This is the work of a man who knowingly preaches hate in the name of God.

Just remember - when the Religious Right rambles on about the values for which they stand, that flyer is what they mean, and the values for which they stand are hate and intolerance.

Hat Tip: Echidne of the Snakes.

Cross Posted to My Left Brain

SIX TIMES TODAY:

*Ring*

“Hello, Pizza Shop, this is Jeff.”

“Hi, uh, are you open?”

“…”

Damn they look downright EVIL.

Aw, did I wake them? Well, yes, but that’s also because they’re light sleepers and I’d just made a lot of noise in the kitchen. They were probably discussing ways of killing me in my sleep. Hint: sleep on my nose. That’ll do it, cats!

It would appear that Guy also likes to sleep atop the clean clothes. One wonders why I leave a hamper full of dirty clothes out at all. Except, y’know, the obvious reason - I’m a bachelor and I’m lazy.

I used to have a Jeep Wrangler. It was a ‘98, and by the time I sold it (a year and a half ago, July) it was in pretty horrible condition - it shaked, it rattled, and instead of driving the thing, it was more like rolling it down a hill and hoping you didn’t crash into anything. The bumpers were plastered with stickers, it was cold and uncomfortable, and I’d give anything to have my old baby back again (and I’m thinking about buying another one when I get my Toyota paid off).

Sexxxxy!

Maybe a pickup version, this time?

Scratch that. I want the removeable top & doors. But those are some pretty slick lines, and I wouldn’t be surprised if a future Wrangler adopts some.

If Governor Bob Ehrlich is Superman (he’s not to anyone not the national Republican Party), then it stands to reason that taxes are his kryptonite. And so far it seems the motivating reason behind his failure to help protect doctors from rising insurance premiums is a proposed tax on HMOs.

In yesterday’s Baltimore Sun, Michael Olesker writes:

[Maryland Governor Bob Ehrlich] called a special legislative session to get financial help for doctors being crushed by insurance costs. Some of the talk was pretty scary. Legislators from rural counties, in particular, lamented the plight of sickly constituents looking for doctors. But too many doctors, they said, have given up their practices and vanished from the map rather than face rising malpractice costs.

Then there was Busch, pausing for a few moments in his speaker’s office as Wednesday’s long day of debate and compromise drifted exhaustingly into Thursday’s pre-dawn hours. Busch talked about a University of Maryland Medical School where concerns over insurance costs are so deep that not a single 2003 graduate specialized in obstetrics and gynecology. (In 2004, university officials said yesterday, they had “one or two” ob-gyn grads in a class of about 130.)

Thus, in yesterday’s dark morning hours, the House and Senate passed a bill to keep malpractice costs in check, and Ehrlich prepared to turn his back on it. We go by the governor’s words on this, though he has not stamped his official veto as this is written.

Never mind that the General Assembly measure would limit doctors’ insurance premium increases to 5 percent in the coming year, instead of the 33 percent increase they face beginning tomorrow. Never mind that medical authorities (including the Maryland Hospital Association) say that proposed legislative reforms would make patients safer, change the way courts award damages for injuries and improper care, and discipline negligent doctors.

What appears to burn Ehrlich, and has prompted him to repeatedly declare that he will veto the legislation, is the 2 percent tax to be levied on health maintenance organization premiums. This, in turn, sent Busch into a third-degree burn.

“Health care people have to be astonished,” Busch said, striding into his speaker’s office and ripping off his coat in exasperation. “Here’s a perfect opportunity for this governor to step up and come to a compromise. Instead, he lets an HMO tax stand in the way.

“Gosh,” Busch said, the sarcasm filling each syllable he uttered, “what a unique concept - HMOs helping to cover health care costs.”

What this means is that Monday he’ll be on WBAL bitching and moaning about how he couldn’t let them evil Demoncrats tax the HMOs, and now we’re all going to die because all the doctors are going to move away. Or, as Olesker would say, “he’s snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.”

Hey, look on the bright side - when people start dying, the roads won’t be as congested! Yes!

Some jackass either at the townhouses across the street, or down at the apartments on Sunnylake, keeps sounding what is either his car horn or a hand-held fog-horn. I’m not quite sure which, but pretty soon I’m going to go the door of the building and scream “SHUT IT THE FUCK UP MOTHER FUCKER.”