I wonder why no mention of where Hobby Lobby gets the majority of its products came up? You’d think that a company with such deeply-held religious values wouldn’t be supplying Americans with loads of cheaply-made, overpriced crap from CHINA—a country with a known history of forcing families to limit the number of children they can have (by providing free contraceptive medications and even offering free abortions).

But hey. Why should HL let its “religious values” get in the way of profits? I mean, they might have to start buying from places that pay their employees more than $1 a day.

Scooter, if only. Unfortunately, he got his degree from Johns Hopkins and completed his residency at Tufts-New England Medical Center (at least, according to his Wiki entry).

I really wish someone would explain to these “disposable feminine hygiene products that one might use on a summer’s eve, and the bag they came in”* exactly what constitutes treason and how they so glibly misuse the word. (And how it might better be applied to the Republicons in both houses of Congress.)

*Courtesy of “The Big Bang Theory” episode, “The Bat Jar Conjecture.”

I hadn’t gotten to Priscilla’s comment, but I’m confused by it as well. WHY would there be “lots of racist comments?”

McDaniel’s being all typical teabagger whiney by blaming Cochran’s win on “liberal Democrats” who voted in the runoff. But I’m not understanding the reasoning behind “racist comments” when the race is between two whiter-than-white candidates.

Oh, and if Shapiro wants to talk about “Mafia kingpins,” I suggest he start with the mega-billionaires (like the Koch Brothers and Sheldon Adelson) who’ve been funneling unlimited amounts of cash to politicians and political groups fighting government efforts to clean up the political money system. Not many Mafia kingpins spent money, time and effort to help the police clean up the system.

And what about the (almost exclusively right-wing) PACs that get caught “transferring” money to other PACs to get around campaign contribution limits? That’s a tactic that could rightly be compared to organized crime’s practice of “money laundering.”

Yeah. Will’s so concerned about the poor men who might be falsely accused of rape—how that will affect their futures—but he doesn’t seem to give a rat’s ass about the women who are raped and how that affects not only their futures, but their right nows.

Aren’t these “good” Christians aware of the Ten Commandments’ prohibition on the worship of mere objects? Why is the “Ground Zero Cross” any different than the “Golden Calf” the Hebrews created while Moses was busy with his mountaineering expedition?

I know it gets a bit tricky, given the reverence that Catholics give “objects” and “sacred relics” but, traditionally, the objects that the Church gave reverence were directly linked to Jesus, Mary, Joseph or the various saints and apostles and martyrs—not something that just happened to resemble a cross from an object that was dedicated to the world of commerce (which is exactly what the World Trade Centers were). I mean, this kind of idolatry is exactly what the Protestant Reformation was attempting to “reform.” Most Protestants don’t place a “sacred” value on mere objects, no matter how “holy” the item (unless, as with the Shroud of Turin, there is some tangential connection to Jesus—even if there’s no genuine evidence that the object is actually what they believe it to be); they may place a great deal of sentimental value on an object (look, for example, at family bibles which may be passed down over several generations—it’s not the BOOK which holds any value, but rather the link to the owner’s ancestors, just like a photo album).

THAT is the real crux (pardon the pun) of the issue. The GOVERNMENT (whatever it may be—city, state, federal) is supposed to be neutral when it comes to religion and not favor one over another (or even no religion). But the “Christians” can’t accept that. They want to force their beliefs on others (even as they whine that their beliefs are being “trampled on”). If some private church wants to take the “Ground Zero Cross” and put it on their property, fine. No problem whatsoever. But it has NO business at the Ground Zero memorial—especially when RELIGION played such a large role in the very creation of “Ground Zero” in the first place. (And—incidentally—as soon as these idiots remember the outrage THEY created over the “Ground Zero Mosque,” then they might gain some insight as to why atheists might not appreciate being subjected to a piece of metal being turned into some “holy relic.”)

(Sorry—my last comment got cut off somehow; I remember reaching to turn off the caps-lock key, and next thing I saw was “Saving”)

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The word “redskin” was NEVER used in any historic setting in anything other than a disparaging context (or, at the very best, it was used in a patronizing fashion, much like “darkie” when talking about Blacks). There was NEVER any “affectionate” use of the term—it was meant to be a slur.

I’m sorry. Where were the FoxNoise kkkrews when liberal/progressive websites were being blocked by the US military? As the DailyKos pointed out (back in 2006), “the Air Force’s IT people put a block on DailyKos” (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/04/25/204804/-BREAKING-Air-Force-Censors-Liberal-Websites-But-Leaves-Conservative-Ones-Alone )

Or when—even after “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” was repealed—the Pentagon blocked LGBT websites. “It’s bad enough the United States Department of Defense censors Towleroad and AMERICAblog – banning the gay civil rights Web sites from being accessed on DOD computers – and it’s even worse that the Pentagon has no problem permitting their computers to access Ann Coulter’s and Rush Limbaugh’s hate-filled Web sites.” (http://americablog.com/2013/01/pentagon-bans-gay-web-sites.html —note the year there) As Aravosis further notes in the entry, “Our site, AMERICAblog, was previously banned for being “LGBT,” but now we’re only banned at least by the Air Force, for being “political” and “activist.” The Air Force is banning my Web site for being “political” while permitting other Republican “political” Web sites. Daily Kos is banned as well.”

Where were the Fox folkkks then? I certainly don’t remember any hue and cry from FoxNoise about any of that.

Gee. Bill needs to tell his viewers “Just remember, if you ignorantly choose to visit a foreign country, full of thugs and smelly people, just make sure to obey all their laws. We may not like their stupid laws—especially when it comes to our penis substitutes guns, but it’s hard for us to make them abide by our laws when we break theirs.”

Oh, wait. That’s too sensible for FoxNoise viewers to hear and too sensible for HRF* Billo to say.

*His Royal Falafelness

Let’s all play “Just Imagine,” shall we?

Just Imagine that FoxNoise was operating in the late 1840s and boatloads of “immigrants” coming from Ireland were swamping the New York City harbor, fleeing their island home which had been plagued by starvation as a key food crop failed for years on end. Nativists (as opposed to “Native Americans”) weren’t keen on all these “wretches” washing up on the shores of “God’s Own Country,” especially as they were miserable Papists (ie, Roman Catholics), and everyone knew that the United States was intended to be a Protestant nation. What do you think the opinion of FoxNoise (Model 1845) would’ve felt about all these wretches coming to the USA?

(In case you missed that period of US history—and I’m pretty certain the modern-era hosts of FoxNoise skipped it in their history classes—following this wave of immigration, New York City suddenly saw signs reading “No Irish Need Apply” on stores and businesses throughout the city. After all, those stinking Irishmen were only after the jobs of hard-working American citizens, and too many of them were willing to work for a mere pittance of a wage—far lower than American men needed to get by to feed and house and clothe their own good American families. Oh, and they were filthy Catholics, to boot, who had the audacity to insist on praying the wrong way and believing the Pope was infallible and having way too many children.)

Hmmm. How long did it take for this “mastermind” to be captured? Less than 2 years, IMS.

Now, how long did take for Team Dubya to capture bin Laden? Oh. That’s right. They QUIT trying to capture him. And when Dubya left office, the man responsible for 9/11 STILL hadn’t been brought to the “justice” Dubya had PROMISED the American people (just one of the many things he left for his successor to finish doing).

Heck, Priscilla, do you think the FoxFiends—Hasselhack especially—would be as receptive to a Muslim student’s “defiance” of a school’s order/directive preventing or banning a religiously themed speech?

So, “rick,” exactly how many MORE Americans need to die NEEDLESSLY just to satisfy you right-wingers’ chicken-hawk bloodlust?

You right-wingers have blamed Obama for letting this country’s deficit run wild (even though he’s actually brought back into some semblance of check)—a deficit that started under Dubya and the rest of the war-criminal cabal (it certainly was NOT helped by Dubya’s tax “rebates” in 2001 which helped turn the surplus Clinton left into a massive deficit, especially as the country had to start spending massive amounts for the war against the Taliban and then the war against Iraq while Dubya insisted on cutting taxes—especially for the wealthy—that would’ve brought in the necessary revenue to pay for their little wars).

@ truman: I’ve heard “some say” (don’t you just love that FoxNoise weasel phrase?) that Kimmie did other things to/with her law school professors in order to graduate. “I report, you decide.” (Heh.)

truman, that is so insulting. You’d better apologize RIGHT NOW. Ferrets are much more discriminating in their choice of partners.

It really would be nice if Rogers did a bit of research on exactly what it takes for impeachment.

Even if he’s upset at the GOPers for being “pusillanimous peewees,” the grown-ups among Congressional GOPers know that it would require just a few more votes to impeach than they have. While the House GOPers have enough to vote for impeachment (it only takes a simple* majority), to actually have the impeachment mean anything, it requires a 2/3 majority of the SENATE. It probably boggles Rogers’ little brain (which has seriously atrophied in the last couple of decades since he had any real acting career—beyond the role he plays for FoxNoise) but 2/3 of 100 equals 67. The GOP currently has only 45 members and even a third-grader can tell you that 45 is less than 67.

Further, in an impeachment case, the House acts as the DA’s “investigation unit” to determine if charges are warranted. It’s the Senate, though, that actually acts as the trial jury.

*Not the same as “simple-minded” by the way.

Well, if anything, FoxNoise continues to prove how consistent they are with their inconsistency. They’ll be more than happy to back the teabagger but when he loses, they’ll be right back sucking up to the “establishment” candidate and “conveniently” forgetting that they’d ever offered the least bit of encouragement to the teabagger. Of course, they’ll also do just the opposite. Support the “establishment” GOPer right up till the point he loses to the ‘bagger and then pretend they’d always backed the ’bagger.

Only with FoxNoise and the extreme right would you find works of fiction being taken as guides for real world politics (not sure which is the more widely used—“1984” with its constant rewriting of history or “Atlas Shrugged” and its “self-sufficiency blather” even as its author sucked the government teat for all its worth).