked me for being anti-gun. They said I lumped all gun owners in together and was unfair. Seriously. Liberals.
And the comment police! Good, Lord. They’re out there telling people they’re being too mean, they’re using bad language, and to not attack other people with their comments. In fact, on the “Daily Kos FAQ” page there’s actually an entry that says: “Why are people yelling at me for posting a link to my diary?” Rules rules rules. I guess free speech is only allowed to a certain extent. If you’re mean, you can’t say anything.
I’ll give you that I may not get my point across well at times, and I may not always label my sarcasm as sarcasm, but come on! The problem with liberals is they’re too damn serious. I don’t know how Jon Stewart came into existence as he is actually able to laugh at these people. You’ll notice, however, whenever he does go after Obama nervous laughter like the kind you hear when Grandpa tells a racist joke rumbles through the audience.
Get over it people. The best diary I ever read at Daily Kos was this one. Wrote toots74:
Right now, I’m looking at at least three sky-is-falling alarmist diaries at the top of the rec list. Ohhhhhhhhhh Noooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!! The economy is crumbling! The bankers are pillaging us! We’re gonna die!
Man up, you saps!
Is this Daily Kos, or Daily Kleenex? Is this the Netroots, or the Nut-less-roots?
Stop all this goddamn defeatism and get a pair. Things are better than they’ve ever been. How do I know? Because every goddamn kid from every income strata – even poverty – has a cellphone. And not just a cellphone – a fucking SMART phone. Those things – and their data plans – ain’t cheap.
How do I know? Because every other house I pass has not one – but TWO satellite dishes on it – even in the poorest of poor neighborhoods.
How do I know? Because you belly-aching pansies don’t know what hard times are. Things are a little tough, but they’re nowhere near hard yet.
And I hope they never will get hard, because if THIS is what you think is the end of the world, you saps will never make it in real troubled times.
So what comments did he get in return?
“I think that pansies is pretty offensive…” AND
“Sexism? Check. Homophobia? Check. Condescension? Check. I would perhaps rethink this.”
Seriously! Do you guys ever quit with the PC bullshit? I am a woman and an attorney who spent the last ten years defending Dr. George Tiller. I also understand that if people say, “grow a pair” they’re telling you to get a backbone. Of all the things I have seen and heard done to women over the course of the last ten years the very last thing that’s going to get my blood boiling is someone telling you to “grow a pair.”
I stand by my initial reaction to liberal elitism, which is to stay far, far away. When you get a sense of humor, I’ll come back and we’ll talk. Until then, adios Daily Kos!
I’m going to post this over at Daily Kos and see how many angry comments I’m going to get. 100? 200? Maybe I’ll finally have a diary “recommended!” In the interest of full disclosure, I am a Republican with liberal tendencies. Guess that makes me humorless, too. Probably why my sarcasm never works!
Glenn Beck’s Blind Ambition
From the Glenn Beck Check (my other blog):
Call me cynical, but this latest announcement from Glenn Beck reeks of opportunism. Glenn Beck told an audience in Salt Lake City (if you’re going to make up a wild story, Mormons are a good audience):
“A couple of weeks ago I went to the doctor because of my eyes, I can’t focus my eyes…he did all kinds of tests and he said, ‘you have macular dystrophy …you could go blind in the next year. Or, you might not.’ I said, did you just charge me a thousand dollars for knowing what I knew my whole life?”
Just for good measure, Beck threw in some of his patented crocodile tears.
So Beck has set it up so that he can go blind. Or not. According to his doctor, he “might not” go blind. Of course, Beck isn’t going to act privately about his health like some other more noble, famous people (see Dean Smith). He’s going to go out there and squeeze every inch of sight out of this turnip. Just one more way to reel them in. I know he has some sort of Kool Aid, Doomsday scenario planned. I just hope to God it’s not going to occur in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
I’ll admit, I shouldn’t be so harsh. Perhaps he will turn out like Saul/Paul. God will make him blind only to remove the “crazy” scales from his eyes so that he can become a liberal and lead Democrats to the Promised Land. Plus, if he does go blind, for he and his audience, it will truly be the blind leading the blind.
Palin’s Epic Twitter Meltdown Fail
This is just the funniest thing I’ve read in a long time. From Annette K at Daily Kos:
Silly Sarah just had to insert herself into the furore surrounding the proposed new mosque near Ground Zero in New York.
Well. it all went tits up for her, big time.
First she tweeted this
Ground Zero Mosque supporters: doesn’t it stab you in the heart, as it does ours throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate
Then someone with slightly more knowledge of the English language must have had a word because that tweet was ‘tweleted’ (see, we can all make words up).
It was replaced with this
Peaceful New Yorkers, pls refute the Ground Zero mosque plan if you believe catastrophic pain caused @ Twin Towers site is too raw, too real
Um, Sarah?, still not quite right
Updated with this
Peace-seeking Muslims, pls understand, Ground Zero mosque is UNNECESSARY provocation; it stabs hearts. Pls reject it in interest of healing
The usual suspects are having a ball
@SarahPalinUSA Please repudiate, refudiate, repoofiate, reloofaiate, or just apologize for, your religious intolerance
about 3 hours ago via web
.KeithOlberman
So, Sarah got a bit hacked off with the mockery (you’d think she would be used to it by now)………….
so she tweets this
Refudiate,” “misunderestimate,” “wee-wee’d up.” English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!
about 4 hours ago via web
.SarahPalinUSA
Shakespeare? More like Bill and Ted.
