Idaho lawmaker asks if woman can swallow camera for gynecological exam before medical abortion

[JDDavis]

Today's "REPUBLICANS ARE CRAZY IGNORANT PEOPLE" episode is from Idaho.


Idaho lawmaker asks if woman can swallow camera for gynecological exam before medical abortion

BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho lawmaker received a brief lesson on female anatomy after asking if a woman can swallow a small camera for doctors to conduct a remote gynecological exam.

The question Monday from Republican Rep. Vito Barbieri came as the House State Affairs Committee heard nearly three hours of testimony on a bill that would ban doctors from prescribing abortion-inducing medication through telemedicine.

Dr. Julie Madsen was testifying in opposition to the bill when Barbieri asked the question. Madsen replied that would be impossible because swallowed pills do not end up in the vagina.

The committee approved the bill 13-4 on a party-line vote. Barbieri, who sits on the board of a crisis pregnancy center in northern Idaho, voted in favor of the legislation.

http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/293718211.html

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. omg

[iscooterliberally]

2. Quick! This guy needs a colonoscopy so we can determine if he has any brain function!

Where the fuck do they find these people?

[guillaumeb]

5. only if you use a really big camera

for the colonoscopy and push it in with a posthole digger. And film it. And post it.

[JDDavis]

10. Maybe he can swallow a camera for doctors to find his brain there.

I doubt there is anything like a brain in his body, but we can look.

Did you notice he serves on a board for a pregnancy crisis center...probably "harvests" unwanted babies from rapes for adoption by "Christian" families.

Such absurdness among Republicans ... and they keep reproducing.

[iscooterliberally]

17. I did notice that. How awful. And they think they're the good guys.

[hopemountain]

43. they know very well what they are

they only feign at being good for p.r.

[Thinkingabout]

3. This is pathetic, someone who is supposed to be smart enough to vote on

Laws gets up and makes a stupid statement should be kicked out by their party. Perhaps she should have suggested the man swallow the camera in order to do a vagina exam.

[randys1]

4. We need more men like this deciding what Women can and cant do with their bodies

Tell ya what, if you are a Woman, and you are reading this, and there is a

A TINY TEENSY CHANCE YOU WOULD EVER VOTE FOR ANY REPUBLICAN NOW OR IN THE NEAR FUTURE

PLEASE do us all a favor and go into your kitchen or garage and find a very hard surface and bang your head against it 15 times.

Now, if you are a MAN in America and you think you have anything whatsoever to say EVER about ANYTHING

ANY

WOMAN

EVER
DOES

to her own body, please go out to your kitchen or garage, find a hard surface and bang your head against it 25 times.

[Dont call me Shirley]

6. 2nd that OMG

This needs to be recced a thousand times just so women realize how dumb gop lawmakers are.

[JDDavis]

14. Thank you.

I would not object to this thread being one of the most popular.

I have met so many very stupid Republican men, I just love to expose them.

Remember, the "smarter" among Republican men get elected to the U.S. Congress.

[Dont call me Shirley]

18. And the gop "geniuses" end up as president.

[riversedge]

7. But telemedicine will prescribe Viagra no doubt

[JDDavis]

15. One can even buy Viagra on-line without a prescription

From Canada, Mexico, India.

3 day delivery in the USA to any address.

Just give me your name, address, and credit card number....

(just kidding, don't ever do that, but many men DO do that!)

Then they complain that their identity was stolen... just imagine.

[SamKnause]

8. If the avalanche of stupidity,

that has enveloped this country and it's government is not stopped, this country is done !!!!!!!!!!!

[Berlin Expat]

11. I keep telling

people that Idiocracy is actually a documentary from the future, sent back via tachyon transmissions (h/t to John Carpenter ) but no one believes me.

[muriel_volestrangler]

47. It's the 'future' bit that doesn't look accurate at the moment (nt)

[riversedge]

9. Need to include 'Republican' or GOP or dimit in the subject line

[JDDavis]

12. Sorry, just copied and pasted the original.

Remember, it's from an Idaho newspaper.

They don't want to insult their readers.

[JDDavis]

13. I started this thread topic, but I can assure you that...

among men, there are plenty of men, (mostly white, mostly Republican-leaning) who do NOT know what makes up the female human anatomy. They just do their thing for 15-20 minutes, and expect a baby 9 months later, sort of like putting a cake in the oven.

[CTyankee]

19. 15-20 minutes?

um...

[AngryDem001]

27. LOL

You mean like how Raygun lasted 40 mins?

[CTyankee]

30. well, I don't know anything about him....

[AngryDem001]

31. According to Piper Laurie,

'He made sure I was aware of the length of time he had been "ardent". It was 40 minutes.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2061105/Piper-Laurie-claims-Ronald-Reagan-bed.html

[CTyankee]

36. Oh, thanks. I didn't know about that. How interesting.

[AngryDem001]

50. Your welcome!

Ronnie thought very highly of himself.

[CTyankee]

58. well, as a woman, let me say that "results matter."

[awoke_in_2003]

48. If it is only lasting that long...

someone isn't doing it right

[notadmblnd]

32. 15-20 minutes? I think you are beng very generous there.

[47of74]

44. They probably think one could get pregnant from oral

Like the people who made the porno games for the Atari 2600 once claimed. (Probable NSFW link here)

[progressoid]

57. Uhhh.....

What the hell?

[old guy]

16. ...sigh..

[Half-Century Man]

20. Did I miss something?

This is still a planet where going to work while tripping is considered a bad thing, right?

[JDDavis]

22. You missed the last 35 years

Ronald Reagan became president. the USSR almost went bankrupts and everybody cheered Reagan for firing people and making stupid deals with Saddam. And someone somewhere became a hero for breaking international law, AIDS came around, and President Reagan ignored it for 6 years because.. the gays.

Then GHW Bush, who did nothing at all, but start a war to regain control of mideast oil fields, and find out check-out lines used scanners in grocery stores.

Then a few years of sanity under Clinton who likes to play with young adult women, according to Republican sources. Prosperity and peace happened, but everybody was worried about a blue dress.

Then a total idiot became president, G W Bush, and the world came close to the levels of depravity that Germany and Japan brought us, but this time it all came from DC.

Then some black guy got elected, and Republicans freaked out, and then that black guy got re-elected, and Republicans went nuts.

Then, people decided education was too expensive, and caring for old and sick was too expensive, and screw the roads and bridges and mass transit, and screw unions, too, and don't raise the minimum wage, either. And make sure old white men always control all women's bodies forever.

Republicanism 2015 edition

[Half-Century Man]

25. Caught that part.

Just missed the "mouth is connected to the vaginal cavity for camera insertion" part that somehow wasn't some new form of cunnilingus.

[haikugal]

39. Didn't you know....

Babies come out of a woman's tummy...guess his bible school didn't do sex ed.

[jberryhill]

26. "Then GHW Bush, who did nothing at all"

Compared to Reagan and W, I have to say that GHW's record of doing nothing much at all (except for Operation Just 'Cause), looks pretty good in historical perspective.

[JDDavis]

34. A "thousand points of light" you have to give him that!

Whatever it meant, in a nation of 290 million.

He ignored AIDS, he ignored the fall of the Berlin wall, he ignored almost everything. His VP could not spell and we have never heard from that VP again.

He DID bring back Rumsfeld, Cheney, etc. etc. and he got those damn mid-east oil fields back for Exxon to profit from.

His real nemissis was a crazy guy named Ross Perot, a crazy rich man who gave the election of 92 to Clinton, a wise liberal Democratic man from the South, who fixed just about everything except he liked young adult women who would... blue dress, whatever... that sort of ruined it in 2000 for Gore, the sane one who should have been president, but for the blue dress ... oh wait, Gore got more votes than the stupid son, but no matter, the Supreme Court fixed that election after it happened.

So we had 8 years of stupid, and then this black guy from Chicago got elected, and Republicans went off the deep end with their heroine, Sarah.

[jberryhill]

37. That and Dana Carvey

But it's still better for Republicans to ignore things than to decide to really screw things up.

[jmowreader]

59. It wasn't originally "a thousand points of light"

It was "a thousand pints of Lite," as in what you'll need to drink to keep sane during Reagan's third term.

[Rob H.]

21. "crisis pregnancy center"

More accurately known as a "Think we're anything like Planned Parenthood? Think Again!" Center.

[mehrrh]

23. 5th grade

A person this ignorant is in the legislature?!
A person this stupid is writing laws that affect others -- especially women?
Did this person ever graduate elementary school?
Does this legislator have any basic knowledge of anatomy or biology?
Perhaps it is his anatomy that is to blame -- his head, containing whatever may be a brain is up in his rectum!

[JDDavis]

24. That "person" is a Republican

All your questions are answered.

[tridim]

28. He thinks babies come out of the butt. :eyesssssssss: nt

[Sienna86]

29. What an idiot!

Is the GOP embarrassed by these displays of ignorance?

[Panich52]

33. Postink this link in Pro-Choice (& maybe Womens Issues)

[azurnoir]

35. so how long after the woman swallows watermelon seeds should this procdure be done?

[nruthie]

38. Good God.

They just never cease to amaze me with their stupidity.

[JDDavis]

40. They are Republicans.... you should know by now.

I think there are several states that have Republican governors and legislatures where this idea of free education for children is about to be defeated.

You have been following the news about this for the last few years, right.

Convincing parents that their child would be better off not learing facts, not learning to think logically, or rationally, and to follow scriptural dictates from 3000 year old Biblican texts.

Well, that is what Republicans are all about.

[SoapBox]

41. Disgraceful.

[EEO]

42. Ah, the party of personal freedom. Right.

[hopemountain]

45. probably never knew those cameras existed

until he recently learned about the resistant bacteria found on cameras at ucla.

[47of74]

46. If I met him I'd be so tempted to ask him something.

Something not very nice.

[NuttyFluffers]

49. and these people have power.

and from a plurality of their active community citizens.

[JDDavis]

51. Republicans, power, ignorance.. all part of the package

They all go together, all the time.

If you find a Republican that makes sense, and knows human anatomy...

Send me his name.

I'm thinking of starting a daily thread of the most stupid things Republicans do every day.

More than one person should do this, not just me. Just post the most stupid ideas and words of Republicans you find in your local press.

Of course, there will be many duplicates...... some people can freeze duplicates.

There will be many many many duplicates, because so so many Republicans are stupid every day when they open their mouths.

[bulloney]

52. I heard that Rep. Barbieri and his wife gave up on using The Pill because it kept falling out.

Somewhere down the line, this country empowered the stooopid, and they're out in full force, holding political offices we never imagined a few decades ago.

[47of74]

62. Saint Ronald Reagan would've died of shame if he saw the kind of teabag stoopid getting elected now.

[Ilsa]

53. These fucking MORONS ARD MAKING MEDICAL DECISIONS

that affect us all.

Crap. I f-bombed. There goes Lenten promise #2!

[tclambert]

54. When your mommy told you she had a baby in her stomach, . . .

she didn't literally mean it was in her digestive tract, you simpleton.

[iandhr]

55. Surely you can't be serious.

[ehrnst]

56. Gawd - the updates to his Wikipedia page are hysterical

Earlier today:

"Barbieri also enjoys an avocational interest in gynecology, obstetrics, and gastro-enterology.[3] "


Latest update:

"On February 23, 2015, during testimony from Dr. Julie Madsen, Barbieri learned that if a woman swallows a pill, it will not end up in her vagina.[3] [4]

Although not confirmed, it is believed that Barbieri has never taken a biology class in his life since he recently asked a physician if women can swallow a camera that will perform a gynecologic exam. It's believed that Barberi was disheartened to learn that women cannot magically expel items they eat out of their vaginas."

[niyad]

60. the moran's contact info:

208-332-1177

[democratXX]

61. Welcome to Idaho

This is my world. Insanity rules here.