Thanks to reporting by  the New York Times, details have begun to emerge about the life and background of Scott Roeder, the Kansas man who murdered Dr. George R. Tiller last Sunday, as he ushered congregants at the Lutheran church where he was a member. What we know about Tiller’s murderer so far, is predictably depressing… or depressingly predictable, depending on how you want to view it.

It will probably come as no surprise to Stinquers to learn that Roeder was an enthusiast of kooky right-wing causes that went well beyond the question of abortion:

Years earlier, Mr. Roeder belonged to a Kansas group known as the Patriot Movement, a citizens’ militia which, according to a fellow member, Morris Wilson, 70, aimed to “kick Uncle Sam in the shins” by bucking rules like mounting license plates on cars. “He didn’t like taxation and over-regulation…”

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyrm4iQehu0

GOP Mistakenly Releases Sotomayor Talking Points to the Press.

Today I left the island of Manhattan for the first time since October 2008. I went to a Bar Mitzvah in Riverdale.

Am I turning into Woody Allen?

Nancy Pelosi’s accusation that the CIA misled her in 2002 when she was briefed on the possible use of harsh interrogation techniques in connection with the war in Afghanistan has raised eyebrows among right-wing commentators and politicians:

The top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee is calling House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s accusation that the CIA misled her and others about waterboarding a massive attack on the nation’s intelligence community.

Sen. Kit Bond of Missouri on Friday contradicted Pelosi’s claim and called her criticism a tragedy. Bond said in a “Today” show interview that he reviewed the CIA’s material and it was clear that she had been informed about the enhanced interrogation method.

However, Bond said he was not with Pelosi when the spy agency briefed her.

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Hysterical.  Professor Ed:

Best plagiarism story ever: guy copies paper directly off of a website (a simple cut-and-paste job) and subsequently submits a paper with html tags in the text. So at the end of paragraphs the reader would find phrases like [imgsrc=”nixon_main.jpg” align=”center”].

And yes, he actually had the nuts to argue with me about my shocking, tenuous conclusion that he had plagiarized.

Charlie Crist! Jesus Christ, What An Asshole! Here he is with an another complete piece of GOP shit. Did Charlie gobble McCain's schlong, too? Can he control himself?

Gay-bashing, schlong-gobbling fascist fucktard and GOP governor of Florida Charlie Crist loves to inhale the man-snake and condemn anyone else who is a guy and enjoys the same sport. Everyone knows that.

In fact, everyone knows he was pondering running for Senate specifically to take on the US Marine Band since Laura Bush left town and left the band members unserviced. It is easy to see how this would be a mutually beneficial arrangement as many musicians could park their horns, bells down, on his pin-shaped head while he services them.

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