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Michele Bachmann Said What!?

Your guide to the Minnesota firebrand's most outrageous, outlandish, and out-there remarks.

— By Tim Murphy

2003: Bachmann, then a state senator, explains why she doesn't agree with the theory of evolution: "Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat, which became a donkey, which became a human being? There’s a real lack of evidence from change from actual species to a different type of species. That's where it's difficult to prove." Don't even get her started on how a bill becomes a law.
2003: Bachmann sends out a Christmas Card advertising the availability of her youngest son, Lucas: "Chick magnate [sic] needs wife to put him through med school, clean house, pay bills and run his life. Must be willing to gamble against onslaught of socialized medicine diminishing return on investment."...................

 

oh WTF. let it go

you can dance around it all you want.  you can SAY she is right and knows her history. SHE IS FUCKING WRONG. WRONG. WRONG WRONG. she is ignorant (as am i). the difference between her and i is;

1) i don't shoot wolves from helicopters (or anywhere else)

2) i don't use my kids as shields

3) i know which journals and periodicals i read daily/weekly/monthly/annually

4) i KNOW the story of paul revere

5) i admit when i made a mistake

 

Palin fans attempt to rewrite Paul Revere’s Wikipedia page | The Raw Story
By David Edwards

Sarah Palin supporters are literally attempting to rewrite history after she flubbed the story of Paul Revere's ride last week last week, taking to Wikipedia with their own revisions to the beloved story in an effort to make Palin's version look true.

"He who warned the British that they weren't going to be taking away our arms uh by ringing those bells and making sure as he's riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free and we were going to be armed," Palin explained to reporters in Boston, Massachusetts Thursday.

But Wikipedia didn't back up Palin's suggestion that Revere's mission was to warn the British or that he rang bells in the process so her fans tried to update the page.............
 

this IS my kind o' theater

i too cannot abide by someone talking on the phone in places where they should NOT be (as an example at work last week, i walked into the loo. there was a woman in there on her cell phone. i washed my hands and kept glaring at her. she did NOT get the hint. so in the cute gentle voice i have - NOT - i said, 'go ahead and finish your conversation. i'll come back when YOU are done. sorry to have disrupted you'. really, that is rudeness squared) or texting (we had a two day class last week at work. a friend of mine was texting the WHOLE two days. right in front of the facilitator, who by the way was an outside hired contractor. i wanted to say something to the texter, but i didn't.) i use my phone, don't get me wrong, but i don't think it's at inappropriate times. 

from the alamo drafthouse cinema blog:

She texted. We kicked her out.

by Tim League

As many of you know, I really can't abide people who talk during a movie. A couple of years ago I was accosted in the Village parking lot by a patron who was warned for talking in a movie. I've nearly come to blows more than a few times over the years with rude customers over the same issue. When we adopted our strict no talking policy back in 1997 we knew we were going to alienate some of our patrons. That was the plan. If you can't change your behavior and be quiet (or unilluminated) during a movie, then we don't want you at our venue. Follow our rules, or get the hell out and don't come back until you can.  ...............

 

 

 

vid is nsfw:

 

she will NEVER EVER admit her ignorance

she will NEVER EVER admit she was wrong. she is ignorant and wrong MOST of the time. it's that simple

Palin defends Revere comments

She insists her narrative is accurate

Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin took to the airwaves yesterday to defend assertions, made during a visit to the North End on Thursday, that Paul Revere’s iconic ride was as much to warn to the British as it was to warn American colonists of an impending British attack on arms stores.  ppearing on Fox News Sunday, Palin bristled when anchor Chris Wallace suggested she had erred in her retelling of Paul Revere’s role in the event leading up to the Revolutionary War.

“You realized that you messed up about Paul Revere, don’t you?’’ said Wallace.

But Palin defended her previous statement on the purpose of Paul Revere’s famous ride.

“You know what? I didn’t mess up about Paul Revere,’’ said Palin, a paid Fox News contributor and possible GOP presidential candidate. “Part of his ride was to warn the British that we’re already there. That, hey, you’re not going to succeed. You’re not going to take American arms.’’........

pic: Sarah Palin left The Paul Revere House in the North End in Boston on Thursday. Yesterday she was questioned by anchor Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday. (Pat Greenhouse/ Globe Staff)

LOVE this kid!

this is absolutely terribly frightening news

and i am so very sad

women are NOT possessions. women are NOT creatures to be bought and sold and abused and made into slaves. 

Alleged Libyan rape victim deported from Qatar back to Libya



By Nic Robertson, CNN
(CNN) -- Eman al-Obeidy, who grabbed the world's attention this spring when she accused Moammar Gadhafi's security forces of gang raping her, has been forced back to Libya, which she had fled in fear.

Qatari authorities took her and her parents from a hotel in Doha, the capital, and forced them onto a military plane that left Qatar early Thursday and landed in rebel-held Benghazi. Al-Obeidy, who has gone into hiding in the city, said the Qataris beat and handcuffed her before forcing her onto the plane.

Al-Obeidy told a journalist that officials in the Transitional National Council had pressured the Qataris to expel her.

Hours before her deportation, Obeidy told CNN that armed guards had been posted outside her room, preventing the UNHCR represetative from assisting her..................

let them eat cake!

no medical coverage, no education, no home, no food. his peeps that is

but HE TAKES A FUCKING HELICOPTER TO HIS SON'S GAME THEN TAKES A CAR 100 YARDS TO AND FROM THE CHOPPER TO THE GAME? fuck dat shite

Christie took state helicopter to son's baseball game

Posted by Stephanie Condon   

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is taking heat from his political opponents and pundits who say his recent personal use of a state helicopter conflicts with his message of fiscal austerity.

Yesterday afternoon, Christie used a new, $12.5 million State Police helicopter to get to his son's baseball game at a high school in Morris Township, New Jersey, the New Jersey Star-Ledger reports. The helicopter was one of five new choppers the state recently purchased for homeland security duties and transporting critically injured patients.

After the helicopter landed in a nearby football field, Christie took a car the extra 100 yards to the baseball field, the Star-Ledger noted. He and his wife took the car back to the helicopter in the fifth inning and flew off..................

i was trying to avoid sarevil

 i just can't. i really can't keep quite. WHAT THE FUCK is she doing? making it ALL ABOUT HER on memorial day? come on now. going to see the 'statute' of liberty (and that was a twatter quote)

loving the SMELL OF EXHAUST?

what really and truly galls me though is some people actually would VOTE FOR HER. that's what i'm REALLY angry over.

(oh and i don't really think she's violating federal law with her look at me i'm sarevil flag-constitution bus. she's just violating good taste and ethics)

photo from lswain87's flickr photostream

the nutmeg grater: wow, some horrible news

the nutmeg grater: wow, some horrible news

i am

tiger grrrl!

via chateau thombeau some fight comic covers. here's ONE of 'em

douchebaggery is RAMPANT everywhere

from bob cesca's blog..

Allen West on DADT: Gays Can Change by JM Ashby

At an event hosted by the Heritage Foundation during which Rep. Allen West said we should expand our national defense budget rather than shrink it because the troops can’t afford toilet paper, West also went on to decry the repeal of DADT by saying we shouldn’t be appeasing “special interest groups.”
Speaking out against the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” West also said that the “rules are very clear in the United States military” and implied that sexuality was a choice.,.......................

a photoessay

on afgan's burned brides

Photographs by Elliott D. Woods

it's all ok. what's the big deal?

it's ok because 'THEY WEREN'T VIRGINS ANYWAY' or so says that egyptian general (who finally spilled the beans).

i was going to go on and on about the horrors of this. about treating women worse than a farm animal. about women never being equal to men (yes, even in america), well not in my lifetime. but i'm only going to say

imagine if one of these women were  your aunt,  your first grade teacher, your neighbor, your MOTHER, your SISTER,  your WIFE, your DAUGHTER. imagine..........


Horrifying: Egyptian Military Carried Out "Virginity Checks" on Captured Female Protesters

By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd 

Add another one to the horror stories behind the otherwise inspiring Egyptian protests this spring: an Egyptian general has admitted that the military carried out "virginity checks" on arrested female protesters. CNN:

"The girls who were detained were not like your daughter or mine," the general said. "These were girls who had camped out in tents with male protesters in Tahrir Square, and we found in the tents Molotov cocktails and (drugs).

The general said the virginity checks were done so that the women wouldn't later claim they had been raped by Egyptian authorities.

"We didn't want them to say we had sexually assaulted or raped them, so we wanted to prove that they weren't virgins in the first place," the general said. "None of them were (virgins).".........