BS: Another Republican F**kwit

Subject: BS: Another Republican F**kwit
From: Greg F.
Date: 22 Aug 12 - 09:18 PM

Texas judge warns of possible 'civil war' if President Obama is re-elected

By Jason Sickles, Yahoo! News | The Lookout – 22 August 2012

As if the negative political ads aren't enough, now a county judge in Lubbock, Texas, predicts possible "civil war" if President Obama is re-elected.

Judge Tom Head was on a local TV news show making his case for a tax increase, when he said hiring extra sheriff's deputies would especially be needed if Obama wins in November.

From Lubbock's Fox 34 News:

    "He's going to try to hand over the sovereignty of the United States to the U.N., and what is going to happen when that happens?," Head asked.

    "I'm thinking the worst. Civil unrest, civil disobedience, civil war maybe. And we're not just talking a few riots here and demonstrations, we're talking Lexington, Concord, take up arms and get rid of the guy.

    "Now what's going to happen if we do that, if the public decides to do that? He's going to send in U.N. troops. I don't want 'em in Lubbock County. OK. So I'm going to stand in front of their armored personnel carrier and say 'you're not coming in here'.

    "And the sheriff, I've already asked him, I said 'you gonna back me' he said, 'yeah, I'll back you'. Well, I don't want a bunch of rookies back there. I want trained, equipped, seasoned veteran officers to back me."


"I have some opinions what they're doing and what they're trying to do if they stay in power," he said. "And I have to prepare for that."

Subject: RE: BS: Another Republican F**kwit
From: gnu
Date: 22 Aug 12 - 09:22 PM

Oh dear!

Subject: RE: BS: Another Republican F**kwit
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 22 Aug 12 - 09:29 PM

Dear me!!
(:-( 0)=

Subject: RE: BS: Another Republican F**kwit
From: EBarnacle
Date: 22 Aug 12 - 10:10 PM

Maybe we should encourage them to secede and put a fence around them to keep them out, as well as insisting on their showing papers which prove they have a right to be outside without a minder. Needless to say, the papers must be carried at all times and be produced on demand.

Subject: RE: BS: Another Republican F**kwit
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 22 Aug 12 - 10:11 PM

It's hard to believe anyone like that is a judge. If he thinks his opinion will make me vote for Romney, he's wrong.

Subject: RE: BS: Another Republican F**kwit
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Aug 12 - 10:19 PM

It's Texas.... 'nuff said...

Subject: RE: BS: Another Republican F**kwit
From: Beer
Date: 22 Aug 12 - 11:12 PM

See how easy it is to start a war. There are some very sick folks in positions of power.
Adrien

Subject: RE: BS: Another Republican F**kwit
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Aug 12 - 11:23 PM

That's not fair to Texas. There were some really good folk to come out of there.

This, though! O ye gawds and little fishes. He should be hauled in and investigated for treason...he said right there he wants to "get rid of the guy."

Subject: RE: BS: Another Republican F**kwit
From: Beer
Date: 22 Aug 12 - 11:36 PM

Some great folks and wonderful musicians from Texas.
Austin City Limits was and maybe still is the best music show ever. Is it still happening?
ad.

Subject: RE: BS: Another Republican F**kwit
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Aug 12 - 11:44 PM

YES! It is!

Subject: RE: BS: Another Republican F**kwit
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 23 Aug 12 - 03:15 AM

The idea that a judge is nor precluded by his office from this sort of political comment is quite fantastic.

Subject: RE: BS: Another Republican F**kwit
From: GUEST,999
Date: 23 Aug 12 - 03:41 AM

Posted without comment which is really a comment, no comment.

Subject: RE: BS: Another Republican F**kwit
From: GUEST,Marks
Date: 23 Aug 12 - 08:07 AM

Forgot how funny those old bits were.

My favorite was

When the judge is mad there's hell to pay
Everybody going to jail today!

Here come the judge, here come the judge!

Ahhh - this inspired the 1969 Pontiac GTO!

Mark

Subject: RE: BS: Another Republican F**kwit
From: GUEST,redhorse at work
Date: 23 Aug 12 - 08:51 AM

"Judge Tom Head was on a local TV news show........" Are you sure that's Tom, not Dick?

Subject: RE: BS: Another Republican F**kwit
From: Bettynh
Date: 23 Aug 12 - 09:27 AM

We have them in NH, too.

MANCHESTER, N.H. —
A Republican candidate for Hillsborough County Sheriff said Wednesday that he believes elective abortions are unlawful and he wouldn't reject the use of deadly force to stop them.
Frank Szabo said that as sheriff, he would arrest any doctor performing elective or late-term abortions in his jurisdiction.

"There is a difference between legal and lawful," Szabo said.

Szabo explained the difference by referring to the issue of slavery, which he said used to be legal but was never lawful under the Constitution. He said that even though elective abortions are legal in New Hampshire, with some restrictions, he doesn't consider them lawful.

But Szabo may have inflamed the issue further when asked if he would use deadly force to prevent an abortion.

"I would respond specifically by saying that if someone is under threat, a full-grown human being, if they're under threat, what should the sheriff do? Everything in their power to prevent them from being harmed," he said.

When pressed about what he would do if he learned that a doctor was about to perform an elective abortion, Szabo replied he would do what it took to prevent that from happening.

"Absolutely," he said. "Well, I would hope that it wouldn't come to that, as with any situation where someone is in danger, but again, specifically talking about elective abortions and late-term abortions, that is an act that needs to be stopped."

Subject: RE: BS: Another Republican F**kwit
From: Sawzaw
Date: 23 Aug 12 - 09:34 AM

Minn. lawmaker in rest stop scandal won't drop bid

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota Democrat who had a rest-stop sexual encounter with a 17-year-old boy said Wednesday he's still running for re-election, defying party leaders who urged him to drop out as they battle to regain control of the state Legislature.

Rep. Kerry Gauthier, 56, told Northland's NewsCenter in Duluth that he will let people in his district decide his political future, "rather than the political power base in St. Paul." Gauthier told the news network he is "a better person than this incident portrayed me."

Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton said Gauthier's decision would be "destructive" for his reputation, his district, his party and the state.

Police say Gauthier admitted engaging in oral sex with the boy on July 22 after the first-term lawmaker from Duluth advertised on Craigslist for "no strings attached" sex. Police declined to charge him because the boy was older than 16, the legal age of consent, and no money was exchanged.

Gauthier has not returned repeated calls and messages from The Associated Press since the scandal broke.

"I am sorry for the hurt this has caused my family, friends and my constituents. I know I made a mistake and am determined to make amends as best I can," Gauthier said in a statement posted online by the Duluth News Tribune.

He appeared in a photo on the network's website with a few supporters. In the interview, Gauthier explained his hospitalization last week as the story became public by saying he had taken several muscle relaxants and lost consciousness.

"I took an overdose of pills to not feel any pain and this resulted in my hospitalization," he said in the statement, adding that he has been in recovery from chemical dependency for 30 years with one relapse.

Gauthier told the station his unwillingness to accept he is gay led him to engage in the inappropriate liaison in a public place. He said he is getting counseling. He also said he feels badly for the teen and wouldn't talk specifically about the incident to protect the boy.

"I can change my behavior, but I cannot change the fact that I am a gay man, and have known this since my college days. I simply must act like a mature gay man would act, and not as the incident portrays me," the network quoted him as saying.

His decision drew condemnation from Democratic leaders including Dayton, who urged Gauthier to drop out of the race. Democrats need to gain at least six House seats in November to take control of the chamber. Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Chairman Ken Martin and House Minority Leader Paul Thissen said Gauthier would get no support from the party or the House DFL caucus.

"It's a terrible mistake on his part," Dayton told reporters at the Capitol. "I think it's just something that goes beyond the morals of Minnesotans — to solicit on Craigslist sex with a minor and do it in a public area, publicly owned area, as a state legislator, and come back to the parking lot with his clothes disheveled. It's not about whether it's a same-sex or a heterosexual act. It would be the same if it were the same circumstances involving a heterosexual individual."

Sen. Roger Reinert, DFL-Duluth, who shares a district with Gauthier, earlier urged Gauthier to skip a Friday special session on flood relief for his district and surrounding areas hit by severe flash floods in June. Reinert said Gauthier would be a distraction and could end up being censured by majority Republicans, or even blocked from taking his seat in the House chamber.

"That's not what we need right now," Reinert said. "What we need is all eyes and efforts focused on recovery."

Republican leaders called on Gauthier to resign immediately, but Dayton and other Democrats have not.

Dayton said his signed agreement for the special session with top Republican and Democratic legislative leaders would preclude a House vote on Gauthier's conduct because it limits the scope of the special session. A spokeswoman for the GOP House caucus had no immediate comment.

Rep. Tom Huntley, a Democrat whose Duluth district adjoins Gauthier's, told the Duluth News Tribune he considers Gauthier a "child molester."

"Why would anybody support someone that did what he did?" Huntley said in an Associated Press interview. "I am a strong supporter of gay rights, but that does not mean 55-year-olds with 17-year-olds. And I just can't imagine the public would approve of that."

But Gauthier has support from labor activists, including Alan Netland of the Northeast Area Labor Council.

"He had a personal problem but it doesn't affect the fact that he's a great representative for working people," Netland said.

Duluth firefighter Erik Simonson launched a bid as a write-in Democratic candidate for Gauthier's seat Tuesday. Duluth City Councilor Jay Fosle also has filed paperwork to run as a write-in candidate. Republican Travis Silvers already is on the ballot.

Subject: RE: BS: Another Republican F**kwit
From: GUEST,Lighter
Date: 23 Aug 12 - 10:10 AM

I'm old enough to remember the early '60s when the John Birch Society first claimed that the President was preparing to turn US sovereignty over to the UN.

That President was Dwight Eisenhower, war hero and conservative Republican. The ultra-right-wing Birchers claimed that Ike was a paid agent of the USSR, just like his predecessor, Harry Truman.

Much of their evidence was the fact that neither Truman nor Eisenhower had obliterated the godless Soviets with atom bombs when they'd had the chance. They also believed that the Commie UN, with Ike's connivance, had secretly placed a Red Chinese Army in Mexico for use against America.

Fifty years ago the Birchers, with thousands of members mainly in the South and Midwest, were newsworthy for being insane and possibly dangerous.

About fifteen years ago an otherwise sane person told me the same story about the UN and the Red Chinese. In his version it was Clinton who was responsible.

That's folklore for ya!

Subject: RE: BS: Another Republican F**kwit
From: Bettynh
Date: 23 Aug 12 - 12:35 PM

The John Birch Society is still active here.
They used to meet at the public library and screen "Red Dawn" once a month, but they seem to be meeting elsewhere now.

We can check one box and elect every candidate from a party. So this one snuck in with George W. He was out of office before he got sworn in.

Subject: RE: BS: Another Republican F**kwit
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 23 Aug 12 - 12:36 PM

When ultra-right-wingers fear the election of liberals, they talk of the result leading to civil war.

When ultra-left-wingers fear the election of conservatives, they talk of the result leading to revolution.

See the difference?

Subject: RE: BS: Another Republican F**kwit
From: GUEST,gillymor
Date: 23 Aug 12 - 03:27 PM

no

Subject: RE: BS: Another Republican F**kwit
From: Bev and Jerry
Date: 23 Aug 12 - 05:25 PM

Since most of the original members of The John Birch Society have passed on, we hear that some of their descendants have reorganized the society using a new name: The Sons of Birches

Bev and Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Another Republican F**kwit
From: Bobert
Date: 23 Aug 12 - 06:26 PM

Redneck Nation is very pissed off at having a black president... I guess that if you were to strip off all the bullshit with them you'd find that underneath it they are just mad because they are losers...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Another Republican F**kwit
From: GUEST,999
Date: 23 Aug 12 - 07:45 PM

Well, unless you folks want the pointy part of a sharp knife, I think y'all outta stop shittin' on Obama and Romney and start thinking about who's going to do anything in your interest. You had eight years from hell under George W Bush, the stupidest sonamabitch ever elected to an office of public responsibility, and now, looking at the two candidates, let me ask again: which one is most likely to ensure the rich are protected from the IRS, EPA, CIA, FBI, ICC, ICE, DHS, EIEIO!

Uh, lemme see. Would the correct answer be

Who is Mitt Romney?

DING DING DING

Sorry folks, but I'd rather have the least rich of the two speaking on my behalf, not that anyone with millions would ever understand me, my hopes or needs. How disregarding of people do ya have to be to amass hundreds of millions of dollars? Shit, son, use yer damned head.

Obama has made health care available to tens of millions of people. Goddammit, are you not proud as a country that he did that? Are you not proud as citizens that YOU did that? WTF kind of world do you all think about? Dream about? One where mega corporations, lawyers, multinationals, banks and bullshit "news" (read cheap entertainment for self-induced and self-produced f**kwits) agencies feed the general malaise?

Is the new "American Dream" to walk past homeless people and admonish them for being homeless? To say they deserve to be so?

Is the new "American Dream" to once again convince the world that America is the land of the free and the home of the brave? I ask, because just now it looks like, smells like and seems like garden-variety bullshit to me. I know, because we have the same slime working its magic in Canada, and when the Brits wake up they'll see they have it, too.

I think it would be disastrous NOT to vote for Obama, and every Democrat you can. Your other party is out of control. From a nation that housed and accommodated the biggest bank robbery in the history of the world, under a Republican government, it would knell the loss of human rights, gathered kernel by kernel, since the Code of Hammurabi, by all people, everywhere.

You carry a great responsibility. I hope you shoulder it well.

Subject: RE: BS: Another Republican F**kwit
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Aug 12 - 07:51 PM

Bravo, Bruce!

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From: frogprince
Date: 23 Aug 12 - 07:53 PM

And AMEN

Subject: RE: BS: Another Republican F**kwit
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Aug 12 - 05:03 AM

Well, the John Birch Society is alive and well....at least, it has a Website: http://www.jbs.org/. Gee, they sound moderate when you compare them with the Tea Party Idiots "Patriots."

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Another Republican F**kwit
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Aug 12 - 05:29 AM

I got this e-mail from an acquaintance yesterday. I make a practice of sending something to oppose people I know who send me idiotic crap. I felt compelled to respond to this guy, but it did no good. Hell, he wrote back and called me a "liberal."

His e-mail:
For All My Friends and Family, Thoughts to ponder? I have thought of these very things for the past few years. Hasn't Eric Holder even basically said this?   
I am not a prejudice or a racist by any standard, but how true the following letter is. If you believe this, pass it on or just delete. Read to the end.

I have been wondering about why Whites are racists, and no other race is......
Michael Richards makes his point...and whether we like it or not, he is telling the truth.

Michael Richards better known as Kramer from TVs Seinfeld does make a good point.

This was his defense speech in court after making racial comments in his comedy act.

He makes some very interesting points...

Someone finally said it. How many are actually paying attention to this?

There are African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Arab Americans, etc.

And then there are just Americans.. You pass me on the street and sneer in my direction.

You call me 'White boy,' 'Cracker,' 'Honkey,' 'Whitey,' 'Caveman'.... And that's OK...

You say that whites commit a lot of violence against you....

So why are the ghettos the most dangerous places to live?

You have the United Negro College Fund. You have Martin Luther King Day.

You have Black History Month.

You have Cesar Chavez Day.

You have Yom Hashoah.

You have Ma'uled Al-Nabi.

You have the NAACP.

You have BET....

If we had WET (White Entertainment Television), we'd be racists.

If we had a White Pride Day, you would call us racists.

If we had White History Month, we'd be racists.

If we had any organization for only whites to 'advance' OUR lives, we'd be racists.
We have a Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, a Black Chamber of Commerce, and then we just have the plain Chamber of Commerce.

Wonder who pays for that??

A white woman could not be in the Miss Black American pageant, but any color can be in the Miss America pageant.

If we had a college fund that only gave white students scholarships... You know we'd be racists.

There are over 60 openly proclaimed Black Colleges in the US ..

Yet if there were 'White colleges', that would be a racist college.

In the Million Man March, you believed that you were marching for your race and rights.

If we marched for our race and rights, you would call us racists.

You are proud to be black, brown, yellow and orange, and you're not afraid to announce it.

But when we announce our white pride, you call us racists.

You rob us, car jack us, and shoot at us.

But, when a white police officer shoots a black gang member or beats up a black drug dealer running from the law and posing a threat to society, you call him a racist.

I am proud...... But you call me a racist.

Why is it that only whites can be racists??

There is nothing improper about this e-mail..

Let's see which of you are proud enough to send it on.

I sadly don't think many will.

That's why we have LOST most of OUR RIGHTS in this country.

We won't stand up for ourselves!
BE PROUD TO BE WHITE AND AMERICAN!

It's not a crime YET.... But getting very close!


It is estimated that ONLY 5% of those reaching this point in this e-mail, will pass it on.I DID!!

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My response:
Well, Dave, there's one basic difference: "White" is not an ethnic group. It has no cultural or ethnic ancestry to be proud of. It is a conglomeration of people who share only their skin color and their history of oppression of true minorities. Be proud of being German or Polish or French or whatever - those are legitimate cultural and ethnic heritages. To be proud of being white is ludicrous.

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His counter-response:
Typical liberal thought process. The premis of the article was that IF we did all those white things, we WOULD be accused of being racist. AND YOU KNOW IT.

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And my last words:
Well, Dave, I know you don't mean it that way, but an awful lot of people would find a piece like that to be offensive. If you were in the military, you could get fired for sending out something like that, even on your personal e-mail [Dave is a retired Air Force officer]. It's one of the most distasteful things I've seen come through my e-mail lately.

Subject: RE: BS: Another Republican F**kwit
From: Sawzaw
Date: 27 Aug 12 - 12:15 AM

As long as crap like this email circulates, people pointing out differences, racism will never die.

People say if you don't keep talking about racism we can't end it.

I believe the opposite is true. Yeah, People are different, get over it.

Subject: RE: BS: Another Republican F**kwit
From: GUEST,Lighter
Date: 27 Aug 12 - 10:47 AM

Joe, I began to list all the misconceptions, erroneous assumptions, logical fallacies, misapprehensions of language, etc., etc., in that letter, but I gave up. Too many!

The one most obvious: there have been prominent "black racists" (remember the Black Panther Party? Stokely Carmichael? H. Rap Brown? how about poet Amiri Baraka?). But since the white racists ran the show for more than 300 years, and wish they could do it again, they get most of the publicity.

There are Native American and East Asian racists too. And Hispanic "racists." Their power, so far, has been close to zero. So you don't hear much about them (except for the Japanese ruling class in WWII, whose ethnic opinion of everybody else was no secret).

Anybody who'd circulate that kind of screed, however, is probably beyond help.