You have to know you’re in trouble when your exercise is limited to finding the remote. And you have to know that America’s collective waste line is expanding to disturbing proportions when there’s a magazine called (no joke) Obesity News.
All the news that’s fat to print.
And, as if we need more evidence that Americans are digging their graves with their teeth…. When someone is famous for being ready, willing and able to fry ANYTHING (Fried KoolAid balls? Really??)…well, it’s really only just a matter of time before “Chicken” Charlie Boghosian is frying breakfast cereal.
Shh…if you listen closely, you can hear your arteries hardening….
Clearly, the phrase, “self-parody” is lost on the man. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is no one’s intellectual. When he opens his mouth, what emerges is highly likely to be inane, stupid, or (probably) both. Sessions is also one of the Republicans bent on penalizing the poor and unemployed for the cardinal of…wait for it…being poor and unemployed. As if being down on your luck isn’t bad enough, Sessions want to force those who are to prove it. This from a Senator who hails from a state where 20% of the population is on some form of public assistance.
Sure, you SAY you’re unemployed and broke, but how can we know that you don’t have millions stashed away in a tax shelter in the Cayman Islands?? After all, Mitt Romney’s unemployed, too.
You served your country. Good on you. That doesn’t mean you’re due special treatment. A National Guardsman in Massachusetts who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay is suing a woman because she told him that renting to him goes against her pacifist beliefs. Now SGT Joel Morgan is claiming discrimination. Evidently, Morgan feels that he’s due…despite the fact that there were something like 30 people also interested in the apartment.
Perhaps SGT Morgan could take a clue from what society did to the Vietnam generation and be thankful that he lives in an America that honors him for his service. Being honored for that service doesn’t mean he should be given preferential or even different treatment.
This is what happens when religious beliefs are used to screen out job applicants. Companies make hiring decisions for all sorts of reasons, most perfectly legitimate and legal. There are few things more reprehensible than when a company refuses to hire someone because they’re “not Christian enough.” When a potential employer feels they can ask invasive questions regarding an applicant’s religious beliefs and practices, and then use those answers as reason not to hire, that’s discrimination. As much as many Right-wing Conservative Christians decry “discrimination” against Christians, somehow when they’re guilty of the same thing it’s perfectly acceptable.
And don’t even get me started on the mandatory (and unpaid) before-work Bible study….
Greetings from Michigan, where narrow-minded, intolerant Republican “Christians” have decided that they have the right to rule with an iron fist. If you believe in democracy, you might want to take a good, long look at Michigan, where the Republican Governor and legislature are using their majority to do an end run around democracy and recreate Michigan’s government to make it virtually impossible for Democrats (or the state’s voters) to have a voice.
The latest outrage/silliness is the banning of a female Democratic legislator from speaking on the floor of the House because she read a constituent’s letter of protest that contained the word, “vagina.”
Hey, if you were meant to have a voice, you would have been born a Conservative Republican Penis-American.
