Kansas House Speaker Mike O’Neal is a piece of work, and I hope he is under Secret Service investigation after calling for the President’s death. But you know he’s just a cranky old guy who’s lost his filters and is saying out loud what most Tea Party Republicans are thinking in their heads all the time.
Think Progress has the whole story, here’s a bit of it:
ThinkProgress reported last week that Kansas House Speaker Mike O’Neal (R) was forced to apologize to First Lady Michelle Obama after forwarding an email to fellow lawmakers that called her “Mrs. YoMama” and compared her to the Grinch.
Earlier that same week, the Lawrence Journal-World was sent another email that O’Neal had forwarded to House Republicans that referred to President Obama and a Bible verse that says “Let his days be few” and calls for his children to be without a father and his wife to be widowed.
Kansas should be ashamed of itself.
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That shitty little “prayer” has been around for a while now. I doubt it’s actionable as a threat, but given the crowd it comes from, no doubt a number of would-be assassins have been taking it as an endorsement.
Bastards. I hate religious people who think and act as if they have the only correct answer to this f’ed up discussion. We have a Constitution that separates religion and government; these asses need to understand that they are Wrong. And stupid to believe their fable.
Evidence that there is truth to the maxim that people get the representation they deserve.
What’s really funny here is that no matter whether Obama gets shot, reelected, ousted from office, or hit by a bus, policies that Greg Laden loathes will continue unabated—in no small part with Obama’s approval.
Take, for instance, H.R. 4205, which states that “It shall be a goal of the Armed Forces to achieve the fielding of unmanned, remotely controlled technology such that (1) by 2010, one-third of the aircraft in the operational deep strike force aircraft fleet are unmanned; and (2) by 2015, one-third of the operational ground combat vehicles are unmanned.”
Obama has done nothing but spur on this kind of legislation and indeed the US military seems well on its way to possessing autonomous hunter-killers, something that sites like “Freethought” Blogs makes me wish would happen sooner.
If one day I should find myself starving to death in the wake of a nuclear winter triggered by angry machines, I’ll die happy knowing that Greg Laden met the same fate.
What’s really funny here is that no matter whether Obama gets shot, reelected, ousted from office, or hit by a bus, policies that Greg Laden loathes will continue unabated—in no small part with Obama’s approval.
Take, for instance, H.R. 4205, which states that “It shall be a goal of the Armed Forces to achieve the fielding of unmanned, remotely controlled technology such that (1) by 2010, one-third of the aircraft in the operational deep strike force aircraft fleet are unmanned; and (2) by 2015, one-third of the operational ground combat vehicles are unmanned.”
Obama has done nothing but spur on this kind of legislation and indeed the US military seems well on its way to possessing autonomous hunter-killers, something that sites like “Freethought” Blogs makes me wish would happen sooner.
If one day I should find myself starving to death in the wake of a nuclear winter triggered by angry machines, I’ll die happy knowing that Greg Laden met the same fate.
US military seems well on its way to possessing autonomous hunter-killers, something that sites like “Freethought” Blogs makes me wish would happen sooner.
Please explain to me how this is not a threat of physical violence? Funny thing is, even though you tried to spoof the IP (the two comments above come from two entirely different continents!) you accidentally left your real email address on one of them. I’ll be speaking to your faculty adviser.