CNN is reporting the apparent death of Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the so-called “D.C. Madam”. She apparently committed suicide at her mother’s home, having been convicted of numerous ‘crimes’ relating to her high-end prostitution business.
How sad that in the twenty-first century in America, people are still dying over laws based on repression by religion.
Before I get to her latest bit of bullshit, a little background on this theocratic nitwit.
From Wikipedia:
Ronda R. Storms (born Ronda Rehnell Newcomb on September 5, 1965) is a Republican Party member of the Senate of the U.S. state of Florida, representing the 10th District since 2006.
Storms had an eight-year tenure on the Hillsborough County Commission (1998-2006), for which she is well known, and pushed a number of controversial issues. These issues included a fight against establishing the proposed Florida A&M University School of Law in Tampa, a campaign in favor of the sterilization of men and women convicted of child abuse, eliminating county-appropriated money for Planned Parenthood, and perhaps most publicized, her crusade for the county to officially abstain from recognizing gay and lesbian events held inside county lines, which was passed in June 2005 despite vocal opposition, most notably from openly gay topless dance club proprietor Joe Redner. She is also recognized by her quick tongue and often scathing sarcastic remarks, many of which she does not retract, stating “I am not apologizing for who I am.”
Well, given who you are, you probably should spend the rest of your life apologizing.
I suppose it shouldn’t surprise anyone that she’s currently shilling for the Discovery Institute, the Christian Supremicist No-Think Tank from Seattle behind the Intelligent Design Creationism Hoax that currently spends its time pretending to a scientific institution yet does nothing more scientific than post long whiny press releases and conspire to get their fundamentalist Christian mythology taught as science in high school classrooms.
From the Miami Herald, we find that Senator Psycho is quite possibly as demented as she is dishonest.
TALLAHASSEE –It’s called the ”Academic Freedom” bill and it’s supposed to give teachers the freedom to teach the ”full range of scientific views” about evolution.
But should teachers have the freedom to teach the ”full range of scientific views” about sexual education?
Republican Sen. Ronda Storms said that Democratic proposal went too far and had it voted down on the Senate floor Thursday, saying the sex-ed measure not only didn’t belong on her evolution bill but that it could lead to “prematurely deflowering kindergartners and first- and second-graders.”
Seriously? People actually take this nutjob seriously? Apparently, there are enough flakes in Florida to elect her and others like her to the State Senate.
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I log on. I start Firefox. I see my front page. I love it. I go to my WordPress Dashboard. I turn off the computer. Every. Single. Day.
In a million years, I could not deliberately design a better example of how to utterly and completely ruin a piece of software.
I’m turning the computer off now. Right after I figure out where the hell they put the publish button.
From whence came the art:
That image is titled Retrete, by Daquella manera @ Flicker
(For my thoughts on Senator Obama, read Democratic Musings.)
I’ve held off on posting my thoughts on Senator Clinton for a while now for several reasons.
Firstly, they’re complicated and difficult for me to articulate.
Secondly, they’re not as concrete as I would like them to be. That complicates my previously mentioned difficulty. The far right wing of the Republican party has definitely done a masterful job at demonizing her, and this would seem to be a very successful use of Overton Window type rhetoric. It’s spilled across the aisle, and that distresses me.
Certainly Senator Clinton has some baggage, but honestly, don’t they all?
After all is said and done, it’s the issues that matter. Yes, she voted to allow the invasion of Iraq and refuses to stop trying to defend that egregious error in judgement, and yes, that certainly pisses me off. But. What is she planning to do now?
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Just so y’know. The snow melted, the sky cleared, and the trip home was uneventful. It’s rather pleasant to be home and thawed out.
The Boy wrote a little about his father-in-law and his passing. I’d consider it a personal favor if y’all went and read it.
We’re out of town for a family funeral, snowed in, and with dial up access (sometimes).
See you when we get back.
Max is always taking these quiz things. I thought I’d take this one.
You Are Thong Panties |
 Woman, you are one hell of a ride!You’re a total wild child - and you live for crazy times.Men are attracted to you like flies to honey, even though they know they should stay away.You need a expert cowboy who can keep in tune with your free spirit! |
From whence came the art:
That first image is titled Eating Thongs, by Vedia.
You may have seen this little logo beginning to find its way around the Blogosphere. The full story of how it came about can be found here, but the short version is this:
Bloggers who were interested in science and scientific research would use a linked graphic for an aggregating service called “Blogging on Peer Reviewed Research”, or BPR3. The service would pull together blog posts that used the label into one place, where one could browse around and see what some of the best science bloggers were saying about new research on all sorts of topics.
In yet another disingenuous attempt to give the Intelligent Design Creationism Hoax some veneer of scientific credibility, Discovery Institute lapdog and mealy mouthed mouthpiece Casey Luskin stuck the logo on one of his bullshit propaganda pieces, breaking pretty much every rule of BPR3 in addition to his usual utter lack of integrity. When someone noticed and he was busted of course, Casey did the responsible thing. He lied his ass off.
Anyway, you can read the whole sordid affair at the links above if you really want to see the blatant dishonesty that is part and parcel of the whole (bowel) movement that is The Intelligent Design Creationism Hoax of Propaganda (IDCraHP).
In a moment of breathtaking brilliance, Mister DNA, creator of CBEBs, came up with the perfect answer for Liars Like Luskin. Blogging on Pseudo-Scientific Douche-Bags (or the light version, Blogging on Pseudo-Science). If you blog at all about Pseudo-Science of any stripe, I would encourage you to look into joining the chorus there. It’s spreading like wildfire, and even some of the biggest science bloggers and ScienceBloggers are using it already.
(As a note of historical pride, allow me to point out that one of my posts was the very first one to be successfully aggregated by the service automatically.)
Before the project goes any further, I want to be sure that Kent Hovind, creationist, liar, convicted felon, and Pseudo-Scientific Douche-Bag with a fake “Dr.” degree from a fake “University”, is immortalized in the archives at BPSDB.org.
Without further ado, I once again give you Chisbo4ever’s video of EddyGoombah’s masterpiece, Tribute to Kent Hovind. (Possibly one of the very funniest videos ever made EVAH!)
You’re still a FuckTard, aren’t you Kent?
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