Georgia Republicans Say Things Out Loud

If you ever wonder why we rarely venture outside of Atlanta. . .

Georgia State Senator Complains That Voting Is Too Convenient For Black People (Updated)

by Josh Israel Posted on September 9, 2014 at 12:31 pm

Now, granted, he said this to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, so he had a fairly good chance no one would ever see it.

 

But holy shit! You're supposed to pretend that your voting restrictions are preventing "voter fraud." You're not supposed to admit that you don't really want them coloreds votin'.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on Tuesday that Georgia state Senator Fran Millar (R) penned an angry response to DeKalb County’s announcement that early voting will be available on Sunday, October 26, and that an early-voting location will be opened at The Gallery at South DeKalb Mall. Millar represents part of the county and is Senior Deputy Whip for the Georgia Senate Republicans.

Millar wrote:
Now we are to have Sunday voting at South DeKalb Mall just prior to the election. Per Jim Galloway of the AJC, this location is dominated by African American shoppers and it is near several large African American mega churches such as New Birth Missionary Baptist. Galloway also points out the Democratic Party thinks this is a wonderful idea – what a surprise. I’m sure Michelle Nunn and Jason Carter are delighted with this blatantly partisan move in DeKalb.

  

(Pictured: Michelle Nunn being delighted)

 Hmm, if only there were a way to make it worse. . .

On his Facebook page Tuesday, Millar stood by his comments, writing: “I would prefer more educated voters than a greater increase in the number of voters. If you don’t believe this is an efort [SIC] to maximize Democratic votes pure and simple, then you are not a realist. This is a partisan stunt and I hope it can be stopped.”

 Wow! Well, played, sir!
(yes, I said "sir." Despite having an old lady name, Fran Millar is actually a man.)

State Sen. Fran Millar (R-GA)

 Any other Georgia Republicans want to step tp the plate and say something out loud that you shouldn't?
Next up, Congressman Jack Kingston:

 

I swear, this was the most flattering picture I could find.

A lot of people would like to stay on the sideline and say, ‘Just bomb the place and tell us about it later.’ It’s an election year. A lot of Democrats don’t know how it would play in their party, and Republicans don’t want to change anything. We like the path we’re on now. We can denounce it if it goes bad, and praise it if it goes well and ask what took him so long.

Oh my Gawd!
That's the sort of thing that Stephen Colbert says when he's parodying you people!
Do you have any idea how this sounds to a normal, sane person?

 You're talking about a horrible situation in which people are being beheaded, buried alive, crucified, etc. And you're seeing this through the prism of a pr victory for your party? That's what you're focused on? The incredibly difficult decision that leaders in Washington and in other countries are facing about whether to intervene at the possible cost of even more lives, you see this as an electoral win-win?
And you actually admit out loud that your strategy is to wait until the President does something, anything, and then figure out how to criticize whatever it is he did or didn't do? You're actually admitting that. I mean, we've all pretty much figured out that that's what you folks have been doing since 2009, but holy fuck, man. You're not supposed to say it out loud!

Creepy, creepy, creepy

I don't know why these fundamentalists are so obsessed with sex, but you'd think sex-obsessed people would be a lot less creepy talking about it.

Pastor Mark Driscoll Called Women “Penis Homes”

And that's not even the creepy part. That's just the horribly offensive part.

Here comes the creepy part:

The first thing to know about your penis is, that despite the way it may see, it is not your penis. Ultimately, God created you and it is his penis. You are simply borrowing it for a while.

Hmm, shouldn't it be a lot more impressive then?

While His penis is on loan you must admit that it is sort of just hanging out there very lonely as if it needed a home, sort of like a man wondering the streets looking for a house to live in.

Um, if it's just "hanging out there" you need to put on some goddamm pants, you pervert!

Knowing that His penis would need a home, God created a woman to be your wife and when you marry her and look down you will notice that your wife is shaped differently than you and makes a very nice home.

Because, prior to marriage, you would have no reason to suspect that women might be built differently "down there."

I wonder how long most fellas are married before they notice that "hey, my wife has a thingy down there and I'll just bet you that my peener might fit in there!"

 

Huh! Would ya look at that?

Therefore, if you are single you must remember that your penis is homeless and needs a home. But, though you may believe your hand is shaped like a home, it is not.

Um, you know hands are pretty flexible, right? You know that they can be configured into any number of shapes, right?

 

"Penis house" is actually one of the easier configurations.

 

So simple, even a dolt can do it!

 And, though women other than your wife may look like a home, to rest there would be breaking into another man’s home.

 Wait, what?

I thought you were going to say that cheating on your wife is a shitty thing to do, but WHAT? You shouldn't sleep with another woman because she is, what, the property of another man?

 

And, if you look at a man it is quite obvious that what a homeless man does not need is another man without a home.

No, they have homes. you just have to know where to look.

 

Paul tells us that your penis actually belongs to your wife, and once you are married she will trade you it for her home (I Corinthians 7:4), and every man knows this is a very good trade for him to make.

Her "home?" Can you just say the word "vagina" at least?

This might be slightly less creepy if you didn't sound like a 9-yeqr-old boy with a vague idea of how sex works.

Also, how does that trade work? If it already belongs to her, and also it already belongs to God, how can I trade it to her for anything? It doesn't add up. And it's creepy, creepy, creepy!

I Love a Parade, Vol. II

As I mentioned last post, I enjoy a good parade.

And last weekend, we finally attended one we've been wanting to see since we moved here, the Dragon*Con Parade.

For those of you not familiar, Dragon*Con is maybe the largest (I have no idea) gathering of sci-fi/fantasy/video game/ comic book aficionados.

I've never been a big sci-fi or fantasy fan, but I am a fan of creative people in elaborate costumes.
Anyway, I have no idea who a lot of the characters are, but I am really impressed with the talent of the costume people. (please don't make me say "cos-players")

 

 This pretty much seems like Dragon*Con in a nutshell. A Star Wars jedi (I think)  LARPing with a 300 Gladiator. (probably)

No idea.

Even less idea. 

My favorite costume of the day -- Big Boo!

The Flying Spaghetti Monster

And speaking of blasphemy. . .

Mister Hat!

Pretty sure this is Lord of the Rings.

Um, Barrel People?

 

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The Men in Black make themselves useful and arrest Jar Jar Binks.

The World's Second-Littlest Ghostbuster

  

See?

  

It wouldn't be an Atlanta parade without the Box Heroes!

  

Or the Box Star Wars guys

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Stormtroopers in kilts, because why not?

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This would appear to be a woman walking a dinosaur.

  

Don't know what this is, but it gave me nightmares for a week

 

 

  

 Same deal.

 

  

Go, Speed Racer, Go!

 

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na na na na na na na na Batman!

I guess that's enough for now. Maybe I'll post a few more tomorrow.

I love a Parade

We have some pretty great parades here in Atlanta, and the last two weekends we've attended two of the best.

Last Saturday was the Dragon*Con parade (more on that later)

Yesterday we went to the annual Lantern Parade along the Atlanta Beltline.

Here are a few highlights of people getting super-creative with paper lanterns:

 

 

 

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Oh, Fer Fuck Sake, Florida!

Jeezus Christ, Florida! Are you trying to win the "most horrible fucking state in the union" award?

Florida Senator Wants Bill Making Dinesh D'Souza's 'America' Movie Required Viewing for Teens in State

Republican Alan Hays said he’ll introduce in November his one-page bill that simply states that students in the 1,700 Florida public high schools and middle schools are to be shown the film unless their parents object.

“I’ve looked at history books and talked to history teachers and the message the students are getting is very different from what is in the movie,” Hays said. “It’s dishonest and insulting. The students need to see the truth without political favoritism.”

He said, without any sense of irony at all.

 Because, I guess it's not political favoritism if the political point of view being favored is yours? Does that make sense? I don't think that makes sense, but I can't figure out any other way for that sentence to make sense either.

To that end, Hays said he wouldn’t object if teachers paired America with a liberal film to show the political differences. Indeed, many schools already show Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth 

An Inconvenient Truth is a movie about SCIENCE!! It does not have a political point of view. Why would you think that a movie about climatology needs to be balanced out with a movie about goldangit, 'Murica is jes' plain awesome?
The only reason that it might seem like An Inconvenient Truth is a "liberal" film is because conservatives have made a conscious decision to oppose science. If I decide that I hate algebra, that doesn't make algebra anti-me. It just makes me a doofus.

“The most dreaded disease in America today is political correctness. We need to inform our students of our whole history, and teach them how to think, not what to think,”

And you're going to accomplish this by forcing them to sit through Triumph of the Will America: Imagine the World Without Her?  You are going to teach students how to think, not what to think by showing them right-wing propaganda?

 

I watched the trailer for this movie. It's pretty ridiculous.





Apparently, among the things that we as Americans are to be proud of, the things that could only happen in America are Martin Luther King Jr's "I have A Dream Speech" which could never have happened without several hundred years of slavery, Jim Crow and white supremacy, so ya know, great job, America!
We're supposed to be proud of the iPhones that are made by Chinese children in appalling inhuman conditions.
We're supposed to believe that only in America could a man be sent to walk on the moon, as if we are just going to forget that the reason we went to the moon is because we were afraid that the Russians would get there first, and had we not sent Neal Armstrong to the moon, there would be some Russian dude famous for being the first man on the moon.
We're supposed to be proud of Jackie Robinson, which makes sense, but I guess we're supposed to ignore the fact that it took how many decades before one major-league baseball team finally allowed one black player to join. And we're supposed to ignore the fact that Robinson's career involved putting up with a steady stream of insults, death threats, and various humiliations from fans and other players alike.



But we're supposed to imagine in horror the thought of a world in which America did not exist. Okay, I like a good thought experiment. Let's imagine. . .

Well, I imagine the people of Iran still having their democratically-elected government in place, meaning there would never have been an Islamic revolution and the Ayatollah would be just another obscure religious leader.

I imagine the people of Chile not having their duly-elected presidente' overthrown, so no one ever has to coin the phrase "death squad."

I can imagine many thousands of young African men and women not being kidnapped and forced into slavery.

Oh, and speaking of slavery, it's worth looking at what D'Souza has to say on the subject. It tells you a lot about how guys like him think:

“Did America owe something to the slaves whose labor had been stolen?” D’Souza writes in the book … The answer is yes, but “that debt … is best discharged through memory, because the slaves are dead and their descendants are better off as a consequence of their ancestors being hauled from Africa to America.”

Okay, that is a lot of horribleness for one paragraph, but look past the usual racist blather about how slavery happened a long time ago and there are no residual effects on the descendants of slaves, and gosh aren't they better off living in the greatest country in the world blah, blah, blah. . . We're used to hearing that crap from right-wing assholes. Just look at the first sentence.

“Did America owe something to the slaves whose labor had been stolen?

So, that's it? Their labor had been stolen? When your boss shorts you on your paycheck, you've had your labor stolen. These people were enslaved. They were robbed of their freedom, their autonomy, their dignity and their humanity. They were treated as livestock. Often they were treated worse than livestock.
 

But to D'Souza, the problem with slavery is that they had their labor stolen. Because that's the only thing on which one could put a price tag. You can't put a price tag on human dignity, so that apparently is not a big issue for a right-wing nut like D'Souza. You can't put a price on horrific physical pain. You can't attach a monetary value to children being sold away from their parents, so apparently it's not important. 

Fuck this guy.

He can't go to jail soon enough.

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