The Political Screwballs Thread

[Teallaura]

I can't comment on the image, because I'm at work and it's blocked, but I'm a little curious about your reasoning for this. I think I follow, (I didn't say I agreed), but before I say anything I'd like you to elaborate.

Thanks.

The image is a chart done by a pro-abortion advocate who evidently never met a fallacy he/she didn't like.

Premise: pro-lifers are really just anti-sex.

[Grainman]

Ooops, guess I needed a sarcasm tag or something. :-P

I was entertaining myself by extending the original image's logic to other areas. I guess I need to remember Poe's law.

I'm actually pro-life myself, though I don't really agree with the opposition to non-abortifacient forms of birth control (condoms, sterilization, some forms of chemical birth control) some religious people have. Though of course I don't think that opposing non-abortifacient birth control is inconsistent with believing that abortion is immoral, mostly because I'm not actually a moron, I just play one on the Internet. :-)

[moreta]

BTW-- Welcome!

[Teallaura]

Ooops, guess I needed a sarcasm tag or something. :-P

I was entertaining myself by extending the original image's logic to other areas. I guess I need to remember Poe's law.

I'm actually pro-life myself, though I don't really agree with the opposition to non-abortifacient forms of birth control (condoms, sterilization, some forms of chemical birth control) some religious people have. Though of course I don't think that opposing non-abortifacient birth control is inconsistent with believing that abortion is immoral, mostly because I'm not actually a moron, I just play one on the Internet. :-)

<Sarcasm>

Nah, you don't need sarcasm tags late at night when someone might mistake you for an actual moron. Why would you think that?

This is a fair warning to those sarcastically impaired the preceding text was written in jest.

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Welcome aboard!

[Rayado]

Break out the clothespin to put on your nose for this, which Bong posted today. I will probably use this the next time I teach on informal logical fallacies.

[Chaotic Void]

The image is a chart done by a pro-abortion advocate who evidently never met a fallacy he/she didn't like.

Premise: pro-lifers are really just anti-sex.

That must be why they don't have many kids...

Oh wait.

[Benson Shays]

This is simply stunning: To Curb Health Care Costs and National Debt, Barack Obama Promises Tobacco Free America In Second Term

[KingsGambit]

This is simply stunning: To Curb Health Care Costs and National Debt, Barack Obama Promises Tobacco Free America In Second Term

Uh, that does say "satire" in the headline..

[Benson Shays]

Uh, that does say "satire" in the headline..

You wouldn't believe how many people I've fooled today.

[Challenger Grim]

You wouldn't believe how many people I've fooled today.

Starting with yourself?

Jonah Goldberg has a good point on the folly of all this health care deal.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articl...jonah-goldberg

If you look at the genetic and neuroscience revolutions waiting just offstage, the future holds enormous promise for personalized health care, including individualized genetic therapies. And yet the government is marching faster and faster toward wholesale approaches that prioritize the health of the system over the health of patients. It is impossible to imagine the myriad arbitrary abuses and petty tyrannies that could result.
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But let’s imagine the caricature is fair and [Rick Santorum] really is the boogeyman Rachel Maddow and Co. say he is. Worse, all his talk about “freedom” is just code for the right-wing version of progressive social engineering, i.e., he wants to turn women into breeders á la The Handmaid’s Tale.

Is that who you want in charge of your health care? If not him, what about some other conservative president down the road?

It’s really this simple: A government empowered to steamroll the people with the rosaries has the same power to trample the citizens with the ovaries. If you’re afraid of Rick Santorum, you should be afraid of Obamacare.

Hence the saying, "Liberals design government assuming they are in charge. Conservatives design government assuming their enemies are in charge."

[Benson Shays]

Starting with yourself?

Ha, no. I wrote that piece.

[Chrawnus]

Ha, no. I wrote that piece.

It reads like an article from The Onion (which is a good thing).

[Chaotic Void]

Guess what I found out Miss Hipster from FB is going to:

http://www.facebook.com/events/298722510187368/


This video (and the Concept of Israeli Apartheid Week in and of itself) deserve Platinum Screwball Nominations... I'm not a Zionist by any stretch of the imagination, but Sweet Mother of Pierre Trudeau this is just idiotic (I'd use more colorful terms here, but Tweb rules apply after all).

[Challenger Grim]

Snakes... why did it have to be snakes...
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner...jonah-goldberg

I’ll go one further: I think it is the right and proper role of government to protect us from giant alien snakes that are destroying our environment, threatening our children and pets. If you want to call me a RINO for that, go for it. I can do without the cowboy poetry festivals, but invasive giant snake genocide: mark me down for a yes.
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You see, I don’t think we need a vast new government bureaucracy to kill snakes. Heck I think if we created a vast new bureaucracy to kill snakes we would very quickly end up subsidizing people to raise snakes to kill them. But, are you telling me that during a time when unemployment is outrageously high, the government can’t put a bounty on snakes and get results? I don’t know what the right number is but for the sake of argument if we had a hunting season in which you could bring in unlimited number of Burmese pythons for $50 per pound, my hunch is Burmese pythons would be erecting memorials to the great snake genocide of 2012.

Seriously, I need two hands to count the number of cabinet agencies I would shutter. I cringe every time I remember George W. Bush saying that whenever somebody hurts, the government has to move. But when it comes to an invading army of giant snakes, it’s time for the government to get moving.

Faster, please.

[Teallaura]

It's anti-python bigotry like that that got John Cleese shot... or something...