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The founding fathers, it turns out, passed several mandates of their own. In 1790, the very first Congress—which incidentally included 20 framers—passed a law that included a mandate: namely, a requirement that ship owners buy medical insurance for their seamen. This law was then signed by another framer: President George Washington. That’s right, the father of our country had no difficulty imposing a health insurance mandate.

That’s not all. In 1792, a Congress with 17 framers passed another statute that required all able-bodied men to buy firearms. Yes, we used to have not only a right to bear arms, but a federal duty to buy them. Four framers voted against this bill, but the others did not, and it was also signed by Washington. Some tried to repeal this gun purchase mandate on the grounds it was too onerous, but only one framer voted to repeal it.

Six years later, in 1798, Congress addressed the problem that the employer mandate to buy medical insurance for seamen covered drugs and physician services but not hospital stays. And you know what this Congress, with five framers serving in it, did? It enacted a federal law requiring the seamen to buy hospital insurance for themselves. That’s right, Congress enacted an individual mandate requiring the purchase of health insurance. And this act was signed by another founder, President John Adams.

The Founding Fathers supported individual mandates for healthcare and so should you.

So yesterday, I posted that article about the Loch Ness Monster being used as proof of creationism in Louisiana schools. Schools that receive taxpayer-provided voucher money, no less.

But while we can all have a laugh at the stupidity of creationists, there’s more in these textbooks:

• - Only ten percent of Africans can read or write, because Christian mission schools have been shut down by communists.
• - “the [Ku Klux] Klan in some areas of the country tried to be a means of reform, fighting the decline in morality and using the symbol of the cross… In some communities it achieved a certain respectability as it worked with politicians.”  
• - “God used the ‘Trail of Tears’ to bring many Indians to Christ.”
• - It “cannot be shown scientifically that that man-made pollutants will one day drastically reduce the depth of the atmosphere’s ozone layer.”
• - “God has provided certain ‘checks and balances’ in creation to prevent many of the global upsets that have been predicted by environmentalists.”
• - the Great Depression was exaggerated by propagandists, including John Steinbeck, to advance a socialist agenda.
• - “Unions have always been plagued by socialists and anarchists who use laborers to destroy the free-enterprise system that hardworking Americans have created.”
• - Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential win was due to an imaginary economic crisis created by the media.
• - “The greatest struggle of all time, the Battle of Armageddon, will occur in the Middle East when Christ returns to set up his kingdom on earth.”

Jesus, Mary, Mother of Fuck… this country is astoundingly stupid.

Plainly said: McDonald’s can fully finance candidates for school board with more money than God (imagine school lunches in five years), and Walmart can run candidates for county boards and mayoral races, giving them carte blanche on zoning and taxes. Consequently, corporations will own every level of our electoral system now.

One ACE textbook – Biology 1099, Accelerated Christian Education Inc – reads: “Are dinosaurs alive today? Scientists are becoming more convinced of their existence. Have you heard of the ‘Loch Ness Monster’ in Scotland? ‘Nessie’ for short has been recorded on sonar from a small submarine, described by eyewitnesses, and photographed by others. Nessie appears to be a plesiosaur.”

This Stupid Country™

These schools are receiving taxpayer dollars, by the way.

Obama really sucks at socialism.

Riddle has promised to begin the impeachment process against President Obama the day he enters Congress — seemingly implying that he believes Obama will be reelected — because of a boundary treaty that was ratified by the Senate in 1991. Obama was 30 years old at the time and just finishing up law school.

Jesus tittyfucking Christ.

MSNBC probably knows this as well, but Phil Griffin and the guys in the corner offices likely don’t care what Cupp’s motivations are — they simply know that people will tune in to see her even if MS’s regular audience has to do it with the volume turned all the way down. They hired her because she’s beautiful and because she allows them to make the horseshit claim that they’re inclusive of all points of view, not simply the progressive perspective.

I’m not saying that MSNBC isn’t more balanced in its worldview than, say, Fox News — a network which has a top-down, institutionalized political agenda that infects every single second of its coverage — but merely that MS’s attempt to “reach out” to conservative audiences is doomed to fail. First of all, the hiring of Cupp will do nothing to stop the relentless criticism of MS from the howler monkeys on the right because there’s no amount of evidence that will convince them that the boogeyman that they need to demonize doesn’t exist.

Playing the far end of the political spectrum is always all about victimization, particularly on the right — and conservatives will never be willing to admit that the liberal media actually isn’t all that liberal and isn’t out to get them. Couple that with the fact that MSNBC execs aren’t really all that interested in what S.E. Cupp has to say anyway — at least not compared to what she looks like — and you’ve got a recipe for the most cynical of television endeavors.