• Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics

    Refudiate This, Sarah Palin

    January 9, 2011 - By 

    That’s your signature on that “take back the twenty” graphic that was taken down from your site earlier today. Gabrielle Giffords knew she was one of the “targets” during the election: “We’re on Sarah Palin’s targeted list, but, the thing is, that the way that she has it depicted, has the crosshairs of a gunsight over our district. When people do that, they’ve got to realize there’s consequences to that action.” —Gabrielle Giffords on MSNBC Words matter, and so do symbols. To an unbalanced man with a gun, this is like a shopping list. Via: Flickr Title: Repudiate This, Sarah…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Target: Gabrielle Giffords

    January 8, 2011 - By 

    “Though hardly the worst offender in Congress when it comes to gun control, she does believe that restrictions should be placed on gun ownership and right-to-carry–“… Via: Flickr Title: Target: Gabrielle Giffords By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 8 Jan ’11, 3.17pm CST PST

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Target: Gabrielle Giffords screenshot

    January 8, 2011 - By 

    This page from last August by a Palin supporter in Arizona was just taken down within the last hour after the horrific shooting in Tucson of Rep Giffords and others. The page uses violent rhetoric inspired by Sarah Palin’s "target" website which included Giffords in a list of 20 "targeted" Democrats. As a commenter noted after the news broke but before the takedown, "words matter." The pageholder defended himself and expressed sympathy, but also claimed that a political hit list is somehow different from a Mafia hit list. No, it’s exactly the same to any literal-minded right-wing nutjob who thinks…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    One More Time

    January 8, 2011 - By 

    Again with the waiting room. I’m not sick, feel fine, new doctor wants to figure out the mystery of me and suspects a sneaky low-grade infection. Via: Flickr Title: One More Time By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 8 Jan ’11, 9.19am CST PST

  • Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics

    As The Stupid Burns: 2 House GOPers Skip Oath, May Invalidate Today’s Dumb Votes

    January 6, 2011 - By 

    Apparently the Constitution, which the 112th House of Congressional Pancakes read aloud today like any other incoming class of fourth-graders at the beginning of their Civics module, requires that the oath of office be taken by lawmakers in Congress. Two little Congressmen were so busy taking a “victory lap” with supporters that they sluffed homeroom and skipped the oath-taking ceremony, a quaint tradition that a mere frosh Congressman attended and who was duly sworn in, with an NPR reporter shadowing him for the day. The more senior members thought they knew better. Even sweeter, one of the oathskippers was anti-gay…