Because a bigot vote and an ignorant vote is still a vote.
Here’s the story from @huffpo, with the important part in bold:
An awkward moment occurred at Mitt Romney’s town hall event in Cleveland, Ohio on Monday when an audience member, in the process of asking him a question, asserted that President Barack Obama should be tried for treason. Romney remained silent during the question-and-answer session, only to saythat he “of course” did not agree with the sentiment while greeting voters after the event.
The incident nevertheless illustrated what seems likely to be a tricky proposition for Romney as the general election season progresses: balancing the anti-Obama sentiments of the party’s base with the need to maintain a civil level of discourse.
“We have a president right now that is operating outside the structure of our Constitution,” the audience member said to applause. “And I want to know — yeah, I do agree he should be tried for treason — but I want to know what you would be able to do to restore balance between the three branches of government and what you are going to be able to do to restore our Constitution in this country.”
Romney didn’t correct the woman, choosing instead to address the question she posed.
But it’s not that far leap.
Great job on the Birth Control issue guys. Keep up the good work.
In related news about horrible white guys embarrassing the rest of them, Goodbye, dip$h*t.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A tiny all-white Appalachian church in rural Kentucky has voted to ban interracial couples from joining its flock, pitting members against each other in an argument over race.
Me: Thanks for letting me know it was tiny and all-white, but I could have guessed that one just by the “banned interracial marriages” headline.
Members at the Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church voted Sunday on the resolution, which says the church “does not condone interracial marriage.”
Me: Are they sure it was a vote? Because raising your hands and saying “aye” and raising to go “heil” is really just a matter of the angle you have your arm at.
The church member who crafted the resolution, Melvin Thompson, said he is not racist and called the matter an “internal affair.”
Yes, you are a racist and it’s no longer internal.
“I am not racist. I will tell you that.”
Me: I can tell you I’m not a mammal, that doesn’t make it right. I can tell you I’m a unicorn, that also doesn’t make it right.
When stupid people tell you things that are contradicted by fact, you can simply go: “You are dumb. And you are wrong.”
“I am not prejudiced against any race of people, have never in my lifetime spoke evil about a race,” said Thompson, the church’s former pastor who stepped down earlier this year. “That’s what this is being portrayed as, but it is not.”
Me: Yes it is. Go take a Sharpee and write “Bigot” on your mirror, just to remind yourself of what you are every time you wake up in the morning and look at your sad, sad face.
Church secretary Dean Harville disagrees: He says the resolution came after his daughter visited the church this summer with her boyfriend from Africa.
Stella Harville and Ticha Chikuni — now her fiancé — visited the church in June and Chikuni sang a song for the congregation. The two had visited the church before.
The vote by members last Sunday was 9-6, Harville said. It was taken after the service, which about 35 to 40 people attended. Harville said many people left or declined to vote.
Me: Well, I salute the six. Good for you.
Still, if twenty to twenty five people chose to do nothing, they share culpability.
The resolution says anyone is welcome to attend services, but interracial couples could not become members or be “used in worship services or other church functions.”
Me: “Oh, we’ll take your money…”
Stella Harville, a 24-year-old graduate student at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Indiana, called the vote “hurtful.”
“I think part of me is still in shock and trying to process what’s been going on the past few days,” she said. “I really hope they overturn this.”
Me: So does every person with opposable thumbs.
The church’s pastor, Stacy Stepp, said Wednesday that he was against the resolution. Stepp said the denomination’s regional conference will begin working on resolving the issue this weekend.
Then Stacy Stepp should quit. This is a flock that doesn’t need a leader, it needs to be disbanded and absorbed into a different church where one poisonous bigot can’t change the course of an entire congregation, regardless of how small it is.
Or, Stacy can tell nine people to take a hike and hold another vote.
In the meantime, let me just add: Melvin Thomas is jerk and if I could key-scratch every one of his Hee-Haw DVD’s, I would.
Seriously, what year is this?
(Source: crooksandliars.com)
So, the other day, Rush Limbaugh accused you of “Uppity-ism,” which is a mealy mouthed way to call you - well - uppity. By putting the “ism” there, it’s an attempt to say he was simply talking about a societal trend, rather than simply calling you a name.
But, honestly, we both know what’s going on here.
Now me? I’m Jewish. So, that makes me a minority on paper, but with blonde hair, blue eyes and white skin, I’ll never be called hurtful words based on what you see. I would have to be stupid enough to stand up in front of the wrong crowd and go “Where my Jews at?!?” to even possibly get a reaction.
And yet, here’s this - just to be kind let’s call him a person - targeting you with an obsolete word, simply because you had the gall to think you should be allowed to attend any event that any other first lady would attend.
Regardless, on behalf of everybody that’s ever used the peach crayon to color in the drawing of themselves and isn’t living in the 1800s, I just want to say… sorry.
Rush doesn’t speak for us.
Rush probably doesn’t speak for Nascar fans.
You are welcome anywhere. You are the first lady of the United States. Whether it’s a Nascar rally or an #OWS rally, you should be able to walk in, be welcomed, and move on.
So, I’m sorry a guy that likes his hate deep fried at Applebees and doesn’t like your attempts to make American children less round and more healthy decided to take an unfair dig at you using a term that even the worst of the Tea Party knows better than to say out loud.
And I applaud you being better than that, and better than him.
So just in case you see me across the street, and see the crayon of my skin, I just want to remind you… We’re not all turds.
Some of us are very proud of you for your politics, your poise, and your grace under pressure.
All the best…
- Steve
Is the tea party happy that Standard and Poor’s, the credit rating agency, downgradedthe United States’ credit rating for the first time ever?
You’d think that was the case if you were in the crowd at a tea party rally in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on Sunday morning. The Tea Party Express rolled into that northeastern city as part of its tour to bolster the six GOP state senators facing recall elections on Tuesday. But the most shocking moment of the event wasn’t the vitriol spouted by tea party leaders, which has dominated news of the tour stopsin recent days. Instead it was the cheers that erupted when one of the Tea Party Express’ speakers described the recent downgrade as the tea party’s fault.
Here’s what happened: Midway through the Fond du Lac event, Florida talk show host Andrea Shea King took the stage. She told the audience that commentators were describing the downgrade of US debt to AA+ from AAA as the “tea party downgrade,” laying the blame squarely on Congress’ right-wing faction and its supporters. But rather than boo those who claim the tea party caused the downgrade, the 200 or so Wisconsinites in attendance cheered, sounding almost proud to blamed for the downgrade.
Here, let me help you answer that. YES.
You can read the rest of the article here if you really feel like you need to.
Yes.
Because right after the controversy was “put to rest” (except, you know, by the people who need to negate the election) Donald Trump said “We need to look at his grades and see if he was a good enough student to get into Harvard Law School.”
He continues with: “That’s just code for saying ‘He got into Harvard Law School because he’s black.’ “
Except, it’s not really code. It’s saying exactly that.
Keep in mind this is said by the same Trump who’s kids are on his show and part of his organization for no other reason than they fell out of the trump family hoo-hoo.
Yes, this is exactly the guy I want discussing opportunity and who gets a fair shake.
So gross. So very, very gross.
Shun.
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A US white supremacist group has called for a boycott of the Kenneth Branagh-directed superhero movie Thor on the grounds that a black actor has been cast in the role of a Norse god.
The Council of Conservative Citizens is upset that London-born Idris Elba, star of The Wire and BBC detective series Luther as well as a number of Hollywood films, is to play deity Heimdall in the Marvel Studios feature. The group, which opposes inter-racial marriage and gay rights, has set up a website, boycott-thor.com to set out its opposition to what it sees as an example of leftwing social engineering.
“It [is] well known that Marvel is a company that advocates for leftwing ideologies and causes,” the site reads. “Marvel frontman Stan ‘Lee’ Lieber boasts of being a major financier of leftwing political candidates. Marvel has viciously attacked the Tea Party movement, conservatives and European heritage.
“Now they have taken it one further, casting a black man as a Norse deity in their new movie Thor. Marvel has now inserted social engineering into European mythology.”
The CofCC post [warning: hate site] goes on in this vein:
It’s not enough that Marvel attacks conservative values and promotes the left-wing, now mythological Gods must be re-invented with black skin.
It seems that Marvel Studios believes that white people should have nothing that is unique to themselves.
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Really? These are the guys you’re upset about “defiling?” The guy with the Fabio hair and the cape wearing his underwear inside and out? Wow.
Look - there may be a lot of reasons to boycott “Thor” - although I’ll probably be at a midnight showing with my inflatable Mjolnir - but these people make me want to boycott anything white.
Mayonaisse. Vanilla Ice Cream. Dockers. I’m done with you all.
Somebody is actually complaining about the fact that “mythological gods are being reinvented with black skin.”
Just like when this mythological God:
Was usurped by this one:
It would be infuriating if it weren’t so laughable.
But it’s still a little infuriating.
