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What’s funnier than a southern governor joking about a black Presidential candidate being shot?

I mean, HAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA, right? SER LOLZ!!!!! That’s about as funny as Ted Nugent, NRA spokesperson and board member, threatening to kill both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

But seriously, from CNN:

During a speech before the National Rifle Association convention Friday afternoon in Louisville, Kentucky, former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee — who has endorsed presumptive GOP nominee John McCain — joked that an unexpected offstage noise was Democrat Barack Obama looking to avoid a gunman.

“That was Barack Obama, he just tripped off a chair, he’s getting ready to speak,” said the former Arkansas governor, to audience laughter. “Somebody aimed a gun at him and he dove for the floor.”

Funny that Virginia’s favorite radical Republican “bloggers” (some are, sadly, elected officials) are pumping up the NRA this week. I wonder if we’ll hear any kind of condemnation for Huckabee’s remarks?

Wait…Virginia’s favorite radical Republican “bloggers” admit their lack of class, tact, and/or brains?

Hahahahaaa, now THAT was funny.

UPDATE: Here is a link to the video. It is great to see and hear that the crowd (for the most part) did NOT laugh at this horrible, dangerous, violent and ignorant “joke”.

Wow. Has anyone ever seen anything as sexy as THIS?

Classy, or the MOST classy?

YOU DECIDE!

State Senator Gary George, a co-sponsor of a statewide initiative to repeal the Oregon Equality Act that bans discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, told Just Out newspaper that LGBT folks should stay in the closet.

“As an employer,” the Minn-ville Republican said, “I don’t want to hear about it. This workplace is for work purposes. My advice to the gay community is shut up, just don’t talk about it. If you walk around talking about what you do in the bedroom, you should be on the pervert channel.”

George is an equal opportunity offender.

“I have dear, dear friends in the Legislature who are black, but sometimes I really get tired of hearing about their color.”

He also said that if gay people keep asking for “special privileges… you’ll see a violent backlash.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08hNCjNdGHw

***If someone doesn’t teach me how to spend less than 30 minutes of my life in order to PROPERLY embed yotubes, I am quitting DWJ and never looking back.

Stupid Wordpress.

The Commonwealth of Virginia just got a WHOLE LOT UNSEXIER and voiced their intense hatred of people who engage in the frightening and disgusting act of SEXUAL INTERCOURSE.

The fireworks began over a budget amendment to eliminate state money for Planned Parenthood.The Senate deadlocked 20-20, and Republican Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling voted in favor of it to break the tie.

Well, if it wasn’t already clear that the Commonwealth of Virginia hates DWJ bloggers, then this pretty much seals the deal.

 Some awesome bickering went on as well:

Then the Senate narrowly decided against returning the budget to the Finance Committee, which would have effectively killed it because Wednesday was the deadline to vote and appoint conferees.Then the war of words broke out.

Sen. Charles Colgan, D-Prince William, urged the Republicans to endorse the budget with a strong majority.

Gazing at the other side of the aisle, he said, “Suck it in, and vote for this bill.”

Sen. Ed Houck, D-Spotsylvania, chimed in: “It certainly hasn’t been this side of the aisle that has been obstructionist.”

That brought Sen. Thomas K. Norment Jr., R-James City, to his feet, who took exception to the label of “obstructionist.”

“If you want to do something collaboratively, don’t stick your finger in my eye,” he said, his voice rising.

Later, he added: “It is really upsetting to me to see the deterioration that has taken place in the last five hours.”

Great. So no state money for Planned Parenthood, a group who probably prevents more abortions than any other organization in the country, but our elected officials are free to make utter asses out of themselves and then be quoted the next day.

STAY CLASSY VIRGINIA, STAY CLASSY.

I try not to link, but this is too good.

Dear Sen. Webb

I worked hard for you in 2006.

I signed a petition to draft you to run for US Senate. I gathered signatures to place your name on the Democratic primary ballot in 2006. I hung signs along the roadways near the Shad Planking in 2006.

I donated money and time because I believed in your leadership and judgment.

You are a hero.

I never deluded myself into thinking you would vote my way on any given issue. I trusted that you would vote your conscience at every turn.

But I believed that your moral values were in line with mine; on war, peace, economic fairness, and civil liberties.

That said, I am baffled, angry, dismayed, and, frankly, betrayed by your vote on telecom immunity.

I give you the benefit of the doubt, but not without an explanation.

Why did you vote to give telephone corporations an ex post facto whitewash of their criminal collusion with an oppressive government to violate the 4th amendment?

Please submit your answer in any form you see fit.

Though, I would not advise calling me at the telephone number I cited. It is a Verizon cell phone, and may very well be tapped!

Disappointedly,

Thaddaeus Toad

Which is really too bad, because I was hoping for a flip flopping dog murderer for President…

I think we would all smile a little bit more.

I am no fan of President Bush, but I tune in year after year to watch him babble at America the State of the Union Address. I was shocked today to read that last night’s State of the Union speech was the last we all had to endure, yet the FIRST his own daughters have attended.

So wait…in order to prove I love America to some people, I have to watch the same old recycled speech, but our own “first daughters” get to take the night off? Interesting.

Well, at least they went out with a bang. The WaPo reports that they came pretty close to breaking the House Dress code.

Up in the gallery, the first twins, Jenna and Barbara Bush, came close to breaking the House dress code. Both went sleeveless for this year’s State of the Union, Jenna in a little black dress, Barbara in a sleeveless white shirt (though with a little ruffle that covered more of her arms than Jenna’s).

I wonder what they wore to the after party. Besides alcohol stains, of course…

Mitt Romney, the insanely wealthy flip flopping “liberal when it suits him” Yankee Republican absolutely destroyed the competition today in Nevada. Romney won for 2 reasons; there are a lot of very wealthy business minded Republicans in Nevada, and their kind of guy is Mitt Romney, hands down. Romney also won the religious vote today, as 25% of his votes came from Mormons. The big surprise today was Ron Paul. Ron Paul, the only true conservative in the race and the only Republican candidate who is against the war came in second place today. The “Maverick”, that guy from Law and Order, the 911 pusher, the batshit crazy one, and the insane guy who nobody knows trailed behind, with the most extreme candidates receiving the least votes, if any at all.

I think it is safe to say that extremist wing of the Republican party (not the entire party, mind you, but the incredibly radical extremist right wing of the party - also known as the ever increasing MINORITY of the Republican Party) has lost this Presidential race, and will only continue to lose races and seats in the future. Perhaps moderation is, indeed, the key…

Mike Huckabee wants to change the US Constitution.  Why?  Because apparently he and “God” had a long talk, and God thinks the US Constitution sucks trucknuts BIG TIME.

“I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution,” Huckabee told a Michigan audience on Monday. “But I believe it’s a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living god. And that’s what we need to do — to amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards rather than try to change God’s standards so it lines up with some contemporary view.”

Link to crazy and also a video of crazy

What a sad, sad day for Virginia. Our kids still wear baggy pants, and now we might not be able to hang fake testicles from our OWN vehicles.

What the hell is wrong with the world?

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — It’s one thing to dangle fuzzy dice from a rear view mirror, but decorating a trailer hitch with a large pair of rubber testicles might be a bit much in Virginia.

State Del. Lionel Spruill introduced a bill Tuesday to ban displaying replicas of human genitalia on vehicles, calling it a safety issue because it could distract other drivers.

Under his measure, displaying the ornamentation on a motor vehicle would be a misdemeanor punishable by a maximum fine of $250.

He said the idea came from a constituent whose young daughter spotted an example of the trail hitch adornment and asked her father to explain it.

“‘I didn’t know what to tell her,’” Spruill said the constituent told him before Spruill vowed to stop such displays.

“I said, ‘Sir, I’m going to be a laughingstock, but I’m going to do it,’” he said.

It looks like there’s a fighting chance this could in fact become a law in Virginia. State Del. Lionel Spruill has a serious plan in the works, and I don’t know how the plan could possibly fail.

Spruill, 61, said the indignity of the “droopy drawers” debate wouldn’t deter him. He said he won’t hesitate to bring a set of $24.95 trailer testicles with him for a legislative show-and-tell.

“I’m going to do it,” Spruill told a handful of reporters after Tuesday’s House session adjourned. “I’m going to bring them out here and show them to you till they tell me to stop.”

Good thing Virginia’s staying classy, folks. Wasting money and time, sure; but definitely staying classy.

picture source

AWESOME. Tomorrow is “no pants day” on the metro in DC. I only wish I could be there.

The proposed event, scheduled from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, currently has 82 confirmed guests on Facebook and another 140 people who are listed as maybes. The organizers, Elizabeth Ody and Richard Julian, are asking anyone who’d like to ride Metro without pants this weekend to show up at 4 p.m. on Saturday at the Dupont Circle fountain (please wear pants to the rally point), where they’ll get you organized into groups and send you off to different Metro lines in an attempt to blanket the rail system with the pantsless.

On the one hand, we’re not so sure this event will be as popular here as it is in New York City, given this town’s slight penchant for buttoned-up-ness. On the other, the social organizing possibilities of sites like Facebook mean there could be a lot more people without pants popping up on Metro this Saturday than we might normally expect. Either way, we hope at least a few of you DCist photographers will stop by to capture the event it all its bare-legged glory.

More details here.

Oh, how the falafel has fallen…HARD…

NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — No one ever accused Bill O’Reilly of being a wilting flower.So when the Fox News Channel commentator and interviewer appeared midway through a Barack Obama rally at a Nashua high school Saturday, his presence was evident. Tall, with camera crew in tow, O’Reilly marched forward to get a good look.

Journalists have been known to seek the best angle.

But it was after Obama’s speech that O’Reilly threw some elbows. And not so figuratively either.

Obama staffer Marvin Nicholson, a personal aide always at Obama’s side during rope line handshakes, said O’Reilly yelled at him to get out of the way of his cameraman’s shot. Nicholson said O’Reilly came around the waist-high barricade separating Obama from well-wishers.

“Then he grabbed me with both of his arms and tried to push me out of the way,” Nicholson said after the campaign agreed to make him available to reporters.

O’Reilly, interviewed afterward by phone on Fox News, said he tried “to gently remove” Nicholson because he was standing in front of Fox’s camera.

“We’re sorry we had to have that little confrontation, but no one on this earth is going to block a shot on “The O’Reilly Factor.” It is not going to happen,” O’Reilly said.

The scene was hard to miss. O’Reilly is about 6-feet-5-inches tall. Nicholson is 6-feet-8-inches tall.

“I told him, ‘Sir, I would appreciate it if you wouldn’t shove me anymore.’ He called me ‘low class.’ He was pretty upset,” Nicholson said.

Secret Service agents assigned to protect Obama ordered O’Reilly back behind the barricade. At that point Obama approached him and extended his hand.

O’Reilly, Nicholson recounted, “said the senator was great and that he would love to have him on the show.”

Nicholson, a veteran of political campaigns, worked as Sen. John Kerry’s personal aide in the 2004 presidential campaign.

“I’ve never seen a member of the press lay hands on a staffer before,” he said.

Democrats, prodded by liberal activists who argue Fox News is biased, have been avoiding the cable news network. Fox had to cancel a scheduled Democratic debate after the candidates refused to participate.

O’Reilly also showed up earlier at a Hillary Rodham Clinton event in Concord, N.H., and was acknowledged by the candidate. He stood in the audience and urged an audience member to ask the New York senator and former first lady about her plan to remove troops from Iraq.

When the audience began booing, Clinton said, “No, no, no. He gets at least some credit for being here.“

Like I have said before and earlier today; you stay classy, Fox “News” Network. YOU. STAY. CLASSY.

UPDATE: The New Hampshire GOP has pulled their support from the Fox debate. That’s fine and admirable, but it doesn’t change Fox’s crappy decision, nor will it keep Americans from watching this debate which is clearly focused on exclusion.

Please keep in mind I am not voting for Ron Paul. I simply happen to agree with what others have to say in regards to the blatant exclusion of Ron Paul from debates and/or polls considering he was part of the 3 way Republican tie after the Iowa caucus. Yes, that’s right - the Republicans found themselves in a 3 way tie, with all 3 folks tied for 3rd place coming in with stronger numbers than “top tier candidate” Rudy Giuliani and “who the hell is this crazy neo-con” Duncan Hunter.

Cheers, Fox “News” Network. You are the true definition of fascism.

Fox News is still sticking by its decision to exclude Rep. Ron Paul from the GOP debate its hosting in New Hampshire on Sunday, January 5. The state Republican Party has even petitioned the network to include Paul, but to no avail, according to Fergus Cullen, chairman of the state party.

“There are no new developments,” said Cullen this afternoon.

If Fox News changes its position, he expects to hear by Saturday morning at the latest.

In his experience Cullen had never heard of a network excluding a major candidate from a debate held so close to a primary.

“Our concern is more long term than short term,” Cullen said. As the country’s first primary all major candidates should be treated equally. “What happened in Iowa is irrelevant in terms of ensuring a level playing field for all candidates.”

Participants include Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, John McCain, Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson. The roster was announced on December 27th. Paul beat Guiliani in Iowa, and is polling evenly with him in NH, according to Suffolk University’s latest survey.

Fox News claimed it only had limited space for the debate. (What, Murdoch couldn’t get a bigger space?)

“We have a debate coming up immediately preceding a primary. The debate does have national implications, but it has more to do with the New Hampshire primary,” said David Paleologos, a polling expert at Suffolk University.

“I don’t think [Fox News'] decision is justified based on our polling numbers in New Hampshire,” Paleologos said. “…because the outcome of the primary is directly correlated with the debate I don’t think [Paul's exclusion] is fair.”

“[Paul] might not pass the sniff test nationally but he does pass the sniff test for New Hampshire,” said Paleologos. Paul is polling around 8% in NH, according to Suffolk University’s surveys.

Considering how close Romney and McCain are tracking, Paul’s exclusion from the debate could change the outcome of the election.

Paleologos suggested building a model to decide which candidates are included in televised debates. The model would consider a candidate’s fund-raising, national support and local support.

ABC has also cut some Democrats from its debate on Saturday.

Once again, I say “You stay classy, Fox.” You don’t report anything close to real news, and your viewers should be ashamed of themselves.

I’m actually starting to think he could have a very good showing; he’s certainly bringing in the cash. This is more of an open thread for GOP faithfuls - will you support Ron Paul if he wins the nomination?

Because this is just absolutely pathetic.

They are clearly way too friendly to “the GAYS”. THEY MUST BE STOPPED!!!!

::end sarcasm::

Way to go, neighbors to the North; thanks for using common sense and leaving hate out of policy:

Nova Scotia MP Scott Brison made history of a sort when he became the first federal politician to marry his same-sex partner.

The wedding ceremony took place Saturday near Brison’s country home in Cheverie, N.S., a town of 200. He is the MP for the Nova Scotia riding of Kings-Hants.

Guests described the ceremony as joyful and emotional.

“It’s something we need to celebrate and we must be proud that Canada is showing the way,” Liberal Leader Stephane Dion said after the wedding.

“I came first to celebrate love and happiness between two friends of mine, but if by my presence it helps a bit to reinforce a newly recognized right and to encourage other countries to do the same, I am pleased.”

Former New Brunswick premier Frank McKenna saw significance in the wedding.

“Everyone involved felt like they were part of a history-making event,” said McKenna. “It seemed like a validation of a long process.”

::gives standing ovation to Canada::

IAN.

Hehehehehehehehehehe, yeah, the virgin part I doubt, but I wanted to draw you all into the story.

The lucky fella, Henry Hager, 28, is from Richmond (and is the son of John Hagre, the chairman of the Virginia Republican Party), which leads me to believe I have probably seen his mug around here living it up at the bars.  I mean, there is no way Jenna “Coors Light” Bush is marrying a straight edge…

From the fabulous Perez Hilton:

Hard-pAArtying presidential daughter Jenna Bush is engaged.

Her mother, Lauara, sent out the following press release:

THE WHITE HOUSE

OFFICE OF THE FIRST LADY

For Immediate Release August 16, 2007

STATEMENT BY PRESS SECRETARY SALLY MCDONOUGH

President and Mrs. George W. Bush are happy to announce the engagement of their daughter, Jenna Bush, to Mr. Henry Hager, son of the Honorable and Mrs. John H. Hager of Richmond, Virginia. Miss Bush and Mr. Hager became engaged Wednesday, August 15, 2007.

No wedding date has been set.

The guy she’s marrying is a former Rove aide…AWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.