Just another glimpse into Donald Trump's America.

A Texan group is stocking up on pig's blood and bacon-greased bullets – against what they call an "Arab rising." https://t.co/C6ZjtLu3JP

— AJ+ (@ajplus) May 27, 2016

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

In a video posted to Twitter by AJPlus, weekend warriors in Texas explain that they will be using bullets dipped in pigs blood or smeared with bacon’ grease when the time comes to stop the “Arab uprising” they believe will overrun their state. 

In the video, one unidentified militia member explains the importance of using pork-dipped bullets. 

“A lot of us here are using either pig’s blood or bacon grease on our bullets, ” he explains, adding, “So that when you shoot a Muslim they go straight to hell. That’s what they believe in their religion.” 

Added another militia member, “Don’t f*ck with white people,” before showing off his shooting prowess with a shotgun.

Putting pig's blood on bullets, now where would they get a ridiculous idea like that?

Oh yeah, that's right:

Presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Saturday resurrected an apparent hoax story about Muslims being executed with bullets “dipped in pig’s blood.” 

What a bunch of redneck inbred douchenozzles.

In other news just yesterday Donald Trump's appearance in California, you know the same one that Sarah Palin dragged her Down syndrome child and still convalescing husband to, was met by a rather large crowd of very agitated protesters:

Those awaiting Donald Trump’s arrival in San Diego on Friday were mostly peaceful. But once he gave his speech and left, small fights broke out in the streets outside the Convention Center among crowds of supporters and protesters, and police in riot gear ended up massing to drive the crowds from the area. 

In one clash near Harbor Drive, thrown items hit people in the head, and several small street fights erupted in the same area, as the environment outdoors became tense when anti-Trump crowds started to mix with his supporters just before 5 p.m. 

San Diego police declared an unlawful assembly in the Gaslamp Quarter due to violence about 4:40 p.m., announcing in Spanish and English that people needed to disperse. Officers with riot gear were moving among the crowd. 

Several people were also throwing plastic bottles, some that hit police officers, near Petco Park on L Street between 5th and 6th avenues. Also nearby, someone grabbed a man's "Make America Great Again" hat and burned it.

So on the one side we have heavily armed dipshits practicing to kill Muslims in this country, and on the other side a much larger group of brown skinned Americans who see a Donald Trump presidency as a very real danger to their safety and the safety of their families.

I think at this point it is legitimate to ask if America has any hope of even surviving a Donald Trump presidency?

I think you know my answer.

Southern Poverty Law Center labels group representing Kim Davis a hate group. Yeah I get that.

Courtesy of Salon:  

The Liberty Counsel — the group that’s representing Rowan County, Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis — has been declared a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Associated Press’ Claire Galofaro reports. 

According to the SPLC, the group and its leader, Mat Staver, have virulently opposed all LGBTQ rights legislation under the aegis of “religious freedom” — it’s even defended Scott Lively, who “played an instrumental part in the Ugandan parliament’s adoption of a draconian anti-LGBT bill that originally included the death penalty in some instances.” 

According to Staver, hate crimes legislation is the equivalent of “‘thought crimes’ laws that violate the right to freedom of speech and of conscience” and “have a chilling effect on people who have moral or religious objections to homosexual behavior.” 

The Liberty Counsel has come under fire for its management of Davis, first after Staver claimed that an image of 100,000 people in Peru were gathered to pray for Davis — they were not, a fact for which Staver blamed a “miscommunication” with Peruvian officials — and later for misrepresenting Davis’ meeting with Pope Francis.

There are some who will accuse the SPLC of going on an ideological witch hunt, and in fact the Liberty Council spokesman is already doing just that.

However in my opinion calling them a hate group is a reasonable assertion, even without the rather long laundry list of reasons given by SPLC.

After all, who BUT a hate group could possibly represent Kim Davis?

Man arrested in Kansas for bringing homemade bomb into abortion clinic.

Courtesy of CBS News: 

Police say a man is in custody after he brought a small improvised explosive device into a women's health care clinic that provides abortions in south-central Kansas. 

Wichita Police Department spokesman Doug Nolte says officers responded to the South Wind Women's Center around 3:30 p.m. Monday. He says on-site security inspected a backpack the man brought in and found knives and the explosive device. 

Officials told CBS affiliate KWCH in Wichita that the suspect was also carrying a small box wrapped in tape. 

Clinic staff evacuated the building, and a bomb squad was called to remove the backpack. No injuries were reported.

The authorities are investigating as to whether or not the man intended to cause any harm to the clinic or its staff, but since the guy brought a bomb into the same building that Dr. Teller used to work in before he was shot dead, I think it is a pretty good bet that his intentions were not altruistic.

By the way this kind of thing is the predictable byproduct of this most recent attempt to smear Planned Parenthood and abortion providers using those doctored videos.

Some people may write to their Congressman in response, some might create placards and protest outside of clinics, but there is also a fringe group who believes the best way to "save the fetus" is to murder those providing abortion services.

Texas mayor speaks out against Pamela Gellar for provoking attack, Gellar of course claims it was not her fault.

Garland Mayor Douglas Athas

Courtesy of the Dallas News:  

Garland Mayor Douglas Athas, like many in his city, said he wished AFDI president Pamela Geller hadn’t picked Garland as the site for Sunday’s event. 

“Certainly in hindsight, we as a community would be better off if she hadn’t,” Athas said Tuesday. “Her actions put my police officers, my citizens and others at risk. Her program invited an incendiary reaction. She picked my community, which does not support in any shape, passion or form, her ideology. 

“But at the end of the day, we did our jobs,” he said. “We protected her freedoms and her life.”

One can only imagine this poor guy's frustration. 

One day he's worried about keeping the trash picked up off the streets, and dealing with petty crime crime, and the next his officers are warding off an attack from assailants aligned with a dangerous terrorist group.

But hey, it's not Pamela Gellar's fault. As she explains here courtesy of Time Magazine:  

So, why are some people blaming me? They’re saying: “Well, she provoked them! She got what she deserved!” They don’t remember, or care to remember, that as the jihadis were killing the Muhammad cartoonists in Paris, their friend and accomplice was murdering Jews in a nearby kosher supermarket. Were the Jews asking for it? Did they “bait” the jihadis? Were they “provoking” them? 

Are the Jews responsible for the Nazis? Are the Christians in the Middle East responsible for being persecuted by Muslims? 

Drawing Muhammad offends Islamic jihadists? So does being Jewish. How much accommodation of any kind should we give to murderous savagery? To kowtow to violent intimidation will only encourage more of it. 

This is a war.

Actually it's not war. It's random, often unrelated, acts of terrorism that will surely increase if people go out of their way to provoke a certain element in the Muslim community.

Now I support free speech as much as anybody, actually more than some. But what Gellar did was not in the name of free speech, what she did was to attempt to agitate a certain segment of the community so that she could prove to people that she was correct in writing terrible things about them.

Were they wrong to attack the AFDI? Yes, of course.

Was Gellar and her group wrong to place the lives of police officers at risk in order to play the victim, and garner support? Yes, of course.

You know it's kind of like the riots in Baltimore.

We all condemn the burning of police cars, and property damage, but we also have to realize that there were factors which inspired that response.

Are we at war with black people in Baltimore as well?

There is no defense for the atrocities perpetrated by terrorists happening around the world, however we can do much to demonstrate that America is a place where people of all ethnic and religious backgrounds can live in harmony.

A huge part of that might be to stop attacking Muslim countries and killing their people, and to stop our police from shooting black people in the back or severing their spinal cords.

Just a thought.

P.S. Just a note in case I did not make myself clear. Killing people because they draw a picture of your prophet is never a reasonable response. My point was that if we were not also raining down death on innocent Muslims from the skies in Pakistan and other places, perhaps there would be fewer folks willing to kill over a cartoon.

President of Texas anti-gay movement's ex-wife left him for another woman. Hmm, if only we could figure out why he doesn't like gay people.

Courtesy of Lone Star Q:

Mere months before Jonathan Saenz became president of the anti-gay group Texas Values, his wife left him for another woman, according to Hays County district court records obtained by Lone Star Q. 

The revelation could help explain Saenz’s seemingly abrupt transformation from socially conservative lobbyist to homophobic firebrand. 

Saenz, a devout Catholic, has been a right-wing operative in Texas for many years — working on abortion and religious liberty cases as a staff attorney for the Plano-based Liberty Legal Institute as far back as 2005. 

However, it wasn’t until recently that Saenz emerged as one of the state’s best-known — and most extreme — anti-LGBT voices. 

Court records indicate that Saenz’s ex-wife, Corrine Morris Rodriguez Saenz, is a member of the LGBT community who was dating another woman when she filed for divorce from Saenz in August 2011. 

In early 2012, with their divorce still pending, Saenz would take the helm of Texas Values after the organization spun off from the Liberty Legal Institute, where he’d risen to chief lobbyist.

Since becoming president Saenz has been very aggressive in fighting against marriage equality and other gay rights. 

You know I have known a few men that have experienced this situation. I don't know ANY that have becoming raging homphobes as the result however.

When I was talking to one of my friends I said that in some ways it was better that she had left him for a woman instead of a man.

When he asked in what way, I replied "Because when a woman leaves you for another man you might ask yourself what they have that you don't have? But in this case you know exactly what they have that you don't have, and that's just nature's fault not yours."

And then I added, "Besides now you can literally tell people that your wife left you because you were too much man for her."

This Saenz guy must be awash in insecurities for this to have had the impact on him that it seems to have had.

Just imagine, if his wife had left him for a black guy he would probably have joined the Klan. 

The Easter holiday, a time for chocolate bunnies, pastel colored clothing, and racism. Wait, what?

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

Parents in one Virginia neighborhood were outraged on Sunday after their annual Easter egg hunt tradition was upset by white supremacists who had secretly hidden eggs with racist messages for the children to find. 

West End parents Brandon and Jackie Smith told WRIC that they discovered the offensive eggs while having an Easter Egg hunt with their 3-year-old son on Sunday afternoon. 

“My husband noticed the last Easter egg and I knew it wasn’t one that we put out,” Jackie Smith recalled. “We opened it and it’s got the white supremacist stuff in it.” 

Other neighbors also found hate-filled eggs in their yard with messages that said “Diversity = White Genocide” and “Mass immigration and forced assimilation of non-whites into our lands is genocide.” 

The notes pointed to the websites WhiteManMarch.com and WhiteGenocideProject.com, a reference to a so-called “worldwide” protest in March that reportedly ended with a very small turnout. 

“We don’t want other kids around here who can read being like, ‘Hey mommy what’s the million man white march or what’s the genocide project?’ Most of us don’t want to explain genocide to our 6-year-olds,” Jackie Smith explained.

You know I never did trust that Easter Bunny.

He always looked so shifty.

Of course not all hate groups are being all hate-y. 

For instance the KKK in Pennsylvania has volunteered to help out by starting a neighborhood watch:

 "You can sleep tonight knowing the Klan is awake?" Fat chance of that.

The groups claims that they will treat not be targeting any specific ethnicity.

You know just the ones with brown skin who look like they don't belong around those parts.

Well the conservatives have been saying for decades that they wanted to bring America back to its traditional values, and it looks like they are getting their way. The traditional values of racism, oppression, vigilantism.

Ed Schultz tackles the Southern Poverty Law Center's report that anti-government groups are at an all time high.

This is the opening of Ed's show so the first minute and a half does not address this topic. If you skip to the 1:30 mark you will start to hear the troubling information.

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You know Ed Schults is one of the MSNBC hosts that I link to the least because he is often bombastic and is not known for delivering the information in the cool and informative way that say Rachel Maddow might. However in THIS case I certainly do not think that Schultz is over the top and I share his concern, and that of the SPLC, that these groups present a clear and present danger to the citizens and law enforcement officials of this country.

Here is a little more from Politico:

The SPLC wrote a letter to the departments of Justice and Homeland Security asking for the creation of a task force to examine the resources devoted to battling domestic terrorism. 

“On October 25, 1994, six months before the Oklahoma City bombing, we wrote Attorney General Janet Reno about the growing threat of domestic terrorism,” SPLC President Richard Cohen wrote in the letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. “Today, we write to express similar concerns. In the last four years, we have seen a tremendous increase in the number of conspiracy-minded, antigovernment groups as well as in the number of domestic terrorist plots. As in the period before the Oklahoma City bombing, we now also are seeing ominous threats from those who believe that the government is poised to take their guns.” 

As somebody who watched the Schaeffer Cox story unfold, and who has some behind the scenes knowledge bout how a number of similar groups currently preparing their own anti-government plots, I will tell you that we CANNOT ignore these lunatics.

They may be comical at times, with their ridiculous training video, and bizarre conspiracy theories, but make no mistake these individuals are heavily armed and, thanks to assholes like Norm Olson, easily agitated into making dangerous mistakes which might very well cost them their lives, the lives of the law enforcement officials sent to deal with them, and any innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire.

Hostile ultra conservative hate monger, sues ultra conservative employer, for hostile hate mongering against her. Sounds fair.

"But wait, THIS is different. They were mean to ME."

Courtesy of Politico:

Conservative commentator Dana Loesch on Friday sued the parent company of right-wing news website Breitbart.com, where she was once a star writer and editor. 

The suit, filed in U.S. District court in St. Louis, Mo., and first reported in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, alleges that Loesch’s “poorly managed but well meaning relationship” with the media organization founded by the late Andrew Breitbart went “tragically awry” resulting “in the attempt by one vindictive party to sabotage the reputation and career of another.” 

Loesch contends that owner and operator Breitbart LLC bound her to “what amounts to indentured servitude in limbo” after she says she was forced to terminate her contract as the result of an “increasingly hostile” working environment. She says Breitbart LLC refused to allow her to write or blog for anyone else and would not publish her work on the site. The suit seeks at least $75,000 in damages and freedom from contractual obligations. 

I am tickled by the fact that Dana Loesch, who aggressively defended Sarah Palin after her insensitive "blood libel" comments and viciously attacked Sandra Fluke, is now suing an organization for treating her in a "hostile" manner.

Dana Loescha is an absolutely terrible human being who has misrepresented facts repeatedly, most recently as a contributor to CNN, in order to drive an ultra conservative agenda that often involves attacks on Muslims and the gay community.

Personally I LOVE watching infighting among the Right Wing lunatics. Especially in this case since it was Andrew Breitbart who referred to this blog as "defunct." (You know before his overwhelming hated made his heart stop working.)

(P.S. Interesting side note, since Breitbart's death the Executive News Chairman for Breitbart.com has been none other than Sarah Palin ass kisser, and director of that rancid piece of propaganda "The Undefeated," Stephen K. Bannon.)

Chick-Fil-A tries to save face, by lying about WHY they no longer offer Jim Henson's toys.

Just in case you can't read it, here is what it says:

We apologize for any inconvenience but as of 7/19/2012 Chick-Fil-A has recalled all of Jim Henson's Creature Shop Puppets kid's Meal toys due to a possible safety issue. Please be advised that there have not been any cases in whihc a child has actually been injured, however there have been some reports of children getting their fingers stuck in the holes of the puppets. We are offering a substitution of a complimentary kids ice cream cone in its place until a replacement toy is available.

Thank you

Wow! There's a load of  chickenshit! Here let me translate:

We are incredibly embarrassed that our homophobic stance has now been publicized and in the hopes of fooling the few idiots that don't access the internet, or who have reading comprehension difficulties, we are writing up this lame, and totally transparent, excuse for why we no longer carry the very popular brand of toy.

Fucking cowards!  Hey if you are going to homophobic assholes, at least be homophobic assholes with balls!

By the way just in case you thought Chick-Fil-A were the only food outlet that supports an aggressive Right Wing agenda, you could not be more wrong:

Carl’s Jr. founder Carl Karcher, who died in 2008, had been a supporter of anti-abortion causes for decades. In particular, Karcher was fond of funding the anti-choice group Operation Rescue. He also had a mean anti-gay streak as well. 

Like Karcher, Domino’s Pizza founder Tom Monaghan is an unapologetic supporter of anti-choice groups, including Operation Rescue, Right to Life, Priests for Life, and the Committee to End State-Funded Abortion in Michigan. 

There are also a few others like White Castle and the Waffle House just to name two.

But hey, on the plus side just imagine how much healthier and skinnier we will all be by avoiding these places from now on?

In the least surprising news of the weekend, it turns out that One MIllion Moms is listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group. Gee really?

Gee, nothing sexist about this image is there?

Though the One Million Moms name makes it sound like a bunch of housewives got together and decided to launch a campaign to protect their impressionable children from the "gayness" in fact they are ACTUALLY the most recent incarnation of the long standing anti-gay hate group the American Family Association, as you can see by visiting their donation page here: 

To send your donation by mail, use this address: American Family Association P O Drawer 2440, Tupelo, MS 38803 (Oops, busted!)


Here is the story behind the American Family Association courtesy of SPLC:

Initially founded as the National Federation for Decency, the American Family Association (AFA) originally focused on what it considered indecent television programming and pornography. The AFA says it promotes "traditional moral values" in media. A large part of that work involves "combating the homosexual agenda" through various means, including publicizing companies that have pro-gay policies and organizing boycotts against them.

Here are some of AFA's  stated opinions in their own words:

"[T]he homosexual lifestyle is characterized by anonymous sexual encounters and celebration of sexual obsession and perversion unparalleled in any other social group." – Richard Howe, "Homosexuality in America," AFA publication, 1994 

"As with smoking, homosexual behavior's ‘second hand' effects threaten public health… .Thus, individuals who choose to engage in homosexual behavior threaten not only their own lives, but the lives of the general population." – Gary Glenn, president of Michigan chapter of AFA, 2001 

"Homosexuality is not only harmful to homosexuals themselves, but also to children and to society." – Stephen Bennett, AFA writer, 2004 

"If President Obama, Congressional Democrats, and homosexual activists get their wish, your son or daughter may be forced to share military showers and barracks with active and open homosexuals who may very well view them with sexual interest." – AFA press release, February 2010 

"The homosexual movement is a progressive outgrowth of the sexual revolution of the past 40 years and will lead to the normalization of even more deviant behavior." – Don Wildmon, AFA website, 1999 (still posted as of 2011). 

"Homosexuality gave us Adolph Hitler, and homosexuals in the military gave us the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war machine and six million dead Jews." – Bryan Fischer, AFA director of issue analysis for government and public policy, 2010

So not only are there FAR less than a million members of One Million Moms (When I checked, One Million Moms was liked by 47,062 people on Facebook. Not quite a million.), they are not even REALLY just a group of mothers, but are instead a hateful group of homophobes hiding behind the skirts of imaginary mommies.


I have to imagine that there are therapists all over the country literally salivating at the opportunity to get THESE nutjobs on a couch in their office. "So how long have you feared the gay man and imagined a great mother figure to defend you from your latent homosexual desires? Hmmm?"