Stupid Made-Up Organization gives Stupid Made-Up Award to Purveyor of Stupid Made-Up News.

If you're at all familiar with WingNut Daily, you probably know them as peddlers of any conspiracy theory, no matter how laughable, as long as it casts Barack Obama as the villain. But that's because you live in the "reality-Based" community. There's a whole other world out there, you know. A world in which Thomas Kinkade is an artistic genius, Tim Tebow is an all-pro quarterback, and George W. Bush kept us safe. In that world, WND just received an award for being a "reliable" "news" source.

Enumclaw.com 2012 Most Trustworthy News Sources

January 1st, 2013 by Editorial

World Net Daily

What are the criteria for such an award? Glad you asked. But bear in mind that for this organization, every word they use seems to mean the opposite of what it means in English:

1. Reliability: Consistent, regularly updated delivery of news. 

Okay, I'll give them that. They do post regularly and consistently. So does CollegeHumor.com, but still, it's something. 
     2.  Accuracy: Well-rounded stories which focus upon facts rather than gossip or hearsay.








    3. Quality: Favors informative, well-written pieces over sheer quantity.

 

   4. Balance: Stories are selected and reported aside from bias or agenda.

  

   5. Reach: Strong authority and readership across the web.

 

 So, yeah, obviously Wing Nut Daily meets all of these criteria!

 

With a continual commitment to the truth and top-notch journalistic practices, World Net Daily has time and again exposed corruption in the media and politics while maintaining good journalistic practices.
WND clearly differentiates when they’re reporting news and providing commentary or opinion. 

Holy cow!

Yeah, sure, WND is totally a reliable news source. Sure, why not?
Other nominees included:

 

The 12 Galaxies Guy.

 

Extreme Elvis

 

This Brick.

 

 

This Brick.

  

Mel Gibson

 

And FOX & Friends.

So that's what it takes.

I've been wondering for a while what could it take for the remaining semi-sane members of the Republican party to finally come to terms with the misanthropic skull-fuckery with which they have gotten into bed.

Apparently, this is it.

John Boehner refusing to bring hurricane relief to a vote in the house is apparently the final straw that breaks the elephant's back. The Republican leadership being too afraid of the teabag extreme to do the simple, decent thing, yet knowing that they daren't vote no, because they need some relatively sane humans to vote for them, that seems to be the bridge too far for at least some Republicans.

“I’m here tonight saying to myself for the first time that I’m not proud of the decision my team has made,” said Rep. Michael Grimm, R-N.Y.

Wow! Mull that over a minute. He's never, up to this point, not been proud of the decisions made by the Republican Party. Think of all the assholetry he's been OK with up 'til now.

Even if he's only referring to the two years he's been a member of Congress, he's apparently been fine with holding the nation's credit hostage in the debt-ceiling fiasco. He had no objection to the party's allowing themselves to become the vassals of Grover Norquist and the Koch brothers. No problem with leadership demanding that tornado relief for the midwest be offset with spending cuts elsewhere or those folks can lump it. But this is beyond the pale.

And it's not just him. Lunatic Peter King (R-NY)  broke Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment. In fact he shattered it, then stomped on the shards.

 

 

Peter King, pictured giving his fellow Congressmen the frowning of a lifetime.

“Tonight’s action not to hold this vote is morally indefensible,” King said. “There are thousands and thousands of people throughout Long Island, Rockaway, Staten Island, New Jersey, throughout the Northeast, who are homeless tonight, who are without jobs, who lost their business. “This is absolutely indefensible.”

“Boehner is the one,” the New York Republican explained. “He walked off the floor. He refused to tell us why. He refused to give us any indication or warning whatsoever… I’m just saying, these people have no problem finding New York — these Republicans — when they’re trying to raise money. They raise millions of dollars in New York City and New Jersey, they sent Gov. [Chris] Christie around the country raising millions of dollars for them. I’m saying, anyone from New York and New Jersey who contributes one penny to the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee should have their head examined. I would not give one penny to these people based on what they did to us last night.”
Raw Story (http://s.tt/1xSns) 

 

 

 

 

Holy Shit!

Keith Olberman never gave it to 'em that hard!

 

“I’m going to do what I have to do,” King insisted. “I’m going to be independent minded. Sometimes, as John Kennedy said, party loyalty demands too much. And I would — as all of us do — often, you give the benefit of the doubt to your party. We are a two-party system. But I’m over that because as the very least, you’re expected to be treated fairly… When your people are literally freezing in the winter and they’re without food and they’re without shelter and they’re without clothing and my own party refuses to help them, then why should I help the Republican Party?”
Raw Story (http://s.tt/1xSns)

 

 Suddenly, you're not a part of the Republican Party? Suddenly, you're going to start referring to them in the third person? Like we're going to forget what a sack of shit you are?

 At least be man enough to own your part in the party's rat-fucktitude. Like Chris Christie did:

"There's only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims: The House majority and their speaker John Boehner," Christie told reporters in a press conference today. "Last night, my party was responsible for this." (emphasis added)

 

  

Artist's approximation

"Last night, politics was placed before our oaths to serve our citizens. For me it was disappointing and disgusting to watch," he said. "If the people of New Jersey feel betrayed today by those who did this in the House last night, then they have good company. I'm with them." 

So, this is what it takes. The nominally sane members of the GOP will gladly go along with the gleeful destruction of all that is good about America, but they draw the line when the nihilism affects them directly.

Oh, Republicans. You're so predictable!

 

I know, I know.

I've been very neglectful of my duties lately.

We've just started watching the Walking Dead and Downton Abbey on Netflix streaming, and it's taking up all of our free time here at the Compound.

We only have a bout 2 episodes of the Walking Dead left, so I should be back to blogging soon.

If you're interested, I am doing bad jokes and whatnot on the Twitter: @akaProfessorCha:
https://twitter.com/akaProfessorCha


See you soon.

Great! One more thing to worry about!

Now I have to worry that I might lose my job because of my irresistable attractiveness?

Can You Be Too Sexy For Your Job? The Iowa Supreme Court Says Yes

 You can be too sexy for your job, at least according to the Iowa Supreme Court, which just ruled that a dentist in that state was within his rights to fire an assistant whom he and his wife deemed too attractive. In a 7- 0 decision, the court ruled that it is lawful for employers to fire employees whom they find to be “irresistibly attractive,” even if there are no performance-related grounds for termination. 

  

That can't possibly be right, can it? How is that legal? You can't discriminate against an employee based on her appearance, can you?

Discrimination based on appearance is permitted in the vast majority of states,

REALLY?!

 There must be more to this, right? She must have been hitting on her boss, creating a distraction with her flirtatious behavior?

While Ms. Nelson was not alleged to have engaged in flirtatious behavior with her boss, James Knight, Knight reportedly told Nelson’s husband that he feared becoming too attached to Nelson and being tempted into initiating an affair with her.

 REALLY?!?!

(Not that it's germane to the topic at hand, but how did  Nelson's husband not kick this guy's ass?)

 Okay, but she must at least have been dressed inappropriately for a professional office, right?

 

That either gets you fired or a raise!

While her former boss claimed her clothes were so tight he couldn’t look at her without being aroused, Nelson said the only outfit she wore to work was standard scrubs worn by many nurses and assistants in dental offices. 

 

 

Nelson, 32, worked for Knight for 10 years, and he considered her a stellar worker. But in the final months of her employment, he complained that her tight clothing was distracting, once telling her that if his pants were bulging that was a sign her clothes were too revealing, according to the opinion. 

Oh, and she's the problem here?
 How is she not suing for harassment?

Nelson filed a lawsuit alleging gender discrimination, arguing she would not have been terminated if she was male. She did not allege sexual harassment because Knight’s conduct may not have risen to that level and didn’t particularly offend her, Fiedler said.
Knight argued Nelson was fired not because of her gender, but because her continued employment threatened his marriage. A district judge agreed, dismissing the case before trial, and the high court upheld that ruling.

Wow! So you can be fired if your boss thinks he may not be able to keep his hands off you, even if you have not given any indication that you would allow him to place his hands on you or that you would have any interest in having an affair with him, so if he did try putting his hands on you, he would be committing a sexual assault. You, you can be fired for his lack of impulse control?

This is very worrisome to those of us who are irresistibly attractive. Sure, my boss is a married man, but when you're as irresistible as me, that's no guarantee. I'm definitely going to have to dial down my attractiveness until the courts decide to join the 21st Century, or at least catch up to the 20th.

Here's an Idea

Here's an idea. Next time Wayne La Pierre or any other massacre-enabling gun nut holds a press conference, no one show up.

Don't report on it.

Don't treat this malignant vermin like he has anything of importance to say.
He has only the importance we choose to give him. If we stop pretending that he has something to add to the public discourse, he shrivels up and blows away in the breeze.

Wayne LaPierre had a press conference yesterday. Don't bother asking what he said, he said what he always says. Everything except for guns is responsible and what we really need is more guns. What a scoop! Good thing a bunch of reporters showed up to cover that!

How many reporters would show up if the president of NAMBLA held a press conference to discuss the reasons why so many kids have been molested recently? No one would show up, except hopefully the police to cuff him and haul himm off to jail with a nightstick protruding from his ass.
How many reporters would show up to a press conference held by the grand wizard or dragon or pig-fucker or whatever of the KKK? That's how many reporters should cover a press conference by the head scumbucket of the NRA.