Tea Party is having a big night

[waldojeffers1]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480239/quotes

ugh

[deadwolfbones]

Can't fucking wait for the rifftrax.

[a-10 warthog champion]

Incredible: Atlas Shrugged DVDs recalled for being marketed as tale of "self-sacrifice" http://blog.atlasshruggedmovie.com/2011 ... s.html?m=1

"We were mortified"

been debating whether this is worth its own thread. totally hilarious.

[Durham]

On Veterans Day, State Rep. Rick Womick (R-TN) Calls For Purging Muslims From The Military

State representative Rick Womick (R-TN) has made no secret of his anti-Muslim views. A New York Times article from July described Womick on the statehouse floor, warning his constuents that Islamic law was the most urgent threat to their way of life. But in an interview on the sidelines of the “Preserving Freedom Conference” at the Cornerstone Church in Madison, TN, Womick went to new extremes to paint Muslim Americans as dangerous and seditious.

In the interview, which took place on Veterans Day, Womick told ThinkProgress that “I don’t trust one Muslim in our military” and “if they truly are a devout Muslims, and follow the Quran and the Sunnah, then I feel threatened because they’re commanded to kill me.” When asked if Muslims should be forced out of the military, Womick responded “Absolutely, yeah.” Read the exchange:

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    FANG: What about the thousands of Muslims that are still in the military that are veterans, that are translators, that are active personnel. Is there some sort of policy solution that you’re advocating? […]

    WOMICK: Personally, I don’t trust one Muslim in our military because they’re commanded to lie to us through the term called Taqiyya. And if they truly are a devout Muslim, and follow the Quran and the Sunnah, then I feel threatened because they’re commanded to kill me.

    CLIFTON: You believe they should be forced out?

    WOMICK: Absolutely, yeah.

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/11/11/367055/on-veterans-day-state-rep-rick-womick-r-tn-calls-for-purging-muslims-from-the-military/

I just

[Jeremy]

Can't fucking wait for the rifftrax.

Mike Nelson is pretty conservative.

[Jeremy]

By "pretty conservative" I mean he likes Dennis "I want to have non-consensual sex with my wife" Prager.

[Legion]

Sent my parents this article on honey, which is pretty fascinating. (If you're in the U.S. and you buy your honey from a major outlet as opposed to a local farmer's market, there's a pretty good chance it's a crappy product from China where they suck out the pollen, aka the honey. And the only reason they do that is mask the fact that it's from China, but ironically it's a dead giveaway because it's an expensive process and the only reason you'd do it is to hide the fact that it doesn't come from your own country.)

Got this response from my dad, who's pretty into Tea Party stuff:

What a valuable and scary report----- It shows that a person in our Country has little chance of knowing their food and its effects on their long term health. It also verifies my position to limit government as too many recent examples show Agency negligence and the resultant negative effect on our health, our environment and our economy ( FDA, SEC, DEPARTMENT OF MINERAL AND MINING, --------)

Hope you're doing well DAD

[deadwolfbones]

Can't fucking wait for the rifftrax.

Mike Nelson is pretty conservative.

Yeah, but the material is too ripe.

[can]

Sent my parents this article on honey, which is pretty fascinating. (If you're in the U.S. and you buy your honey from a major outlet as opposed to a local farmer's market, there's a pretty good chance it's a crappy product from China where they suck out the pollen, aka the honey. And the only reason they do that is mask the fact that it's from China, but ironically it's a dead giveaway because it's an expensive process and the only reason you'd do it is to hide the fact that it doesn't come from your own country.)

Got this response from my dad, who's pretty into Tea Party stuff:

What a valuable and scary report----- It shows that a person in our Country has little chance of knowing their food and its effects on their long term health. It also verifies my position to limit government as too many recent examples show Agency negligence and the resultant negative effect on our health, our environment and our economy ( FDA, SEC, DEPARTMENT OF MINERAL AND MINING, --------)

Hope you're doing well DAD

i never quite understood the "government agency isn't doing it's job well enough so let's just get rid of it" perspective. because clearly companies are finding loopholes to regulations not because they are profit-motivated and could care less about the consumer but because it's some devious plan to expose the problems inherent in government regulation of the free market.

[Durham]

On Veterans Day, State Rep. Rick Womick (R-TN) Calls For Purging Muslims From The Military

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/11/11/367055/on-veterans-day-state-rep-rick-womick-r-tn-calls-for-purging-muslims-from-the-military/

My dad's putting together some materials with the portraits and headstones of Muslim soldiers to confront Womick and ask him if he's glad they were permanently purged from the military

A little manipulative but then, what can you do

[sleigh]

<3 your dad
He should bring a camera

[Amblin]

hey durham what's the real deal on "Taqiyya." I mean, what is the non-envangelical true framing of the concept/belief?

Also, go Dad.

[Durham]

Like most of the violent or subversive statements in the Quran, it was revealed during a time of tribal war and has little provenance outside of that limited scope. Isn't there some military code of justice thing where if you recant your oath to the US while being tortured, it isn't held against you? I think it's like that

[Amblin]

it's been a awhile since we laughed at the speaker being a crybaby

An attendee at the ceremony said Boehner's strong emotional reaction was startling.

"It was certainly a moving event, but seeing him sob and gasp for air was sort of off-putting," said this attendee.

John Boehner Bawls Through Congressional Award Ceremony

[Frank]

Allen West Says He Was in a "White Supremacist Motorcycle Gang"

[Durham]

The parents of a 17-year-old Indiana high school student say the constant bullying their son suffered due to his Middle Eastern ethnicity culminated in a beating that injured his brain, and are suing the school district for failing to intervene as his physical and verbal abuse escalated.

...

The Haddad family say their son's injuries were severe, but the school failed to provide him medical treatment or call the police. Allen told the Times that none of the students involved in the beating were disciplined, but that David Haddad was suspended for 10 days for throwing one defensive punch while trying to get off the floor.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/15/david-osama-haddad-indian_n_1094713.html

[fox]

just opened this thread for the first time in a while

lol "through the term called Taqiyya"

[Jeremy]

Remember in the past when people were morons?

[Jeremy]

I literally hate America. And I'm the most dangerous thing to America: a white guy with a moustache.

[sleigh]

Allen West Says He Was in a "White Supremacist Motorcycle Gang"

holy shit this is retarded

[orange farmer]

[Shalabi]

oh dear

[jewels]

"All Muslims are not terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslim . . . that's a fact."

[Mr Spaceship]

oh dear

the first video ever created that is actually capable of giving a human being constipation

[FidelityCastro]

Allen West Says He Was in a "White Supremacist Motorcycle Gang"

holy shit this is retarded

i cant even

i dont even

[sleigh]

super embarrassing
conservative hipinion has a full page on it

[staple]

oh dear

yes, god no, yes, no

[carlperkins]

good fucking lord

[Durham]

Dude on my plane right now rocking a Don't. Tread On Me tee and hat. Plus of course cowboy boots and what looks like revisionist historical inspirational fiction.

KEEP NASHVILLE WEIRD!!

[Ghost Boy]

why aren't they the "polichicks" because that's how that pun works