madness of the GOP is the central issue of our time

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phobic RNC Committee Member Accuses Gay Colleagues Of Manipulating Health Benefits

An official associated with the Republican National Committeemade head-turning comments at a GOP holiday party last week, accusing gay individuals of pushing health care reform because they die earlier in life.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/1...n_4415489.html

s probably have an average longer lifespan than the phobic NFL vets avg lifespan of 58 years.

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Nullfication!

Missouri Senate Committee Votes To Jail Federal Agents Who Enforce Gun Laws

The Missouri Senate’s General Laws Committee voted 5-1 last week in favor of a bill that purports to make it a crime for federal law enforcement agents to enforce the nation’s gun laws. Under the bill’s terms, these agents could be imprisoned for up to a year and be fined up to $1,000.

Much of this uncons utional legislation mirrors a bill Gov. Jay Nixon (D) vetoed last year. In September, Missouri’s overwhelmingly Republican senate came just one vote shy of the votes necessary to override Nixon’s veto. Like the bill Nixon vetoed last year, the new legislation contains a provision to arm public school personnel. It also would lower the minimum age to receive a concealed weapons permit from 21 to 19.

Few principles are more clearly established in American cons utional law than the prohibition on states nullifying federal laws. The Cons ution provides that duly enacted federal laws “shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the cons ution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.”

Indeed, it is particularly well established that states may not prosecute federal officials for carrying out their official duties. In the late Nineteenth Century, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Field (one of the most loathsome individuals ever to sit on the Supreme Court, although for reasons unrelated to this case) received death threats from a former colleague on the California Supreme Court after Field decided a case adversely to the other man’s wife. Because of these threats, a United States Marshall named David Neagle was assigned to protect Field while he was traveling in California, and Neagle wound up shooting the man who threatened Field when that man made an attempt on Field’s life at a restaurant.

Although California charged Neagle with murder, the Supreme Court explained in In re Neagle that this is not allowed. As Neagel established, a federal official who “is held in custody in violation of the Cons ution or a law of the United States, or for an act done or omitted in pursuance of a law of the United States. . . must be discharged.” Thus, the state of California was powerless to prosecute Neagle because he acted pursuant to his duties as a federal marshal.

The same rule applies today in Missouri.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/201...orce-gun-laws/

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Red State Freak Out: Wingnuts Think Southern Snow Is Faked By the Government

Some wacky conservatives are pushing a conspiracy theorythat the snow that's falling in recent weeks is not real--and is being engineered by the Federal Government. Fueling the theory is the presence of snow in normally-warmer states in the South.


YouTube videos have cropped up in recent days showing people trying to melt their snow with lighters. But the snow doesn’t melt. It lets off a toxic smell and produces black marks on the snow. It’s proof that the snow is chemical, not real and being geo-engineered by the government, says the video bloggers.
Except that it’s not. As New York-based media outlet PIX 11 notes, meteorologist Mike Stone explains that “when you heat something like this, it goes from a solid to a gas. It’s called sublimation. It doesn’t go from a solid to a liquid, i.e. melting.”

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-pol...tter954243&t=1

Sounds like a bunch of Fox watchers

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Coke's Multilingual "America the Beautiful" Ad Sparks Conservative Outrage


Coca-Cola ad featured the song “America the Beautiful” in multiple languages. Images of a Muslim woman, a Jewish man, and more flashed on the screen.

Right-wingers were none too pleased. On Twitter, the hashtag #boycottcoke picked up steam, though some of that was progressives’ making fun of their outrage.

Outside of Twitter, the outrage was just as ridiculous. Former Congressman and Tea Party star Allen West wrote that it was “a truly disturbing commercial,” as Talking Points Memo notes.

Coke used “a deeply Christian patriotic anthem whose theme is unity – in several foreign languages,” wrote Michael Patrick Leahy on Breibart.com, who added that it featured gay people--the horror!

Perhaps the funniest part of the whole affair was some Twitter xenophobes saying the ad desecrated the “national anthem.” In case they’re reading this: it’s not the national anthem.

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-pol...sparks-outrage

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WATCH: Ted Cruz Demands Public Schools Be Handed Over To Wall Street

http://www.nationalmemo.com/watch-ted-cruz-cheers-end-public-education/

Thanks, Texas Tea Baggers! Ted CruzFissile is 100% pro-Wall St wealth-extraction.

For-profit k-12 will be as ty as for-profit colleges.

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"The Affordable Care Act will also reduce the number of fulltime workers by more than 2 million in coming years, congressional budget analysts said in the most detailed analysis of the law’s impact on jobs. The CBO said the law’s impact on jobs would be mostly felt starting after 2016. The agency previously estimated that the economy would have 800,000 fewer jobs as a result of the law."

I wonder if Croutons_Deux will be ok with then next President blaming Obama's policies for 4+ years the same was he has been ok with blaming the previous presidency for the past 6 years

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"The Affordable Care Act will also reduce the number of fulltime workers by more than 2 million in coming years, congressional budget analysts said in the most detailed analysis of the law’s impact on jobs. The CBO said the law’s impact on jobs would be mostly felt starting after 2016. The agency previously estimated that the economy would have 800,000 fewer jobs as a result of the law."

I wonder if Croutons_Deux will be ok with then next President blaming Obama's policies for 4+ years the same was he has been ok with blaming the previous presidency for the past 6 years

I read that article, and that is a problem.

But people shifted from full-time to part-time are probably low-end workers would be heavily subsidized by ACA.

btw, 10Ks of companies already use and abuse part-time workers by not providing fixed work hours, and expecting them to commit to being on call on short notice. By using part timers and contractors, the companies ALREADY refuse to hire full time, full benefit workers.

So don't go crying NOW that you right-winger start giving a about low-end workers.

[spurraider21]

I read that article, and that is a problem.

But people shifted from full-time to part-time are probably low-end workers would be heavily subsidized by ACA.

btw, 10Ks of companies already use and abuse part-time workers by not providing fixed work hours, and expecting them to commit to being on call on short notice. By using part timers and contractors, the companies ALREADY refuse to hire full time, full benefit workers.

So don't go crying NOW that you right-winger start giving a about low-end workers.

I don't really consider myself a right winger, though compared to the average UCLA student that gets his primary source of political news from The Daily Show, sure I guess I lean more to the right than them. I go either way depending on the issue, but I'm not going to turn a blind eye to problems just because I'm a fan of the politician or his party. I can't remember the last time you copy-pasted an article that says anything negative about the left or positive about the right. I didn't vote for Obama or Romney, just because I would refuse to be affiliated with either after they won

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Republicans Finalize Hostage Demand, Public Prepares To Blame Them For Default

House Republicans have narrowed their debt ceiling strategies to two demands, neither of which have anything to do with actually reducing America’s debt.

In exchange for a one-year extension of the debt ceiling so the Treasury can pay debts Congress has already voted to take on, Republicans want the repeal of Obamacare’s risk corridors, according to the Washington Post‘s Robert Costa.

Risk corridors will reduce the deficit by $8 billion over the next three years, according to a new Congressional Budget Office report. Republicans included the same mechanism — which they are now calling a “bailout” — in Medicare Part D indefinitely.


And whom would the public blame for this completely avoidable catastrophe?


A majority, 54 percent, say they would blame House Republicans, while 29 percent would blame the president and 23 percent would blame both, according to a new CNN/ORC poll. Independents would blame the House GOP over the president by a 49 to 30 percent margin.




http://www.nationalmemo.com/republic...blame-default/

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The Repug lady who did Repug's SOTU response LIED (seems to the skill Fox, tea baggers, Repugs have truly mastered)

‘Bette in Spokane,’ cited in McMorris Rodgers’ speech, declined health insurance options

The woman described only as “Bette in Spokane” during a nationally televised address by U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers said Wednesday she had no idea her frustrations over increasing insurance premiums would become part of the Republican attack on health care reform.

Not that Bette Grenier, a critic of the Affordable Care Act, minds that much.

But the “nearly $700 per month” increase in her premium that McMorris Rodgers cited in Tuesday night’s GOP response to the State of the Union address was based on one of the pricier options, a $1,200-a-month replacement plan that was pitched by Asuris Northwest to Grenier and her husband, Don.

The carrier also offered a less expensive, $1,052-per-month option in lieu of their soon-to-be-discontinued catastrophic coverage plan. And,

Grenier acknowledged the couple probably could have shaved another $100 a month off the replacement policy costs by purchasing them from the state’s online portal, the Health Plan Finder website, but they chose to avoid the government health exchanges.

“I wouldn’t go on that Obama website at all,” said Grenier, 58, who lives in the Chattaroy area and owns a roofing company with her husband. “We liked our old plan. It worked for us, but they can’t offer it anymore.”

The description of Grenier’s plight, along with the fact that McMorris Rodgers used only the woman’s first name in the televised address, sparked speculation among liberal bloggers and others that the figures may not hold up to scrutiny.

In Olympia, state Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler didn’t dismiss the possibility but was skeptical that someone would have no choice but to pay $700 per month more for a policy that meets the Affordable Care Act’s coverage requirements.

Kreidler, interviewed before Grenier’s iden y had been learned, said he hoped “Bette in Spokane” would contact his office so he could help make sure she’s aware of all of the options available to her.

McMorris Rodgers’ office provided no explanation Wednesday on what steps were taken to verify the figures.

Melanie Colette, McMorris Rodgers’ spokeswoman, would only say Bette is “one of hundreds of people in Eastern Washington that have contacted the congresswoman with their concerns about the president’s health care law.”

Grenier, contacted Wednesday evening at her home, said she didn’t know McMorris Rodgers had mentioned her insurance travails during the GOP rebuttal.

“That probably was me she was referring to,” Grenier said. “A guy from her office called me last week but I never called him back.”

She said she contacted the congresswoman late last year to complain after getting a letter from Asuris Northwest advising that her $552-a-month policy no longer would be offered. She sent the congresswoman’s office a copy of the letter, which included the rate quotes for the suggested replacement policies.

Although the couple’s catastrophic plan had a $10,000 deductible, it included four doctor visits per year at no additional out-of-pocket cost, she said.

The replacement policies offer lower deductibles and broader coverage, she said, but they didn’t include the doctor visits at no extra charge.

Fed up with what they considered limited, pricey choices, she said she and her husband have decided to go without coverage.

“I know some people seem to be getting good deals, but we’re not,” Grenier said. “I have a friend – she and I fight about this stuff all the time – and she got a great deal: $129 a month.”

Kreidler acknowledged his office, too, has been getting a lot of complaints from people who had health care plans that did not meet the minimum requirements of the new law.

They received notices late last year from their companies saying those policies were being canceled and suggesting a new plan. Most paid the same or less, but some paid more.

“Most of those paid more because it was better coverage,” he said.

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/201...odgers-speech/

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SLANDER, LIES, FRAUD

Trick Websites Dupe Democrats Into Donating To Republicans

The National Republican Congressional Committee has set up a number of websites that look like they could be a Democratic candidate’s campaign page, unless you read the fine print. They may even violate a Federal Election Commission regulation, Campaign Legal Center expert Paul S. Ryan explained to ThinkProgress.

The NRCC has set up these pages for various congressional opponents, including Amanda Renteria (CA), Martha Roberston (NY), Kyrsten Sinema (AZ), Ann Kirkpatrick (AZ), Alex Sink (FL), and John Tierney (MA). Each follow a similar format; they list the candidate’s name “for Congress” to ask for donations:

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/201...ic-candidates/

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5 of the Christian Right's Favorite and Most Dangerous New Recruits Running for Congress

1. Matt Bevin: Republican Candidate for U.S. Senate in Kentucky

Bevin, who is a Southern Baptist, is obsessed with controlling all matters related to sex and abortion. Earlier this month, on the 41st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Bevin penned an op-ed that read, “The fight for the unborn could not be any more important. Since that dark day in 1973, America has seen more than 55 million babies killed under the guise of 'choice….Being pro-life is more than simply a slogan to us. It is a belief that every life, born and unborn, is so precious to our Creator, that it compels us to action.”

In case you missed it the first time, he’s leading McConnell and the Democrats by a handy margin.


2. Pam Barlow: Republican Candidate for U.S. Congress in Texas Congressional District 10

describes herself as an “unashamed Republican Tea Party Christian Conservative with a loud voice and some rock-solid core values.” You know, values such as opposing women’s reproductive rights, marriage equality, raising the minimum wage and immigration reform.


3. State Sen. Lee Bright: Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in South Carolina

A member of the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary’s Board of Visitors, Bright has been a sponsor of the “Life Begins at Conception Act” for the past three years. In April 2013, Bright introduced a bill that would end all abortions in South Carolina. He has also sponsored bills that would criminalize the Affordable Care Act and bills that would exempt South Carolina from federal gun laws.

Bright has also called FEMA a "scam,” and has promised “to get rid of the IRS.” After seeing a video of IRS agents training with AR-15 rifles, Bright said, “They’re doing assault-weapon training, the Brown Shirts are next because that’s the enforcement for Obamacare. If you don’t have an IRS, you don’t have Obamacare. That’s the mechanism that’s controlling our lives for far too long.”

It gets worse. Bright believes federal income tax is something “designed by Nazi Germany,” and in a series of speeches to pro-faithful gatherings has promoted the idea of reigniting the Civil War. “If at first you don’t secede, try again” is one of his favorite applause lines. “If the 10th Amendment won’t protect the Second, we might have to use the Second to protect the 10th,” is another.


4. Chris McDaniel: Republican Candidate for the U.S. Senate in Mississippi

McDaniel is a neo-Confederate who has delivered speeches to the local chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

In January, Mother Jones surfaced comments McDaniel made about his unhappiness with the lack of Muslim villains in Hollywood films. McDaniel said, “They’ll go out of their way to find some Russian white guy that’s just nuts, and he’s the terrorist, which I’ve never seen that. But the Muslims, they’ve just disappeared from Hollywood’s radar.”

He blames rising gun violence on a "hip-hop" culture that "values rap and destruction of community values more than it does poetry."


5. Paul Broun: Republican Candidate for U.S. Senate Seat in Georgia

“All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the Big Bang Theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of .” Broun believes the world is no more than 9,000 years old and was created in six literal days.

In May 2009, Broun proposed failed legislation that would have proclaimed 2010 "The Year Of The Bible,” and he also introduced a bill to ban pornography at all U.S. military installations. That same year, Broun proclaimed climate change to be a “hoax.” He said, "Scientists all over this world say that the idea of human-induced global climate change is one of the greatest hoaxes perpetrated out of the scientific community. It is a hoax. There is no scientific consensus."

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-an...age=1#bookmark

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Fox Contributor Attacks Sotomayor’s ‘Allegiance’ To The United States Because She Is Puerto Rican

Laura Ingraham, a conservative radio host and frequent guest host for Bill O’Reilly’s Fox News show, suggested on her radio show Tuesday that Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s “immigrant family background” calls into question her loyalty to the United States.

The context of Ingraham’s statement was a rant about Sotomayor’s decision to refer to people in the United States without citizenship or immigration papers as “undo ented immigrants” because, in Sotomayor’s words, calling “them illegal aliens seemed . . . insulting.” After claiming that Sotomayor’s preference for one term over the other somehow reflects insufficient respect for the rule of law, Ingraham said that Justice Sotomayor’s “allegiance obviously goes to her, you know, immigrant family background, not to the U.S. Cons ution.”

Justice Sotomayor, who was born in the Bronx, is a Puerto Rican American. Puerto Rico is part of the United States and Puerto Ricans are United States citizens. So Sotomayor does not actually have an “immigrant family background.”

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/201...-puerto-rican/

Right-wing es are as stupid, ignorant, and hate-filled as right-wing bas s.

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Extending Safety Net For Long-Term Unemployed Is ‘Immoral’

It is immoral to extend a meager monthly allowance to unemployed Americans still looking for work more than six months after losing their jobs, according to Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), which is why he and his fellow House conservatives are blocking Democrats’ efforts to reinstate the safety net program.


“I believe it is immoral for this country to have as a policy extending long-term unemployments [benefits] to people rather than us working on the creation of jobs,” Sessions said Tuesday on the House floor in response to questions about his party’s refusal to allow a vote on reinstating the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/201...efits-immoral/

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Repug War on Women

"A Republican member of Congress says in a recently released book that a wife is to "voluntarily submit" to her husband, but that it doesn't make her inferior to him.

Rep. Steve Pearce's (R-N.M.) memoir, "Just Fly the Plane, Stupid!" was released last month."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/01/22/gop-congressmans-book-the-wife-is-to-voluntarily-submit-to-her-husband/

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Michigan RNC candidate wants gays purged from the GOP, blames Satan for sexuality

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/08/michigan-rnc-candidate-wants-gays-purged-from-the-gop-blames-satan-for- sexuality/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29

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Speaker John Boehner unveils new website devoted to GOP Benghazi conspiracies


House Speaker John Boehner's attempts to keep all his clowns in the clown car are getting a bit Dadaesque:

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Wednesday unveiled a website detailing the GOP's Benghazi probe amid mounting pressure from conservatives that he's not doing enough.

Yes, that is what the Republicans need to further their "investigation" of literally the one and only one of the many attacks on an American diplomatic compound in the last 20 years that any of them can name or give two s about. A promotional website. Good to see Boehner is bringing the same A-game to Republican foreign affairs oversight that perpetual manchild Reince Priebus is using to recruit new teams of elite haxors to team GOP.

Boehner's office said the website offers access to “hundreds of pages of do ents and transcripts the White House doesn’t want you to read.”

Mostly stuff written by Darrell Issa, some of it in the original crayon, but you have Boehner's word that Darrell Issa is working to leak actual papers relating to national security just as fast as his office gets them.There's not much effort made to pretend the site is in any particular national interest; it appears to exist solely so that John Boehner can say that it does, because John Boehner has to acknowledge the latest faux-issue to have driven half of his party and all of Fox News stark raving batty or half his party and all of Fox News will not let him drive the little clown car anymore. Which, for some reason unfathomable by we mortals who exist outside his circus of the damned, he still wants to do.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/0...s?detail=email

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CNN guest: Blaming Hillary for Bill’s affair gives Republicans on Wall Street confidence



http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/0...e+Raw+Story%29

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Kansas representative introduces bill legalizing discrimination against same-sex couples

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/0...e+Raw+Story%29

would be even madder if it passes. Christian/cowboy Kansas haters.

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Repug reachout to Latinos continues!

GOP candidate for governor doubles down after calling south Texas ‘third-world country’

When Texas Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott compared the Rio Grande Valley to a “third-world country” earlier this week, progressives and the Latino community in south Texas hit the roof.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/0...e+Raw+Story%29

[Nbadan]

Someone's Been Sending GOP Lawmakers A Bizarre Threat Over The Debt Ceiling

A group of House Republicans has received a mysterious threat in recent weeks: an anonymous email that promises political retribution for those who for vote yes to a debt-limit increase — sent to their closely guarded personal email addresses.

Because of the near-secret nature of lawmakers’ internal email addresses, the emails have raised more than a few eyebrows — and the possibility that one of their own was behind, or at least assisting in the attacks.

The emails, circulated to lawmakers at the end of January and during their closed door retreat earlier this month, came as Republicans struggled to come up with a plan to extend the nation’s debt limit. Leadership threw in the towel Tuesday, opting to move a bill that simply raises the debt ceiling without other conditions. The bill passed Tuesday, with nearly every House Democrat and 28 Republicans voting for it.

“It’s got to be another member. Probably one of the crazy ones,” said a Republican who had seen the email, which was sent from an anonymous email address, [email protected].

Read More: http://www.buzzfeed.com/johnstanton/...threat-over-th

One of the crazy ones..... the new GOP...

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Kansas House passes sweeping bill allowing anti-gay discrimination in government, businesses


The sweep of Kansas’ statute is breathtaking.

Any government employee is given explicit permission to discriminate against gay couples—not just county clerks and DMV employees, but literally anyone who works for the state of Kansas.

If a gay couple calls the police, an officer may refuse to help them if interacting with a gay couple violates his religious principles.

State hospitals can turn away gay couples at the door and deny them treatment with impunity.

Gay couples can be banned from public parks, public pools, anything that operates under the aegis of the Kansas state government.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/13/1277364/-Kansas-House-passes-sweeping-bill-allowing-anti-gay-discrimination-in-government-businesses?detail=email

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Congressman Slams Obama For Medicare Cuts That He Voted For Three Times

Rep. Tom Rooney (R-FL) slammed President Barack Obama’s signature health care law during the weekly GOP address on Saturday, arguing that the Affordable Care Act hurts seniors. “Here’s the reality — to help pay for his health care law, the president made deep cuts to the successful Medicare Advantage plan, which serves almost 30 percent of all Medicare beneficiaries,” said Rooney, adding that the cuts are causing seniors to lose access to care.

There’s just one problem: Rooney voted for those same cuts on three separate occasions.

The Affordable Care Act extends Medicare’s solvency for a decade by saving the program $716 billion. Much of these savings are derived from a reduction in historically excessive payments to health care providers that serve the Medicare Advantage program.

Even though these cuts are to provider payments, and not to benefits, Republicans have repeatedly slammed them as Obama’s “Medicare cuts” for seniors — a line that was used on multiple occasions by Mitt Romney and House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) during the 2012 presidential campaign.

But Ryan has included these very “Medicare cuts” in every GOP budget he’s proposed since the ACA’s passage in 2010. And Rooney, alongside 95 percent of House and Senate Republicans, voted for Ryan’s budgets with their “Medicare cuts” and all in 2011, 2012, and 2013.

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014...re-cuts-voted/

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Missouri lawmaker introduces bill allowing familes to 'opt out' of learning evolution

A Missouri lawmaker has proposed what ranks among the most anti-evolution legislation in recent years, which would require schools to notify parents if "the theory of evolution by natural selection" was being taught at their child's school and give them the opportunity to opt out of the class. [...]“It’s an absolute infringement on people’s beliefs,”

[State Rep. Rick Brattin (R)] told theKansas City Star of requiring schools to teach evolution. “What’s being taught is just as much faith and, you know, just as much pulled out of the air as, say, any religion."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/0...8Daily+Kos%29#

red states! stupid, ignorant s, all of them.

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A Tea Party Republican and a U.S. Marine veteran, Rep. Hunter said he was su ious of these negotiations because he feels that even if there is a positive outcome, Iran cannot be trusted. Why so? Iran is part of the Middle East and, according to Hunter, “In the Middle Eastern culture it is looked upon with very high regard to get the best deal possible, no matter what it takes, and that includes lying.” In other words, at least some members of Congress have bought into the stereotype that lying is a congenital part of the Middle Eastern personality.

Hunter also said that if worse came to worst and a confrontation occurred, the United States should avoid “American boots on the ground”; instead “you do it with tactical nuclear weapons and you set them back a decade or two or three.”

Once more we can readily identify the racist undertone of the anti-Muslim stereotype. It presently feeds into an Islamophobia that has led to hysteria and violence toward Muslims from some elements of the American population. And now we see it coming from the mouth of a U.S. politician with a seat on the congressional subcommittee for (of all things) intelligence.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/ite...f-stereotyping