"Stupid wingnut says something stupid" thread

[Luna]

Alan Keyes, three-time GoP candidate for president, stated on the WorldNutDaily website that "granting homosexuals the right to marry is like granting plantation owners the right to own slaves."

I shit you not.  I waded through birther central to verify.

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=267813

I like this quote: 

Government doesn't endow people with the ability to procreate the species. The Creator takes care of that. Like all unalienable rights, those associated with the natural family exist in consequence of this endowment. A couple that cannot, by nature, procreate has no claim to those rights.

I wonder if he realizes that what he just uttered would also, technically, apply to a straight couple where one or both of them cannot conceive or contribute to a conception. 

My usual response to that line of argument is, "My mom's talking about remarrying.  I assure you, she will not be bearing any more children.  YOU want to tell her she can't?  Go ahead.  I'll watch.  From a safe distance.  With popcorn."

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Alan Keyes, three-time GoP candidate for president, stated on the WorldNutDaily website that "granting homosexuals the right to marry is like granting plantation owners the right to own slaves."

I shit you not.  I waded through birther central to verify.

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=267813

Wat

Even for Keyes, that's nutty.   

[Precious Moments Zalgo]

Alan Keyes, three-time GoP candidate for president, stated on the WorldNutDaily website that "granting homosexuals the right to marry is like granting plantation owners the right to own slaves."

I shit you not.  I waded through birther central to verify.

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=267813

I like this quote: 

Government doesn't endow people with the ability to procreate the species. The Creator takes care of that. Like all unalienable rights, those associated with the natural family exist in consequence of this endowment. A couple that cannot, by nature, procreate has no claim to those rights.

I wonder if he realizes that what he just uttered would also, technically, apply to a straight couple where one or both of them cannot conceive or contribute to a conception. 

I think that's what he meant by the "by nature" part, his way of trying to make that statement not apply to infertile straight couples.   

[AFK]

Except that infertility is quite natural. 

[Luna]

Sharon Omand, a community health care center manager and resident of Stafford, New Hampshire, called her state senator Martin Harty (R) recently to request more funding for community mental health programs and for the homeless. Omand was shocked by Harty's response. The state senator told her "the world is too populated" and that there are too many "defective people." When Omand asked what should be done with these "defective people" that are mentally ill, Harty suggested sending them to Siberia, something that he said Hitler was "right" to do

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/11/gop-senator-siberia/

Fuck.  And this is the sort of person elected to be in charge of shit.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Hitler and Stalin:  The same guy.   

[Jenne]

What's sad is that he probably thought he was being a great leader and chummy with this lady.  Instead he comes off, well, as he comes off, and is yet another testament to the lousy job we do of educating people in the US.  Motherfucker.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

 

MANCHESTER, N.H.: Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann's suggestion Saturday that the Revolutionary War began in Concord, N.H., rather than Lexington and Concord, Mass., marks the third time in recent months that the potential GOP presidential hopeful has committed a puzzling gaffe about history and current affairs. Making her first trek to New Hampshire as a 2012 prospect, Bachmann told a GOP crowd in Manchester: "You're the state where the shot was heard around the world at Lexington and Concord."

The Revolutionary War began, not in New Hampshire's capital, but in the famous two towns more than 50 miles away in Massachusetts. For Bachmann, who leads the House Tea Party caucus and champions a return to the Constitution, to get such basic facts wrong about the country's birth is revealing. Her comment wasn't just an off-hand reference that she inserted in her remarks. At a fundraiser Friday night on the New Hampshire Seacoast, Bachmann said almost the exact same thing, according to the Minnesota Post.

"It's your state that fired the shot that was heard around the world, you are the state of Lexington and Concord, you started the battle for liberty right here in your backyard," Bachmann said. Bachmann's geographic mix-up prompted derision among some New Hampshire Republicans. "Is she on her way to Lexington, N.H., now?" cracked Matt Suermann, who blogs for RedHampshire, in response to somebody who posted on Twitter that Bachmann had left the building.

Told of the congresswoman's line, another prominent New Hampshire Republican asked: "Seriously, the real question is whether she knows she (got it wrong), I suspect not."

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51179.html#ixzz1GTF0ydlb

[Phox]

MANCHESTER, N.H.: Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann's suggestion Saturday that the Revolutionary War began in Concord, N.H., rather than Lexington and Concord, Mass., marks the third time in recent months that the potential GOP presidential hopeful has committed a puzzling gaffe about history and current affairs. Making her first trek to New Hampshire as a 2012 prospect, Bachmann told a GOP crowd in Manchester: "You're the state where the shot was heard around the world at Lexington and Concord."

The Revolutionary War began, not in New Hampshire's capital, but in the famous two towns more than 50 miles away in Massachusetts. For Bachmann, who leads the House Tea Party caucus and champions a return to the Constitution, to get such basic facts wrong about the country's birth is revealing. Her comment wasn't just an off-hand reference that she inserted in her remarks. At a fundraiser Friday night on the New Hampshire Seacoast, Bachmann said almost the exact same thing, according to the Minnesota Post.

"It's your state that fired the shot that was heard around the world, you are the state of Lexington and Concord, you started the battle for liberty right here in your backyard," Bachmann said. Bachmann's geographic mix-up prompted derision among some New Hampshire Republicans. "Is she on her way to Lexington, N.H., now?" cracked Matt Suermann, who blogs for RedHampshire, in response to somebody who posted on Twitter that Bachmann had left the building.

Told of the congresswoman's line, another prominent New Hampshire Republican asked: "Seriously, the real question is whether she knows she (got it wrong), I suspect not."

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51179.html#ixzz1GTF0ydlb

[Juana]

Oh my god

[Luna]

Sharon Omand, a community health care center manager and resident of Stafford, New Hampshire, called her state senator Martin Harty (R) recently to request more funding for community mental health programs and for the homeless. Omand was shocked by Harty's response. The state senator told her "the world is too populated" and that there are too many "defective people." When Omand asked what should be done with these "defective people" that are mentally ill, Harty suggested sending them to Siberia, something that he said Hitler was "right" to do

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/11/gop-senator-siberia/

Fuck.  And this is the sort of person elected to be in charge of shit.

Update.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/14/martin-harty-resigns-in-w_n_835671.html

Harty has resigned his office. 

[Jenne]

Sharon Omand, a community health care center manager and resident of Stafford, New Hampshire, called her state senator Martin Harty (R) recently to request more funding for community mental health programs and for the homeless. Omand was shocked by Harty’s response. The state senator told her “the world is too populated” and that there are too many “defective people.” When Omand asked what should be done with these “defective people” that are mentally ill, Harty suggested sending them to Siberia, something that he said Hitler was “right” to do

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/11/gop-senator-siberia/

Fuck.  And this is the sort of person elected to be in charge of shit.

Update.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/14/martin-harty-resigns-in-w_n_835671.html

Harty has resigned his office. 

Haha--from the article:

A 91-year-old freshman lawmaker who suggested the mentally disabled should be shipped to Siberia resigned Monday from the state House and said he was sorry that his "big mouth caused this furor."

[Luna]

Rick Santorum told about 50 members of the group Catholic Citizenship that he was "frankly appalled" that America's first Catholic president, John F. Kennedy, once said "I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute."

"That was a radical statement," Santorum said, and did "great damage."

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/santorum-kennedy-was-radical-for-believing-in-church-vs-state.php

Erm...  Yeah.

[Cain]

No, this is a radical statement that did great damage...TO MY EYEBALLS

[Phox]

No, this is a radical statement that did great damage...TO MY EYEBALLS

Awesome. TO THE MAX!