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So this was posted on Brancy's blog earlier today:

I came across this Scripture and wanted to pass it along.

“The blessing of The Lord brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.” Proverbs 10:22

This reminds me of that old saying “you’re either sleeping well, or eating well.”

Well, the good news is that you can have both with God’s blessing!

It reminds me of when I was on Dancing with the Stars, especially the first time. I knew God’s plan for my life would always be bigger and better than a reality show. I knew whatever was to happen, would happen.

There’s freedom in that.

God has given me so much! That means I’m able to “sleep well,” and ”eat well” with all of his blessings.

Okay I am not exactly sure what this means because I am, what do you call it, sane.

Wonkette tried to make sense of it, but I think they might have hurt themselves in the attempt.

However what jumped out at me were these portions:

“you’re either sleeping well, or eating well.”

And....

It reminds me of when I was on Dancing with the Stars, especially the first time. I knew God’s plan for my life would always be bigger and better than a reality show.

Now that of course cannot help but remind all of us of these pictures.

Bristol 11-23-10 right after the end of DWTS

11-24-10

Now why would Bristol's ghostwriter type up a post about eating well that mentions her first go around on DWTS when the whole country was trying to figure out how somebody supposedly training for up to seven hours a day could gain 30 to 40 pounds, when every contestant previously, and since, lost weight at a dramatic rate?

I mean is she TRYING to invite ridicule?

Or perhaps Nancy French is trying to tell us something about Bristol's current condition.

Things that make you go, hmmm.

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So the above graphic is currently posted over at the Facebook home of the addle-brained albatross from Arizona.

There is in fact so much stupid about this that I hardly know where to start.

Should I start with the fact that an AR-15 can fire 700 rounds per minute, while a musket can fire only.....one? (Okay maybe two if you are Fess Parker.)

Or that the Colonial army was fighting for the right to form a government that would represent their interests, and create laws to protect them from the kinds of people who might someday want to own an arsenal of weapons which could include a 700 round per minute firing AR-15?

Or that in colonial times long rifles were the only weapons owned by the majority of Americans and these were not something easily concealed or used to mug pedestrians on the street?

I can tell you with some certainty that if the Founding Fathers had been dealing with a reality which included the possibility of the average citizen owning hundreds of automatic weapons, grenade launchers, and easily concealed handguns, they would have dramatically tightened up that language in the 2nd Amendment. Or possibly done away with it altogether.

By the way the inspiration for this post was nothing more than the opportunity to pimp Brancy's post from the other day, about the Connecticut gun owners refusal to register their military style weapons, that I already ridiculed here.

My assumption is that with the SarahPAC funds running low there is only so much money available for ghostwriters. So instead of having two separate Facebook posts written, this way they can have one and then share it.

They're wasting their time really, I think that at this point everybody recognizes that the Palins as a unit are against ANY laws which might protect citizens from having bits of their body shot off, believe that the 2nd Amendment was written by Jesus while riding a dinosaur, and that anybody who introduces any gun legislation is probably an America hating communist Nazi.

Or something like that.

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So as you all know Nugent cancelled a planned interview with Burnett the night that his "mongrel" reference concerning President Obama got national attention, and he was called out for using language similar to what the Nazis used to dehumanize the Jews during the Holocaust by Wolf Blitzer.

Apparently being called a coward by just about everybody, and having even many former conservative supporters turn on him, proved too much for Nugent and he decided to risk showing his hateful mug on cable news again.

The interview starts off with Burnett asking him if he really meant his apology to the President.

Of course Nugent cannot bring himself to give a straight answer so he starts off by suggesting that Burnett's ability to comprehend English is flawed:

Erin, come on. You've got this English language down really well. I bet you understand when the question is, do you apologize and I answer yes.

You don't really have to ask that question again, do you?

Burnett then plays a tape of, first Ted Nugent using the term "mongrel" to insult the President, and then Obama using the word to describe how ethnically mixed the American people are these days, because Nugent had used that comparison to defend his racist remarks.

As the interview proceeds Nugent continues to demonstrate an adversarial attitude and at one point claims to have been responsible for getting Piers Morgan thrown off CNN and essentially threatens Burnett with the same:

NUGENT:But for anyone to claim that I am a racist or it had racist overtones is the typical crap that the propaganda ministry and the media, particularly most of your cohorts there, even though I got Piers Morgan's ass thrown out, and I'll do the same with Don Lemon and Wolf Blitzer when I can...

BURNETT: All right, don't...

NUGENT: But you might be able to stay on...

BURNETT: - just do me a favor, don't talk about my colleagues that way...

NUGENT: - because I appreciate that.

BURNETT: I respect them both greatly. But let me...

NUGENT: Well, I just - I just did. They don't deserve respect.

God this guy is an arrogant prick.

Later Burnett shows a clip of Nugent referring to the President as a "chimpanzee" to which Nugent claims he calls everybody a chimpanzee:

Do you really think that I referenced any race as a primate?

I call my buddies in my band chimpanzees when they miss a good guitar lick. Come on, give me a break on that. Now, I referenced no racial overturns there whatsoever. I was referencing people who would look in the camera with those four dead Americans in Benghazi and refuse to be accountable and say, what difference does it make?

Yeah, okay.

Burnett next calls Nugent out for calling Hillary Clinton the C word, to which Poopy pants decides to compare himself to the great Richard Pryor, and says it should be okay because Bill Maher called "the great" Sarah Palin the same thing.

However he then claims that in deference to the wishes of his family he is no longer going to call people names.

Oh yeah, does anybody think that is even a possibility for this trash talking racist has been?

I will hand it to Erin Burnett however, she did an excellent job of holding Nugent's feet to the fire concerning several of his racist and misogynistic remarks.

Well done.

(You can read the entire transcript here.)

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Courtesy of The Times-Picayune:

Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast has not been using government funds to provide or recommend abortions in Louisiana, according to a report released Monday morning by the Louisiana Legislative Auditor.

"We found no indication that Planned Parenthood had recommended that a patient have an abortion or had performed an abortion for patients in our sample," said Legislative Auditor Daryl Purpera in a letter to state Sen. Danny Martiny, R-Metairie, and state Rep. Frank Hoffman, R-West Monroe.

Martiny and Hoffman sponsored legislation last year that called for a widespread investigation and monitoring of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast to see if it was using public funding to recommend or provide abortions. The Legislature passed Martiny and Hoffman's resolutions overwhelmingly.

Planned Parenthood does not currently offer abortions at its sites in Louisiana, but the organization is building a new facility in New Orleans, where it has said it will provide the procedure.

Martiny and Hoffman pushed their legislation, in part, because Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast had been accused of using Medicaid funds inappropriately in Texas. The organization settled in a civil suit over the matter last summer, but has continued to deny any wrongdoing in that case.

The Louisiana auditor's office examined 26,000 Planned Parenthood claims that qualified for Medicaid reimbursements and found that all the payments were made for allowable procedures. Within the 26,000 claims, the auditor identified 22 patients who suffered miscarriages and reviewed six of those cases, where no abortion counseling was offered.

"Based on the file reviews, we did not find any indication that Planned Parenthood recommended an abortion or performed an abortion for these patients," Purpera wrote in his letter to state legislators.

What? Does this mean that Planned Parenthood was actually telling the truth and using government funds to do things such as provide birth control, educate women about STD's, and provide cancer screenings?

This is very important as it is part of the conservative's coordinated efforts to undermine Planned Parenthood, because in their mind it is an abortion mill even though providing termination of pregnancies only accounts for 3% of the services they provide.

The conservatives have successfully used misinformation and scare tactics in places like Texas to support slashing funds and essentially driving clinics out of business.

The truth is that Planned Parenthood has had a dramatic effect on the number of unintended pregnancies, and therefore greatly reduced the number of abortions in this country.

IF the conservatives were really interested in keeping the number of abortions to a minimum, instead of forcing pregnant women to give birth to children they are unprepared to raise, they would be working to provide Planned Parenthood with all they funds they could possibly use and trumpeting their successes far and wide.

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Courtesy of Oakland Press News:

A 36-year-old Independence Township man is dead after he shot himself in the head while demonstrating the gun, deputies reported.

The Oakland County Medical Examiner has ruled his death a suicide.

The man’s girlfriend was performing CPR on the victim when deputies from the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office arrived at the residence on Pinedale — off of Sashabaw Road south of Maybee Road - at 9 p.m. on Sunday.

The girlfriend, who also lived at the Independence Township residence, told deputies the victim had been drinking most of the day. She told authorities that he had begun showing her how to use his three handguns and demonstrating how safe they were when they were empty, which he did by placing the gun to his head and pulling the trigger, officials said.

After doing this twice, he demonstrated the third handgun and the gun fired, striking him in the head.

The man was pronounced dead at the scene.

You know I would like to applaud this gun owner. At least he only killed himself.

By the way I don't want to judge his girlfriend too harshly, after all she just lost a loved one, but you would think she might have said something the first time he put a gun to his head, or at the very least the second time, and not just sat there and let him blow his stupid brains all over the walls.

Well at least this guy demonstrated how safe guns are to his girlfriend.

They're not. Especially when pressed against your skull.

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Courtesy of The Washington Post:

With the stroke of his pen, President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda defied science and world opinion to make lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people outlaws in his country.

“Homosexuals are actually mercenaries,” he said. “They are heterosexual people, but because of money they say they are homosexuals. These are prostitutes because of money.” Museveni added, “There’s now an attempt at social imperialism, to impose social values. We’re sorry to see that you (the West) live the way you live, but we keep quiet about it.” The “anti-homosexuality” law carries a penalty of 14 years for a first-time offense and life imprisonment for those convicted of “aggravated homosexuality.”

The world isn’t keeping quiet about the latest travesty against LGBT people in Africa. Denmark and Norway announced they were delaying or diverting aid. Secretary of State John Kerry announced that the United States was reviewing its relationship with the central African country, including $400 million in aid.

“This is a tragic day for Uganda and for all who care about the cause of human rights,” Kerry said in a statement. Museveni’s signature on the law and the motivation behind it show he doesn’t care at all.

Being thrown into prison for daring to love.

It does not get much more oppressive than that.

By the way if you are unaware as to the source of this hatred, then look no further.

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Yeah the Right Wing can keep right on hating those intellectual elites, but you just can't beat'em for getting the facts straight and doing a butt load of research before going on the air.

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