I Read the News Today, Oh Boy...

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 Ya know, it’s really hard to stay engaged when this, THIS is what’s in the news:

Christie Vows Crackdown On Legal Weed As Soon As He's Prez
Yeah dude, sure. That makes total sense.
The gap between the haves and the have nots in this country has become Grand Canyon-esque, the middle class is evaporating but sure, focus on a outlawing a helpful, legal med instead.

North Carolina GOP Chair Ties Hillary Clinton To The KKK
Christ on herbed crostini, the folks on the “Right” just can’t help themselves—can they? They've got no fucking shame OR moral backbone. There’s no level they won’t sink to. What happened? Did they get bored with screaming Benghazi?

I hit up Politifact and History.com for enlightenment.

Details about the hate group’s founding are murky -- including the exact year it began. Some cite 1865 as its start, others say it was 1867. Historians generally agree it was founded by a handful of Confederate veterans in Pulaski, Tenn. as a social fraternity and it quickly changed into a violent group that terrorized newly empowered black and white Republicans in the South.

A group including many former Confederate veterans founded the first branch of the Ku Klux Klan as a social club in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1866.

Bottom line—what was true in 1865 is not in 2015. The Republicans are no longer “The Party of Lincoln.” The Radical Republicans who, in 1865, bucked Lincoln’s leniency, and pushed for insurance that newly freed blacks would be protected and given their rights as Americans are long gone. Those Southern Democrats who joined the KKK? Yeah, they’re toast too.

So, Hasan Harnett baby doll, cut the shit, man. You show yourself as one of the more vile, empty brained, scum suckers of the "right." You’ve a grand future with the GOP. Gotta ask...couldn't you get a real, honest gig anywhere?

Senate GOP Fast-Tracks Bill To Defund Planned Parenthood

After a group of GOP senators huddled Tuesday afternoon to discuss the recently released undercover “sting" videos of Planned Parenthood, Republicans unveiled legislation to strip the family planning provider of its federal funding.

Yes, they want to defund a medical organization which does incredible good because they’re buying a trumped up lie. A very convenient lie at that. The vid’s a deceitful piece of editorial bullshit shenanigans and reactionery fever dreams but when has truth ever mattered to the “right?”

Congressional Republicans are capitalizing on right-wing media's phony outrage over the deceptively edited videos released by anti-choice conservative group Center for Medical Progress to push legislation to defund Planned Parenthood.
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In a video released on July 21, the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) claimed to have recorded a Planned Parenthood official "haggling over" prices for fetal tissue donations and offering to change abortion procedure techniques "to get more intact fetuses."

American Dentist Identified As Killer Of Famed Lion In Zimbabwe

Cecil the lion was shot with a bow and arrow, then stalked for 40 hours before he was finally killed with a rifle.

A Minnesota dentist who allegedly shot and killed Zimbabwe’s most famous lion had a history of shooting big game outside of legal hunting zones.

I cried when I saw this. Walter James Palmer is one sick bastard as are all the miscreants who assist him in realizing his tiny dicked, Big Game Hunter dreams.

Palmer, you repulsive piece of used jet trash, you collection of misshapen cells, WHY are you killing these magnificent endangered beings!? You’re an abomination and I hope your life crashes and burns for this. 

Okay, I gotta go watch some cartoons, pat Coco and Rocco, take a trike ride, go work on my rabbit-headed nude painting, make The Amazing Bob some breakfast and NOT read any more news.

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