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"I know some people won't agree with it, but I think they can at least respect that I stand up for what I believe, and I'm never shy about that," Tebow said Sunday, the Post reported. "I don't feel like I'm very preachy about it, but I do stand up for what I believe. Unfortunately in today's society not many athletes tend to do that. So I'm just standing for something."Er . . . someone's self-awareness/irony meter is seriously broken.
So CBS is afraid of the wrath of Focus on the Family and has reversed its previous stance against controversial "issue" ads. It's going to show a forced pregnancy advertisement starring born again football hero, Tim Tebow sponsored by James Dobson and the gang."I don't know if he took him into the shower and showed him his big penis . . ." - LO-fucking-L!! At least from now on I can laugh at that every time I see Tebow's totally not preachy mug.
Women's groups are up in arms and rightfully so. Tebow's spot evidently discusses his mother's choice not to have an abortion as proof that other women shouldn't have the same choice. But if I were one of Tebow's teammates I might be more concerned about his association with James Dobson who has some very funny ideas about how to keep your sons from "becoming" gay:Meanwhile, the boy's father has to do his part. He needs to mirror and affirm his son's maleness. He can play rough-and-tumble games with his son, in ways that are decidedly different from the games he would play with a little girl. He can help his son learn to throw and catch a ball. He can teach him to pound a square wooden peg into a square hole in a pegboard. He can even take his son with him into the shower, where the boy cannot help but notice that Dad has a penis, just like his, only bigger.Tebow's dad is a conservative evangelical preacher and often talks about how little Timmy was a weakling who grew into a star athlete. I don't know if he took him into the shower and showed him his big penis, but that seems to be the way these fellows make Real Men out of their boys. You have to wonder.
You know why people care about the deficit? Because Republican fucktrons on the TV news have been yelling unchallenged for a couple of weeks about the deficit, so in some Idiocracy lizard-brain way, they've absorbed the narrative that Obama sucks and our economy sucks and our shit's all retarded because we're spending too much and it's the deficit. And stuff. Also.What the hell??? Do they all have Stockholm Syndrome?? It's infuriating to see the WATBs of the right get their way just because they act like complete assholes 1000% of the time. When is a Senate Democrat going to stop enabling their idiotic behavior and tell them to grow up?
Of course our Democratic senators are only too happy to nod along and talk about how we have to slow down and care about the deficit because John McCain said so. As if that's a winning electoral strategy, as if showing up in time to shoot the wounded makes you a war hero, fer chrissakes.
Was everybody in government asleep in the 1990s? This didn't work. It didn't make Republicans love Clinton. It didn't make them want to work with him. They went out every day and screamed about Whitewater and then impeached him for being dumb enough to get blown by an intern.
I really thought we'd learned by now that there is nothing you can do to get a Republican on your side, not really, not when there's votes to be won by meeting and greeting every teabagger in the lower 48 and calling them all patriots. They'll all be birthers by 2012, even if Obama issues an executive order giving everybody an Uzi and knocking up all women younger than 28 before banning abortion.
The day after he does that, they'll be on CNN talking very reasonably about how he won't compromise with them, not one little bit.
BUT YA RFabulous.
The student-run newspaper just ran a cartoon with this as its joke:Isn't that hilarious? Yes, that appeared in Notre Dame's student newspaper in 2010.“What’s the easiest way to turn a fruit into a vegetable?"
“No idea.”
“A baseball bat.”
The media sleazebags who turned Bill Clinton's penile spots, cigars and semen stains into headline news for two straight years haven't gone anywhere; they're actually stronger and more dominant than ever.Great.
The simple truth is:Your fellow 'murcans, Ladies and Gentlemen . . . and I thought it was us libruls who were so shrill and angry?
Sarah Palin is hated by Progressive Liberal Socialists for these 4 reasons:
- she has high morals
- she is against Abortions
- she is against Homosexuality
- she is for Capitalism
This makes her one of the most Intelligent Americans, and this is in contrast with millions of Intellectual but Unintelligent, Liberal Progressives who hate her the most.
Intellectuality doesn't necessary means Intelligence. Liberals are NOT intelligent because they have no values and don't believe in God. Simple as that.
I have been watching the gasbags anxiously await the President's "shocking" announcement all day going on and on about what they thought he was going to say. And he didn't really saying anything, at least not that I could discern. (Why all the hype?) but now th gasbags are l;eft with nothing to say and this is the kind of thing we're hearing:Hosanna in the highest to Digby for her ability to deadpan online. That takes skill. Every day, the woman says what I am thinking when I hear/read/see these gasbags pretending to grace us with their keen "analysis" of the political goings-on in that most fascinating (just ask them), most taking-itself-too-seriously-but-totally-not-getting-it of places, Washington, DC.Blitzer: he said he's not interested in laying blame right now.Ultimately the buck will stop with me and and when the system fails it will be my responsibility. he was under pressure, I think, to say that.Yeah, that's quite the fascinating insight.
Gloria Borger: Yeah, I think he was, and I think he's the president of the United States and the buck does stop with him. I think what was also very interesting about what he said was that not only didn't we connect the dots, but we didn't understand the dots...
. . . we've been dealing with middle eastern terrorists attempting to blow up airplanes for some time and it's clear there's never going to be completely foolproof security. When you have a wake-up call like this you thank your lucky stars the plot didn't work, review your procedures and re-double your efforts. Short of starting a war with another country that didn't attack us, what else can we do? This 24/7, garment rending is just playing into terrorists' hands. It's annoying.Indeed - thank Maude.
I'm not blaming Obama for this. I would guess he finds it annoying too that that people are clamoring for him to grab a bullhorn and start spouting stupid cliches just so the gasbags can get the lovely warm feeling they always get when the Preznit acts like The Dad Who Is Always Mad. He seems to be trying to put on that silly pageant as best he can, but it's clear his heart isn't in it. Thank God.
Let's do a brief thought experiment. I tell you the following: On New Year's Eve, a man in his mid-seventies is having his granddaughter over for a sleep-over, his five-year old granddaughter. He is attacked in his own home by an axe-wielding maniac with homicidal intent. Your mammalian reaction, your reaction as a primate, is one of revulsion. I'm trusting you on this.Western liberals' apologist stance* towards murderous Islamist madmen is infuriating, and more importantly, dangerous. It's Religion as Get Out of Jail Free card on a grand and grotesque scale.
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Then you pick up yesterday's Guardian, one of the most liberal newspapers in the Western world, and there's a long article that says, ah, that picture, that moral picture, that instinct to protect the old and the young doesn't apply in this case. The man asked for it. He drew a cartoon that upset some people. We aren't at all entitled to use our moral instincts in the correct way.
While the U.S. Immigration officer named Knapp rifled through all her belongings, Aew sat quietly. She was afraid of this man, who eventually pushed a keyboard to Aew and coerced her into giving up the password to her e-mail address. Officer Knapp read through Aew's e-mails that were addressed to me, and mine to her. Aew would tell me later that she sat quietly, but “Inside I was crying.” She had been so excited to finally visit America. America, the only country ever to coerce her at the border. This is against everything I know about winning and losing the subtle wars. This is against everything I love about the United States. We are not supposed to behave like this. Aew would tell me later that she thought she would be arrested if she did not give the password.Source, by way of Mr. Sullivan.
The Government of the United States was reading the private e-mails of a U.S. citizen (me). The Department of “Homeland Security” was at work, intimidating visitors with legitimate visas. They had at least 24 hours to check her out before she landed in the United States. What kind of security is this? The Department of Homeland Security was at this moment more like the Department of Intimidation.
Officer Knapp called my phone as I was driving to the Orlando airport. I was going to be there two hours early to make sure I would be on time, so that she had a warm welcome to my country. But instead, Knapp was busy detaining Aew in Minneapolis and was on my cell phone asking all types of personal questions that he had no business asking. Sensing that Aew was in trouble, I answered his questions. Mr. Knapp was a rude smart aleck. The call is likely recorded and that recording would bear out my claims. This officer of the United States government, a grown man, had coerced personal information from a Thai woman who weighs 90 pounds. I asked Aew later why she gave him the e-mail password, and she answered simply, "I was afraid," and “I thought I would be arrested.”
What could I say to alleviate any of this? Could I say, "This is the U.S., nothing to be afraid of."? The world already sees us as senseless bullies. Aew might have been detained indefinitely; even I was concerned that the Department of Homeland Security might detain Aew for no reason. Essentially, she had no rights. They had already coerced her e-mail password out of her head through intimidation.
This does not make me feel safe: Our Homeland Security was focusing on a 40-year-old Thai bank officer while there are real bad guys out there.
