Barefoot and Progressive

• The Purity Test

  Michael Steele all bout it, bout it:
  Yesterday, Republican National Committee member Jim Bopp unveiled a resolution to deny funding of candidates who do not uphold right-wing conservative values. The resolution, termed a “purity test,” is being touted as a mechanism for actually avoiding the party schism that occurred [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 12:47pm EST
  

• Please Redirect Your Comments to This Post

  Or: Wingnuts breathe a collective sigh of relief as U.S. Census worker Bill Sparkman's death is ruled a suicide. To wit, I oppose the death penalty, even for theoretical murderers of federal employees.
  
  Though I am sure this news is both shocking and unbearable for Mr. Sparkman's' [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:39pm EST
  

• Better Democrats

  Louisville has chosen Democrat Tom Riner to be their State Representative since 1982. Despite the fact that he's a complete nutjob who is responsible for these wonderful amendments that we all know and love:
  One required that training materials include information that the General Assembly stressed a "dependence on'" [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 2:50pm EST
  

• Rand is confused

  Sure, about whether states manage Medicaid. But why is he calling for the continuation of this EVIL COMMUNIST ENTITLEMENT PROGRAM FOR POOR LAZY PEOPLE?!? I thought he was going to get rid of it and Medicare and Social Security, just like a true White Male Liberty Patriot would do?
  [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 2:00pm EST
  

• Jack Conway wants to kill people

  How very tough of him.
  Kentucky Attorney General and (U.S. Senate candidate) Jack Conway requested three death warrants this morning. The figure would double the number of citizens the commonwealth has executed since the death penalty was re-established in 1976.
  
  Conway’s request to Gov. Steve Beshear to set [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 4:46pm EST
  

• Pro-Life Friends of Mongiardo

  What Jake says:
  Dear Virginia Woodward and Eleanor Jordan:
  
  Care to tell Kentucky why you - pro-choice leaders - are ardently supporting anti-choicer and hypocrite Daniel Mongiardo? Is it because you’re sell-outs or because you just had no idea he was anti-everything you stand for?
  
  And to [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:02pm EST
  

• Gimme Dat Christian Side Hug

  Cause only homos, pussies and Jews gimme dat front hug.
  
  This is, objectively, the greatest thing ever:
  
  

  Christian Side Hug from The Fathers House on Vimeo.

  (h/t Buckman)
  
  UPDATE: The wonderful Erica Sackin pulls out this lyric:
  “I’m a rough rider filled with Christ [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 12:26pm EST
  

• Trey Grayson and Van Jones, sitting in a tree

  The Paulbots have found the damning evidence that Trey Grayson is a secret treehugging Communist who once burnt American flags with Van Terruh Jones. Grayson's affiliation with Mitch "Red Commie" McConnell was enough, but now his ties with The Most Evil Person to Ever Exist has totally ended his [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 12:06pm EST
  

• Ship 'em back to Europe

  Fun with Teabaggers. I approve this message.
  
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 11:34am EST
  

• "Boldness and Courage"

  That is what Dear Sarah says are the characteristics of those who show up to buy her book. Totes.
  
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 2:00pm EST
  

• Must-see exhibit tonight in Lexington

  Richie Wireman's multi-year project about my former favorite block of Lexington (and it's destruction to make way for Dudley's Invisible Unicorn Park) is showing tonight at Bellini's Ballroom tonight during Gallery Hop from 5:30 to 9:30.
  
  Read Schankula's ACE piece about it here.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:41pm EST
  

• Steve Beshear is getting stuff done!

  And by getting stuff done, I mean firing people for trying to stop illegal mining.
  
  Yea.
  The former head of Kentucky’s mine permit division, who was fired last week by Gov. Steve Beshear, said Tuesday that he had been trying to block what he called illegal mining [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:29pm EST
  

• Where is Putin's head?

  Alaska, doncha know? Don't let those evil media libruls tell you otherwise, because Sarah Barracuda kept us safe from their Commie attack during her less than half-term up there.
  
  
  Get all of your Going Rogue hilarity here.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:16pm EST
  

• Rand Paul: lying flip flopper

  It seems that Rand Paul, now finding himself ahead in the polls, is going to go conservative by scrubbing his "kooky" positions from the internet tubes.
  Facing heat from Grayson about his Guantanamo stance (which he shared with his father), it appears that he is now scrubbing his past [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:26am EST
  

• The Onion interviews a Rand Paul supporter

  And he made us all proud:
  Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be
  
  Spurred by an administration he believes to be guilty of numerous transgressions, self-described American patriot Kyle Mortensen, 47, is a vehement defender of ideas he seems to think are enshrined in [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:43pm EST
  

• This Rand is your Rand

  Remember this hilarity?
  
  
  
  She's back, and I have no clue what it is...
  
  
  
  Deficits, and stuff, yo. [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:19pm EST
  

• New PPP Poll: Majority of Republicans are retarded

  Don't yell at me, it's a real poll:
  The new national poll from Public Policy Polling (D) has an astonishing number about paranoia among the GOP base: Republicans do not think President Obama actually won the 2008 election -- instead, ACORN stole it.
  
  *********
  
  The poll asked' [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 3:37pm EST
  

• Dan Mongiardo wants all of your uterus

  Remember all those Mongiardo trolls who were yelling at me for suggesting that Dan Mongiardo isn't pro-choice? Yea, well...
  
  
  
  Case closed.
  
  Dan Mongiardo wants to make abortion illegal.' [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:29pm EST
  

• Fear and Snoring at the Newberry campaign "kick off"

  Apparently, Jim Newberry's first announcement that he is running for re-election as Lexington Mayor wasn't enough, as his special friends decided to throw a party for him in the posh Thoroughbred Room at the Civic Center last night.
  
  My first thought as I walked into the room was that' [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:35am EST
  

• Liveblog: HCFA "Is it time to lift the Travel Ban to Cuba?"

  10:18 - Starting a little late (why does the wireless always fail at the exact moment you need it?!?)
  10:20 - Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is much more pleasant than expected. She thinks that there should be no change in policy until there is regime change... how well has that been working [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:21am EST
  

• 10am EST liveblogging of the HCFA hearing on "Is it Time to Lift the Travel Ban to Cuba?"

  Dear readers,
  
  Tomorrow morning I will be liveblogging the much anticipated full, open HCFA hearing on "Is it Time to Lift the Travel Ban to Cuba?"... and I am pretty excited about it - it is GUARANTEED to be full of fireworks from all kinds of interesting characters.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 6:24pm EST
  

• The funnest race in America just got more fun

  Meet Gurley L. Martin, the newest candidate in the 2010 US Senate race from Kentucky:
  FRANKFORT — Gurley L. Martin, who will turn 86 on Nov. 27, plopped down $500 Monday in the secretary of state’s office to file as a Republican candidate in next year’s U.S. Senate race.
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 4:18pm EST
  

• Blue Baby Jeebus

  Watup?
  
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 3:39pm EST
  

• Love To Me Is So Unreal

  I know I've publicly been against the trappings of romance in the past, but this man has done up and melted this cold feminist heart:
  
  ' [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:07pm EST
  

• No Bitch-Ass-Ness: You'll Get No Money From Me, Mr. Conway

  (Don't know what the hell I'm talking about? Urban up.)
  
  After much anguish, Harry Reid made sure that the public option was in the Senate bill. Give to Harry Reid.
  
  60 House Democrats asked for permission to vote against the House Bill, 20 more than the [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 2:33pm EST
  

• Rand Hulk SMASH Medicare

  From Rand Paul's "Libertastic Health Care Freedom Forum" this Saturday:
  Paul said that 90 percent of health care is elective, not emergency.
  
  “What I hear from my patients is not there’s an access problem, it’s that it’s so expensive.”
  
  Paul blamed government intervention into the market via [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:10am EST
  

• A message for the Jack Conway campaign

  Thinking that you can go the entire campaign without taking any public position on an issue besides "pedophiles are bad" is not going to work. You will lose. Badly. And deserve to.
  
  Love,
  
  MC [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 7:50am EST
  

• Mitch and Trey make a deal?

  The pure entertainment over in the Republican Senate primary of Kentucky just got even more fun. In the aftermath of the interesting meeting uncovered between Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul, comes this juicy paragraph from a Wall Street Journal story about the rift in the Republican Party between the [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 3:39pm EST
  

• “I breathed in an autumn bouquet that combined everything small-town America with rugged splashes of the Last Frontier”

  This looks like the must-steal laugh riot book of the year, folks.
  Elsewhere in this volume, she talks about creationism, saying she “didn’t believe in the theory that human beings — thinking, loving beings — originated from fish that sprouted legs and crawled out of the sea” or from [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 7:43pm EST
  

• The Other Point Guard

  Mmm hmm
  
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 2:28pm EST
  

• New York Times covers douche

  No, not someone who is a douche. Literally, the word "douche".
  LOS ANGELES — On many nights this fall, it has been possible to tune in to broadcast network television during prime time and hear a character call someone else a “douche.”
  
  In just the last several weeks, [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 12:33pm EST
  

• Boehner and Ben

  Love it.
  
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 10:11am EST
  

• More idiocy and bigotry from Miss Pizzabagger

  Everybody's favorite hypocrite teabagger waxes philosophical on Nancy Pelosi and health care:
  Nazi Pelosi and her gang of merry men laughed at the Founding Fathers and voted on something in complete and open defiance of the will of the American people they represent. And those awful "the'" [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 6:36pm EST
  

• Rand Paul "Health Care Townhall" in Lexington Saturday

  
  If those of you in Lexington want a dose of White Male Liberty Patriotism:
  Date: Saturday, November 14, 2009
  Time: 11:30am - 12:30pm
  Location: The Hilton Suites at Lexington Green
  Street: 245 Lexington Green CircleFrom the FB event comments:
  Sorry, I will miss it but [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 4:44pm EST
  

• Send Ben Chandler a coat hanger

  Just follow this link, and you can mail a coat hanger to the 20 "pro-choice" Democrats who voted for the Stupak Amendment, which will lead to the end of private coverage of abortion in America (which includes Spineless Ben Chandler):
  Did 20 pro-choice Democrats forget what happens when women [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 4:26pm EST
  

• I wish Obama had more LBJ in him

  And his handling of Ben Chandler on his health care vote is a perfect example of why:
  He told the students that President Barack Obama urged him to vote in favor of a piece of legislation last week.
  
  “I ended up not being able to vote the way [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 3:21pm EST
  

• Joel Pett takes on the anti-choicers

  This one goes out to Chandler, Mongiardo, Paul, Grayson, and every other politician that wants to take away or chip away at a woman's right to choose.
  
  ' [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 3:02pm EST
  

• Ben Chandler lies about his Stupak vote

  Blatantly.
  “I support a woman’s right to choose, I support Roe v. Wade – I’m not for repealing that,” Chandler said.
  
  “But I have been fairly consistent on the expenditure of public money for abortions, and I have generally been against that.”
  
  The amendment’s proponents say [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 2:00pm EST
  

• Dudley Webb's ego double downs on the hoodwinks

  In response to Business Lexington publishing Rob Morris's thorough destruction of failed businessman Dudley Webb's pathetic excuses for the colossal CentrePointe failure, Dudley Webb's ego decided to threaten Smiley Pete Publishing and then send them a hilarious 2,300 word screed.
  
  There's sooooo much to laugh at, so [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 2:30pm EST
  

• Trey Grayson getting desperate, starting to hit back at Rand Paul

  With his primary poll numbers looking awful, Trey Grayson is not only trying to move to the far right, he's starting to directly go after Rand Paul. In the aftermath of Rand requesting to "meet with" Mitch McConnell, Rand answered that he doesn't know if he'd support Mitch McConnell' [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 1:06pm EST
  

• David Adams still inciting violence?

  Old habits appear to die hard.
  
  Given Rand Paul's widespread right-wing militia support all over the country, shouldn't he have referred to forest fighting? [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 12:44pm EST
  

• Call Ben Chandler Day

  Do you think Ben Chandler realizes by now that his constituents are mad as hell at him?
  
  Maybe not.
  
  Well, let's make today "Call Ben Chandler and Let Him Know How You Feel Day".
  
  Besides voting against the health care reform bill, make sure you let him' [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 11:07am EST
  

• The worst person in the world gets worser

  Astrida Lemkins, the former lawyer of Steve Nunn who blamed Amanda Ross for her own murder because she actually had the GALL to file a domestic violence order against Nunn for repeatedly beating her, is now making a complete ass of herself once again.
  
  She is now deciding [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 9:50am EST
  

• RIP, VIP: Can't Stop the Shine

  Louis "Shoeshine" Cobb, at LFUCG, July 2008.
  
  Shoeshine died today. If you know anything about Lexington, you've met him.
  
  A few words from around town:
  
  BLUELINE:
  He was a downtown Lexington fixture and the best dressed fella' you ever did see. One [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 1:24am EST
  

• Seeya, Lou Dobbs

  Lou Dobbs abruptly resigned from CNN tonight.
  
  He told viewers that he wanted to spend more time with Orly Taitz guarding the Kenyan border.
  
  
  
  On a completely unrelated note, Fox News announced that it is developing a new show called the White Male Liberty Patriot Hour. [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 10:54pm EST
  

• Rand Paul, the Faux Libertarian

  From the AP:
  Paul says he opposes abortion without exception, not even in cases of rape, incest or the health of the expectant mother. He also opposes marriages between gay and lesbian couples. At the same time, he voices staunch opposition to government intruding in the private lives of [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 3:44pm EST
  

• Look out, David Williams

  Here comes Jodie Haydon.
  
  
  
  Lets hope the Democrats can spend $700,000 a little more wisely this time, eh? [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 12:31pm EST
  

• Meet Mayor Newberry

  A golden opportunity to ask Jim Newberry why he tried to shield the Airport scandal from an independent investigation. And ask him how much of our tax dollars we'll have to pay Dudley in order to let Lexington's citizens walk on Dudley's precious Unicorn Park.
  Mayor Jim Newberry is' [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 12:18pm EST
  

• Fox News is legitimate journalism

  Yeppers.
  
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 11:32am EST
  

• Trey Grayson running to the right

  Because of his awful poll numbers against Rand Paul, Trey Grayson has decided that he now wants government control of your uterus even more than Rand Paul.
  He also made his position on abortion clear: ”To me, life begins at conception, and abortion is murder.” He said he would [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 10:45am EST