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Single Moms Are Destroying Sweet, Sweet Idaho



These days it is difficult to think about Idaho without conjuring up images of violent youth dashing madly through their towns and cities. And when one thinks of those violent youth, one will undoubtedly then think of the single mothers who raised them. It is simply the obvious conclusion, especially if you are a fucking moron.

Turns out the Idaho House of Representatives Family Task Force is chalk full of morons. Personally, I love a good Family Task Force. Family Task Forces are the bedrock of our society, without them we would just be a bunch of animals raping and killing each other.

Let’s meet them! The Family Task Force is made up of Rep. Dick Harwood, Rep. Janice McGeachin, Rep. Marv Hagedorn, Rep. Branden Durst, Rep. Dean Mortimer and Rep. Steven Thayn. Notice there is only one lady on the Task Force. That will make more sense as we continue.

Thayn is a true nut. He is a freshman lawmaker who raised eight kids on his farm. They were all home schooled and we can only imagine, not well adjusted. Thayn has some fantastic ideas about how things should be going in our country.

Last year he suggested that Idaho reduce school hours to four a day – to save money. Turns out, he is not big on school and you can read all about it on the website of The Committee of Correspondence, a group Thayn started. I have looked at it several times and I really don’t know what the fuck is going on. I did manage to learn that they hate school.


In the future the grandchildren of the public school students of today, if families still exist, will tell stories about the state sending out yellow buses 5 days per week to collect the children to take them to detention centers for 7 hours every day to indoctrinate them in the state mandated way of thinking. The grandchildren of the future will listen in horror and ask, “Didn’t the parents love their children?”


So fucking true. And that's not all.


We have become state slaves, going to work everyday to pay the tax liability we incurred during the night while we slept. We will know that we have free nation when the government at all levels requires 10% or less of our income. This is our goal. If the state did not traffic in mercy (helping the poor) or in education, the taxes would fall to this level.


Right on. Fuck mercy and screw education. Just thinking about them makes my blood boil – but only because the government is involved.

Then there is this email that Thayn allegedly sent out.


Hunger is not always a negative as the report indicates. Without hunger or the threat of hunger probably half of humanity would not get up in the morning and go to work. Hunger is one of the great motivators of humanity. It is one of the tools that I used as a parent to encourage my children to do their choirs [sic] as young children. When used properly, hunger can motivate people so they can experience the joy of work and accomplishment.


Hello. I have a new favorite douche bag to keep an eye on. This guy is a treasure chest full of jackassery. I believe I will be writing many more stories about Steven before my days at SG end.

Thayn is, not surprisingly, the Chairman of the Idaho House of Representatives' Family Task Force. They believe that drug abuse, crime and domestic violence are the result of families breaking down and they want to figure out a way to get mothers back in the home and out of the workplace.


In one of the articles I read, quite a large percentage of mothers really do want to spend more time at home, and if that's the case, what can we do to help them?


Um, change the entire socio-economic structure of America? But they have found the perfect family to emulate: The 1950s American family. Although, Thayn does recognize it was not perfect.


I don't think the family structure was really ideal at that time, either. I don't think the family ever in the history of the world has reached its potential.


Someone is speaking the truth. Not until the family can shed its human form, come together in a ball of pure energy and shoot straight up to the Lord will it have achieved its “full potential.” Right now, we are far, far away from that glorious day.

According to the task force, single parent homes (moms) are causing rates of drug use and crime to shoot up, though, people living out of wedlock and divorce are also to blame.


Thayn believes that reducing divorces could save the state $200 million because the crime rate would drop if divorces dropped. He thinks making it more difficult to get divorced would help families avoid what he sees as the pitfalls of non-traditional families.


Right. It would only take one a couple of hours perusing the state budget to see that if there were less divorces in Idaho, that would mean $200 fucking million. It’s called math. After blowing minds with that obvious statistic, the Task Force came up with an obvious solution: End no fault divorce. Make the husband or wife prove they deserve a divorce.


"Divorce is just terrible," Rep. Dick Harwood, R-St. Maries, said. "It's one of Satan's best tools to kill America."


Heyoooo. I thought Thayn was our crazy guy. Welcome to the party, dick. (Yeah, I didn’t capitalize that.)

Some lawmakers in Idaho believe the solution is not forcing people to stay married, but rather to strengthen day care regulations and make pre-schooling part of public schools. The task force disagrees.


Thayn does not shy from this view, calling pre-kindergarten education a "free babysitting service" and suggesting that early childhood education, day-care and Head Start may hurt families by keeping mothers away from home.


Also, ladies, why are you talking directly to me and looking me in the eyes?

Idaho is big on privacy and probably won’t go for the Task Force’s incredible forward thinking ideas but at least there are guys like Thayn to remind us there is always someone worse out there.

 

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Clidna

Clidna

Canada
January 2005

NOV 19, 2007 09:30 PM

aeriton said:
only thing the nut bag is right about is how corrupt and broken the education system is.
ohh and by the way statistically home school children tend to score higher on SAT's and at a college level.


I too would like to see stats on this. I tried searching myself, but I only found home-schooling support and promotion sites stating this as a fact (so it's a little biased), and none of them provided links to stats.

PantherNesmith

PantherNesmith

Gloucester, VA
June 2006

NOV 23, 2007 04:33 PM

Clidna said:

aeriton said:
only thing the nut bag is right about is how corrupt and broken the education system is.
ohh and by the way statistically home school children tend to score higher on SAT's and at a college level.


I too would like to see stats on this. I tried searching myself, but I only found home-schooling support and promotion sites stating this as a fact (so it's a little biased), and none of them provided links to stats.



Beside, isn't the main point of school, after teaching us to memorize bullshit, to make us able to socialize? I know some home schooled kids who were so incredibly naive about life (coming from a small strip of population far away from normal human life), that they were almost incapable of interacting with others.

Which is kind of how I always though Idaho was, anyway. *shrug*

Necia

Necia

San Francisco, CA
August 2005

NOV 23, 2007 08:43 PM

cmjfoxfyre said:

Chriztian said:
The Bible Belt is getting hitched up rather high, isn't it?
But wait, they said less taxes...Ron Paul 2008!!



Idaho is a Pod of Insanity all its Own, My friend. wink
I spent me early years there, and I still have cousins there and in Utah. The Spud state is a scary place.

It's Truly the Midwest--the last time I went back, I looked around, expecting Kevin Bacon to cruise by in his yellow bug. Seriously. It's like 1985 up there...all the Time.



IDAHO IS NOT IN THE MIDWEST.

You said you lived there! Do you know where Idaho is located on a map of the US?

. . . Christ. I need another beer. blackeyed




Here. This is the Midwest, folks, for the record. Please note the absence of Idaho.







Chainlink

Chainlink

Key West, FL
August 2005

NOV 23, 2007 09:00 PM

Necia said:

cmjfoxfyre said:

Chriztian said:
The Bible Belt is getting hitched up rather high, isn't it?
But wait, they said less taxes...Ron Paul 2008!!



Idaho is a Pod of Insanity all its Own, My friend. wink
I spent me early years there, and I still have cousins there and in Utah. The Spud state is a scary place.

It's Truly the Midwest--the last time I went back, I looked around, expecting Kevin Bacon to cruise by in his yellow bug. Seriously. It's like 1985 up there...all the Time.



IDAHO IS NOT IN THE MIDWEST.

You said you lived there! Do you know where Idaho is located on a map of the US?

. . . Christ. I need another beer. blackeyed




Here. This is the Midwest, folks, for the record. Please note the absence of Idaho.









Hot. love

Zarth

zarth

Seattle, WA
December 2004

NOV 23, 2007 09:34 PM

Necia said:

cmjfoxfyre said:

Chriztian said:
The Bible Belt is getting hitched up rather high, isn't it?
But wait, they said less taxes...Ron Paul 2008!!


Idaho is a Pod of Insanity all its Own, My friend. wink
I spent me early years there, and I still have cousins there and in Utah. The Spud state is a scary place.

It's Truly the Midwest--the last time I went back, I looked around, expecting Kevin Bacon to cruise by in his yellow bug. Seriously. It's like 1985 up there...all the Time.



IDAHO IS NOT IN THE MIDWEST.

You said you lived there! Do you know where Idaho is located on a map of the US?

. . . Christ. I need another beer. blackeyed




Here. This is the Midwest, folks, for the record. Please note the absence of Idaho.


And four (not coincidentally, the four most heavily-populated) out of those fifteen states are solidly Blue, and not part of Jesusland, at all.

Ms_Magdalena

Ms_Magdalena

Minneapolis, MN
February 2007

NOV 23, 2007 11:31 PM

Zarth said:

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

Necia said:

cmjfoxfyre said:

Chriztian said:
The Bible Belt is getting hitched up rather high, isn't it?
But wait, they said less taxes...Ron Paul 2008!!


Idaho is a Pod of Insanity all its Own, My friend. wink
I spent me early years there, and I still have cousins there and in Utah. The Spud state is a scary place.

It's Truly the Midwest--the last time I went back, I looked around, expecting Kevin Bacon to cruise by in his yellow bug. Seriously. It's like 1985 up there...all the Time.



IDAHO IS NOT IN THE MIDWEST.

You said you lived there! Do you know where Idaho is located on a map of the US?

. . . Christ. I need another beer. blackeyed




Here. This is the Midwest, folks, for the record. Please note the absence of Idaho.


And four (not coincidentally, the four most heavily-populated) out of those fifteen states are solidly Blue, and not part of Jesusland, at all.



Oh fuck, sooooooooooooo true.

Thank god for Necia for pointing this out, and thank god for Zarth for being coastal yet logical at the same time.

malkav11

malkav11

Saint Paul, MN
July 2003

NOV 23, 2007 11:32 PM

Yep. I heart me my Midwest. Or at least the part my family and I respectively live in. Okay, so we elected a dumbshit Republican as our governor twice now, and that sucked. But we're goin' to elect Al Franken to the Senate, so there.

wereduck

wereduck

I'm lost
July 2007

NOV 24, 2007 06:35 AM

Necia said:

cmjfoxfyre said:

Chriztian said:
The Bible Belt is getting hitched up rather high, isn't it?
But wait, they said less taxes...Ron Paul 2008!!



Idaho is a Pod of Insanity all its Own, My friend. wink
I spent me early years there, and I still have cousins there and in Utah. The Spud state is a scary place.

It's Truly the Midwest--the last time I went back, I looked around, expecting Kevin Bacon to cruise by in his yellow bug. Seriously. It's like 1985 up there...all the Time.



IDAHO IS NOT IN THE MIDWEST.

You said you lived there! Do you know where Idaho is located on a map of the US?

. . . Christ. I need another beer. blackeyed




Here. This is the Midwest, folks, for the record. Please note the absence of Idaho.









-1/2 Diplomacy Points
+50000000000000000000000 Awesome Points

wereduck

wereduck

I'm lost
July 2007

NOV 24, 2007 06:48 AM



Then there is this email that Thayn allegedly sent out.



Hunger is not always a negative as the report indicates. Without hunger or the threat of hunger probably half of humanity would not get up in the morning and go to work. Hunger is one of the great motivators of humanity. It is one of the tools that I used as a parent to encourage my children to do their choirs [sic] as young children. When used properly, hunger can motivate people so they can experience the joy of work and accomplishment.





What makes you think he spelled "choirs" incorrectly? We are talking about a right-wing nut, after all.

"You heard me! No spaghetti for you until you hit that high note on the Song of Solomon!!"

Squire

Squire

I'm lost
November 2003

NOV 24, 2007 01:43 PM

Necia said:

cmjfoxfyre said:

Chriztian said:
The Bible Belt is getting hitched up rather high, isn't it?
But wait, they said less taxes...Ron Paul 2008!!



Idaho is a Pod of Insanity all its Own, My friend. wink
I spent me early years there, and I still have cousins there and in Utah. The Spud state is a scary place.

It's Truly the Midwest--the last time I went back, I looked around, expecting Kevin Bacon to cruise by in his yellow bug. Seriously. It's like 1985 up there...all the Time.



IDAHO IS NOT IN THE MIDWEST.

You said you lived there! Do you know where Idaho is located on a map of the US?

. . . Christ. I need another beer. blackeyed




Here. This is the Midwest, folks, for the record. Please note the absence of Idaho.









Thank you!


Squire

Squire

I'm lost
November 2003

NOV 24, 2007 01:46 PM

Idaho? Nuh uh Mr. Thayn . . .


Necia

Necia

San Francisco, CA
August 2005

NOV 25, 2007 02:42 PM

we3_pirate said:
-1/2 Diplomacy Points
+50000000000000000000000 Awesome Points



Hehehe. I used up all my diplomacy powers the last time I had to point this out to someone on SG who was using Idaho to slam the Midwest.

I would say, "Gee, I guess they don't teach national geography to kids in school these days," but I'm pretty sure I'm younger than (or if nothing else, definitely not notably older than) a few of these people, and I know I had to learn in grade school where the states are on a map, so . . .

anderspisscorner

anderspisscorner

Boise, ID
December 2007

JAN 11, 2009 12:13 PM

Oh, how I love to see Idaho in the news. For the record, I just got divorced in Idaho and it was a pretty simple process. To my knowledge my ex wife has not received any death threats and our kid has not been relocated to "Family Values Camp" just yet. But yes, the Legislature does have some real gems. Fortunately (or unfortunately depending on how you look at it), the general population doesn't pay them too much mind.

malkav11

malkav11

Saint Paul, MN
July 2003

JAN 11, 2009 12:56 PM

malkav11 said:
Yep. I heart me my Midwest. Or at least the part my family and I respectively live in. Okay, so we elected a dumbshit Republican as our governor twice now, and that sucked. But we're goin' to elect Al Franken to the Senate, so there.



I love being right.

Homme

Homme

Los Angeles, CA
January 2009

JAN 11, 2009 01:14 PM

malkav11 said:

malkav11 said:
Yep. I heart me my Midwest. Or at least the part my family and I respectively live in. Okay, so we elected a dumbshit Republican as our governor twice now, and that sucked. But we're goin' to elect Al Franken to the Senate, so there.



I love being right.



Any other predictions, future man?

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