A mysterious conservative group has been placing highly-misleading phone calls to South Carolina voters, trying to dissuade them from voting for the Democrat in an upcoming congressional special election. South Carolina has a reputation for dirty tricks, and next week’s special election between former Gov. Mark Sanford (R) and businesswoman Elizabeth Colbert Busch.
Oh my god, look at some of these questions.
- “What would you think of Elizabeth Colbert Buschif I told you she had had an abortion?”
- “What would you think of Elizabeth Colbert Busch if I told you a judgeheld her in contempt of court at her divorce proceedings?
- “What would you think of Elizabeth Colbert Busch if I told youshe was caught running up a charge account bill?”
Because all women do is get abortions, lie in divorce proceedings, all while USING THEIR CREDIT CARDS. lolzsillywomen.
What happens when a conservative website “discovers” a study that studies the explosive corkscrew nature of duck genitalia and how it relates to sexual evolution? Their commenters completely lose their minds at the idea that the government would fund such basic science research (srsly, read the comments … or actually maybe don’t).
Science is a journey of unknowns, a slow and careful march into uncharted territories of human knowledge. We can not predict how research will benefit humanity, because those benefits might be years, or even decades down the road. Or they might not materialize at all.
You can’t fund the invention of an MRI machine, instead you fund basic research in the physics of magnetic resonance on living tissues. Likewise, studies of sexual conflict in ducks can unlock the secrets of our own evolution, and might even help us understand mysterious conditions like preeclampsia (which killed Sybil on Downton Abbey, an event I have not fully recovered from).
This is why it is so important to share science with your friends, and to make sure that scientists and science folks everywhere are connecting with the public. Because if you don’t communicate your science, then someone else will do it for you, and nefariously.
By this point, you probably want to see the slo-mo videos of those explosive corkscrew genitalia, right? Here ya go.
Perhaps most tragically, the critics seem to be missing the easy opportunity to make “stimulus package” jokes … which is funny, I don’t care who ya are.
Palestinian groom Emad al-Malalha, 21, walks with Manal Abu Shanar, 17, his Egyptian bride inside a smuggling tunnel beneath the Gaza-Egypt border in the southern Gaza Strip on March 21, 2013. Al-Malalha , who said that his bride was not given a permit from Egyptian authorities to enter the Gaza Strip, brought her from neighbouring Egypt through a smuggling tunnel to celebrate his wedding in his native Gaza Strip.
"No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free."
i see the humor in this and everything but if this reaches the desired amount of signatures, the number will only go up because this is not an actual petition to make an actual positive change and yeah havent you all learned anything from death star
man theres a time and a place and when one of the most powerful nations on the planet is refusing to acknowledge peoples rights and spending billions of dollars on wars and torturing prisoners and being taken over by corporations it is not the time or place to be doing bullshit like this
i fucking hate these fake petitions. why can’t anyone put effort into positive, real changes? amazing how people always have time to sign these stupid fucking joke petitions but never take time to sign any real petitions that could actually save lives or stop violence.
My thoughts exactly. I love the humor, but we have an opportunity to make those politician dickweeds pay attention, and we’re wasting it on a fucking R. Kelly song? America is so fucking stupid.
The pillars of the Right Wing are “forgotten” when trying to attack Obama.
One of the few non-horrible things that Ronald Reagan ever did.
It’s become Conservative practice to twist history to suit their needs, much in the same way that they twist their own Bible to suit their needs. It’s like when today’s Republicans try to co-opt Lincoln’s accomplishments for their own, completely disregarding his progressivism.
Press Wakes Up to Romney’s Lies, Says There’s ‘no excuse’ for ‘astonishingly misleading’ Jeep Ad
Well it’s about time.
The Romney campaign has jumped the lie shark with their new ad slyly building on the lie that Chrysler is moving Jeep jobs to China. Romney told this easily disproven falsehood to Ohioans at a rally last week. Chrysler pointed out that a “careful and unbiased” understanding “would have saved unnecessary fantasies and extravagant comments.”
When asked to comment on Romney’s claims, the Romney campaign at first refused to comment and then defended the lie with an already debunked Bloomberg article that everyone knows is wrong. The press is not impressed. It seems they have finally met a lie they can’t excuse.
Here’s a roundup of the brutal reaction:
Detroit Free Press: “Not only was the story wrong, Romney took criticism for not knowing better and repeating it without questioning it.”
Toledo Blade: “‘The latest Romney ad, I will grant you, is a clever play on words to avoid saying things that are utterly false,’ Mr. Rattner said, referring to a new Romney ad out today. But he said the implication of the ad is ‘just not true. Chrysler is adding people. It’s made major investments in the Toledo Wrangler plant.’”
Huffington Post: “Where the ad goes from misleading to something more nefarious is in the text it shows. At one point, it displays a line from a Bloomberg story stating that Chrysler “plans to return Jeep output to China,” the implication being that the company is moving operations there as opposed to expanding operations that are already there.”
Wall Street Journal: “So far, the Romney campaign hasn’t issued a public statement on the flap.”
When asked to comment on Romney’s claims, the Romney campaign at first refused to comment and then defended the lie with an already debunked Bloomberg article that everyone knows is wrong. The press is not impressed. It seems they have finally met a lie they can’t excuse.
Oh, so I guess “It’s the White House for a reason” is a thing now. Alex Zeagler’s is my favorite: “on the off chance this is racist, don’t worry ‘coz it’s not offensive.”
That reason is because, you know, it’s a house that is white.
God I hate people…but especially these people.
Because it’s totally not racist if you say it’s not racist…. bastards!
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Palestinian groom Emad al-Malalha, 21, walks with Manal Abu Shanar, 17, his Egyptian bride inside a smuggling tunnel beneath the Gaza-Egypt border in the southern Gaza Strip on March 21, 2013. Al-Malalha , who said that his bride was not given a permit from Egyptian authorities to enter the Gaza Strip, brought her from neighbouring Egypt through a smuggling tunnel to celebrate his wedding in his native Gaza Strip.
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