The Family Franchise, continues

Posted by Tengrain Tuesday, March 12th, 2013

Why do the Duggar’s continue to inflict their DNA onto us? Might as well ask why the sky is blue or Boehner is orange:

Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar’s eldest son, Josh, 25, announced Monday morning on the “Today” show that he’s expecting his third child with wife, Anna, 24.

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In typical Duggar fashion, Anna’s road to pregnancy likely will be documented on their hit TLC show. In fact, the adorable mom took a pregnancy test during the Duggar family’s trip to Asia to shoot their reality special, “19 Kids and Counting: Duggars Do Asia” (premiering Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET on TLC). Much to her disappointment, the test came back negative. However, a few short weeks later, the happy news was confirmed.

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Like Josh’s parents, Jim Bob, 47, and Michelle, 46, who named all their kids using the letter “J,” Josh and Anna may be planning to do the same with the letter, “M.” For now, they’re keeping details like the name and the gender of the child private.

Uh-huh. Private for now, but before too long they will have her up in the stirrups and selling peeks for $5 a shot.

(Yahoo)

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Meanwhile, in North Carolina

Posted by Tengrain Friday, February 15th, 2013

…the Xristian Xrazies are legislating women’s nipples, having already explored the limits that they can go on woo-wahs:

The state House Judiciary Committee C approved House Bill 34, which makes it a Class H felony to purposefully expose “private parts” for the “purpose of arousing or gratifying sexual desire.”

The bill expands the state’s definition of “private parts” to include a woman’s “nipple, or any portion of the areola.”

OK, I’ll bite: what’s the big deal here?

Republican state Rep. Rayne Brown told lawmakers that she was co-sponsoring the bill because activists had held a topless women’s rights rally in Asheville last summer, where as many as a dozen women bared their breasts

And I have it on good authority that on any given day in Asheville a dozen men are baring their breasts. So what are you going to do about it?

Democratic state Rep. Annie Mobley said she worried that women wearing “questionable fashions” could be prosecuted under the new rules.

But Committee Chairwoman Rep. Sarah Steven (R) suggested that women could use pasties or nipple coverings just to be safe.

“They’d be good to go” with nipple coverings, Stevens said.

“You know what they say, duct tape fixes everything,” Republican state Rep. Tim Moore agreed.

OK, so we found the Bro’s of North Carolina. Boys, I suggest you put some duct tape over your little Bro’s and then rip that sucker off. Better yet, ask your wives and/or girlfriends to rip off the duct tape.

You know, duct tape does fix everything…

(Crooks and Liars)

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When you have to defend your marketing…

Posted by Tengrain Thursday, November 15th, 2012

…you’ve already lost:

It’s about customer choice and not politics, [Federated, owner of Macy*s] CEO Terry Lundgren tells petition organizer. “Trump’s brand has become toxic and contemptible, it represents mean spirited bullying and chicanery,” Angelo Carusone replied.

The petition, which urges Macy*s to dump Trump as a spokesperson for the ubiquitous store, already has 570,000 signatures.

I would say that it is a colossal marketing fail already. Anyway, you can read the back and forth between the CEO and the activist Angelo Carusone who is largely credited with being the driving force who got Glenn Beck off TeeVee and delivered a body blow to Junkie Limbaugh by successfully getting their advertisers to drop them over their inflammatory and racist comments.

(BuzzFeed)

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Really, Trump, is that all there is?

Posted by Tengrain Wednesday, October 24th, 2012

[Short-fingered vulgarian Donald Trump] said that if Pres. Obama releases his college records and his passport records, then Trump will give a $5 million check to a charity of President Obama’s choice.

And that is all there is.

(WTVR)

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The Evening Quote

Posted by Tengrain Wednesday, October 10th, 2012

Just remember, Roger, some girls, they rape so easy. It may be rape the next morning.’

–WI Rep. Roger Rivard, retelling advice from his father.

(JS Online)

Posted in Monsters, Rat Bastards, sexism, Vulgarians, Wingnuttia | 5 Comments »

Why isn’t Palin Screeching?

Posted by Tengrain Thursday, September 27th, 2012

Crooks and Liars

That video would be the one wherein the Stench says that half the country are untaxed moochers.

Posted in Pundits who make me crazy, Twitter, Vulgarians | 6 Comments »

In His Own Words

Posted by Tengrain Tuesday, September 18th, 2012

“It never occurred to me once that I was stuck in some station in life, fixed in some class.”

–Paul Ryan, grandson (and heir) of one of the largest industrial fortunes in the midwest who married an Oklahoma oil barron’s only daughter

Posted in 1%-ers, 2012 Goat Rodeo, Vulgarians, Wingnuttia, Zombie-eyed Granny-starving | 5 Comments »

Be shutting thine piehole now, please

Posted by Tengrain Friday, August 24th, 2012

Joe.My.God

Somewhere, Jenny McCarthy is smiling.

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Fun with numbers!

Posted by Tengrain Thursday, August 16th, 2012

Tax-dodging magical panties enthusiast Willard Romney tried again to put his tax issue to bed, but I think he just gave it new life, especially following Queen Ann’s comment last night/this morning.

Willard’s tax issue is not dead, and the word taxes is a very vague term. Income taxes? Capital gains taxes, sales taxes, is he saying that all of these things together never made it over 13%? Because, wow, I’d love that.

Also/too: contribution to charity is not a tax, it is a deduction. And besides, isn’t it a bit disingenuous to give big bucks to LDS of which you are a Bishop and to no one else and expect applause for your self-serving generosity? And especially because that money was funneled to groups like NOM and was used to support Prop 8 in California.

Willard and Queen Ann are like caracatures of what over-entitled assholes are like, but instead of being farce they’ve made it a documentary. As I said this morning, if they have so much contempt and disdain for the everyman, why do they want to be public servants?

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The Morning Quote – The Maine Event

Posted by Tengrain Tuesday, July 10th, 2012

“It was not my intent to insult anyone, especially the Jewish Community, or minimize the fact that millions of people were murdered. Clearly, what has happened is that the use of the word Gestapo has clouded my message.”

–ME Governor Paul LePage

I guess his spokesperson didn’t really clear the air when he said:

“He was going for the effect. He did say the ‘new Gestapo.’ He was not referring to the ‘old Gestapo’. I think that’s important to note.”

(WMTW)

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The Feast of Saint Breitbart

Posted by Tengrain Monday, June 4th, 2012

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I’m sure that’s how they see their beloved Saint Breitbart, pierced by the arrows of outrageous fortune, a martyr to the cause.

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The Morning Quote

Posted by Tengrain Thursday, April 26th, 2012

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“Someone took charge of a cover-up, which we were victim to and I regret. I also have to say that I failed … and I am very sorry for it.”

–Rupert Murdoch

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The Morning Quote

Posted by Tengrain Friday, April 6th, 2012

“Find out if your girlfriend is a feminist before you get too far into it. Some of them are pretty. They don’t all look like Bella Abzug.”

–Phyllis Schlafly

Living wood-kill Phylis Schafly was speaking at the Citadel, which leads me to think something is really wrong in the world when all these pumped up young men are seeking advice from that crusty barnacle. And B: she thinks that a cultural reference of Bella Abzug would be known to these hormonally challenged boys?

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No comment

Posted by Tengrain Thursday, April 5th, 2012

OK, I lied. And this from the man who was measuring his weiner only yesterday.

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