LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – One Million Moms — a project of the American Family Association — is very angry at JC Penney.
No, not because it sells sweater vests (heck, Rick Santorum is a fan of those), but because the Texas-based department store has hired Ellen DeGeneres as a spokeswoman.
And DeGeneres is — cue the scary music — gay, and open about it.
“Funny that JC Penney thinks hiring an open homosexual spokesperson will help their business when most of their customers are traditional families,” the million (or so) moms write on their website. “DeGeneres is not a true representation of the type of families that shop at their store. The majority of JC Penney shoppers will be offended and choose to no longer shop there.”
Rick Santorum has a serious problem that has no answer. He must appeal to the conservative base. He must strike a chord with the values people. He needs to appeal to those who are known as the 3 G’s” God, guns, and gay (anti). That should not be difficult for Santorum. His reputation in the U.S. Senate definitely fits the bill as he was very anti-gay rights, pro gun, wanted school vouchers, school prayer and those sorts of things. He opposed anything having to do with reproductive rights. He was anti abortion, even the hard cases. He eschewed contraception and anything that smacked of Title X to include Planned Parenthood.
Rick Perry has decided that he was been wrong about abortion. After watching Mike Huckabee’s video on abortion, he has decided that the government does have a right to force a woman to bear a child that was conceived from rapeand/ or incest. He was unclear about whether life of the mother should be discarded in favor of the fetus.
My question is, when is it going to end? If the new Perry position isn’t extreme enough, perhaps one of the big Ron Paul supporters is. IN fact, the Ron Paul campaign is doing nothing to distance itself from this YoYo, reported by outsidethebeltway.com :
The Foxie News Team and Sarah Palin are enjoying their mock indignation over the White House Christmas card this year. When will Sarah Palin’s opinion stop tickling our funny bone? Sit back and share the hypocrisy….
Nothing says hypocrisy like the Foxies….
Fox News has been droning on for weeks about the secular war on Christmas. It seems that they are part of the war.
And strangely enough, for a network known for reporting on the “War on Christmas,” all the Biblical references have been stripped out of the song “Joy to the World,” and instead replaced with Fox-friendly lyrics. Here’s a taste of the song: “Joy to the world for Fox News Channel, consistently number one, we are the network that viewers choose, fair and balanced news, see our ratings we don’t lose, beating the rest in TV news,” reads the first stanza. Later ones give kudos to Fox News personalities Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Shepard Smith, Megyn Kelly, Neil Cavuto, Bret Baier and the folks on “The Five.”
So, is this a lot of reindeer crap or what? How does Fox News get ahead with their mock war on Christmas. Their card is funny. I have no problem with it. Good healthy competition is always fun. But…why act like the President and his family are held to a higher standard regarding Christianity, of all things?
Shame of the Fox News Channel for this one.
Ewwwwww, Rick. Just Ewwwwwww. He sounds like a commercial for Westboro Baptist Church.
WHAT is he talking about? Gays in the military has what to do with Christmas? What children aren’t allowed to celebrate Christmas? Why is President Obama being blamed for any of this?
Even Rick Perry’s staff was divided over this political ad. So is it the bad taste ad of the political season?
How about Ron Paul’s ad? Pretty clever. I liked the shih tzu dog part.
Someone needs to tell Rick Perry that victim mentality just isn’t very presidential. This ‘war on Christmas’ BS is just that. I have never felt that I can’t celebrate Christmas.
One thing that I have found amazing, as a vintage lady, is that some of the same conversations are going on now that were going on when I was growing up. Grown ups and politicians are still trying to think up ways to keep young people from having sex. I don’t mean teeny boppers necessarily, but young people in their late teens and twenties. It didn’t work back when I was growing up and after watching Prohibition, I see it didn’t work real well during the roaring 20′s either.
According to the religious section in Washingtonpost.com:
Relevant Magazine, an evangelical Christian publication, made ripples in religious circles with their recent article titled“(Almost) Everyone’s Doing It”about some “surprising” findings on evangelicals and sex.
The October issue article citedresearch showing that unmarried evangelicals are having sex almost as frequently as everyone else. While 88 percent of all young people (ages 18-29) said they have had sex, 80 percent those who self-identify as “evangelical” had.
The much discussed Iowa Marriage Vow Pledge also known as the “Family Leader Pledge” has the signatures of two presidential hopefuls– Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum. Both candidates are now back-pedaling like crazy because of some controversial language contained in the pledge that appears to sanction slavery.
The leader of an Iowa conservative organization Monday defended a statement about black children and slavery that it distributed in asking presidential candidates to vow their allegiance to one man/one woman marriage.
At least one presidential candidate, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, condemned the suggestion in the vow’s preamble that black children were better off during slave times. Also Monday, the think tank cited as the basis for the slavery statement denied saying anything like that.
The fact that two candidates, Bachmann and Rick Santorum, quickly signed the 14-point “candidate vow,” then later said they hadn’t read the entire four-page pledge document, highlights the pressure on candidates to prove their social conservative credentials to Iowa voters, politics watchers said.
Both candidates claim to have not read the verbiage. Bachmann further denounced slavery and argued that the statement was not part of the pledge, only background material.
“I did not see that language. That was not a part of the vow,” Bachmann told reporters during a campaign stop Monday in Indianola.
Traditional marriage is the bedrock of society, Bachmann said. “Children need a mom and a dad in their life, and that’s why I signed it,” she said.
Slavery was a dark time in American history, and “certainly it would be absurd for anyone to think that a child would be better off raised in slavery than not,” Bachmann said. “That’s a terrible thing to say. I’m pleased that this has been taken care of.”
Rewind back to last summer. The local uproar was over the new kids in town, KK’s Temptations adult boutique, that was to open in October. Some of the City folks had a fit because the shop was in Old Town Manassas. People envisioned hordes of perverts lining up to see the bustiers and nighties. It didn’t matter that the City also has Fashion Fantasy over on route 28 and at least one adult movie store over near the library, within blocks of Kindercare and Parkside Middle School on Mathis Avenue. This new store was going to be in Old Town near the Candy Factory. Each and every person I talked to who was opposed to the opening of KK’s used the location as the main, if not only reason for objection.
Fast forward back to the present. In the past couple of weeks, I have heard some mumblings and grumblings over KKs from two friends who I can clearly say are on different ends of this argument. KK”s had planned to do some events for Susan G. Komen for the cure to raise money. Their first plan had been a wet tee shirt contest. Elena and I spoke briefly but negatively about this plan and basically backed off. Because of issues with the City, KK’s plans changed to a bikini contest at Backyard Grill at the corner of Sudley Road and Williamson Blvd. We didn’t like that idea either because of the objectification of women but kept our mouths shut. It was Kim’s business. In other words, do no harm. We didn’t. Read more…
Indiana enacted a law in recent months that barred medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood for general health services. The law is being challenged by both Planned Parenthood and the ACLU. The new law didn’t pass the whiff test. According to Politico.com:
A federal judge in Indianapolis on Friday blocked part of an Indiana law that cut off public funding for the state’s Planned Parenthood operations because they provide abortions, The Associated Press reported.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt, who was appointed in 2010 by President Barack Obama, granted the organization an injunction that nullifies the portion of the Indiana law, recently signed by Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels.
Indiana also got slapped on the wrist by a Reagan appointed judge:
U.S. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker ordered Indiana to not enforce portions of an Arizona-style immigration bill due to take effect July 1, the Indianapolis Star reported.
Michele Bachmann and Tim Pawlenty have signed on to the Susan B. Anthony List’s 2012 Pro-life Presidential Leadership Pledge. The presidential candidates have pledged to roll back abortion rights in four key areas, and the duo join three other presidential contenders: Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum. Bachmann went after fellow presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Sunday for not signing the pledge and not committing to “ending the practice of abortion.”
The candidates pledged to appoint anti-abortion judges, to appoint anti-abortion cabinet members, to defund Planned Parenthood and to sign a bill banning abortion after 20 weeks gestation.
Bachmann went after Mitt Romney for not signing the pledge.
So there is a litmus test now for presidential appointments, cabinet members, and I would assume Supreme Court Justices? I guess its official now. What about the 50% (at least) of us who are pro-choice?
The Richmond Federal Reserve is flying the rainbow flag to acknowledge gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender pride month. The request was made by PRISM, an advocacy group for the aforementioned groups. The Fed is a private establishment. Its first vice president, Sally Green acknowledged:
“We are flying the pride flag as an example of our commitment to the values of acceptance and inclusion.”
Sounds good to me. Pretty flag, commitment to inclusion. Gay people make and have money. What could anyone find wrong?
Enter side-show Bob Marshall, 13th delegate district who claims that flying the rainbow flag represents
“…a serious deficiency of judgment by your organization, one not limited to social issues.”
“The Richmond Fed’s endorsement of costly, anti-social, immoral behavior is rejected by 6,000 years of Western Religious and moral teaching,” writes Marshall, who is among the General Assembly’s most conservative members and has long been outspoken on gay-rights issues. “You want the American people to trust your [judgment] in economic matters when your spokesperson celebrates an attack on public morals?”
When the tea party first rose its head a couple of summers ago, we were told they were all about ‘getting our fiscal house in order.’ Many proposed draconian, drastic cuts, others trooped around in three cornered hats and did the fife and drums thing. What was not said was that they were also the social conservatives, the radical Republicans.
We can see now that the social conservatives finally got their nose under the tent and House Speaker John Boehner has been put on notice–do what we say or lose your job. Boehner is a smart enough politician to know that there are just some issues you don’t tack on as a rider to a budget. Obviously he had no choice.
Perhaps we will all survive. But we look absurd to everyone else in the world. We have debt problems but we protect the very wealthy. Some knuckle heads continue to think, even after 25 years of it not paying off, that protecting the very wealthy will produce jobs. Where are those jobs?
We are involved in three wars, and we almost shut the government down over abortion? And not even the right to abortion–it was imaginary abortion. The radicals wanted to kill off Planned Parenthood. Now Planned Parenthood is universally known as the place where people who don’t want to get pregnant go. Patients can get relatively inexpensive birth control and required health services. Planned Parenthood also takes medicaid patients, unlike so many other medical facilities. What idiots want to shut down places to get contraception in order to fight abortion? Now where is the logic?
Most Americans don’t see abortion or Planned Parenthood as big threats to our country. What they do see as threatening are rising food costs, foreclosures, joblessness, job insecurity, overcrowded classrooms, expensive health care costs and crime. They don’t give a fig about abortion or the fact that some penny of their tax money might find its way into co-mingling money used for abortion.
The culture warriors need to be driven out. We need to get on with running the country. We need to tell these clowns that they are making us the laughing stock. We need to make sure the tail isn’t wagging the dog.
If you‘re wondering where Bristol Palin got the $172,000 in cash to buy her home in Maricopa, Ariz., — Loan from her parents? “Dancing With the Stars” payoff? A gift from her baby daddy, Levi Johnston? — it looks like part of it might have come from her work as an abstinence advocate.
The blog Palingates, soon followed by the AP, reported that according to tax forms, the teen mom earned $262,000 in 2009 for her work with The Candie’s Foundation.
Bristol was just 18 and a new mother when she became an ambassador for the foundation in 2009.
Is it just me or does abstinence mean …not having sex? So if you don’t have sex, how do you end up with a trashy boyfriend and a baby? I know these young kids and all and the generation gap, but there are just a few things I simply don’t understand.
The stupidity doesn’t stop in Arizona. It moves on to Chicago. Perhaps bad taste is a better word than stupidity. According to Yahoo News:
CHICAGO (AFP) – An anti-abortion billboard campaign using a likeness of President Barack Obama to target African-American women has angered women’s groups in Chicago.
Some 30 billboards declaring “Every 21 minutes our next possible leader is aborted” are being placed in predominantly African-American neighborhoods in Obama’s adopted hometown.
They are being displayed for free after the group’s controversial billboards declaring “the most dangerous place for an African-American is in the womb” were taken down following protests in New York.
The Texas pastor behind the campaign by Life Always said he wants to “encourage reflection” about the high abortion rate among African-Americans.
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on Tuesday signed into law a controversial bill that makes the state the first in the nation to outlaw abortions performed on the basis of the race or gender of the fetus.
The move comes as anti-abortion groups across the nation try to seize on gains made by political conservatives during the November elections, seeking enactment of new state laws to further restrict abortions.
Under the new Arizona statute, doctors and other medical professionals would face felony charges if they could be shown to have performed abortions for the purposes of helping parents select their offspring on the basis of gender or race.
The women having such abortions would not be penalized.
State legislators have said no such law exists anywhere else in the nation.
Backers of the measure said the ban is needed to put an end to sex- and race-related discrimination that exists in Arizona and throughout the nation. They insist the issue is about bias rather than any broader stance on abortion.
“Governor Brewer believes society has a responsibility to protect its most vulnerable — the unborn — and this legislation is consistent with her strong pro-life track record,” a spokesman said.
Do they just invent things in this state? In addition to being the immigration capital of the nation, were they also the abortion capital of the nation? Is there real evidence that people were having abortions because of the race of the father? How about the gender of the fetus? Evidence please. Read more…
