The Right's Newest theme

With the mid-term elections looming just around the corner, the right has seemingly latched on to a new rallying cry:

Let Kids Go Hungry!

Seriously, it's all the rage these days!

Fox News Commentator Praises Child Hunger as a "Teaching Moment" for Parents

By Amanda Marcotte

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Posted Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013, at 11:51 AM

. . .. In response to a New Jersey school district choosing to withhold lunch from kids whose parents forgot to refill their lunch accounts, Thomas Kersting, who is alarmingly a school counselor, said, "You know, if one day a kid doesn’t have lunch, right, maybe that’s a teaching moment when that kid doesn’t have lunch. That may sound harsh saying that, but we’ve got to get people to start being responsible for themselves."

Yes, and nothing will teach those schoolkids responsibility like hunger! Maybe next time these damn children will get jobs and make money to buy food instead of "playing" and "doing homework." Little free-loading jerks!


And, you know, if it was just one nut on Fox, it might not be worth mentioning, but you know if one of these assholes has a talking point, they're all going to have it sooner than later.

 

Especially this asshole!

 

 

 

Limbaugh Compares Students Who Receive Free School Meals To Family Pets

Video ››› September 6, 2013 4:00 PM EDT ››› MEDIA MATTERS STAFF

 

 

Of course, as always when it comes to utter despicability, Rush was way ahead of the curve on this one:

June 17, 2010 02:00 PM

Rush Limbaugh thinks hungry children should "dumpster dive" for their dinner

God, this is just -- we can't escape these people. We just can't escape them. They live in the utter deniability of basic human nature. They actually have it in their heads somehow that parents are so rotten that they will let their kids go hungry and starve, unless the schools take care of it.

I think, you know what we're going to do here, we're going to start a feature on this program: "Where to find food." For young demographics, where to find food. Now that school is out, where to find food. . .
. . .There's another place if none of these options work to find food; there's always the neighborhood dumpster. Now, you might find competition with homeless people there, but there are videos that have been produced to show you how to healthfully dine and how to dumpster dive and survive until school kicks back up in August.


And it's not just media types, either. Southern Beale brings us this story of  Kevin Kookogey, chair of the Williamson County Republican Party, coming out against the school breakfast program:

“This is not a complicated issue,” he said. “It is not the role of government to feed people. Government exists to protect and defend our God-given rights. Government fails when it usurps these bounds.

Hey, it's not government's problem if kids are going hungry! Guv'mint's only job is ta protect mah right ta bear arms, muthafukker!

Mindy McAlindon, first vice chair with the Williamson County Republican Party, agrees with Kookogey.

“It’s not the government’s job to feed students. It’s our job to provide for ourselves,” the Franklin home-school mom said. “The government is deciding where our money goes. And we should be deciding where our money goes.”

Yeah, if'n I don't want any of mah moneys goin' to feed no hungry young'uns, that's mah business!


Of course, these people don't understand how "government" works. We elect a government to represent us. If we want that government to give some food to hungry children then that is the government's job. If we would rather elect people who will let kids go hungry, then we can go ahead and vote them in in 2014. But the "government's job" is to do whatever the people damn well want it to do, within certain bounds. There is no set list of duties, no job description for "government." We elect them and they're supposed to do what we want them to do.

Anyway, how's that whole re-branding thing working out for you, Republicans? You're going to be the party of hungry kids now? Good luck with that!
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Why do the three stooges think they get to make their own foreign policy now?

Tea party-backed Representatives Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and Steve King (R-IA) on Saturday held a press conference in Egypt to thank the country's military for overthrowing the elected government

What the hell are they even doing in Egypt?

"Thank you for overthrowing the democratically-elected government" is absolutely NOT our government's position on Egypt's military coup. Our official government stance on the Egyptian coup is, I believe, "coup? What coup?"

Can you imagine three Democratic congressmen going overseas during the Bush administration to contradict Bush's official foreign policy positions?

Honestly, none of these three should even be issued a passport, they're such embarrassments to the nation.

Least Surprising Headline of the Day

George Zimmerman questioned by police in Florida after alleged gun threat against wife Shellie Zimmerman
5:17 PM, Sep 9, 2013      



And because it's still Florida, the second least surprising headline of the day:

George Zimmerman won't be charged after alleged domestic incident

By Vivian Kuo, CNN

updated 6:10 PM EDT, Mon September 9, 2013

 

 

 

Fuck you, Florida.

Bad Ads - Gumout

So Gumout's new ad slogan is "Think with your motorhead."







Wow. That is so stupid in so many ways.

First of all, it's just dumb. I mean, just look at these guys.





Second, those are not motors they have for heads, those are engines.

Third, a guy who's really into cars is called a "gearhead," not a "motorhead."

But most importantly, do you not know who IS called a motorhead? A speed freak.

Why do you think Lemmy chose the name "Motorhead" for his awesome amazing ass-kicking band? Because "Motorhead" was a slang term for an amphetamine abuser which Lemmy was. That's what "motorhead" means, not a person knowledgeable about motors.

They're at it again

Conservative nuts just wanna secede from everything!

Whenever things don't go their way, they want to pick up their bat and ball and go home.

Plans for the new state of "North Colorado" are, of course proceeding apace, by which I mean "will never have a snowball's chance in hell of happening."

But of course, they aren't the only ones. One county in the far northest part of California has just officially voted to pack up their belongings and move back in with their parents -- I mean form their own state.

State of Jefferson: California county votes for secession from state

By The Associated Press Published: Sep 5, 2013 at 9:14 AM PDT

The Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 on Tuesday for a declaration of secession, the Record Searchlight of Redding reported.

Residents of the majority-Republican [duh!] Siskiyou County lobbied the board in August to consider secession, according to the Record Searchlight. In addition to a lack of representation in Sacramento, they cited concerns about water rights and a rural fire prevention fee.

A lack of representation in Sacramento. Of course, they have the exact same amount of representation in Sacramento that every other Californian, but why should that get in the way of a piping-hot right-wing narrative?

And God forbid that anyone should pay a fee for fire protection! Who needs the fucking Nanny State when we've got garden hoses and buckets?
(By the way, the fee is a whopping $150 per year for fire prevention!)

Of course, there are other reasons for wanting to secede:

"We realize it is not a resolution; it is not an ordinance," Liz Bowen said. "We do appreciate the county board of supervisors knowing that our economy is really poor here. We're having a terrible time for a lot of reasons, and the biggest reason is over regulating."

Of course! Of course that's why the economy is suffering! The regulations! Just think how much better the local farmers would be doing if they were just allowed to sell e-coli flavored spinach! Or think of how much more money the local fisherman would bringing in if only the salmon had been allowed to go extinct like God intended!

So that's Colorado and California wingnuts trying to storm off in a huff and make it all by themselves on their own. Ball's in your court, Texas!

Powerful Texas Republican Advocates For Seceding From The United States

By Scott Keyes on September 6, 2013 at 10:05 am

Texas Railroad Commissioner Barry Smitherman, who is running to be the next state Attorney General, is preparing his state to secede from the United States and become an “independent nation.”

Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out!

In an interview with WND, a right-wing birther hub, Smitherman argued that Texas not only has the capability to survive without the rest of the country, but is actively taking steps to prepare for that day. “Generally speaking, we have made great progress in becoming an independent nation,” he declared. “I think we want to continue down that path so that if the rest of the country falls apart, Texas can operate as a stand-alone entity.”

Yeah, that would be a lot more impressive if you weren't currently incapable of paving your goddamm roads!

Texas can’t afford paved roads, replaces them with gravel

Published time: August 20, 2013 20:43

Officials in Texas this week began converting 83 miles of asphalt road to unpaved lanes of gravel. Years of heavy truck travel has ravaged entire routes in south and west Texas, and going back to gravel is for now the only affordable answer.

But sure, yeah, you're obviously pretty well-positioned to go off on your own.
Don't let me stop you!
Or reality. Don't let reality stop you!