Rush Limbaugh's apology doesn't change anything

[Jacob]

Nothing is. 

Kinda the point, numbskull.

No no no... he's a radical methodist.

[garbon]

Nothing is. 

Kinda the point, numbskull.

No no no... he's a radical methodist.

I think I've called myself a methodist at least once.

[Neil]

The chick he called a slut kinda reminds me of Winona Ryder.

Except not hot.

[Fireblade]

Well, this whole episode proves that Republicans have absolutely no fucking idea how vaginas work.

Probably explains why they're all so angry all the time. And why Limbaugh fucked all those little Dominican boys after he got caught with a bag full of viagra and oxycotin.

[derspiess]

Nothing is. 

Kinda the point, numbskull.

I don't get you anymore

[Habbaku]

He hit the bitch switch.  Best to back away.

[garbon]

Nothing is. 

Kinda the point, numbskull.

I don't get you anymore

Odd, Jacob seemed too and we're constantly at odds.

[grumbler]

Uncle Sam is paying? I thought this whole brouhaha was about a handful of religious organizations whining that they shouldn't be forced to provide medical care to their employees if they have "moral" reasons not to.

So what is it? Oppressing poor innocent believers or wasting tax payer money?

No, the religious organizations have been providing this care without a peep for decades.  The new law simply says that certain kinds of care deemed necessary should be provided without a copay.  Birth control pills was one of them.

This is entirely a manufactured "crisis."  The organizations are being required to provide not a thing they haven't provided without protest for years.  The change in the law costs a pittance.

Churches themselves (and their religious affiliates) are not required to provide birth control under the religious exemption.  The new (and old) laws apply only to non-religious organizations affiliated with or owned by religious groups.  Those non-religious organizations don't get exemptions because they are providing services to the general public and their employees are not necessarily religiously affiliated with the church running the thing.

[grumbler]

He hit the bitch switch.  Best to back away.

   Pretty soon he is going to call your posting style "derspiessesque."

[garbon]

He hit the bitch switch.  Best to back away.

   Pretty soon he is going to call your posting style "derspiessesque."

I wasn't even trying to insult you then.

[DontSayBanana]

AOL is advertising their new automated PC cleanup/optimization service. Which is funny to old school guys like me who remember AOL as a virus to be removed rather than anyone you would remotely trust to fix your computer.

God, that shit used to root itself deep, too.  Like, CWS deep.

[fhdz]

I wasn't even trying to insult you then.

Don't sweat it. The fact that he got defensive about it says more about him than it does about you.

[Sheilbh]

I'm just saying that Fluke wasn't going in to testify because she thought the committee could use her expertise - she had an agenda and she wanted publicity. And she got more of it than she could ever have hoped for.

The title of the hearing was "Lines Crossed: Separation of Church and State. Has the Obama Administration Trampled on Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Conscience?"  So I'm interested in who you think would have expertise worth listening to, as opposed to a publicity seeking agenda?

[Martinus]

But here, here's a fetus with a pancake on its head.

I LOLed.

[Berkut]

It's interesting that the Republicans hold hearings to discuss this, do not invite a single woman to express her views, and in fact refuse to hear any woman's viewpoints during the hearing. The Dems then hold some hearings of their own, invite this woman to testify, and the immediate response of the right is to call her a slut and prostitute, claim she has too much sex, etc., etc., etc.

This goes far beyond this woman in particular, and rather illustrates that the religious right is still incredibly misogynistic, and still looks on a woman willing to speak about her sexuality in terms other than the passive as inately a threat to be reacted to with extreme prejudice.

The response of the candidates to Limbaugh's remarks is a lot more interesting, and disturbing, than Limbaugh. We all know he is a revolting douchebag.