"Stupid wingnut says something stupid" thread

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

On the other hand, a lot of people say "nigger toes" when they're thinking of this, completely differently-racist confectionary treat:



I keep a package of vanilla Negrito in my car at all times, just in case I have a snack attack.

And they're made the bimbo company, so if you have some Negrito bimbos they're both racist and sexist.

That's why I always have some on me

I'm like, their mascot.

[Bruno]

http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article/92086/us-rep-nate-bell-criticized-for-boston-manhunt-tweet

"I wonder how many Boston liberals spent the night cowering in their homes wishing they had an AR-15 with a hi-capacity magazine?"

[The Good Reverend Roger]

http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article/92086/us-rep-nate-bell-criticized-for-boston-manhunt-tweet

"I wonder how many Boston liberals spent the night cowering in their homes wishing they had an AR-15 with a hi-capacity magazine?"

Classy. 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article/92086/us-rep-nate-bell-criticized-for-boston-manhunt-tweet

"I wonder how many Boston liberals spent the night cowering in their homes wishing they had an AR-15 with a hi-capacity magazine?"

I love Twitter, and the opportunity for public figures to impulsively say idiotic things to the entire world is the reason why.

[Bruno]

Facebook has its moments as well.

https://www.facebook.com/NateBell4Arkansas

[The Good Reverend Roger]

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/11/26/175605/complaint-filed-against-kentucky.html#disqus_thread

[Cainad (dec.)]

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/11/26/175605/complaint-filed-against-kentucky.html#disqus_thread

The mother of a Laurel County high school student has filed a complaint against a teacher who wrote "You can't be a Democrat & go to heaven" on her classroom whiteboard.

...

School officials later told her Baker had apologized to Chelsea, but said she had felt Chelsea would be able to take a joke, Gilbert said.

In a place like that, who's going to heaven and who's not is never a joke, if you're in the minority.

[Bruno]

Local county commissioner recently posted this to his facebook.



Boss Hogg would have never stooped this low.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Local county commissioner recently posted this to his facebook.



Boss Hogg would have never stooped this low.

Wow. Really?

That's fucked up. How do people even get to the point of having the basic adult capacity of running for office, and yet lack the basic decency, education, and common sense to recognize that an image that makes a joke of threatening people with death for practicing a particular religion is not appropriate for a person in public office to post?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Awww poor baby doesn't understand why he's being singled out for persecution:

West responded with this email: "No I did not Twitter this ... no I did not create this picture ... yes I shared it ... so why am I being singled out?"

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20130501/NEWS02/305010108/Middle-TN-commissioner-s-Facebook-post-frightens-Muslims

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Local county commissioner recently posted this to his facebook.



Boss Hogg would have never stooped this low.

Wow. Really?

That's fucked up. How do people even get to the point of having the basic adult capacity of running for office, and yet lack the basic decency, education, and common sense to recognize that an image that makes a joke of threatening people with death for practicing a particular religion is not appropriate for a person in public office to post?

Kids get charged with terroristic threat all the time for saying they'll punch somebody out who's tormenting them.

Two tiered, etc. etc.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Local county commissioner recently posted this to his facebook.



Boss Hogg would have never stooped this low.

Wow. Really?

That's fucked up. How do people even get to the point of having the basic adult capacity of running for office, and yet lack the basic decency, education, and common sense to recognize that an image that makes a joke of threatening people with death for practicing a particular religion is not appropriate for a person in public office to post?

Kids get charged with terroristic threat all the time for saying they'll punch somebody out who's tormenting them.

Two tiered, etc. etc.

No shit. And the dude probably won't even lose his position.

[Bruno]

I wouldn't count on it.

Tried to find a picture of him (that's not him in the pic he posted to facebook). His picture is missing from the Coffee County commissioners web page, but another site showed this as his picture.



Which brings me back to my previous comment about Boss Hogg.

[Lenin McCarthy]

Just heard a right-wing politician say that carrying other flags than the Norwegian in our Constitution Day parades on May 17th would be like "if our royal family had been from another country."

Well, um,  yeah...

[Cain]

 

So, Niall Ferguson has been saying, essentially, that Keynes was in favour of deficit spending because he was a homo:

Speaking in front of about 500 financial advisers at a conference in Carlsbad, California, Financial Adviser's Tom Kostigen reported Ferguson said Keynes was "effete" and liked reading "poetry" to his ballerina wife. He also didn't care about future members of society because he didn't have any children. And these facts, therefore, discredited his economic theories.

What is most amusing, however, is this part:

"Ferguson responded to a question about Keynes' famous philosophy of self-interest versus the economic philosophy of Edmund Burke, who believed there was a social contract among the living, as well as the dead."

That would be the Edmund Burke who only had one more child than Keynes, then?  And who said this?

This desire of accumulation is a principle without which the means of their service to the State could not exist. The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous, sometimes to a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States. In this natural, this reasonable, this powerful, this prolific principle, it is for the satirist to expose the ridiculous; it is for the moralist to censure the vicious; it is for the sympathetick heart to reprobate the hard and cruel; it is for the Judge to animadvert on the fraud, the extortion, and the oppression: but it is for the Statesman to employ it as he finds it; with all it's concomitant excellencies, with all it's imperfections on it's head.

Remember, this is a Harvard professor whose specialist subject is...economic history.