No, Younger generation, This is NOT Okay!

Apparently, since the Grammies last night the Twitter has been blowing up with Tweets like these:

(via ASB)

intestinalfortitude:aweepingangel:

I can not believe that anyone would need to be told this, but this is NOT ACCEPTABLE. There is nothing cute or funny or clever about domestic violence. A lot of your mothers and grandmothers and aunts have fought long and hard to make domestic battery socially unacceptable, and you're seriously going to put out shit like this?

I really really hope that none of you ever find yourselves in the situation that Rhianna found herself, but you should be able to tell without personal experience that this is nothing to joke about.


This is what domestic violence looks like:



Not cute, not funny, not sexy, not acceptable. Not ever.

Buy More Cookies!

Girl Scout cookies are being boycotted by members of the Religious Right based solely on a non-existent Planned-Parenthood/Girl Scout seminar that never happened, never would happen and really, couldn't possibly happen.

From the insane Moonie rag The Washington Times:

What has Girl Scouts headquarters in highest dudgeon, however, is the revelation that their “girls only” meeting at the United Nations included a sex book by Planned Parenthood. The meeting occurred during the annual Commission on the Status of Women in 2010 and the book, “Healthy, Happy and Hot” had tips for kids such as this one: “Many people think sex is just about vaginal or anal intercourse. … But, there are lots of different ways to have sex and lots of different types of sex. There is no right or wrong way to have sex. Just have fun, explore and be yourself!”

Now, that pamphlet does exist, and Planned Parenthood had been using that room earlier that day, so it is entirely possible that a copy of the sex brochure might have been left in the meeting room when the Girl Scouts came in to use it. No one in their right minds would think that anyone left that pamphlet there intentionally to be read by little girls. Fortunately, being in your right mind is not a prerequisite for a job with the lunatic religious right.


Again from the Moonie Times:

Girl Scout officials feigning shock that a nasty Planned Parenthood book was found in their meeting is like Captain Renault in “Casablanca” feigning shock that gambling is taking place. It just doesn’t ring true. Planned Parenthood and Girl Scout executives are kindred spirits.

Kindred spirits in that they both try to improve the lives of female persons, I suppose.
Other than that. . .
Also, the Planned Parenthood brochure was about living with HIV, so it really wouldn't make any sense to distribute this to little girls. Unless you buy in to the idea that organizations like Planned Parenthood exist only to advance an agenda of corrupting the innocent and destroying all that is pure and good. And if you do believ that, then you are probably already on the mailing list for Tony Perkins' Family Research Council, so this will be old news for you:

In a 'prayer alert' today, the Family Research Council claimed that its campaign against the Girl Scouts was working: “Their cookie sales are suffering.”
Back in January, Family Research Council president Tony Perkins told followers to boycott Girl Scout cookies because the treats allegedly fund a political agenda which includes Planned Parenthood and "promoting sexual diversity."

And by "promoting sexual diversity," I assume that Perkins means this:

The Girl Scouts of Colorado recently stirred up the entire nation when they admitted a 7-year-old-boy into their troop. The boy’s mother says he identifies himself as a girl. The Girl Scouts of Colorado released a statement saying that "if a child identifies as a girl and the child's family presents her as a girl, Girl Scouts of Colorado welcomes her as a Girl Scout."

This has, naturally led to a collective anuerysm by the anti-everything-but-them right.

If you want to get a look at some of the hate, and you have a strong stomach, click here: www.HonestGirlScouts.com, 

Meantime, whenever you see adorable children selling cookies, buy some! Buy a bunch. But more that you could possibly eat. They last forever! Share them with friends! Send some to your homophobic relatives! Include a personal note, something like "Here, enjoy these cookies knowing that I bought them specifically to support Planned Parenthood and transgender scouts! haha, fuck you!

Do Republicans hate sex in general, or just Women specifically?

Submitted without comment:

 

TPMDC

McConnell: GOP Will Fight To Let ANY Employer Deny Birth Control Coverage

Not satisfied with President Obama’s new religious accommodation, Republicans will move forward with legislation by Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) that permits any employer to deny birth control coverage in their health insurance plans, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said Sunday.
 . . . Tellingly, McConnell was eager to keep the focus on religious freedom as opposed to contraception itself.
 “The fact that the White House thinks this is about contraception is the whole problem. This is about freedom of religion, it’s right there in the First Amendment. You can’t miss it — right there in the very first amendment to our Constitution,” McConnell said. “What the overall view on the issue of contraception is has nothing to do with an issue about religious freedom.”

Picking up chicks at CPAC

One would think the mouth-breathers at CPAC would be busy discussing the super-important issues of these times like how to get the Marxist/Fascist/Islamist out of the White House, and whether to invade Iran or simply nuke them, but they were able to take a little time out of their super-important day to discuss another important topic.

Getting laid.

TPM2012

CPAC Wants To Help You Get A Hot Conservative Date

“‘I was thinking about how sexy it would be to kiss you,’” world renowned pickup artist Wayne Elise told a group of young Rick Santorum fans. “You can say that [to a girl], it’s cool.”

And totally not creepy or overly forward!

 

One tip, he noted, was to introduce sensuality into early conversations with girls — like the above quote — to keep from falling into the platonic zone with your target. 

 

Hmm, now that I know that he'd like to bang me, I'm moving him into the "maybe" zone!

“Most guys fall into the category of not being sexual enough, so that girls will easily see them as friend material and the guys have a hard time getting out of that,” he said. “I think one of my ideas that connects to conservatives is that it’s OK to wait but you definitely want to show the person you’re sexual and sensual.”

  

Be sure to tell 'em you've got genitalia! 

 

It's okay to wait? You mean like wait until your wife is bedridden

before you start poking around?

The breakout session, sponsored by TeaParty.net, was billed as an opportunity to “learn everything from how to avoid scaring away your own personal Dagny Taggart in the first five minutes of the conversation. . .

Because you'd hate to scare away one of the most unpleasant, whiny, nasty characters in all of American fiction. 

On dates, “try to outlaw questions,” Elise said, prompting some quizzical looks from participants. “Say ‘I’m not going to do any questions, I’m going to make statements.’ Why? Because statements say something about you.”

  

I love a man who expresses absolutely no interest in knowing anything about me!

Here’s a tip: “When you walk up and you’re talking to the cute girl in a group don’t just talk to the girl. Bring other people in.” In a related tactic, should you see a hot girl in a bar do not approach — instead befriend a less attractive group and then recruit them to help you seduce her. 

Excuse me, none of you are attractive enough for a hot stud like me, but I might be able to make use of you in seducing that attractive woman over there! Because family values!

Other hot pickup lines for young conservatives:

You're so hot, I'd like to knock you up and then deny you any choice in whether to have my baby!

"Hi, would you like to implement a little "trickle-down?"

You could be a great job-creator! Blow-job creator, that is!

Damn, I'd like to reform your tax code!

Let's sleep together. Fair warning, though, I don't believe in equality of outcome!

Just for tonight, let's be libertarians.

Do you believe in the right to bear arms? Because I'd like to bare your arms! (I mean boobs)

I'd like to get the government off your back, and get you on it. (on your back, I mean. I'd like to get you on your back. You know, for sex.)

They're Baa-aaack!

It's time for C-PAC again!



Time for the paranoid, the hateful, the dishonest and the just plain crazy to convene for their annual idiocy-fest!

  

Party like it's 1799!

If you wanted a glimpse into the alternate universe in which the righties live, this is the place for you! Here, for example is someone who ought to be a reasonable, responsible person, Mitch McConnell:

"You all know the liberal playbook. Here's how it works: Pick a target, freeze it, personalize it and then polarize it. But rarely have we seen those kind of tactics employed with the kind of zeal that we see today. The White House and it's lieutenants have made an art form out of the orchestrated attack. ... You know the drill. Expose the folks to public view, release the liberal thugs on them, and then hope the public pressure or the unwanted attention scares them from supporting similar causes down the road."

Liberal thugs. Isn't that an oxymoron? Aren't liberals supposed to be white-wine-sipping, Volvo-driving, Tree-hugging vegans?

And picking a target, personalizing it and polarizing? That's the Andrew Breitbart playbook.

And then there are guest speakers like Peter Brimelow, who writes for a website named "V-Dare." He writes lovely articles like:

Minority Occupation Govt. Forces Pepsi To Pay, Hire Possible Criminals

By Peter Brimelow on January 12, 2012 at 10:08am

 . . .the real "racial bias" is on the part of the Obama Adminstration—it is using raw power to extort rent out of a corporate victim and redistribute it to favored racial groups.

“IMMIGRANT Congressman David Wu Resigns In Sex Scandal”

By Peter Brimelow on July 27, 2011 at 8:00pm

Well, you didn’t read that headline, although Wu (D-Ore) has indeed resigned after some sort of interaction with the 18-year old [i.e. legal] daughter of a donor. And he is indeed an immigrant, born in Taiwan in 1955 and coming to the U.S. with his parents in 1961.

 

New York Times Asks Why Unemployed Are Invisible; VDARE.com Explains

By Peter Brimelow on July 10, 2011 at 1:09pm

 

 The plain fact is that a significant section of American intellectuals (including the semi-skilled sort who now staff labor unions) have simply lost interest in the working class, or more precisely in the working class as a path to power and ethnic dominance. Their current plan: elect a new people through non-traditional immigration.

Another person who should theoretically be a responsible adult, Rep. Steve King, defends the inclusion of  Brimelow:

Rep. Steve King Defends White Nationalist On Conservative Panel

Washington, D.C. -- Iowa congressman Steve King is unconcerned about the implications of his appearance during a CPAC panel on "The Failure of Multiculturalism" featuring a white nationalist author, Peter Brimelow.
"I don't know anything about that," King, who came to the event to talk about his English Language Unity Act, told BuzzFeed -- though he'd earlier told Brimelow that "I've read all your books!"

And CPAC is just getting started. Way more horrible ugly insanity to come!