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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFringe Factor: Gun Raffle Honors MLK, Lincoln
Republicans in Oregon are honoring two victims of gun violence by auctioning off an AR-15. Gay rights will likely be the cause of human extinction and pregnancy is just like cancer.
Oregon GOP Raffles Rifles in Honor of MLK, Abraham Lincoln
Theres nothing like a good rifle raffle to commemorate nonviolent civil-rights leaders who were shot to death. At least thats what the leaders of Oregons Multnomah County Republican Party thought when they decided to auction off rifles in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Lincoln. Tickets are $10 apiece, the drawing will take place at the Lincoln Day Dinnerat which the keynote speaker will be none other than Sen. Ted Cruzs father, Rafaeland the winner will take home a shiny new AR-15 rifle or the handgun of their choice.
Ohio City Council Member Wont Apologize for Racist Email Because He Thought It Was Funny
Yeah, Norwalk, Ohio, city council member Bob Carleton sent an extremely racist email to more than two dozen peopleincluding the citys law director and other colleaguesand no, he is not sorry about it. The subject line of the email is Spelling Bee Champ and heres how it starts: My name be Eboneesha Hernandez, a African-Hispanic-American girl who jus got a award for bein the bess speler in class. I gots a 47 percent on the spelin text and 38 points for being black, 10 points for not bringin drugs to class, 10 points for not bringin guns to class, and 15 points for not getting pregnant during the cemester, and so on. You get the point. Needless to say, not everyone on the email chain was amused, but Carleton doesnt really care. He confirmed to the local paper that he did, in fact, send the email and he told the Toledo Blade, In hindsight, I can see how it can be interpreted as racist but that wasnt my intent when I sent it. I thought it was humorous.
Humans Will Become Extinct Because of Gay Rights
Gay equality will eventually lead to the extinction of humanity, Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council declared on the right-wing radio show Washington Watch last week. In response to a callers suggestion that gay people should be reminded that they wouldnt exist if not for a physical relationship, intimacy between a man and a woman, Perkins said, the human race would be extinct within time if [homosexuality was] normal. Perkins has spread such notions before, warning that the governments promotion of same-sex relations is actually a veiled push for population control.
For those who already have IDs or can manage to get one, theyll be forced to undergo the added shame of identifying themselves when presenting their food stamps at the cash register.
La. Senator: Poor People Should Have to Show ID to Buy Food
Louisiana Sen. David Vitters newest proposed bill wont only result in humiliating his low-income constituents; it could prevent many of them from buying food. Vitter wants to require food-stamp recipients to show photo IDs when buying food at a grocery store. Vitter argues that fraud is to blame for the rising costs of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, though SNAP actually boasts a fraud rate of about 1 percent. On the other hand, about 10 percent of voting-age Americans dont have a state-issued ID. So those people will either be forced to buy an IDwhich they cant necessarily afford to door go hungry. For those who already have IDs or can manage to get one, theyll be forced to undergo the added shame of identifying themselves when presenting their food stamps at the cash register.
Pregnancy and Cancer Are Basically the Same Thing
Republican Senate candidate Ken Buck knows what its like to be pregnant because hes had cancer, and they are basically the same thing. On a local talk-radio show Wednesday, the current district attorney and Tea Party challenger to Colorado Sen. Mark Udall offered unique reasoning for why women arent really entitled to make decisions about their own bodies when it comes to, you know, abortion and things like that. Yes, I am pro-life, said Buck. While I understand a woman wants to be in control of her bodyits certainly the feeling that I had when I was a cancer patient, I wanted to be in control of the decisions that were made concerning my bodythere is another fundamental issue at stake. And thats the life of the unborn child.
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Fringe Factor: Gun Raffle Honors MLK, Lincoln (Original Post)
Cryptoad
Jan 2014
OP
This is the same party whose college fanbois hold affirmative action bake sales
jmowreader
Jan 2014
#2
Esoteric signs and secret decoder rings help them forget MLK & Lincoln
orpupilofnature57
Jan 2014
#5
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)1. Hiding behind the Goofy Old Party, something they didn't do, HIDE
COURAGE ! not COWARDICE RAGE .
jmowreader
(50,552 posts)2. This is the same party whose college fanbois hold affirmative action bake sales
We harrumph about this all the time...the College Republicans sell cookies for a dime to black students and a quarter to white ones. Why the Black Future Entrepreneurs Club doesn't buy all the cookies and resell them for 12 cents apiece (because if 20 percent profit is enough for health insurance companies under Obamacare, it's enough for the Black Future Entrepreneurs) while the College Repukes whine and scream, is the mystery of the ages.
MO_Moderate
(377 posts)3. $10 is a pretty good price for an AR-15 raffle
meanit
(455 posts)4. Raffling off firearms to commemorate MLK & Lincoln?
No dog whistle there.
Bastards.
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)5. Esoteric signs and secret decoder rings help them forget MLK & Lincoln
BEAT THEM !!!