Tree-destroying imperial corporation Hallmark recently decided to start selling same-sex wedding cards, because that’s something you can do in all of two (2) states now. In other words, the Hallmark company has just literally taken a piss on Jesus Christ’s tomb thingy. And guess who’s upset, yes, that’s correct, the mouth-breathing Fundies at the American Family Association, whose recent “Boycott McDonald’s” initiative produced some of the finest comedy in the history of the Internet. They have a petition site up now directed at Hallmark. “BoycottHallmark.com” doesn’t currently exist, but the AFA has bought the domain name and when it launches, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE GOD let there be a comments section. [AFA, Examiner, Think Progress]

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BEST DAY OF THE YEAR! Is it a national holiday yet? IT SHOULD BE, DAMMIT. And hell, it’d be one we’d be more than happy to work on, because we’d get to post more pictures of her!

We got an email inviting us to sign her birthday card, which we were totally excited to do, but, uh, it seems to want you to enter your credit card information before you can get to the signing bit. Which, you know, we’d be more than happy to do, but responsible, objective journalists like us can get into trouble for political donations — even to universally beloved, not-crazy, completely uncontroversial people like Representative Harris. So for now, all we can offer you is this hand-made card. Feel free to print out and add glitter.
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Bush shuffles aides, Card out as chief of staff [Reuters]
Not Showing His Cards [Politics Extra]
Card Folds, Bush Draws To the Inside [The Nation]
Card Shuffled [Patriot Ledger]
And winner of the Annual Wonkette LL Cool J Reference Award is The Dallas Morning News with “Don’t Call It a Shakeup”. MORE »

Have you signed Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s Bithday Card yet? How about a brief glimpse at who has:

Here’s one that demonstrates either poor word choice or a remarkably dry sense of humor:
“You have done a commendable job as Majority (and Republican) Leader keeping our Senate GOP ‘cats‘ together on most issues and implementing our President’s agenda.”

And one that slipped by the moderators:
“You should resign. That would be a birthday present for America. Besides killing cats and hiring Mitch Bainwol, what have you done for America?”

Perhaps they kept that one unedited because of its implicit acknowledgment that killing cats is good for America. Also, we’re still not quite clear on what the head of the RIAA has to do with feline-vivisection.

Another demonstrating that perhaps we should all pitch in and get the Senator a better web staff for his big day:
By the way, given your expertise at making medical diagnoses via videotape, did VP Cheney request a web cam hook up so that you could have a look at Mr. Wittington’s shotgun wounds last Saturday?

Happy Birthday. Now blow out all the candles; call your broker; dump some more HCA stock in that blind trust of yours; and continue to whine about the big bad liberal press.

And after the jump, though it’s now sadly removed from Frist’s site, more proof that Republicans can be remarkably like-minded.

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