Kenya: the east African antigay stupidity meme continues

As bad as things are in Uganda, they're about to get that way in Kenya. And - unsurprisingly - this latest disaster is being spurred on by a Prime Minister who's had a nice talking to from the usual suspects. Some of the pretzel logic displayed here is spellbinding in its idiocy: 

He termed it "madness" for a man to fall in love with another man while there were "plenty of women" and added that there was no need for women to engage in lesbianism "yet they can bear children".

Uh huh. Kultur, Kucher, Kinder all over again, right? What Raila Odinga and his fellow boosters of "traditional culture" (or whatever the current favorite buzzword of people like Odinga is) don't seem to realize is that sexual preference is just not as simple as how many children can be popped out of one uterus in a woman's child-rearing years. I have no idea who gave him this funny idea, but my guess is that it was representatives from The Family. After all, they put a similar bug in the collective ear of Uganda parliamentarians, so why stop there?

In addition, I'll be a complete smartass and mention that if the idea of women having kids is seemingly the only one worth pursuing for African followers of this saintly thing called "tradition", why is it that women are brutally raped - and worse - in conflicts including Darfur, the Congo and Guinea? Why are some of them abducted by perpetrators of crimes like these and forced to live as bush wives after the rapes? Because of "tradition"? 

The entire issue of using women as sexual playthings and tacit, domesticated baby factories dovetails nicely with misogyny and homophobia, doesn't it?

Welcome to the new 1832, same as the old 1832

Eric Cantor seems incredibly ignorant of the fact that Nullification didn't work back then, either.

Seriously, where do these fruit loops come from, and how do they actually win elections?

Speaking of fruit loops...

Eugene Delgaudio proves that county boards everywhere continue to be a repository for the batsh*t crazy in training. My guess is he'll be running for Congress real soon. 

Scummy, Pesty. Pesty, Scummy.

My amusement at a hypothetical meeting between Rod Blagojevich and Tom DeLay is made even more amusing by the completely wrong prediction by professional ideologue Hugh Hewitt from 2005 concerning Pesty's supposed innocence.

Next hypothetical strategy by a politicall felon: Scummy trying to convince everyone that Lady Macbeth Blagojevich was, in fact, innocent of being involved in the planning of his shakedowns and is a hottie to boot. Wrong on both counts, IMHO.

(As to the "hottie" part, yes, an actual Blago supporter once wrote something of the sort in a letter to the editors of the Sun-Times or Tribune. My explanation? It's a relative. Or it's just drugs.)

Thanks for playing, Mark

Your parting gift, BTW, consists of a rather unpleasant reminder of how stupid this statement looks when you re-read it for context:

A generous person might call Kirk's contradictory stance in these matters cognitive dissonance. But that's not what it is. It's outright class warfare. Extending Bush administration tax cuts for the upper 2 percent of Americans (at a 10-year cost of $830 billion) without requiring that this contribution to the deficit be paid for up front - while simultaneously chopping unemployment compensation - is no different than many of the economic policies that have been plaguing our nation for the past 30 years. It's called screw-the-working-class, which, despite what some people like to pretend, includes the middle class. Unlike some of the other screw jobs, however, the egregiousness of this one is instantly obvious.

No kidding.