Posts tagged: Rick santorum
“Professional wrestling matches, as bizarre as they were and are, at least began as morality plays,” Rick Santorum wrote in his 2005 book, It Takes a Family. “Good guys, literally wearing white, fought bad guys, literally wearing black.” And as in any good morality play, Santorum argued, there had been a Fall: “Today, professional wrestling is more about titillation than ever. The violence has been sexualized.”
What Santorum doesn’t bother to acknowledge, however, is how he helped make that happen.
But what Santorum doesn’t bother to acknowledge, however, is how he helped make that happen. Though his book briefly notes his stint as the Pennsylvania counsel for the World Wrestling Federation in the late 1980s, it doesn’t mention that he played a critical role in the nationwide deregulation push that turned the spectacle of beefy men in skimpy outfits into a billion-dollar industry—and opened the door for more violence and steroid use.
“Once they deregulated it, then it was kind of like allowing the animals to be in charge of the zoo,” says Jimmy Binns, the former head of the Pennsylvania Athletic Commission, who resigned his post in 1987 during the deregulation push.
Way to go, dude.
Moderator: “So you spoke about the dangers of contraception. Can you talk about why contraceptives are dangerous?”
Santorum: “What we are seeing is a problem in our culture with respect to children being raised by children, children being raised out of wedlock, and the economic impact and the impact on society.”
PRO TIP, BRO: BABIES HAPPEN WHEN YOU DON’T USE CONTRACEPTION, NOT WHEN YOU DO.
Bypass surgery is not okay because it’s a license to do things in the medical realm that are counter to how things are supposed to be.
Human flight is not okay because it’s a license to do things in the mechanical realm that are counter to how things are supposed to be.
Democracy is not okay because it’s a license to do things in the political realm that are counter to how things are supposed to be.
Salvation is not okay because it’s a license to do things in the spiritual realm that are counter to how things are supposed to be.
Heliocentrism is not okay because it’s a license to do things in the astronomical realm that are counter to how things are supposed to be.
Domestication is not okay because it’s a license to do things in the agricultural realm that are counter to how things are supposed to be.
Combustion is not okay because it’s a license to do things in the industrial realm that are counter to how things are supposed to be.
(via langer)
People have no problem paying $900 for an iPad,” Santorum said, “but paying $900 for a drug they have a problem with — it keeps you alive. Why? Because you’ve been conditioned to think health care is something you can get without having to pay for it.”
The mother said the boy was on the drug Abilify, used to treat schizophrenia, and that, on paper, its costs would exceed $1 million each year.
“He’s alive today because drug companies provide care,” Santorum said. “And if they didn’t think they could make money providing that drug, that drug wouldn’t be here. I sympathize with these compassionate cases. … I want your son to stay alive on much-needed drugs. Fact is, we need companies to have incentives to make drugs. If they don’t have incentives, they won’t make those drugs. We either believe in markets or we don’t.
Rick Santorum defends drug companies in health care speech. (via CNN)
Just so we’re clear, still in the GOP primary, we’ve got the guy who doesn’t care about the very poor, the guy who wants poor students to clean the toilets at their own schools, the gay-bashing defender of healthcare monopolies who’ll let your poor kid die for his belief in markets, and…Ron Paul.
(via deantrippe)
Women for Santorum: ‘A baby from rape is a gift from God’ (Found at Joe. My. God.)
Brilliant satire.
When life gives you rape, make rapeade.
Yes, fascism is universal health care. That’s what I remember the most about Mussolini.
(via fearandwar)
Especially because Mussolini didn’t introduce universal health care at all. Lets think about what he did do. He drastically lowered taxes on banking on industry, abolished the tax on luxuries, halved the tax paid by company directors and abolished inheritance tax. He privatized life insurance. He privatized the telephone network. (both of these were previously state owned) He made religious education compulsory in schools. He abolished trade unions. He promised to restore national pride and enforce strict law and order. He banned literature on birth control and increased penalties for abortion.
So yeah, this is what Santorum’s dad was running from - tax breaks for the rich, more power to corporations, religious education, union bashing, nationalism, harsh policing and ‘family values’. Sound familiar?
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Santorum is ahead in IOWA
hold up
We are talking about santorum here.
AKA Mr. i took my miscarried 20 week old fetus home to share with the family and force the kids to pose for photos next to their stillborn sibling that looked closer to a cherry gummy bear than a human being.
“They spent several hours kissing and cuddling Gabriel (aforementioned cherry gummy bear) with his three siblings, ages 6, 4 and 1 1/2. They took photos, sang lullabies in his ear and held a private Mass.”
This man has the most support among the voting right in the US state of IOWA
If this is a sign of things to come, this country is done.
Looks like election 2012 is between a crazy anal-froth namesake and a lying warmongering lunchbag letdown.
They try to paint it in pretty words but it was an abortion [Abortion, as defined by wikipedia: Abortion is defined as the termination of pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a fetus or embryo prior to viability.] Despite the pretty words they prefer it was an abortion. Their abortion was ‘different’ because the life of the mother was at risk, but most importantly it was his wife.
This is the shit I dislike about anti-abortionists, they preach about not wanting ANYONE to have an abortion but when it’s one of their own they rush to defend them and excuse it. Personally, I’m in support of the abortion, it did save her insane ass, I’m not in support of them taking the corpse home for multiple (personal) moral and ethical reasons. But in this sometimes beautiful and always ridiculous country of ours they had that right, they had the right to a safe and healthy abortion, something Santorum is now trying to keep from other people.
Republican extremists in Congress and the statehouses propose to make abortion illegal even if it would save the mother’s life. Even the Santorums admit they would make that choice, while claiming that they didn’t.
Back tracking like a bitch.
As a human being, I do feel bad they they couldn’t take the child to term. As pro-choice I just want to hold up a mirror to them, they need to evaluate their lives and their life choices and the rights that they want to restrict from other people. I want all people to have the choice and the opportunity to continue their healthy lives. Reading the account it is not what they wanted but it was death for the mother or her life and the chose her life and not sticking with their personal morals.
“The doctors said they were talking about a matter of hours or a day or two before risking sepsis and both of them might die,” Santorum said. “Obviously, if it was a choice of whether both Karen and the child are going to die or just the child is going to die, I mean it’s a pretty easy call.”
Karen, a soft-spoken red-haired 37-year-old, said that “ultimately” she would have agreed to intervention for the sake of her other children.
The fetus was delivered at 20 weeks, at least a month shy of what most doctors consider viability.
For me, it’s the hippocracy that is the issue.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx98mrBwhN1qh6gzao1_1280.jpg)
Santorum is ahead in IOWA
hold up
We are talking about santorum here.
AKA Mr. i took my miscarried 20 week old fetus home to share with the family and force the kids to pose for photos next to their stillborn sibling that looked closer to a cherry gummy bear than a human being.
“They spent several hours kissing and cuddling Gabriel (aforementioned cherry gummy bear) with his three siblings, ages 6, 4 and 1 1/2. They took photos, sang lullabies in his ear and held a private Mass.”
This man has the most support among the voting right in the US state of IOWA
If this is a sign of things to come, this country is done.
Looks like election 2012 is between a crazy anal-froth namesake and a lying warmongering lunchbag letdown.
They try to paint it in pretty words but it was an abortion [Abortion, as defined by wikipedia: Abortion is defined as the termination of pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of a fetus or embryo prior to viability.] Despite the pretty words they prefer it was an abortion. Their abortion was ‘different’ because the life of the mother was at risk, but most importantly it was his wife.
This is the shit I dislike about anti-abortionists, they preach about not wanting ANYONE to have an abortion but when it’s one of their own they rush to defend them and excuse it. Personally, I’m in support of the abortion, it did save her insane ass, I’m not in support of them taking the corpse home for multiple (personal) moral and ethical reasons. But in this sometimes beautiful and always ridiculous country of ours they had that right, they had the right to a safe and healthy abortion, something Santorum is now trying to keep from other people.
Republican extremists in Congress and the statehouses propose to make abortion illegal even if it would save the mother’s life. Even the Santorums admit they would make that choice, while claiming that they didn’t.
Back tracking like a bitch.
As a human being, I do feel bad they they couldn’t take the child to term. As pro-choice I just want to hold up a mirror to them, they need to evaluate their lives and their life choices and the rights that they want to restrict from other people. I want all people to have the choice and the opportunity to continue their healthy lives. Reading the account it is not what they wanted but it was death for the mother or her life and the chose her life and not sticking with their personal morals.
“The doctors said they were talking about a matter of hours or a day or two before risking sepsis and both of them might die,” Santorum said. “Obviously, if it was a choice of whether both Karen and the child are going to die or just the child is going to die, I mean it’s a pretty easy call.”
Karen, a soft-spoken red-haired 37-year-old, said that “ultimately” she would have agreed to intervention for the sake of her other children.
The fetus was delivered at 20 weeks, at least a month shy of what most doctors consider viability.
For me, it’s the hippocracy that is the issue.
Same-Sex Marriage Debate of the Day: During a Q&A session at Penn State, a couple of students who had a bit of a problem with GOP presidential candidate (and Penn State alum) Rick Santorum’s argumentum ad antiquitatem opposition to same-sex marriage challenged him with science.
Santorum’s response? Science doesn’t prove anything.
Rick Santorum or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Photoshop
For those of you who aren’t aware, Rick Santorum is a candidate for the Republican nomination for President in 2012. He is known largely for his strong stances against gay marriage and abortion. However, there is one thing about Rick Santorum that has turned him in to a running joke:
His last name.
Santorum, according to SpreadSantorum.com, is defined as “the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the by-product of anal sex.” Rachel Maddow and Jon Stewart, among others, have helped bring this fact to knowledge. It is used as a joke to mock Santorum’s campaign and views.
Tonight, Rick Santorum spoke to the Penn State Young Republicans for about an hour and a half. As a freshman at Penn State, and as a politically inclined individual, I felt going would be, at the very least, an experience. I personally am very social liberal, and find Santorum’s views not just ignorant, but detrimental to creating an atmosphere of openness in our society.
I knew he would be taking questions at one point, but I stayed quiet, with others taking the lead against Senator Santorum on issues like gay marriage. As Senator Santorum left his speech, in the true manner of a politician, he shook the hands of everyone near the exit and signed some autographs. Little did he know, I had two signs.
One of these signs said “Santorum 2012” in an impact font, as seen above. The other, thanks to the magic of image manipulating software, said “Assfroth 2012.” I hid the more graphic of the two underneath and waited. Senator Santorum gladly autographed my sign and shook my hand.
He autographed the one on the bottom.
I immediately went and joined in a protest of Santorum’s candidacy with the LGBTA club (I am straight, but obviously a big supporter for equal marriage rights for gays). Now, I am in possession of a sign autographed by Rick Santorum, with the words “Assfroth 2012” on them. God Bless America.
TL;DR Anti-gay marriage Presidential candidate autographed my sign acknowledging that his last name is slang for frothy the combination of shit and semen in an asshole after anal sex.
Fight ignorance any way you can, and don’t support ignorance in politics.
