Renart: ManateeGag: so instead of letting his comments die or fade away and try to regain lost ground, they keeping bringing up "rape" to keep it fresh in everyone's mind.

The Akins really like rape.

Well then I know just the place for them.

What is it with these idiots and rape?

Lulli?


Lulli?!?


LULLI?!?!?! 


Oh, COME. ON.

I've read that she's the really crazy, ambitious, hard-core religious one in the relationship, and I can believe it..

To me, it's sad that this woman didn't go to her husband and tell him that rape is rape. I guess she loves the perks of political spouse too much.

I guess she just points her heels towards Jesus and thinks about handbags.

shut up!
shut up!
shut up!
shut up!
shut up!
shut up!

LockeOak: AdolfOliverPanties: "God can increase," she said, citing the "Feeding of the 5,000" - a Gospel miracle in which Jesus uses five small barley loaves and two small fish to feed a multitude. The campaign will take small contributions, "respect them, and say 'God, multiply it. Make it pay,' " Lulli Akin said. "It brought us through the primary, same way. We're gonna see it again, because God wants to be honored."


I think Democrats should send a slice of bread and a fish to the Akin campaign.

Flounder.

And some fan mail.

You know the IRS is still after Jesus for the capital gains on that little loaves and fishes number.

Mr. Coffee Nerves

I'm no theologian, but isn't there something a bit blasphemous about saying God will treat your political contributions the way He treated Jesus with the loaves and fishes?

Also, I'm no Theologian, but will Malcolm Jamal Warner be back this fall on "Community?"


I like your Hutxaposition of those two issues.

geoduck42: I've read that she's the really crazy, ambitious, hard-core religious one in the relationship, and I can believe it..

I watched Red State this weekend. I am now going to rewatch that in my head with the Akins as the leaders of the fundie cult and smile with glee at their fates in that movie.

Akin married Lulli Boe, a graduate of Hollins University, in June 1975.[74][75] The couple has six children. Lulli became a home schooling activist and all of the children were home-schooled.



/Lulli

Englebert Slaptyback: Mr. Coffee Nerves

I'm no theologian, but isn't there something a bit blasphemous about saying God will treat your political contributions the way He treated Jesus with the loaves and fishes?

Also, I'm no Theologian, but will Malcolm Jamal Warner be back this fall on "Community?"


I like your Hutxaposition of those two issues.

I don't, it's going off a Cliff fast and we're all going to be getting a Rudy awakening.

what_now: hector (third-person singular simple present hectors, present participle hectoring, simple past and past participle hectored)

(transitive) To intimidate or dominate in a blustering way.
(intransitive) To behave like a bully; swagger.

I still like the idea of dragging people behind a chariot in order to get them to comply with your wish.

Still looks like it all came from the same place. But who was the bigger asshole, Hector or Achilles?

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=hector

"God can increase," she said, citing the "Feeding of the 5,000" - a Gospel miracle in which Jesus uses five small barley loaves and two small fish to feed a multitude. The campaign will take small contributions, "respect them, and say 'God, multiply it. Make it pay,' " Lulli Akin said. "It brought us through the primary, same way. We're gonna see it again, because God wants to be honored."

I know these were the words of his wife, but I'm sure that his Jesus derp is on par.

Religious folks should not be allowed to hold public office. Seriously.

lohphat: Citrate1007: Conservative women don't understand rape either.

How do you think their first date with that GOP fratboy went? They think that rape is a normal part of courtship.

I'm pretty sure that according to the old testament that if you are married then it isn't rape.

It wasn't rape... he was asking for it.

angry_scientist: Obviously, they should blame their diet

which apparently consists primarily of lead paint

snocone: Why would anyone in their right mind believe in the "god" these GOP Fundies have invoked?

I have a much nicer one.

Your invisible friend is nicer than theirs? Good to know.

Mentally stable people don't need invisible friends.

"Lulli Akin said that efforts to push her husband out of the race threaten to replace elections "by the people and for the people" with "tyranny, a top-down approach." She added, "Party bosses dictating who is allowed to advance through the party and make all the decisions-it's just like 1776 in that way."

Well, he might be right about THAT. Also:

/oblig for rape threads.

She's got the wrong parable. The Loaves and Fishes was to point out that if you have a problem that seems insurmountable, if you give what you have the Lord will make that meet the need. This covers GIVING not RECEIVING

The Parable of Provision, was the lillies in the valley and the birds in the air. If the Lord makes them beautiful and provides their needs, don't you think he will provide for his followers? THIS COVERS RECIEVING

Also I don't think either applies to compaining. Jesus was prettly clear on the separation of Church and State with the whole Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto the Lord that which is the Lord's.

But that's just my opinion.

Hard money has it that the only reason she's saying this is because it was the only way he'd let her out of the kitchen.

AdolfOliverPanties: "God can increase," she said, citing the "Feeding of the 5,000" - a Gospel miracle in which Jesus uses five small barley loaves and two small fish to feed a multitude. The campaign will take small contributions, "respect them, and say 'God, multiply it. Make it pay,' " Lulli Akin said. "It brought us through the primary, same way. We're gonna see it again, because God wants to be honored."

Holy fark, some people are retarded. Religion just lets people be a stupid and unaccountable as they want.

I'd like to take this moment to thank the Catholic priest that told the congregation during a homily that the miracle Jesus performed was not conjuring up a bunch of food, but getting people from disparate backgrounds to share the food they had brought with them.

His reasoning was if you were going with your family, it is not uncommon to bring some food with you. Thus, when Jesus shared the food among those nearest him, people shared with the people around them. Nothing magical about it, just making all feel as one family under Christ.

I'm sure this woman would probably hate that priest with a passion.

//End CSB.

LockeOak: AdolfOliverPanties: "God can increase," she said, citing the "Feeding of the 5,000" - a Gospel miracle in which Jesus uses five small barley loaves and two small fish to feed a multitude. The campaign will take small contributions, "respect them, and say 'God, multiply it. Make it pay,' " Lulli Akin said. "It brought us through the primary, same way. We're gonna see it again, because God wants to be honored."


I think Democrats should send a slice of bread and a fish to the Akin campaign.

Flounder.

Stupid Flounder

/oblig

New Rule:

If you're a Republican, you don't compare anything to rape. Directly or indirectly. In fact, you don't even refer to rape. The "no abortions for rape victims" plank is a nonstarter for the general electorate, and if you have to appeal to the neanderthals in your religious base on the abortion issue, just mention that you know that "God's will will be done." So, you don't ever use the word "rape" again unless you're reporting one.

In exchange, no Democrat will ever compare him- or herself to Rosa Parks on any issue, nor otherwise use the phrase "back of the bus."

Fair enough? Let's shake on it.

Biological Ali: /damn, now I want pancakes

meat0918: I'd like to take this moment to thank the Catholic priest that told the congregation during a homily that the miracle Jesus performed was not conjuring up a bunch of food, but getting people from disparate backgrounds to share the food they had brought with them.

I've never understood the point of taking the magic out of god by insisting upon logical explanations for alleged miracles. If god's only magic is a silver tongue, then what kind of god is he really?

DoBeDoBeDo: Also I don't think either applies to compaining. Jesus was prettly clear on the separation of Church and State with the whole Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto the Lord that which is the Lord's.

Jesus would not have talked about campaigns, because the concept did not exist when he was alive, at least not in the part of the world he was alive in. Leaders were born, and their power derived from farcical aquatic ceremonies, not a mandate from the masses. There's lots of things Jesus didn't talk about, because he died before they existed.

As a party they should stop using the word "rape" altogether, in any context, just to be safe.

on a related derp note... I clicked through some cspan programming this weekend... one was some sort of Republican Women conference... there was some author speaking and taking questions... some old lady stands up and asks about our government being infiltrated at the highest levels by the Muslim Brotherhood and could they enact Shiria law in this country... they speaker.. said yes it's troubling but it isn't just Obama it started with Bush trying to be 'politically correct' and bringing these muslims into positions in our military, cia, fbi, etc, etc...

then I clicked over later and there was some sort of 'values voter summit' and Kirk Cameron was speaking about how one party doesn't want god in their platform and the other party realizes that god is the platform...(wild cheers)... where have these nutbags come from? do they not ever get out of their little echo chambers?

then later there was some 'author' speaking about his book '50 things that liberals love to hate' speaking at what appeared to be a gathering of military personnel... looked like some kind of glenn beck guy... why is cspan giving these lunatic fringe any air time at all... are they just trying to frighten us non insane people?

Holy shiat, Republicans have an unhealthy obsession for rape, don't they.?

/umm, what's a "healthy obsession"?

So here's the important question: What the hell's so bad about Mccaskill that Akin's polling even again with "no support"?

Missourians?

The quote in question, from the cited National Journal article:

She cited colonists who "rose up and said, 'Not in my home, you don't come and rape my daughters and my ... wife. But that is where we are again. There has been a freedom of elections, not tyranny of selections since way back. Why are we going to roll over and let them steamroll us, be it Democrats or Republicans or whomever?"

The article also says that the GOP can't even get a hold of his phone number anymore; he changed it after someone tweeted it and they've been unable to reach him since. The people still in Akin's campaign have utterly circled the wagons and aren't taking any orders from anyone.

Man, I am glad I get to vote against him.