June's Back!

Tennessee's bestest most mexican-hating, Byron De La Beckwith-loving, anti-gay, anti-Darwin conservative activist is running for governor yet again! Yee-haw!!!

If you haven't met her yet (didja see her on The Daily Show?), here's one version:

Sunday Links

• A team of paleontologists have discovered a huge Stone Age cemetery in the Sahara desert. Here is a woman and two children who were found holding hands, arms outstretched toward each other, with evidence to suggest they were laid to rest on a bed of flowers (follow the link for more photos and a video about the find from National Geographic).

• American team members to watch now that the Olympic games have moved on from swimming to track & field.

• What if Karl Rove were working for the Obama campaign?

• This is just the kind of thing that long ago made me resolve to never do business with AT&T again. I found myself on more than one occasion trying to get my money back from AT&T after they over-charged me for lame or inept reasons. For them, screwing customers while hoping they're not paying attention is the #1 item in their business practices manual. And in this case, someone turned their frustration into to a bit of silliness.

• Everyone's favorite East Tennessee politician is back once again! This time, she's talking about Jesse Helms, who she says is a great American. (Of course, as much as I loves me some Griffiny Juneness, I gotta wonder what sort of crack heads are running the KNS these days!)

• Sunday roundup of Tennessee liberal bloggers!

• The McCain behind the myths.

June's In!

My favorite East Tennessee politician has thrown her hat in the ring yet again!

She's baaa-ack!

June Griffin is running for Congress again!

"I will add one more determination and resolve if I could be elected. I will move against the IRS to install a section of the IRS Code to include the following provision:

"In the case of all married couples, the amount of money the husband would pay in federal taxes will go directly to the wife. Those filling out their 1040s will merely include a receipt where he paid his wife the amount of taxes that would go to Washington. This will end 50% of the divorces.

"Where the wife is the sole support, the reverse will be true. Why should we support others' wives?

"Elected officials have abandoned their sworn oath before God to uphold the Constitution as interpreted by the ordinances the forefathers instituted. This I will do, so help me, God."

Who is June Griffin? Here are a few links with more info:

• June Griffin for Congress
• My previous posts: Wamp gets restraining order, June on the Daily Show, June gets arrested.
• June Griffin: in her own words.

Ms. Griffin Update

She had her first court appearance. Nooga.com reported on her statement (which I've quoted after the jump in case it cycles away), and Jesus' General has even given her some commiseration and suggestions:

More recently, there was the incident at the Mexican grocery where you were arrested for teaching the store owners a lesson in American history. Yes, I understood what you were doing even if the police didn't. They called it theft of a Mexican flag, but we both know you were teaching them about Manifest Destiny, the belief that God commands white Christians to free brown people from the burdens of property ownership.

Now, I don't know what you're going to do next, but I'm wondering if you couldn't apply the tactics you employed in the Mexican grocery incident to gathering better information about homosexuals in Rhea county. Specifically, I'm thinking that you could break into every house in the county during the night to see if the occupants are engaging in homosexual acts. That way you won't have to depend on what they report, you can see it with your own eyes. And if they're brown, you won't have to leave empty handed.

On another topic, I'm posting this from the new crib at last! We haven't been able to get the cable switched over yet, but fortunately a neighbor has an open wi-fi network, so I'm mooching off his connection at the moment (whatever gets me whooshing my way through the great tubes of the internet...). Whee!

Ms. Griffin Arrested

I have to admit that I have imagined June Griffin (remember her?) having a run-in with the law (conflicts with Zach Wamp don't count), and in my musings, I always figured it would be over something stupid, like her famous refusal to use a seat belt. But this is good, too:

Conservative political activist June Griffin has been arrested for the theft of a Mexican flag from a Dayton business.

June Griffin

She was just featured on The Daily Show. Man, that was eerie.

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LOL!

Chattanoogans might be amused by this little tidbit from today's news:

June Griffin Directed Not To Call Wamp Office

Activist June Griffin said she has been ordered to no longer contact the office of Congressman Zach Wamp.

Ms. Griffin, who unsuccessfully ran against Rep. Wamp in the recent election, said, "Today I received a certified letter from Congressman Zach Wamp formally ordering me not to call his office ever again!

"It seems I offend his staff."

Ms. Griffin lives at Evansville, Tn., and is a campaigning for Christian and conservative causes, including display of the Ten Commandments in public buildings.

For those who aren't acquainted with Ms. Griffin, she's an attention-seeking local loony who spews hate (especially against homosexshuals) in the name of her deranged version of Jesus. She's fond of calling local talkradio shows and then talking in circles, and she's become so famous there was even talk of holding a June Griffin lookalike contest at last year's Gay Day in Rhea.