Do I get points for being the first to call her a John Galt ‘Moocher’?

No?

Drat!

I would be happy to end her to summer camp for the rest of the year. She can help close up the place – put away the canoes, strip the bunks, board up the windows – so that she can prove she deserves the $15/$20/$25/other that’s coming her way, surely, Praise Chuy!

But I don’t think I’d give her a map back home.

Leo must be one of them gay liberals.

A real non-gay non-liberal man would’ve shot that fucker and eaten his chicken sandwiches.

This brings to mind that time-honored question:

If a conservative talks in the wilderness, does s/he make a sound?

I sure hope so. That way the bears can find them.

Goodness.

The actual queens making up the Drama Queen Brigade are being outshone by someone who’s working magnitudes higher on the Drama Queen scale.

# 1: “When I got news that my friend Leo was shot in the arm while doing his job at the Family Research Council, my heart sank.
He is the security guard who did his job to protect lives from a left-wing lunatic. Thankfully, Leo is recovering from his wound.”

#2: “Yesterday I sent you a message about my friend Leo Johnson. He’s the guard who was shot in the arm while tackling an armed left-wing lunatic at the Family Research Council’s offices. I hope you had a chance to read it and please continue your prayers for Leo, who is recovering.”

First of all, why does Star Jones feel that it’s necessary to use language that denigrates those with mental disabilities in her description? After all, if it’s obvious the gunman (gun person?) was a “lunatic,” then he was obviously suffering from a mental condition over which he had no control. It’s not like he was on welfare and could get off his fat ass and score a job by intimidating white males who were afraid of lawsuits for not hiring the requisite quota of Hyphenated-Americans.

Second, why wasn’t her BFF Leo fired? I don’t care if he had flippin’ black belt in karate and an Olympic gold medal for wrestling: If someone comes at you with a gun, and you’re not faster than a speeding bullet, you don’t tackle the guy with the gun–even if you ARE the security guard.

Good call, Mista T. “Stupid” should never be rewarded with money.

How ’bout we send her to the cornfield for the rest of the summer?

But you gotta remember that was a left wing lunatic with the gun. Prolly didn’t even know if it was loaded. So what’s the danger. Just lucky shot. That means I gotta send this bitch to summer camp?

What’s with the jazz hands in her cover photo? Creepy.

That’s not “Jazz Hands.” That’s “Dragon-Lady-with-fingernails-so-long-because-I-don’t-have-to-work-like-YOU-PEOPLE Hands.”

Um, sorry Star, but the answer is, Sadly, No! Man, these Wingnut Welfare queens have raised the grift to anp art. Sarah really has been quite the role model. Sucking the bank accounts of others is so self-sufficient.

Ignoring irrelevant and superfluous modifiers, while concentrating on nouns is an occupational hazard.

“Stupid” should never be rewarded with money.

Jesus The Palins wept.

“Star Jones” should be “Star Parker.”

Apparently I don’t watch enough TV.

Leo put himself in danger, tackled the man and took the gun away from him.

Funny, when the attacker with a gun was named ‘George Zimmerman’ and the tackler was ‘Trayvon Martin’, the wingnutosphere declared armed assault to be a Sacred Act of Murkan Jesus. Now suddenly they’re siding with self-defense? Someone might get the idea that they don’t have any consistent principles at all, except for “When I do it, it’s right, when people I don’t like do the same thing, it’s evil”.

“My life changed when someone told me the truth about welfare. Now help me tell this truth to every American”.

“That being a right-wing shill is a far more lucrative welfare gig than anything from Uncle Sugar. Career advancement, bitches”.

we are at critical crossroads similar to 1850s where we must decide who we will be: free or enslaved.

Dear Star:

Could you expand on that? Who will enslave whom? Oh, you mean, the Family Research Council will enslave gays, women who believe in choice, and in fact everyone who doesn’t agree with their narrow, bigoted, dumb-as-dirt Bible-based outlook? Yes, that would be terrible. It would be just like the 1850s. Won’t you give me money so I can continue to tell people that?

Yours,
Mr. W.

Star Parker spelled backwards is Rats Rekrap.

And they do. They rekrap everywhere they go.

Star Parker/Sarah Palin…wow… Griftobia R Us! And, gee, are we finally post-colorist? Wow, we finally got there. Thanks, Star!

Yes!

“Oooof” when Ted Nugent, mistaking the solitary, bleating conservative for a deer (the wiliest of game), puts an arrow in ‘em!

Do people do +1 anymore? Because that was funny.

YActually, if it’s anything, it’s certainly NOT Bible-based. Well, not the New Testament, anyway. These so-called Bible-thumpers never, ever quote Jesus. They are obsessed with punishment and retribution and obedience, the antithesis of the Christian ethos. And money-grubbing! If there was anything Christ was against was this damned(and I do mean damned, literally), money-grubbing. That, and whining about having to feed these blasted poor kids. It’s the cruelist, most cynical use of a good, kind philosophy. I can only hope that the Palins, Roves, Ryans, Romneys and this Parker idiot will truly meet their just reward. It’s really a rather sad thing that those of us who actually like Christ and think he was a force for good, cannot in this day and age say they are Christians without being suspected of being a whacko! That’s the truth. Everyone I know who has to throw in what a ‘Christian’ they are, are mean, bigoted, selfish wingnuts. Sad. And it all began in earnest when those darkies got to vote in the South and the ‘natural order of things’ changed for good. So Star, you are a dumbass,

cruelly used woman. And every time I see Coulterguiest with a cross around her neck I want to scream bloody murder!!

They are obsessed with punishment and retribution and obedience, the antithesis of the Christian ethos.

Sorry, but that’s just not true. It may well be true of some liberalized Christian sects, but there have always been Christians who loved the idea of eternal punishment in Hell. It’s just wrong to pretend that the vindictive aspect hasn’t been a part of Christianity and that it was very much present in the New Testament.

That’s okay. When I first heard of Star Parker, I immediately wondered if Star Jones had found another down-low husband needing a beard. Apparently, though, more than one parental family unit thought “Star” a name for a baby girl.

I understand what you’re saying and agree that there’s always been an element of “you’re going to hell” in Christian teaching, but I was raised in a very liberal interpretation of Christianity which always “accented the positive”. I just don’t want to be around any of them anymore because of the wingers who have been allowed to co-opt everything. If you read the Sermon on the Mount, it’s central message is not to screw the poor because they’re a bunch of leeching bums, and kids of the poor are a drain on society. Never, ever do these wingers defend the weak. That was my point. They take what I would call the worst impulses of every religion..of control and retribution, and make it the central theme. So, I’m just not religious. Doesn’t mean I can’t see the ‘good’ in many belief systems.

Sorry, Star. I’m tapped out. Gave the last of my money to your mentor, Clayton Bigsby.

I did not know that the fat lady on the View lost weight and wrote a book.

The Ted Stevens approved innertubes are indeed a marvelous thing.

I was raised “in the church” and really got off on the stuff written in red in the bible. Seemed like a good way to go through life. I was put off by the judgemental attitudes of members of the flock. “You’ll go to hell if you sing in the choir at a funeral of a friend in the baptist church.” How the hell do they know where I’m going. So I started looking around to see what other folks had to say and came to the conclusion that most of what the avatars had to say could be boiled down to

“Get your head out of your ass and be decent to everyone and everything.”

I don’t see any of that in professional religious fanatics. I try to live that way and it doesn’t really hurt much. I don’t feel I need to justify my actions or beliefs to anyone but myself, although I will discuss them at the drop of a hat with anyone who cares to know.

Never do anything for which you may be ashamed.

About the whole, half our country is dependent on the government thing. I looked into that. Turns out, even zombies are dependent on the government. No, really. And as usual, FOX News was on it like drool on maggots http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/05/18/cdc-warns-public-prepare-zombie-apocalypse/ Money quote from the government: “”People are so tuned into zombies,” he said. “People are really dialed in on zombies. The idea is we’re reaching an audience or a segment we’d never reach with typical messages.”

And to think, we have Star Parker, fellatrix to the Kochs, to thank for warning America of the insidious threat to our amoral member. You go, girl!1!(;-$

Yearly, that’s the way I feel. At work we have these ‘training’ sessions on various social issues. One is for sexual harassment…actually “how not to be an asshole training”. Then there is the non-sexual type harassment training. Generally it’s common sense about treating your colleagues with respect. If I were to put up a team of left-leaning
, or liberals against the “moral” social conservatives, the lefties will score better every time. They have a better sense of justice, have an ‘empathy’ gene, and don’t have a sense of entitlement which exempts them from some of the more accepted sosial conventions.

I’ve been through the ‘training’ sessions; generally skip the course and do the quiz. I’d be wary of ANYONE who couldn’t at least pass, if not ace the quiz without the ‘training’.

Let me break out my checkbook…Star Parker should take a deeeeeeep breath. Now….HOLD IT! Until my check arrives.

I’ve been working too damn hard this week to pay attention to this or, as one article mentioned, I’ve been paying too much attention to Romney’s taxes. One thing I found when I looked around was the outrage from the right wing that was missing at every other instance of gun violence, bless their rotted little hearts.

free or enslaved. We can no longer be both.

Wait: We can no longer be both? That confuses the shit out of me, but it also makes me want to whip out my checkbook right now. Hence, I’m with Margaret (at 32). In fact, I think Star should take two deep breaths (one for each lung) and hold them.

Do we know the guy with the six Chic-fil-ay sandwiches was left-wing? Perhaps because I haven’t really bothered to follow the story past the first day, but I don’t recall hearing anything about the guy. How does she know what he was? No – don’t make me go look, I don’t want to…!

“free or unslaved” – I guess its ok for her to say “chained?”

Boilerplate fundraising letter. That letter went out to thousands of email addresses. Star Parker never even saw your email, let alone read it. The email you recieved was an automated response generated by a marketing program. The Right is a commercial enterprise, and they use the latest, most state of the art marketing software to spread their viru-… I mean- message. And soon, because all right wing organizations share email lists, your inbox will be STUFFED with the same spam emails begging for your money.

Laura Ingraham also too.

at the second e-mail, “or even” went up to $5,000 from $2,500 in the first

Who knows for a fact that Star Parker “used to steal stuff and had four abortions and was on the welfare”? Sounds like a classic poor orphans and widows scam. Some people will be any religion that keeps those cards and letters (with enclosed checks) coming. “Was on the welfare” What a great phrase. Reminds me of the Irish mother of a woman I worked with who called alcoholism, “the drink.” Are you sure Star is who she’s pictured as?

Well, dang. I can see I’ve been over-thinking my get rich quick schemes.

Write email. Accuse liberals of being against good stuff and in favor of bad stuff. Throw in “freedom” and “socialism” as many times as I can work them in. Promise that if enough people send me money, I’ll go somewhere and spread the message about freedom (or something).

Hot damn! Who would’a thought it would be this easy?

I seem to be missing a step here. If he has a backpack fulla chick fil a sandwiches, then he’s obviously not down with the boycott of chick fil a, instead, he’s down with the encouragement of chick fil a founder’s opinions on gay marriage (uh, he’s against it). And then he’s off to shoot up a place that has the same opinion.

What the fuck is this? A concern troll with a gun?

I couldn’t remember the last name of the guy Star Jones married. When I saw the picture, my first thought was: “Hot damn! She really DID lose weight!” I also thought she had a bit of work done–sort of like Paula Jones–to make her a bit more appealing at Rethug fundraisers.

While we’re on the subject of griftopia, Pam Geller, not content to limit her exercise of the First Amendment to v-logging on YouTube while smashed on appletinis(?) has become SF’s new bus-ad diva. Apparently SF has adopted a pro-Palestinian stance. If pink is the new black, are kefiyehs the new gay?

I find it easier to just say “I’m a follower of Christ,” because, one, I’m NOT a “Christian” in the narrow sense in which the Talibagelicals, Shiite Baptists, and others of their ilk define it, nor in the broader sense in which most other self-proclaimed Christians define it, i.e. “Jesus is Lord, he was the son of God born of a virgin mother” & etc.

“Follower of Christ” has the same meaning as say, “follower of Gandhi” – that is, you embrace his principles without the deification. And if I say I’m a “follower of Christ,” I’m not lying, because I can get behind what dude had to say and strive to put it into practice without embarrassment or reservation if I strip away all the superstitious mumbo-jumbo.

The plus here is that most “Christians” are unable to make the distinction between “follower of Christ” and “Christian;” they hear the former and think “one of us…one of us…one of us…” which heads off all kinds of conflict at the pass, and I can say it without breaking any of those sacred Commandments which they are much less concerned about than the ones that were never written down, such as “thou shalt not be gay,” and “thou shalt not vote Democrat.” My thought is, it’s not MY fault if they aren’t bright enough to recognize the difference between the “follower of…” and the “xtian” constructions; after all, many of them embrace the latter primarily because it doesn’t require thought on their part. The other plus is that “follower of…” doesn’t rule out being a follower of lots of other things as well. People (other people, not me) are “followers” on twitter, for example. So, if you like what Jesus had to say but find it difficult or impossible to buy into the whole ball of dogma, I suggest just characterizing yourself as a “follower of Christ.”

Unfortunately you (no, not you Jenn, but others) can follow Star Parker on the twitter where you can learn that those fuckers at Texas A and M blew a big whole in her grift.

I fully realize that conservatives have been heavily brainwashed by Rovian/Atwater propganda tactics since Nixon days of yore, and at this point, factual reality, logic and critical thinking no longer exist in the conservative realm or “minds.” That said:

1. How do we know that the dude with the gun was “left-wing”? If he had a backpack full of Chick-Fil-A shitburgers, that suggests to me that he was supportive of the Cathy family & their donations to known HATE group FRC.

2. It was Leo who got shot, so why aren’t we sending money to Leo? No doubt, since Leo is claimed to be a good do-bee “conservative,” then he’s probably got Ayn Rand health benefits, as in: you’re on your own, Leo, and good luck with that & work harder, you slacker.

3. Who the fuck is this skanky bitch, Star Jones Parker, and why the fuck am I supposed to send money to HER?? WTF? Agree that Parker has hit the jackpot, and has graduated from lowly shitty teh poorz welfare & leveraged herself up to (thanks to prior comment) fellating the Kochs in order to get higher paying wingnut whore welfare pay-outs. Good scam for Parker.

Conservative “charities” have made an “art” of extracting money from the rubes; seniors are especially targeted in very specific ways. When my mom was still alive, she was a very very easy mark for all sorts of Cons & Grifts, just like this one. Even my fundie nutcase rightwing family members started getting pissed off about it. Not that it’s changed their tv viewing, voting or “church”-going habits.

She was so close

…”work is something the rich force the poor to do to make them rich.”…

Then, right back into delusion mode.

Just proves you don’t have to be anywhere near Egypt, to drown in de Nile.

at the second e-mail, “or even” went up to $5,000 from $2,500 in the first

Noticed that. The collection agency must be pounding on the door.

I seem to be missing a step here. If he has a backpack fulla chick fil a sandwiches, then he’s obviously not down with the boycott of chick fil a,…

I haven’t followed the details of the story, but my take upon reading that is that maybe he had some fantasy of making his victims eat Shit-fil-A sandwiches at gunpoint.

I was wondering about that backpack full of Chick-fil-a sandwiches thing myself. I think someone way more access than most of us have should find this Leo Johnson and ask him what percentage of the money Star Jones Parker has sent his way for throwing himself in harm’s way.

And how do we know the gunman wasn’t a disgruntled customer who found a rat in his sandwich? I hear rabies can make you do weird things….

…my take upon reading that is that maybe he had some fantasy of making his victims eat Shit-fil-A sandwiches at gunpoint.

heh… in which case, the guard, Leo, really did take one for the team!