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Best Quote of the Week

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“I’m a 34-year-old NBA center.  I’m black.  And I’m gay.”

– Jason Collins, a 12-year NBA veteran who currently plays for the Washington Wizards.  Collins has become the first openly gay athlete from a major team sport.

The professional sports world is in a cultural uproar now that one of their own has jumped out of the closet.  Homophobia remains entrenched in professional sports, especially among the men.  You know what this means, of course?  There really is a fag in the shower!  But, I think they’re reaction should be more like my father’s – a true macho man who once thought it was okay to beat up gay guys in the Army – ‘So?’

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Worst Quote of the Week

“Clearly, we need faith as a component, and it’s just silly to say otherwise.  You know the Age of Enlightenment and Reason gave way to moral relativism.  And moral relativism is what led us all the way down the dark path to the Holocaust… Dark periods of history is what we arrive at when we leave God out of the equation.”

– Penny Nance, CEO of Concerned Women for America, in response to a proposal for a “National Day of Reason” made by Charlotte, North Carolina Mayor Anthony Foxx.  Foxx, whom President Obama has nominated for Secretary of Transportation, suggested the “National Day of Reason” be held in conjunction with the “National Day of Prayer.”

So apparently just asking people to be reasonable and actually try to think before they act somehow leads to genocide?  The Nazi Holocaust remains one of the worst human-made calamities in modern history, and when people like Nance try to connect it liberal ideology, it diminishes its severity.  It’s a collective slap in the face to the millions of people who lost their lives in that event and in other similar atrocities.  Note to Nance and the cantankerous heifers that comprise CWA: people don’t commit mass murder because they sat down and thought about it for a while!

You know, I’m all for reason and logic!  We don’t have enough of it in Washington or in the mainstream media these days!

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Funniest Quote of the Week

“I’m not the strapping young Muslim Socialist that I used to be.”

– President Obama, poking fun at right-wing conspiracy theories in his speech at this year’s annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.

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Strangest Quote of the Week

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“Maybe the court should have said, ‘We’re not going to take it, goodbye.’”

– Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, in an interview with the Chicago Tribune about Bush v. Gore and the 2000 presidential election.

In case you’ve been in a coma since 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court took up the case of Bush v. Gore because the state of Florida couldn’t decide what the hell they were doing with its own damn election system.  The Court ordered Florida to stop recounting ballots and essentially handed then-Governor George W. Bush the U.S. presidency.  It’s strangely coincidental that Bush’s younger brother, Jeb, was governor of Florida at the time.  Now, look at the mess they created!  Hindsight is always 20/20.

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World Press Freedom Day 2013

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Today, May 3, 2013, is World Press Freedom Day, a day to celebrate and honor the value of a free press.  It started in 1993, when the United Nations General Assembly decided to highlight the need for truly independent media – free of censorship.  In scores of countries around the world, media outlets are banned from presenting controversial subjects.  Journalists, editors and publishers have been harassed, injured and even murdered amidst valiant efforts to publicize the truth about an event or a circumstance.  In the past decade, some 600 journalists, social media producers and media workers have been killed while reporting news to the general public.  It’s evident in México, for example, as that nation wages an ill-fated war on drugs.  But, it can be as seemingly mundane as China’s ongoing internet censorship.  Even here in the U.S., the Bush Administration forbade media coverage of the flag-draped coffins of dead military personnel being returned from Iraq and Afghanistan under the guise of privacy concerns for the families.

A free press is synonymous with free speech; the two ideals are intrinsically bonded and are hallmarks of a truly democratic state.  As bloggers, it’s our obligation to uphold this mantle.  Civilization depends on it.

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Yes, this cartoon is in poor taste, as it appears to mock a tragedy.  But, the real horror is that 14 people lost their lives in the explosion of a plant that hadn’t been inspected by Texas state regulators since 1985.  Then again, ‘regulation’ is a foul word here – in the same vein as the term ‘Democrat.’  As usual, the average, hard-working citizen suffers the ill effects of business deregulation.

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Smartest Quote of the Week

Grandma Bush in a rare moment of lucidity.

Grandma Bush in a rare moment of lucidity.

“We’ve had enough Bushes.”

– Former First Lady Barbara Bush, to Matt Lauer on Today, about her son, Jeb, running for president in 2016.

Somebody throw cold water on my face!  I can’t believe this old woman actually said something halfway decent!  But, damn!  Where the hell was she 13 years ago?!

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Dumbass Quote of the Week 2

Gohmert keeping East Texas safe from Islamicized Hispanic types.

Gohmert keeping East Texas safe from Islamicized Hispanic types.

 

“We know Al Qaeda has camps over with the drug cartels on the other side of the Mexican border.  We know that people that are now being trained to come in and act like Hispanic [sic] when they are radical Islamists.  We know these things are happening.  It is just insane not to protect ourselves, to make sure that people come in as most people do … They want the freedoms we have.”

– U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, warning that “radical Islamists” are being “trained to act like Hispanic[s]” and cross the U.S. – Mexico border.

Damn!  I should have known that wearing diapers on your head and riding camels wasn’t the new ‘Mexican thing!’  Now, I’ll be forced to look at all other Hispanics – especially those dark-skinned ones – in a different beer sign light!  Hell, some of them may be in my own family!   When will the madness stop?!

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Dumbass Quote of the Week 1

Hansen surrounded by apparently clueless vaginas.

Hansen surrounded by apparently clueless vaginas.

“There were two critical ingredients missing in the illustrious stories purporting to demonstrate the practical side of retreat.  Not that retreat may not be possible mind you.  What could possibly be missing from those factual tales of successful retreat in VT, Germany, and the bowels of Amsterdam?  Why children and vaginas of course.  While the tales relate the actions of a solitary male the outcome cannot relate to similar situations where children and women and mothers are the potential victims.”

– New Hampshire state Rep. Peter Hansen, in an argument against repealing that state’s “stand your ground” gun law.

Guns, vaginas…hm.  That’s actually a dangerous combination – especially one week out of the month.  Hansen later apologized in a written statement, but said he’d used the word for its mere shock value.  But, you know, that pussy is already out of the bag!

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Thoughts and Prayers for West, Texas

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“Then I was standing on the highest mountain of them all,

And round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world.

And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw;  

For I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit,

And the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.

And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops

That made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight,

And in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter,

All the children of one mother and one father.

And I saw that it was holy.”

“Black Elk’s Great Vision” – Black Elk, 1931

This is for the victims of last week’s fertilizer plant explosion in the tiny central Texas hamlet of West.  The blast and ensuing fire killed 14 and injured more than 200.  The town is almost completely devastated.  It’s sadly ironic this incident occurred right before Earth Day; considering that highly volatile ammonium nitrate fertilizer is the key component in the debacle.

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