I guess Sen Coburn must’ve missed the fact that there are states which have passed laws allowing pharmacists to REFUSE to fill a prescription if they feel that the prescription would violate their (the pharmacists’) moral beliefs. IOW, if a MALE pharmacist has a “moral objection” to female birth control pills, he’s allowed BY LAW in many states to refuse to fill the prescription.

It’s so funny that, after a DECADE of “tax cuts”* and very little economic growth in terms of JOB CREATION, these idiots can’t seem to understand that more tax cuts simply are not the answer.

The ONLY thing we’ve seen come from tax cuts is allowing the wealthy (those supposed job creators) taking their money and then (1) investing OVERSEAS followed by (2) buying politicians. And I’d challenge McDonald to show me who’s behind all those folks on K Street. I’ve got a sneaking suspicion that regular folks don’t have much impact on the K Street elite (and their fellow whores working DC’s other streets) but the people who benefit most from tax cuts do.

*A bit of a caveat: The Bush tax cuts MIGHT have been more successful if they’d been postponed after 9/11. (I dare say the success would’ve been even more if Dubya and his war criminal associates hadn’t decided to invade Iraq. And, in some parallel universe, there’s a USA where the tax cuts went into effect and 9/11 didn’t happen and there was no invasion of Iraq and ensuing war there, and the country is thriving. Heck, there may even be a parallel universe where the tax cuts happened and 9/11 happened and Iraq happened but THAT President Bush urged people to sacrifice for the war effort which led to more jobs being created. Of course, there’s also a parallel universe where Dubya and his Administration cronies and advisors were impeached or prosecuted in 2003 for their crimes connected with the war in Iraq, and the criminals’ personal fortunes were confiscated and used to pay off some of the government’s debt.)

Perhaps both Rev Jackson and Cain should’ve been reminded that as recently as 150 years ago both men COULD have been OWNED by Hannity and have been prohibited from getting married. Even if they did marry, Massa Hannity could still plow their “wives” and then sell them without so much as a by your leave.

I think someone needs to send Oprah a copy of the video where Klein makes that accusation. For some reason, I think the prospect of a lawsuit in the 8 or 9 digit figure for slander and defamation of character would be enough for Klein to suddenly need a news show to make a public apology (and knowing Klein, he’d probably say he’d “heard” that from someone else and that he should’ve investigated the story before repeating it on national television).

You know, Ellen, it used to be that to find stuff that was so utterly awful that it made you laugh, you’d have to wait for some of those old Z-movies (especially the horror and sci-fi ones) that would eventually wind up on Mystery Science Theatre 3000 (though they were often funnier when you could catch them on some syndicated series hosted by folks like Elvira or even the old “Creature Feature” programs; these were funnier because you’d get to make up your own running commentary and your own dialogue).

It’s kind of a shame that a website (passing as a “news” site) is taking the place of the movies. (Of course, there are sites like “The Onion,” but they’re being INTENTIONALLY funny and sarcastic. FoxNation isn’t.)

O’Reilly blather: “As you may know, The Factor’s been following the story because the media in Norfolk and the police were very reluctant to aggressively pursue the case so we had to in the name of justice.”

Whoops, Billyboy. I think you forgot to include someone in your list of folks who were “very reluctant to aggressively pursue the case.” To refresh your memory, the VICTIMS were also “very reluctant”—but I guess, the victims’ wishes are of less importance than your need to satisfy your overblown ego, isn’t that right, Billyboy?

Something I’d like the Catholic Church to explain is exactly HOW they know when “conception” takes place. Even without using contraception, simply having sexual intercourse doesn’t always lead to a fertilized egg (just ask all the hetero couples who schedule sex around the wife’s “fertile” period and still wind up with nothing to show for it after months and months of trying), so that’s obviously not it. Most women don’t know (or even suspect) they’re pregnant for days or weeks after the egg has implanted by which time emergency contraception can be a bit useless (and they still don’t really know when “conception” took place—at best, it’s a judgment call in terms of a particular day, but NOT the hour, much less the minute of conception; heck, a really frisky couple could’ve engaged in multiple acts of intercourse during the presumed day, so “conception” could have taken place at minute 13 of a 7-hour lovemaking session).

What’s truly funny about the whole “pregnancy begins at the moment of conception” deal is that it has NO biblical precedent. Most women of the era (aside from the “lucky few” who got a “special visit” from God or some angel telling them they would get “with child”) didn’t even know they were expecting until their midsections started expanding outward. Hell, until just a couple hundred years ago, the official Church teaching was that there was no “conception” as we understand it. The Church believed that the man’s “seed” was planted inside the woman (the prevailing theory was that each sperm was actually a fully-formed little human being that needed to be inside a woman’s body to get bigger).

If it weren’t for science, the whole anti-abortion movement (which otherwise seems to frown on anything science) would have a hard time justifying their position.

I’m confused. I thought you had to HAVE a heart in order to have heart surgery.

I also hate to break it to Starnes, but unless he has a SKIN transplant (with a donation from several pigs), he’s not going to stop a Muslim terrorist from doing anything to him personally. Muslims (like Jews, by the way) are only prohibited from eating and touching pigs or porcine products. Unless his heart (which I still don’t believe he has) is on the outside of his body, a Muslim (or a Jew) can still touch him—for whatever reason. And, I should remind the fool that a group of (incidentally) Muslim terrorists managed to kill more than 3000 people on 9/11 without ever having to come in personal contact with them. Starnes could easily face the same situation. That theoretical pig valve won’t “insulate” him from a suicide bomber (whether of the Muslim variety, as with the 9/11 guys, or the Christian whackjob variety, such as Timothy McVeigh).

I wonder how O’Reilly would react if someone had a line of shirts that had messages like “My Daddy Uses Me as a Punching Bag, But I Still Love Him” or “I Love My Mommy and My Daddy and The Postman and Mommy’s Golf Instructor and My Daddy’s Secretary With the Big Hooters and My Parish Priest (Who Says I’m Not Supposed to Tell Anyone What We Do)?” Somehow, I don’t think O’Reilly would be quite as pleased with THESE statements of hetero reality.

To the Donald: I’d rather spend a solid week listening to Cher’s WORST EVER songs than to have to listen to even one minute of your whiny sorry ass mewlings.

And, for someone who has no REAL talent for ANYTHING to be slamming Cher and Rosie as having little-to-no talent, well, Mr Never-Had-to-Make-Any-Money-On-My-Own, that takes stupidity to a new high. (It’s just too bad that Osama bin Laden didn’t think enough of Trump to get someone to fly a plane into some of Trump’s properties.)

What I would love to see is for all these 10 Commandment lovers get together and figure out WHOSE 10 Commandments gets to be posted.

While FoxNoise has an overabundance of Catholics (not just among its paid bobbleheads, but also its quasi-official religious spokesman), I’d be willing to bet the majority of the network’s viewers are Protestant evangelicals. The Catholic interpretation of the Big 10 differs from the Protestant interpretation (Catholics interpret “I am the Lord” as the First Commandment and the injunction on graven images as the Second while Protestants interpret those as a single Commandment; conversely, Catholics regard all “coveting” as the 10th while Protestants split the coveting into two separate Commandments—one dealing with someone’s “house,” the other dealing with everything else).

And, of course, Jesus only highlights 5 of these 10 as really important (honor mom and dad, no murder, no adultery, no stealing, no false witness; per Matthew 19: 16-19) and Paul—the guy whose words seem to be considered MORE important by the Evangelical right-wingers—even reiterates this (Romans 13: 8-10).

And I guess we really don’t need to bring up the SECOND recounting of the Ten Commandments (the first being the rendering in Exodus 20). The arrangement of the Deuteronomy 5 version isn’t all that different from the Exodus account but some wording is different (the first version starts off with not coveting your neighbor’s house—which the Catholics count as a separate Commandment—while the second version begins with “not desiring” your neighbor’s wife before the “not coveting” anything else) and there’s a whole line reminding the Hebrews of their time as Egyptian slaves (oddly, the first version uses the Creation account as the reason for a Sabbath day while the second, using the reminder of slavery, seems to explain why your “servants” should get a “day of rest,” especially as the servants are the last on the list of to whom the Sabbath observation extends).

Even the usual depiction of the two tablets seems to be incorrect according to some theologies. Jewish traditions suggest the original two tablets were, essentially, God’s original and Moses’ copy (just why God would give Moses both copies isn’t really explained; I know when I sign an agreement, I just get one copy and the other party keeps their copy—I don’t get to take their copy and show it off). Per this interpretation, ALL of the “Ten Commandments” were written on just one tablet.

But, in the long run, I just wonder where the Ten Commandments is posted in the FoxNoise building? Has anyone ever seen a PROMINENTLY displayed copy in the studio? Do any of the bobbleheads have their own personal copies in their wallets? If the 10 Commandments is good enough to be posted in schools and courthouses, then the document certainly deserves to be prominently displayed in the FoxNoise studios (and routinely shown off to the rubes).

Um, I don’t get Hannity’s “plan.” The last time I checked, museums are under NO obligation to exhibit any painting, especially by a relatively obscure propagandist.

Patrick, I think the reason why “the right-wing seems always at, or wishing to be at, war with some one or something” is because the majority of them haven’t actually been in a REAL war. Granted this doesn’t explain folks like Allen “War Criminal” West, but it DOES explain a sizable chunk of the FoxNoise brigade and Rush Limbaugh.

Either Caputo was being very snarky or he’s showing off just how stupid he is. Is this jackass not aware that Crete and Mykonos are ISLANDS? Both are already major tourist destinations (and Crete alone has dozens of archaeological sites) and I’m sure they have plenty of corporations already paying for certain levels of branding.

On the other hand, perhaps Cavuto would answer what exactly all these corporations are achieving with all their “branding.” Their “sponsorships” don’t translate into the venues becoming profitable. It’d also be interesting to know why these corporations aren’t asked to actually, you know, BUILD all these venues. Many (if not most) of the venues were built with TAXPAYER money, only to have some corporation to come along months after the site’s opened and pay a small fraction of the original cost to get its name on the place.

Hell, watch the college bowl games—with all those grand corporate names attached—and see how many of those “corporate sponsors” are the SOLE “sponsors” of the games. The game may be called the “State Farm Boring-as-Hell Bowl Game” but the TV ads include ads from car companies, beer companies, etc.

This may come off as sexist, if not misogynist, but Lorinda, perhaps you need to switch tampons? Or, if you’re bleeding that much, maybe you should think about buying some maxipads as well? (On the other hand, I don’t think trolls deserve any courtesies.)

I will acknowledge that the FoxNoise crew’s attack on his flip-flop is truly ironic, given their undying support of Romney.

And newzhound, exactly what are you smoking? Or what pills are you taking? FoxNoise give Obama credit for anything? You’ve got to be kidding. They couldn’t even credit him with taking down bin Laden (at least, not unless Dubya and Cheney got credit for “laying the groundwork” or unless Seal Team Six got the lion’s share of the credit for the actual kill and taking all the real risk; IF those conditions were met, then they GRUDGINGLY gave Obama credit). You might have noticed the FoxNoise crew haven’t exactly credited Obama for the recent drop in gas prices (although it was entirely Obama’s fault for the rise in prices) and you might have also noticed that, despite recent employment gains, the FoxNoise crew haven’t given credit to Obama for that.

Well, let’s not forget that, as recently as 2008, Obama was NOT in favor of same-sex marriage; he even pulled out the old “my religion” canard to “explain” his reasoning.

Of course, a position questionnaire from the late 90s (supposedly filled out by Obama, but, when the paper was made public during the 2008 campaign, Obama denied filling it out, saying that a campaign worker had filled it out for him—and supposedly Obama merely signed it without reading it over) stated Obama’s FULL support for same-sex marriage.

I’ll give Obama only as much credit as he’s due but I’m not going to make it seem as though he’s doing the LGBTQ community any great favors with this decision. DNC leaders had already put the issue out there months ago to make marriage equality a formal part of the Democratic platform, and the VP made his support known a week ago (one report I read stated that was the impetus for Obama’s “sudden” decision; according to the report, Obama was going to put off this decision for a “while longer”). And, he wasn’t exactly willing to put himself on the line in 2008 when asked by Prop 8 opponents to publicly endorse the “No on 8” campaign; Obama said it wouldn’t be proper for him to wade into a state issue as a Presidential candidate (funny how GOP candidates don’t have that problem; Dubya—okay, he was the sitting President, but he was in the middle of a campaign—certainly used the Massachusetts court decision on same-sex marriage to press for a Constitutional Amendment banning marriage equality).

Did Obama make the right decision here? Yes. But I’m not going to pretend that he DIDN’T flip-flop on the issue. Anyone who does so is willfully ignoring his history on the issue.

About those polls, you really should know that GOPers never bother with polls that show the slightest disagreement with their current talking point. They do, however, jump on ANY poll—no matter how unscientific or how thoroughly unreliable it may be—if it supports their talking point. (And, if you can’t find a poll that actually does back up your talking point, just take a poll that COMPLETELY contradicts your talking point and reword it or “selectively edit” it so it DOES match your talking point.)

SOP for the GOP.

Boy, Herman Cain and Clarence Thomas must feel so much love and appreciation from the FoxNoise.com audience. Almost makes you feel sorry for them.

Almost.

Except, of course, Cain and Thomas chose to be Republicons and CONservatives, and as all good people know, “bIQongtaHvIS nItlhejchugh targhmey; bIvemDI’ nItlhej ghIlab ghewmey” (for those of you who don’t understand tlhIngan Hol, the equivalent English phrase is “if you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas”).

Oh, Aria and Visitor, I’m well aware of the old political Law of IOKIYAR. That’s essentially what I said at the end of my Rubio anchor baby comment: “Of course, there is the slight deal that what’s unacceptable for a Democrat is not only acceptable for, but absolutely expected of, a Republicon.” (Maybe that’s the IOKIYAR corollary.)