Saturday, May 30, 2009
Separated at Birth?
Fascist Boston radio host Jay Severin...
...and Freddie Kruger?
...and Freddie Kruger?
Saturday, May 16, 2009
GOP Admits to Discrimination
- RNC chief: Gay marriage will burden small business
By RUSS BYNUM, Associated Press Writer
SAVANNAH, Ga. Republicans can reach a broader base by recasting gay marriage as an issue that could dent pocketbooks as small businesses spend more on health care and other benefits, GOP Chairman Michael Steele said Saturday.
Steele said that was just an example of how the party can retool its message to appeal to young voters and minorities without sacrificing core conservative principles. Steele said he used the argument weeks ago while chatting on a flight with a college student who described herself as fiscally conservative but socially liberal on issues like gay marriage.
"Now all of a sudden I've got someone who wasn't a spouse before, that I had no responsibility for, who is now getting claimed as a spouse that I now have financial responsibility for," Steele told Republicans at the state convention in traditionally conservative Georgia. "So how do I pay for that? Who pays for that? You just cost me money."
Seriously: what's the difference between this, and saying, "We only provide our full benefits package to straight people"?
Worse, in Steele's ideal world, what would stop businesses from hiring only straight people? It's cheaper, right? If they only had to provide full benefits to straights, wouldn't they naturally try to discern the sexual preference of potential employees?
Oh yes, they would.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Then Let Us Come to a Mutual Understanding
"It was my understanding that I was involved in an altercation."
- Scott Walker, May 11, 2009.
Ok.
Friday, May 01, 2009
My arm go comme a...
