What Was That About Jobs, Again...?

The House GOP has voted for redefining rape and having the IRS conduct "rape audits".

As John Aravosis at AmericaBlog puts it:

After all, that is what the American people voted for last November, rape audits.

In all fairness, it is what they voted for. Anyone who voted Republican, and didn't think they were putting the abortion police into office, is an idiot.

You vote Republican, you're gonna get a lot of legislation about gays, guns, God and abortion, tax cuts for rich people and rich corporations, and increases in defense spending. They have nothing else.

I've realized for a long time that the Republican theory of government goes something like this:

1. government is bad
2. therefore, elect us to government under the pretense of fixing it
3. we will screw things up even worse
4. thereby proving government is bad
5. repeat

But this is just ludicrous.

The American people need jobs. They need health care. They need someone to stand up for their rights to organize, to vote without intimidation, to not have their votes effing overruled by overzealous all-business-all-the-time governors with Emergency Financial Managers. (Yeah, that one's kinda close to home.)

What do we get from the GOP? Rape isn't necessarily rape, and we're gonna have the IRS question you about your "rape". Not to mention that, effectively, no insurance anywhere can pay for abortion services, because women are evil and must be controlled. And, as a throwaway, Washington, D.C. is no longer a local government, it's part of the federal government.

The party of "smaller government" is the one that keeps doing this shit.

This has no chance of becoming law. It will not pass the Senate, it will not get past Obama's desk. But the fact that they brought it to a vote at all is both beyond insane and demonstrative of what the true Republican agenda is.

They don't give a shit for your well-being.

They want to control you.

And they will bludgeon you with ever larger and more powerful arms of the government they purport to hate.

Another Wonderful Day

There is every chance that, later this morning, I will have a tooth pulled.

Besides not really being able to afford it, it's just a frickin' pain, literally. I will do my best not to be snappish for the next day or so, but please forgive me in advance if I am.

Ideally, I will feel much better for my appearance tomorrow at Comic City of Canton, 42727 Ford Road in Canton, MI, for Free Comic Book Day, along with Mad World Radio.

How's your day/weekend looking?

ETA: I thought it was the upper right wisdom tooth, the one I started to get a root canal for last fall but couldn't afford to finish at the time. Turns out that's actually still salvageable (and, as I just found out, not fully paid for). But the one in front of it has to be extracted. Next week, most likely. So I has Cipro and I has Ibuprofen, and we'll see what happens from there.

Coolest Prototype Tech Of The Day

a $25 HDMI->USB PC-on-a-stick. 128 MB RAM, running Ubuntu. Plug in an HDMI TV at one end and a USB keyboard (I'd use one with at least one USB port, for mouse work) at the other, and go.

Would you get one of these, and what would you use it for? At the very least, I'd never lug a computer to a con again.