Huh~anti-gay booth at the state fair.  It’s a wonder they didn’t put it near the animals to really make the point.

We didn’t have nothing like that at our fair ‘cause we have marriage equality; if it wasn’t for all the rain lately Vermont would be perfect.

That gave me such a happy to watch that - I had to watch it a couple more times.  Especially the people giving them some heat at the end.

I loved the guy telling the priest and assorted booth hangers-on (or leaners-on, as the case may be) that “the state fair should have never allowed you guys out here!” 

Phoney wingnut screeching has become such a continuous background drone lately that I wonder if anyone other than fellow wingers are listening; white noise is easy to tune out when its constant.

Wow. Did not know that.  Another reason not to go to the Fair(like I needed one).  But, the glitter thing is pretty much done.  I will say it’s harmless and colorful, though.

Just got back from the AK state fair, we had no such boof. But the anti-choicers have an interesting booth location-right next to Mexican food and barbeque (Roscoe’s-I LUVS THEM!). I’ve often wondered, what’s the message in the location? God’s obviously pissed at Texas, Missouri, Louisiana, the Eastern Seaboard, Florida, Alabama (okay, that one is a given), and Georgia. Did He place the antichoice boof as a SIGN?

Sigh-we didn’t even have an overhead tram…we Alaskans had to WALK everywhere. ‘Sotians are pussies.

I don’t think the Puyallup starts until later this week, but I’ll dutifully go and eat scones with raspberry jam and look for booths full of bigots to laugh at.  I think it’s pretty neat that kids still enter pigs and bunnies in contests, so I like to go and stroll around.

Utah’s state fair starts this week, and I love to go to it, despite the extreme redneckiness that pervades it. I too like the pigs and bunnies, and the quilts and cakes and PREserves and giant pumpkins and whatnot.

It’s always a shock to me that there are people in America who are stupid and shameless enough to man a booth like that on a carnival midway.

By rights, they belong in Freak Alley with the jarred deformed animal fetuses and the White Hottentot.

Knittingbull, I used to work for Planned Parenthood in Chicago years ago. When we were scouting a building for our new clinic that did (ahem) ALL services, we found a location that was perfect - except it was next to a restaurant called “The Butcher Shop.” So we passed.

(Then again, when I lived in San Francisco, I was sad that a casket shop was denied permission to move into my neighborhood, because it would have been right next door to a pub called “The Bitter End.”)

I worked the ERA Illinois booth one summer for the EXTREMELY conservative DuPage County Fair. That was big larfs! (Actually, it was—the STOP-ERA biddies were out with their “Don’t draft wimmenz!” stuff and I asked them if there was anything I could sign to keep my brother and my male friends from being drafted, too. They got flustered.)

@Oblomova-

(Then again, when I lived in San Francisco, I was sad that a casket shop was denied permission to move into my neighborhood, because it would have been right next door to a pub called “The Bitter End.”)

The marketing opportunities that were lost, it boggles the mind.
I came up with three tshirts in 30 seconds, and I’d wear every one of ‘em.

Did you happen to ask the antiERA wimmenz if they like the right to vote? Work? Be married? Not be married? Control over their health? Sigh. The stoopid never ends.

@knittingbull,

Sigh-we didn’t even have an overhead tram…we Alaskans had to WALK everywhere. ‘Sotians are pussies.

Dem’s fighting words, and I’m ready to rumble.  Glitter-off at seven paces!

Dem’s fighting words, and I’m ready to rumble.  Glitter-off at seven paces!

I’ll bring my circular knitting needles! That’ll larn ya! I also have a dog with SPOTS! He’ll LICK you until you cry for mercy!

I did wonder, however-do many beers get dumped on passers-by? That would happen here (which might indicate why we don’t have one, apart from regular earthquakes). Do they take requests? Before I stopped drinking, I was very fond of Guinness (IT’S GOOD FOR YOU). Never got into lagers, but a good stout is balm for the soul.

Poll respondents rejected the amendment with 29.8 percent voting “yes” and 66.5 percent voting “no”

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

Maybe one day that enlightenment will spread here to Utah, but I ain’t holding my breath.