“Look, I'm a heterosexual. I have a wife, I love my wife, I don't like men." Pennsylvania state representative loses it when male peer touches his forearm.

Courtesy of WaPo: 

While debating a land-use bill at a committee meeting on Tuesday night, Pennsylvania state Rep. Matt Bradford laid his hand — for just a moment — on the left forearm of the colleague sitting next to him. 

That colleague was conservative Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, who interrupted Bradford mid-sentence with a personal bit of information. 

“Look, I'm a heterosexual. I have a wife, I love my wife, I don't like men — as you might. But stop touching me all the time,” Metcalfe told Bradford, who then began laughing. 

Several other members of the committee, which Metcalfe chairs, giggled and smirked. 

“Keep your hands to yourself,” said Metcalfe, a Republican from Butler County. “If you want to touch somebody, you have people on your side of the aisle who might like it. 

“I don't.” 

Bradford, a Democrat, appeared to be stunned by the comments. 

“Okay, chairman, chairman,” he said, widely grinning as committee members laughed. 

One member appeared to conceal her face from the camera with her hand. “We're officially off the rails. ... My intent was just to beg for your permission for about 30 seconds.” 

“Then beg, don't touch,” responded Metcalfe, who is serving his 10th term in office. Bradford continued to laugh.

I have seen some rather stunning examples of homophobia in my time, but I think this one easily makes the top of the list. 

You know what they say about those who freak out the most about homosexuality don't you?

Sarah Palin attacks President Obama over flags, but it turns out simply to be a trick for SarahPAC to gather more e-mail addresses. Update!

"See? My flag pillow is at half sofa in honor of the murdered military members."

Courtesy of False Flag Attack Palin's Facebook page: 

If you follow Obama administration actions this summer, you see it's their "Summer of the Flag". They seek to ban some flags (Confederate battle flag.), light up our White House in controversial colors of others (LGBT flag.), inexplicably wave the white flag retreating from Iran's terrorist regime, and today actually raised the flag of a communist nation in the halls of our US State Department (Cuba's flag.). Why then is it impossible for this Commander in Chief to honor our fallen military heroes following last week's terrorist murder spree in Chattanooga? He did so after evil attacks on Americans in Aurora, CO and New Town, CT - so why not now, Mr. President? Why not our troops? 

Demand he do so! Whether you agree with me or not on other issues, please join this effort. If you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything, and this IS something to stand for! (Actually not really.)

President Obama - we shouldn't even have to tell you, but lower the flags. It is the sign of respect. Include our White House flag, for honoring our fallen who were killed on their Chattanooga base where they're working and sacrificing for all of us - including you. (How is luring young men and women into the military with false promises helping all of us again?)

After this rant Palin provides a link to a petition on SarahPAC which requires a first and last name, and of course an e-mail address to help "send a message."

Of course the message you will be sending is that you are dumb enough to share your e-mail address with them and now want to receive fundraising letters from SarahPAC ad nauseum.

As it turns out this is not a crusade of Palin's making, as other conservative outlets are also bitching about it. Including Palin's favorite porcine Christmas defender Todd Starnes.

However Snopes looked into this and there are a couple of reasons why the President may not have issued a proclamation to have the flags lowered:

Some have speculated that the lack of a presidential proclamation might be because as tragic and senseless as they were, the Chattanooga deaths involved members of the U.S. armed forces who are considered to have been killed in the line of duty (unlike the other mass shooting events referenced above, which involved civilian deaths), and while individual states often lower their flags to honor local natives or residents who die in the service of their country, doing so at a national level would require the President to pick and choose among service deaths to decide which to so honor. 

Sounds reasonable.

Actually this is a complete nonissue that ONLY the most anti-Obama zealots would even give two shits about.

After all how many people are spending their days staring at the D.C. flagpoles and losing their minds when the flags are not lowered when THEY think they should be lowered?

If this is pissing these conservatives off this much, just wait until the next story I post. THAT will make their little pointy heads explode.

Update: Okay so the flags have actually been lowered so Palin should feel pretty stupid, except knowing her she will simply assume she is responsible for it. 

Here's a look at what is making the Right Wing apoplectic today. Update!

Now in the boy's defense he DID allude to the fact that Obama gets his powers from God and did not suggest that he was God himself. He simply thanked him for using his God given powers foo good.

However the Right Wing does not see it this way and, as I have seen in four or five websites so far today, are making the allegation that "liberals" are teaching children to worship President Obama in place of God:

Liberals really have taken it to the next level this time. This is beyond disgusting and these people are unfit parents. It is truly a sad state of our society. 

You know it could simply be a young African American boy expressing his admiration for the first President that he can relate to in the only way that he feels appropriate.

Oh wait, that's logic. The Right Wing does not do logic. What was I thinking?

Update: The first place where I stumbled onto this video was over at our friend Joe Miller's blog. He recently stated in a speech during the Iowa Family Leadership Summit, that President Obama is “engaged in a form of systematic spiritual and religious apartheid.”

So essentially the message is that President Obama is pulling a Kim Jong-il and having himself deified while attempting to destroy Christianity in this country, all while punishing those who refer to themselves as Christians.

And the sad fact is is that there is a very undereducated, hyper religious, government mistrusting segment of the population is that is ready and willing to believe that is true.

You may know them as the Republican base.