April 2012
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“I don’t know what they can charge me with. This is my Second Amendment...”
– That’s Robert Canoles of Porterdale, GA who is probably better known as the assmonkey who held his new neighbors at gunpoint with a semi-automatic rifle in some concept of “protecting” his community from homeowners changing their own locks.
The idea of calling the police and...
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“For some, there is complete disdain of the police department, even if Jesse...”
– That odious little tidbit came from Sanford, Florida city commissioner Randy Jones upon Sanford’s refusal of the resignation of police chief Bill Lee. Followers of the blog recognize Sanford, FL as the location of the killing of Trayvon Martin and Chief Lee as the head of the police department...
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“There’s no reason for that.”
– That’s ultramega bigot and, apparently, illiterate Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) blathering about college debt, and explaining why she has “very little tolerance” for people who have even $80,000 in student loans on their back when they graduate. Why doesn’t Foxx tolerate it?...
March 2012
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“You can get it. Go online, type it in. It’s easy to get.”
– That’s U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) explaining how people who cannot afford contraceptives can magically get them by typing “I can’t afford birth control” into Google. As one will find if they do that, it’s “easy” to get if you have $200 and a...
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“Well, if they’re 45 years old, and they show up, and they say, I want insurance,...”
– Willard, Willard, Willard, what the fuck is wrong with you? Last night, you dropped this gem from your healthcare policy on Jay Leno, which is simply to say: you think that for the millions of uninsured Americans, this is all a game. A game that you can determine the rules of, can determine...
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“Just about every law that is out there to protect women going into abortion...”
– In his first (and last) appearance, that’s Operation Rescue head Troy Newman, beating his utterly dishonest drum that doctors who provide abortion care are a bunch of charlatans who regularly harm their patients. Are there cases of malpractice in abortion care? Yes. Are there more malpractice...
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“What is wrong with these women? What are they thinking about? Are they women? Or...”
– That’s Pennsylvania state representative Babette Josephs (D-Philadelphia) getting her gender cluelessness on in an effort to shame other women in the state legislature who are signed on as sponsors of Pennsylvania’s mandatory transvaginal ultrasound bill. Rep. Josephs, some men have...
dreadpirateme asked: No shit, Newt. If Zimmerman had shot 'a white' his ass would be in 'a jail.' And that's A PROBLEM. PS nice blog
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“It’s not a question of who that young man looked like. Any young American of any...”
– Newt Gingrich, trying to make something where there isn’t something. How dare President Obama notice the long history of young black men dying violently? How dare he notice that Trayvon Martin looked like him, like his own son would look? How dare this black man note race in any way, shape or...
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“DEAR MISS MANNERS: Is it acceptable for a girl to decline an invitation to a...”
– That’s Judith Martin, aka Miss Manners, suggesting that a young woman’s preferences, her agency and her knowledge about a boy don’t matter, if he asks her to prom, she has to say yes or she’s rude and unacceptable. She went on to say that the important issue here is that the...
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“This ‘war on women’ argument is very unfortunate,” he told...”
– Welcome to the new era of STFU Today. Right this minute this goes from an angry quote-and-rant blog to a full fledged political blog because this utter wankery privileged FULLY FALSE nonsense from Virginia’s governor (and GOP VP hopeful) Bob McDonnell deserves a full-fledged debunking. And...
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“Rather, Winder said he meant to say he hoped a woman would work with her...”
– Y’all remember Chuck “Rape Issue” Winder from yesterday, right? Well, he’s back, and trying to clarify what he was meaning to try to say about the rape issue thing and failing again.
Chuck, Chuck, Chuck, for fuck’s sake, stop talking. STFU Chuck. Just STFU.
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“I would hope that when a woman goes in to a physician with a rape issue, that...”
– Where do we even start? This is Chuck Winder, a Republican state senator in Idaho, trying to explain something about rape and abortion.
Chuck was explaining something about why there isn’t a rape/incest exception in the mandatory DOUBLE ultrasound bill that just passed in Idaho, but goodness...
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“Q: I’m just wondering where you would suggest that the millions of women who...”
– In his first (but surely not last) appearance, here’s Mitt Romney mansplaining with a glib non-answer and a waved hand about his plan for reproductive healthcare access. What’s interesting is that for him, it’s all about “freedom.” But what he’s not saying is...
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“When some of the precincts come in with a 112 percent reporting you have to...”
– Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett netting a return visit to the blog with so much wrongness it’s mathematically impossible to quantify the level of his wrongness. No precinct in the Commonwealth has ever had a 112% election return. If they did, it would trigger an automatic recount. As the...
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[Trigger Warning: Transphobia & Slur Usage]: Urban... →
I’m publishing a link to this rather than the image itself. Urban Outfitters UK is selling a card (buyers are told “Send your greetings in style with this charming card.”) that features that t-word slur, in the context of yet another story of a trans person hiding their status and “shocking” a date with their genitals. Transphobic, stigmatizing, stereotyping, crass,...
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“We are taking a beating over this. This is all very unsettling. I’m sure if...”
– That’s Sanford, Florida Police Chief Bill Lee again, this time blaming Trayvon Martin for his own murder. I can’t even with this man. I’m not even bothering to link because reading the whole thing is just nauseating.
I’m thinking I need some kind of graphic with an award,...
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“Now Jodi Picoult can share bragging rights: the billboard promoting her new...”
– Gregory Cowles in today’s New York Times. Jodi Picoult has the number one book in the country and a giant promotional billboard in New York City. The entirety of what Cowles had to say about that (in today’s “Inside the List” feature in the Sunday Book Review) is shown there,...
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“I don’t have to recite the statistics about the living conditions of the...”
– Bonnie Bramlett being completely wrong, completely classist, completely ugly and just ridiculous about the “politics of pregnancy and hypocrisy” in today’s Minneapolis/St. Paul Star Tribune.
Bonnie, you’re just so offensive it’s appalling. This was so bad I could...
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“I think it’s terrible someone should be denied (permanent residency in Canada)...”
– That’s the mealy mouthed “advocacy” of Trish Simons, president of the Hamilton chapter of Autism Ontario upon learning that Canada is deporting a family because their 12 year old son has autism because the disorder “might” cost Canada too much money (despite the fact...
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“The hysteria, the media circus, it’s just crazy. It’s the craziest...”
– Sanford, Florida police chief Bill Lee, trying to make himself the story as his department continues to fail to arrest or charge George Zimmerman for what’s beginning to look like a full blown execution style murder of 17 year old Trayvon Martin.
Chief Lee, eat a bowl of dicks, and STFU, you...
“I stand in opposition to this bill, because it almost tries to say that the...”
– That’s Maryland State Senator Edward R. Reilly (R-Anne Arundel) reacting to a bill that prohibits smoking in a car when children under 8 are passengers. I’m just gonna let this one simmer.
Oh, but hey, Eddie? STFU.
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hystericacoustic-deactivated201 asked: Hello. Just wanted to point out that the post about the billboard from American Atheists was, I believe, misguided. They were posting a Bible verse to point out how racist the Bible is, not promote slavery. Were you saying it was "disgusting" because you believed the American Atheists were ripping a verse out of context or because you thought they actually promoted the idea of slavery?...
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“I’m not making anybody watch, OK. Because you just have to close your eyes. As...”
– My jackass governor, Tom Corbett (R-PA) on the state’s proposed mandatory preabortion ultrasound bill, proving that he doesn’t understand the issues, doesn’t understand the mandated procedure, and doesn’t give a damn, because it’s not going to be his body invaded.
Hey...
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“I felt relieved, and really annoyed: relieved that Laura and her baby were...”
– Adam Wolfberg, OB/GYN complaining that when a homebirthing patient transferred into his care at Tufts University Medical Center, he was forced to do his job. On this basis, Dr. Wolfberg has arrogantly tried to make a “case” against homebirth. He failed.
Adam, bubbeleh? STFU.
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“…“I favor the Violence Against Women Act and have supported it at various...”
– That’s Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, also jawing about the Violence Against Women Act reauthorization. Those “matters” that the GOP are so twitchy about? Expanding IPV programs for Native Americans and those in same-sex relationships and expanding the possibility that...
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“There are lots of other issues right now that could be dealt with other than...”
– That’s Senator Thune’s feelings about the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. The reason for bringing it up now is quite simply that the programs funded through VAWA need to have the money reauthorized. But that’s apparently not as important as some other top items...
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“But when radical feminists publicly demand that their right to worry-free...”
– Bill Frezza, who couldn’t simply make the point in his Forbes Magazine blitherings today that he doesn’t think employers should have to give ANY health insurance to their employees at all and instead had to lard it up with some ugly misogynistic bullshit, slutshaming and justifying it in...
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“Now It Can Be Revealed: Barack Obama’s Nanny Was A T****y Ho!”
– Censored version of a headline running today at Queerty [Trigger Warning for Transphobia on that link], where apparently using transphobic slurs, sex worker shaming and being generally misgendering and horribly disrespectful is the way to write about the trans woman who is now living in fear, but in...
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“Providing to those who are hungry must not be about opening the car trunk,...”
– Philadelphia, PA mayor Michael Nutter, upon banning the provision of food to the homeless in many city public parks. Because it’s better that the homeless not eat at all than eat in certain places. Good to know, Mr. Mayor.
Oh, btw? STFU.
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“There is a lot of exciting new online publishing activity, from Feministing, to...”
– Naomi Wolf, at Comment is Free on March 14.
Oh, Naomi? Your task for today is to STFU. Get on that. 