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Republican Tom Cox of KS – Douche Bag Award Winner

May 7, 2018September 29, 2018 B. John 1069 Views 1 Comment Kansas, Adoption, LGBT, Tom Cox, @TomCox4KS, Steve Fitzgerald, Bigots, Idiots, White Supremacists

This one is just kind of outside our usual realm of notice, but we decided his action was just deplorable enough to warrant recognition with our Douche Bag of the Day award. Republican Tom Cox is a member of the Kansas house of Representatives representing the Shawnee-Lake Quivira district of good old KS, and he underhandedly changed his vote to make it possible for adoption agencies in KS to receive state funds AND discriminate against LGBT people.

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Can’t Defeat Sunrise or Hope

May 7, 2018September 29, 2018 B. John 1658 Views 1 Comment Hope, Sunrise, Soir Bernard Williams

This entry is part 32 of 36 in the series Deep Thoughts

One of our Deep Thoughts – “There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.” — Bernard Williams

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Casa Mexicana Bar and Grill – Restaurant Review

May 6, 2018September 29, 2018 B. John 535 Views 0 Comments restaurants, reviews, Mexian

Very good service, nice atmosphere, and clean restaurant. The food was good and Lay especially their “on-request” hot sauce, but it was a little pricey for what you get. We will eat there again.

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Scott Pruitt-EPA Head-Douche of the Day

April 30, 2018September 29, 2018 B. John 1302 Views 0 Comments EPA, Scott Pruitt

This entry is part 6 of 54 in the series Daily Douche-Bag

It has taken this long for Trump’s EPA Chief, Scott Pruitt, to receive a Douche Bag of the Day award only because I haven’t had the time nor motivation to post much lately. All of his enumerable ethical lapses aside, maybe the worst action came this week when he set out a plan to severely limit the use of actual science by EPA scientists.

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Ready Player One – A Movie Review

April 29, 2018 B. John 685 Views 0 Comments Action, Ernest Cline, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Steven Spielberg, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe, Zak Penn

In the year 2045, the real world is a harsh place. The only time Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) truly feels alive is when he escapes to the OASIS, an immersive virtual universe where most of humanity spends their days. In the OASIS, you can go anywhere, do anything, be anyone-the only limits are your own imagination. The OASIS was created by the brilliant and eccentric James Halliday (Mark Rylance), who left his immense fortune and total control of the Oasis to the winner of a three-part contest he designed to find a worthy heir.

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The Post – A Movie Review

April 21, 2018April 21, 2018 B. John 1408 Views 1 Comment Bruce Greenwood, Thriller, Drama, Sarah Paulson, History, Bob Odenkirk, Biography, Tracy Letts, Steven Spielberg, Bradley Whitford, Tom Hanks, Matthew Rhys, Meryl Streep

When American military analyst, Daniel Ellsberg, realizes to his disgust the depths of the US government’s deceptions about the futility of the Vietnam War, he takes action by copying top-secret documents that would become the Pentagon Papers. Kay Graham must decide whether to back down for the safety of her paper or publish and fight for the Freedom of the Press.

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Another Gun Argument – The Jews Argument

April 3, 2018September 29, 2018 B. John 1956 Views 1 Comment liar, Monica Bailey, Jews, Hitler, Gun Control, Wayne LaPierre

This entry is in the series Guns

Someone I’m friends with on Facebook shared a post by someone I don’t know named, Monica Bailey. The post is one of those with the photo of all the shoes of Jews from one of the death camps. We saw a display of these at the Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg a couple of years ago, and it is heart-wrenching. But, of course nothing is reaching too low for the gun nuts, so that whole pile of shoes is just the result of the Jews giving up their guns to Hitler.

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Brian Brown – Douche Bag of The Day

April 2, 2018September 29, 2018 B. John 1329 Views 0 Comments Nom, marriage equality, Grift, LGBT, Brian Brown, SPLC, money

This entry is part 7 of 54 in the series Daily Douche-Bag

I didn’t go back and look, but it is likely Brian has received our award before. He is, after all, head of the infamous “National Organization for Marriage (NOM) (an SPLC designated hate group). We decided to recognize Brian this time for his heretical efforts to make himself relevant again (and get some money flowing), by using Christ and Easter. Brian claims he’s as persecuted and Jesus was.

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Laura Ingraham – Triple Douche of the Day

April 1, 2018September 29, 2018 B. John 1655 Views 0 Comments Douglas High School, Laura Ingraham, Fox News, David Hogg, Parkland

This entry is part 39 of 54 in the series Daily Douche-Bag

So Fox News’ Laura Ingraham did what my grandfather would refer to as, “shit and fell back in it,” the other day when she decided it would be great sport to denigrate David Hogg, one of the more public of the Douglas High School shooting survivors. She thought that he didn’t get into some of the universities he’s applied to, she had a license to go after him.

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The Swiss Gun Control Argument

March 23, 2018March 23, 2018 B. John 798 Views 2 Comments Switzerland, Swiss, Guns, Militia, Military Service

This entry is part 11 of 13 in the series Guns

The Swiss argument about gun control gets bandied about with some regularity. There’s this claim that “The Swiss require everyone to have a gun,” or “The Swiss government issues everyone a gun.” Except, no they don’t. And as a matter of fact, when you look into gun violence statistics, Switzerland supports the position: “the more guns, the more gun violence.”

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No Gun Control Unless You Are Anti-Choice

March 22, 2018September 29, 2018 B. John 808 Views 1 Comment abortion, Guns, Ammosexuals, Gun Nuts, Pro-Life, Women's Rights, Gun Control

This entry is part 10 of 13 in the series Guns

And here’s one of the latest anti-gun control arguments I was presented with today. Apparently, my opinion on the steps I thought might help reduce the gun carnage in America doesn’t count unless I’m willing to certify that I am against abortion. Are those people fucking serious? I mean did the guy who tried that not have a clue about how easy that would be to stand on its head?