Cheap shots and chasers 4/6

Nun sequitur: According to Romney, Mrs. Romney

says that she’s going across the country and talking with women, and what they’re talking about is the debt that we’re leaving the next generation and the failure of this economy to put people back to work. She says that she talks to women and they’re concerned about the jobs that their kids are going to get. And they wonder whether their future is going to be prosperous and bright, as have been our lives. And that’s what they’re talking about. And the, my goodness, what the president has done, with regards to this issue on health care, he came in and said, look, under Obamacare, we’re going to tell the Catholic church that it has to violate its religious conscience… (Politico)

Because how are those kids going to get decent jobs if the bishops are all upset? What Romney is trying to do here is show his agreement with the postmodern feminist theory that logic is a patriarchal plot.

Nuns grading papers. From Upmag.net.

Incidentally, if you click the photo credit link you get to one of those hokey collections of kids' bloopers which are maybe too unsophisticated for you all, but not for me; it's purported answers to quiz questions on the Scriptures, and starts off

1. IN THE FIRST BOOK OF THE BIBLE, GUINESSIS. GOD GOT TIRED   OF CREATING THE WORLD SO HE TOOK THE SABBATHOFF.
2.  ADAM AND EVE WERE CREATED FROM AN APPLE TREE . NOAH’S WIFE WAS JOAN OF ARK. NOAH BUILT AND ARK AND THE ANIMALS CAME ON IN PEARS.
3. LOTS WIFE WAS A PILLAR  OF SALT DURING THE DAY, BUT A    BALL OF FIRE DURING THE  NIGHT.
4. THE JEWS WERE A PROUD  PEOPLE AND THROUGHOUT HISTORY THEY HAD TROUBLE WITH  UNSYMPATHETIC GENITALS.

"And opossu-umm in a pear tree". From Better Homes and Gardens Nature's Garden.

 I got some snail mail from Common Cause inviting me to join in (i.e., help pay for) a movement to "take back our democracy".  I do not really love this hysterically bipartisan organization anyway, and I was a little taken aback myself by the Republicanity of the expression. But I also couldn't help thinking, "I got this democracy on sale last week but it didn't really fit... I think I have the receipt..."

Librairie Libo, Luxembourg.

Amazon has reportedly been doing some tax dodging of its own in the United Kingdom, managing to make £7.6 billion in sales over the last three years without paying any corporate income tax.... 

Amazon was able to pull this bit of tax trickery by registering all of its corporate profits in Luxembourg, a notorious corporate tax haven, calling its UK business simply a delivery service. (Think Progress)

Right—UK customers were so fussy about making the drive to Luxembourg to pick up their copy of The Hunger Games...

Michigan governor Rick Snyder leaps ahead of stiff competition from Maine, Florida, and Wisconsin in the Republican gubernatorial fascism stakes with the news—broken last night by Rachel Maddow, it seems (via Eclectablog at Kos)—that the Michigan legislature has passed practically all of its legislation this year as emergency legislation with immediate effect, by ignoring a constitutional requirement for a two-thirds majority. It's the Midwest's first illegal dictatorship!