House representatives thought fit to claim their salary today by overwhelmingly passing a bill “reaffirming” that “In God We Trust” is still the official slogan of the United States, even though this has been the case every single day since 1956. Why bother with this routine bit of depraved political theater? Because according to the goober Republican who sponsored it, Rep. Randy Forbes, “Almost a year ago, the president in making a speech across the world said that our national motto was ‘E pluribus unum.’” Which is not even in English! So screw Barack Obama if he can’t remember what America’s tagline is, Congress will pass an entire resolution to teach him a dumb lesson about it. But just as importantly, perhaps, it will also help remind citizens to file their numerous complaints about the country with God.Â
From The Hill:
“Unfortunately, there are a number of public officials who forget what the national motto is, whether intentionally or unintentionally,” Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.) said in late Tuesday afternoon debate in the House. “There are those who become confused as to whether or not it can still be placed on our buildings, whether it can be placed in our school classrooms.
There you go, stick God’s name on all our crumbling public schools and municipal libraries. Fixed.
Technically Obama just had his history mixed up. America’s original Angry Mob the Founding Fathers did choose “E pluribus unum” (which translates to “Out of many, one”) as the motto in 1782, sort a nice sentiment saying “hey look what happens when we band together, all this overthrowing of the evil, greedy British overlords.” And it stayed that way right up until the McCarthy era and the threat of nuclear annihilation made Congress go all “shit, we officially trust in God” to make sure God knew where to aim any incoming wrath (at the godless pinkos).
The joke is still on the Republicans anyhow, since the Supreme Court noted in 1984 (ha ha)Â that “In God We Trust” didn’t violate the establishment clause only because it had “lost through rote repetition any significant religious content.” [The Hill]
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Rep. Randy Forbes
lol.
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so very gay… not in the good way.
"Hiiiiii Marcus…"
"Hey, girlfriend!"
Um, that's not a flag pin he has on his lapel. Some patriot.
Do *not* want to know what he is doing with the other hand…
…only because it had “lost through rote repetition any significant religious content.”
Rote repetition is all the repukes have!
This is liberal fascism libel.
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In dog we trust.
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Feline Libel!
"In drag we lust."
- Senator Lindsey Graham, SC
We had a dog once. All we could trust it to do was to shit on the carpet and bring fleas into the house.
Personally, I'm glad Dog is dead.
Our god did the same thing.
What does an agnostic/dyslexic/insom …nevermind.
I want to thank God for giving us this victory over our cross-town rival!
GO BEARS!
Phew!
I was afeared a nukulear hologram had wiped out all the other Wonketteers.
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Needs moar illegal deodorant.
No moar illegal deodorant for you young man.
You've had enough.
Now to bed you go.
Sleep it off, rodent!
You know who else trusted in God?
HITLER!
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FYI Hitler's the ONE name you're not supposed to say when someone else says, "you know who ELSE…?" We're parodying Godwin's law, not exemplifying it.
Job? (all puns intended)
You mean Jobs?
Tammy Faye Baker?
Joan of Arc?
"Did the men who burned Joan of Arc wasting good matches ?"
Christian martyrs?
Jean Shepherd?
Jim Jones? David Koresh?
Harold Camping?
Rangers Fans?
Texas or New York?
All of th, ….. no, muust resist.
God's ghey lover?
Oh, sorry, I thought you said who else thrusted in God?
That's "beloved disciple" to you!
Rick Perry? (is it raining in Texass yet?)
Every idiot who has ever lived. Sorry, I know, too harsh.
I'm with you. Harsh, but fair.
Also, cute puppy.
Mary.
And just look where that went.
1975 Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach?
Chaplain Tappman (aka Shipman)
Meg Ryan (in When Harry Met Sally)?
God? ……
Well, you know .
You need that self confidence thing going.
Right?
George W. Bush?
Tim Tebow?
The Lions fucking dismantled you. Where is your god, now, Timmy?
Not the first Christian to get dismantled by a Lion.
Now THAT"S traditional values!
WIN
And, you know, Detroit might as well be the modern-day Rome.
And Tebow? God, that guy's annoying. Take a knee, asshole.
That army with "Gott mit uns" on their belt-buckles? Who were those guys? Don't tell me – it's just on the tip of my tongue…
The Spanish Inquisition?
I didn't expect that.
Stellar.
It's the Comfy Chair for you…
Osama bin Laden?
Why didn't anyone say Jesus? Look what trusting in "God" got him….hung to die on a cross, three days in hell, and then turned into a zombie.
Put your trust in God at your own peril.
Remember:
Jesus Saves.
But Moses Invests.
[It's a classic - however, upon further review it may have an unintended tinge of anti-Semitism. I apologize if I have offended anyone.]
Every single fucking athlete that just won something.
The guys who lost? Not so much.
Jesus?
Forbes jockeying for a vice presidential spot on the Cain ticket?
He'll probably come up shorts.
"In Tax Cuts and Deregulation We Trust"
"In Greed We Trust."
That's the Repubican "faith based" approach to policy problems. Although, after Dubya, they should add "We promise it will work this time."
E pluribus Tebow
Translation: Out of one many interceptions
and copious fumbles.
"Copius Fumbles" sounds like a fun way to spend an evening.
Sounds like a character in a Terry Pratchett story.
My friend Timus Tebus has a wife, you know. You know what she's called? She's called… 'Copius'… Copius Fumbles.
[soldier laughs hysterically]
Next Congressional term, expect a bill revising the motto to "In Jesus Christ We Trust." Because this has always been a Christian nation.
A dim-witted, stubborn, Christian nation. And un-Christ-like.
I know, "God" is open to too many interpretations… and it lets the Jews and the Muslims in on the game. Better change it to "In Supply Side Jesus Christ We Trust" to make sure the rest of the world knows who's boss.
If Jesus was real, and he was here, and he was in fact the son of God, and I told him to go fuck himself, do you know what he'd do? He'd forgive me and love me anyway.
I challenge any "Christian" member of Congress to behave the same.
In Greed We Trust.
Whoa, dude, sorry. I inadvertently plagiarized you, responding to comment thread above. My apologies, and… Great minds think alike?
Dude, what is wrong with you?!!! [Jeez Louise--no apologies needed here.] Just don't call me 'Dude'. Dudette's okay, I guess… No, actually that's pretty lame, come to think of it.
Sorry. My years in Venice, CA left permanent tracks in my brain. 'Dude' was the customary and polite form of address to persons of any and all genders.
If you haven't accidentally fell off the double up Wonkette horse, you haven't ridden the Wonkette horse.
Look what trusting in god has done for the good residents of New Orleans with Katrina, or Texas with their endless fires and drought and haboobs. If I was a drinking man, I'd feel better putting my trust in Jack Daniel's, or Ketel One.
Or fucking STERNO, for that matter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ7o34UZyXQ
Love Tommy J.
Tits, if you are NOT a drinking man, then I think perhaps you have fallen in with the wrong crowd. Cuz i think we are all pretty much buzzed, at least after 5 pm in our respective timezonez.
I swear, Morning in America© damn near killed me, haven't touched a drop since sometime after 5 PM in the summer of '89.
It is soooooooooooooooooooooth.
But it's cool to have a sober person around….ya know, in case somebody needs a ride.
Yeah, I need a ride to Chicago next week, come to think of it.
It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark… and we're wearing sunglasses.
Speak for yourself – 4 pm is my motto…
9 beers – 9 shots – by 9 PM.
With your trust in Jack Daniels or Ketel you can also make a little money back from the bottle deposit. It's a win-win!
Ironically, this git no doubt fancies himself a "strict constructionist"
Or perhaps a strict contortionist? Which would be more interesting.
Someone needs to provide this conservatard with a strict constrictionist.
A strict contortionist with copious fumbling.
That sure makes me feel better about how I requested my crumbling municipal library to buy a stellar, written-up-at-some-big-book-festival new book, and I got a reply back that the librarian decided not to buy it and they have had budget cuts lately and whatnot.
Stick it, illiterate fascist retard.
You might want to try again. In my marxist, stalinist, leninist state, (California), they will have a book shipped from another library to the local branch if someone requests it.
Clearly, there are exceptions, but librarians aren't usually douchebags.
That is true- I felt bad when I asked for a book and they borrowed it from a different state. That must cost some money(it was some years ago) and it was a terrible book. Also , it is not your librarian who doesn't buy it, there is an acquisitions office.. That said- I would sometimes send that office a note asking why there were 40 copies of Danielle Steele's latest crap purchased but not one copy of whatever I asked them to buy.
As your local Wonkette librarian (are there more of us here), I will tell you that there is a big push to buy the lit that goes out. And romance always, always goes out the door.
Orygoon, try your interlibrary loan program. Also, I'm surprised that they didn't purchase it, unless the book was too expensive. Or it's possible that the vendor doesn't carry it OR if it does, it's very pricey (we once had a student who wanted a book and our vendor didn't have it and it was being sold on Craigslist for 200 bucks and we had to decline).
Finally, if you have access to public transportation or a car, try worldcat.org. It will tell you which libraries near by may have it (maybe a uni or college does and most will let locals stay and read books).
Ummmm, I've got nothing for snark. Sorry. I hope she didn't shush you though by email.
thank you! usually being the keyword here, though. library administrators, however, now that's a whole nother class…..
I am ever so glad that you hold librarians in considerable regard, you lot, since, um, actually, I am one, just not at my local crumbling municipal public library, and not one who gets to buy all the good stuff, and also, haha, underemployed, although now in two different and reasonably pleasant jerbs. But ANYWAY, the problem with this particular book that I so desperately wanted to read is not that I don't know of other ways to borrow it through the public book-mines system. It's that (blushes) in my middle-aged general forgetful funk, and my blithe assumption that they would buy the way-cool book I heard about, I didn't note carefully what book it WAS, and in the "not going to buy it, sorry" notice, they did not mention it. And now, I cannot, alas, remember. I should have written it down on one of those little pieces of paper that are strewn on every horizontal surface of my house, maybe? That would help? Although the ones I find usually just say "brown sugar, figs, bagels, tillamook extra sharp".
"just say "brown sugar, figs, bagels, tillamook extra sharp"."
What sort of delicious treat are you planning to bake using brown sugar and figs, and may I suggest that it include almonds, and are you going to share it with us?
"I got a reply back that the librarian decided not to buy it and they have had budget cuts"
I'd suggest that you buy it from Amazon, but, well…
Jesus H. Fucking Christ on Goddamn toast.
Trust THIS, bitches.
I do so love the "Jesus H. Fucking Christ on a (insert object here) epithet. If I am going for blasphemy, and rest assured if there is a God, I am going to "go" for it, I want to be creative about it, Jesus on a Pogo Stick, Jesus on a cracker, Jesus on a trannies' baby oiled ass, I can go on forever.
I've always been rather partial to "Christ on a Stick" as an exclamation. I think it speaks for itself.
And apparently only a certain version of god is acceptable, at least for political gain: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/01/david-wi...
Nice to know that this Xtard, at least, is too much of a fuckwit even for Kentucky voters.
beshear has used tax initiatives to bring a lot of businesses into this state. E-town needs the jobs badly. but then again, beshear also gave tax cuts to get noah ark park into northern kentucky…
what vishnu gives with one hand, he takes with seven others…
Sometimes you just have to step back and wonder, as Ken said earlier, if it is not only pervasive stupidity and racism, but that there is actually a competition. (A Director's Prize of Idiocy?) Is there a secret purse for the idiot most likely to conflate the 1950s with the era of the founding fathers (almost all at least agnostic, most of them pretty good after dinner speakers, if you take my meaning)? Do they even understand the concept of decades, centuries, etc. or do they just think that everything in the past was good? Have any of these people reached the realization that Freud said happened when one's father dies, that you are the responsible adult? That is, you are the one who explains the past in a coherent way to the younger generation?
Republicans USED to want to take us back to the 1950s. Now they want to take us back to 1150.
Nah, they're not that backwards; they only want to take us back to 1215, when the Magna Carta transferred the balance of power from the king to the nobility. They just want oligarchy, not monarchy.
1050, before Guillaume le Conquérant crossed the channel and got all them limeys talking frog.
Hmmm… I think they absolutely would go for monarchy. They are theocrats and authoritarians to the bone. I think the 'Divine Right of Kings' would give them a bigger boner than any sad, underaged rentboy greased up with Crisco ever could.
ROTFLMAO!
"Hmmm… I think they absolutely would go for monarchy. They are theocrats and authoritarians to the bone."
They'd go for their *fantasy* of monarchy, in which *they*'re royalty. Considering the way that they piss, gripe, bitch, and moan about having a President they don't like run their country, they'd have a spittle-flecked tantrum about having to obey a king.
"the Magna Carta transferred the balance of power from the king to the nobility"
Although, really, the morbidly obese, illiterate, walmart-shoppin' product of sibling incest can't be considered "nobility" even by the most generous and inclusive standards.
The 1950s? When Everyman enjoyed prosperity (as long as he was white), because corporate tax rates hovered around 90%?
Also, strong unions that had built a solid middle class. But all they remember is a sitcom world of pristine white neighborhoods, lady-like, cookie-baking stay-at-home moms in shirtwaists and pearls, and stern, yet wise and kindly patriarchs.
Sure it's PBS, (Purest Bull Shit), but no more so than everything else that comes out of 24/7/365 lie machine.
Can it be placed on the money I use to pay a Rentboy?
No. This requires a SuperPac, but any competent Republican operative can help you set one up.
That's what lawyers and PR people are for… cost of doing business.
Phew! I'm glad they finally got that figured out. It's been keeping me up at night!
Out of many assholes, one steaming pile.
Unfortunately, "Republicans are assholes" has lost through rote repetition any significant political content.
Not really, 'cos every time they open their mouths, they re-infuse the phrase "Republicans are assholes" with a fresh squirt of relevance. As long as there are Republicans walking (or hoverrounding) on the planet, "Republicans are assholes" will be as fresh as a pile still steaming in the chill morning air.
I really wish you hadn't used the word "squirt". Too vivid, man, too vivid.
Especially not in the same sentence with "assholes" and "open their mouths".
This is good news for Tail Gunner Joe McCarthy.
In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash.
I believe in Santa Christ!
What's the Holy Trademark, though?
What ™ Would Jesus Choose?
I thought that rote repetition was an important part of Protestant American Religion…and all of that book learning they think is real important, like multipication tables and such. Seems like the court was giving a big, hardy "fuck you", to the political and religious right. Or, at least I like to think it was so….before the nutjobs packed the court.
I'm still waiting for Obama to order a drone attack on Congress.
Clapton is God.
He was a sexist self-promoter.
I already knew that from reading the Old Testament.
Every Randy I ever met cleaned septic tanks. Perhaps when this one is not re-elected he can go back to this more honorable profession.
Well, there's always Randy Newman, but I can't get any of his videos of "It's Money That Matters" to work tonight.
I thought America's tagline was "Would you like fries with that?"
No–that's America's waistline..
ALLAH AKBAR!!!!!!!!!!
RU ululating? If so, we have to send a predator drone up your ass. Otherwise, maybe ur just one of the Bush family friends.
I put in for that Crown Prince gig when whatshisname died, but I guess someone else got it.
AND JEFF!!!
Win.
It's a trap!
If I had read this thread earlier, I was going to say that
In God we misinterpret.
Misrepresent also works.
In God we miss everything once we start a sentence with "In God We"..
Did they get a "Hurumph!" out of everyone?
They probably got farts instead.
They better have, they have to save their phoney-baloney jobs!
"Out of many, one" sounds a bit, you know… socialist.
Ironically, it also sounds Christian.
In God we trust?
Hell, I don't trust anyone. Especially some Repub Rep from Vagina….sorry…umm…Virgin-yeah!..
whatever.
Out of the 99%, the 1%.
There you go.
Seeing the bill defeated wouldn't annoy a soul. Is that covered by 'In God We Trust' – souls?!?
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few?
Where are the jobs, Mr. Boner?
In Congress we distrust.
Jerbz, jerbz, jerbz! So glad Murka elected these patriots in 2010.
This might be interesting: If everybody who's sick of this christofascist shit started blacking out the word "God" on their paper money, it wouldn't take long to wipe it off most of the currency in circulation.
Black out the word "Geithner" while you're at it.
I've got a Sharpie and I'm just crazy enough to use it.
Harry, you may already be behind the curve.
http://fnrad.com/wp-content/uploads/Twenty-Dollar...
Just did it to my cash, with a roller-ball. It's pretty subtle, actually. By the time the godbothering morons noticed this, you could have a lot of it in circulation.
If this catches on, I imagine we'll get to read all sorts of foaming-at-the-mouth rants about defacing the currency, and maybe the teabaggers in Congress will try to make it a federal offense. It's what Jesus and George Washington would have wanted.
They can have my Sharpie when they pry it from my cold dead fingers!
"If this catches on, … maybe the teabaggers in Congress will try to make it a federal offense. "
When they're not hooting and squealing about "smaller government", that is.
Some time ago, I got a bunch of singles with a thought balloon that stated "I Grew Hemp". Think I still have one, somewhere…
That's how it will be displayed on the future Ameros! Ron Paul told me, it must be true!
I can't tell you how I want all of our millionaire and billionaire liberal "boogeymen" to just go all-out, next election. I mean just dump so much fucking money into the system on our behalf to wash these rats out to sea for many sessions of Congress to come. I mean, like so much fucking money that we're winning Senate seats in Utah and Wyoming.
If Dems can't sweep both houses and the presidency after the crap we have seen of late, this country is hopeless.
Only slightly OT, do you remember how everyone mocked Michael Steele even though he was quite successful at winning seats for the Repugs, and absolutely nobody mocked Tim Kaine, even though he did nothing but fail, fail, fail? (Losing Kennedy's seat in Massachusetts? SRSLY???)
I only hope Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is more like Howard Dean than Tim Kaine. Nothing I've seen so far eases my mind, though. Dems need a 50 state strategy, and a huge focus has got to be getting people IDs and whatever is needed to overcome the new Jim Crow voter suppression efforts that are cropping up all over the country.
Sorry far the lack of snark. Just sayin'.
(Sittin' in the conference room in the fourth hour of the meeting hearing everybody rah-rah over a suggestion I quietly offered in the first hour)
As a woman software engineer, I was participating in an urgent debugging session with a bunch of guys. I was the only woman. I offered a (correct) solution a dozen times. Nobody even bothered to argue with me. They simply acted as though I didn't exist.
Eventually, after hours of fruitless discussion, the customer rep, a guy who actually needed the problem to be solved or lose his client, a guy who everyone in the room knew had absolutely no technical knowledge whatsoever, tentatively repeated my suggestion, word for word. Huzzah! He was embraced as a savior. The fix worked. The customer rep looked at me and shrugged sheepishly. The company retained the client. I continued to be invisible/inaudible.
I feel you.
{record scratch}
You're a woman software engineer? I'M a woman software engineer! Yay us.
Been there, for about 20 years.
I was just reflecting this morning on the fact that I have probably spent more time in my career working for women than for men, since my first job in 1983. But I work in advertising/marketing, so my mileage may vary.
I get plenty of love on Wonkette, but I am continually frustrated with a Left that doesn't understand that Congress is the key to everything, and getting and keeping control of Congress is a decades-long strategy, not something you just think about after you've lost it. And I am increasingly concerned that our fixation on the Presidency, (unlike, say, Grover Norquist's fixation on squeezing Republican nuts, or the Tea Party's fixation on retaining a core of obstruction in the House) is naive. (Which is not to say I give any legitimacy to the b.s. from the Romney-troll who's always trying to get us all to give up – an Obama loss in 2012 would be disastrous.)
Contemporary American leadership is Dilbert's boss…
"Worker smarter, not harder!" I have heard this moronic shit a thousand times from people who couldn't find their dicks in a dark room.
And got paid more than me.
White people with penises are the most oppressed people EVAH in history!
Pointy haired guy! What a putz.
fourth hour … a suggestion I quietly offered in the first hour
What, this? I clicked & read that! Meant to thank you for sharing it.
Find the one about the 50-state strategy…and the ones about Occupying Congress…and the ones about Congress being the key to Barry giving you your pony…
Don't know her personally, but from what I've seen, DWS is more of a ball buster than a wimp. I hope so anyway.
I hope so too. I'll feel better when I hear the Dems are busy getting bulletproof voter IDs for all the potentially disenfranchised across the country.
Heard her speak last week- she was good!
Given the sparse population of Utah, Wyoming, Montana, Alaska, Arizona… It shouldn't be too hard to buy those states. That's what the Republicans have been doing, after all.
The kind of soul-selling-and-peddling that you'd need to deal in for them to buy what you're selling is depressing to think about. It won't be easy, that's for sure. Money can only buy you so much, and I'm not sure it'll ever buy Wyoming. Utah's only hope is the Mexican migration to the state.
Is this mandatory?
BTW, I hear that something like 90 Democrats voted for this. STOP THIS SHIT! If Republicans want to destroy Congress, let them do all by themselves. The Dems could have simply not voted or voted present. This is the type of bill you give a hellishly righteous speech over that will go viral, not one that you vote in favor of. The ridiculousness of "reaffirming" this bullshit is offensive on its face.
Tommorrow, I bet they are going to reaffirm that the sky is still blue…and 90 Democrats will agree to play to stupid-assed game.
BTW x 2: Neither Cantor nor Boehner can explain how this got to the floor. Which means that Cantor allowed it to get to the floor, of course.
Opinion: Is Cantor really and truly stupid, a petty sociopath, or both?
I've come to expect this kind of stuff. I'm sure many Democrats (and probably many Republicans) were just inoculating themselves from 2012 "your Congressman hates God" attack ads, whereas I'm sure others were being genuine out of a misguided attempt to be religiously faithful.
Somewhere, you have to put your foot down, and this would seem to be one of those places. It is very easy to explain how inane this piece of "legislation" was. This wasn't some loaded abortion vote. This was akin, again, to actually reaffirming that the sky is blue.
With Dem numbers as low as they are currently in the House, very few of these Dems are from districts where this kind of attack would have much of a resonance, anyway. There simply isn't any good excuse for playing this game with them and by their rules. I'm kind of done with excusing this.
It's hard to put your foot down when you're curled up in the fetal position on the floor.
In God We Trust, which is why we refuse to do anything outside of our script in the Book of Revelations.
A Republican representative called the Indo-Kenyan, Marxist, Muslin usurper "the president", so that's progress, right?
Also, Forbes, where are the fucking jobs? Also. Tambien.
This teabagger experiment isn't working out so well, huh? Oh well, Murka learns teh hard way.
No, sadly it doesn't.
Jobs?
Join me , please, flood his email and phone line:
http://johnboehner.house.gov/Contact/
Be courteous when you ask "HOW DID THIS WASTE OF FUCKING TAX MONEY GET TO THE FLOOR, AND WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE JOBS YOU ANNOYING ORANGE!!" … easy…be a nice wonktard..
Needz moar Oompah Loompahs.
pinche indio naranjo…
Congressional approval drops another 10 points.
Are they in the negatives now? The pollsters are now getting punched in the face by the pollees whenever they bring up congress.
How many jerbs did God make today?
Oh really? So the establishment clause kind of works like a trademark, where if you aren't suing the hell out of everybody who uses "kleenex" to mean any tissue, you lose the rights? So, by establishing a theocracy in the United States, the fundies are just admitting that nobody takes Christianity seriously!
"Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven."
“Unfortunately, there are a number of public officials who forget what the national interest is, whether intentionally or unintentionally. There are those who become confused as to whether or not it can still be pursued by officials in Congress, whether it can be enacted in our public policies."
/fixed
To off-topic some more: I live in a mid-sized city and do some of my bank bidness at a mid-sized bank. (I, The Spare, and even more off topic, The Heir, do some of our banking with USAA.) Anyway, The Spare finally has an itty-bitty part-time jerb, and he got his first itty-bitty paycheck, and they had not yet set up a direct deposit for him. So I took it to my bank to make it into money for him, so he can pay on his phone bill and things, but my bank said "NO THIRD PARTY CHECKS!" So we went down the road to the bank that this check was drawed on, which was the U.S. Bank. And lo, it had lines of sad-looking people, and cameras–okay, they all have cameras–and it had its tellers totally enclosed behind ceiling-high thick Plexiglas? This is not done at my bank. It was terribly depressing. I am not one bit surprised that everybody is so pissed off. And if you bank at the U.S. Bank, you should not. And if you WORK at the U.S. Bank, God love you, and I hope you get out soon.
This will undoubtedly be the most significant piece of legislation introduced by the Republican party in this congress.
Is this really the country we want to live in? Holy Jeebus…
"I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator"
- Christian conservative Adolf Hitler
And just the other day a righty ultra-Christian friend of mine was telling me how most Muslim societies are tyrannical because they have no concept of secular space and there's an inherent need to force religious conformity on everyone.
Remember back in 2010, when the new Congressional leadership denounced the previous Congresses for wasting so much time on symbolic resolutions? And patted themselves on the back, saying they weren't going to do that? So sad to see the dream die.
Anyone seen God lately? I want to file a complaint against Rep. Forbes. Guess he was just feeling, you know, Randy.
This was reported on the librul "news" as a bi-partisan accomplishment, and a furthering of the debate over separation of church and state. Really? There's a debate now? How the fuck do Republicans get away with this shit? The Dems were pilloried in the media for wasting two years trying to get some type of health care reform, (after they had passed stimulus that created jawbs), and the wingnuts are praised for voting on crap like this? Consider me boggled. And sad.
Get ready for President Falwell.
This motto don't run.
Kardashian sporn has touched Australias shores so we really know it is the devil you guy's really trust.
Better the devil you know!
BTW, if a few of your precious neuronal connections are being wasted on the Kardassian fuckwits, that information has probaby been brought to you by some Murdoch rag. Karma's a bitch.
In God we trust, but verify. Oops! There goes God.
Zing!
Lovely!
Yeah, see this is the thing about the Christofascists that I really don't and have never, understood. In order to publicly establish things like displays of the Ten Commandments, or the Lord's Prayer, they've necessarily had to argue that these things are not only universal but also generic. They're basically stuck arguing that these things don't mean anything in particular to Christians- a point which, y'know, most Christians would probably dispute.
Well, duh!
That's the whole point of everything a Bagger says–to annoy Liberals!
Thats funny, after you are married for 10 years or so, sex, through rote repitition, loses all sexual content.
The phrase "e pluribus unum" is just more fancyass latinate learning shit. Nobody knows what it means even after you explicitly tell them what it means for the umpteenth time. Plus how can the average American ever want to have just "one" from "many" especially since that "many" includes so many "minorities," "gays" and whatnot? It was never going to work for America.
By contrast "In God We Trust" is a true American slogan, beautiful in it's simplistic divisiveness. It's another way of saying that if you don't believe in God then "you" are not part of "we". It was adopted during the height of the Cold War as way of designating ourselves superior to the communists. Thus added to the phrase we append a silent but universally understood meaning "In God We Trust; Fuck You Commies!" This is a slogan that all sloganeering Americans can get behind.
I guess it sounds better than "out of several, a few"?
"The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."
So everyone who voted for this is against the Constitution.
God has not earned our trust lately. For example, he could have had an asteroid hit Newt Gingrich. Granted, it would have bounced off his planetary fat layers, but the message would have been clear. Or he could have "prayed away" breast cancer.
Now that I think of it, God always seems to obey the laws of physics and probability. I trust those laws every time I get on an airplane. New motto: "In the scientific method, we trust."
I presume, finally, that they mean the God of Unintended Consequences….
God is great! Who else says that?
Uh….Mrs. God, after a good lay???
The last time he had sex, some girl in Israel woke up and said, "I think I was raped last night…"
Which makes my personal motto Hasa Diga Eebowi for the lack of jobs and economy disparity between the greedy rich and the poor folks. Even Sesame Street has a homeless and hungry kid character. Thanks a lot.
The national anthem will now become "Gimme that ole time religion."
Randy? Yes, and I'm dumb, too!
In other words, up yours, Founding Fathers!
smilin' herm cain thought they voted on 'In God We Thrust' .
Dammit, your reply made it impossible to edit in the link. I need to learn the html-y thingy.
I love you SorosBot!
Hit it!
If you leave the door open, will he do your dishes?
Just in time for Xmas!
I am honored to receive a 'ROTFLMAO!' from such an illustrious Wonketteer.
I have justified my existence for today, at least.
"rentboy greased up with Crisco" instantly brought to my mind "Greased up Deaf Guy", and early Family Guy character.
Never saw it. But I appreciate any synchronicity in confronting psychotic authoritarianism.
Synchronicity in defence of anti-psychotic anti-authoritarianism is no vice.
AuH20! Gawd, I'm so oldz I remember that bumper sticker. And spitting on it.
I'm young enough to have to think about what the AuH2O meant.
Goldwater? You mean that pro-choice, pro-Native American rights guy who said it was wrong to ban gays from serving in the military and that the Republican party of the '90s had been taken over by "a bunch of kooks"?
Pfffft. RINO
I looked at it for about ten seconds before my chemistry class teachings came back to me.
At this point, I'm only a former software engineer. (Assembly language.) These days, I'm a television editor. (Documentaries.)
My sister is still a rocket scientist, though.
Rock on!
I came up with the idea of a 'symbolic penis', a phallic symbol that would also be a microphone with electronics that would lower a woman's voice into the male vocal range.
Perhaps, with this equipment, our voices might be heard in the workplace.
♪ ♫ "You may say I'm a dreamer.." ♪ ♫
Still betting that whoever was in charge, 'meritocracy' had little to do with it. And I'd love to see a well-researched database of who makes hiring decisions in this country.
(Don't want to bias this yet-to-be-done research, but I'm betting on 'white people with penises' FTW.)
And not only Congress, but state and local government. See voter suppression efforts in every Republican dominated state in the Union.
The hardest thing for me to understand is our pitiful voter turnout. The only reason Republicans got the House in 2010 was anemic turnout.
I would say the 'left' such as it is, is less a of a problem than a Democratic Party that consistently fails to demonstrate any recognizably Democratic principles.
"Sure we're corporate whores, but at least we're not batshit crazy corporate whores," is not the most inspirational campaign slogan around.
I can haz unicorn? (Ponies are so prosaic.)
It's the ones that couldn't find their dicks in a fully lit room, nude, in front of a floor to ceiling mirror (see Bush, George W., Perry, Rick) that are the ones that make me cry. And in corporate America, they are legion and white and male.
Kudos for creativity, but lower voices ain't gonna do the trick.
I've been an alto since I was twelve or so, and *still* had the experience of having co-workers/clients/whoever ignore what I said, then humbly listen when my boss (a man) said the exact same thing (and you're right; it's crazy-making as well as insulting).
Granted. But lower voices AND a giant penis that you can wave in their face? Okay, it still won't work. But it would be fun bit o' political theater, anyway.
(Technically, I am a mezzo soprano, but I end up singing everything from tenor, when there aren't enough guys, to alto to soprano. And you're right, none of it translate to respect in the workplace. Grrrr.)
If he was white and sufficiently faux pious and faux rugged cowboy-ish, and had the vicious bullying persona that gets them all warm and moist, they'd settle right down and grovel, grovel, grovel.
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