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Today in Fat Hatred

[Content Note: Body fat prejudice medical malfeasance.]In the Whoooooooooooops I Identified You as Body fat Files: John Harms was identified as body fat and told to slim down if he desired to feel good. Works out he'd a cyst deep in the brain that just about wiped out him, which unmanageable putting on weight would be a symptom. Whoops!Thank Maude that Harms resided. However when people much like me say "Body fat hate kills people constantly,Inch this is exactly what I am talking about. It isn't hyperbole. It is a terrible truth.[H/T to Shaker Carol.]

Women Are Brave

Monday Blogaround

This blogaround introduced for you by spoons.Suggested Reading through:Rebecca w/ intro from Erika: A Long War [Content Note: Violent misogyny fight against agency sexual violence.]Aura: From Arizona to Montana, Native Voters Struggle for DemocracyJess: Breaking News: The Boy Scouts May Well Choose to be Slightly Less Disgusting [Content Note: Homophobia abuse.]Andy: LGBT Groups Release Joint Statement With LGBT-Inclusive Immigration Reform BillAnna: The Feministing Five: Jax JacksonRebecca: I've got a Good Feeling Relating To This: The Exorcist: Episode VII May Be Obtaining a Female Protagonist along with a Era DateAngry Asian Guy: Read These BlogsFlyover Feminism: Roe Week: Round-UpLeave your links and proposals in comments...

An Observation

I've found myself truly astonished at the number of experts on gender and combat and feminism as well as pooping you will find in media nowadays. SO. MANY. EXPERTS!

Buh-Bye

Via Taegan Goddard: "Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) 'will announce today that he's shedding intends to run for any third term in 2014, a choice sure to trigger an avalanche of Republican candidates who'll aim to replace him,' the Atlanta Journal-Metabolic rate reviews."Not again. Don't go.' ' just kidding. Good riddance, Chambliss.

Thursday Blogaround

This blogaround introduced for you by Thursday.Suggested Reading through:More in the "Libido, Privileges, and Justice Today" series we are running at Flyover Feminism now to mark the 40th anniversary of Roe [content note for fight against agency on all the below pieces]:Mara Clarke: Choice and Access, Morality and MoneySoraya Chemaly: Roe Was the beginning of the battle, Not the EndCarolyn Johnson: The Items I Did not KnowTawny Tidwell: A Whitened Kid and RoeRené Nash: What Roe v. Wade Way to This Professional-Choice MississippianBetsy Phillips: Go to Atlanta: The Southern Anti-Abortion SolutionAnonymous: Abortion: A Provider's PerspectiveVerónica Bayetti Flores: 40 Years Later: Insights on Roe, Gender Identity, and Moving the Movement ForwardThe Editors: Blog Round-Up: Roe v. Wade at 40* * *Other things:Rachel: Roe Round-Up: Analysis around the 40th Anniversary of Legalized AbortionJess: Working out Your Right [Content Note: Harassment]Trudy: Significantly Important Deliberation over IntersectionalityChauncey: Racism Isn't a viewpoint: New Information Shows How Age Obama Has Urged a Revival of "Traditional Racism"Libby Anne: Married, with Buddies [Content Note: Gender essentialism heterocentrism]Andrew: Parliamentary Debate on Marriage Equality in Britain Looking for February. 5Vesta44: Association for Size Diversity and Health Video ProjectSign the Petition: Pardon Marisa Alexander [More background here.]

This is so the worst thing you're going to read all day.

[Content Note: Body fat hate disordered eating bullying.]My friend Erica Barnett sent me the hyperlink for this piece in the Atlantic (observe that author Lindsay Abrams is writing significantly relating to this approach): A Situation for Shaming Obese People, With taste. Subhead: "One bioethicist's modest proposal to combat weight problems through socially motivated self-hate."Individuals don't hate being body fat enough, essentially, based on Hastings Center bioethicist Daniel Callahan. Within an editorial released within the Hastings Center Report, he argues that nothing -- not diets, drugs, sugeries, nor attracts our overall health -- is working, and continues to really make the situation for body fat-shaming people until they begin consuming more salad."An edgier and more personal technique is needed," is his (serious and fully lacking of irony) method of putting it.' ' '. Yes, good call, Callahan. The main one factor I do not hear enough is when embarrassed with myself I ought to be to be body fat! You're a genius, mister!I've been lower this well-tread path many occasions before, and so i will not spend another mid-day detailing all of the many ways that supposing that body fat individuals are all body fat for the similar reason, that body fat individuals are axiomatically unhealthy, that diets work, etc. is ignorant bullshit.I'll simply realize that what Callahan is suggesting is bullying. Not "an edgier and more personal strategy," however the same technique to which most body fat individuals have been exposed for many in our lives, be it straight-up shaming straight to our faces by individuals who purport of looking after about us and doctors and excellent other people, or our experience with virtually never seeing physiques like ours in popular culture except as objects of ridicule. Departing aside the discussion that body fat isn't a behavior for a lot of body fat people (as well as for a lot more, it's the consequence of disordered eating began like a behavior attentive to the kind of body fat-shaming Callahan indicates), bullying isn't a highly effective technique to address self-doing harm to behavior. Bullying encourages self-harm.For individuals body fat people whose fatness is really a direct and exclusive consequence of insufficient self-care even despite use of food that satisfies their individual needs and convenience of sufficient exercise, shaming them regarding their physiques and habits—bullying them—is only will make them hate their physiques much more.I've been a body fat individual who hates her body, and allow me to put this as candidly when i can: There's no incentive to consider proper care of an appearance you hate.How good Personally i think about my body fat is absolutely and inextricably associated with how good I take proper care of it, in the food I place in it as to whether I am going visit a physician when there is something wrong. That isn't a body fat problem: This is a human problem. A lot of my thin as well as in-betweenie buddies and co-workers have a similar experience around themselves image and self-care, because all of us reside in a garbage culture of judgment that conspires to create everybody feel problematic and insufficient in some manner.Should you want body fat people—or any people—to treat their physiques well, then cause them to become love their physiques, regardless of what they appear like.I only say again: Nobody has ever become more healthy, by any means, when you are constantly treated like garbage. With no you have ever become cajolled into feeling better about themselves.Acceptance is just a harmful idea to individuals who're hiding aesthetic distaste for body fat physiques behind sanctimonious concern trolling about fatties' health. If you would like us to become healthy, not fucking bullying us will be a great starting point.

Open Thread

Located with a rhino calf.

Happy Inauguration Day!

Top Court Chief Justice John Roberts: Please lift up your right hands and repeat after me: I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear...Leader Obama (as First Lady Michelle Obama as well as their kids Malia and Sasha check): I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear...Roberts: ...which i will faithfully execute...Obama: ...which i will faithfully execute...Roberts: ...work from the Leader from the U . s . States...Obama: ...work from the Leader from the U . s . States...Roberts: ...and can, to the very best of my ability...Obama: ...and can, to the very best of my ability...Roberts: ...preserve, safeguard, and defend...Obama: ...preserve, safeguard, and defend...Roberts: ...the Metabolic rate from the U . s . States...Obama: ...the Metabolic rate from the U . s . States...Roberts: ...so assist you to God?Obama: So assist me to God.Roberts: Congratulations, Mr. Leader. [they shake hands and smile at one another]Obama: Thanks, Mr. Chief Justice. Many thanks. [applause the Leader kisses the very first Lady] Thanks, sweetie. [he turns to Malia] Hey!Malia: Hey! [they hug and exchange a couple of brief words he turns to Sasha]Obama: Used to do it.Sasha: You did not screw it up. [a mention of Leader needing to do repeat the oath in '09, while he and Chief Justice Roberts spoken over one another the Leader laughs]Obama: [embracing the little crowd and waving] Okay. Thanks, everyone.

In The News

[Content note: terrorism]Fill Your Friday News Hole:America's biggest outside sports show to prohibit AR-15s. Good.Steampunk may be the next large trend to grasp the retail industry! Gadzooks!Talking about: Steampunk!Desire a Downtown Abbey/Glee crossover? Obviously you need to do!Algerian special forces have freed 650 hostages from Islamist militants who grabbed a gas complex deep within the desert.Serta Brown includes a new book idea.Geena Davis is headed to TV, playing charge role within an untitled fugitive hunter drama.The TSA is finished its contract with Rapiscan, the organization which makes individuals full-body scanning devices, because Rapiscan "unsuccessful to provide software to safeguard the privacy of people." Whoops!Republicans are getting their annual retreat, where they develop all of their plans, now they are convening a panel known as a "Discussion on Effective Communication with Unprivileged and ladies.Inch Best of luck!And James Franco does some stuff, because James Franco.

Friday Blogaround

This blogaround introduced for you by vintage purses.Suggested Reading through:Pam: Let us Misbehave: On Lance ArmstrongJosh: Speaking in my Tribe [Content Note: The publish only at that link includes discussions of guns and gun culture, and consists of an ableist slur.]Ragen: You Are Able To Stop Wondering Why I am Body fat [Content Note: The publish only at that link includes discussion of body fat prejudice and the body regulating.]Spectra: When You Are Performing Good Goes Completely Wrong: One Woman's Story about Whitened Saviorism in Africa [Content Note: The publish only at that link includes discussion of privilege and appropriation.]18MR: We Made It Happen! Google Removes 'Make me Asian' & 'Make me Indian' Applications!Jorge: Rosa Parks Statue to Be included to the CapitolAdrienne: New Billboard for Florida State's Master of business administration Program [Content Note: The publish only at that link includes discussion and imagery of racism.]Joel: T.I., "Gender Evening," and Unlearning Misogyny [Content Note: The publish only at that link includes discussion of harassment, sex regulating, and misogyny.]Fred: "There Is Nothing Mutual about thisInch: Whitened Evangelicals, Fortunate Distress, and Grievance Envy [Content Note: The publish only at that link includes discussion of privilege, appropriation, projection, and bigotry.]Jaymi: Shelter Dogs Take advantage of the Energy of the Photo AJ: RIP Billy [Content Note: Pet loss.]Leave your links and proposals in comments...

Photo of the Day

Leader Obama's new official portrait for his second term. Picture by, of course, Pete Souza/The Whitened House. H/T to Jordan.

Question of the Day

Whoever else done, on your own or another person, accomplished, accomplished, accepted, or forget about lately which has made you happy with yourself?

In The News

[Content note: Guns, gun violence, rape culture, homophobia]Wednesday News:The guy who protected six kids throughout the Sandy Hook massacre is just about the target of conspiracy advocates.A helicopter crashed right into a construction crane in thick London fog Today, killing the pilot and the other person.A 23-year-old Los Angeles guy continues to be billed having a criminal offence hate crime after marking structures along with a tree around the UC Berkeley Campus with anti-gay graffiti.New York's Biagio Cru & Estate Wines has launched Égalité, a sparkling wine in the Burgundy region of France that is meant as "a meeting of equality" for that LGBT community. Fifty suspects where arrested yesterday, varying in age range from 19 to 60, some instructors, inside a child sex abuse sting.Conrad Bain, who starred because the kindly whitened adoptive father of two youthful African-American siblings within the TV sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, has died.

Today in Terrible Ideas

[Content Note: Guns violence disablism self-harm.]Something needs to be achieved about gun violence! With no you have the political will and bravery to pursue significant reforms, but demonizing and making existence harder for those who have mental illness is definitely popular, so.Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and congress decided on Monday to some broad package of changes to gun laws and regulations that will expand the state's prohibit on assault weapons and would come with new measures to help keep guns from the psychologically ill. Whenever individuals with mental illness are known to as "the psychologically ill," you will know nothing good follows.Within an acknowledgment that lots of individuals have recommended that area of the means to fix gun violence is the perfect government reaction to mental illness, the legislation includes not just new limitations on gun possession, but additionally efforts to limit use of guns through the psychologically ill.The most important new proposal would require mental health care professionals to are accountable to local mental health authorities once they think that patients will probably harm themselves varieties. Police force would then be approved to confiscate any gun possessed with a harmful patient practitioners wouldn't be approved for any failure to report such patients when they behaved "in good belief.""Those who have mental health problems shouldn't have guns," Mr. Cuomo told reporters. "They might hurt themselves, they might hurt others.Inch Unlike men and women without mental illness, who never hurt themselves rather than hurt others.Partially, this is actually the inevitable consequence of axiomatically concluding that anybody who continues a shooting spree should be psychologically ill, because no "sane" person would do this type of factor. While not really anybody, because just when was the final time a brown-skinned gang member who wiped out multiple individuals a drive-by was expected or permitted introducing an madness defense? And partially, this is actually the inevitable consequence of lumping mental illness into one giant, indistinguishable monolith, and pretending that everybody that has anyone specific, diagnosable mental illness reacts in the same manner. All depression patients are identical. All Post traumatic stress disorder patients are identical. Let alone that each people experience all sorts of illness in individual ways, even when you will find common features in the way the disorder manifests, rather than mind the significantly sporadic treatment that each individuals have, according to highly diverse use of our patchy for-profit health care system that regards strategy to illness like a privilege.Again, I realize our desire to wish to help keep high-powered assault weaponry from the hands of people that are precariously psychologically ill, but that urge is predicated on presuming everybody who commits these functions is psychologically ill, which they may be properly recognized as well as their behavior precisely predicted. Even when which were the situation (it's not), most probably which means ensuring everybody psychologically disposed toward psychotically-motivated violence can access and utilizes their use of mental health care. But:But this type of requirement "signifies a significant alternation in the presumption of discretion that's been natural in mental health treatment," stated Dr. Paul S. Appelbaum, the director from the Division of Law, Ethics, and Psychiatry in the Columbia College College of Doctors and Surgeons, who stated the Legislature should hold proceedings on possible effects from the proposal."The possibilities of being reported towards the local government bodies, even when they don't have weapons, might be enough to discourage patients with suicidal or homicidal ideas from seeking treatment or from being honest regarding their impulses," he stated. This isn't useful. This really is dangerous.The only real sure method to keep guns from the hands of anybody, psychologically ill or otherwise, who would like to rely on them to kill people would be to eliminate the guns. The finish.You will find many people who tend not to hear that, but that does not allow it to be not the case.[Related Reading through: In search of Doing Something Significant. An Observation About Mental Illness.]

Golden Globes

So, the Golden Globs (typo but I am departing it) were last evening, and Amy Poehler and Tina Fey were the very first ever all-female hosting duo. Could it have been just me, however it felt like when Ough Gervais located, he was everywhere, whereas Poehler and Fey appeared to vanish a little following the opening. Anyway.The highpoint from the evening for me personally was Anne Hathaway's acceptance speech, particularly this bit, where she addressed fellow nominee Sally Area: "Sally, I must many thanks to be a vanguard against typecasting, because when the lady who began out because the princess of Genovia, I can not let you know how encouraging it had been to understand the Flying Nun was raised to become Norma Rae." Amazing.There's much more to discuss—Girls! Jodie Foster's odd speech! Lucy Liu's amazing dress! Hugh Jackman!—so I'll transform it to you. Have in internet marketing in comments!

Mods Get to See the Darnedest Things

In reaction to my getting requested anyone to move ahead after departing a lot of comments promoting a look at violence which was not especially favorable to some safe space, because it was embedded with victim-accusing, came this thoughtful retort:Fine. Then prohibit me. You do not get it, and you won't want to discuss. Be as bossy as you would like, you've all of the energy here.Sorry my understanding is really deviant it causes all of you distress basically to understand more about it. I really will not have banned this individual, if my request to maneuver on have been respected, but, since zie requested, I happily obliged.But a tiresome discussion of moderation choices is clearly not why I published this comment for everybody to understand. I am talking about, hello:Be as bossy as you would like, you've all of the energy here.That? Is amazing.And That I actually want to thank this generous commenter for giving us the title for the lengthy-looked forward to and highly-anticipated by nobody debut album.Not visiting record stores in your area ever.

Open Thread

Located by Old Town Spiced Sugar. (In The Spice House!)

Assvertising

[Content Note: Rape culture.]I have been meaning for age range to publish relating to this Condition Farm advert, that we see constantly, and makes my teeth grind every damn time. Because of Spudsy for telling me:On the residential city street, a youthful thin black guy (named Mike) stands in the curb alongside a wrecked vehicle together with his cell phone in the hands. A youthful thin blonde whitened lady (who is not given a title, but we'll call her Jane) walks as much as him. Text onscreen: "Condition of Disbelief."Jane: Oh hey, Mike! What're you as much as?Paul: [sighs] Ahhh just diagramming this accident with my Condition Farm pocket agent application. You may also obtain a quote and pay your premium with this particular factor.Jane: I figured Condition Farm did not have individuals applications.Mike: Where'd you hear that?Jane: The web.Paul: And also you thought it?Jane: Yeah. They cannot put anything on the web that is not true.Mike: Where's you hear that?In symphony: The web!A youthful, schlubby whitened guy by having an ungroomed beard and eyeglasses, putting on a fanny pack, and looking for a haircut walks toward them.Jane: Oh look—here's my date. I met him on the web. He's a French model.Dude: Uhhhhhh bon jour. [stated with no hint of the French accent]The man puts his arm around Jane, grins at Mike, after which leads Jane away. Mike quietly watches them go. Blah blah voice-over about how exactly awesome Condition Farms applications are.Now you will find a myriad of tired tropes within this advert: Blonde whitened women are stupid and/or naive and/or shallow women do not understand technology everybody you meet on the web is creepy beautiful women never date "ugly" males etc. But the one thing I truly hate about it is primarily the moment, the following:At that time, we all know the guy that has showed up to consider Jane on the date is really a liar that has altered her right into a date with false information—and the having faith in Jane is obviously too naïve to identify nakedly fraudulent claims. So that as he provides a skeevy grin to Mike, Jane's neighbor and apparent friend, that conveys his intentions, Mike basically gazes back at him nonchalantly.Because that is what men do, amirite? Bros before hos. I am talking about, shit, it's such as the hugest breach from the Guy Code ever to cockblock an overall total stranger who's almost going to rape your friend.All this is performed for laughs. And also the context that should be funny is really a rape culture that informs the damnable lies that coercive sex isn't rape, that rape is vanishingly rare, this scenario is absurd, that it's to date taken off any reality it's okay to laugh in the creepy guy who's tempting Jane on the date under false pretenses.Yeah. In some way I am not laughing.

Yes, Virginia: Rape Culture Exists Here Too

[Content note: Rape, rape culture, institutionalized sexual assault, rape denialism, colonialism, racism] If you have been following Doug Saunder's concern-trolling claims concerning the brilliance of "British-speaking nations" within the handling of rape, and the appalling behavior on Twitter in which he mansplained and gaslighted children ... ...you might greatly understand why column from Kate Heartfield in the Ottawa Citizen, where she displays, in very obvious language, precisely why a Westerner may have trouble seeing the rape culture in The United States. (Spoiler: it isn't since it does not exist.) If your court in India ruled the law of rape differs for married and unmarried women, editorials in United States newspapers would adduce that as proof of India’s “rape culture.” If your lawyer for among the males accused within the Delhi bus rape stated the victim was “clearly involved in at-risk behavior,” it might be outrage fodder on Twitter. Both of these things did happen lately — within the U . s . States. That does not mean individuals editorials are wrong about India. The problem for ladies in India and also the U . s . States aren't equivalent — nor is equivalent with, say, Congo. And it is perfectly valid for outsiders to critique the cultural and legal structures that support Indian misogyny. Actually, just a little observational distance can be quite helpful. Habits we Americans also needs to attempt to move back occasionally whenever we take a look at our very own culture. A number of our cultural touchstones, in the western world, continue to be according to an awareness of romantic associations which makes no among feminine coyness and female refusal. Ever pay attention to the creepy lyrics of Baby It’s Cold Outdoors? The lady: “Say what’s within this drink?”, “The response is no,” “At least I will state that I attempted.” The guy: “No cabs available available,” “How are you able to do that factor in my experience?” “What’s a feeling of harming my pride?” If the were a Bollywood song, wouldso would it strike us? Browse the whole factor if you're able to. It is extremely good. It's essential to support Indian children, advocates, and allies within the find it difficult to alter the way rape and sexual violence are addressed in India. It's not encouraging of the efforts to assert that "Western" (or "British speaking"--sorry, Quebec!) nations are ready of brilliance regarding rape. It's deeply colonialist to visualize a person's own culture is superior basically because the first is insulated by privilege from the toxicity, and inured by socialization to the misogyny. Kavita Krishnan along with other activists have previously stated how poorly the remains of colonialism serve Indian children. Let's hear forget about concerning the brilliance of British-speaking nations. Colonialist arrogance isn't the answer. Listening is. All over the world, children happen to be telling their tales, testifying regarding their encounters with rape culture in their own individual communities. Whenever we pay attention to them, we hear horrifying commonalities, in addition to nation- and culture- specific variations. Children are speaking: in publications, online, and personally. That Doug Saunders and the fellow rape culture defenders won't listen does not mean the issues are imaginary. It will imply that ongoing willful lack of knowledge is even more contemptible.

Daily Dose of Cute

Lady Sophie Titchington!

Open Thread

Located by blueberries.

Animal Heroes

Here are a few neat tales I have read lately about saved felines and dogs who're heroes, for individuals and/or other creatures. Please feel welcome and urged to depart links to neat saved pet tales you've read lately in comments.Terfel the Sight-Impaired Dog and Pwditat the Seeing-Eye Cat.Recently-Adopted Dog Named Bear Alerts Family to fireplace Only Four Days After Being Introduced Home.Popeye the kitty Can serve as Cna and Convalescence Companion for Other Creatures at Indiana Humane Society.Black Lab Owned by Lady with Disabilities Alerts Firefighters She's Still in Flame-Engulfed House.

Daily Dose of Cute

Tils.

Number of the Day

51%: The proportion from the national popular election taken by Leader Obama both in of his effective presidential campaigns, confirmed through the modified final tally from the November 6, 2012 election, that's postponed by Superstorm Sandy.Obama's the very first leader to offer the 51 percent mark in 2 elections since Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower, who made it happen in 1952 and 1956, and also the first Democrat to do this since Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four consecutive Whitened House races.Wow.

What I'm Listening To

Mumford & Sons, "Lover from the Light."With extra Idris Elba.

In The News

[Content note: Rape, murder, sexual violence, rape culture, racism, terrorism, body fat-hate]Wednesday News:Indian government bodies added murder charges for suspects within the brutal gang rape that brought towards the dying of the 23-year-old lady.Dr. Oz's miraculous weight loss supplement is bullshit. Whoops!Numerous gay couples required benefit of Maryland's marriage equality law after it required effect at night time on Tuesday. Yay!Governor with no soul intends to sue the NCAA over Penn Condition sanctions.Patti Page, probably the most effective recording artists ever, died yesterday.Mosque arsonist informs court: "I can just learn things i hear on Fox News." Nothing states history just like a "souvenir squash": Bloodstream owned by Louis XVI might have been present in a gourd. Bobby Womack has revealed he's struggling with brain disorder Alzheimer's disease. A married relationship equality bill is going to be introduced within the Rhode Island legislature tomorrow.Del­e­gates introduced intends to intro­duce three gun-related bills within the Mary­land condition leg­is­la­ture, such as the "Gun-Owner Pri­vacy Act." Not sure on once the "Right To Not Be Shot Act" is originating.

Tweet of the Day

Background: Republican Nj Governor Chris Christie tore into House Republicans today "for neglecting to election on the Hurricane Sandy aid package prior to the finish from the 113th Congress on Tuesday evening." Many people question why it's that Christie appears more angry relating to this than Leader Obama. My pal Phil tweets the next:President obama lacks the privilege of speaking as vigorously as Christie. You can question why.&mdash Philip Barron (@philbarron) The month of january 2, 2013Perfect. Elegant. Searing.

In The News

[Content note: Guns, gun violence, homophobia, misogyny]It's Thursday:Actual Headline: "Compressing breasts could prevent cancer, best study ever states."Gay privileges pioneer Richard Adams died Monday morning.You know what? Bill O'Reilly covers the Fight Against Christmas a lot more than actual wars. (See also.)American gun deaths to exceed traffic deaths by 2015. America! Exactly what a country!The Irish government introduced that it'll draft new legislation to explain the nation's limited abortion prohibit.Judd Apatow's new movie consists of jokes about killing children. Edgy!The Vatican states gay marriage is really a false paradise. The Vatican knows a great deal about false utopias.The CDC reviews a 22 percent rise in Aids among youthful gay males.Guns sold-out at Wal-Mart as magazine prices surge. America! Exactly what a country!For those who have 89 cents, take a look at Large Al's doomsday prepper song.New counterterrorism database rules threaten the privacy of each and every American.Sheldon Adelson spent around $150 million trying to purchase the 2012 election. America! Exactly what a country!Newt Gingrich thinks he'd did much better than Mitt Romney if he'd been nominated. (But everybody still hates you, Newt!)Where's your figgy pudding? The following.