Gee I wonder what they think about gay marriage? Actually no I don't.

My favorite part is that they are parked in a handicap spot.

Iowa gay pride festival gets new sponsor. Want to guess who?

Courtesy of The Eater: 

This year's Iowa City's Pride Fest has an unlikely new sponsor: Chick-fil-A. According to local news station KCRG Adam Donius, owner of Chick-fil-A's Coralville, Iowa location, has agreed to donate 200 sandwiches and sides for Iowa City's annual pride picnic, which is being held on June 19. This comes as a surprise to many who have labeled the fast-food spot as against gay rights. Organizers of the event explained that the idea of bringing the community together is what appealed to Donius and resulted in the food donation. 

This news comes after the popular fast-food chain was banned from Johns Hopkins University due to antigay comments made by President Dan Cathy in 2012. Cathy has been very outspoken on his opinion that gay families are not "biblical families," even taking it to social media with his anti-homosexual tweet calling the DOMA ruling a "sad day for our nation." 

Well that is good news. Nice to see that not all Chick-fil-A owners are homophobic assholes.

Still one has to wonder if incidents like this might convince some people to make different wardrobe choices.

 

Former Republican operative from South Carolina holds his wife hostage in Chick-fil-A parking lot, blames too much cough syrup.

Courtesy of TPM:  

A former official with the South Carolina Republican Party said an improper dose of cough medicine was to blame for an incident in which he refused to let his wife out of their car, the Charleston City Paper reported Saturday. 

Todd Kincannon, an attorney who briefly served as the executive director of the South Carolina Republican Party in 2010, allegedly refused to let his wifeout of their car after the couple got into an argument at a work function Thursday night, according to a police report obtained by the newspaper. 

A Lexington County Sheriff's deputy responded to a "possible domestic incident" at about 10:21 p.m. at Kincannon's Columbia, S.C. home, according to the report. The report stated Kincannon's wife, Ashely Suzanne Griffith, told the deputy there had been an altercation in a Chick-fil-A parking lot on the drive home. 

Griffith told the deputy that she asked to get out of their car after her husband began screaming at her, according to the police report. The report stated that Griffith said she hit her husband in the arm several times because he grabbed her to prevent her from exiting the car. She also told the deputy that Kincannon had threatened to kill himself if she left the vehicle.

Later Kincannon told a Charleston newspaper that he was all hopped up on cough syrup: Here’s what happened last night:

I had a severe upper respiratory infection, and I’m the kind of guy who never goes to the doctor. I finally went and was prescribed something called Benzonatate for my cough. I’d never taken it before, and took it for the first time last night. Basically, I went completely crazy after taking it. I don’t even remember all of it. My wife called 911 because she was worried about me and my behavior was way out of character and erratic, and she was afraid for her safety and mine. The cops came and they called EMS, and EMS took me to Lexington Medical Center. My blood pressure on scene was something like 190 over 130 and I was tachycardic. The ER doctor at LMC saw me and I was diagnosed ... with an allergic reaction to Benzonatate. Apparently a very small percentage of people go absolutely nuts when they take the stuff, and I’m apparently in that very small percentage. I had calmed down by the time I got to LMC and they let me go after a brief evaluation. I’m totally fine now and not taking any more Benzonatate. 

They need to add a warning label to Benzonatate: “Warning: May cause people to go completely nuts.”

Sounds legit. I mean who doesn't start manhandling women after they take prescription cough suppressants?

A drugged out Republican getting all abusive with his wife in a Charleston Chick-fil-A.

Sounds like a typical Saturday in South Carolina to me.  

Since its CEO came out hard against gay marriage in 2012 the Republicans have spent nearly $13,000 dollars of taxpayer money at Chick-fil-A.

Go on. Take a bite for homophobia.

Courtesy of the National Journal: 

Since 2012, when the Atlanta-based fried-chicken chain came under fire for donating millions to groups fighting same-sex marriage—and CEO Dan Cathy declared that redefining marriage was "inviting God's judgment on our nation"—Chick-fil-A has become congressional Republicans' fast food of choice, a culture-war statement on a bun. When former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee organized a "Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day" that August, defying liberal boycotts, Capitol Hill conservatives enthusiastically joined in, filling conference rooms with chicken nuggets and tweeting photos of themselves at Chick-fil-A drive-ins. 

Two and a half years later, the scent of fried chicken practically permeates the walls of the Capitol. Tea-party members in the House nosh on original chicken sandwiches and waffle fries at the Heritage Foundation's monthly "Conversations with Conservatives." Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a longtime Chick-fil-A aficionado, has the chain cater his birthday lunch party every year. During late-night GOP strategy sessions in the Senate ahead of a potential government shutdown in December, Chick-fil-A was the hunger-reliever of choice. And while Speaker John Boehner prefers a glass of red wine and Italian dishes served alfresco at Trattoria Alberto, his office has dropped hundreds on Chick-fil-A fare in the last few years—though Boehner spokesman Michael Steel says he's never seen the speaker himself indulge. (Steel would not comment further.) 

"They kinda got abused," says Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, "and I guess some would like to support 'em." Evidently so: Since Cathy made his controversial comments, House Republicans have spent nearly $13,000 in taxpayer money ordering Chick-fil-A, according to expenditure reports filed through July 2014 (the latest available). That's the equivalent of 3,900 original chicken sandwiches, and it represents a 37-fold increase over the paltry $345 the House GOP had spent on Chick-fil-A the previous three years. (It also may be an undercount, since some receipts say only "food and beverage" without specifying a source.) Figures for the Senate were not available, but the GOP's campaign arms have been eating "mor chikin" as well: The Republican National Committee has doubled its Chick-fil-A spending, while the National Republican Congressional Committee spends more than 10 times as much as it used to.

You know I personally eat a lot of broiled or baked chicken, but this amount of deep fat fried fast food chicken, eaten for this long, is a recipe for heart disease.

You know it almost seems as if the Republicans are hate eating this food just to spite proponents of marriage equality.

But seriously who would be that vindictive and nasty?

Oh yeah, I keep forgetting.

93 year old founder of Chick-fil-A passes away.

Courtesy of WSB-TV:  

S. Truett Cathy, the billionaire founder of the privately held Chick-fil-A restaurant chain, died early Monday morning. He was 93. 

Under the religiously conservative founder, the chain gained prominence for its Bible Belt observance of Sunday — none of its hundreds of restaurants are open on that day, to allow employees a day of rest. Its executives often said the chain made as much money in six days as its competitors do in seven. 

Those religious views helped win Cathy and his family loyal following from conservative customers, but also invited protests when Cathy's son denounced gay marriage. 

Cathy's son, Dan, who is currently chairman and president of the chain, had told the Baptist Press in 2012 that the company was "guilty as charged" for backing "the biblical definition of a family." Gay rights groups and others called for boycotts and kiss-ins at Cathy's restaurants. The Jim Henson Co. pulled its Muppet toys from kids' meals, while politicians in Boston and Chicago told the chain it is not welcome there. The controversy later subsided.

It is too bad that a man that the business that this man worked so hard to create is now synonymous with homophobia. Though considering the crowd that he pandered to, I guess it was not entirely unpredictable.

They did not say exactly what killed the 93 year old, so it could simply have been old age.

I mean unless there was some outside influence on his health, you know like a nasty infection or possibly a curse, but I could not imagine what that might have been.

Can you?

Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy says he regrets getting involved in the same sex marriage debate. Oh he's still a homophobe, he just doesn't want to advertise it.

Courtesy of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution:  

As the same-sex marriage debate rages, one person says he won’t be weighing in on the subject anymore: Dan Cathy, CEO and president of Chick-fil-A. 

Almost two years after he made headlines by throwing his support behind traditional marriage and later decried a pair of Supreme Court decisions that favored same-sex unions, Cathy hasn’t changed his mind. But he said Atlanta-based Chick-fil-A has no place in the culture wars and regrets making the company a symbol in the marriage debate. 

“Every leader goes through different phases of maturity, growth and development and it helps by (recognizing) the mistakes that you make,” Cathy said. “And you learn from those mistakes. If not, you’re just a fool. I’m thankful that I lived through it and I learned a lot from it."

Yeah okay. 

He may have decided to keep his homophobia on the down low, but it will be a long time before he can live down things like this.

I don't care how good your chicken is, this kind of stomach churning stench can last for decades.

Sarah Palin tweets that the storm which stranded thousands in the south was not so bad if they could be stranded near a Chick-fil-A. You know, because she's a crazy person.

The ONE time I wouldn't mind being stranded...!... http://t.co/ojEy9iSFFm

— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) January 29, 2014

Now before I say anything else I do want to give mad props to the Chick-fil-A owner who handed out free sandwiches to the stranded motorists, because that really was a nice thing to do.

However if anybody, and that includes the Wasilla Wendigo, thinks that getting s free sandwich made the entire experience positive, then they are an idiot beyond compare.

Courtesy of ABC News:

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal ordered the National Guard to clear the way for school buses that were carefully delivering schoolchildren back to their homes after thousands of them were marooned overnight. All of them were "home safe and sound" by late Wednesday afternoon, Deal said. After snowfall and ice paralyzed Atlanta, some were left wondering whether the city is destined to quit functioning when bad weather strikes again. NBC's Gabe Gutierrez reports. 

But National Guard troops were still distributing blankets and 200 cases of military-style MREs, or meals ready to eat, to drivers along Interstate 20. 

Churches, groceries and hardware superstores opened their doors to the stranded. Neighbors took in neighbors and strangers. At least one baby was born in a car, helped by a police officer. 

Aerial pictures made the highways look like parking lots, and there was no indication of when or how the roads would be cleared. Twenty hours into the jam, one trucker, Joe Schmitz, told NBC News that drivers would probably be stuck for a second night. "There are some people who are really kind of scared," he said.

But hey, if they were near a Chick-fil-A it must have been like a party for them out in that storm, right?

What a moron!

I guess this helps to explain why she had no sympathy when villagers from Emmonak and other rural villages were freezing to death and starving back in the winter of 2009.

If only THEY would have had a Chick-fil-A close at hand.

More insanity from Sarah Palin's new book all about Christmas and the lord and savior, Sarah Palin.

Okay so yesterday I got a little busy toward the end of my day and I did not pay as much attention to the article over at New York Magazine as I should have.

For instance it completely escaped my notice that all of the bulbs on their Christmas tree image played bits of audio from Palin's book. I only played bulbs one and two, which I wrote about here.

However the rest of the bulbs also play audio that is just chock full of insanity.

Here, see for yourself.

Bulb 3: "Because hearing a word you don't want to hear is a big frickin dill."

Bulb 4: "I bet Charles Darwin never understood this. If the world could be described as truly survival of the fittest why would people collectively be struck with the spirit of generosity in December." (Or with the desire to buy valentines in February, or dress up as monsters on October, or patriotism in July, or a yearning for turkey in November.? Boy that Charles Darwin never understood anything!)

Bulb5: "Hooah! I couldn't have said it better myself!" (Uh, okay.)

Bulb 6: "It is Christ who empowers every act of good will toward men in our otherwise fallen hearts." (Yep, clearly there is NO good to be found in the hearts of Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, or those Atheist bastards.)

Bulb 7: "It's about that little baby wrapped in those swaddling clothes, who arrived long before hope and change became political manipulations." (Methinks SOMEBODY has not read anything about Roman politics.)

Bulb 8: "Let's think this through. Without God as an objective standard, who's to say what's wrong and what's right?" (I guess to think that through you would have to have a brain, right?)

Bulb 9: "Many on they Left see faith and family as oppressive, But he Right sees them as indispensable." (Yep no religious or people with families on the Left. Sure called that one.)

Bulb 10: "Perhaps Christmas causes so much anger because the very name of the holiday broadcasts the name above all names." (Who's angry about Christmas? I freaking love Christmas! Well that is until some holy roller starts telling me I cannot love it unless I worship at their church of course.)

Bulb 11: "Roger Ailes, the president of Fox News network, once asked me 'What the 'bleep' is so offensive about putting up a plastic Jewish family on my lawn at Christmas time?'" (Oh, I bet Ailes is just thrilled to be mentioned in this turd of a book.)

Bulb 12: "So are you ready for some good old fashioned words? Here are some, work, honesty, courage, justice, thrift, perseverance." (And does the lady who grifts money from strangers for a living, lies constantly, quit her job halfway through, and has her books written for her know the meaning of these words?)

Bulb 13: "The logical result of Atheism, a result we have seen right in front of our eyes, in one of the world's oldest and proudest nations, is severe moral decay." (Well as the Atheist father of a young woman who has no drug problem, no illegitimate children, and who works hard for her money, I would just like to say, fuck you lady!)

Bulb14: "There are few things that anger a secular liberal atheist more than a horizontal plank intersecting a vertical plank, a cross, on public land." (I like how she felt she had to define what she was talking about, a cross, so that her listeners would understand it.)

Bulb 15: "The war on Christmas, is the tip of the spear of a larger battle to secularize our culture, and make true religious freedom a thing of America's past." (First there is no "war on Christmas, and second few secularists care what, or how, people worship, just so long as they keep it out of politics, and keep it in their churches, synagogues, and temples where it belongs.)

Bulb 16: "Walgreen's 24 page nationwide circular used the word 'holiday' 36 times without one mention of Christmas." (Clearly a store run by Satan.)


Bulb 17: "Yet we can't print enough currency, or food stamps, or free Obama-phone vouchers to compensate for failing families." (First, there was no "Obama-phone that was a free phone offered to the poor since before George Bush was elected. Second is she REALLY going to talk about "failing families" in a boo with HR name on it?)

Bulb 18: "You don;'t have to be intimidated by the political correctness police." (The what police?)

Bulb 19: "Sadly there are no Chick-fil-A restaurants in Alaska." (Okay, that one's true. But how is that related to ANYTHING concerning Christmas?)

That is some grade A moosepoop contained in this book my friends, and I have NO idea how ignorant one would have to be to legitimately wish to buy it. Though I could see it being purchased as a gag gift, a campfire starter kit, or a doorstop.

Louisiana state Representative spitting mad that Starbucks won't let him defend his freedom while drinking coffee decides to go to Chick-fil-A instead. Chick-fil-A says, "Not so fast."

"Welcome to Chick-fil-A please don't shoot us."

Courtesy of The Advocate:  

Starbucks boss Howard Schultz runs the “most dangerous” coffee shops in America because he has “respectfully” requested that customers do not pack heat. 

So says state Rep. Jeff Thompson, R-Bossier City. No legislator is crazier about the Second Amendment than he. 

Thompson has called for a boycott of Starbucks and is organizing armed klatches at competing establishments. 

Sadly, he did not find a warm welcome at the first one. After Thompson put in a brief appearance at its Bossier City restaurant, Chick Fil A issued a statement dissociating itself from his cause. 

The only events scheduled that day were senior bingo and a child’s birthday party, so maybe a bunch of guys toting semi-automatic weapons would not have been a good fit at that.

What? Even an oasis of conservatism, and homophobia, like Chick-fil-A  draws the line when it comes to bringing assault rifles into their place of business?

Commies!

I like how this idiot believes that a Starbucks is MORE dangerous without 2nd Amendment morons brandishing their semiautomatic penis extenders rather than LESS dangerous with fewer bullets and guns on the premises. It's like logic simply does not exist in the Right Wing world.

Speaking of logic, I wonder how a certain half term governor, will respond to this news?

Chick-fil-A does not welcome homosexuals nor do they welcome heterosexual boobs. Gee, what's left?

Courtesy of WKRN-TV:  

A mom at a Knoxville Chick-fil-A was criticized last week for breastfeeding her five-month-old daughter in the restaurant's play area. 

Jennifer Day was not using a cover and an employee approached her after several customers complained. 

"An employee came up to me and told me some of the other parents were afraid of allowing their kids to play in the play area while I was feeding her, especially without any cover," she told Knoxville TV station WBIR. 

Day said she did not use a cover because her daughter does not like it and would've ripped it off. 

It should be noted that the breastfeeding law in Tennessee reads as follows:

68-58-101. Right to breastfeed in any location. — A mother has a right to breastfeed her child in any location, public or private, where the mother and child are otherwise authorized to be present.

§68-58-102. The act of breastfeeding shall not be considered: 

(1) Public indecency as defined in §39-13-511; or 
(2) Nudity, obscene, or sexual conduct as defined in §39-17-901. §68-58-103.

Whoopsie!

Not only that but it looks as if this Tennessee Chick-fil-A may soon have even more boobs to contend with then just the ones working there.

According to WBIR, several of Day's friends are planning a "nurse in" in response to what happened. Similar to a sit in, they plan to revisit the Chick-fil-A as a group on Wednesday evening and nurse their infants together.

I have to wonder if the same people who complained about seeing a breast at Chick-fil-A are the same ones who go to Hooters for lunch? I bet they are!

Personally I would think it more acceptable to have one breast exposed to feed a baby then to have two silicone injected ones exposed in order to earn tips. But hey, that's just me.

You know I have another question. If Chick-fil-A is so focused on keeping offensive boobs out of their stores, how did these two get served?

California Chick-fil-A offers free meals to gay marriage supporters. Wait, what?

Courtesy of HuffPo:  

A California Chick-fil-A did something shocking for same-sex marriage supporters this week: Supported them. 

Corey Braun, the franchisee of the Chick-fil-A in the Victoria Gateway Center in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., provided dozens of free meal coupons to a group of same-sex marriage advocates demonstrating Monday at an intersection near the restaurant, PinkNews notes. 

The move came months after Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy revealed his anti-gay stance in a July interview, saying he is "guilty as charged" when it comes to his franchise's "support of the traditional family." 

"There were a lot of things said over the past year," Braun told the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. "I wanted to show that Chick-fil-A doesn't discriminate against anybody. We serve everyone. We're happy to serve the community and this was an opportunity to have this group come in and show them our hospitality regardless of their beliefs, sexual orientation, or whatever. Chick-fil-A has never been about hate"

Well good for Mr. Braun!

Gee and just when you thought you knew which fast food restaurant was on  whihc sides of the marriage equality debate.

Hmm, perhaps somebody ought to let a certain someone know that it is time to change her shirt.