gop rep proposes treason - film at 11

I really enjoy Bob Cesca.  He has a way of distilling the absurd down into bite-sized bits.

A Word from the Crazy Caucus

Posted on 01/11/2012 at 11:30 am by Bob Cesca

A member of Congress recommended a military insurrection.

Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.), who doesn’t make much of an effort to hide his extremism, argued on a right-wing radio show this week U.S. military leaders should consider ignoring the orders of their commander-in-chief. He wasn’t kidding.

Say it with me now — if Allen West was a Democrat and the president was a Republican, Allen West would have to go on a nationwide apology tour after Congress passed a resolution scolding him.

 

Remember when you couldn't even question why we were in a war of choice with a country that had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks?  I do.  Funny how that all gets flipped on its pointed little head now.

edumacation featuring the 3 Ks?

Our daily dose of the derp from the good people at Wonkette:

DEPARTMENT OF WTF

Georgia School Brings Slavery, Slave Beatings Into Math Questions

by Liz Colville 5:00 pm January 9, 2012

Georgia’s Gwinnett County School District is coming under fire after parents came across math homework featuring some really atrocious questions involving slavery. Two questions in particular — one involving the number of oranges picked by slaves and another about the number of times Frederick Douglass might have been beaten in a week — were apparently aimed at teaching third graders about multiplication. Nine teachers at Beaver Ridge Elementary School insist they were “attempting to do a cross-curricular activity with a book the children had read about abolitionist Frederick Douglass in their social studies class.” Um, which book? These teachers might be decent at math, but they are terrible at social studies.

The offending questions read as follows:

Each tree had 56 oranges. If eight slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave pick?

If Frederick got two beatings per day, how many beatings did he get in one week?

No words. A school district spokesperson, Sloan Roach, has responded by saying, “We’ve been working with human resources to determine what staff development is needed for the teachers and what actions may be warranted.”

“Staff development.” How about SCHOOL, Billy Madison style. [CBS News]

Oh jesus christ on a cracker, these fucking people.

this is what's wrong with kansas

GOP speaker of Kansas House prays for Obama’s death, calls First Lady “Mrs. YoMama”

This.  GAH.

This is just one more in a continuing long list of examples of why my kids will not be attending university in Kansas.

Nebraska Motto:  At least we're not Kansas!

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

~ Inigo Montoya, "The Princess Bride"

One of the things that perturbs me on a regular basis is when a word is used by someone, usually in a quasi-authoritative manner, and it's obvious that they don't know fuck all what it really means.

Say, for example, the word "factoid" - it actually means something that isn't really true, but is presented as such.  Then so many talking bobble heads and others on the tee vee started using it interchangeably with "fact" and then threw the actual word they wanted completely out the window.

And so it scorches the cockles of my black, little heart when I see yet another misuse of a word.  But it is not a surprising thing coming from one of the GOP "presidential" field.

Ron Paul: ‘Entitlements are not rights’

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul claimed on Sunday that Americans don’t have a right to entitlements like Social Security and Medicare.

Seriously.  This guy is presidential material.  Of course he is!  He's brilliant compared to the other dim/sparking bulbs he's competing against.  The article then points out:

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the definition of entitlement is “a right to benefits specified especially by law or contract.”

 These things make my brain cry.