Morning, everybody, and happy славный день прав работников, comrades!
Let’s all suit up and get the inevitable over with. One of the drawbacks of having a Monday morning posting slot is when something entertianing happens in the middle of the week. By the time my post hits, the entertaining event has been hammered, masticated, ridiculed, and generally done-to-death by every wag with a blog, talk show, or late-night snark fest (hence last week’s bonus Obsession).
This week, everybody and his/her dog has been Eastwooding up a storm, andeven some character called David Atkins over at some blog called Digby has gotten in on the freak show that is Freeperville.
Well, nobody nutpicks like your master nutpicker, so if you’ve not hit Peak Eastwood yet, follow me into the iso chamber for theClint Eastwood Appreciation Thread!
Clint Eastwood Addresses The 2012 GOP Convention (VIDEO)
RealClearPolitics ^
| August 30, 2012
| RealClearPolitics
Posted on Thursday, August 30, 2012 9:27:25 PM byi88schwartz
Actor and director Clint Eastwood addresses the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida.
To: i88schwartzDamn that was a great speech. This guy is ALL CLASS as are most conservatives.
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posted on Thursday, August 30, 2012 9:29:40 PM
byNew Perspective
(Proud father of a 8 yr old son with Down Syndrome and fighting to keep him off Obama’s death panels.)
Palin’s gravy train has ended. Don’t you think, given the Rove interview in Businessweek, that they paid Palin a good stiff fee to attack Akin?
aimai
This stupid dink did not just wake up one day spouting inflammatory inappropriate drivel.
No, poppet, he’s been saying it for years, except that until he ran for an office that actually mattered nobody gave a flying fuck. Honestly. He’s not even the dumbest man in Congress right now, so where everybody gets off acting like he tarnished the noble conservative cause I will never understand.
A.
“The Moron Senator” isn’t a senator at all. Akin is a U.S. Representative who is the GOPnominee for U.S. Senate (until and unless they figure a way to crowbar him out). It’s typical of the Freeper crowd that they seldom seem to know who or what they’re talking about. Incorrect attributions are par for this junk-strewn course.
HELP!!! I AGREE WITH THE FREEPERS!!!!
Here in NE MO, the conservatives are still rallying around Akin. I couldn’t agree more that Akin has disgraced himself and is a liability for the RNC in general.
As I posted on another thread, Akin has issued a YouTube “apology” (well not really an apology, but he says that he has 2 daughters, believes that rape victims should be treated with dignity, knows that people who are raped can get pregnant… just never says why he made the comment.) An aquaintance posted the URL on facebook. Another person commented. I simply posted that I could give Akin some slack on “legitimate” as poor wording, but that his following pseudoscientific explanation shows that he had thought about it and that WAS what he believed.
In the following exchange (3 messages) my foil’s argument came down to 1) McCaskill wasn’t pro-life (I can understand that) and that Akin made a “ignorant” (my foil’s words) statement. But that my foil also makes ignorant statements so that makes Akin just like him.
RE: Sally Kohn
It isn’t that I and Sally Kohn could find a whole lot to agree on.
But the Freepers don’t even find Faux to be conservative enough???
Covenant Theological Seminary, sometimes known as Covenant Seminary, is the denominational seminary of the Presbyterian Church in America
That is where Akin learned what he repeated about “legitimate” rape. Thousands of people repeat this myth as fact all over the country because it is repeated over and over by counselors and ministers who were taught it at Seminary.
Religious organizations cannot be trusted with the education of our children. This disgusting myth is one of many reasons why.
thebewilderness – here’s a list of some of Rep. Akin’s (who happens to sit on the science committee) hit parade
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/todd-akins-greatest-hits.php
Both he and Paul Ryan were among the 227 co-sponsors of H.R. 3 (112th congress) No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act. Passed the house 5/4/2011 and placed on the Senate Calendar where it has apparently died.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d112:2:./temp/~bdT6r6::|/home/LegislativeData.php?n=BSS;c=112|
Included was the introduction of the idea of “forcible rape”. In fact, his sponsorship of this bill and elaboration of the pseudoscience of his position on “legitimate” rape both make me distrust his apology – showing prior thought on the matter.
However, please don’t lump all religious folk together. They are a quite diverse group of people.
There is no lumping of people. There is a simple declaration in favor of separation of Church and State. Education is the responsibility of the State. Us, the public. Religious organizations such as the Presbyterian Seminar cannot be trusted not to substitute myth for science and even for Biblical writings. Therefore they cannot be trusted to teach and should not be accredited.
I have done some reading on rhetoric. Apostrophe is defined by rhetoric.byu.edu as “Turning one’s speech from one audience to another. Most often, apostrophe occurs when one addresses oneself to an abstraction, to an inanimate object, or to the absent.” It sounds like that was what Clint wastrying to do, but it sound like not even the freepers (that seems to be the ‘even the liberal . . .’ of the 21st century–how far right has this country gotten?) understood it.