Showing posts with label Tea Party. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tea Party. Show all posts

Thursday, August 21, 2014

It would be funny if it weren't so stupid


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/19/tea-party-of-louisisana-common-core-turns-kids-gay-and-this-parody-website-proves-it/

Tea Party of Louisiana: Common Core turns kids gay, and this parody website proves it
By Travis Gettys
Tuesday, August 19, 2014 14:56 EDT




The Tea Party of Louisiana used a phony news story to back its claim that Common Core had turned “thousands of children across the nation” into homosexuals.

The conservative group cited the story, “Common Core turns first wave of students gay,”on the satirical news site Broken World News to express “shock and outrage” that Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) had criticized Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s decision to cancel Common Core standards testing and start over just before the school year began.

“I would take an aggressive, hands-on approach (to) get curriculum and implementation right,” Vitter said. “I’d ensure the state and locals maintain complete control over curriculum, lesson plans and reading lists and make good decisions on those, and I’d demand effective planning and preparation with parents, school boards and teachers.”

The statewide Tea Party group was not impressed by Vitter’s pledge to work with local parents and educators to revise the federal standards that have drawn suspicion from conservatives, reported The Times-Picayune.

“Common Core is Total Federalized Control of Education, Indoctrination and Socialism,” the Tea Party group warned on its website. “Don’t believe us then just Do a Little Homework and see for yourself. Check these out and then tell us how you feel about Common Core being implemented in your schools and with your children.”

The Tea Party of Louisiana listed five links to support its claims, including the story on Broken World News – which includes the disclaimer: “If you believe any of the sh*t you read here you are a freaking moron.”




The satirical article claims Rep. Charles Van Zant (R-FL) looked “like an oracle” after warning that Common Core would “attract every one of your children to become as homosexual as they possibly can.”

Just to be clear, Van Zant actually said that in May, while the satirical news site described him as an oracle.

The article also includes satirical quotes from Raymond Johnson of Biblical Concepts Ministries,who actually did defend Van Zant’s warnings about the federal education standards.

The satirical article quotes Johnson as saying “the smartest kids in school are usually the gay kids,” and he warned the additional study time would encourage students to become gay.

“The Common Core standards are tough — tough enough to turn a straight kid gay,” Johnson says in the satirical article. “The next thing you know, we’re going to see gay kids playing football.”

Bob Reid, a spokesman for Tea Party of Louisiana, claimed the group knew the article was “labeled satire” but posted it anyway to “bring attention of the Common Core issue to those who maybe aren’t paying attention.”

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And here’s the satirical story on Broken World News...

http://brokenworldnews.com/2014/06/09/common-core-turns-first-wave-of-students-gay/comment-page-1/#comment-2618


COMMON CORE TURNS FIRST WAVE OF STUDENTS GAY
June 9, 2014 · by Sal Kingfisher · in Education. ·


Two boys celebrate summer vacation


JACKSONVILLE, Florida–Florida State Rep. Charles Van Zant (R) is beginning to look like an oracle, as his warnings about Common Core standardized testing are proving to be true. Thousands of children across the nation who participated in Common Core during the past school year are coming out as bright young homosexuals.

Earlier this year, Van Zant told the Operation Education Conference in Orlando that Common Core was promoting a gay lifestyle to the nation’s children. But nobody listened.

“People said I was a quack,” Van Zant says, “They called me a right wing nut job. Who’s laughing now? Hollywood and Barney Frank, that’s who.”

Initial estimates suggest that as many as 60% of students who participated in Common Core have gone gay, many overnight. But experts fear that some are just transitioning a little slower.

“Some kids are a little more decisive than others,” says Raymond Johnson of Biblical Concepts Ministries, “Choosing one’s sexual orientation can be a difficult decision. I know it was for me. But the materials in Common Core are coercing students in the direction of homosexuality.”

Johnson says the difficulty of the Common Core tests is the primary culprit in promoting the gay agenda, calling it “common knowledge that the smartest kids in school are usually the gay kids.” Johnson believes the increased studying time students must devote in order to pass the Common Core standards is leading them down a lifelong path of debauchery.

“The Common Core standards are tough,” says Johnson, “Tough enough to turn a straight kid gay. The next thing you know, we’re going to see gay kids playing football.”

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Thursday, June 12, 2014

The Crazies Just Keep Gettin' Crazier


Oklahoma Tea Party Candidate Supports Stoning Gay People to Death

http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2014/06/11/oklahoma_tea_party_candidate_scott_esk_supports_stoning_gay_people_to_death.html

COMMENTARY

There are at least 667 sins listed in the Bible that call for punishment of one kind or another. But it's finally happened. A Tea Party candidate running for the Oklahoma state legislature has finally come out publicly taking right-wing religious fanaticism to its obvious conclusion. SCOTT ESK wants to make his personal interpretation of Biblical law the law of the land. This is known as Dominionism (a.k.a. theonomy or Christian Reconstructionism), a political and religious philosophy that seeks to make the U.S. a theocracy. Like Iran. Dominionists believe the religious laws found in the Old Testament – written several thousand years ago – should replace existing U.S. civil law today.

It's a bit of an awkward problem for them that Jesus never espoused this kind of extremism and went around spouting liberal pieties such as “God is love.” Nonetheless, in spite of the fact that they want to enforce the most rigid tenets of ancient, wandering-in-the-wilderness Judaism, they call themselves Christians, which makes a lot of people think they're not so dangerous. Au contraire, mon frere.

This all came out because Mr. Esk said in an interview he would support stoning gay people to death. Now, of course, if you know anything about the prohibitions in the O.T., you know it's not limited to homosexuality, and I imagine Mr. Esk is as ignorant of that fact as everything else. Here's what the O.T. says can/should condemn you to death. Keep in mind there's a presumption that this is an action taken by the whole community, not an appointed executioner. You, mom and dad, the grandparents, kids, aunts, uncles, cousins and neighbors gather some hefty rocks and lob them as hard as you can at the condemned person, breaking their bones and splattering their brains all over the place. Then go home and have a nice nosh.

These are some of the sins the O.T. says are supposed to get you executed by stoning...

For touching Mount Sinai: Whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death. Exodus 19:13

For taking "accursed things" : Achan ... took of the accursed thing. ... And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones. ... So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Joshua 7:1-26

For cursing or blaspheming: And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him. Leviticus 24:16

For adultery (including urban rape victims who fail to scream loud enough): If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city. Deuteronomy 22:23-24

For animals (like an ox that gores a human): If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned. Exodus 21:28

For a woman who is not a virgin on her wedding night: If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her ... and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid: Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate: And the damsel's father shall say ... these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city. ... But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel: Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die. Deuteronomy 22:13-21

For worshipping other gods (Rush Limbaugh?): If there be found among you ... that ... hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them ... Then shalt thou ... tone them with stones, till they die. Deuteronomy 17:2-5. If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers ... thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die. Deuteronomy 13:5-10

For disobeying parents: If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother ... Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city ... And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die. Deuteronomy 21: 18-21. [Yeah, the next time that sullen stoner tells you to fuck off, drag the little sinner out into the front yard and call the neighbors to join you in busting his head open.]

For witches and wizards: A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them. Leviticus 20:27. [SO LONG HARRY POTTER!]

For giving your children to Molech: Whosoever... giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones. Leviticus 20:2

For breaking the Sabbath: They found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day. ... And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones.... And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses. Numbers 15:32-56. [NO MORE SUNDAY FOOTBALL! Since you aren't allowed to touch pigskin anyway. BTW, eat no pork and no shrimp...WHAT? NO BARBECUE? I think I just heard a few people reconsidering.]

For cursing the king: Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die. 1 Kings 21:10

So remember, any time somebody says they want the country to be governed on Biblical principles, this is what they're talking about. If they even know what they're talking about.

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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Current Events


A few things we maybe didn’t know as clearly before . . .


The evolutionary puzzle of homosexuality

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26089486



The matter with Kansas now: The Tea Party, the 1 percent and delusional Democrats

http://www.salon.com/2014/02/16/the_matter_with_kansas_now_the_tea_party_the_1_percent_and_delusional_democrats/


Plutocrats Despising the Poor: An American Tradition

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-a-palermo/plutocrats-despising-the-_b_4790802.html?utm_hp_ref=politics


One-Percent Jokes and Plutocrats in Drag: What I Saw When I Crashed a Wall Street Secret Society