"Let them eat gay cake" (Politics thread)

by **Phan In Phlorida** » Thu Apr 02, 2015 20:30:14

Based on their comments and such, I don't know if it's funny or sad that most of the Obummers don't know that Iran already has the capabilities to make nuclear weapons and have had for awhile, they just chose not to.

(Iran currently has the ability to enrich uranium to weapon-grade and to produce plutonium-239, creating a uranium warhead is about as easy as a conventional one and fully within their capabilities, their current ballistic missiles can deliver a nuclear warhead no probs.)

by **drsmooth** » Thu Apr 02, 2015 21:29:09

Re: the former Congresswoman's windstorm, just saw this:

by **Phan In Phlorida** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 05:23:08

The Crimson Cyclone wrote:
jerseyhoya wrote:Menendez officially indicted on federal corruption charges.

How on earth is he claiming conspiracy when the Obama DOJ investigated?

by **Bucky** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 07:35:02

Tom Cotton wants us to have perspective: "In Iran they hang you for being gay"

He's trolling us, right? Performance art is the only reason someone would say something this asinine.

by **slugsrbad** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 07:42:45

Explains why he has never visited.

by **Bucky** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 07:51:54

...and today's social media strawman, brought to you by the conservative right, is a video purporting to show a muslim bakery refusing to bake a cake for a gay wedding. WATCH THE LIBURRLLS STUTTER THERE WAY OUT OF THIS ONE

by **pacino** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 07:56:08

i think that's wrong.

i did it!!!!

by **pacino** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 08:37:46

reading about this iranian nuclear deal and it looks terrific. centrifuges are slashed, we've sent back their timetable even IF they break the deal, plutonium is gone, yellow cake is scaled back, IAEA has constant and intense inspections and the only thing we do is lift a few sanctions if it verifiably abides by its commitments and takes all steps. We can put them back on if they break it. This doesn't even include anything involving terrorism and ballistic missiles, which remain.

I mean come on, what's to dislike? we gathered they were 2 months away from their first bomb..now they're at minimum set back a year if not 15 (and then we negotiate again and push it back further). This deal is waaaaaaay better than 'no deal', which seems to be the mantra for many. This prevents war and hopefully starts to tamp down the Saudi/Iran cold war.

edit: jesus, i forgot that they are also giving up 97% of their stockpile.

Max Fisher at Vox breaks it down much better

at i dont get is our very conservative ally Great Britain is lauding this deal. Why can't conservatives do that here? Why must this be controversial? WHY

by **drsmooth** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 08:42:00

Bucky wrote:Tom Cotton wants us to have perspective: "In Iran they hang you for being gay"

He's trolling us, right? Performance art is the only reason someone would say something this asinine.

Cotton's from Arkansas, so he should know from crazy mob-fomented hangings.

Cotton's my current pick for national-stage politician most likely to spontaneously combust on live tv. He's shaping up like a meth-addicted Ted Cruz

by **pacino** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 08:47:31

drsmooth wrote:
Bucky wrote:Tom Cotton wants us to have perspective: "In Iran they hang you for being gay"

He's trolling us, right? Performance art is the only reason someone would say something this asinine.

Cotton's from Arkansas, so he should know from crazy mob-fomented hangings.

Cotton's my current pick for national-stage politician most likely to spontaneously combust on live tv. He's shaping up like a meth-addicted Ted Cruz

violence against gays in the US still exists and at much higher rates than against straight people
. it's even worse if you are a person of color and LGBT, and even worse if you are Trans. we are not Saudi Arabia, our ally, on this, so that's good. We still have a long way to go to protect our LGBT brothers and sisters.

hell, 29 states still allow people to be fired simply for being gay.

by **pacino** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 08:58:09

al-Shabab claims credit for the Kenyan college terrorist murders

A total of 147 people were killed Thursday, according to the official Twitter account of Kenya's National Disaster Operation Centre and Kenyan media reports. The agency also said 79 people were injured and 587 people were evacuated.

holy shit, this is absurdly horrendous.

Islamist gunmen burst into the university before dawn Thursday, shooting students and taking hostages during early morning prayer services.

At one point, the attackers cornered a building in which 360 students live, but some of the students escaped, Nkaissery said.

Kenyan forces cleared three of four dormitories and had cornered the militants in the last one, the Interior Ministry explained.

"This is a moment for everyone throughout the country to be vigilant as we continue to confront and defeat our enemies," Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said.

There are usually four guards at the campus gates overnight, Jackstone Kweyu, dean of students, told Kenya's Citizen TV.

The attack was deadlier than an Al-Shabaab attack on the Westgate shopping center in Nairobi in September 2013 that left 67 people dead

Who were they targeting? Non-Muslims:

Joel Ayora, who was on the campus and witnessed the attack, said gunmen burst into a Christian service. Taking hostages from the service, they then "proceeded to the hostels, shooting anybody they came across except their fellows, the Muslims."

The attackers separated students by religion, allowing Muslims to leave and keeping an unknown number of Christians hostage, Agence France-Presse reported.

I hate them.

by **pacino** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 09:46:58

bad jobs report for March, coming in at half of what was expected. 126k jobs, unemployment remains steady,shifting around who is unemployed and for how long.

Wages went up and long-term unemployment fell, so that's good.

by **pacino** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 11:06:07

scum of the week goes to this guy:

One of the laws Stutts was pushing to repeal was named for a patient, Rose Church, who died in his care. Court records indicate Stutts as the doctor in a wrongful death suit filed by the woman's husband.

After her death, her husband, Gene Church, pushed for a new law which came to be called "Rose's Law."

In response to Stutts withdrawing the bill, Gene said, "I'm incredibly excited about this and very pleased that Larry Stutts decided to do the right thing in this instance by removing the bill. I certainly don't know what ultimately motivated him to do the right thing, but I'm certainly glad he did in this instance."

Stutts was sponsoring SB 289, which would repeal a woman's legal right to remain in the hospital for 48 hours after a normal live birth and 96 hours if the birth was cesarean or presented a complication.

Several doctors weighed in on Stutts' bill Dr. Jacqueline Sylvester said she wasn't sure why senators would feel the need to repeal either of the two state codes because she says those aren't creating any problems, and they help ensure a patient's health needs are being met.

Six senators co-sponsored the bill, including Jabo Waggoner, who withdrew his support of the bill Tuesday.

"The first day of the session, he was circulating the bill and without a full explanation," Waggoner said. "I did not realize the impact of it and did not know the background of it."

he was citing 'Obamacare' as the reason for pushing to get rid of the bill

by **Gimpy** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 11:14:14

Fuck Waggoner too. Why are you co-sponsoring a bill if you don't know what it's doing or what its background is?

by **The Crimson Cyclone** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 11:14:21

pacino wrote:
at i dont get is our very conservative ally Great Britain is lauding this deal. Why can't conservatives do that here? Why must this be controversial? WHY

a few guesses

1) partisanship is beyond crazy recently, god forbid if Obama looks good on anything, so opposing it helps make him look bad in some eyes

2) the fundies are extremely opposed to when world governments "govern" together as it's in the whole end of days crap. (antichrtist takes over most of the world through world politics) so when the UN does stuff that the US has to abide by then they get upset. Playing to the religious right may be part of that.

3) joe six pack billy bob believe all muslims are bad mmmkay? "We can't trust them and we should nuke them back into the stone age", macho and racist sorta bullshit like that

by **pacino** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 11:15:49

The Crimson Cyclone wrote:
pacino wrote:
at i dont get is our very conservative ally Great Britain is lauding this deal. Why can't conservatives do that here? Why must this be controversial? WHY

a few guesses

1) partisanship is beyond crazy recently, god forbid if Obama looks good on anything, so opposing it helps make him look bad in some eyes

On this they could turn their eyes to how we royally fucked up Yemen

by **Doll Is Mine** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 11:59:31

I'm simply embarrassed by all the hate that I saw yesterday on Twitter from ignorant fools regarding the Iran deal. Much of it obviously was directed at Obama but a lot of it was about those tricky "Arabs" in Iran. Dumbasses.

by **Houshphandzadeh** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 12:01:41

what's your take on it

by **Luzinski's Gut** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 12:02:47

"Jaw Jaw is better than War War."

Churchill, that noted communist

by **Werthless** » Fri Apr 03, 2015 12:17:24

Bucky wrote:...and today's social media strawman, brought to you by the conservative right, is a video purporting to show a muslim bakery refusing to bake a cake for a gay wedding. WATCH THE LIBURRLLS STUTTER THERE WAY OUT OF THIS ONE

What is the strawman? Did this happen?

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