Am I the only person who remembers the movie Nothing But Trouble, with Dan Akroyd as Judge Alvin Valkenheiser, the presiding tyrant of a small town? For some reason, that was the first thing that I thought of when I saw this photo of this Texan Republican.
Give him a few years, that’s him. Jonathan Stickland has been ranting about vaccines. He told a professor of medicine at Baylor University to Make the case for your sorcery to consumers on your own dime
, and that Parental rights mean more to us than your self enriching ‘science.’
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Sounds like another Tex-ass pustule has popped.
I have a feeling this guy is still going to get re-elected.
Everything is bigger in Texas! Especially the morons.
Even for a Texas politician this guy seems to be stupid.
He is not running for reelection in 2020 after winning by only 2.4% in a heavily Republican district in 2018.
It’s banal to say it, but I really do think that with these guys, every accusation is a confession. One of them says “your self enriching ‘science’”? He’s on the take himself, big time.
Who is the bigger dumbass pustule from Tejas–this clown or Louie Gohmert?
s/
Archangelo Spumoni, very very very very very very very very very glad to have been moved AWAY from Tejas in the ’60s.
Good to know…if I ever see a Baylor diploma on the wall I now know to run the hell away.
Ugh, NM i misread that sentence!
Why do people think being anti-vaccine is a liberal position? Like, sure, pockets of anti-vaccine sentiments are found in liberal communities, but as a political topic, all the anti-vaccine policies are coming almost entirely from conservatives.
Is that a gun?
I mean, you can get all kinds of stealth™ weapons…
I guess “parental rights” outweigh children’s right to live in Texas.
Has America gone totally insane now?
I wonder how long it’s going to be before he’s involved in some sexual scandal. He looks like a complete sleaze.
@12 nomdeplume
Well, we “do” have a mental health problem. And, yeah, I know this is a but crass to suggest, but maybe we need to add, “Elect them to public office.”, to the list of things we do, instead of treating such things, on top of, “Jail them”, and, “Leave them living on the streets as homeless people.” BTW, someone really needs to come up with a better emoji for sarcasm, the original intended us of :) to denote a joke doesn’t work any more, since its used to also just express, “I find this funny.”, which isn’t the same thing at all. I think there was once proposed something like , or something, but.. I don’t remember if that was the intended meaning for it.
@14 “maybe we need to add, “Elect them to public office”, to the list of things we do”. I thought that was already in operation…
lol OK, I can see why that isn’t used any more. The thing I was mentioning in the last sentence was “left bracket”, “dash”, “right bracket”, which the forum promptly “ate”, because its starts and ends with what “looks” like an HTML element marker.
[OT to Kagehi]
First, there’s a difference between emojis and emoticons, and second, HTML has what are called entities, thus: [-] or if angle brackets, <-> are very doable.
kome @9: Probably because it’s the only conspiracy theory to have gained serious traction among liberals and many high-profile anti-vaxxers have been liberal. Or because conservatives wanted to portray it as such in order to distract the public from the stupidity of conservatives.
at the risk of sounding too cruel it would be kind of cool if there was some kind of drug that could reverse all the immunity that has been acquired from vaccinations and those adults who espouse the evil of vaccinations could take it and be free of all that nasty immunity and they could be examples to us all of the effects of stupidity when mixed with resentment and greed.
uncle frogy
brucej @7 – Why run from a Baylor diploma? It was the doc who was affiliated with Baylor, not the representative. Also, PZ – Baylor College of Medicine (in Houston) is not the same as Baylor University (in Waco).
I don’t miss much from growing up in Texas – except the bbq…
Please make the distinction that Baylor College of Medicine is not the same as Baylor University.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baylor_College_of_Medicine
They are different.
I remember this story making the atheist podcast rounds back in May. Once again, it just shows that “liberty” is just coded language for “petulant and selfish disobedience to the needs of society.”
@chigau, # 10:
“Is that a gun?”
No, he’s just happy to see you.
@davidw, #20:
BBQ is easy to do at home, and in my experience, much better.
I read this and didn’t know how to comment for a while. I’m a Christian and honestly these scientifically illiterate morons scare me!
@17 John Morales
Well, yeah, technically you are right, on both counts. However, emoticons are the logical precursor, and many are direct translations of the original concepts. That said, not all forums would have ate my brackets. So, yeah, I should have remembered that it would, here, but it was still annoying when I noticed it happening.
So very glad to live in California now. Living in Texas was becoming worse by the day.
You are not the only one who remembers Nothing but Trouble. I worked on that movie, at the old Columbia ranch in Burbank. A sad story. Dan was so nice, and great to work with, but the story was so incomprehensible that the film was almost unwatchable. And he wasn’t helped out by what was little more than sabotage by his “friend,” Chevy Chase. It was his first directing job, and sad to say, it pretty well killed any chance he had to get another one.