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For some reason it still surprises people that the GOP are disingenuous snakes and liars.

Sure, average Republican voters can be nice enough people. I know quite a few of them. But the asshats in charge sure seem to be complete tools.

Look, we can disagree on a lot of things but questioning people's patriotism because they might object to bombing brown people indiscriminately is just damn near evil.

The family of a 87 year old lady used her obituary to attack Harry Reid. That's nice, huh?

More here.

Some other "compassionate conservatives" in Utah published the names, addresses, and - in the cases of pregnant women - due dates of likely undocumented migrants in their state.

Hey! Nothing like sending your angry tea baggers to kill a brown baby that would be an American if allowed to live. And yes, that is EXACTLY the motive in those cases.

In both those instances, the perps were LDS members. This is not to say every member of that church is an evil, racist prick. You could single out any conservative religious mob for having that ilk in it's midst. I know plenty of decent human beings that are Mormon that don't subscribe to that kind of hate. That said, the slush fund for Prop 8 *was* helped by the church.

No, other conservative twits abound, regardless of religious affiliation.

Old-ish news, but there's a farmer in Missouri who painted a sign on a semi trailer, denouncing Democrats as "parasites".

Now, some folks lit said trailer on fire - twice. This is wrong, even if this hate is on the side of an interstate. It's his land and his right to be an a-hole. I guess.

The fun part here is that said angry farmer who is pissed about people taking in below minimum wage welfare payments is himself a leech on the system, for the price of over a million dollars in farm subsidies.

Look, if folks on welfare are parasites, million dollar subsidy babies like him are full-blown leech colonies. Plus, he's some kind of scam artist that fleeced new parents in a baby crib scheme.

Nice guy. But no worse than the rest of his party really.

A post covering the "highlights" of current Republican thought.

Namely, yelling at little girls and crying for racist, treasonous civil war.

Paul Krugman points out the sick thought pattern that conservatives consider rational: that the unemployed want to sit at home collecting 60% of their former pay.

Bob Cesca tackles the issue as well, including this quote by Atrios:

Our elites are populated with significant numbers of people who truly believe that the biggest problem this country faces is that poor people have it a bit too good.

It's all very depressing.

Republicans, until proven otherwise, are vile, evil elitist bastards who care nothing about their fellow Americans in need.

A look at what has transpired over the past couple months.

BP is getting away with the murder of our Gulf's ecosystem.

Be it dolphins and whales:

Or endangered sea turtles.

They are also destroying our freedoms:

And apparently we've paid the setup fees that created the disaster in the first place.

Everything you need to know about the celebration of ignorance that is conservative thought is in this odious commentary.

Sure, Republicans have never seen a war they didn't like (well, except for any forms of genocide on non-whites) and they love giving $35 billion or so to oil companies, etc. but "wasting money" on libraries? That's horrible!

For what it's worth, here's the rebuttal from the Chicago Public Library Commissioner.

Ultra-rich, obese drug-addled sex addict thinks poor kids should eat out of dumpsters.

Ladies and gentlemen, compassionate conservatism at its finest.

Every time I see a BP ad I have two co-existing thoughts.

1. I wish they'd spend the ad money on paying some shrimper or local fish shack owner their screw up is running out of business.

2. Wouldn't it be fun to vigorously and repeatedly kick Tony Hayward in the tailbone?

So yeah, BP's ad campaign is failing in my eyes as well as others.

What *is* vastly entertaining is the parody BP Twitter account BPGlobalPR (check it out here).

More people follow them than the useless and not-quite-authentic-sounding official BP account. They've even been asked to declare they are not official.

Which, you know, is pretty sad that an obvious parody account is been taken as real. It says a hell a lot more at the mishandling of the situation AND the message than of the folks poking fun at you.

- Entry in a BP logo redesign contest

This BBC article answers: probably not enough.

That said, if I see that smug Tony Hayward anywhere near me, I'm kicking him in the junk.

I like all this grandstanding about not "punishing" gas station owners who happen to sell BP. Hell, they had a choice which vendor to go with. Sometimes you bet and lose.

Bob Cesca has done a lot of coverage on this. Apparently the GOP, particularly Mississippi's Haley Barbour is in total denial that an oil spill actually exists. Typical Republicans.

Honestly, I kinda hope the South suffers for sucking up to Big Oil for decades. Not so much the individual families, but each and every state that kowtows to these bastards just lose billions in tourism. Think I'm being overly cruel? Governor Piyush Jindal wants MORE offshore drilling as Louisiana is losing clean coastline by the minute.

Maybe he wants more of this?

It gets worse.

Check this out and/or watch the following:

Remember where you were, when you could still laugh about teabaggers and racists and Arizonans, because funny time is almost over. If the unemployment keeps up -- one in five adult white males has no job and will never have a job again -- and people keep walking away from their stucco heaps they can't afford and the states and cities and counties and towns keep passing their aggressive racist laws to rile up the trash even more, shit's going to very soon become very bad, and whether it's the National Guard having wars in the Sunbelt Exurbs against armies of crazy old white people who are finally using their hundreds of millions of guns, or whole Latino neighborhoods burned to the ground the way the Klan used to burn down black neighborhoods a century ago, we are in for a long dark night and no light-colored paint is going to fix that.

Yes, the school has since backtracked this crazy BS decision, but the anger lingers. How dare these bastards lighten the skin of a mural of their own students?

I heard about this racist crap on the way home - and still in Aryzona. Here is the original news story.

This makes me absolutely livid. It is bad enough that in general Republicans, Tea Baggers, Klansmen and generic conservative racists hate people based on the color of their skin, or religion, or sexuality, or gender. It is worse that these cretins try to steal votes from folks they don't agree with or do a multiple of sins to diminish folks. Often they do this in the name of God, which should make for an interesting line-up at the afterlife but I want their evils punished in the hear and now. For Aryzona, they didn't need another black eye, but they earned it.

Look, racists shout ugly things. When the last two racists on Earth exist, they'll be white Americans riding together in a rusty El Camino yelling hateful crap drinking Mexican beer out of a 40 oz. and being completely unaware of the irony.

You do NOT kowtow to these bastards. And you certainly do NOT tell your minority kids that their color isn't good enough for a mural and try to literally whitewash their skin.

The racists are just idiots. The school administrators should have known better. Hell, all of Aryzona should know better.

Here's Roger Ebert explaining it better than I can.

Plus accompanying video:

Found here.

Conservatives hate education so much that they are now resorting to vandalizing classrooms and stealing educational materials.

Truly, when are we going to stop listening to these traitors until they start acting like adults and making some form of sense again?

Monsanto can run competitors out of business, sue farmers who don't buy their products, and generally be underhanded bastards. But they can't beat Mother Nature. Gee, thanks for helping to screw the rest of us agribusiness.