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Sesame Street can totally take Rick Santorum and the Republican Party
Former Republican senator Rick Santorum, who is gearing up for a possible 2012 Republican presidential run, is taking on Sesame Street.
Santorum feels the entire Corporation for Public Broadcasting should be cut. That would gut funding for PBS and NPR, and leave Sesame Street homeless.
Freakish as wanting to cut the funding for Sesame Street might seem, he’s not alone. It’s on the chopping block in the Republican’s proposed budget. The whole party would like to see public broadcasting done away with.
A Virginia legislator who called disabled children “God’s punishment” for their mothers who aborted a previous pregnancy just became reason number two for the month of February that I’m glad I no longer live in Virginia. (In case you’re wondering, here’s number one.)
State Delegate Bob Marshall of Manassas, one of the authors of Virginia’s anti-gay marriage amendment, held a press conference last week to oppose state funding for Planned Parenthood. That’s where he dropped this humdinger Continue reading »
Oscar the Grouch doesn’t like Fox News. Sort of. At least that’s what the wacky right is spouting off about just in time to grab the coattails of the Sesame Street 40th celebration.
Technically the cranky green monster doesn’t give two wits about Hannity or O’Reilly. He was reporting for GNN – the Grouchy News Network – when he got mauled by a pretty princess monster on screen. Continue reading »
There are responsible gun owners, and then there’s Sean Jerguson, a Republican state senator representative in Georgia who bought his four-year-old daughter her own .22 caliber gun for her birthday.
But it’s pink, so apparently it’s appropriate for a little girl. Continue reading »
It looks like teenage rebellion runs high in the Palin family. First the abstinence-touting family’s teen daughter gets pregnant, now their son comes out . . . as “not a Republican.”
Technically it was the former governor (oh, that’s so fun to say, isn’t it?) who let loose that son Track, who is serving in the U.S. military is registered as “non-partisan” (I think she means an independent). And he’s not the only member of the Palin family to go rogue. Continue reading »
If you’re waking in up in California this morning, chances are you might be broke. Because your state is, and instead of paying people the money they owe them, it’s expected that what they’ll have deposited into their bank accounts today is a nice juicy IOU. Which can’t be cashed until October. While I am sorry for everybody who was hoping for a check today and is instead getting jack freakin squat, may I thank you, California, for temporarily taking the “most messed-up state” award from Michigan for a little while?
Don’t start smoking to cope with the stress, though, because the drugs that can help you quit could also make you want to kill yourself. Continue reading »
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