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Mandatory Wednesday Malloy Truthseeker Check In! Church Night!! Sinners!
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So many flying monkeys – so little time. Should we focus on the senate’s vote against pay equality for women? The possibility of sending ground troops into Iraq? The latest accidental family shooting fatality? The most recent El Rushbo outrage? Seems more difficult than usual to pick a proper topic for our weekly Wednesday sermon, faithful Truthseeker.
The misogynist male legislators that dominate the GOP still maintain their medieval views where it concerns paycheck fairness. Huffington Post reports it this way:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/15/paycheck-fairness-act_n_5825644.html?utm_hp_ref=women&ir=Women
The Paycheck Fairness Act would ban employers from retaliating against employees who share salary information with each other, impose harsher penalties for pay discrimination and require employers to be able to show that wage gaps between men and women are based on factors other than gender.
The bill needed 60 votes to overcome a Republican filibuster and advance to a final vote on passage, but it fell short Monday by a vote of 52 to 40. Senate Democrats have brought the bill to the floor four times since 2011, and each time Republicans have rejected it.
Their lame excuse for refusing to support equal rights? That it would discourage employers from hiring women. Gimme a break. Any employer who would deliberately pay a woman less than a man for the same job is establishing basis for a lawsuit . . . and that women wouldn’t be happy working for such a jerky outfit anyway.
Then there is the increased possibility that we’re sending more combat troops into Iraq, which if it comes to pass will make the president do a dizzying 180 rivaling King George’s the First’s doomed proclamation about “no new taxes.” CNN has more:
Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that it was possible that U.S. troops advising and assisting Iraq’s military could be deployed to fight.
“To be clear, if we reach the point where I believe our advisers should accompany Iraqi troops on attacks against specific ISIL targets, I will recommend that to the President,” Dempsey said during testimony before the committee.
Dempsey’s comments, which he made several times under questioning by senators, contradicts President Barack Obama’s promise that the campaign to defeat and destroy the terrorist group that calls itself the Islamic State would not include American “boots on the ground.”
The President maintains there will be no boots, but stopped short of saying “read my lips.” Pour yourself a shot of Victory Gin and repeat this phrase Truthseeker – we are winning the war with East Asia . . . . we have always been at war with East Asia . . .
Meanwhile, in the sunshine state, a birthday party turned deadly when the honoree’s brother decided to show off his gun-slinging skills and ended up fatally shooting his sister in the neck, right in front of her daughter. RawStory has the tragic details:
A Florida woman was shot and killed over the weekend when her brother unsuccessfully attempted to re-enact some fancy gunplay from the movie “Tombstone.” In the 1993 classic western, actor Michael Biehn, as Johnny Ringo, elaborately twirls his pistol during a barroom showdown with Val Kilmer, as Doc Holliday.
Eric Stayton attempted the same stunt Saturday night at his home in Chaires, where about a dozen friends and relatives were celebrating the birthdays of his sister, 39-year-old Renee Chaires, and her 23-year-old daughter, reported the Tallahassee Democrat. Chaires, a hair stylist who would have turned 40 this week, was standing next to her daughter in the home’s carport when the 50-year-old Stayton began twirling his gun in the air.
As he attempted to holster the weapon, it slipped from his hand, struck the concrete floor, and fired. A single shot struck Chaires in the neck, and she later died.
The NRA has yet to issue an official response. Who slings a loaded gun at a birthday party? I mean, other than a member for the Palin tribe?
And finally tonight, Rush “deaf by temptation’ Limbaugh has again put his foot in his piehole by claiming that rape victims often say “no” when they really mean “yes.” We understand why Rush may lack an understanding of consensual sex, given that he may have no personal knowledge of the subject, but to claim that the rapist is the true victim because the slut woman was saying no when she meant yes . . . that’s pushing it, even for the Pigman. Here’s Huffington Post again:
Rush Limbaugh is so sick of the “modern” definition of consent. When a girl says “NO,” she actually means NO. But that’s just crazy talk, according to Limbaugh. “How many of you guys in your own experience with women have learned that ‘no’ means ‘yes’ if you know how to spot it?” he asked on “The Rush Limbaugh Show” Monday. “It used to be used as a cliché.”
Really? Was it?
Limbaugh then read off Ohio State University’s definition of consent, which outlines how two people should behave once they have decided to engage in a sexual relationship. It states that you and your partner must agree to engage in the activity every step of the way, including agreeing on “why” you are doing so. But that just sucks all the fun out of it, Limbaugh said.
“Agreeing on the ‘why’ takes all the romance out of everything!” he said. “Seduction used to be an art, now of course it’s brutish and it’s predatory and it’s bad.”
Ah those damn sexual assault laws, they take all the fun out of rape. Especially in college. I mean, how else is a guy going to have a good time, eh? How we long for the good ol’ days when we just threw women down on the ground and did our business, then shamed them and called them whores. rush would’ve made a great GOP senator, but then he’d have to take a massive pay cut.
-KBM
Church Night – don’t miss a minute!
Can I have one of these cuties?
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Mother cat kisses her adorable kitten
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You will not find me human
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Hi cal04. Hello Everyone.
Thanks for the kittehs & Maru!! & the group Mike & Kathy are playing is Hiroshima! THey're GREAT!!! http://www.hiroshimamusic.com
Love the lion! 
thanks for the link
< This is a IMO Cool youtube Kitteh channel
I've never seen Pakman, or heard his shows, except on the breaks.
