Fight The Culture War By Eating Cookies. In My Book THAT’S a Win-Win.
I knew it. I just knew it.
The right has finally run out of things to vilify. Cripes, they’ve made motherhood dirty, and Lord knows what they’ve done to dancing and rock-n-roll.
So now it’s the Girl Scouts.
Bob Morris. Goodness sake, he looks like one of those "loners" you hear about
Republican Representative Bob Morris is a very, very creepy guy. I would be willing to bet cash American money that Bob Morris has never been to a Girl Scout meeting but that he locks himself in the bathroom and thinks about those little vests and all those badges and campfires and …. okay, he’s finished.
Bob Morris is not a man given to just making things up. He leaves that to other people.
Morris said he found online allegations that the Girl Scouts are a tactical arm of Planned Parenthood, encourage sex and allow transgender females to join. He also wrote that the fact that first lady Michelle Obama is honorary president should give lawmakers pause before they endorse the Girl Scouts.
Online allegations. Well crap, that’s admissible in court so why wouldn’t he believe it?
Somebody tell me what the fool tarnation that means, the “tactical arm of Planned Parenthood.” The Girl Scouts represent Planned Parenthood at NATO exercises? And, of course, anything – including healthy eating – that Michelle Obama does is purely communistic and witchery.
And the Girl Scouts encourage sex? Well, I hope the hell so. Where else are we gonna get more Girl Scouts to do our tactical stuff?
Bob, Honey, you are forcing me to eat Girl Scout cookies. Hey, it’s tough out here in the culture wars, but somebody’s gotta do it.
Thanks to Irene for the heads-up.
My first thought was that this old boy looks like the product of several generations of consanguineous marriages. By his actions I’d say the gene pool is real shallow.
1I am planning on buying a lot of boxes and donating them to the local battered women’s shelter in my town. Take that Dweeb Morris.
2Better pick up some more Girl Scout cookies. Anything to annoy that twerp that tastes delicious is a very righteous activity.
3I wonder if cookie sales took a skyward leap after this idiot hung out his stupidity for all to see?
I did read somewhere that some pol bought several hundred cases (!) of cookies to pass out.
As for me, I got an extra 4 packages. Yummy!
Problem with GS cookies – eat those hummers today and you wear them puppies tomorrow! Oh, well, I got until next selling season to work them off!
4Mmmmm, Thin Mints.
Please, sir, I want Samoa.
5I just figured they were taking the war on women down a little further, I mean why let the girls get the idea they can congregate and talk?? nip that right in the bud, keep those Girl Scout groups going and next they will turn into NOW chapters.
6I used to say the next thing they will find sinister will be the pink clothes they put on baby girls, I was only kidding but they have gone so low, this may be next. I am way past the “you can’t make this up” stage.
One thing I am grateful for is that the young women who have lived their lives when Birth Control was available and job opportunities were not driven by gender , might actually be getting a glimpse of what we had to fight for, and we are not the crazy feminists they thought we were.
And Today the pundits were talking about Birth contol as a “woman’s ” issue and not as a job issue, let me assure you that having control of your reproduction for women is definately a job issue, ask any working woman.
Kate… and not enough chlorine in it.
7Well, kids, here is his contact and bio info from his official state site. He is a married man with six children, three of whom are girls. Poor things. He claims to be very active in his church, a Catholic church. Poor church – doesn’t speak well of their congregation if someone as dumb as Bob proclaims his pride of membership.
He received the Governor’s Award for Tomorrow’s Leaders in 2003. Do you think they can revoke that retroactively? I’d sure try.
He owns four nutrition stores. I recommend he start taking some supplements for getting more oxygen to his brain.
He’s also worked on the Northeast Indiana Corporate Council addressing the issue of “brain-drain.” Gosh, do you think they drained his brain of rational cells? I do.
For more: http://www.in.gov/legislative/house_republicans/homepages/r84/bio.htm
8@mb: I just upped my order from my favorite Brownie Scout to one box of each kind they make. The management of my building puts out cookies and coffee everyday, so I told them they would have GS cookies to offer next month. Several of the friends of said Brownie have order cookies with the request that they be delivered to the local food bank. Just a thought for all y’all who want to support the GS but don’t want to actually eat the cookies.
9TexasEllen, I’ll be doing the same thing for the same reason (and the fact that Girl Scout cookies are mighty tasty has nothing to do with it–yeah right).
But I’m going to be saving all those Girl Scout cookie boxes and then breaking them down and putting them all in a big manilla envelope and mailing them to that mental delinquent (and no cookies for him). Even if the postage is 5 bucks or so, the emotional satisfaction will be worth every penny. Can you imagine him getting deluged with empty Girl Scout cookie boxes? Now that’s a delicious thought. Time for a cookie.
10David in Houston – I really like the way you think.
Personally, I plan on buying AND eating the cookies. They have NO calories if you eat them to protest an idjit, right?
11You just can’t argue with a Dumbass.
A day later and he’s still at it. Damn right I’ll support Girl Scouts!
The problem I have is that I can’t tell ANY 8-year old kid I ain’t buying cookies. Between being an old softy and being a prisoner to Thin Mints I’m a goner! So if Bobby’s old lady brings a pack of American-heritage Girls round the neighborhood to sell me soybean bars instead, what in the world am I gonna do? I’d rather not lie or sneak out the back.
12The only idea I have right now is to say I’ll buy something ONLY if their mother or pack leader will touch her toes 25 times first, so go ask her to come up to the door too …
That’d get some of those heifers outta the minivan at least, but I forsee this could turn difficult – I need suggestions!
God I really hate this because I absolutely despise Girl Scout Cookies. They’re not good anymore, not like when I was a kid. They’re made with nasty palm oil and corn syup by corporate slaves, er, elves at the Keebler factory. They taste gross and I refuse to be goaded into buying them just to show my liberal cred.
Now, I know we all want to show people like Rep. Bob Morris the finger, but surely there’s a better way of doing it than enriching Keebler, raising our blood sugar, and putting us all on the fast track to diabetes. How about donating directly to the Girls Scouts of America? Or, here’s a novel thought: take the money you’d have wasted on those nasty cookies and send it directly to Planned Parenthood.
Just a thought.
13I’ve already bought and eaten three boxes. But this jerk makes me want some more. I wonder if my doctor would understand that it’s a political statement, and not just a desire for sweets?
14Who knew? Anybody got any cookies?
15Buying GS cookies is good but who will save this morons three daughters? After doing his “research” he took them out of GS and forced them into some Heritage Purity group for girls. If he approves of it, it can not be a good thing.
16I was already planning on a big purchase when that teenager made her video whining about GSA accepting transgendered girls. She called for a GSA cookie boycott. Now, I’ll have to buy more. Oh darn.
David in Houston (my birthplace) – I like your idea.
17“Girl Scout cookies taste so good
Just like Girl Scouts said they would”
—Blaze Foley
18He read it on the web and thinks it’s true? He sounds like a complete idiot, so it’s hard to imagine what kind of people voted for him.
19Bob Morris will take my GS cookies from me when he pries them from my cold dead hands!
20June – the sad thing is he’s not the worst we’ve got. We’ve got lots of scary politicians and voters around these parts. He is unopposed in the upcoming primary and the Democratic challenger is weak, so we’re probably stuck with him for awhile. And some people still think our idiot governor, Mitch Daniels, is going to ride to the rescue of the Republican party and take the nomination. God help us all if that happens. BTW his wife refused to move into the Governor’s Mansion because it wasn’t as nice as their private mansion in a gated community. So we pay the State Police to escort him to work every day from a distant suburb. He’s a fiscal conservative, you know!
21First, donate $20 to the scouts instead of buying cookies and the troop gets to keep it all. [Source: former scoutmaster who has successfully lost over 50 pounds. She donates to each scout who asks her to buy instead of buying cookies.]
22Second, how did he miss the fact that the First Lady is always the Honorary President of the GSA? It started with Mrs. Hoover (who also happened to be the actual President of the GSA from 1922-1925).
Chicago Tribune has an update. I love the quote from the GSA, “We believe that leadership is about hearing from all sides of an issue before making up one’s mind. We only wish we had the chance to speak with Freshman Representative Morris before he distributed his letter.” Way to go, girls! I’m proud I was one when I was a child! (http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-02-22/news/ct-talk-bob-morris-girl-scouts-0223-20120222_1_indiana-lawmaker-bob-morris-house-speaker-brian-bosma)
I’d love to buy a case of cookies to give the single-fingered salute to this moron, but…
If they’re still made with palm oil, they’re contributing to the spread of palm plantations that are wiping out indonesian rainforests and driving the orangutan, Sumatran tiger, Sumatran rhino, and many other fine species into extinction. This is a serious matter.
Two Scouts looked into it and decided to boycott their own cookies until the bakery changes to another oil:
http://www.care2.com/causes/real-food/blog/girl-scouts-boycott-girl-scout-cookies-to-save-orangutans/
Support the Scouts, but eat something tasty without palm oil (check the labels) and send them a donation instead.
23This guy is what Fetal Alcohol Syndrome looks like really.
24Hey, Bob. Michele Obama is honorary president of the Girl Scouts just like all those subversive First Ladies before her, including such radicals as Laura Bush and Barbara Bush. I’m surprised he doesn’t find some feminist threat in their last name. Gah.
25Remember awhile back when I was shocked about Indiana’s progressive license plate? Well, this is more in line with the Indiana I know.
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26So, the Girl Scouts are putting contraceptives in their cookies?
27mb: That was the head of his caucus, who bought over 400 cases and passed them out during the legislative session right in front of him. He also asked all the female legislators who had been Girl Scouts (practically all of them) to stand up and close the session.
The head of his own caucus.
28used to be that you had to have proof before you would make a statement.
29Republicans don’t do that anymore. Innuendo is good enough for them.
Why do republicans hate America?
The “tactical arm of Planned Parenthood”? A roomful of comedy writers couldn’t come up with material like this.
30@Kathy, I understand as we have more than our share of wingnuts here in Texas, but you very rarely see one here at TWMDBS.
Last night I ate almost a box of Do-Si-Dos and have several boxes to go. Will look for a Girl Scout tomorrow and make a contribution.
31Actually the fact that Mrs. O is the honorary chairwoman is one of the reasons he started this investigations. He is one of those guys who goes around drawing horns on all things Obama. This was in the very first reporting of the story and he mentions her but when his own party started beating up on him he now concentrates on PP and GS but I’m betting in person he’s blaming the First Family for all his troubles.
32How on God’s green earth did this moron get elected?
33This congressman’s rant about Girl Scouts is similar to one I’ve heard my mother spout. And if anyone wonders how “morons like this” (or Santorum) get elected, it’s because a huge number of people in this country actually do think this way . . . and vote that way. It’s the sick truth.
34Morons like this get elected by registered voters who are morons like this while the rational, educated voters stay home, shrugging and saying “Oh well, my vote never counts anyhow.” Well, it certainly doesn’t count if you don’t cast it.
35The whole transvaginal ultrasound -Girl Scouts-anti-abortion cult has nothing to do with any of that. It is an all-out attack on women and women’s rights, and women’s health, especially women from the low to middle income groups. All of this makes great fodder for comedy, but the truth is that this is a war that the Republicans and religious right must not be allowed to win. They are trying to use religious fanatics who are some of the least well-educated among us and emotionally charged cultural and societal issues to advance their agenda. They intend to return women to being chattel, to being barefoot and pregnant, to having only two roles ,to rear children and serve men, and they appear to have the great hope that they can cast out the black man who is sullying their white house. If they win this political war, they will set America back a hundred years or more. Here in Texas, we are already sliding down that slippery slope into a kind of “dark age” that will take years to recover from and probably not in my lifetime. Where are the Democrats in all of this? We need viable, active and well-financed Democratic candidates for every office in this state and others.
What a sad state of affairs. As a former GS, I’ve been boycotting their cookies over ingredients and sourcing (yes, palm oil and genetically modified corn in the syrup), but I still support scouting. Just without cookies.
36He wasn’t elected, he was appointed to fill out the remaining term of a representative who left to spend more time with his family.
It doesn’t sound like anyone in his home state is impressed, judging by the local newspapers. And of course the speaker of the house has been passing out GS cookies to all and sundry, and EVERYONE is making fun of this joker. His career has a politician will be limited.
His poor girls, though.
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