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(LJWorld)		On its last day in session, Kansas legislature ignores trivial matters like the budget and redistricting to deal with apocalyptic threats posed by Sharia law and UN Agenda 21 (www2.ljworld.com)		142
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Serious Black		2012-05-12 01:19:48 AM

Welcome to Brownbackistan.

/so farking embarrassed

MaudlinMutantMollusk		2012-05-12 01:25:34 AM

Seriously... would you people just frikkin secede and stop embarrassing the rest of us?

Serious Black		2012-05-12 01:33:35 AM

MaudlinMutantMollusk: Seriously... would you people just frikkin secede and stop embarrassing the rest of us?

I don't think secession would be nearly enough. The whole state needs to be nuked into oblivion. It's the only way to be sure that we take out all the fundies and the Koch brothers. I would gladly get vaporized if that would happen.

Salt Lick Steady		2012-05-12 01:36:56 AM

Ah, Kansas, you're trying to steal defeat from the jaws of North Carolina again.

MisterTweak		2012-05-12 01:40:48 AM

The measure doesn't mention Sharia law, but several senators said that was their concern.

"They stone women to death in countries that have Sharia law," said state Sen. Susan Wagle, R-Wichita. "If you vote to not adopt (the bill), it's a vote against women," she said.

Here, we strap them down to a table and inject them with potassium hydrochloride.

Or, in the case of Kansas, you eliminate the budget for investigating domestic violence cases, and let the spouse do the work.

Did these idiots accidentally mistake a biography of Ike Turner for the New Testament?

Frederick		2012-05-12 01:46:11 AM

FTA:

"But state Sen. Tim Owens, R-Overland Park, said the bill was unnecessary because courts already are ruled by United State laws and the U.S. Constitution. He said the bill was based on intolerance and fear and would make people think only those with a Christian, religious-right perspective were welcome in Kansas."

Holy crap...put this guy on the GOP 2012 ticket already...a reasonable sound bite out of a Rep. Of course the reality is he just lost his election chances for next term.

GOP: the social issues party.

Relatively Obscure		2012-05-12 01:54:03 AM

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Serious Black		2012-05-12 02:15:26 AM

MisterTweak: The measure doesn't mention Sharia law, but several senators said that was their concern.

"They stone women to death in countries that have Sharia law," said state Sen. Susan Wagle, R-Wichita. "If you vote to not adopt (the bill), it's a vote against women," she said.

Here, we strap them down to a table and inject them with potassium hydrochloride.

Or, in the case of Kansas, you eliminate the budget for investigating domestic violence cases, and let the spouse do the work.

Did these idiots accidentally mistake a biography of Ike Turner for the New Testament?

It's half Ike Turner, half Prosperity Gospel.

propasaurus		2012-05-12 02:42:13 AM

Seriously, what the ever lovin' fark is wrong with all y'all?

Ed Finnerty		2012-05-12 06:31:12 AM

This is all a national plot to make Mississippi look better.

Rann Xerox		2012-05-12 07:12:53 AM

Ed Finnerty: This is all a national plot to make Mississippi look better.

And it's working.

enry		2012-05-12 07:17:42 AM

Kansas is already on the wife's list of places we're never moving to.

At this point I don't think we'll be leaving MA anytime soon.

AverageAmericanGuy		2012-05-12 07:19:13 AM

Frederick: FTA:

"But state Sen. Tim Owens, R-Overland Park, said the bill was unnecessary because courts already are ruled by United State laws and the U.S. Constitution. He said the bill was based on intolerance and fear and would make people think only those with a Christian, religious-right perspective were welcome in Kansas."

Holy crap...put this guy on the GOP 2012 ticket already...a reasonable sound bite out of a Rep. Of course the reality is he just lost his election chances for next term.

GOP: the social issues party.

Hardly. He's a strong veteran supporter with solid pro-life bonafides.

He'll win. Unless you think someone who hates veterans and loves abortions will beat him in Kansas...

California, maybe, but not Kansas.

Doc Daneeka		2012-05-12 07:19:41 AM

Sometimes I understand right-wingers but just strongly disagree with them, such as their Ayn Rand-brand hyper individualism, anti-tax, anti-abortion, and strong pro-gun stances.

Other times, like this, I just don't understand their paranoias and delusions at all.

Proteios1		2012-05-12 07:28:33 AM

I don't understand agenda 21, but I can understand why women, especially, would be incredibly fearful of anything resembling sharia laws. Women in America have their struggles, but these women in Islamic countries...it's horrific. People are oftentimes so I'll informed they will defend the abuse of women and children, the beating, and murder. It's sick and some judges have defended these laws. Sick!

Snowflake Tubbybottom		2012-05-12 07:30:10 AM

Hey now, they wouldn't be paranoid if the UN wasn't out to get them... duh!

Doc Daneeka		2012-05-12 07:34:37 AM

Proteios1: I don't understand agenda 21, but I can understand why women, especially, would be incredibly fearful of anything resembling sharia laws. Women in America have their struggles, but these women in Islamic countries...it's horrific. People are oftentimes so I'll informed they will defend the abuse of women and children, the beating, and murder. It's sick and some judges have defended these laws. Sick!

Let me put it this way: I can't begin to understand how they can imagine that sharia law is in any way a threat to Kansans or has any prospect of replacing US law in our courts.

It's preposterous.

T-Servo		2012-05-12 07:35:13 AM

I love the smell of paranoia in the morning. Smells like... Topeka.

eiger		2012-05-12 07:42:30 AM

Doc Daneeka: Let me put it this way: I can't begin to understand how they can imagine that sharia law is in any way a threat to Kansans or has any prospect of replacing US law in our courts.

It's preposterous.

Conservatives need their enemies.

Pants full of macaroni!!		2012-05-12 07:43:46 AM

And this is going to improve the economy how?

bulldg4life		2012-05-12 07:45:10 AM

But state Sen. Tim Owens, R-Overland Park, said the bill was unnecessary because courts already are ruled by United State laws and the U.S. Constitution. He said the bill was based on intolerance and fear and would make people think only those with a Christian, religious-right perspective were welcome in Kansas.

This poor guy is going to be in a lot of trouble for being sane.

Salt Lick Steady		2012-05-12 07:47:41 AM

T-Servo: I love the smell of paranoia in the morning. Smells like... Topeka.

Topeka proper is an utter sh*thole. But a lot of the countryside surrounding it is rather pretty. My grandma had a farm off of Hoch Rd., and I loved visiting her.

Rambino		2012-05-12 07:48:13 AM

Wow. The Agenda 21 business was too derpy even for Arizona. Kansas must really want to make a run for the top derpty-derp spot.

FishStampede		2012-05-12 07:49:45 AM

Proteios1: I don't understand agenda 21, but I can understand why women, especially, would be incredibly fearful of anything resembling sharia laws. Women in America have their struggles, but these women in Islamic countries...it's horrific. People are oftentimes so I'll informed they will defend the abuse of women and children, the beating, and murder. It's sick and some judges have defended these laws. Sick!

I know you're either sarcastic or trolling, but Agenda 21 actually is among other things, about exactly that. Protecting women and children from abuse.

aying you stand against everything in Agenda 21 is saying you want women barefoot, pregnant and drinking sewer water.

Rambino		2012-05-12 07:49:56 AM

bulldg4life: But state Sen. Tim Owens, R-Overland Park, said the bill was unnecessary because courts already are ruled by United State laws and the U.S. Constitution. He said the bill was based on intolerance and fear and would make people think only those with a Christian, religious-right perspective were welcome in Kansas.

This poor guy is going to be in a lot of trouble for being sane.

Possible. But mainly he ensured the bill's passage with that statement.

After hearing/reading that last part, which religious-right Christian is NOT going to vote for the bill?

Rambino		2012-05-12 07:52:03 AM

FishStampede:

aying you stand against everything in Agenda 21 is saying you want women barefoot, pregnant and drinking sewer water.

Typical liberal. Why don't you try telling the truth?

Agenda 21 is clearly about forcing everyone to buy European communist windmills to pay for all the European gay abortions.

Duh.

AKTurkey		2012-05-12 07:55:23 AM

Note to self: never conduct international trade with a business in Arizona.

German CEO: Hello court, we have a binding arbitration agreement with distributor X in Arizona that allows your jurisdiction to hear the case, but you must apply European contract standards.

Arizona Court: While I recognize that this is a common practice in international trade, unfortunately my state says I cannot apply any law other than a US law in resolving this conflict. Therefore, I rule that you must pay distributor X three times the normal contract damages and, again as required by Arizona law, that all monkeys must now be shot to death on site for proposing the theory of evolution.

German CEO: Ah yes, I see, the people in your state are insane. Our mistake. We will never do business in Arizona again. I am truly sorry for your lots.

born_yesterday		2012-05-12 07:55:24 AM

Yeah. Sharia law. Because it would suck to be forced to live in a fundamentalist theocracy ruled by the laws of the God of Abraham. No good American would claim to want that.

Anyone got any rocks? I see an unwed mother.

AKTurkey		2012-05-12 07:57:47 AM

AKTurkey: Note to self: never conduct international trade with a business in Arizona.

Wow, I knew it was Kansas, but somehow, my brain corrected it to Arizona.

Conthan		2012-05-12 07:58:46 AM

bulldg4life: But state Sen. Tim Owens, R-Overland Park, said the bill was unnecessary because courts already are ruled by United State laws and the U.S. Constitution. He said the bill was based on intolerance and fear and would make people think only those with a Christian, religious-right perspective were welcome in Kansas.

This poor guy is going to be in a lot of trouble for being sane.

He might be fine, considering he is from Overland Park, which is relatively progressive compared to places like Fundieland aka Wichita.

Rambino		2012-05-12 08:01:47 AM

AKTurkey: Note to self: never conduct international trade with a business in Arizona.

German CEO: Hello court, we have a binding arbitration agreement with distributor X in Arizona that allows your jurisdiction to hear the case, but you must apply European contract standards.

Arizona Court: While I recognize that this is a common practice in international trade, unfortunately my state says I cannot apply any law other than a US law in resolving this conflict. Therefore, I rule that you must pay distributor X three times the normal contract damages and, again as required by Arizona law, that all monkeys must now be shot to death on site for proposing the theory of evolution.

German CEO: Ah yes, I see, the people in your state are insane. Our mistake. We will never do business in Arizona again. I am truly sorry for your lots.

Funny stuff, and well-earned by AZ (and KS), but frankly many other states would get to a similar result. Judges are quite good at finding excuses to apply their local rules when you are in their courtroom, regardless of what the contract says. Entering any US state court expecting the court to apply out-of-state law is risky business.

T-Servo		2012-05-12 08:02:33 AM

Wow, even the GIS for Agenda 21 Kansas is horribly derpy.

Rambino		2012-05-12 08:05:48 AM

Sponsor of the bill. State legislators are so cute when they get all conspiratorial.

zappaisfrank		2012-05-12 08:08:37 AM

The United States Great Plains region is home to some of the most backwards thinking individuals ever. I lived out there for a year back in the 80's in a very small town and was dumbfounded by the level of sheer unadulterated stupidity that I saw there. It was like a flatter, treeless version of "The South" without the "rebel" chip on their shoulder. The residents were basically nice people, they were just dullards who had lived in a kind of isolation for generations and hadn't advanced. The town reminded me of the one in "The Last Picture Show" only the locals had cable TV. The dust storms blew all the intelligence away years ago. The massive open expanses of nothingness have caused a sort of collective brain atrophy from lack of stimulation.

Kansas is an embarrassment to the world.

Rambino		2012-05-12 08:09:19 AM

Half of Agenda 21 here. (aka the Rio Declaration).

Read it and be horrified at the huge manatee.

The second part of Agenda 21 is about the same, only with more forest.

stoli n coke		2012-05-12 08:18:44 AM

This is why I don't get sad when an EF-4 tornado hits Kansas.

LittleSmitty		2012-05-12 08:25:19 AM

I'm just going to do a face palm and go have a drink. I just finished a 12 hour night shift, don't judge.

bmfderek		2012-05-12 08:25:37 AM

If Florida is America's wang, can Kansas be its asshole? It's right in the middle, and it's really shiatty.

liam76		2012-05-12 08:27:25 AM

born_yesterday: Yeah. Sharia law. Because it would suck to be forced to live in a fundamentalist theocracy ruled by the laws of the God of Abraham. No good American would claim to want that.

Anyone got any rocks? I see an unwed mother.

Some people in america don't like unwed mothers, so we are like a fundamentalist theocracy ?

Rambino		2012-05-12 08:29:06 AM

Let me take a crack at this one...

1. The Kansas legislature is opposed to Agenda 21.

2. Agenda 21 is part of a larger UN objective of "sustainable development" (aka "sustainability").

3. The UN "sustainable development" objective is based on a document written by Gro Harlem Brundtland, a well-known international socialist leader.

4. Gro Harlem Brundtland was the intended target of Anders Breivik, currently on trial for killing some socialists. Breivik wanted to kill Brundtland as well for her socialist policies.

5. Therefore, Anders Breivik is an agent of the Kansas legislature, and the entire Kansas legislature is guilty of mass murder in Norway.

/Am I doing it right?

jayhawk88		2012-05-12 08:41:54 AM

So, probably no cost of living raise again (third year in a row? I stopped keeping track) for me this year, but you came out opposing not one, but two, magical threats. Thanks, assclowns.

El Dudereno		2012-05-12 08:44:03 AM

Looks like the GOP's record of taking chain emails from their crazy uncle Larry as the absolute, irrefutable truth continues.

bugontherug		2012-05-12 08:44:16 AM

Can anyone seriously dispute that Republican voters are actually mentally retarded?

Seriously, conservatives, how did you get to be so goddamn stupid? I mean, I thought you were stupid in the 90's. And in the aughts. But goddamn, we're down the f*cking rabbit hole now.

jayhawk88		2012-05-12 08:48:09 AM

Oh Christ, I just looked up Agenda 21. NINETEEN FARKING NINETY TWO????? You're flipping out over a UN resolution passed in 1992? You can't even focus your crazy on something done in the past decade, you have to go back to something that predates the whole of Bush2 and damn near gets to Bush1? TWENTY FARKING YEARS!

Goddamn it I am just so done with this bullshiat.

Gergesa		2012-05-12 08:50:43 AM

Sometime I should take the time to set up some sort of conspiracy website for these idiots and try to see how much money I can make off them.

Pants full of macaroni!!		2012-05-12 08:55:13 AM

Rambino: Agenda 21

SUSTAINABILITY IS UN-AMERICAN

/we should use up all of our national resources as soon as possible so Jebus can come back

Lawnchair		2012-05-12 08:57:37 AM

jayhawk88: So, probably no cost of living raise again (third year in a row? I stopped keeping track) for me this year

Assuming you're some form of state employee, this will be the fifth year.

Frederick: "But state Sen. Tim Owens, R-Overland Park, said the bill was unnecessary because courts already are ruled by United State laws and the U.S. Constitution. He said the bill was based on intolerance and fear and would make people think only those with a Christian, religious-right perspective were welcome in Kansas."

Holy crap...put this guy on the GOP 2012 ticket already...a reasonable sound bite out of a Rep. Of course the reality is he just lost his election chances for next term.

The thing to consider in Kansas is that (outside of Lawrence basically) our 'liberals' are Republicans too. And the two 'wings' of the Kansas GOP are in a battle royale right now. One owns the KS House, the old Bob Dole guys still hold the state Senate when the small handful of Democrats help them out. This is the deal with the redistricting delay. Batshiats trying to out RINOs.

This internal division is why Brownback said, with an totally straight face, that there's never been a conservative governor in Kansas before him. Because in his mind, there simply hasn't. Not Alf Landon, not Bill Graves. Not a single one would meet today's right-side-of-the-GOP standard.

T-Servo		2012-05-12 08:59:17 AM

Rambino: /Am I doing it right?

More direct version of the connections (rather paranoid, but whatever...)

Tea Partyist defending Breivik because of the brown people.

/for the record, Brundtland was an ass

born_yesterday		2012-05-12 09:04:24 AM

liam76: born_yesterday: Yeah. Sharia law. Because it would suck to be forced to live in a fundamentalist theocracy ruled by the laws of the God of Abraham. No good American would claim to want that.

Anyone got any rocks? I see an unwed mother.

Some people in america don't like unwed mothers, so we are like a fundamentalist theocracy ?

Are we currently a fundamentalist theocracy? Of course not, that's a ridiculous assertion for you to [try to get me to] make. Is it not worrysome that one of our two major political parties uses "faith" in one particular brand of Chistianity and "moral superiority" as national platforms? That they see their religion as the rightful basis for law of everyone? That their positions are not only archaic but not even internally consistent on even a moral basis (no abortions, no sex ed, no birth control, no welfare)? That idiots like Santorum and Bachmann were actually considered viable candidates for the Presidency based solely on people's perception of their "Christian" morality?

It is this cognitive dissonance and the hypocrisy that leads to people voting against their own self-interests, and their willful blind ignorance and loyalty shown in an effort to demonstrate their "piety", in which I see psychological parallels to zealots of any other religion. And for each state that votes against gay rights "because some people don't like gay people" or new voting requirements because "some people don't like black people" or against government spending on social programs because "some people don't like unwed mothers", we take an uncomfortable step closer to the theocracies we claim to hold in contempt.