The Silver Lining
Well, even in the worst election years, there is always a silver lining.
This year, it’s State Senator Margaret Sitte of North Dakota. She got defeated. Sitte was the woman who opposed the bill that required a parent of caregiver to report a missing or dead child within 24 hours. The bill was introduced after the Caylee Anthony trial.
Her reasoning for opposing it?
I affectionately call this bill the `Make Mary and Joseph Felons Bill` because Jesus was missing for three days.
Holy cow. That there is a silver lining.
Thanks to Larry for the heads up.
Does she really think Jesus was a child at that time? What about the 40 days in the desert?
It seems there actually is a level of stupidity that even the wingnuts won’t endorse. Who knew it was quite this low?
1For something so biblical, that is one weak fall back position.
2I’m sorry, I had to put both hands on my skull to stop my brain from jumping out and running away from that level of idiocy. I am seldom ghastiflabbered by anything the rwnjs come up with anymore, but that did it.
3When I encounter someone that dumb I usually ask them
4“Are you natural born stupid or did you take lessons?”
The whole thing about Jesus being lost was, for one thing he probably was maybe twelve years old, not a little kid. They were all travelling with family and friends which I totally understand. I remember having to drive back to town to get our youngest a couple of times because I thought he was with my uncle and he thought I had him. And I can understand someone saying what she said over coffee to friends, but in public for the news folks? Sheesh. But I never waited three days to go find the kid. I’d hate to have her responsible for my well being.
5Hey, if you made Mary and Joseph felons, wouldn’t that be ex post facto hashtag habeas corpus delirium tremens? (The ex-senator and I are great legal minds at work, n’est-ce pas?)
6IronCelt, how’d you say that many big words in one sentence? MaYbe you oughta run for Congress or the Senate. Might as well.
7She was there at the time… I presume????
8Jesus was never missing. He knew where he was all the time.
9Pepper, and so did his Holy Father…
10Well, at least she didn’t get a chance to repeal child labor laws, since Joseph put Jesus to work at an early age as a carpenter and we wouldn’t want Joseph charged with that crime either.
11Hansel and Gretel was a great fairy tale, too. Does that mean I should shove Sister Mary Margaret Mudhen into the hearth?
12And speaking of things gone missing, it only seems appropriate to quote our former President George W Bush, on a comment that was so true when spoken, and still is today:
“What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is. …
13Sitte was a first-term senator who got ousted 57% to 43% by her Democratic challenger, Erin Oban, who is married to the state party chairman. The district stretches across the north part of the state capital, Bisamarck. Sitte was a key North Dakota Senate sponsor of Measure 1 on the November ballot, which would have amended the state constitution to provide for the “inalienable right to life” at every stage of human development, including the earliest stages of fetal development. That referendum question was defeated almost 2-to-1. North Dakota is overwhelmingly Republican, but voters this time left several warnings with the Republicans that they’ve been overstepping their bounds.
14Rick… I think you meant former Vice President Dan Quayle, but it is an understandable mistake you made. It’s hard to tell the feckless, draft-dodging, word-salad-tossing, anti-intellectual progeny of rich families apart without a scorecard.
15daChipster –
Yes, it was the Quayle! But to paraphrase Forrest Gump (I’ll get this attribution right) W. & Quayle, “was just like peas and carrots.”
We can only imagine the golden age of comedy that would have been ushered in had W & Quayle been Prez & Vice Prez at the same time. We probably would have died laughing, but not in a good way.
16She must also be against statutory rape laws, or what I call “Make the Holy Spirit a Predator” laws, because Mary was a young teen when she conceived by the Holy Spirit.
Slap the cuffs on THAT, Chris Hansen!
17Margaret Sitte is dumber than Louie Gohmert. And I didn’t think that was even possible.
18My theo school child assures me Jesus was aboot 12 yoa at the time. In other words old enough to understand the consequences of his act of wandering off. And there he was found in the temple questioning the graybeards.
By comparison Caylee Anthony was 2.
19I lived in Fargo, ND for three years. Fine people. Reverent and not on the level of stupidity of one Margaret Sitte.
20If Quayle had been VP instead of Cheney we might not have gone to war in Iraq. Maybe not Afghanistan either. Quayle didn’t have an interest in Haliburton that I know of.
21Oh come on. Isn’t anyone going to bring up John Prine and his Jesus the Missing Years?
22@Monty: I’ve never thought that it would be possible to be even be dumber that Louie Gomer either. I guess that between them, they have fewer braincells that a rutabaga. Dumber than a whole damned truckload of rocks. Of course those who have driven Houston freeways know what it’s like to get behind a gravel truck with no cover. Rocks bounce out of those things and aim straight for your windshield. Or that’s been my experience anyway. That and finding a way in heavy traffic to get around the damned truck!
Diane
23My husband actually got online today, googling religious discussions and asked for their answer re: “is a fertilized egg a human being”? He had an interesting discussion with them which carried over to our supper table. I told him they were nuts.
24I can’t help but wonder just what problem she figured her bill would solve. Would it help out people who want to keep their dead children to themselves for more than 24 hours? Or was it intended to help people whose children went missing and they didn’t want them searched for?
25Luke 2:41-50
Jesus’s parents thought he was with relatives in another part of the caravan but when they went to get him AT THE END OF THE FIRST DAY they found he wasn’t with those family members. It took another three days to find him back in Jerusalem where they went to search. So they looked for him for FOUR days; they didn’t ignore his absence for that time. GEEZ, for such big-time Christians, they’ve apparently missed the whole trajectory of the event. It seems few have actually read the story – they may prefer the punishing Old Testament to the mercy and forgiveness of the New Testament.
26In the first century AD a twelve year old male was considered an adult. Most were working or learning a trade by the time they were six or seven. Average age at death was 25-27. No medicine, no hygiene, rampant disease carried off most children before they were two.
Maybe Sitte should “sitte” the next election out.
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