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Another Upchuckable Week: The place where religion meets your rights

Posted by GottaLaff 
· Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013 at 12:37 pm 
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Please welcome back guest blogger K.C. Boyd. You might remember her from her earlier posts.

A Monday Morning of Upchucks

Church

Education

  • Gideon’s Upchuck: Dispute over Bible distribution in Tennessee’s Hamilton County public schools. http://bit.ly/ZVQKOI
  • Congressional Jesus Upchuck: House votes to cut $2.5B  in Food Stamps after biblical/Jesus debate. http://bit.ly/11N47DZ
  • Drown ‘Em In the Bathtub Upchuck: Mike Pence puts Common Core, seen as “government propaganda” by Christian crazies, on hold. In Indiana.  http://bit.ly/14hHeF3

Federal Government

  • 1st Amendment Upchuck: “Jesus is calling our country.” Great summary of the National Day of Prayer.  http://bit.ly/106VM7j

Elections

  • Gubernatorial Upchuck: Ken Cuccinelli supports LGBT discrimination, attacks climate science, was called “the most overtly partisan attorney general in Virginia’s history” by WAPO, and . . . thinks Justice Antonin Scalia is too liberal, is running to be governor of Virginia. http://bit.ly/WNuVM0

Military

  • Family-Friendly Upchuck: Family Research Council continues its scare tactics to fundraise on the back of Mikey Weinstein. http://bit.ly/165Dewd
  • Government Paid Missionary Upchuck: Designed to win and train the military for Jesus Christ. http://bit.ly/OOhGdX
  • Spin Me ‘Round Upchuck: 59 Congress members demand Hagel answer to Breitbart.com’s version of black is white. http://bit.ly/19jgRQ7
  • Out of Control Upchuck: The moment Lawrence Wilkerson speaks authoritatively about the dangerous religious situation in the military, Tony Perkins comes out with this vomit. http://bit.ly/18JbJXZ
  • Me Fears MRRF Has Something Upchuck? Tony Perkins’s FRC takes the time to list Mikey Weinstein’s accomplishments, According to Perkins, we are indeed in a holy war. http://bit.ly/10Yo17s
  • Persecution Complex Upchuck: John Fleming (R-LA) calls Mikey Weinstein an anti-Christian extremist on the floor of the U.S. House. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/clip/4451421

Politics

  • Nut-Job Upchuck: Steve Stockman (R-TX) sez “Democrats worship abortion with same fervor the Canaanites worshipped Molech.” http://huff.to/19nJStT
  • Voices In Her Head Upchuck: Campaign posters for mayoral candidate Anna Pierre tout that her bid in North Miami is endorsed by Jesus Christ. http://bit.ly/13vmWcu

States

  • Wrong Again Upchuck: Tennessee sheriff defends Ten Commandments display in jail lobby calling it a   document “that all laws are derived from in this country. http://bit.ly/14g5PdC
  • Try Till it Sticks Upchuck: Ohio House Republicans attach language revision to budget to defund Planned Parenthood. http://bit.ly/15tdvfY
  • Pandering Upchuck: New Jersey’s Chris Christie wants to fund religious education at the college level. http://bit.ly/YwcZtr
  • Christmas Wars Upchuck: Here it is May and the crazies are feeding the troops with early Xmas persecution. http://bit.ly/YFh0vE
  • Coat Hanger Upchuck: Denying poor women safe abortion and effective birth control. http://bit.ly/12jVzPV
  • Texas-Style Family Planning Upchuck: Perry takes away family planning funding and gives the money to crisis pregnancy centers. http://bit.ly/12jVzPV

Novelist K.C. Boyd is the author of Being Christian: A Novel, a steamy, pulp-fiction of a read.According to Mikey Weinstein, President of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, “Boyd created a story so riveting that not only could I not put it down, but upon finishing it, I found myself, like an addict, craving more.

Here’s the link.

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Attempt by National Republican Congressional Committee to embarrass Dems for #IRS matter goes painfully awry

Posted by GottaLaff 
· Thursday, May 16th, 2013 at 4:56 pm 
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The National Republican Congressional Committee tried their best to connect Democratic lawmakers to the so-called IRS scandal, but oops! it backfired. Just when we thought the GOP couldn’t crap on themselves any more, just when we thought our pointing and laughing at them was subsiding, they revived their clownitude just for us!

HuffPo:

An attempt by the National Republican Congressional Committee to embarrass Democrats went awry on Thursday, when the group published a blog post riddled with errors.

For example, they referred to then-IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman as “Dan.” They must have missed Ron Christie getting pummeled by Joy-Ann Reid about that very guy.

They also mentioned two House Democrats who had already retired, so they were no longer “House Democrats.”

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Next they confused Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) with the former mayor of Medellín, Colombia, Luis Pérez Gutiérrez– in a photo! Yes, they managed to put their ignorance and sloppiness out there in picture form for all to see. HuffPo has the visuals.

Their excuse?

NRCC spokesman Daniel Scarpinato told The Huffington Post, “This was an early draft that was not meant to be posted publicly because it had not yet been edited.”

Isn’t that just like the NRCC? They go to all that effort to find just the right photo and wham! Someone has to go and tell them it’s the wrong Gutierrez. And the wrong “House Democrats.” And the wrong Shulman.

They must have been crestfallen.

And humiliated.

No wonder they had wanted the “R” word (“Republican”) taken off the NRCC website. When in doubt, disassociate.

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Susan Rice as next National Security Advisor. “It’s definitely happening.”

Posted by GottaLaff 
· Thursday, May 16th, 2013 at 3:09 pm 
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Since The Cable is subscription only, Taegan is my go-to on this story:

“Insiders with ties to the Obama administration tell  that U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice has become the heir apparent to National Security Advisor Tom Donilon — a post at the epicenter of foreign-policy decision making and arguably more influential than secretary of state, a job for which she withdrew her candidacy last fall amid severe political pressure.”

Said one source: “It’s definitely happening.”

Yes it is, despite all of this:

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Honestly, at this point, even if I were inclined to dislike and distrust Susan Rice, I’d still be doing back flips over this, simply because of what the GOP has put her through. They are the ones I increasingly dislike and distrust, and they have done nothing to alter my perceptions and everything to heighten them.

Once again, Republicans have made utter horse’s asses of themselves over a fantasy-scandal. May it continue to backfire in their sour little faces.

Congratulations, Susan Rice. Feel free to gloat.

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What’s the matter with Wisconsin… Republicans?

Posted by GottaLaff 
· Wednesday, May 15th, 2013 at 2:29 pm 
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There’s a new Marquette University Law School poll that is mind-boggling, unless Republican amnesia is behind the responses, in which case it makes total sense.

The Journal Times is reporting that part of that stellar GOP ticket that lost to President Obama in a landslide is now  leading the field for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination in Wisconsin. To add insult to injury, Gov. Scott Walker came in third. Hillary Clinton was the Dem fave, with V.P. Biden coming in second:

27 percent of Wisconsin Republican voters and independents who lean Republican support Ryan, while 21 percent support Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. Walker received support from 16 percent.

This would be the same Paul Ryan who decided not to decide” whether or not to run for president in 2016.

This would be the same Paul Ryan who continues to use the derogatory “anchor babies” term.

The same Paul Ryan who cosponsored another fetal personhood bill. Which was after he and his former BFF Todd Akin co-sponsored their own personhood bill.

The same Paul Ryan who only last month had only a 35% approval rating among all likely U.S. voters, down 15 points from 50% in August just after Mitt Romney chose him as his running mate.

The same Paul Ryan who still wants to kill Medicare and whose “LaLaLand fantasy budget” was a laughingstock, because it catered to the same 1% that his old “Kill Medicare” did, yet said explaining his tax plan math was too time-consuming.

The same Paul Ryan who said, “We’re not going to give up on destroying the health care system…”

The same Paul Ryan who said that he thinks he can get Obamacare repealed. After 37 times, you’d think he’d finally realize that it just ain’t gonna happen.

The same Paul Ryan who refused to answer any questions.

The same Paul Ryan who “may have improperly used funds raised for his re-election effort in Wisconsin.”

The same Paul Ryan who showed up all over “Rape Pregnancy Is Something God Intended” Mourdock’s Facebook page.

The same Paul Ryan whose hypocritical stimulus funding story makes front pages of most WI papers.

The same Paul Ryan who walked out on a local reporter for pressing him on taxes.

The same Paul Ryan who opposed the First-Responders Bill.

The same Paul Ryan who out and out lies.

And who can forget his “phoniest piece of baloney” photo op at a soup kitchen?

What’s the matter with Wisconsin?

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Memo to GOP: Federal deficit shrinking at surprising rate, long-term debt stabilized for next decade #BlameObama

Posted by GottaLaff 
· Wednesday, May 15th, 2013 at 10:30 am 
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Another Republican talking point is biting the dust in a big way. Previously I posted U.S. budget surplus biggest in 5 years; federal deficit is down 32% so far this fiscal year and Congressional Budget Office: Federal budget deficit declining; $231 billion less than 2012 #BlameObama.

Now, the Los Angeles Times has two reports that buttress those. It’s good news for President Obama and America, bad news for GOP whiners and obstructionists:

The federal deficit is shrinking more quickly than expected, and the government’s long-term debt has largely stabilized for the next decade, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday in a report that could strengthen the Obama administration’s hand in the budget battles with congressional Republicans. [...]

The deficit projection for this year — $642 billion — is almost 25% less than the deficit the budget office had forecast as recently as February. At the new level, the annual deficit would be back to where it was before President Obama took office. It would continue to fall for the rest of Obama’s tenure, the budget office now projects.  [...]

By 2015, the budget office forecasts, the deficit will fall to just over 2% of GDP, a level that most economists would consider relatively insignificant.

What?! Why, that’s positively unpatriotic! Here are the reasons for the shrinkage:

1. A better economy. Let’s repeat that: A better economy.

2. The rate of medical inflation is slowing down — which reduces the cost of Medicare and Medicaid.

3. Congress approved higher taxes, remember? That was when the dreaded “fiscal cliff” was the topic du jour.

I appreciated this very clear, concise explanation of the deficit and debt:

The federal deficit is the gap between what the government spends each year and its revenue, mostly taxes. The government has run a deficit almost every year for the last half-century. The federal debt represents the accumulated money that the government borrows to cover that deficit. [...]

Underscoring the political dynamic, Republicans, who trumpeted news of higher deficits during Obama’s first term, fell largely silent in reaction to the new figures.

 Of course they did. They always do when their political attacks get destroyed by pesky facts.

And then there’s this, also from the L.A. Times:

American families reduced their debt load in the first three months of the year by 1%, bringing it down to pre-recession levels after an uptick in the last quarter of 2012, the Federal Reserve said Tuesday.

What a scandal!

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Another Upchuckable Week: The place where religion meets your rights

Posted by GottaLaff 
· Tuesday, May 14th, 2013 at 11:08 am 
· 1 Comment 

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Please welcome back guest blogger K.C. Boyd. You might remember her from her earlier posts. We’re only posting part of this one, but you can link over to read the rest here.

Another Upchuckable Week - the place where religion meets your rights – by K. C. Boyd

The Weekly Upchuck

Church:

  • A Day in the Life of the Family Values Gang Upchuck: Ohio youth pastor accused of sex with teen
 in church-owned house. ow.ly/kEGMK
  • Seditious Upchuck: Right wing propaganda machine incites an ignorant public. ow.ly/kIhxK
  • Taliban-like Upchuck: Houston mega-pastor teaches his manly men how to get the most out of their biblically obedient women. ow.ly/kIhD8

Education

  • Taliban-like Upchuckable Redux: Women, we’ll teach you who’s boss. http://bit.ly/147Q34j
  • Dominionism Meets Corporatism Meets ALEC Upchuck: Yikes. This is big . . . this is scary. Read please. http://bit.ly/15wFJaT
  • Education Is Highly Overrated Upchuck: T-Rex Ted (Cruz) Sets His Sites on education. http://bit.ly/16zBcDK

Islamaphobia

  • Klan-like Upchuck: Greeting card turns “Muslim” doll into a “Terrorist.” http://bit.ly/Ytz2mF
  • The Tie That Binds Upchuck: Islamophobia is one of the few things left to unify the GOP. http://bit.ly/11pKRMv

Military

Politics

  • God Luvs Guns Upchuck: Santorum loves him some NRA. http://bit.ly/18iLO9o
  • Jeezus Saves Upchuck: As one of Jesus’ legitimate “Chosen,” Mark Sanford is risen. http://bit.ly/190kmuI
  • Prime(ary)-Time Upchuck: The National Organization for Marriage declares it’s a no-go for Portman in ’16. http://bit.ly/10GB2lR

Same Sex Marriage

  • Sodom Meets Gomorrah Upchuck: Homosexual activists go after the “low hanging fruit,” no pun on their part intended. http://bit.ly/16nPPdE

 States

  • Ten-Gallon Upchuck: BSA Texas Council votes to continue ban on gay members. Rick-the-Perry stands with them. http://bit.ly/10GB2lR

Novelist K.C. Boyd is the author of Being Christian: A Novel, a steamy, pulp-fiction of a read.According to Mikey Weinstein, President of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, “Boyd created a story so riveting that not only could I not put it down, but upon finishing it, I found myself, like an addict, craving more.

More at the link.

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#DyingSocial: LivingSocial must stop mixing assault weapons and alcohol

Posted by GottaLaff 
· Monday, May 13th, 2013 at 12:45 pm 
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CREDO has a press release I’d like to share with you. Bolding is mine:

The online deal site LivingSocial is promoting gun deals, including offers involving assault weapons, by urging their customers to visit shooting ranges and drink alcohol – all in one go. CREDO today launched a campaign urging LivingSocial to drop all deals on guns.
 
CREDO released a new report in partnership with The Gun Truth Project, and supported by MomsRising, “Dying Social: Deals To Die For,” which details LivingSocial’s promotions for events combining alcohol and guns, and examines incidences where that combination has led to deadly outcomes.
 
The report is available at http://act.credoaction.com/go/dyingsocial  

“In the wake of Newtown, I’d like to know how the people who own or work for Living Social can justify profiting from the packaging of AK47 shooting sprees with an evening of bourbon shots,” said Becky Bond, CREDO’s Political Director. “Living Social is offering deals that would make even the NRA blush — not to mention endangering the public health by suggesting pairing assault weapons with alcohol binges is just good clean fun.”

LivingSocial has refused to implement a policy ceasing gun-related events, even in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre. That position is in stark contrast to its competitor Groupon, which discontinued them in January. Several other online marketplaces, including Amazon.com (a LivingSocial investor), Craigslist and eBay, prohibit trade in firearms and related accessories like ammunition and scopes.

The report details the irresponsibility with which Living Social has promoted its gun-related events, including one deal touting “a day of popping caps and sipping on taps.” It also runs through the dangers of mixing alcohol and guns, including the fact that 86 percent of gun murders are committed by people who were drinking before they opened fire.

CREDO is recommending that:

LivingSocial should stop helping the gun industry by offering deals on guns or at gun ranges, or any other kind of shooting event.

LivingSocial should never offer packages that combine drinking with shooting or any other dangerous activity.

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