Category: Awards

REPORT: GOOGLE to pay gay employees more than straights... – Drudge.

The reality:

As it is now, Mountain View-based Google offers benefits to the spouses or partners of both straight and gay employees. However, the married straight employees don't get taxed on those extra benefits — but the gay employees do as part of the federal laws. The pay raise will be retroactive to the beginning of 2010 and will apply only to employees in the U.S. Heterosexual employees with long-term partners won't see the pay adjustment, because they could marry and therefore get the tax break if they wished.

It is impossible not to infer that the Drudge headline was written entirely to foster resentment of a tiny minority.

“Somebody has to say this. When Hitler took power, no one wanted to think that the Holocaust, the murder of 6 million Jewish people, was possible. I’m saying that you have to recognize and name tyranny when you see it. And I think people are finding out that I’m the candidate who’s willing to speak clearly and not be afraid of sounding politically incorrect, and my opponent isn’t that candidate," – congressman congressional candidate Rick Barber, finally forced to respond to the press about his increasingly deranged ads.

And by the press, I mean, of course, Dave Weigel.

Taxes = Slavery/the Holocaust in a US Congressional race.

"Obama is detached from the American experience. He just doesn’t identify with the average American because of his own background. Indonesia and Hawaii. His view is from the viewpoint of academics and the halls of the Ivy league schools that he went to and it’s not a love of this country and an understanding of the basic values and wants and desires of its people," – Rick Santorum.

"[D]uring the worldwide Great Depression, the German Reichstag passed a law "for the relief of the German people." That law gave Hitler dictatorial powers that were used for things going far beyond the relief of the German people — indeed, powers that ultimately brought a rain of destruction down on the German people and on others. If the agreement with BP was an isolated event, perhaps we might hope that it would not be a precedent. But there is nothing isolated about it," – Thomas Sowell, who has obviously lost what was left of his mind.

Palin endorses the Nazi analogy here. She has now compared the president to Hitler. You think anyone at Fox will call her on it? C'mon, Bill-O.

"Until the American Muslim community find it in their hearts to separate themselves from their evil, radical counterparts, to condemn those who want to destroy our civilization and will fight against them, we are not obligated to open our society to any of them," – Republican Congressional candidate – and proud tea-partier – Lou Ann Zelenik, in response to a local Muslim community's need for a new mosque.

"The majority of [illegal immigrants] in my opinion and I think in the opinion of law enforcement is that they are not coming here to work. They are coming here and they’re bringing drugs. And they’re doing drop houses and they’re extorting people and they’re terrorizing the families," – Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R). A mountain of evidence to the contrary here and here.