The Washington Times is a newspaper owned by the Moonies and adored by the rightwing.

Mr. Cult Hisownself - Rev Moon

That’s the funny thing about Republicans, they don’t care who tells their lies, just so long their lies are being told.  That pretty much is why a party claiming to love family values supports Newt Gingrich or a party that wants to restore Christianity to America reads the Moonie newspaper.  And do not forget that they love the right hand of Fox through the news department and try like hell to ignore the left hand of the Fox entertainment network.

But, back to the ultra rightwing Washington Times.  The Supremes are hearing Obamacare this week and here’s the Washington Times’ headline —

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That is the first time in recorded civilization that “open minded” and “GOP” ever appeared next to each other.

The Washington Times argues that the only vote they can count on to strike down Obamacare is Clarence Thomas.  Hellfire, they even put Scalia in the nasty “open-minded” division.  Honey, if Scalia and Thomas ever, even once, voted differently from each other, it would cause a shift in the polar ice caps.  I am sure of it.

Years ago, they made “moderate” a dirty word and now they are working on “open minded.”

And to insure that lock-step Super DeLux Brand Christianity takes out Obamacare, they held a big ole tent revival on the steps of the Supreme Court this weekend, bringing souls to Jesus and laying on of hands to cure open-mindedness.

It kinda makes you wonder what they prayed.  “Oh, Sweet Jesus, we know you did not want health care for babies born with a congenital defect.  We know you sent that child to suffer horribly and bankrupt a family.  Curing that baby will only go against what you wanted.  And we know that you said the poor would always be among us and we want to help insure that.  And people with a pre-existing condition should be lame because you made them that way.  Amen.  Praise the Lord.”

And only because Republicans are a never ending source of amazement, there’s one more thing they are attempting to argue.  Listen to this crapola they are trying to defend:

“The default conservative position after the ‘60s and ‘70s was that judges should be more restrained and defer more to the popular, political branches,” said Ilya Shapiro, senior fellow at the Cato Institute.

But now, as conservatives call on the court to overturn Mr. Obama’s signature domestic achievement, they want the court not to defer to the popular branches.

Oh, I get it.  So, now judicial activism is a good thing.  And, damn, we thought Thelma had mood swings.  She ain’t got nothin’ on these guys.

Walter Sobchak: At Least He Can Get You a Toe

And to quote the wise man, Walter Sobchak, “I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos.”

Indeed, Walter, indeed.

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Okay, this is going to take some brain wrapping.

Here’s a guy in Tennessee who’s a state representative named Matthew Hill who wanted to make  doctors who perform an abortion file some paperwork.  He would require private information written on forms routinely filed after every abortion to be posted online.

The forms contain the physician’s name, the name and address of the facility where the abortion took place, as well as details about the woman obtaining the abortion, including her age, race, marital status, city of residence and the number of children she currently has.

Critics, including the Tennessee Medical Association, said that information could have intimidated or endangered doctors. The demographic information also could have identified a woman from a small or rural community who had obtained an abortion.

Republican Representative Hill withdrew that portion of his bill.

Representative Hill - He Makes A Large Target

Wanna know why?  Because it was the right thing to do?  Because it would violate the privacy of both doctor and patient?  Because doctors who perform abortions have been killed in this country?

Nope.

He withdrew it because he accused “opponents of spreading lies about it and inciting threats of violence against him.”

Ding!  Ding!  Ding!

Representative Hill, you are the winner of The World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc’s Irony Bigger Than Your Butt Award!

You can pick up your prize at your local League of Women Voters headquarters.  I’m sure they will even gift wrap it for you.

Thanks to Ralph for the heads-up.

One of our customers from Missouri, the lovely and charming Miss Debbie,  wanted us to know that Texas ain’t the only state where the rightwing is trying to kill each other.

Apparently, Gingrich’s and Santorum’s boys in Missouri are having a belly brawl.  Check out this news video of the problems they are having with the caucus system between two ole boys, both of who look like they ate their brother.

Honey, in Texas the only time I’ve seen anything that big, half of it was roasting on a spit.  I’ve been checking the map for some hills in Missouri because they sure do have some Billys there.

Thanks to Debbie for the heads-up.

Life has not been kind to Wisconsin State Representative Don Pridemore.

First they freed the slaves, then Elvis died, then the Rat Pack dissolved, then they stopped letting you blow your cigarette smoke in people’s faces, then women got all uppity, then Mick Jagger got invented, then we elected a black President, then there was child labor laws, then … did I mention the uppity women thing?

In Wisconsin a Republican state representative has come out against divorce for any reason — even domestic abuse.

Instead of leaving an abusive situation, women should try to remember the things they love about their husbands, Representative Don Pridemore said.

That there is some dandy advice.  When he comes in at 2:00 in the morning with liquor on his breath, humping on his mind, and a baseball bat in his hand, just take a deep breath and remember that he sent you flowers in 1989.

And, Pridemore’s co-heart in the Wisconsin State Senate, Republican Neanderthal Glenn Grothman, adds something else women need to think about while getting whipped up on —

“There’s been a huge change over the last 30 years, and a lot of that change has been the choice of the women,” Grothman said.

Ironic that Grothman’s statement was meant to degrade women, but sounds like something we should take a bow for.

Thanks to Carl and Claudia for the heads-up.

Okay, I know you have noticed that I’ve kinda written a lot about the Super DeLux Brand Christians who have closed mind and closed wallets but spread around judgement like bread on the waters.

I should be ashamed of myself.

Come to find out, they can’t help it.

Older adults who say they’ve had a life-changing religious experience are more likely to have a greater decrease in size of the hippocampus, the part of the brain critical to learning and memory, new research finds.

And we think we know why that happens: stress.  That’s right, we when you feel outside the mainstream, that causes stress.

According to the study, people who said they were a “born-again” Protestant or Catholic, or conversely, those who had no religious affiliation, had more hippocampal shrinkage (or “atrophy”) compared to people who identified themselves as Protestants, but not born-again.

So the lesson here is:  get born once and then quit it.

I remember that every time Tom DeLay used to get caught doing something illegal or immoral, he’d get born again again.  They take him down to the river and dunk him a couple of times.  Then we’d have to skim nasty off the river for a week.

Bless his heart, if Rick Santorum gets born again again, he’ll be in the negative brain weight division.  That’s what happened to Dick Cheney’s heart, you know.  He’s so mean, his heart resigned.

Thanks to Carl for the heads-up.

When the revolution comes, this guy gets a pass.

As the only Republican Congressman at a rally for the Equal Rights Amendment on Thursday, Rep. Richard Hanna (R-N.Y.) gave women an unexpected piece of advice: Give your money to Democrats.

“I think these are very precarious times for women, it seems. So many of your rights are under assault,” he told the crowd of mostly women. “I’ll tell you this: Contribute your money to people who speak out on your behalf, because the other side — my side — has a lot of it. And you need to send your own message. You need to remind people that you vote, you matter, and that they can’t succeed without your help.”

Carry his picture in your wallet.  He gets some mercy from the sisterhood.

Thanks to Deb for the heads-up.