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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWonkette: Minnesota House Candidate Definitely Does Not Know How Baby Is Formed
http://wonkette.com/553935/minnesota-house-candidate-definitely-does-not-know-how-babby-is-formed#more-553935-snip-
On the one hand, were dreading the next four months because were headed into peak silly season for state and national elections and there will be so very much dumb politicking rammed down our throats. On the other hand, we write a political humor mommyblog warblog, and ridiculous things done by ridiculous political people is sort of our bread and butter. So, were grateful, sort of, for Minnesota House of Representatives candidate Bob Frey, who has some very interesting, and very confused, ideas about how babies are made and also too about AIDS. SPOILER ALERT: Hes pretty sure it is all about enzymes somehow.
Frey then explained his view: When you have egg and sperm that meet in conception, theres an enzyme in the front that burns through the egg. The enzyme burns through so the DNA can enter the egg. If the sperm is deposited anally, its the enzyme that causes the immune system to fail. Thats why the term is AIDS acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
Sex education was a long time ago for pretty much all the individual moving parts of yr Wonkette, but were pretty certain that we never learned about anything burning through any other thing. Were also both delighted and perplexed by how oddly specific his explanation is: the enzyme only lives on the front of the sperm, apparently, so if that sucker gets turned about while swimming, no baby for you! And we cant even begin to sort out how a grown human person actually believes that if sperm goes in one hole, theres a baby, and if it goes in another hole, it kills you. It has the unusual distinction of making no sense from an evolutionary standpoint or a religious standpoint. Our species wouldnt have lasted very long if the same thing that made babies also could accidentally kill you and, in the Jesus-y realm, what sort of fucked-up God makes the sperm the bringer of babies and the bringer of death? Also, does this theory apply when dudes buttsechs the ladies, or does the enzyme only get all murderous if it goes from dude to dude? We have so many questions.
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More at link.
There's plenty more BS Crazy here in MN with Michele Bachmann not running.
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Wonkette: Minnesota House Candidate Definitely Does Not Know How Baby Is Formed (Original Post)
geardaddy
Jul 2014
OP
It's bad enough that they are batshit crazy to start with, but then they have to go and
Arkansas Granny
Jul 2014
#2
It's beginning to feel like the movie "Idiocracy" was a prediction, not a funny movie.
OregonBlue
Jul 2014
#3
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)1. How is babby formed
longship
(40,416 posts)5. Wow! (BTW, DUzy) nt
progressoid
(49,996 posts)7. Best Answer - Chosen by Voters!!
I don't whether to laugh or cry.
Arkansas Granny
(31,525 posts)2. It's bad enough that they are batshit crazy to start with, but then they have to go and
compound the stupidity by displaying how pig ignorant they are, in public, no less. And they still get elected.
OregonBlue
(7,754 posts)3. It's beginning to feel like the movie "Idiocracy" was a prediction, not a funny movie.
Hong Kong Cavalier
(4,573 posts)4. *twitch*
For every Senator Franken, for every Governor Dayton, we have one of these nutbags.
Our state is weird. I love it here, but damn, our state is weird.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)6. Yep.
From Humphrey, Mondale, Floyd B. Olson and Wellstone
to
Bachmann, Emmer, and Kiffmeyer.