All that whinging and hand wringing about slavery, taking the land from the Indians, and all that stuff is very annoying, especially when the assertion is made that our founding fathers had anything do to with all that. Even though they did. But still, it is very annoying to have the names of those who [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Tea Party’
A sad anniversary
January 8th, 2012
Greg Laden One year ago today, nine-year-old Christina-Taylor Green was shot to death by Tuscon resident Jared Lee Loughner, using a 9 mm Glock automatic pistol with a high capacity ammunition clip. Seventeen other people were shot in that incident, a total of six of whom died. One of the injured was Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords, [...]
Gays to Koch: “We are sorry for ruining marriage”
December 22nd, 2011
Greg Laden Amy Koch was the highly placed Minnesota legislator who recently resigned from her leadership post when it became clear that she was about to be, or was being, accused of/caught doing a staff member. Koch issued an official statement yesterday about the situation: Amy Koch apologized late this afternoon for “engaging in a relationship with [...]
Tea Party Leader Jules Manson Calls for Assassination of Obama and Family
December 19th, 2011
Greg Laden The post has been taken down. Here it is:
Librul Holywood Teams Up with Evile Muppets to Ruin Children!
December 5th, 2011
Greg Laden Fox News’ latest attempt at … ell, making us all throw up a little in our mouths, actually:
Why do NASCAR fans hate our troops?
November 21st, 2011
Greg Laden Several NASCAR fans booed two women who were announcing the start of a race (with the famous words “Gentlemen, Start Your Engines!!”). The women were part of the “Joining Forces” initiative, which is in support of military families. The women stood next to retired Army Sgt. Andrew Barry, who was wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. [...]
Does Reuters proves that Fox News Viewers are Dumbasses?
September 17th, 2011
Greg Laden Ninety percent of Fox News viewers believe that all of the founding fathers were born in the very country they founded, as post-embryos. Ninety four percent believe that Reagan lowered the National Debt and nearly 100% who receive Medicare oppose “socialized medicine.” But you knew that. What you didn’t know and never suspected is that [...]
Yes!!! Just let the uninsured die!!!
September 13th, 2011
Greg Laden Ron Paul, a first class dick, was nailed pretty badly by this question. But not as badly as the Teabaggers in the audience who cheered the idea of leaving an uninsured person who got a terrible disease to die becuase they made a mistake in not getting proper insurance coverage.
The Tea Party and The Dunning-Kruger Effect.
September 9th, 2011
Greg Laden Dan Satterfield further analyzes the recent Yale survey which shows a) if you remove Teabaggers form the Republican Party you get a more sensible group of Republicans and b) if you look just at the teabaggers you get, well, something rather scary. Read about it here. The bottom line is this: When asked, in reference [...]
The Party of T Gets an F
September 8th, 2011
Greg Laden In a very recent poll related to science, climate, and technology, “… all four political groups, which broke down in the poll as 39% Democrats, 25% Independents, 24% traditional Republicans, and 12% Teaparty Republicans, favored more research into renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power and providing tax rebates for people who purchase [...]




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