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Last edited Wed Dec 18, 2013, 07:41 AM - Edit history (1)
[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]The Lily White Christmas Edition[/font]
Megyn Kellys dreaming of a white Christmas, with no blacks or browns or off-whites (1). Where pastors are raping (2) and Russians are gay baiting (5) to see Dominos firing workers refusing to work for less than minimum wage (8). May your days be merry and bright, and may all rich princelings get off for killing someone with their cars because theyre white (and rich) (10). And as always, don't forget the key. Remember, you can run your mouse over the icon to see what it means. At the end, the writer will give a small tribute to one of the greatest men of the past 100 years.
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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Megyn Kelly[/font]
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Another week, and more Fox News drivel to look at. This time, Fox News rising star and spokesmodel Megyn Kelly decided to weigh on the Fox Noises contrived War on Christmas. At issue is Aisha Harriss Slate.com article where she says America needs to give up Santa-as-fat-old-white-man and maybe make the gift giver of Christmas a penguin.
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Logical. Santa as a white guy does sound like White Mans burden to me. . .giving gifts to the downtrodden while those selfish minorities dont do anything. Maybe making the gift giver sexless, raceless and ageless will make it more egalitarian.
Never mind that. Megyn Kelly stepped right up and told Harris shes gone way off the rails, which is the nice, Fox way os calling someone a damned, anti-American, un-American flag burning, apple pie hating scumbag!
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Just because it makes you feel uncomfortable doesnt mean it has to change, you know? she added. I mean, Jesus was a white man too. He was a historical figure, thats a verifiable fact, as is Santa I just want the kids watching to know that.
Santa is white? Who cares? Honestly. . .does it matter, since Santa is make believe? Apparently, it does to Megyn Kelly, because she doubled down hard on her statement earlier over the next few days.
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Just because it makes you feel uncomfortable doesnt mean it has to change, you know? she added. I mean, Jesus was a white man too. He was a historical figure, thats a verifiable fact, as is Santa I just want the kids watching to know that.
Yes, because kids watch Fixed News all the time. Screw Cartoon Network. Screw sports. Hell, even screw WWE. When kids get home, they flip on Fixed Noise and zone out. Cue Rev. Lovejoys wife wont someone please think about the children whine from The Simpsons.
She didnt stop there!
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Many questioning whether I understand that Santa is a mythical figure, others suggesting that I am a racist who is outraged at the idea of a black Santa, she continued. Well, this would be funny if it were not so telling about our society, in particular the knee-jerk instinct by so may to race bait and to assume the worst in people. Especially people employed by the very powerful Fox News channel.
The point of humor is to be funny, Megyn. There is little funny in you. Now, George Carlin. . .thats funny. Chris Rock, Bill Maher. . .hell, even Jeff Dunham. . .theyre funny. Your humor is just sad. And the reason there is a knee jerk reaction is being youre a jerk. Simple and easy.
Still, one of her followers decided that since its okay to be a racist asshole on Fixed Noise, its okay to be a racist asshole in the classroom as well.
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The move came after students at Cleveland High School were told they could come to class dressed as Santa, an elf or a reindeer.
Michael Rougier said his ninth-grade son, Christopher, arrived wearing a Santa hat and beard, and the teacher asked the boy: "Don't you know Santa Clause is white? Why are you wearing that?"
Wow. . Just wow! Thanks, Megyn. Your bullshit gave the clueless morons that watch your drivel the cue to be racist to 14 year old boys.
Next story on Fixed Noise: Should Murphy Brown be a role model to all female television characters due to her out-of-wedlock pregnancy? Joining us are the Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, Frosty the Snowman and a talking unicorn.
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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Jacoby Kindred[/font]
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God is a great excuse for people to do some of the most heartless things to other people. People kill for God. People hate for God. People murder each other because the voice in their head is God and God told them its a good idea. People torture in the name of God. In Jacoby Kindreds case raped girls in the name of God.
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The St. Paul Pioneer Press reported that a complaint filed in Ramsey County District Court on Wednesday said that Jacoby Kindred began sexually abusing the girls when they were only about 6 years old.
Wow. Six year old girls have demons inside them and only the unlawful injection of a mans penis will end the torment? Wow, religion is amazing!
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He told her the devil was inside her and he could take the demons out of her, according to the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Blowjobs for Jesus? This couldnt get any sicker.
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And apparently ladies also means six year old girls. Just when I think this man couldnt do something or say something to make himself look more stupid and worse, he keeps right on talking.
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These are not really kids, Kindred insisted the St. Paul Pioneer Press on Thursday. They have the mind of the adult.
All a woman has to do (in Minnesota) is make an accusation, true or false, and the mans going to be in trouble, he explained.
Wow! People normally dont rape a child in public, pastor. Most people would frown on shit like that.
Second, a six year old has the mind of an adult, so they arent really kids? Well, their minds may be adult, but the law says they are still kids.
Third. . .its very difficult to convince a jury that a six year old kid has the ability to make up rape. I dont believe they are that cunning. Now, making excuses for eating cookies, yes. Trying to lie out of getting into trouble, of course. Making up being orally and vaginally raped. . .umm, not so much.
So the next time you have a demon inside you, go see Jacoby Kindred. But, dont worry, ladies. According to Dr Todd Akin, you wont get pregnant if its legitimate rape. And we all know that since you opened up your legs and let the goodness of the Lord shine through, it isnt legitimate rape. Its divine intervention.
Now, are those demons gone yet? Or will the demon stay in prison after his conviction?
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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Donald Trump[/font]
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The New York Combover burped out more bullshit and went the birther route again.
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Selective killing in a plane crash to hide the fact hes a Kenyan? Makes perfect sense.
Nothing more to say here. The Top Ten doesnt want to insult the obviously insane. So moving on. The Top Ten spent 14.59 seconds writing this, which is all the shelf-life The Donald has left of his 15 minutes.
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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Glenn Beck[/font]
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After being kicked off CNN and Fixed Noise, Glenn Beck is running his own worthless TV network with S.E. Cupp that few people watch and care about while bloviating from his microphone being a mini-Rush. He loves to attack progressives and apparently now, he has targetted the Pope.
Recently, the Pope won Person of the Year. Normally, whenever the Pope says does something, most of the world cringes. But Pope Francis seems to be different. And he actually seems to take his job seriously as one to help the poor, downtrodden masses without requiring them to be Catholic. For that, the Pope is becoming wildly popular. But Beck sees a conspiracy theory.
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He makes me a little concerned on his Marxist tendencies, he explained. When youre not on prepared remarks, Marxism starts to creep into your language. When youre asked questions by people, you start to say, Look, I dont want to hurt you, I just think that redistribution of wealth isnt so bad.
Jesus was a fucking Marxist. All that love thy neighbor, help the poor, tax the rich. . .hes a communist. Republican Jesus loves the wealthy and hates the poor. Fucked be the poor and Blessed are the warmongerers. Im sure the New Testament says that someplace.
No fear. Beck chose his personal Man of the Year.
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Ted Booze Cruz. Because his 21 hour Ted Cruz Talk did so much to help the poor in Congo (the poorest nation in the world) or advance civil and human rights that he deserves to be mentioned.
As always, Beck, like all conservatives like to mention that Time also picked
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They did? Right Wing Watch researched that. Hes half right.
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Whoops! And checking out Wikipedia, Beck lied again. However, one can see the Winston Churchill, Dwight Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson, George W. Bush, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan were all elected Person of the year twice. So was Deng Xiaoping, Josef Stalin and Mikhail Gorbachev. I guess Churchill is a Marxist too. Oh, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama were POTY twice. . .FDR thrice. Please proceed, Alex Jones prototype.
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Oh. . .so because Pope Francis won, Time is fascist. I wonder if he thought that when the BFEE won it three times (once with Poppa Bush, twice with Bush the Lesser).
So, there we have it. Ted Cruz is Glenn Becks person of the year and progressives are fascists. Theres no punchline here. Glenn Beck is a punchline all by himself.
BTW, Francis wasnt the first Pope. Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII won too. Fascists. All of them! Even Chiang Kai-Shek and Soong Mei-Ling are fascists. THE ENTIRE WORLD IS FASCIST!!! Glenn Beck sees them everywhere. So buy gold from his sponsors to protect yourself from the creeping fascism.
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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Ivan Okhlobystin[/font]
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Wow, Russia is in a world of shit now. Between Edward Snowdens temporary asylum (the Top Ten is not touching that one with a ten foot pole) and their gay bashing laws in the face of the 2014 protests and growing boycotts of the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia is looking bad. With Putin consolidating power and looking like he wants to bring back the old style authoritarian rule (sans the Communism) of Stalin, Russia has numerous black eyes. Maybe someone can make the country look good in the eyes of the world.
Step forward, Ivan Ohklobystin. Hes a famous Russian actors whose biggest claim to fame was running for, and being trounced in, Russian President two years ago. He has something to say to all you gayo-people and gayo-supporters out there: Go screw yourselves.
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Oh goody. . .a nazi reference, from a country with a history of pogroms against Jews. Genocide of gay people. The one time priest has more to say.
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Would you write the Russian translation of Arbeit Mach Frei over the oven doors? Zxylon B gas?
Gay people are a threat to your children how? Clashing colors after they finish interior decorating your house? Giving your kids headaches after your gay stylist messes up your hair. I know. . .the threat to your kids is completely imaginary because there is no fucking threat.
But, Ivan went to the Megyn Kelly school of foot-in-mouth and decided to double down on his bigotry.
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Well, hes right. He can express his opinion. And most normal people will express theirs too. Morgan Freeman says it best though.
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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Scott Bach[/font]
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Nazi reference #2. This time it comes to us from the Good Old U.S. Of A. In Chris Christies backyard (enter jokes about his size here), Jersey City mayor Steven Fulop has decided to try to ask gun vendors for help in gun control policy development. According to Think Progress:
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Sensible. Logical. Forward thinking. Loooong overdue, but its a start. Ask those who sell and those who enforce laws for their input and ideas for enforcing current laws and strengthening new ones.
Never mind that shit. Scott Bach, NRA flunkie, sees Nazis everywhere with that. While on the NRAs vanity show, Bach uttered this drivel.
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Oh. . .theres the talking point. Nazis took guns away from Germans which enabled them to take over Germany, destroy Jewish lives and start the worst war in the history of humanity. It was gun control. Except when its wrong, which it is, which makes it wrong.
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Never mind those leftist facts or that liberally biased reality, Bach sees Nazis. And he has an edict for Steven Fulop.
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Lets see. According to the NRA, no one should bring up gun control:
01: Before a mass shooting, because it doesnt happen.
02: Immediately after a mass shooting, because youre politicizing a tragedy
03: Long after a mass shooting, because it doesnt happen much.
04: After a cop is killed in the line of duty, because you shouldnt punish the law abiding.
05: Any day that ends in y, because God doesnt like it.
After his little diatribe, Mayor Fulop went home, had dinner, took a big shit, climbed into bed and fell asleep, apparently not giving a tinkers damn what some uber-loon at the NRA thinks.
Which is what all politicians should do. But dont.
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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Fox News[/font]
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A year ago last week, a gun nut went into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT and shot and killed 20 students and six teachers. No one gives a damn that the psycho killed himself. Which is the way it should be.
Fox News decided to honor those who died by bringing on a gun nut.
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Balance? BALANCE??? Seriously? Sensible gun control advocate v. Fringe right wing gun nut? Some people dont need a forum. Okay, bring on Gary Pratt
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"We're not really going to able to talk about a victory until we get rid of the laws that prohibit people from having guns to protect themselves in schools and in other places," Pratt explained. "Every one of our mass murders in our country has occurred in places where guns were prohibited."
Really? A military base has no guns? There was a mass shooting there. And schools now need guns? Issue the students books, supplies and a Glock as standard school equipment. And if they stand their ground, they can kill at will.
Dumbo didnt stop there.
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"It is killing people," he insisted. "All of these gun-free zones are murder magnets, and we've simply got to get rid of them. It's an illusion to think that somehow we're going to be safer because we can't have a gun in a particular area because the bad guy is going to have a gun."
Really? Parks are murder magnets? Supermarkets? My God. . .do these people listen to themselves.
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"The problem is when are we going to stop good guys from having guns to protect themselves so that when of when of one of these dirt bags goes into a mall or a school, somebody is able to protect themselves and others by having their own gun," he said.
Oh. . .parrot Wayne LaPierres good guy-bad guy bullcrap. The Archie Bunker everyone should pack heat nonsense.
Maybe he can parrot this debunked nonsense. What needs to be explained is his idea that people getting killed is proof that God was judging unarmed Americans and blessing the gun owners.
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But the only way to avoid that is to be on our knees and to be asking for Gods pleasure, he added. If the country comes back to the Lord as he told Solomon in that great prayer then he will repent of what hes done to the country, he will heal the land, restore it and put his blessing upon it.
And we should be praying that we will all be able to go around armed because that will be one outward indicator that we have Gods blessing.
And these people need a forum for this? Thanks, Chris Wallace, for shitting all over twenty dead children. Your father would be proud.
Oh, and never forget Newtown. Here are twenty six reasons why the US needs stronger gun laws.
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Side note from writer: This one hits hard. I taught elementary school before I went to Asia. That could have been my class.
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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Dominos Pizza[/font]
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After Pizza Hut fired a middle manager for daring to allow people to take Thanksgiving off and closing the restaurant, their main competition decided to up the greed and the shock value.
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Yes folks, because workers didnt want to work for less than minimum wage in a non-tipped job, Dominos fired them. Yes, thats how you deal with the peon that wants to work and have a job that allows them to eat and live rather than eat or live.
Republicans around the country will rejoice, as shown by the comments section of this Yahoo News story on this travesty. Apparently lost on the conservatives is that these people WANTED to work for minimum wage, not less. But the dismissive easy job, low learning curve, get more skills, dont be lazy meme is still being used and most of the time.
Back to the article. Well, apparently the issue is the excess work, not the job. According to Opposing Views:
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Nice little system they have at that store. Work as a driver and if there is nothing to do, do work that is not part of your job and dont get paid for the extra. Isnt slavery and indentured servitude illegal?
According to the Yahoo article, the owner of these stores, a Mr. Robert Cookston, decided to do the right thing and re-hired his workers only have this story leaked to the media and the State Attorney got involved. Yes, all it took to get this assclown to do the right thing was a State Attorneys probe and a media probe.
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The store, located in upper Manhattan's Washington Heights neighborhood, agreed to reinstate the fired employees by Sunday, the office said. The workers, 25 in all, said they lost their jobs because they had denounced their wages as too low. "The delivery workers ... were let go after complaining that they were still being paid the 'tipped wage' of $5.65 per hour even though they were performing tasks, like kitchen cleaning, that should qualify them for the state's minimum wage of $7.25," the Huffington Post reported Friday.
What is amazing is that people arent outraged at the modern day slavery. What has America become? Get used to it. Its too expensive to hire Americans to do the good jobs, to those jobs go to places like India and China. While the bosses get wealthy, the rest who were not born to the elite class starve.
Too bad God punishes those who dont succeed. Ayn Rand and social Darwinism taught us that. But American Idol is on. . .and I hear Dominos is having a special on pizza today. Buy two and kick the underpaid delivery driver in the nuts for free. Tip optional.
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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Rick Santorum[/font]
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Rick Frothy Mix Santorum seems to be back in the News alot these days. Apparently, Ricky of Keeping Dead Fetus, Naming It and Tormenting His Children by Showing It to Them Land is planning another run for president, so the verbal diarrhea keeps coming, in large amounts quickly.
Last week, he was on the news comparing his fight with Obamacare to Mandelas 25 years in prison for fighting South African Apartheid. . .going as far as saying that the things Mandela wanted to do, did and wanted to accomplish were not always the right thing. That meme that Mandela murdered white people got around fast. This week, hes back on Obamacare with a different line of attack. Obamacare is designed to kill you.
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Ummm. . .what? That happens absolutely nowhere in industrialized countries. No where! Not. One. Fucking. Country! (side note: I lived in South Korea with single payer socialized medicine before moving to China. It works amazingly, is cheap and refutes everything Lil Ricky is saying now).
Now, instead of death panels, we have voting panels. Some guy in a German accent wearing the Republican Star will look over people:
You didnt vote der right way, Comrade-ski. No Health Care! In to der oven!
No. . .I just want aspirin.
1984 over going to the doctor. The horrors.
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But the British do have nationalized medicine and Margaret Thatcher never euthanized anyone who voted Labor instead of Tory. Sick man, this Santorum is. He is obviously talking out of his ass, which is where Santorum is made, according to Dan Savage.
So keep spreading that Santorum, Ricky. You might be able to be elected Speed Bump soon enough. Because you will NEVER occupy the Oval Office. Maybe a Rubber Room.
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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Vicky Hartzler[/font]
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And finally;
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This is the face of a moron. A racist moron. A racist, idiotic moron. And all of you who have a brain that live in her district, I feel so bad for you.
This is Congresstoad Vicky Hartzler (R - Klanhood). She represents Central Missouri from someplace on the moon and has decided to declare war on Barack Obama.
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After a visit Tuesday to the Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital in Columbia, Hartzler was looking for a place to do interviews with reporters.
Wait? You dont like Obamas IMAGE??? As in a picture of him?
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WTF??? What. . .will your teabagger base not like you standing in front of his photos? Is Obama so powerful that his mere photo or painting can bend the will, curve the spine and force teabaggers to vote for a Democrat? Of all the petty, nonsensical bullshit!
What is it with Missouri and their elected officials not liking art? Remember this shit from last decade?
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Initially, Eight thousand dollars of taxpayer money were spent to cover the statue with blue drapes but now, the Ambassador from Saudi Arabia has presented the Justice Department with a gift. "Lady Justice" will be clad in a burqa.
Asscroft did this with Lady Justice and spent $8,000 on covering her up because his sensibilities were bothered by a womans body.
Dont worry. Missouri made out in the long run.
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Spend $8,000. Get back $10. Good Republican economics at work. And they still covered the wrong boob!
The Top Ten will take a week off. My Chinese Buddhist wife wants to take her American Jewish husband out for a holiday he doesnt even celebrate and she knows nothing about.
An end of the year special will come out on December 30th China time, to acknowledge the best of the best of Conservative Douchebaggery. It will be a list of Five.
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Paul Ryan
Rick Scott
Scott Walker
Steve King
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Nanjing to Seoul
Dec 2013
OP
Thank you as always for staring into the face of unspeakable stupidity for us!
LisaLynne
Dec 2013
#2
One again: thankyou, thankyou, thankyou! Louis Gohmert/Ted Cruz/Teabagger/Bachmann tie.
marble falls
Dec 2013
#9
jessie04
(1,528 posts)1. Thats quite a nauseating list
MY VOTE......TED CRUZ
He brought new meaning to the word "psychotic".
Nanjing to Seoul
(2,088 posts)7. Trust me, I was throwing up writing it!
LisaLynne
(14,554 posts)2. Thank you as always for staring into the face of unspeakable stupidity for us!
I'd never heard that Moran Freeman quote before. I like it!
11 Bravo
(23,935 posts)3. That's Morgan Freeeman. The "g" makes quite a difference.
LisaLynne
(14,554 posts)5. OMG -- ha ha!
Now I feel really bad. But hey, I had morons on the mind after reading this post!!
Scuba
(53,475 posts)4. Thanks for the post, Nanjing.
My vote goes to Squat Wanker who is costing Wisconsin citizens billions in healthcare dollars to prop up his Teabillie bona fides.
rock
(13,218 posts)6. #3 Donald the Trumped-Up
"Selective killing in a plane crash to hide the fact hes a Kenyan." Wow, they can do surgical bombing AND sugical crashing!
jessie04
(1,528 posts)8. Kicked.
marble falls
(58,419 posts)9. One again: thankyou, thankyou, thankyou! Louis Gohmert/Ted Cruz/Teabagger/Bachmann tie.
Mc Mike
(9,121 posts)10. Rec. Thanks, N to S.
But I can't possibly vote for the 5 worst. They're all the worst, and I don't want to stiff any of these stiffs by denying them the credit they're due for being outstanding examples of nazi repug bircher teabag scum.