A Short Play

Conservatives: Obamacare is hurting millions of Americans!
Liberals: Like who?
Conservatives: Uh, like that guy over there!
Liberals: He’s actually saving money.
Conservatives: What about her in the back?
Liberals: She’s got expanded coverage.
Conservatives: What about that fellow on the right?
Liberals: He’s keeping his doctor.
Conservatives: Well, my brother’s friend’s bowling partner’s niece heard a story from a dude on Snapchat about a person having to pay negligibly higher premiums!
Liberals: That does sound possible.
Conservatives: Checkmate. 

Thanks, Mother Jones!

Ruben Bolling has this "climate change" myth figured out

Via Boing Boing.

Marsha Blackburn is the Small Mind of the Day

"We need you to change things, not deny what's happening," Bill Nye told Representative Marsha Blackburn (Republican, Tennessee). He implored her to stop questioning the facts behind climate change, while Blackburn maintained that there is not consensus in the scientific community about global warming.

This despite the fact that 97% of climate scientists agree that climate-warming trends over the past century are very likely due to human activities, according to NASA. Experts say that there is still some uncertainty in absolutely linking isolated extreme weather events like Hurricane Sandy or bad droughts to global warming, but the vast majority of scientists ascribe climate change and the increase in extreme weather to human activity.

That makes Blackburn either willfully stupid or corrupt. But maybe when the planet heats up a bit, it'll melt the butter in her mouth.

Creationist Myths Translated

This is pretty funny.

Tom Perkins is the Small Mind of the Day

Venture capitalist rich guy Tom Perkins speaks for his fellow billionaires. And what is he saying?

“The Tom Perkins system is: You don't get to vote unless you pay a dollar of taxes. But what I really think is, it should be like a corporation. You pay a million dollars in taxes, you get a million votes.”

Remember Ted Cruz's bladderbusting faux-filibuster?

Listen up, kiddies. Way back in September, 2013, Senator Ted Cruz (Republican, Texas) stood up for 21 hours. Why? Never mind that! During his not-a-filibuster, Cruz compared anyone not opposed to Obamacare to Nazi appeasers.

The Joseph McCarthy lookalike also read Ashton Kutcher's Teen Choice Awards speech, did a Darth Vader impression, and he read from Green Eggs and Ham. The latter was notable for how he completely missed the point of the picture book!

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Even-toed ungulates prove the Bible is mere fantasy!

Via.

The ancient Jews didn't have or use camels. Yet they're mentioned in the Bible constantly! What gives? The New York Times piece "Camels Had No Place in Genesis" explains:

These anachronisms are telling evidence that the Bible was written long after the events it narrates and is not always reliable as verifiable history. These camel stories “do not encapsulate memories from the second millennium,” said Noam Mizrahi, an Israeli biblical scholar, “but should be viewed as back-projections from a much later period.” 

Dr. Mizrahi likened the practice to a historical account of medieval events that veers off to a description of “how people in the Middle Ages used semitrailers in order to transport goods from one European kingdom to another.” 

What now? Will Christianity be discarded to the scrap heap? After all, as David Haskell asks, "To whom shall we turn for moral guidance now that the cud-chewing, even-toed ungulates have been unmasked as dissemblers?"