Another abstinece-only success strory!

So the queen of "traditional family values" is soon to have yet another conceived-out-of-wedlock grandchild.

Big News

June 25, 2015 by Bristol Palin

 I wanted you guys to be the first to know that I am pregnant. . . But please respect Tripp’s and my privacy during this time. I do not want any lectures

Oh, you don't want any lectures? Said the woman who made a buttload of money giving abstinence lectures. I'm sure a lot of the kids who were forced to sit through them didn't really want any lectures either.

I'm sure President Obama wasn't really looking for a lecture from a little nobody like you when you posted this snide little shot:

While it’s great to listen to your kids’ ideas, there’s also a time when dads simply need to be dads.  In this case, it would’ve been helpful for him to explain to Malia and Sasha that while her friends parents are no doubt lovely people, that’s not a reason to change thousands of years of thinking about marriage.  Or that – as great as her friends may be – we know that in general kids do better growing up in a mother/father home.

Yes, kids must have both parents in the home, says the woman who will soon be raising two small children with zero fathers in the home.

At the end of the day there’s nothing I can’t do with God by my side, and I know I am fully capable of handling anything that is put in front of me with dignity and grace.

Dignity and grace? Well, there's a first time for everything!

My little family always has, and always will come first.
Tripp, this new baby, and I will all be fine, because God is merciful.

 Um, yeah, you'll be fine because there's a bottomless supply of wingnut welfare. There are probably still some people who will pay you to moralize about abstinence, there will be book deals and reality TV shows and God knows what else.

Also, remember this?

Put a Ring on It

April 18, 2012 by Bristol Palin
Have you ever heard of “shacking up?”  Now, people describe living together with a more complimentary phrase: “a trial marriage.” And apparently, it’s all the rage:

Um, no one has used the phrase "trial marriage" since the Carter Administration. And living together isn't exactly "all the rage," it's just something people do.

In fact, you may have even recently heard rumors I’m living with my boyfriend. . .
Here’s the thing.  It’s not true. As I mentioned before, I recently bought a home across the lake from my parents’ house.  While it’s under renovation, I’m actually living in an apartment on their property.  Rest assured — there’s no way on earth my mom and dad would allow a guy to spend the night here with me.

In a wine-cooler-soaked tent at  a campground, sure, but not here!

But even if I weren’t temporarily living on their property, I wouldn’t move in with someone. Why? Well, new evidence reported in the New York Times suggests what the Bible has already told us: living together before marriage does not lead to happiness.

Sure, you're much happier if that bum goes back to his own place after knocking you up!

These so-called “trial marriages” hurt men, women, and children.  So, all of you girls who’ve said yes to sex in the wrong context know this: you don’t have to say yes to living with someone in the wrong context too.
I guess it’s unanimous.  Because now we have the Bible, the New York Times, and even Beyonce suggesting the best way to secure relationship success is to… “put a ring on it.”

Yeahhhh. . . by my count, there've been two fellas now to put a ring on ya. And yet. . .

But don't worry. None of this is your fault. Because you're a conservative, so nothing can ever be your fault.

World's worst judge dissents

Earlier today, the Supreme Court decided 6-3 that the Affordable Care Act's subsidies can not be taken away from people who are unfortunate enough to live in red states because of one line of unfortunate phrasing in the million-word legal document that is the ACA. Naturally, corrupt slovenly bag of rage Antonin Scalia was one of the three who disagreed for totally non-partisan not-at-all-hacky reasons. And he wrote the dissent. Which he apparently red aloud from the bench to preserve his jackassery for posterity.

Here are a few of his gems of legal wisdom.

(I had to copy these from pdf to a Word document to blogger, so I apologize for any weird formatting that results)

This case requires us to decide whether someone who

buys insurance on an Exchange established by the

 Secretary gets tax credits. You would think the answer would

be obvious—so obvious there would hardly be a need for

the Supreme Court to hear a case about it.

You'd think so, wouldn't you? But here we are.

Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is

not established by a State is “established by the State.” It

is hard to come up with a clearer way to limit tax credits

to state Exchanges than to use the words “established by

the State.” And it is hard to come up with a reason to

include the words “by the State” other than the purpose of

limiting credits to state Exchanges.

 Hmm, why would they have included those 4 words? Why why why? If only there were some way to reach back through the mists of time and ask the authors of this bill what they intended. But, alas, their intent is lost to history.  Oh, wait. They're all still alive? And some of them actually testified before the Supreme Court? In this very case? But how?

The Court interprets §36B to award tax credits on both federal and state Exchanges.

It accepts that the “most natural sense” of the phrase “Exchange established by the

State” is an Exchange established by a State.

Ante,at 11.

(Understatement, thy name is an opinion on the Afford-

able Care Act!) Yet the opinion continues, with no semblance of shame, that “it is also possible that the phrase refers to all Exchanges—both State and Federal.”

Ante, at  13.

(Impossible possibility, thy name is an opinion on the

Affordable Care Act!)

 Okay, first of all, don't try to be funny. You're not funny. And even if you were funny, it seems a bit beneath the dignity of a Justice of the Supreme Court to add snide little asides to his opinion.
Secondly, holy fuck, are you seriously going to pretend that thos four little words override the entire intent of this jillion-word law? Seriously?

The Court claims that “the context

and structure of the Act compel [it] to depart from what

would otherwise be the most natural reading of the pertinent statutory phrase.”

Ante,at 21.

I wholeheartedly agree with the Court that sound interpretation requires paying attention to the whole law, not homing in on isolated words or even isolated sections.

Context always matters. Let us not forget, however, why context matters: It is a tool for understanding the terms ofthe law, not an excuse for rewriting them.

He little thinks how successfully he has pleaded his rival's cause!"

Thank you, Josephine! If anyone is trying to "re-write the law" it's Scalia and his fellow right-wing hacks.

The Court’s next bit of interpretive jiggery-pokery involves other parts of the Act that purportedly presuppose the availability of tax credits on both federal and state  Exchanges.

 I'm sorry, the next bit of interpretive what now? "Jiggery-pokery?" Hey, dumb it down a little, yer honor, we didn't all go to law school!

Jiggery-pokery.

 Jiggery-pokery?

You're supposed to be one of the top legal scholars in the nation. You've famously claimed to be too smart for the Supreme Court. Jiggery-pokery? Is that some legal term you thought up whilst tinkerin' with yer tractor out'n the cornfield?

The Court persists that these provisions “would make little sense” if no tax credits were available on federal Exchanges.

Ante,at 14.

Even if that observation were true, it would show only oddity, not ambiguity. Laws often include unusual or mismatched provisions. The  Affordable Care Act spans 900 pages; it would be amazing if its provisions all lined up perfectly with each other.

Um. yeah. That's the whole point. Are you sure you're arguing the dissent?

Compounding its errors, the Court forgets that it is no more appropriate to consider one of a statute’s purposes in isolation than it is to consider one of its words that way.

Exactly! It is not appropriate to consider one i-of the law's words in isolation. Just like you said. But yet, your entire dissent is based on the fact that "they used the word state, so that means state and state only," without any consideration of the other bajillion fucking words in this 900-page law.

Our only evidence of what Congress meant comes from the terms of the law, and those terms show beyond all question that tax credits are available only on state Exchanges

Oh fer fuck sake.
You know, these conservative judges never tire of talking about "original intent." How we must be forever bound by the intentions of the founding fathers, and how only they, the "Constitutional Conservatives" can interpret that intent. But when they have a chance to actually pick up a phone, call Ms Pelosi's or Mr Reid's office and ask what the intent of this law is, suddenly there's just no way to tell except what is written upon this sacred parchment. That's "our only evidence of what Congress meant." What a sad, pathetic hack Scalia is!










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