Donald Trump officially bans transgender folks from enlisting in the military.

Take that Obama!

Courtesy of The Hill: 

President Trump signed a presidential memo Friday instructing the Defense Department to stop accepting transgender people who want to enlist in the military. 

The memo details Trump's previous Twitter announcement last month that he would reinstate a ban on transgender people serving in the U.S. military, and officially requests the Pentagon begin implementing the ban. 

Trump’s memo bars transgender people from enlisting, but instructs Secretary of Defense James Mattis to further explore how to handle transgender people currently serving in the armed forces. 

The memo also orders the Pentagon to stop paying for gender reassignment surgeries, except in cases that are already in progress to “protect the health of an individual.” 

It also requests that the Pentagon develop an implementation plan for the ban by Feb. 21 2018, to be put in place on March 23, 2018.

This was just another terrible thing that Trump did yesterday while most of the media was distracted by Hurricane Harvey.

Trump argued that his decision was based on "national security concerns" but we all know it is just another Obama era policy that he feels compelled to rollback.

Trump's entire presidency is just one giant FUCK YOU to President Obama, and I think it all goes back to that White House Corespondent's Dinner where Obama mocked Trump and had the whole room laughing at him.

Because other than that there is literally no reason that Trump would do something like this.

Well here's another truly insensitive Memorial Day message from Sarah Palin.

Everybody loves a #Hifivedoughnut! #Palin #ladiesofthemorning #keeplouisvillerad #HowWeLou #explorekentucky #Donuts pic.twitter.com/Z7FGlqpOaC

— Hi-Five Doughnuts (@HiFiveDoughnuts) May 25, 2015

You know if this were somebody else we might simply laugh it off as a lame joke and leave it at that.

However this is coming from a woman who has made a career out of accusing her political foes, and ideological opponents of not being true Americans. A woman who has suggested that liberals hate their country, and that our President is actively trying to sabotage it and destroy its credibility around the world.

So no, I don't consider this a harmless joke.

Not from this woman, and not on this day.  

Just a petition to have the Bible removed from all Target stores. Here let me get a pen.

Courtesy of Change.org:

It's a book that encourages readers to murder women for entertainment. The incentive is to commit sexual violence against women, then abuse or kill them to proceed or get 'god' points – and now Target are stocking it and promoting it for your Xmas stocking. 

This is The Holy Bible. This book means that after various sex acts, readers are given options to kill women by stoning her unconscious, Setting them on fire, cutting off their hands, and killing their children! 

One of many fan passages on In The Holy Bible depicts woman being set alight for having sex "And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire." (Leviticus 21:9). 

This misogynistic book literally makes a game of bashing, killing and horrific violence against women. It also links sexual arousal and violence. 

Just knowing that women are being portrayed as deserving to be sexually used by men and potentially murdered for sport and pleasure – to see this violence turned into a form of entertainments is sickening and causes us great pain and harm. 

This book spreads the idea that certain women exist as scapegoats for male violence. It shows hatred and contempt for women in the sex industry and puts them at greater risk. Women in the industry are 40 times more likely to be murdered by a man than any other group of women. 

Books like this are grooming yet another generation of boys to tolerate violence against women. It is fueling the epidemic of violence experienced by so many girls and women in Australia - and globally. 

Target, you pride yourself on being a family company, caring for local communities, and have a strong ethical sourcing policy. How can you do this while contributing to hostile and callous attitudes toward victims of violence and, more broadly, to all women? 

Please put ethics before profits and make a strong statement that you do not condone sexual violence, sexual exploitation or the abuse of women as ‘entertainment’. 

Well it's hard to argue against all that now isn't it?

It is hard to imagine that Target would comply with this request, but it is worth noting that the petition is only 134 signatures shy of reaching its goal of 25,000 as I write this.

So that tells us something.

And I do so enjoy tilting at windmills sometimes.

Good news for civil discourse in this country as Rush Limbaugh is currently losing about ten advertisers a day.

Hey has anybody seen my advertisers?

Courtesy of the Daily Kos:

In one month, over 300 more sponsors have pulled ads, now totaling over 2,500. (This does not count the 800 or so who have 'left quietly') Limbaugh now averages a loss of 10 sponsors per day. To make up for these sponsorship losses, it is known he has been subsidized by outside sources including FreedomWorks (backed by the Tea Party). And I'm betting he is having to subsidize himself, to stay on the air.

You know occasionally I hear a bit of Limbaugh's show and I have been struck by the fact that it seems there are always just the same advertisements repeated over and over, and that it seems all of them have something to do with internet security, home security, or some company selling blinds.

I knew he had been hemorrhaging advertisers but even I did not know it was so many. That is awesome news!

If you want to help you can sign a petition to do so here.

First Rush Limbaugh, and next Fox News.

Levi Johnston's life might look Sunny right now, but storm clouds are just over the horizon: “Bristol has nothing going on right now – she’s single and has no jobs lined up – so she’s harassing Levi and Sunny.”

"Oh this is not over. It will NEVER be over!"

Courtesy of Radar Online:

Bristol, 22, and her baby daddy were forced to work out their differences on their own after an Alaskan court closed their custody case involving their 3-year-old son, Tripp, because of a “lack of activity.” 

However, the daughter of the former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin has no intention of working out their differences according to the Enquirer, especially since Levi still owes her tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid child support. 

“Levi doesn’t have a real job, so at first Bristol thought it might be best to just let him pay when he could,” a family member told the Enquirer. “She was hoping he would man up and pay, but so far that hasn’t happened.” 

In the meantime, Levi has found love with 20-year-old Sunny Oglesby and the pair welcomed baby daughter Breeze Beretta on September 13. 

They married in an intimate ceremony on Oct.28 at Settlers Bay Lodge in Wasilla, Alaska. 

“Bristol has nothing going on right now – she’s single and has no jobs lined up – so she’s harassing Levi and Sunny,” the source said. 

“Their wedding has really gotten under her skin. Bristol may say she’s over Levi, but she always held out hope that they would end up together.”

This is exactly what I have been anticipating ever since I learned that the court case had closed and that Levi and Bristol had worked out "their own" visitation deal. (And who didn't realize that any temporary agreement would fall apart the minute Bristol was booted from DWTS?)

Without the protection of the courts Levi is left vulnerable to the nastiness of perhaps the MOST vindictive family in Alaska. 

And don't think this is JUST between Levi and Bristol either. The Grizzled Mama has insinuated herself into her children's lives in every imaginable way, and in THIS particular case may hate Levi even more than her daughter hates him.

For those who are asking why Levi has not simply taken this to court to finally get it over with, don't forget that virtually ALL of his money was stolen from him, and that he was left with virtually nothing by Rex and Tank. Which is WHY he got so far behind in his child support payments in the first place.

Essentially Levi needs a lawyer to help him take on his old management team to get his money back. And another lawyer to help him fight for custody of his son, all while attempting to work and care for his new wife and newborn daughter. And this while still owing over $40,000 in back child support payments, an amount which increases monthly.

(By the way, in Alaska at least, child support and visitation rights are two separate issues. Just because Levi is in arrears it does not mean that his visitation rights or custody case are impacted.)

You know I have to say that I have a great deal of sympathy for Levi in this situation. My ex-wife made my life hell for many years and used my daughter as a bludgeon to punish me at every turn. Even after she was remarried and had two other children, she continued to do everything in her power to sabotage my relationship with my daughter and to cause strife in my second marriage.

I don't want to scare Levi, but my ex NEVER got over it. Never!

And that was in a relationship that was NOT with a Palin, and after I won joint custody in family court. I cannot begin to imagine how ugly Levi's situation could become.

Sarah Palin backpedals on her "Shuck and Jive" comment directed at the President, and throws out Piper as a human shield. Classy! Update!

Courtesy of the Lunatic from Lake Lucille's Facebook page:

For the record, there was nothing remotely racist in my use of the phrase "shuck and jive" – a phrase which many people have used, including Chris Matthews, Andrew Cuomo, and White House Press Secretary Jay Carney to name a few off the top of my head. In fact, Andrew Cuomo also used the phrase in reference to Barack Obama, and the fact that Mr. Cuomo and I used the phrase in relation to President Obama signifies nothing out of the ordinary. I would have used the exact same expression if I had been writing about President Carter, whose foreign policy rivaled Obama’s in its ineptitude, or about the Nixon administration, which was also famously rocked by a cover-up.

I’ve been known to use the phrase most often when chastising my daughter Piper to stop procrastinating and do her homework. As she is part Yup’ik Eskimo, I’m not sure if this term would be deemed offensive when it’s directed at her or if it would be considered benign as in the case of Chris Matthews’ use of it in reference to Rachel Maddow. Just to be careful, from now on I’ll avoid using it with Piper, and I would appreciate it if the media refrained from using words and phrases like igloo, Eskimo Pie, and “when hell freezes over,” as they might be considered offensive by my extended Alaska Native family. 

The outrageously outraged reaction to this expression from perennial hypocrites like Chris Matthews has only made me laugh. Mr. Matthews, let me share with you my favorite Irish toast: “May we always be happy, and may our enemies always know it.”

 - Sarah Palin

Clearly this idiot did not take into account just how much of a backlash her  provocative words would attract. Sure she wanted to get attention, she lives for attention, but much like her "blood libel" comments after the Gabby Giffords shooting, she was unable to recognize just how ugly they would seem when the media shone its light on them for the world to see.

The idea that Palin did not realize that her words were tinged with racism is of course ridiculous, she absolutely did. However the idea that she would get a pass for saying them is completely believable. After all just think of the numerous things she has said that have NOT resulted in the kind of backlash that one might expect if somebody else had said them.

However what Palin seems unable to recognize is that the person who could flash a little leg (accompanied by a flash of panties) and get away with saying truly horrible things, like the woman pictured below....

,,, is no longer the person that we all see.

We now see this nasty bitch...

..and THIS nasty bitch has worn out her welcome and needs to keep her big stupid mouth closed.

Update: For those wondering if that is really Palin in the gif above, I have to say that I am not  exactly positive, though it DOES look quite a lot like her.

It was sent to me by our friend Alaska Dave Down Unda, though he did not identify where he discovered it.

However he also sent along this picture from 2008 for comparison.

I guess you can decide for yourselves. (Update: NOT her, though she undoubtedly wishes it were.)