Pregnant with a fetus that has no brain function? Have it anyway! Yet another Republican Teabagger demonstrates their lack of respect for women.

"Wait! That's where babies come from? No stork involved? Well Gollee!"

Courtesy of Think Progress:  

At 21 weeks, Zink’s doctors discovered that her fetus had no brain function. That type of fetal abnormality was impossible to detect earlier in her pregnancy. “If this bill had been passed before my pregnancy, I would have had to carry to term and give birth to a baby whom the doctors concurred had no chance of a life and would have experienced near-constant pain,” Zink explained. 

“If he had survived the pregnancy — which was not certain — he might never have left the hospital. My daughter’s life, too, would have been irrevocably hurt by an almost always-absent parent.” In order to justify his support for H.R. 1797, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) suggested that Zink should have given birth to her son anyway, regardless of the pain that may have caused her family. The congressman told a story about a different couple who decided to give birth to a fetus with different types of disabilities — suggesting that Zink should have made the same choice for her son, instead of deciding to “rip him apart”: 

GOHMERT: Ms. Zink, having my great sympathy and empathy both. I still come back wondering, shouldn’t we wait, like that couple did, and see if the child can survive before we decide to rip him apart? So. These are ethical issues, they’re moral issues, they’re difficult issues, and the parents should certainly be consulted. But it just seems like, it’s a more educated decision if the child is in front of you to make those decisions.

Yes by all means ladies. Carry a severely damaged child, with no hope of durvival, to full term. Pay the enormous medial bill that will surely accompany that birth. Watch the infant qrite with pain for days while you decide how long to let it suffer. And then, after your other child has met and bonded with the baby. decide to end its life so as to have the MAXIMUM negative effect possible on you and your family.

Personally I just think Louie Gohmert feels a certain kinship to yet another creature with no traceable brain function, and cannot stand to contemplate what would have occurred if HIS mother had been given the choices that Mrs. Zink was offered.   

Do these politicians have to fail an IQ test before they are considered a worthy representative of the state or something? Because I gotta tell ya, that's what it looks like from here.

Tomorrow is the BIG day for gun fetishists, and penile underachievers everywhere!

Courtesy of Houston Culture Map:

The 142nd National Rifle Association Annual Meeting is roaring into Houston for four days of seminars, rallies, prayer breakfasts and country music jam sessions, starting Thursday. 

The speaker lineup would make any Fox News junkie's heart skip a beat with appearances by conservative politicos and pundits ranging from to Sarah Palin and Rick Santorum to Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity. Hell, even Oliver North of Iran-Contra fame will be on hand to sign copies of his new novel. 

And yes, don't worry . . . The Nuge will be there in all his Cat Scratch Fever glory for a scheduled talk on Sunday.

"Where's the on button?"

God can you imagine the kind of person drawn to an event like this?

I just picture wall to wall overweight, pork rind munching, conspiracy theorists waddling around the gun exhibits while furtively adjusting their tiny peckers as they gaze longingly at assault rifles and ass-less chaps with Kevlar inserts.

It will be like an AVN Expo for men with permanent erectile dysfunction.

How could Sarah Palin NOT be involved?

Science "is lies straight from the pit of Hell." This Congressman serves on the House Science Committee with Todd "legitimate rape" Akin. WTF Congress?

Courtesy of Talking Points Memo:

 Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) tore into scientists as tools of the devil in a speech at the Liberty Baptist Church Sportsman’s Banquet last month. 

“All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the Big Bang Theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell,” Broun said. “And it’s lies to try to keep me and all the folks who were taught that from understanding that they need a savior.” 

According to Broun, the scientific plot was primarily concerned with hiding the true age of the Earth. Broun serves on the House Science Committee, which came under scrutiny recently after another one of its Republican members, Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO), suggested that victims of “legitimate rape” have unnamed biological defenses against pregnancy. 

“You see, there are a lot of scientific data that I’ve found out as a scientist that actually show that this is really a young Earth,” he said. “I don’t believe that the Earth’s but about 9,000 years old. I believe it was created in six days as we know them. That’s what the Bible says.”

"That's what the Bible says." Once again let me repeat that THIS man sits on the House Science Committee.

And he serves along with Todd Akin, who believes that women can shut their bodies down and refuse to get pregnant if they are being "legitimately" raped.

And we wonder WHY our the education system in this country is lagging behind education systems in almost every other industrialized nation.

WHY we would let a Republican from a southern state ANYWHERE NEAR a committee  dedicated to the advancement of science?  That is like having a blind man teaching a photography class.

You can watch the video these remarks here.

New Rules from last Friday.

Episode 260 by BillMaher1956 Maher covers everything from the idea that Jesus might have been married, to Kate Middleton's breasts, to the ridiculous idea that any of us should care what the undecideds finally decide in this next election.

Remember this IS HBO so if you are easily offended....well if you are easily offended how in the hell did you end up here?

Palin throws bombs on the Tom Sullivan show. I have no idea who this guy is, but apparently he is a couple of steps down from Judge Pirro.

Click fire to unleash hell.

Once again this is much of the same moosecrap we have heard from the Grizzled One over and over again.

Obama's socialist agenda.

Obama is destroying the economy.

Obama ate my baby! (I might have misheard that one.)

But this time she answers the question about why she did not jump into the Republican primaries with a new excuse: 

"You know logistically speaking, for me, I'm up here in Alaska, raising family, running businesses, I don't have that organization, I think, that could propel me to a position of being a viable candidate."

I have no idea which businesses she thinks she is running (Except the grifting business), or who exactly is raising her family, but her recognition that she never had the organization needed to launch a national campaign seems far more self-aware than in times past.  The fact is that she NEVER had the support or abilities needed to become a viable candidate.

And good for her for finally realizing that.

However just when you start to think that Palin might have matured, or become less inflammatory, she cuts loose like this:

Three reality based charts you can use to shut that Right Winger in your family up for good. Assuming of course that they understand charts.

Courtesy of The Smirking Chimp:

Notes, this chart includes Clinton's last budget year for comparison. 

People who claim that Obama "tripled the deficit" are either misled or are trying to mislead.

And finally a chart that many of us may seen once or twice before in the past, but on that still remains quite relevant and informative.

Yes I know that for most of these ignorant knuckle-draggers, even making the numbers in the form of a pretty picture will not convince them that all of the country's ills are not solely the responsibility of the Islamic Socialist anti-white racist currently living in the White House.

But hey at least you can give it a shot. I mean somebody has to start somewhere, don't they?