The American Family Association isn’t American or Family Centered but it is, however, an Association so one out of three ain’t bad.

They tend to use the Bible as a weapon instead of a guideline.  So, they were outraged, outraged I tell you, that the proposed Employment Nondiscrimination Act will cause “flaming homosexuals” to storm Christian bookstores and demand jobs.

Well, don’t that just beat all.

You mean Christian bookstores where they have signs that say Love One Another?

Brian Fischer, the leader of the American Family Association, henceforth know only as Association, was having celestial visions.

If the law goes into effect, “the homosexual lobby will send a flaming homosexual into that Christian bookstore to apply for a job. They’ll send a guy in there wearing stillettos, a dress, and dangly earrings and dare the owner of that Christian bookstore not to hire him.”

Describe the dress, Brian, I want to know more about the dress.  No self respecting homosexual would wear just “a dress.”  It would have to be an outfit.  And it would have accessories better than oh dear God dangly earrings, a certain tool of the devil.

Brian Fischer: Flaming

It’s not in the story, but I’m betting you that Brian got himself so enthralled with the vision of RuPaul working behind his counter that he had to excuse himself for a minute to go take a cold shower and fan himself for a minute.

Anyway, if the “homosexual lobby” (which, best I know, is outside most any Broadway musical) doesn’t do this, I will.

And Brian Fischer didn’t even consider another result of the Employment Nondiscrimination Act – he could demand to be hired at an adult book store.

Thanks to Claudia for the heads up.

This one comes to us from Chicago, where a school board candidate objected to replacing the current 55 year old building used to teach special needs students.  The building is pretty crappy.

… some of the problems with the current facility: hallways too narrow for wheelchairs, inadequate bathrooms, no air conditioning, and so little space that they’re forced to use a janitor’s closet for teaching.

Jan Shaw spoke to the school board last month —

“Don’t build a magnet that’s going to be pulling more special needs children into the district that we’re going to have to educate the whole way through,” Shaw said.

When later asked if maybe, just maybe, that statement was a tad offensive to children with special needs, Jan had a ready answer.

Shaw says, “I could see somebody who’s got special needs kids who wants everything for their child saying somebody told me no. How dare you say no to the poor little child? Of course those kids need to be educated. I understand that…but I also think somebody needs to represent the taxpayers around here.”

Oh, I get it.  This is what Matthew meant about separating the sheep from the goats.

Jan, you old goat, you’re going to hell.

Thanks to Angela for the heads up.

In 2007, Texas voter overwhelmingly approved the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.  It’s the same sad story of a public trust and money being used to make friends of Rick Perry very wealthy.

The long and agonizing back story is that Rick Perry’s friends got grants from the fund without having their request properly vetted.  And there has been no positive results from those funds.  And Texas newspapers have been going wild researching where the damn money is going and who is getting it.  This ain’t pocket change.  This is $3 billion, with a b, that Perry amusingly calls “an assault on cancer.”

The whole thing is a disgrace, and cancer is laughing.

Texas legislators used the noblest of language to tout the 2007 bill that created the state’s taxpayer-funded, $3 billion assault on cancer, but Gov. Rick Perry now says creating wealth is a key mission of the cancer agency.

In an interview with the Houston Chronicle this week, Perry said the embattled Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas must regain public trust so it can carry out its dual mission of cure discovery and commercialization.

“The way that the Legislature intended it was to get cures into the public’s arena as soon as possible and at the same time create economic avenues (from) which wealth can be created,” said Perry. “Basic research takes a long time and may or may not ever create wealth.”

So now Governor Perry says that the purpose of the fund is to create wealth.  You know, because pharmaceutical companies ain’t making enough money by ripping off sick people enough already.

Texas Democrat Craig Eiland ain’t buying the create wealth thing.

“I believe that the purpose of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas was to research and develop cures and treatments for cancer, not act as an investment bank or hedge fund to ‘create wealth,'” said Eiland. “The state has the Emerging Technology Fund and the Enterprise Fund as business development tools.”

I mean, hellfire, why didn’t we just give Rick Perry $3 billion, with a b, to hand out to his friends and not tease with the whole false hope about curing cancer thing.

Rick Perry is evil, y’all.  He’s right out of a Stephen King novel.

It’s cancer, Rick, and you know how karma is a bitch.

Okay, so this story goes like this.

Keith Ratliff, a 32 year old  guy from Georgia is a big ole gun fan. He had a You Tube channel where he promoted high-powered guns and explosives.  It’s called FPSRussia.

Ratliff, along with Kyle Lamar Myers, who appears in the popular online videos, operate the “FPSRussia” YouTube channel, which has 3.4 million subscribers. Videos posted on the channel have racked up more than a half-billion views. According to YouTube, FPSRussia is the ninth-most popular channel on the website.

Ratliff also operated a company out of Carnesville called FPS Industries. In video gamer jargon, FPS stands for first person shooter.

Best I can tell the YouTubes do nothing but celebrate anti-personal weapons.

Well, Keith – who may well have been the best armed guy in Georgia, which is saying’ something – was found dead last week.  A gunshot wound to the back of his head.  At his business.  You know, where he keeps his weapons.

Back to the drawing board on the that whole argument, Wayne.

Thanks to Sue for the heads up.

Politico, that’s what.

I’m fixing to take it off my bookmark list because every time I go there, it looks just like Fox News with less clutter and blinking lights.

Take, for example, today.  This is their headline story.

I am pretty damn certain that when President Obama started looking for a new Secretary of Defense, his first consideration was not, “Oh, gee, how can I poke George W. Bush with a pointy stick?”

George W. Bush does not need any help at all in his quest to be forgotten and snubbed.

Goodness sake, what level of Republican narcissism does it take to think that everything President Obama does is designed to make George W. Bush look bad?  You gotta be off the meter and the meds, Honey.

Look, if Republicans wanted to name to name the Presidential cabinet, they should have won the election.  It’s just that simple.

And then, to make sure I never come back to their website, they put this on the electric internet machine.

Seriously, guys?

You think he’s picking fights?

In most quarters, that’s called “governing” by the party in power.

I know you think he’s supposed to lay down and let John Boehner tap dance on his belt buckle but, listen carefully now, YOU LOST THE ELECTION, dammit.

Already I didn’t like Politico because they have a crush on Rick Perry.  A silly little crush like a schoolgirl.   They just drool and skip around the room when his name is mentioned.

Grrrrrr …..