Water in North Dakota makes legislators crazy

Well, maybe it isn't the water. But something in North Dakota severely compromises intelligent thinking among the legislators in that state.

First they tried to ban all abortions.

Now, a piece of asshat legislation called the Personhood bill, SF 1572 is on the table. It's already passed the North Dakota House and is figured to slide through the Senate easily. And, the governor of the state, while he hasn't said much, is very much against women having any control over their own bodies.

This idiotic, moronic piece of legislation is a mirror image of the piece of crap that Colorado turned down: It will "grant every fertilized egg in the state full rights, and any intentional death of that fertilized egg would constitute murder." That's according to Andy Birkey, writing at rhreality.check.org.

Here's part of the actual wording: "The state shall naturalize all preborn persons and shall afford to them all the privileges and immunities of state citizenship guaranteed in... the Constitution of North Dakota."

Heh. Heh.


Now, whatever else you want to say about this, it is, in fact, a piece of religious bullshit, foisted upon the public by a bunch of rightwingnut christianists of both the Protestant and Catholic variety.

It is RELIGION! It is not science, it is not connected to reality. It is insanity!


Birkey notes that Tim Stanley, who represents Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, is a bit upset. He believes, rightly, I think, that this bill could reverberate and cause all kinds of untold suffering and despair across the country.

The asshat religious fruitcakes in the North Dakota legislature may well have opened a Pandora's Box: "It's possible," said Stanley, that this bill could result in criminal prosecution for women who have a miscarriage. Under this language a miscarriage could be investigated for manslaughter or reckless abandonment."

It gets sillier. A law in the grand state of North Dakota forbids two people from riding a bicycle built for one! If the bill passes, a pregnant woman riding a bike would be breaking the law!


The man behind this garbage is Dan Ruby, a Repugnican from Minot. Ruby spends most of his time worrying that women might do something with their bodies that is forbidden by the Pope. He's 38 years old, a Roman Catholic, has TEN CHILDREN and has a waste disposal business.

Some have called him a serial moron.

His goal, which he has stated clearly, is to rid our country of Roe v. Wade.


If worse comes to worse, under this law a woman's life could be compromised to save a fertilized egg.

That makes a hell of a lot of sense, doesn't it?

I wonder if the Catholics have a hell for serial morons who insist on making their psychotic belief system the law of the land?

Godly morons and the Capitol's Visitor Center

There is a new Capitol Visitor Center in Washington, D.C. It cost $621 million. It is, according to McClatchy, "a grand monument-like building" of "marble-and-stone." It is expected to become a major attraction for the 3 million people who visit Washington, D.C. each year.

But there are a couple of problems.

Senator Jim DeMint, a Repugnican from South Carolina, naturally, toured the center back in September. DeMint is an ultra-conservative religious right wingnut who believes the U.S. was created by God and therefore he became upset when he saw that the national motto was inscribed as "E. Pluribus Unum" (from many, one), rather than "In God We Trust."

DeMint further thinks that the center fails to note the importance of the Christian religion in America's history. It doesn't give enough attention to "the faith of the Founding Fathers and other prominent figures."

Too many of the center's displays are "left-leaning and in some cases distort our true history," said this moronic congressman. He whined that the "most prominent display proclaims faith not in God, but in government."


Other Repugnican morons, such as Senators Tom Coburn (OK) and Roger Wicker (MS) as well as a Repugnican Representative from Virginia, Randy Forbes, also protested this utter failure to show America's trust in God in the center.

These idiots complained enough that those in charge plan to make some changes at a cost of $150,000.


The level of idiocy among the members of our Congress stuns the mind. Just when I think it can't get any worse, it gets worse. What's even more frightful is that these idiots were elected by the people of their respective states.

Does no one understand either American history or our Constitution anymore? Our Constitution and Bill of Rights says absolutely NOTHING about trust in God. It does hold up those documents as the basis for our government.

Can we have some sort of test which every person attempting to gain admission to Congress must pass before they can throw their hat in the ring?


The entire McClatchy article is here.