This type of fanaticism may well ensure Obama’s re-election.
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Birtherism refuses to die
Why is this man laughing?
Meet Pastor Rodney Harold Browne, the latest boob to endorse Newt (along with Todd Palin, Chuck Norris and Rick Perry).
Actually, “boob” is too kind a description for this con man:
When the Holy Ghost Bartender (who also refers to himself as the Holy Ghost Hitman) arrived at my seat, he began threatening to have me thrown out of the sanctuary. “I’m telling you right now,” he hissed, “you’ll drop dead if you prohibit what God is doing!” Dramatically he gestured toward the crowd and warned them that those like me, who would dare question that what he was doing was of God, had committed the unpardonable sin and would not be forgiven in this world or the next.
The following day he crowed, “The last time I had a confrontation like that…was…with a bunch of Mormons… you could see their spirit, y’know…just a really religious, pharisaical spirit, that’s what it is. Amen?…And I smelt it — y’know, I can smell them religious devils from about a hundred yards —- I could smell them blindfolded, man….You could see, last night we meant business.” He labeled his critics “idiots” and warned that they were about to experience either “riot or revival.”
Browne introduced Gingrich Monday at a rally in Tampa. Somehow, he refrained from laughing.
ELO in Satan’s service
Remember backward masking?
Cap du jour
This pic of a Gators fan, snapped Saturday in Jacksonville, requires no explanation (via Facebook). 
The anti-activist activist
My new crusade (by activist I mean the people seen below). Activists with rational, selfless aims are excluded; activists who employ human microphones are not.
Pick a side
Racists or religious fanatics?
Protesting members of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church were met with an unlikely group of counter-protesters Monday at Arlington Cemetery. …
Among those counter-protesting at the cemetery’s main entrance: About 10 members of a group that claims to be a branch of the Ku Klux Klan from Virginia called the Knights of the Southern Cross.
Hitler or Pol Pot? Red Sox or Yankees? Glee or American Idol?
The insanity goes both ways
Politico’s Ben Smith reminds us partisan delusion isn’t limited to just one party.
“How likely is it that people in the federal government either assisted in the 9/11 attacks or took no action to stop the attacks because they wanted the United States to go to war in the Middle East?” the [2006] poll asked.
A full 22.6% of Democrats said it was “very likely.” Another 28.2% called it “somewhat likely.”
That is: More than half of Democrats, according to a neutral survey, said they believed Bush was complicit in the 9/11 terror attacks.
Two distinctions:
- Accusing someone of murdering 2,752 innocents is much worse than lying about another’s birthplace.
- None of the Democrats running for president in 2008 sought to appeal to the lunatic fringe by claiming Bush engineered the 9/11 attacks.
Good thing James Frey isn’t writing about Muhammad
Disgraced author James Frey, in a new tome chronicling the Second Coming of Christ, depicts the Messiah as “an active bisexual who supports his prostitute girlfriend when she aborts her first child.”
Replace Jesus with Muhammad and I think you can guess the consequences in places such as Kandahar. While forcing Frey into hiding might count as a good thing, innocent lives would likely be lost.
I bring this up not to to indulge in theological superiority but to consider the impact of such religious fervor on American foreign policy. Wishing it weren’t so and trying to rationalize the inexcusable gets us nowhere.
It’s also instructive to note the violent reaction to the idiot Florida pastor’s Koran burning was pretty much contained to Afghanistan. If, as Bachmann Palin Overdrive claim, Islamic extremists have taken over in Egypt (they heard it on Rush), why did they pass on an opportunity to stir up a frenzy? That’s what they do.
Note how our politicians tend to a.) minimize the threat posed by Muslim fanatics or b.) exaggerate their influence.
Blame it on the gays
Guess who’s responsible for those mysterious bird deaths in Arkansas?
Rhetoric is not irrelevant
I haven’t vetted this, and I’m reluctant to comment until all the facts are in. Still …
UPDATE: Jesse Kelly was Giffords’ opponent in the Nov. election. Can we at least agree this kind of posturing is, at best, absurd?
I salute his service, but I don’t recall Ike driving around with a pistol in his crotch when he ran for political office.
How long ’til the NRA says, “If only the congresswoman was packing heat…”
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Conspiratorial fanatic mulls GOP prez run
ABC News, citing a source close to the congresswoman, first reported Wednesday morning that [Minnesota Rep. Michele] Bachmann is seriously weighing a presidential bid. Bachmann confirmed she is planning to visit Iowa on Jan. 21—and that visit is aimed at making sure that after 2010 Republican victories, “step two will be repealing President Obama…in 2012.” Her appearance at a fundraiser for the Iowans for Tax Relief PAC will be her third visit to Iowa in the past eight months, and she has also spent time in the early primary state of Michigan.
A look at some of Bachmann’s nuttier statements:
- “I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out: Are they pro-America or anti-America?” -Rep. Michelle Bachmann, calling for a new McCarthyism, Oct. 2008
- “I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out under another, then under another Democrat president, Jimmy Carter. I’m not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it’s an interesting coincidence.” -Rep. Michele Bachmann, on the 1976 Swine Flu outbreak that happened when Gerald Ford, a Republican, was president, April 28, 2009
- “Take this into consideration. If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations at the request of President Roosevelt, and that’s how the Japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps. I’m not saying that that’s what the Administration is planning to do, but I am saying that private personal information that was given to the Census Bureau in the 1940s was used against Americans to round them up, in a violation of their constitutional rights, and put the Japanese in internment camps.” -Rep. Michele Bachmann, June 2009
- “Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn’t even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas.” -Rep. Michelle Bachmann, April, 2009
That she has “credibility with tea party conservatives” speaks volumes about the tea party.
A tip of the cap to Oklahoma
Karma’s a bitch, even in Oklahoma:
Members of a Kansas church that protests at military funerals may have found themselves in the wrong town Saturday.
Shortly after finishing their protest at the funeral of Army Sgt. Jason James McCluskey of McAlester, a half-dozen protesters from Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., headed to their minivan, only to discover that its front and rear passenger-side tires had been slashed.
To make matters worse, as their minivan slowly hobbled away on two flat tires, with a McAlester police car following behind, the protesters were unable to find anyone in town who would repair their vehicle, according to police.
Related Articles
- OKLAHOMA: Westboro Church Gets Tires Slashed, Locals Refuse To Perform Repairs (joemygod.blogspot.com)
Dispatches from the fringe
Daily Kos compares religious right to Taliban
Squirrelly progressive pundit Markos Moulitsas demonstrates little regard for reality or context:
But if the argument is that American conservatives and Islamic fundamentalists don’t share the same goals, then that’s just delusion.
