Sane folk nodded in approval today as Barack Obama put out a memorandum directing “all agencies engaged abroad to ensure that U.S. diplomacy and foreign assistance promote and protect the human rights of LGBT persons.” Hooray for Increments, right? It’s not clear what this actually means since the U.S. is unlikely to cold de-friend Saudi Arabia on Facebook or quit mailing billions of dollars to our frenemies in the Pakistani government for constant cruelty to their gays (Uganda might be in trouble, though), so for now the Important Point is that the United States is on record as being uncool with gay-hating governments. This is a reasonably uncontroversial thing, wanting people not to be murdered and imprisoned for their sexuality, unless… UNLESS you are a forgotten weirdo like glum Rick Perry, who is still desperate to prove that he is the favored presidential candidate of straight Jesus. He’s against it!
Even the Gay Old Party doesn’t seem to have made too much noise about it yet, perhaps for the obvious reasons, but boy oh boy Rick Perry, he has a fiery statement noting how much he doesn’t want the gays getting any of those “special rights” to exist:
“This administration’s war on traditional American values must stop.
“I have proposed a foreign aid budget that starts at zero. From that zero baseline, we will consider aid requests based solely on America’s national security interests. Promoting special rights for gays in foreign countries is not in America’s interests and not worth a dime of taxpayers’ money.
Relax, Rick! It’s not always about Americans, there are other people in the world, too, and this is about them. We promise no more Republicans will accidentally turn gay as a result of this new policy. That’s what Rentboy.com is for. [NYT/ RickPerry.org]
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So not getting killed simply for your sexual orientation is a "special right" now?
and requiring taxpayer dollars, apparently.
Well, in Texas, it is.
It's their own fault if they die, because they didn't suppress it with drunken stupidity and violent homophobia like Gov. Goodhair.
Well, if Rick Perry doesn't get to happily live an openly gay lifestyle, apparently no one should.
Resisting a gay-bashing (or worse) infringes on Christians' religious freedom, dontcha know!
HE's one to talk.
"This press conference is OVER! If you have any further questions, you can find me at the Mineshaft! {SNAP!}"
Closeted jodhpur-clad douche says what?
"Promoting special rights for gays in foreign countries is not in America’s interests and not worth a dime of taxpayers’ money."
Of course it's not. Not until the second he boards Air Force One for Ibiza.
Don't you mean Ibiza-biza-biza-biza-stan?
The only way Rick Perry will ever get to ride on Air Force One is if he's real polite to President Obama and begs real nice.
"Rick Perry… is still desperate to prove that he is the favored presidential candidate of straight Jesus…"
Does Rick Perry know that Jeebus has two daddies?
YWH and The HoGo?
Had. He's dead now.
Three! And one of them is himself.
Er … ew, I think. Squick.
What is Gov. Perry's position on puppies, sunshine, good manners, and nutritious breakfasts, I wonder?
"not in America’s interests and not worth a dime of taxpayers’ money."
especially puppies.
Yep, puppies are BULLSHIT.
We got a saying down in Texas: puppies are cute, but you can't make cowboy boots out of their skin. Well, you can, but the boots will be saggy and smell like Fritos.
Puppies and kittens are socialist welfare critters who rely on handouts instead of working, and Fox will expose how they may be an even greater threat to America than the Muppets.
He hasn't complained about Congress making pizza-sauce a vegetable, so I'm guessing he's agin nutritious breakfasts, also.
Missionary?
Them's all good eats.
Ugghh… this NoBama!
What ever happened to a President who tells other countries "just do what I say, or we'll turn your nation to rubble!!!".
Or, better yet, he'll Seal 6 your ass.
But if you're Sheriff Arpaio or the President of UC-Davis, carry on.
Self-loathing.
Also: gay.
Yes, but unlike so many other LGBT folks, almost everyone loathes Rick. He doesn't need to be self loathing, America can do it for him!
Yet, still not happy.
I want to see the website that has Perry gay, drunk AND in New Hampshire.
Gay, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, Son.
Gay, drunk and in New Hampshire is no way to go through life.
Although, in some parts of New Hampshire, if you're gay, being drunk might be the only way *to* get through life.
Yeah, I'm beginning to wonder if my early massive ingestion of consciousness-altering substances was due to the undeniable pressure of living a lie. Damn, it feels good to be free.
Our Wonkette needs to update its Google screen grab — the list currently reads:
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I think it depends on your previous searches. Mine says
Rick Perry
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Well, now. Thank you for sharing. (rushes off to Google Rick Perry hentai)
Here ya go; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21z30aNO3cA
"…the United States is on record as being uncool with gay-hating governments."
Hey Texas? Good luck with your next Federal Disaster Relief Aid request!
Oh pleez oh pleez oh pleez oh … wait … there are Wonketeerz living there.
Dammit!
Perhaps we could arrange a helecopter airlift (Wonkettair?) for Texas Wonkette posters in such a time of crisis. Mind you, just being the way Texas is right now seems to me crisis enough….
Considering what those poor schlubs have had to put up with for the … how long has this dumbshit been PrissyDuhnt of TexAss?
Yeah, Wonkettair sounds like a great idea. I'm sure we'd all cough up some shekels to see our favourite Wonketeerz safely airlifted to someplace as yet uninfested by Rick Purreh. Gads, that man is a flaming fucking idiot.
Where do I sign up? I want to be first on the list. I will pay.
war on traditional values
Will Conservatives quit with the 'war on _____' shit already? Goddamn.
There's never enough war for the Goopers.
You know what they say: when your only tool is a hammer, EVERY problem looks like a nail.
I don't know, I'm kind of down with a war on traditional values if it means I can control my lady bits and the gays get to practice their love.
They can't – it's all they got.
All they have in Texas is Steers & Queers, and I don't see no horns on old Rick!
You might try a private chat with his wife.
In Rick Perry's America anyone can dress like some kind of gay Texas space Nazi without being afraid of being bullied!
I have proposed a foreign aid budget that starts at zero. From that zero baseline, we will consider aid requests based solely on America’s national security interests.
America's National Security Interest the First: Give Texas back to Mexico (along with its goobernator-catamite-Goodhair).
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He talks as if anybody gives a fuck what he's proposing to do as the holder of a position he will never attain.
Texas never should have let him start driving a car.
Who?
Semi-OT, but I sent this to the TIPShotline – this has to be the most hillarious piece of crap ever to appear on CNN, you really must read this garbage – Jesus would have been against Occupy Wall Street:
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/06/my-take-...
In which Psycho Tony Perkins interprets the new testament as an excercise in free market economics.
Where's the guy who invested his mina in AAA-rated mortgage-backed securities, lost everything, got foreclosed on and ended up in the gutter?
I guess free-market jesus would have kicked him in the face just before boarding the Divine Dirigible to Galt Gulch.
On the plus side, a quick look at the comments reveals almost 100% mockery and derision of Perkins 'thesis'.
Yes, that was a fun read, wasn't it?
It still doesn't excuse CNN for giving this creep a soapbox. They have turned their operation into a Fox wannabe garbage heap. Erich Erichson as a commentator? Dana Loesch, who never opens her yap without lying, and is never challenged on her lies. And on and on.
Also, too: obligatory Supply Side Jesus link.
Al Franken got there first:
Supply Side Jesus
Hehe, snap. Great minds etc.
You must have posted a nanosecond before me!
From Dictionary.com:
So in other words, Jeebus said his "servants" should do exactly what #OWS is doing. Fuck you phony "Bible scholars" and your shitty tricks.
BravO! Bravo!
So according to Perkins, since that slacker Jesus made no fuckin' money his entire life — instead spending it preaching peace and justice, and wandering around in a loincloth with a bunch of hippies — he was a hypocrite who deserved what he got? Grab a nail, Tony, and protect your bizness interests.
These money-grubbing Jeebus-worshippers don't even recognize the ironic central appeal of Jesus' story for oppressed people: that a humble carpenter who preached the Golden Rule rather than the stern no-nos of the Ten Commandments, whipped and derided and crowned with thorns, ridiculed by Roman soldiers, and finally left to die, was really the king.
Jesus' big problem was that he didn't incorporate.
Plus, even in the free markets of Judea in 33 AD, they had absolute gun control.
Exactly. If the guy showed up tomorrow, the Pope would donate a golden hammer and these schlubs would donate the nails. He'd be deader 'n a doornail in less time than it takes to say "Jesus fucking CHRIST!"
Not a believer but hate it when they hijack Hippie Jesus (Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.) and make him into Successories Jeebus.
Well, you neglected to point out that it was Tony "I'mSoFuckingGayICan'tStandMyself" Perkins who wrote that cheery little piece. And you ALL really ought to read the comments. If they were actual and not virtual, Tony Perkins wouldn't be able to stand for a month of Sundays from the royal ass-reaming they represent.
That ass can probably take a far better reaming than you can possibly imagine.
These asshats have a very, very thin Bible. The Old Testament contains only Genesis and Leviticus, and the New Testament consists wholly of the Parable of the Talents and the bits where Paul hates on gays and women.
It's really making me sick to see the kind of hate the Republicans are stirring up right before the big season of Love, Joy, and Peace on Earth to all. Miserable fuckers! I'm'a need to stop reading this shit so I can go into surgery with at least SOME reason to want to survive. Miserable fuckers just haven't got a decent bone anywhere in their miserable, godforsaken bodies.
Try reading some nice Anthony Trollope. Witty, good-natured, and thoughtful, and even the "bad guys" are simply wrongheaded, not outright evil. We could use more Tories like Trollope.
I sure hope that the surgery goes OK and that you return to your high calling of Wonketeer–reason enough to survive, of course but I hope there are other good things to do and people who want you with them. Let us know how the surgery goes–we'll be waiting.
This is the story I always want Christians to remember when they go on about Christianity championing capitalism:
Get it, Christians? They were killed by God for not being sufficiently communistic during the early years of the church. They didn't even get a second chance; because they withheld some of their possessions, they were put to death on the spot by God himself.
Chew on that, motherfuckers.
Well, Pecos Rick, that hardly brought you any attention. Have you considered self-immolation? It will produce great press and it started that whole Arab Spring thing. TEXAS SPRING, YEAH!
I like the ring "Pecos Rick" has, but would also like to use Pecos Perry on occasion.
Unless you're white and dumber than a farm animal, you're gonna be on Perry's watch list.
So, I take it this means Rick Purreh won't be watching himself?
Governor Perry is just upset because he doesn't want to lose that sweet, sweet federal money when he becomes President of Texasistan and allows the bigots to run the asylum.
Yee-hah, steers and queers!
This is Perry's stab at securing the 18 – 21 year old vote next Nov. 12.
He needs MOAR stabbin' and a-stabbin' and a-stabbin' and a-stabbin'!
Maybe we should do something about taking away those special rights for fundamentalist bigots who think they can hate everyone who's not exactly like them and still consider themselves members of the 21st century humanity in good standing.
Would it be too declasse to suggest a stick of dynamite up their collective ass?
I guess he has not talked to his friends at AIPAC…
He has friends? Who knew?
This news is unsettling to the Texas Male Cheerleaders Alumni Association.
Yeah, I can't wait to see those sissymarys get ahold of Rick Perry and beat him to death with their pompoms.
Who would have thought that Rick considers simple existence as an equal in society, without the threat of bodily harm or predjudice is "special treatment"? You can all stop raising your hands now, we all knew he was an asshole.
It's part of the Repubican yearning to make America more like Nigeria.
Perry signed the James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes law in Texas which covers, among other things, sexual preference. And if you don't want to protect teh gheys from being crimed upon, well, you just don't have a heart.
The second term of the Obama administration should begin with a National Guard budget of zero for all states whose dim-witted governors threaten succession.
He is, however, in support of a Gay Tax.
It already exists. We pay taxes just like everyone else, but we don't get half the benefits straight people get for marrying, and pay the higher single tax rate.
But it's OK to promote the "special right" of Christians not to be murdered because of who they are?
Well, straight Christians.
Is there any other kind, really?
Marcus Bachmann?
White straight Christians.
Right, right. Sorry. I forgot.
In Germany it can be very hard to tell who is gay and who is not gay because lots of guys wear pants that are purple and red all the time.
Purple & Red being gay colors in Germany ? If that's the case half the brothers here in the states are Gay? I knew it !
Now you've got me all excited, Derrick.
Even the Gay Old Party doesn’t seem to have made too much noise about it yet
Wait… in case you hadn't heard: Marcus Bachmann has just developed a new jingle for his clinic, adapted to the tune of that old anti-littering ditty:
"Give a cheer,
Don't be queer – -
NEVER be a 'dirty bird!' " ♫ ♫
(Somehow I find it easy to hear Marcus's voice sounding very much like Woodsy the Owl's.. right down to the "hoot hoot" ~)
"You'll be surprised you're doing the French Mistake!"
Wait, what?
♫ ♪ Take a toot off my caboose
Of teh ghey you'll be cured ♪♫
For some reason, all this brings to mind is Dom DeLuise doing that dancing scene in Blazing Saddles with the queeniest line of chorus queens you ever saw.
"No, no, NO, you sissymarys! Like THIS!"
Perry's IQ starts at zero. And goes down. Perfect Republican candidate!
Breaking news: Perry just announces his opposition to foreign Homo Sapiens.
Rick is going to be so conflicted when he finds out that he would need to believe in evolution to recognize Homo Erectus.
Evolution, schmevolution, H. erectus just missed The Ark 'cause he was too busy … ya know … erectusing.
Hey why should I pay for people to turn gay? It's not like they need the money anyway, what with their fancy Mafias and everything. Can't they just move here and get a Teapublican sugar daddy like respectable people? Oh yeah, the border fence thing…I forgot.
Special rights homosexuals and transgender people across the globe enjoy include, but are not limited to, the right to the following:
The loss of one's job
The loss of one's family
The loss of one's possessions
Beating
Rape
Mutilation
Torture
Imprisonment
…and Death.
Fuck you Rick Perry, you opportunist scumbag.
Thank you. We have just as much right as any other human being to be left in peace to love whom we will and marry whom we will.
I wonder if Gov. Perry's reasoning also applies to programs that help protect the rights of women abroad….
or Christians?
“The anti-bullying legislation that Mr. McGuinty is proposing constitutes a violation of our religious freedoms that are guaranteed by the Charter of Rights and further to that, it violates the common law of separation of church and state,” he said.
A little something happening up here in the Great White North, where the Jeebus fans want to keep the right to bully a gay kid to death.
I'm sure Rick Perry would approve.
That's not how separation of church and state works; you can't smoke pot and say it's legal because your religion tells you to, and you really can't beat a person because he's gay and say it's OK because your religion tells you to.
And we don't even have a "separation of church and state". Everyone's tax dollars support the public Catholic school system as well as the doctrine-free system in Ontario. So gay people get to pay for these people to teach kids to hate them. Sick!
That is disgusting. I know people keep making videos saying "It gets better," but WHEN? When does it get better for us?
Across the border here in Michigan, today, our governor signed a really weak, watered anti-bullying law because of the same opposition. I do feel, however, this is kind of the last death spiral for these folks. Ontario (and the rest of Canada) already has same-sex marriage, so these clowns have already lost half the battle.
For Texas he-men like Perry ghey sex is fine as long as it is done a. as part of a non-consensual hazing ritual in an all-male organization (frats, and, I guess, cheerleaders?) b. paid for, done in complete secret, with lots of guilt and self-loathing.
Um, can you go into a little more detail in your comment, please? Do you have illustrations or pictures?
Just google "free gay porn" like everyone in Texas does 24/7.
Texas. Mississippi. Utah…
Reminds me of those macho, macho men in India/Pakistan/Bangladesh. Half of them have had sex with another man, but THEY'RE not gay, oh NO, not THEM! Wut, just because they've set up their current boyfriend with an apartment down the hall from the wife and kids (easy access, and all that)? NO WAY! It's only GAY if it's being done to you. A REAL macho he-man sticks his dick in anything he can find, it doesn't make him gay if the receiving party happens to be male.
Buncha worthless lying douchebags, and it's hardly surprising that they treat women badly with all the guilt they have about enjoying their boyfriends on the side.
Brazil, too, also.
I did not know that. I'm not sure whether to be pleased that douchebaggery knows no ethnic boundaries or dismayed by the thought that the world is full of irredeemable douchebags.
Really? Seems like his "campaign" has totally given up on pretending they aren't inbred, stupid hillbillies anymore.
The Repubs are a strange old mix.
The GOP establishment-favoured candidates are the ones who beat the drum about Teh Gays, war on christmas, lazy black people going to hawaii on food stamps, traditional christian blah, abortion and so on but don't actually intend to do jack shit about it. These are the ones who are best placed to advance the GOP core platform: making the rich richer and destroying the middle class so that there are more indentured workers (sorry, employees) to exploit. Romney, Gingrich, Huntsman.
All that red meat horseshit is simply there so that enough Cletuses vote for them. See, for instance, George W when seeking his second term – he made so much fucking hay by promising a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, then did nothing about it, because, hey, why? Who gets richer out of that? Nobody.
Then you have the True Believers, the nutballs. One-L, frothy lube mix and (I think) Perry come under this. These people really do want to fuck around with legislating against anything they perceive as non-christian, and as such are not really in favour with the true GOP core – businesses.
I'm still not sure about Perry. This is either a really quite subtle "awww shucks and jesus" routine or he really is a complete fucking moron. I'm leaning towards moron.
This is either a really quite subtle "awww shucks and jesus" routine or he really is a complete fucking moron
Or most likely (c) – both. Ricky doesn't give a rat's ass about most of that social stuff but he's willing to say whatever it takes to make the fundies happy. But he's so stupid that he can't keep it all straight when he's trying to talk about it. "Ooops."
I like this conclusion. He's too stupid to breathe without instructions. That "Ooops" moment pretty much sealed his fate. He will NEVER be anything more than a tinpot ex-governor, like Palin. (Well, he completed HIS terms.)
One hopes so. But the fact that his fucked up state has elected him three times isn't encouraging. But, turns out a vacuous asshole ex-gov can still make a great living by mouthing red meat scripts for the party faithful and having shitty books ghost-written while they sit on a chaise lounge stuffing themselves with deep-fried meatlike blobs.
Yeah, Gov. Perry? Well, how 'bout Barry proposes a federal budget that starts at zero aid for Texas.
Texas: America's suppurating pilonidal cyst.
It gets better. Next time you hear Perry go on about how low taxes in Texas have created jobs there just remember that's because a bunch of companies relocated to Texas during the recession to take advantage of those tax breaks. Perry didn't 'create jobs' he just stole them from other states; the kind of crazy-ass 'race to the bottom' 'begger thy neighbor' BS the Commerce Clause was mean to allow the Federal Government to deal with (tariffs etc). Perry turned Texas into an American Liechtenstein and wants you to thank him for it.
And if there are any hot young men who doubt that Rick Perry is straight after this latest pronouncement, he will personally come over to your house and prove in the shame-filled privacy of your bedroom that he is definitely not gay.
It's true Rick is not Gay. His boyfriend is !
Yes, but will he prove this to my satisfaction?
Heh, it works both ways: when you type "gay drunk new hampshire" in the googles, the first ten or so hits are all about Rick Perry.
Of *course,* I just *had* to go check it out for myself. "It's twoo, it's twoo!"
Rick: in case you haven't noticed, you've got Santorum on your ass (it's true, just look at the polls).
WHOSE pole, exactly? Er, poll. I meant, poll.
Every time we see one of these right wing Preacher/Politician Queer hater they turn out to be the biggest Queens in the closet.Toe Tapping,Mens room sex,Male prostitute meth smoking,J.Edgar Cross-dressing,Show-tune,Abba Fans ever!( Newt's ring tone Dancing Queen)!
You're kidding, right? About Newt's ringtone being Dancing Queen? RIGHT?
Newt Gingrich is having the time of his liiife – watch him daance he is the Dancing Queen! In other words, it's twoo.
Sweet Lawdy Jebus. Do these people have ANY clue whatsoever?
I thought "teabaggers" was an innocent mistake, but they just kept going after that. Now I'm thinking the whole damn Republican party has been infiltrated by the fucking Gay Mens' Secret Agent and Musical/Choir Team, all hellbent on making these fecking idiots look gayer than the Swish Alps at Halloween. And the Repuds give them so much help!
“This administration’s war on traditional American values must stop."
Wouldn't it be nice if this administration would start a war on traditional American values like war-mongering and rich person-enriching and …
I find it kind of amusing how fast conservatives can go from discussing murdering all the homosexuals to whining about how bad the homosexuals have it in Muslim countries.
It's very similar to how they kept telling us we had to be in Afghanistan and Iraq for women's rights, and here they are in power trying to take away every right any woman ever had. Not to mention how conveniently they forgot that Iraq pre-Bush had the highest percentage of educated working women in the Mideast, and now has utterly dismal statistics on female and infant mortality, women and rape, the right to education, equal pay, or jobs.
As a person who identifies openly as gay, I'll believe they give a fuck about my rights when I see them demonstrating some actual concern instead of abusing me for being a fag.
America really is an exceptional nation. Exceptionally arrogant, exceptionally prejudiced, and exceptionally dangerous to other nations.
"…aid requests based solely on America’s national security interests."
And so bipartisan support for humanitarian assistance comes to an end.
Thanks, dick.
Rick Perry talks about what he'd do if he was president like my daughter talks about what she'd do if she was a Disney princess.
Yeah, but YOUR daughter is, presumably, still below what legal scholars like to refer to as the age of reason. Rick Purreh certainly ought to be also, but it is evident that he is not.
President, princess … they sound kinda similar. Maybe that's what Rick's talking about, too.
Someone get us pictures of Rick in a pink tutu with toe shoes, STAT!
Well, we know it can't be a Snow White costume.
Porque no, chiquita?
Sure it can.
Fucked in the head doesn't count.
Can't wait for the day when other countries' central banks start deciding to buy our treasury bonds on a zero basis and add up to what they think we can repay after tax cuts for job creators.
Hasn't it ever occurred to these people that everyone that they hate also votes?
And that they're giving more impetus to those folks they hate to vote HARDER?
Sure it has; just look at how they're trying to fix that.
From Rick Perry's rant:
This is just the most recent example of an administration at war with people of faith in this country. Investing tax dollars promoting a lifestyle many Americas of faith find so deeply objectionable is wrong.
Yeah, because fighting against violence and discrimination against gay people = endorsing homosexuality. Heck, if you don't beat up on them and keep them from earning a living or living in peace, next thing you know they'll breed like rabbits…
PS: Rick, you're not fooling anyone…
Someone needs to point out to (P)Rick Purreh that MOST gay people are raised by STRAIGHT families.
Mitt doesn't understand that not everyone can "Turn it off…like a light switch".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWA_jr-AwyA
Oh, god, that was fucking hilarious.
Unbelievable. Rick Purreh, with lips that are just MADE for sucking peen, has the gall to say this? I guess he's just THAT desperate, since he's now polling behind Michele Fucking Bachmann, the ignorant nutcase with the KrayKrayEyez and the gayer-than-a-lark husband.
Please god, if there is a god, when the FUCK are you going to send a bolt of lightning out of the sky to fry that fucker where he sits? WHEN?
And yet, amazingly enough, he still outpolls the token "sane" candidate (Huntsman, in case anyone has forgotten the name already). Huntsman is still a fascist, mind you, but unlike the others, save possibly for Romney, is intelligent and well spoken enough to be trusted to be ambassador to China. The rest of the field aren't fit to represent a reputable insurance company let alone a country.
What is this "reputable insurance company" you speak of?
Jon Huntsman is a wolf in sheep's clothing, if there ever was. Although he's STILL head and shoulders above the rest of them, since they're not just mean and crazy, but stupid to boot, and at least he's not.
FWIW, Huntsman put himself (and this country) at grave risk when he used a diplomatic address to speak out against the Chinese government. While the Chinese government deserves plenty of criticism, a diplomat is guaranteed immunity and his/her person is sacrosanct *because* diplomats are seen as messengers, functioning as the public face of their nation's government abroad, and therefore, not personally responsible for any acts or policies of their government. What Huntsman did was really very foolish and also very offensive, to the Chinese government, but, more importantly, to diplomats everywhere. He put embassy staff at risk by attending the protests in person, as well.
As Governor of Utah, he permitted polluters to self-regulate, admonishing them rarely and only with slaps on the wrist. He looks much nicer than he really is. I had a bit of a political crush on him at first, having grown pretty annoyed with President Obama about a lot of different issues. But researching him in depth leads me to believe he's a dangerous man. He *seems* awfully reasonable, but it's all a facade.
Keep all that research handy – we may need it in four years …
I intend to. He's a very appealing, attractive, charismatic person, and therefore more dangerous than stupid schlubs like Santorum. I actually hope he comes around to a more enlightened position. He has an impressive skillset, even if he's guilty of some resume padding, and he is intelligent, and we need intelligent people leading the nation. But he needs to show more empathy. I don't like the way he came out in favour of the Ryan budget even before most other Republicans did. It's a horrible budgetary plan, both cruel and ineffective.
I recently watched "A Mormon Proposition" and was astounded at the scope of the LDS role in the Prop 8 debacle. I have a lot of Mormon relatives living in Utah and yes, they do all seem like such nice people. Then you dig a little deeper.
Back when I actually worked on issues like child abuse and domestic violence, I was amazed to find that Utah ranked near the top of all 50 states for both. Also for porn. They seem like such wholesome individuals.
And, yes, I'm not feeling very forgiving towards the LDS people for financing (together with the Catholic Church) the Prop 8 fiasco. They can't deal with the abundance of child abuse and sexual violence cases in their own territory but CAN fund a move to deny people human rights in other states? Weak sauce.
God is too much of an environmentalist to waste the energy packed in a single bolt of lightning to take out Rick Perry. Infecting him with an especially virulent and untreatable strain of the HIV virus would be just as effective in the end (lewd retort welcome) and much more energy-efficient.
You can arrange this? Many people will pay good money to see Rick Perry get the Roy Cohn treatment.
Especially if (and I realize this is a big if, but it's MY party, and I'll fantasize if I want to) it's a virulent strain found ONLY in barebacking gay men, and in particular, a gay BLACK man who has recently been in Texas at the same time as Rick Purreh.
Hung like a horse, it goes without saying.
A gelding?
We're not size queens in this house, although I kinda suspect Ricky is. As long as we have the incriminating evidence, and plenty of it.
Perhaps Perry is looking forward to going abroad and getting beaten up a little for his GOP S&M needs…
Hell, he don't have to go THAT far, I'll be happy to oblige him. (looks around for whips, chains, paddles — all here).
Rick Perry : Endorsed by child-abuse enabler Joe Arpaio.
"Special rights?"
Nah – I'm guessing most gay folks would be quite happy with the ole regular rights everybody else gets.
See, Gov. Perry, that's why they are called "rights." It's just the right thing to do to recognize them. You don't grant them or take them away. They are always there.
Sometimes ignored, of course. And that's a bad thing. But they are always there and, in the end, they will always return.
Thank you. (hugs TundraGrifter)
Damn, you fine Wonketeerz sure know how to make a body appreciate you of a cold winter evening.
PAD:
Here's the thing. Either we all have all our rights or nobody has 'em.
Each of us must continue to fight the good fight to preserve what we have, and to secure for those who don't the recognition.
We're not going to let the knuckle draggers determine this issue. It's far too important to be left to the politicians.
This is good news for the sex tourism business in Kampala, Riyadh and Karachi.
Sigh. The trouble with Perry is that he's amassed such a mountain of pure, concrete stupid in just the past few weeks that it hardly seems worth pointing out one more nugget, but for the record:
"Promoting special rights for gays in foreign countries is not in America’s interests and not worth a dime of taxpayers’ money."
How would the adoption of this proposal cost a cent? Nobody's suggesting we give foreign aid to countries solely on the grounds that they treat gays equitably. The implication is that countries might lose foreign aid if they don't. [Of course, anyone who thinks this will affect our relations with anyone who has something we want and can prevent us from, at negligible cost, just taking it, hasn't been paying attention, as Kristin points out.]
But for the other countries [Uganda], it will if anything lead to a reduction in aid payments. So it would save money. Perry should be happy about that.
Thanks, Chich, for the stab at analysis – my first (and my second and my third ..) thought when I read this press release was that it so full of complete and utter stupidity that I couldn't even begin to comment on the press release's content … I'm sure I lost a significant number of brain cells just reading the thing.
Yeah, it really is making me despair of how things are going. When I came to the US in 1984 I was astonished at how disconnected from easily proveable reality the stuff emanating out of the Reagan administration was. But it's gotten much worse with the discovery of focus-group testing buzzwords. Now Republicans don't even bother to say things that could stand up to five seconds of critical reflection by even a moderately dumb person.
See Perry's statement above – even more jaw-droppingly, obviously untenable was Santorum's reply to the gay soldier. He went on about how dropping "don't ask don't tell" was bad because it gave "special rights" to gays. Huh? How does that even make sense. You're removing a discriminatory rule. What could be more clearly a case of treating everyone equally? Any bonehead can see that. You don't need a fancy-pants PhD from one o' them fancy universities for that. But clearly the instruction is put out: "equal rights for gays" tests well, so you need to constantly use the phrase "special rights". That tests well for us.
One more election cycle and I fear Republican debates will consist of just long strings of focus tested words and phrases:
Santorum: special rights 53% pay no taxes people of faith Obamacare flag job creators freedom special rights flag freedom exceptionalism broaden the tax base Our Creator.
Perry: No, 53% pay no taxes people of faith flag flag not undertaxed Our Creator crippling regulations troops in harms way. Please let me finish….
Since each candidate would make sure to use all the Luntz-approved words at least once, we would try to ascertain the differences in positions by the order in which the terms occurred, and their relative frequency.
"we would try to ascertain the differences in positions by the order in which the terms occurred, and their relative frequency"
At least this would create jobs for classicists.
Thank you for an excellent comment.
It was so … impressive that you should even make the effort. Like pdog, I lost whole swathes of brain cells just reading the article.
Rick Perry to eliminate all US aid to Israel and all lands where Joe-Bob Jesus actually walked! Methinks that is a headline.
Nice to see Rick Perry is planning to stop giving Israel any financial support. Doesn't affect our national security any.
HAWT RAM AND DEER ACTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-160485...
Does Rick Santorum know about this??
That is so sweet! Thank you for that little dose of bestial porn!
hey Rick, whats up with that lisp?
ASSCLOWN
He can suck my dick.
Thank you, Philip Morris.
You should really charge for your services, because that's not a punishment, to him.
When hunting camps with the N-word in their names are up for government subsidies in Boehner's Amurica, let's see how quickly Little Rickie reassesses his position on Federal aid.
I'm having a hard time snarking over this. Perry is throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks. This barely even hits on the actual issue, it's just another press release that Rick gets to send out.
I can't even laugh at the GOP, anymore; the hypocrisy and mean-spiritedness aren't even funny. It's turned into a dull, searing hate for them. What is this world coming to?
12-21-12?
Well played.
BTW, I share your snark-impairment. We live in a universe where there is a measurable chance that Newt Gingrich will be a major party's candidate for President of the United States. I have trouble finding the funny in that.
I know what you mean. At first I thought it was all the cold medicine turning off my snide remark center but now the ignorance, hate and dumb-fuckery of the GOP is just making me depressed.
Well, cover up warm, drink lots of ginger tea with honey, and stop reading Wonketz — no, wait, Wonketz is where you come to recover. OK, forget that last part, just do the first two. Unless, of course, you're snorting cold medicine by the gallon BECAUSE you're depressed, in which case, stop that also and come sit by me and tell me horrible things about horrible people. I'm in a mood today.
Gah, edited to fix typo just because.
"This is just the most recent example of an administration at war with people of faith in this country. "
I wonder if my ex-boyfriend, a gay Christian pastor, had an "As if millions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced" moment. the second that was posted (just as Rick Perry did when he was ordained).
Traditional family values? Does that include hiding the credit card bill with the rentboy charge and family hunting trips to Niggerhead?
In Rick's black little heart of hearts he can't wait to drop out and endorse somebody, anybody else, and devote his time to cheerleading for Newt, Mitt or somebody. Plus, there's a lot of Coyotes out there that need shootin'.
With his luck, he'll shoot his own dick off first.
A coyote a hundred yards away on a moonless night would be an easier target for Ricky to hit than his own penis.
Well, it's certainly true that he'd have to find it in order to hit it, and it probably crawled back up into his throat when he saw Michele's tungsten-spiked strapon …
No great loss for his wife, I'm sure.
If you're a closeted gay-drunk, New Hampshire rest stop bathrooms–with state run liquor stores—sounds like the perfect place…
That prick.
Rickie, it's not special rights for LGBT community, it's human rights for every/anyone
They have banned Kourtney in India:
http://m.timesofindia.com/world/mad-mad-world/Isl...
Rick Perry is gay.
Who is running Texas while Rick Perry is out of the loop playing Presidential Candidate for Dummies? Hope Texans are enjoying their freedoms while their overlord is out and about.
Sounds real cute.
Puppies and kittens are also known to work alongside Muppets in the liberal 'pipeline' propagating a commie pinko anti-capitalist agenda that they plan to force on children through public television and general cuteness.
And Clifford the Big Red Dog is the worst of the lot.
Anyone who says that has not seen my dog work the park for bits of food on the ground. Lovable little guy gets the scraps before I can see them.
He could teach the Republicans about doing some work in exchange for their keep…
Total fucking communist.
He's Red. 'Nuff said.
And probably related to Ed Schultz.
Plus, those boy dogs and cats are always humping other dogs (and cats) without even CHECKING to see if their naughty bits match.
How GAY is that?
Or my wonderful old Corky boy when he was still with us, letting strangers at the door know not to attack my gimpy old self right after surgery. He would stand behind me while I opened the door, and suddenly stick his wolf-like head out from behind my good leg, with all his teeth showing. Never barked, never growled. Just smiled at the "strange people" till they went away and he was sure I was safe. What a good dog! Dogs could teach the Republicans a LOT about being better creatures.
I was visiting a friend once shortly after a cast had been removed from my broken ankle. No crutches, no cane — I looked normal. I sat down on the couch and her dog came over and licked my ankle over and over, then laid down beside my foot and rested his head right on top of where the break had been. I had a whole new respect for dogs after that. I now poll a series of dogs before I vote.
Dogs have such a capacity for love. Everyone should have at least one relationship with a dog, just to experience that unconditional love and loyalty once in their lives.
Judging from the way Republicans treat dogs (Huckabee, Romney, Malik, et al), I'd guess you were a Democrat.
I think the language of the KJV is simply beautiful, though the Old Testament is not to my taste, but then, it's not my Holy Book. I was educated by Catholic nuns, but since I have no investment in that religious tradition, I can be objective about it. Regardless of whether the story of Jesus is true, it is both wise and valid, and the precepts it embodies, while hardly new, have held true across the ages. If they did not answer something in our human panoply of needs, those teachings would not have lasted this long.
The irony of it is that in turning Hippie Jesus into SuccessoriesJeebus, the fools are throwing away the only enduring and valuable thing in the whole story. SuccessoryDeities abound, and SuccessoriesJeebus would be only one of many.
You know, Dok, this comes from my need to make almighty fucking lists of everything. I made a list of books to read this year. It wasn't supposed to be more than 60, which is a nice manageable number, but then I hang out here and next thing I know, there's 300 fucking books on it. And since it's a continuation of previous years' lists, where we are at in our reading right now is the history of the VietNam war. Such cheery material! And what's next on the list? Why, the secret US war in Cambodia, of course! I'm reading nonstop about torture, murder, bombing, napalm, guerilla movements …
You're right. I need to read something light and witty. Perhaps I should go watch this bizarre Australian movie about a Tongan kungfu master. I don't seem to have any Trollope in the library (yes, I do have a master list of all the books in this house, how did you know?). Perhaps I'll go to the library tomorrow and pick up some.
You ever read Tom Sharpe? Searingly funny. Maybe I'll go winkle him out of my bookshelves. Gee, did I just have a rant? Thanks, Dok.
Hey, thanks. I will.
Like I said, it's you Wonketeerz that make it worthwhile.
Although I'd still like to take a giant steaming shit on Rick Perry. Sorry. Sorry.
In extremis.My dog friends lean progressive, too.
Trollope's Palliser novels are great fun, much more enjoyable than Shawcross on Cambodia. He even describes fox hunting in a way that makes it seem wonderful, even though it is, as someone said, "The unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible."
Good luck w/the surgery. Take all the drugs they offer.
Thank you.
I don't do so good with pain meds. Pot seems to be the only drug that doesn't make me vomit in technicolour. Which is not so bad. I could be stuck with morphine (which I actually tolerate really well, but don't much care for) as the only thing that worked. They usually give me Percocet for these things. It's great for pain but leaves all your neurons dead, so thinking is out of the question.
You know Barb personally, don't you? Or am I mistaking you for someone else? I'm pretty sure it's you. Do you know if she's safely out of surgery? She said Jeff would post to let us know, but there's nothing I've seen yet, and I'm concerned. It is major surgery after all.
I'm pushing for a UnitedLifeForms Party, but it seems a tad early yet. People need to progress if they expect to be admitted to the Galactic Federation!
Dogs lean, period. My neighbour's black Lab, Annie, the sweetest dog who ever lived, would come into my garden and L-E-A-N on my leg. Eventually, I'd end up on my ass, with a regretful Annie licking me, all concerned. She never got it through her head that it might help if she didn't lean on me quite so much.
Haven’t heard from Barb in a while. She was supposed to see the surgeon tomorrow, but seeing the croaker and getting the work done are two different things.
You're right. I don't know why I thought she was going under the knife today. She stated clearly she was *seeing* the surgeon tomorrow. I hope she posts soon. I miss her sparkling wit already, dammit.
I love this thread of postings!
You're a DOG person, aren't you? Admit it, now.
I think this thread has turned into a man-on-dog (or woman-on-dog) marriage essay that former Senator Santorum would not like ONE BIT.
Girlfriend/boyfriend we comin' to getchu anyway. Just sit tight and hang on to them dawgs.
No no, it's all been flipped. Wingtards are red, libtards are blue, Southern Democrat Racists are now Southern Republican Racists. But black is still the color for commies, as it has been ever since Martin Colored King.
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