Call the police. We have another criminal on Capitol Hill. A self-proclaimed fetus pornography. Self-confessed abuser, Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas), a licensed OB/GYN, said Monday that he is guilty of fetus pornography. He stated that embryos as young as 15 weeks old masturbate. Yup, he really said that. He thinks these less than half developed fetuses with less than half developed brains and sexual organs are capable of sexual gratification. According to him, after 15 weeks they shouldn’t be aborted. Really? Why? Are they’re having too much fun in the womb?
When it comes to certifiable whack jobs — yes, pun intended — Burgess should be at the front of the line.
If watching a 15 year old in a sexual act is against the law, then if you believe what you’re saying, isn’t watching a 15 week old pleasuring itself also verboten? In all seriousness, we know embryos don’t knowingly perform such acts… And someone with half a brain should know that. Let’s start examining our representatives. If they believe what they say, then perhaps we should have them arrested, not elected.
C’mon, gain some sanity, Burgess, or turn in your license as a doctor and position as a congressman. You are certifiable, but as a loon, not a sane man. You can’t be trusted with any adult actions unless you personally give up your fixation with fetusterbation.
The Armed Citizen Project is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to training and arming residents in mid-high crime areas with defensive shotguns, for free! In training and arming law-abiding residents, we are saturating neighborhoods with defensive weapons, and measuring the effect that a heavily armed society has on crime rates.
We are also dedicated to training and arming vulnerable women. We recently trained and arm a group of Houston women. Fighting the war on women, one free shotgun at a time [...]
It is our belief that gun-rights activists must take the offensive, and actively encourage the increased presence of defensive weapons in society.[...]
The goal is to find if there exists a causal link between an increase in the presence of firearms and the level of crime.
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If a gang of four breaks into your house, it is best for your wife to be equipped with 30 rounds of .223 if possible, and we fully support the decision of firearm owners to be prepared for all eventualities. [...]
Even if, heaven-forbid, one of our weapons is misused in a manner causing injury or death, one would have to accept the premise that guns, not people, cause crime, in order to find us liable. I will not play into the hands of the anti-gun establishment. The future belongs to the bold, we must fight.
What could possibly go wrong? But how generous of them to hand out firearms to poor, helpless, vulnerable women who will clearly become expert enough to scramble for their guns, aim accurately, and hit their target(s) while scared out of their wits after being startled out of a deep sleep. Or while barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen preparing a wholesome meal for their man and the triplets. Or while realizing they may have forgotten to keep the doors locked.
Nevertheless, the Armed Citizen Project thinks they need shotguns to kill all those intrusive bad guys. Does that include the intrusive bad guys who invade their vaginas with ultrasound probes? But I digress.
Think Progress is reporting that now this group wants to hand out free shotguns to 50 residents of a Houston, Texas neighborhood. They believe that cities with higher crime rates would benefit, so once applicants complete a firearms course and background check, they get their free gun! Who could ask for a better program than that? Not the NRA or gun makers:
Women are an increasingly important consumer base to gun manufacturers and the NRA, a trend visible in the rise of typically exploitive, sexist marketing. But the real effect guns have on women’s security is exactly the reverse. A gun in the home often risks accidental deaths or suicide attempts, while it is also invariably more dangerous to women in abusive relationships. Women are not safer with guns, despite the NRA and allies’ insistence that gun violence prevention is anti-feminist… [T]he best research out there shows that the number of guns and gun deaths go hand-in-hand.
Of course, these same shotgun providers are undoubtedly “pro-lifers,” too, right?
A Craigslist escort wouldn’t have sex with Ezekiel Gilbert, per MySanAntonio.com. That didn’t sit well with him at all. He wanted his $150 back badly, really really badly. So what’s a rejected, horny man to do? Clearly the answer was to shoot 23-year-old Lenora Ivie Frago in the neck, leaving her paralyzed. Hey, he was just trying to retrieve his own money, after all.
She died seven months later, on December 24th.
The Texas law that allows people to use deadly force to recover property during a nighttime theft was put in place for “law-abiding” citizens, prosecutors Matt Lovell and Jessica Schulze countered. It’s not intended for someone trying to force another person into an illegal act such as prostitution, they argued.
Of course, being the religious sex-buying guy’s guy that he is, Gilbert thanked God for saving him from having to spend the rest of his life in prison. I wonder if his sense of religious irony was developed enough to notice that Lenora passed away on Christmas Eve.
Said he, “I’ve been in a mental prison the past four years of my life. I have nightmares. If I see guns on TV where people are getting killed, I change the channel.”
Poor thing.
He must be thinking how lucky Lenora was, having been spared from any further nightmares, nor does she ever have to see another gun on TV, nor does she have the option to change the channel, let alone watch TV at all. I’m sure wherever she is, she is thanking Gilbert’s god for that.
As I’ve written previously, voting should not only be easy, it should be easily accessible and free. Americans should be encouraged to cast their ballots, not discouraged, suppressed, intimidated, confused, stymied, obstructed, misled or costly. Way too many of us (mostly Democrats, mostly black and Latino) were subjected to the equivalent of a poll tax by the disenfranchisement efforts of Republican governors and legislators.
To put it succinctly, voter suppression laws primarily affect younger voters, students, the elderly, and the poor, or as I like to call them, Democrats.
Now we have yet another example of vile conservatives admitting that vile Republicans are vile-ly going after African American voters. How’s that new outreach effort (scroll) workin’ for ya, GOP?
At a Dallas event featuring Steve Munisteri, the Chairman of the Republican Party of Texas, Ken Emanuelson, a leader in the Tea Party, said: “I’m going to be real honest with you – the Republican Party doesn’t want black people to vote…”
Or as I like to call them, Democrats.
Here’s the audio:
Now Emanuelson is saying he “misspoke,” that he was simply responding to a question. Here’s the UPDATE via the Dallas News:
Emanuelson explains:
“I expressed a personal opinion about what the Republican Party “wants.” That was a mistake. I hold no position of authority within the Republican Party and it wasn’t my place to opine on behalf of the desires of the Republican Party.
“What I meant, and should have said, is that it is not, in my personal opinion, in the interests of the Republican Party to spend its own time and energy working to generally increase the number of Democratic voters at the polls, and at this point in time, nine of every ten African American voters cast their votes for the Democratic Party.
“That said, I’ve been very clear, time and time again, that the Republican Party absolutely must expand and build bridges into all communities. I reiterated that same opinion at the same meeting. For whatever reason, Rep. Veasey chose not to include that information in his email, but I look forward to opening a dialogue with Rep. Veasey on this issue.”
Winnsboro, Texas – Dozens of anomalies, including dents and welds, reportedly have been identified along a 60-mile stretch of the southern segment of the Keystone XL pipeline, north of the Sabine River in Texas.
In the past two weeks, landowners have observed TransCanada and its vendor, Michels, digging up the buried southern segment of the Keystone XL pipeline on their properties and those of neighbors in the vicinity of Winnsboro, Texas. Some of the new pipeline has been in the ground on some owners’ land for almost six months. It is believed that problems identified on this section of the Keystone XL route must have triggered the current digging, raising questions from landowners about the safety of the pipeline and the risk to personal property and water supplies. [...]
The proposed branch of the Keystone XL pipeline is likely to increase gas prices for Americans, contradicting claims by pipeline proponents, a recent Public Citizen report found.
It is worth repeating for the umpteenth time, it’s the “biggest carbon bomb on the planet.” Think Progress and Van Jones both remind us that the project will create only 35 permanent jobs, but will emit 51 coal plants’ worth of carbon. Plus, much of the oil would be exported elsewhere. We’d be way better off investing in clean energy instead of a costly, dirty catastophe-in-waiting like the tar sands mess.
Bill McKibben and NASA’s Jim Hansen both warn that it would be “essentially game over for the climate” if this crackpot project gets the go-ahead.
Need more convincing? This video via PublicCitizenTX is a must-see:
Please watch the entire thing, it’s not long:
“I thought I was gonna have grass growing again. Now this spot will probably never grow grass, because they’ll never get the topsoil in place… I became disenchanted.”
“Right over here beside my pickup… I saw one of their employees… crawl through my new fence. I don’t know whether the other employees I saw trespassing on my land crawled through he fence, but then I saw the 2 of them were dragging their drainage hose over to this little creek right here that runs directly into the big creek.. I saw them putting a hose in there…”
“One of them just stood and urinated facing my house.”
“That pipeline could come within 25 feet of your home… If it leaks, of course it’s gonna go down into the water table… It’s full of … toxic chemicals. That gives you pause to think about, you know, what if? How damaging could that be?”
“I can’t understand why they would have to be digging up pipes that have just been in the ground a few months, and they’re already having trouble with them? So that worries me.“
“I heard that… they had 70 anomalies that they had found problems. I think on a new pipe that’s excessive to have that many problems in such a short time.”
Ruy Teixeira has a post at Think Progress that is encouraging if you’re a Democrat. He discusses what it will take to turn Texas blue, even though the white vote in Texas remains overwhelmingly Republican. Please read the whole thing, but here’s a sample:
[T]he quest for a blue Texas is going to have to be built on three pillars, only one of which is ongoing demographic change. The other two are matching minority, particularly Hispanic, turnout to white turnout and elevating white support for Democrats. In the latter area, if the Democrats can simply get their support to the 30 percent level — in other words, make the typical landslide among whites for the GOP just a little bit less of a landslide — they will be in a good position to stand on all three pillars and make their dream (and Greg Abbott’s nightmare) of a blue Texas come true.
Of course, of those three pillars, Rick Perry would only be able to remember two of them… maybe… on a good day.
The bad news: There was yet another mass shooting, one of the victims being a 10-year-old girl who was grazed and thankfully is in good condition. The good news: There were no deaths.
Happy Mother’s day:
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Gunmen opened fire on dozens of people marching in a Mother’s Day neighborhood parade in New Orleans on Sunday, wounding at least 17 people, police said.
Three suspects were seen running from the scene. Raw video at the link.
Sadly, yesterday, there was another shooting of one small child by another. Via TPM:
A five-year-old boy in Denton, Texas was left in critical condition after he was shot in the head by his eight-year-old friend Saturday morning. According to the Denton Record-Chronicle, the police said the two boys were alone in the bedroom when the older child found a .22 caliber rifle, pointed it at the other boy, and shot him.
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