Who Are the Real Bastards ?

Sometimes the ravings of the right wing just leave one speechless. It is a cruel irony when a wingnut group calling itself The American Family Association declares kids born out of wedlock in this country are no longer worthy of social support and should be simply left to fend for themselves. Compassionate Conservatism it ain't.

via Right Wing Watch

The rate at which bastard children were born in 1963, when Lyndon Johnson launched the war on poverty, was seven percent. Meanwhile, we continue to maintain actual marriage penalties in our tax code, including the newly hatched monstrosity of health care reform. So we subsidize illegitimacy and penalize marriage, and we wonder why things get worse rather than better. And President Obama intends to zero out the one budget item devoted to strengthening marriage in low-income communities.

The place to begin? By reforming state and federal budgets so that we no longer subsidize immorality. It's time to communicate in policy and not just in words that in America, we expect you to save sex for marriage, to have children only within the marriage relationship, and that we will no longer force American taxpayers to fund the expenses of children they did not conceive and with whom they have no relationship and for whom they have no responsibility.

If you conceive children out of wedlock, we will expect you and your families to find a way to take care of the expenses involved in raising that child. In America, that child is your responsibility and no one else's. You may look for help to charities funded by private, voluntary, compassion-driven donations, but you may not look to government to force other Americans at gunpoint to take money out of their wallets and fork it over to you. We are no longer going to treat you as helpless little children; we are going to treat you as the responsible adults you can become. It's time to grow up.

Assholes. We will take out our anger at irresponsible adults on their "bastard children". That'll show em we mean business. Who are the real bastards in this country? Look no further than the nearest wingnut.

The War Between the States Is On

California set to put the brakes on Creationist crazy ass Texas textbooks.

From Texas Freedom Network Insider

The national backlash against the Texas State Board of Education’s politicization of history and social studies curriculum standards is gathering steam. Yesterday a California Senate committee approved a bill requiring that education officials report to legislators and the state’s education secretary any changes influenced by the Texas standards when they review textbook content.

California Sen. Leland Yee,  a Democrat who represents part of the San Francisco Bay Area, drafted the bill. In a press release from his office yesterday, Yee said:

“While some Texas politicians may want to set their educational standards back 50 years, California should not be subject to their backward curriculum changes. The alterations and fallacies made by these extremist conservatives are offensive to our communities and inaccurate of our nation’s diverse history. Today, California spoke with a bipartisan voice that our kids should be provided an education based on facts and that embraces our multicultural nation.”

Californians and other non-Texans are increasingly worried that textbooks written for the Texas market will make it into their states’ classrooms. That’s because publishers often write their textbooks to meet curriculum standards in Texas — which has a huge textbook market and a centralized adoption process — and then sell those textbooks to schools across the country.

At what point will Texas lawmakers finally realize that the State Board of Education is undermining the state’s reputation — politically, educationally and in the business world — across the country?

No Maverick, No More

John MCcain is not going to let JD Hayworth outwingnut him in his primary campaign.

McCAIN: "I would be very sorry that if some of that happens. And I regret it, but I also regret the -- really, it's not just the murder of (longtime Cochise County rancher) Robert Krentz. It's the people whose homes and property are being violated. It's the drive-by that -- the drivers of cars with illegals in it that are intentionally causing accidents on the freeway. Look, our border is not secured. Our citizens are not safe."

That's right. Illegal aliens are rampaging the country side in loony tunes Arizona, causing wreck on purpose, We who live in New Mexico have crazy Texas on one side, and now, even crazier Arizona on the other.

A Little Bit Scary

It seems our Supreme Court Justices are still a lttle thick when it comes to digital tech communications.

Perhaps President Obama should find a Supreme Court nominee who knows something about technology as DC Dicta points out how some of the current justices struggled with the subject during recent oral arguments.

"The first sign was about midway through the argument, when Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. -- who is known to write out his opinions in long hand with pen and paper instead of a computer -- asked what the difference was 'between email and a pager?'"

          Questions from other justices showed they didn't know much more.

Duh!. I'm somewhat dense with technology, but this is a tad shocking for such supposedly brilliant people on the highest court in the land making monumental decisions involving technology.

Thickening Plot in the US Senate

The budget resolution being drafted by
Senate Democrats will include reconciliation instructions, according to
Democrats briefed on the matter.

The reconciliation instructions, which allow legislation to move through the upper chamber with a simple majority instead of 60 votes, will be included

          to ease the passage of deficit reduction measures, according to Democrats on
          the Senate Budget Committee.

But the reconciliation language could
also be used to pass the extension of expiring tax cuts, job-creation measures
and energy legislation, according to Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.).

It could also be used for any number of legislative items on dems wish list, even a Public Option for HCR. So long as it is budget related. Good sign though that Senate dems are planning for the certainty that the GOP will block whatever they try to pass, no matter if it is good for the country, or not. Stay tuned

I Love the Smell of Irony In the Morning--Smells, like, - Victory!

The same can't be said of another event held just outside town today at Ft. Hunt National Park in northern Virgina. According to the Washington Post, protesters at the "Restore The Constitution" rally will take advantage of new gun laws signed by President Obama allowing the carrying of firearms in national parks to make an armed stand for liberty today.

So Much For a GOP Tidal Wave In November

The Apple Dumpling Revolution, Too long in the oven? The faithful out in the countryside are not as pleased with the parties direction as Tea Partiers tell us.