Motley Moose – Archive

Interrogatories

If you could devise a Rare Disease for Rare Disease Day that would affect only political figures on the right-wing persuasion, what disease would you give them? (Like foot-in-mouth-itis)

What book signings have you been to?

What is the last thing you rented?

The Twitter Emitter

A machine learning researcher, a crypto-currency expert, and an Erlang programmer walk into a bar. Facebook buys the bar for $27 billion.

— ML Hipster (@ML_Hipster) February 25, 2014

In lieu of Bitcoin, I’ve stuck to flushing $100 bills down a toilet. I’m deep in the red but at least I understand exactly what’s going on.

— John Gruber (@gruber) February 26, 2014

Millions of churches you can go to? Check. Thousands of Christian radio stations and TV shows? Check. STFU about being oppressed.

— Chris Dashiell (@cdashiell) February 27, 2014

OBAMACARE DAY 58: Texas gay marries Kentucky, all Christian residents forced to prepare floral arrangements; Subway offers marijuana salads

— Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) February 27, 2014

First Obama empowers impoverished young black men, next white people are forced to work in BitCoin mines. That's how it works sheeple!

— Lex (@LuthorCEO) February 27, 2014

Hell is an airport where everyone has a laptop and there's only one socket.

— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) February 27, 2014

Human beings are the only creatures on earth with the potential to make themselves the only creatures on earth.

— God (@TheTweetOfGod) February 28, 2014

Just let me know how exactly I should live my life so you have your "religious freedom." http://t.co/BQGrDc0SQb

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) February 28, 2014

And, even with ten years of gay marriage, Massachusetts has the lowest divorce rate in the United States. #protectingmarriage

— Will McAvoy (@WillMcAvoyACN) February 28, 2014

If gays have rights and can get married, then all you ladies will miss out on forcing them into loveless marriages. Call your Congressman!

— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) February 28, 2014

Good morning, Moosekind. TGIF!

Interrogatories

What is the first thing you see right now when you look up from your computer?

Do you have any vices you refuse to give up? If so, what?

When was the last time you willingly stayed up all night?

If someone refused to take your wedding pictures because he/she hated something about you and your lifestyle, would you force the issue?

The Twitter Emitter

And then the cowards claimed that their religious freedom was being denied. Their freedom to deny my freedom!

— Chris Dashiell (@cdashiell) February 27, 2014

Log Cabin Replicants

— Wile E. Quixote (@ScottLinnen) February 27, 2014

Dick Cheney: “Obama is reducing troop levels, when everyone knows you can save money by cutting armor for troops fighting a war in Iraq.”

— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) February 27, 2014

The wages are too damn low.

— Chris Dashiell (@cdashiell) February 27, 2014

Arizona Gov Jan Brewer vetoes the "If I can't be an anti-gay bigot then you're an anti-Christian bigot" bill.

— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) February 27, 2014

Fox News reports that Rick Santorum has issued a fatwa on the federal judge who ruled the Texas gay marriage ban unconstitutional.

— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) February 27, 2014

The only religious freedom that maters is the one that frees me from your religion.

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) February 27, 2014

The correlation between bigots and poor grammar is absolutely astonishing.

— Calvin (@aurosan) February 27, 2014

Remember that time Jesus refused to heal someone because he didn't support their lifestyle? Me neither.

— Susie Meister (@susie_meister) February 26, 2014

Cons: Replace these activist judges with OUR activist judges.

— Chris Dashiell (@cdashiell) February 26, 2014

If we renamed immigrants "fetuses" would the GOP would start treating them as human beings?

— kara vallow (@teenagesleuth) February 26, 2014

Found on the Internets …

Facing Overwhelming Opposition, Arizona Governor Vetoes Anti-Gay Bill

After a week of national backlash, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) has vetoed SB 1062, which would have allowed religious beliefs to be used to justify discrimination against LGBT people and others. Explaining her veto, Brewer said, “I call them like I see them despite the cheers or boos from the crowd.” She added that the bill does not address a specific concern and that she knows of no examples of how religious liberty has been under attack.

Opposition to the bill came from individuals and companies across the country, including the Arizona Super Bowl Host Committee, Apple, and Mitt Romney. Many other states have introduced similar bills, some specifying that businesses could refuse services to marrying same-sex couples, but most have stalled or died, particularly those introduced this week during the backlash against Arizona.

Media Matters: Fox News Has A Nasty Anti-Gay Hangover

What explains Fox’s sudden cold feet now that several states are acting to deal with the manufactured threat to religious liberty that Fox News helped create?

To hear people like Fox’s Kelly and Tantaros explain it, laws like Arizona’s SB 1062 simply went a little too far. These laws would be acceptable if they only affected businesses directly involved in the marriage and wedding industry, but giving all business owners a license to discriminate against gay customers too closely resembles Jim Crow legislation.[…]

The distinction between marriage-related services and general services used by gay couples is convenient, but it doesn’t stand up under closer scrutiny.

For one, Fox News has aggressively promoted the idea that requiring equal treatment of gay people in non-marital contexts also infringes on businesses’ religious liberty. […]

… many of the network’s personalities are waking up to the harsh reality that their words have consequences. They’re in the uncomfortable position of to decide between disowning the right-wing talking points they helped promote or siding with measures that even they admit look a lot like pro-segregation laws.

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Interrogatories

Pizza – what style is best? NY style, Deep dish Chicago, or something else? What is your favorite pizza place?

Are you an early adopter of new technology, or do you let it get thoroughly tested and vetted before you will invest in it?

When on escalators, do you follow escalator etiquette (stand to the right, walk to the left)?

The Twitter Emitter

President Nugent, back in 1980, when you wrote Wango Tango, did you ever envision this America?

— Kevin Depew (@kevindepew) February 25, 2014

The best things in life are cheese or cheese-adjacent.

— JerryThomas (@JerryThomas) February 25, 2014

If you're hallucinating I hope you see a doctor.

— Dave (@gneicco) February 25, 2014

The "Got Milk" ad campaign is ending after 20 years. Oh no. Now how will people hear about milk?

— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) February 25, 2014

Give a man a fish, he smells like carp.

— David Lubar (@davidlubar) February 25, 2014

It must be hard to make up your mind when you don't have one. #JanBrewer

— Chris Dashiell (@cdashiell) February 25, 2014

Judging by commercials, I'm not yet infirm enough to watch network evening news.

— Crutnacker (@Crutnacker) February 25, 2014

Never quite gotten how same groups (CPAC) that idolize Ayn Rand can't stand atheists. I mean, hello.

— Hunter (@HunterDK) February 25, 2014

In the late 70s, the super-rich got together and said "To hell with the great society, let's get rid of our taxes & reinstate feudalism."

— Chris Dashiell (@cdashiell) February 26, 2014

Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he'll add to the global overdepletion of the oceans. So just give him the fish.

— God (@TheTweetOfGod) February 26, 2014

Good morning meese! Happy happy Wednesday!

The common Moose, Alces alces, unlike other members of the deer family, is a solitary animal that doesn’t form herds. Not so its rarer but nearest relative, Alces purplius, the Motley Moose. Though sometimes solitary, the Motley Moose herds in ever shifting groups at the local watering hole to exchange news and just pass the time.

I’m sick and tired of reading comments loaded with right-wing memes and myths.

Every time we try to deal with discussing racist murderers, whether its Micheal Dunn or George Zimmerman, and his defenders, someone steps into the conversation and brings up the tired trope of “black-on-black crime” as a tried and true method of derailing the conversation away from racism, Stand Your Ground laws as they affect black people, and racially biased jurors and prosecutors who don’t deliver justice-for us.  

I see these unrelated stats thrown around willy-nilly, and not just on Fox.  

This stuff is to be expected from Faux News, or folks over at Breitbart’s site.

Liberal/left/progressives need to stop.

Interrogatories

Do you use straws for drinking? Straight or bendy?

Have you been robbed or burglarized?

Do you always answer your door when someone knocks or rings? When you don’t, why not?

Who would your business like to refuse service to?

The Twitter Emitter

Rick Perry's glasses were a savvy move. I expect him to have braces by 2016 and headgear if he's nominee.

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) February 21, 2014

Most old tea partiers are Abe Simpson but w weaker command of facts.

— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) February 21, 2014

If it all gets too much for you to bear, CA has no statewide elected Republicans and life here has never been better.

— Allan Brauer (@allanbrauer) February 24, 2014

"Your marriage is like incest! Mine is traditional!" said the multiply-married, childless radio host.

— ¡ Terry ! Candy Saga (@shortstack81) February 24, 2014

Alec Baldwin says he's retiring from public life to spend more time berating his family with homophobic slurs.

— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) February 24, 2014

If you're gonna fight hate, don't whine if you get some on you; just wash it off before it sticks. #p2 #uniteblue #libcrib

— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) February 24, 2014

Twitter mikght be the social media highway, but there's way too much road rage on it for my taste.

— Suzanne Munshower (@expatina) February 24, 2014

The last five people left after climate change kills everyone will form a panel to investigate whether climate change is real.

— God (@TheTweetOfGod) February 25, 2014

Not to worry, Arizona! You can always go back to canceling the Martin Luther King holiday!

— kara vallow (@teenagesleuth) February 25, 2014

What's the difference between Uganda and Arizona? Arizona GOP only DREAMS they could throw gays in jail.

— DC Debbie (@DCdebbie) February 25, 2014

Overwhelming inarguable scientific evidence is no match for a guy who "just knows".

— God (@TheTweetOfGod) February 25, 2014

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