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I love this quote because I remember as a child wondering what it felt like to be an adult, and having no idea why adults seemed so sad, and tired, and depressed all of the time.

I am still waiting to understand.

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Bill Maher: "Somebody has to tell me, how do they do it? How do Republicans win elections?"

Maher goes on to point out that polls show that the majority of Americans are for the things that Republicans are adamantly against. So how do they win?

Maher: "I'll tell you how. They employ a complex, multifaceted technique, political scientists call 'cheating.'"

Yep, that's it alright.

Maher also says that sometimes liberals make it easy for Republicans to win by being bossy, or arrogant.

However he ends the segment with this:

"Remember, for every liberal with a cause who makes you go ‘Oh, shoot me,’ there’s a conservative with a gun who will.

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Courtesy of Esquire:

At the Bundy camp last week, pundits and politicians descended on Bunkerville, Nevada, to throw in their American flag hats with the BLM protestors. A FOX news van had been parked by the side of the road for days. Up on the ridge, militia snipers kept a trained watch as Bundy held court, and disciples from far and wide came to share their personal theories as to why the government was enforcing a court order.

But on Thursday, we witnessed a mainstream exodus from Bundy’s flank. Sean Hannity, Bundy’s biggest booster, called his racist remarks “beyond despicable,” but maintained that they should not taint the supporters who “for the right reasons saw this case as government overreach.”

Exactly how difficult was it, though, to determine pretty early on that Bundy and his followers were using the threat of force to back up some terrifyingly misguided beliefs?

During the few hours I visited last week, this was what was said.

Some of the things the Esquire reporter saw almost defies description, but here is a taste.

Openly discussed racism:

It’s dizzying and hot at the camp, and a very friendly man named Roy, wearing an Obama t-shirt with a joker smile painted on, hands me a cold bottle. He's from nearby Mesquite and has been a close friend and supporter of Bundy's these last few years. When I tell him I’m from New Mexico, the former cop says he has a very good buddy who used to work as a sheriff in my area.

“He got in a bit of trouble,” he chuckles. “He pulled over a carload of illegals one night, didn’t have room to haul ‘em all, so he put a chain around their neck and put a padlock through it, went to the next one, then he chained ‘em to a tree!”

He buckles with laughter as the story heats up. “Then he left ‘em and went to town to get his pickup to haul ‘em all back in. So, you might imagine, that didn’t play well — ha! You’re a young’un, but everything wasn’t against the law, way back when.”

Cliven Bundy religious prophet:

The crowd, fresh off their victory at the Battle of Bunkerville, gives Bundy a standing ovation. But he doesn’t seem pleased. He reproaches the crowd for failing to follow the word of God – to the letter – which he says is being delivered through him. They failed, for example, to follow his instructions to tear down the toll booths at Lake Mead and disarm the Park Service.

"The message I gave to you all was a revelation that I received. And yet not one of you can seem to even quote it.”

Cliven continues, sermon-like: "The records of our bible — how long have they been kept? Thousands of years. They’ve been turned over generation after generation, buried, and all kinds of things happen to ‘em. And yet, here, something I felt was inspired [by God] and yet we haven’t even carried it forth for even a couple of days. Shame on us.” Smattering of clapping.

He goes on to explain that, although they managed to deter the BLM, they failed to do it "within one hour," as the revelation had prophesied. So when an hour passes, he decides to get in his bulldozer and march on the BLM himself. The dozer gets stuck in the mud and he receives another revelation.

“It come to my mind real plain — the good Lord said, ‘Bundy, it’s not your job, it’s THEIR job.’ So we come back over here and heard that they had brought some cattle back. So I want you to understand,” addressing the crowd, "This is not my job, it’s YOUR job.

Wingnuts of all shapes and sizes:

Clearly the longer that any sensible person spends around Bundy and his group of radicals, the more clear it becomes that his ranch has become a kind of gathering place for all of the Alex Jones conspiracy theorists (Yesterday they went after Glenn Beck), angry racists, and trigger happy sovereign citizens types that were within walking, driving, or hitchhiking range.

If the BLM were smart they would simply sit back and let this powder keg smolder a little longer, because I think it is only a matter of time before these lunatics get bored and start looking around the ranch for someone to take their inner range out on.

Things could get mighty interesting in old Bunkerville before too long.

In the meantime, at least the citizens of Nevada know where all he crazy people are hanging out.

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Courtesy of Alabama.com:

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin offered plenty of red-meat attacks on President Barack Obama during an appearance at the Baldwin County Republican Party’s annual fundraising dinner Friday, but she did not spare her own party.

Palin, who rocketed to political stardom after presidential candidate John McCain tapped her as his running mate in 2008, expressed nearly as much exasperation with the GOP establishment as she did with Democrats.

She referenced her own upbringing in an Alaskan hunting family in declaring that she would fight politicians that conservatives deride as “Republicans in Name Only” during intra-party squabbles.

“I’m not afraid at all to go on a little RINO hunt,” she said.

You ever meet somebody who is constantly complaining about how crappy their life is, but when you hear them talking about it right away you recognize that everything bad that happens to them is a self inflicted wound?

That's what the Republican party has become.

They are the girl that hooks up with a guy, forgets to use birth control, and then complains that she got knocked up and the guy up and disappeared.

Or the guy that gets pulled over while driving home after drinking shots all night, because he "doesn't live very far from here."

Or the national political party that thinks they can rile up the most fringe part of their base in order to win elections, without that fringe suddenly turning on them and trying to replace them with lunatics just like them. Oh wait, that's EXACTLY like the Republican party.

And these local idiots continue to be unaware that they are dealing with the devil who is working toward their destruction.

Case in point:

Turning serious, Palin questioned the commitment of some Republicans to repealing the Affordable Care Act, Obama’s signature legislative achievement.

“They’re giving a lot of lip service to it, but it’s not happening,” she said.

The reason, Palin suggested, is that some Republicans have concluded they are better off raising campaign contributions off of the issue and leaving the law alone. She said too few Republicans in Congress supported efforts by Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Mike Lee, R-Utah, to shut down the federal government in order to force the defunding of the health reform law.

“They left some of our guys out there alone,” she said. “Worse than that, they joined the lapdog media” in condemning Lee and Cruz.

Palin urged Republicans to “send reinforcements” to help tea party Republicans in Congress. She paraphrased a famous Obama quote in crediting the tea party for engineering the Republican takeover of the House in 2010.

“Republican establishment, you didn’t build that – the tea party did that,” she said.

One has to wonder if ever, in their wildest dreams, the McCain campaign could have realized that their ignorant little VP choice from the wilds of Wasilla, would someday help to found a movement that would elect subversive representatives, who would attack the party from within, while working to usher in the demise of its national relevancy?

You know, somehow I doubt it.

You know in the book Victor Von Frankenstein chased his monster all the way to the frozen north in an attempt to destroy it. In the end the pursuit took his life instead.

Perhaps the Republican party will be more successful.

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Courtesy of Raw Story:

Yesterday, the Louisiana Senate Education Committee upheld a controversial law that allows science teachers to bring “supplemental science education materials” into the classroom.

The Committee voted 3-1 to uphold the Louisiana Science Education Act (LSEA) — which critics contend allows teachers to introduce creationist literature into science classrooms — on the grounds that no proof that teachers were importing religious-oriented material into the public school could be found.

Critics of the law, including Dr. Jim Dugan, claimed at the hearing that LSEA is a ruse designed to allow for the teaching of creationism and intelligent design in public schools under the aegis of “critical thinking.”

“I think it’s obvious to any thoughtful person that the poorly written and deceptively named ‘Louisiana Science Education Act’ is a crude attempt to provide legal cover for the teaching of creationism and intelligent design in public schools,” he said.

“The bill exclusive targets — and I’m quoting from the bill here — ‘evolution,’ ‘the origins of life,’ ‘global warming,’ and ‘human cloning.’ These are not topics,” he continued, “thought to be problematic by scientists, or science educators, but [are] wedge issues frequently used by Christian fundamentalists to attempt theocratic control over public school curriculum.”

As I said yesterday education in this country is under attack, and the ONLY way to stop it is to start electing Democrats and clean out the anti-science, anti-education, Republican scumbags who are trying to destroy public education in this country.

With Bobby Jindal in charge of the state the children of Louisiana simply do not stand a chance.

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Courtesy of Facebook

And it looks like he is pretty happy to be home.

Hopefully soon he won't have to worry about being dragged around everywhere his mother goes, or used as a bludgeon against his father, anymore.

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Okay seriously how microscopic must your penis be to require this kind of compensation.

It's like the Republican party is turning into a parody of itself these days. Five years ago this would have been a fake ad from the Onion or SNL, today it's dead serious.

(H/T Mediaite.)

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