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A coupla other Fugelsang concepts that stand out for me:

sometimes atheists are the best Christians

-and-

separation of Church and Faith 

John Fugelsang:

The Rubin Report

John Fugelsang - Facebook

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Yeah OK - it's a little Man-Bash-y.  Tough shit.  You can deal.  Be a man about it.

Fake Lord Have Mercy

hat tip = bosom buddy Lollie B

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I think it's worth noting that there's a fairly obvious connection here: a rapist being able to deny his victim's right to abort "his" "child", and then to sue for his "right" to be involved in that kid's life is coming almost straight outa the really shitty parts of The Bible that have god telling certain Israelites that it's OK to kidnap and rape women as a means of obtaining a family.

That's pretty fucked up right there, buy hey - it's what the TheoCons do.

Allow me to reiterate Mike's Manifesto on this particular subject:

Abortion is very serious, and so it MUST be closely restricted -

...to women

    ...who are pregnant

        ...and decide not to be pregnant

No exceptions

If you're not the one who's pregnant

(and especially if you were born with that Y chromosome)

then your opinion is duly noted

and you can shut the fuck up now

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— Teta (@Hora_Teta) May 19, 2016

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On Monday morning, every American considering political office got a lesson in taking caution while posting anything to social media. Mike Webb, Virginia Congressional candidate, inadvertently revealed his taste in porn to Facebook. Initially, Webb had only meant to post a screenshot of phone records, along with a Yahoo search of Curzon Staffing Agency, whom he claims prank called him about a job offer. The candidate's post attracted the attention of the public for an entirely different reason. Before snapping screenshots, Webb apparently forgot to close what appear to be two porn sites. The sites' names, which are truncated by the tab label, read "LAYLA RIVERA TIGHT BO" and "IVONE SEXY AMATEUR."

 

What is it about Virginia Politicians these days? 

And oh yeah - GOP - what the fuck, guys?

And So It Goes

Remember all that bullshit last year about "The War On Cops"?  

It's open season on police - Blue Lives Matter - all those rotten brown people fomenting  violence against our noble officers blahblahblah.

Well, it was exactly the bullshit many of us said it was, and the FBI confirms it.

Via HuffPo:

The data contrasts with the claims from some conservative media outlets and police union bosses who have continued to peddle the narrative that officers are under siege. The past two years have seen a surge in police reform activism in the wake of Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson, Missouri, and other high-profile instances of police killing civilians. But critics of this movement allege that groups like Black Lives Matter promote violence against officers, and have helped wage a “war on cops.”

And:

“The FBI statistics on police officer felonious deaths show that belief that the job is growing more dangerous, because of protests against police or because of the demand for reform to police practices, is simply wrong,” Harris wrote in an email. “Belief to the contrary may be sincere, but it has no basis in fact.”

Battling the endless parade of "conservative" crapola

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Well time for lunch catch ya'all tomorrow pic.twitter.com/doQZjbEeMN

— Linda Collins (@LindaCollins11) May 17, 2016

Let the PhotoShop wars begin.

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