After yet another week of GOP nonsense, it’s time for kittens and a Roomba.

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

You may be saying, “nothing has the capacity to shock anymore.  I’ve seen a candidate lead off a 30-second spot by declaring that she is not a witch.  A candidate who suggested that chickens could be traded for basic medical care almost won an election.  A guy who has been out of political office for a decade and who divorced a cancer-ridden wife is seriously angling for the Oval Office on a family-values platform.  There is no more to see.”

Not so fast.  Now, Campbell’s Soup, we are told, wants to destroy everything we know and love.  Seriously.  Campbell’s Fucking Soup.

Earlier this year, Campbell Canada introduced a line of halal-certified soups. The 15 soups comply with Islamic dietary regulations which, much like kosher regulations, prohibit certain foods and define the right way to slaughter animals.  The line, which includes low fat cream of broccoli and vegetarian vegetable, was certified by the Islamic Society of North America, which has been certifying halal foods since 1988.  To some people, that’s just more evidence that Sharia is coming to North America — this time, via the grocery store.

Of course, this is Canada we are talking about here.  Not U.S. America, but Canada.  But, as you shall see post-jump, that means nothing to anyone who loves freedom.

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Okay, one more, and then we’ll quit. Unless there’s another one.

But we like this one — even if it doesn’t mention us. It’s from a morning TV show. In Philadelphia. The same Philly TV station where Christine O’Donnell’s dad was a Redshirt Bozo. Allowing for ownership changes, of course.

The current owner? Rupert Murdoch. Channel 29 is a Fox O&O.

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Any story that includes the line “the last time I looked at the anal sex data” gets our attention:

In 1992, 16 percent of women aged 18-24 said they’d tried anal sex. Now 20 percent of women aged 18-19 say they’ve done it, and by ages 20-24, the number is 40 percent. In 1992, the highest percentage of women in any age group who admitted to anal sex was 33. In 2002, it was 35. Now it’s 46.

What’s turning America into a nation of chimney sweeps? Here’s a telling clue:

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“Just 4% of Republican voters support building the Ground Zero mosque. But 21% say they would support a Ground Zero strip club… Democrats narrowly support the mosque but oppose the strip club, independents oppose both the mosque and the strip club.” [Public Policy Polling, via Political Wire]

Spoiler alert! The culprit is, as always, Americans: “By 47 to 45 percent, Americans say Obama is a better president than George W. Bush. But that two point margin is down from a 23 point advantage one year ago.” [CNN]

So, a notoriously misleading wingnut website posts an edited video of your employee seeming to profess racism. What do you do?

The first sign of trouble arrived about 2 p.m. on July 19, in an e-mail from USDA communications staffer Wayne Maloney.

Maloney informed Chris Mather, the department’s director of communications, that a video had popped up online and that a conservative website soon would publicize it.

“It speaks for itself and you need to watch it right away,” Maloney writes.

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