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When you are too fucking stupid to make a cogent, rational comment on the political scene, you stoop to idiotic shit like this:
AP Reporter Calls Chelsea Clinton “Tall and Attractive” Wait, What?....
Pandering or bad vision?....
Remember, kids… this is the same cretin who tells us that it is “liberals” who engage in personal attacks. Go take a long look in the nearest mirror, Zippy.
UPDATE 12/31/07 7:20 PM EST: Predictably, “Duncan Avatar” at And Rightly So proves that he, too, has a terminal case of the stupids, and is another pathetic sufferer of Clinton Derangement Syndrome.
I’ve taken apart the “thinking” of the bigoted eliminationist Michael from Flight Pundit in the past. Here’s an example of his latest incomprehensible spew:
Because he we a simpleton pile of crap on America.
Try as I might, I cannot make myself believe that this was written by a sentient being. The sad part is that Michael probably thinks his prose is golden… a sure victim of the Dunning-Kruger effect if ever there was one.
In commenting recently on an article in the Baltimore Chronicle, the mouthbreathing hate-addict “Emperor Misha” exhibits a degree of hypocrisy and intolerance that may be unparalleled in the wingnut blogosphere.
The Chronicle article speculates on the possible changes in the American political scene if and when the warming of the Earth’s climate were to cause flooding along the US coasts. Misha, paying little if any attention to the actual content of the article, screeches that the author is calling for “wholesale slaughter”. A clear reading of the Chronicle article reveals that the author neither says nor implies that anyone should die.
This is a claim one cannot make regarding Misha himself. He has, at various times, called for the murder of policemen, a judge, and a district attorney. Killing people who disagree with him, or who have done the least little thing he finds offensive, is a constant theme in Misha’s posts. Many of the commenters on his post seem to become nearly orgasmic at the thought of committing murder.
Eliminationist rhetoric is a mainstay of the far right blogosphere. Misha’s claim that it is the “left” that desires slaughter is both transparently dishonest and a textbook example of projection.
Here is yet another in the endless stream of examples of far-right wingnuts who believe that killing people — even people they have never met, and about whom they know absolutely nothing — is a perfectly wonderful thing.
The morally incompetent cretin “Big Dog” is celebrating (yes, that is the correct word) the death of one man and the mauling of two others by a tiger that escaped its confinement at the San Francisco Zoo. Big Dog appears to be overjoyed that these people were killed and injured. Why? Because he believes that the victims were from San Francisco, and he is actually stupid enough to think that he knows the political views of every single inhabitant of San Francisco (he refers to the victims as “moonbats”), and killing moonbats is, in Big Dog’s twisted, perverted world view, Always a Good Thing:
I imagine the moonbats did not perceive the tiger as a threat and that if they only reasoned with it, all would be well… Sometimes preemptive strikes are good…
This is the kind of eliminationist rhetoric one finds all too often on the fringes of the far right. If you do not think exactly as they do, if you do not toe the wingnut line, you deserve to die. Remember this, the next time you see Big Dog or one of his ilk trying to lecture someone on an issue of morality. They themselves have none.
Juan Cole reminds us of the Top Ten Myths about Iraq 2007:
10. Myth: The US public no longer sees Iraq as a central issue in the 2008 presidential campaign.
In a recent ABC News/ Washington Post poll, Iraq and the economy were virtually tied among voters nationally, with nearly a quarter of voters in each case saying it was their number one issue. The economy had become more important to them than in previous months (in November only 14% said it was their most pressing concern), but Iraq still rivals it as an issue!
9. Myth: There have been steps toward religious and political reconciliation in Iraq in 2007. Fact: The government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has for the moment lost the support of the Sunni Arabs in parliament. The Sunnis in his cabinet have resigned. Even some Shiite parties have abandoned the government. Sunni Arabs, who are aware that under his government Sunnis have largely been ethnically cleansed from Baghdad, see al-Maliki as a sectarian politician uninterested in the welfare of Sunnis.
8. Myth: The US troop surge stopped the civil war that had been raging between Sunni Arabs and Shiites in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.
Fact: The civil war in Baghdad escalated during the US troop escalation. Between January, 2007, and July, 2007, Baghdad went from 65% Shiite to 75% Shiite. UN polling among Iraqi refugees in Syria suggests that 78% are from Baghdad and that nearly a million refugees relocated to Syria from Iraq in 2007 alone. This data suggests that over 700,000 residents of Baghdad have fled this city of 6 million during the US ‘surge,’ or more than 10 percent of the capital’s population. Among the primary effects of the ‘surge’ has been to turn Baghdad into an overwhelmingly Shiite city and to displace hundreds of thousands of Iraqis from the capital.
The sad, morally vacuous hatemongers at StopTheACLU.com have chosen to celebrate the season by once again wishing death on others:
That’s what passes for “peace on earth, good will towards men” with the gutless pissants at StopTheACLU.com.
For those of you who do understand the true spirit of Christmas, I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy Hannukah. May peace and joy be yours through the coming year.
Michael Montoure has written what may be the finest, most succinct essay on the elusive art of happiness and self-improvement that I have ever read…
Find the demon.
Do you know what I’m talking about? It’s the little voice in the back of your head that’s always whispering, “You can’t.” You know the demon. You may think you hate the demon, but you don’t. You love it. You let it own you. You do everything it says. Every time there’s something you want, you consult the demon first, to see if it will say, “You can’t have that.”
What you don’t realize is that your demon doesn’t know anything. It’s an idiot. It’s nothing but a parrot, repeating back to you anything negative that its ever heard, anything that makes you hurt, makes you squirm. If a teacher once told you “You’ll never accomplish anything,” it was listening; it hoards words like that and repeats them back to you to watch you jump. It doesn’t know what its saying. It doesn’t care.
Exorcise yourself.
You can take me literally or not, as suits you. But do, please, the next time you hear that voice in your head, imagine it, visualize it, as something physical that you can get hold of; tear it out of you, feel its fingers weaken and lose their grip on your spine, and grind it to dust, to nothing, under your boot heel on your way out to dance in the streets.
You can. You think you can’t; but it’s telling you that. You can.
Mrs. Doucette…
Yesterday, you or someone associated with you responded to a trackback from my article “Hoosier Army Mom advertises her ignorance” with the following comment, which I have mirrored here:
Let me tell you something “MeatBrain” — you run your Twinkle-toed Communist loving Mouth one more time against Hoosier Army Mom, and I’ll permanently ban your slant-eyed, gook-ass forever!
The phrase “slant-eyed, gook-ass” is quite obviously racist, and I pointed that out in a second article entitled “Blatant racism at Hoosier Army Mom’s Blog”. I sent a trackback from that article to your blog post. However, either you or someone associated with you has chosen to alter the text of my trackback (mirror), making it appear that I said the following:
Hoosier Army Mom’s Blog – the best I’ve ever read!
Hoosier Army Mom – I really enjoy coming here and reading such great posts, and I apologize for being such an ass by posting nasty things about you on my blog which simply aren’t true.
I’m sorry – guess I’ll have to go over to Cao’s place and see if I can stir up more trouble there – keep the great posts coming, as I’m really lonely and need to read alot!
Trackback by ThinkingMeat | December 22, 2007
As you may be aware, trackbacks include an excerpt from the article that initiates the trackback. Since the text of the trackback as displayed on your blog does not appear in my original article, the trackback has clearly been altered. It is, in effect, a forgery that you have posted under my name.
You entreat those who disagree with you to do so “respectfully and factually”. Do you believe that you have any right to make such a request, when it is clear that you are unwilling to treat those who comment at your blog with respect, and are so obviously willing to ignore the facts and lie about what they have said?
— mbP.S. Please do not waste any time whining about my use of your real name. You have already published this information publicly.
UPDATE 12/22/07 9:50 AM EST: Quite predictably, Judy Doucette (or someone with admin access to her blog) deleted the falsified trackback shortly after I posted this. Naturally, I have it mirrored.
Not much comment needed on this racist rant posted today at “Hoosier Army Mom’s Blog”...
Let me tell you something “MeatBrain” — you run your Twinkle-toed Communist loving Mouth one more time against Hoosier Army Mom, and I’ll permanently ban your slant-eyed, gook-ass forever!
Scratch a rightie, find a racist.
Jim Hoft has a hissy fit because Pat Buchanan’s American Conservative magazine depicted Rudy Giuliani in an outfit not unlike that of a Nazi stormtrooper:
Buchanan could have put Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, John McCain or Fred Thompson in the Nazi garb and it still would be shameful and in very poor taste.
Brown shirts?
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Go away Pat Buchanan.
So, you’d think that Jim Hoft would recoil from calling anyone a Nazi, wouldn’t you? I mean, Godwin’s Law still applies, right?
Aopparently not. Jim Hoft is only to happy to applaud the use of the Nazi card when it’s played against someone he disagrees with:
Monday, July 16, 2007:
O’Reilly Says- “Daily Kos Is Like Nazi Party & Ku Klux Klan”
Well… Too bad for Daily Kos...
It looks like the cat’s out of the bag, now.
Daily Kos was outed tonight on the O’Reilly Factor
Monday, September 17, 2007:
O’Reilly Slams “Fascist and Nazi” Firedoglake Blogger
O’Reilly Takes Out Another Far Left Blog
Bill O’Reilly continued his attacks on the “fascist and nazi” bloggers on the Far Left last night on the O’Reilly Factor. O’Reilly singled out Firedoglake blogger Jane Hamsher for her recent attack on Elizabeth Edwards.
You see, it’s perfectly all right with Widdle Jimmy Hoft for the “Nazi” accusation to be hurled when the target is someone he doesn’t like. It’s only when it gets used against someone he likes that Widdle Jimmy starts wailing.
Stay stupid, Widdle Jimmy. God knows you don’t have much choice in the matter…
Yes, even a mother can be an ignorant cretin. “Hoosier Army Mom” stands as living proof. She babbles:
“Do nothing” Democrapper Congress does something... They allow the GOP in the Senate to set a record for most filibusters ever.”
Notice that she goes on to say that:
The 49-member Senate Republican minority has done something no Senate minority in American history has ever done … they’ve filibustered more bills than any Congress ever has — and they broke the record with a full year to spare.
But Mom ignores the facts, and pretends that it isn’t the Republican’s fault for mounting a record number of filibusters, thus becoming the most obstructionist minority in Senate history… oh, noooo. It’s supposed to be the Democrat’s fault for letting them do it… despite the fact that current Senate rules require a minimum of sixty votes to invoke cloture of a filibuster. The 51 Democrats in the Senate cannot force cloture by themselves. The idea that they “allowed” the Republicans to filibuster a record number of times in this session is ludicrous.
The facts demonstrate just how idiotic Mom’s claim is:
So far in just the first session of the 110th Congress, Republicans have required cloture votes against filibusters 62 times. The Republicans are on pace to force 134 cloture votes, more than double the recent historical average and more than double the previous Congress, when the Democrats were in the minority. As the figure below shows, Democrats in the last Congress imposed only 54 filibuster threats and cloture votes. The previous record was 61 cloture votes during the entire 107th Congress of 2001-02. The conservatives of 2007 matched that mark in only the first session.
What is it with wingnut dipshits like Mom, and their utter disconnect from reality?
It seems that John J. Ray has a hard time writing about anything without lying.
Read what the Philadelphia Jewish Voice wrote, beginning with a quote from sex-obsessed former congressweenie Rick Santorum (who is quoting Barack Obama):
It’s vital that we put aside politics to find new and effective ways to confront Ahmadinejad and Iran’s mullahs. As one presidential candidate recently stated: “The Iranian government uses the billions of dollars it earns from its oil and gas industry to build its nuclear program and to fund terrorist groups that export its militaristic and radical ideology to Iraq and throughout the Middle East.”
Rudolph Giuliani? Mitt Romney? Fred Thompson? No, it was the can’t-we-all-get-along candidate, Barack Obama.
...
Rick Santorum recorded these words in his third outing as The Philadelphia Inquirer’s highly touted new columnist in a piece headlined “Put aside politics to confront Iran.” It was word play on the very comment that Rodney King made 15 years ago, and Santorum applied it to another African-American (one who happens to have a reasonable chance of becoming the Democratic candidate for president).
Now read the lie that John J. Ray, M.A., Ph.D. posted in response:
Did you get that? It took me a while. He is claiming that “Put aside politics to confront Iran” is a quotation of “Why can’t we all get along?”
Such a comparison is more reminiscent of schizophrenic thought disorder than anything else. It’s amazing enough that anyone wrote such an incredible comparison but what about the editor who decided that it was good enough to publish?
Wrong, lying shitwad. Quite clearly, the phrase that is being compared to Rodney King’s famous utterance is “the can’t-we-all-get-along candidate”. You’ve got an M.A. and a Ph.D., so clearly you’re not so stupid that you missed that. Therefore, you must be deliberately lying. This is made obvious by the fact that you omitted the Santorum quote from your post, the better to deceive your readers.
Perhaps, Mr. John J. Ray, M.A., Ph.D., you’d care to explain why you chose to lie?
Poor Big Dog… he tried, he really did. Alas, he managed only one out of three. And — of course — he had to lie along the way.
Yesterday I challenged Big Dog to answer a few simple questions about his recent screed about Iran and the recent National Intelligence Estimate that concludes that Iran halted its work on nuclear weapons some years ago. Let’s see how the doggie did:
1. Who in the intelligence community, specifically and by name, has indicated that Iran does not pose a threat?
I cannot answer the question as it is posed because it asks for the name of one person.
Um… no, it does not. Nothing in the question requires that the answer be limited to one person. Big Dog dodges the question by the simple expedient of lying about what it asked.
The National Intelligence Estimate was prepared by a number of people and the press release on it was written by Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Dr. Donald M. Kerr.
I don’t recall asking who wrote the press release. Big Dog throws in an irrelevant fact as a smoke screen for his non-answer.
The NIE is comprised of information provided by many intelligence analysts so naming one specific person is something I cannot do.
Again: I did not ask for the name of only one specific person.
The question also takes the original post out of context. I was writing about nuclear weapons and said «Basically, according to the intelligence community, Iran does not pose a threat.» The logical conclusion of the statement is …to make nuclear weapons (and I indicated they might later but not now).
This is known as “moving the goalposts”. Big Dog’s statement was “Basically, according to the intelligence community, Iran does not pose a threat”. If he meant “Iran does not pose a threat to make nuclear weapons”, then he should have said so.
The report states that Iran has not been working on nuclear weapons since 2003 (emphasis should focus on the fact that they were prior to that despite their denials) and that they have not since then and there is no indication they will but if they do it will be well into the next decade (well into the next president’s watch).
Yes, that is what the report states. And Big Dog has presented no evidence whatsoever that these conclusions are incorrect. Yet he still excoriates “the intelligence community” (without, conveniently, naming any relevant names) for making a claim that no one, to my knowledge, has made: that “Iran does not pose a threat”.
In fact, if the report is correct (and Big Dog thus far has failed to show otherwise), then it demonstrates just how foolish the Bush administration’s Iraq misadventure has been:
Read the rest of this entry »What it really means is that faced with two neighbors in the spring of 2003 who both harbored nuclear ambitions, we invaded the country without an active WMD program while ignoring the one that did. I’m not suggesting we should have invaded Iran instead, but by the Administration’s own reckoning, we should have.
It puts an exclamation point on the colossal folly of our Iraq adventure.
Harry Reid Does It Again!
“Al Qaeda is winning in Iraq… America is losing.”
Reid never uttered that phrase.
Jim Hoft again fabricates a quote.
THERE IS NO LIE THAT JIM HOFT WILL NOT TELL.
THERE IS NO LIE THAT JIM HOFT WILL NOT TELL.
THERE IS NO LIE THAT JIM HOFT WILL NOT TELL.
I am a firm believer that the best way to get a wingnut to expose him/her/itself as an unthinking buffoon is to ask a few simple questions, then sit back and watch the poor schlemiel thrash around in utter confusion. Let’s see if it works with a recent example of Big Dog’s rubbish:
The report is out and the intelligence community has weighed in on Iran and it has determined that Iran has no nukes and that while they might acquire the capability to build them, they are not yet at that state. Basically, according to the intelligence community, Iran does not pose a threat. Never mind the fact that this is the same intelligence community that said Iran was working on nukes and never mind the fact that Israel has a vastly different opinion. We should also ignore the fact that Iran stopped working on its nuclear program and then started back up without anyone knowing and that they deliberately took actions to keep from being detected. We should also forget that the people telling us Iran is not a threat is the same community that missed 9/11 completely.
Here are three simple questions for Big Dog to answer — if he can:
- Who in the intelligence community, specifically and by name, has indicated that Iran does not pose a threat?
- In what previous NIE (National Intelligence Estimate) report did “the intelligence community” state unequivocally that Iran was developing nuclear weapons?
- How do you reconcile your claim that the intelligence community “missed 9/11 completely” with the fact that the August 6, 2001, Presidential Daily Briefing, which was titled “Bin Laden determined to strike in US”, specifically noted that Osama bin Laden intended to conduct terrorist attacks on U.S. cities, that members of his Al Qaeda operatives had traveled to or lived in the U.S. for years, that bin Laden had previously expressed a desire to hijack an American aircraft, and that “FBI information since that time indicate[d] patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York”?
Let’s see if Big Dog can actually supply the facts to back up his spew.
Over at the hysterically misnamed In My Right Mind, genocide advocate Clay has chosen to advertise not only his own ignorance and incompetence, but that of his father as well:
This is a comment my father submitted to his local paper in response to the local school board’s decision to embrace the scientific theory of evolution whole heartedly:
Well let’s see now about this evolution thing. If man evolved from monkeys – why do we still have monkeys? Why is there no known link between monkeys and people? What am I missing?
This is a good point. It would be interesting to see what sort of response the pro-evolutionists would have to offer in explaining this obstruction to their water tight theory. And I should stress the work theory.
And I should stress that if Clay or his imbecile father had bothered to get off their collective fat asses and actually look for the facts, they would have found that this “argument” is so laughably weak that even creationists are cautioning their fellow ignoramuses against using it:
...[T]he main point against this statement is that many evolutionists believe that a small group of creatures split off from the main group and became reproductively isolated from the main large population, and that most change happened in the small group which can lead to allopatric speciation (a geographically isolated population forming a new species). So there’s nothing in evolutionary theory that requires the main group to become extinct.
The always-useful talk.origins archive puts it a bit more colloquially, but still makes the point:
If we evolved from apes, why are there still apes today?
Huh?? Scientists think that one group of apes, in response to their environment, started evolving in a way that would eventually lead to humanity (and many other now-extinct hominids). Why on earth should that cause the rest of the apes to go extinct? It’s as silly as saying “If I am descended from Irish ancestors [which I am], why are there still Irish people around?” (Yes, I’m aware that I haven’t evolved from my Irish forebears; the point is that whatever happened to my ancestors, it didn’t affect the rest of the Irish population.)
The answers are out there, Clay. You just have to stop protecting your ignorance at all costs.
Tell your dad the same.
Received today… no comment needed…
From: “Justin Higgins” <right@rightontheright.com>
To: <meatbrain@thinkingmeat.net>
Subject: I’ve Been Kind
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:49:40 -0500...By the way, stop masturbating when I e-mail me, it’s getting gross.
Justin Higgins, everybody’s favorite boy chickenhawk, has let fly another screech of panic:
I don’t give a damn if you think it’s cruel, waterboarding doesn’t physically injure the person, and it’s effective. I don’t give a damn if you think we are “above that,” because we’re dealing with terrorists known for beheadings, rapes, and even cutting off extremities and shoving them down our soldiers’ throats. I say waterboarding is too humane.
First off, Justin is lying outright. Waterboarding can indeed cause physical injury or death. In testimony before the Senate earlier this year, Allen S. Keller, M.D., director of the Bellevue Hospital Center/New York University Program for Survivors of Torture, stated:
As the prisoner gags and chokes, the terror of imminent death is pervasive, with all of the physiologic and psychological responses expected, including an intense stress response, manifested by tachycardia, rapid heart beat and gasping for breath. There is a real risk of death from actually drowning or suffering a heart attack or damage to the lungs from inhalation of water.Read the rest of this entry »
When I read this article by driftglass, I immediately though of Cao, Ogre, Hoosier Army Mom, and other faux “Christians” who are foursquare for barbarism…
The Base is pro-torture for the simple reason that they are sadists and imbeciles; because unless somewhere some Scary Brown Person is being beaten to death with a pipe wrench in their name, they feel empty and impotent and afraid.
Like their slaveholder great-grandfathers, their Jim Crow grandfathers and John Birch daddies, their entire identity is undergirded by an ideology that says — as hateful, cowardly, ignorant and covetous of everyone and everything as they are — nonetheless they are somehow God’s Chosen.
And the only way to reconcile their weakness and powerlessness with their Chosen status is to find an Enemy and make that Enemy pay dearly for the “brokenness” of their universe.
(hat tip: Mike the Mad Biologist)
Several assailants attacked a Jewish man on a New York subway last Friday:
Friday’s altercation on the Q train began when somebody yelled out “Merry Christmas,” to which rider Walter Adler responded, “Happy Hanukkah,” said Toba Hellerstein.
“Almost immediately, you see the look in this guy’s face like I’ve called his mother something,” Adler told CNN affiliate WABC.Two women who were with a group of 10 rowdy people then began to verbally assault Adler’s companions with anti-Semitic language, Hellerstein said.
One member of the group allegedly yelled, “Oh, Hanukkah. That’s the day that the Jews killed Jesus,” she said.
When Adler tried to intercede, a male member of the group punched him, she said.
Another passenger, Hassan Askari—a Muslim student from Bangladesh—came to Adler’s aid, and the group began physically and verbally assaulting him, Hellerstein said.
One wonders: How many self-professed Christians were among those who attacked Adler? How many self-professed Christians were among those who stood by and did nothing during the attack?
Once more, children: Religions, in and of themselves, do not commit crimes and atrocities. People do.
(Hat tip: Pharyngula)
Remember Cao? She was so baffled by the results of her misspelled search query at Google that she leapt immediately to the conclusion that Google was guilty of a “manipulation of the flow of information”. Couldn’t possibly have been her error, could it? Oh, no… it was all part of a terrible consipracy by the evil Googlites…
She’s at it again. Amazingly, her stupidity has snowballed to the point that she can’t even successfully search Google for one of her own articles:
How odd. The R. Kevin Jaques post about sharia law is being indexed by google thusly:
Well… no. Cao is apparently too slack-jawed stupid to conduct a simple search for a post on her own blog:
Google is indexing Cao’s post exactly as it should be indexed. Cao simply cannot successfully search her own blog when she knows (or should know) exactly what words and phrases to search for.
It’s utterly amazing, it truly is. Remember this astonishing display of incompetence the next time Cao lectures us on how ignorant we all are about this, that, or the other terrible conspiracy of the eeeeeevvviiillll lefffffftisssssts…
UPDATE 12/12/07 7:55 AM EST: Cao has updated her post, and claims both there and in the comments below that the IP address of “Performance Systems International” indicates that Google accessed her site through a now-invalid URL. I have to wonder why Cao believes that the IP address 38.98.19.68 indicates a visit from Google.
If this woman’s story is true, your tax dollars are being used to hire mercenaries who rape US citizens and then imprison them to prevent the crime from being reported:
Jamie Leigh Jones, now 22, says that after she was raped by multiple men at a KBR camp in the Green Zone, the company put her under guard in a shipping container with a bed and warned her that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, shed be out of a job....
In a lawsuit filed in federal court against Halliburton and its then-subsidiary KBR, Jones says she was held in the shipping container for at least 24 hours without food or water by KBR, which posted armed security guards outside her door, who would not let her leave.
And what is the wingnutosphere reaction to all this? The semi-literate pusworm that calls itself “Rusty Shackleford” whines that the story told by Ms. Jones is “too perfect” to be believable. Right Wing Nation labels the story a “fraud”. The commenters at Ace of Spades, not one of whom has the least shred of evidence to support their claims, are pulling out all the stops and accusing Ms. Jones of lying.
That’s the moral high ground that the far right fanatics of this country occupy, folks. If anyone says anything that might erode the public’s support for their favorite war, then no matter what, the warmongering bastards must — MUST! — smear whoever has dared to open their mouth.
See also Jon Swift’s brilliant commentary on the reaction of the brave, patriotic milbloggers.
(hat tip: Daily Kos)
This is an example of the behavior of a self-proclaimed “Christian”.
I could not possibly do a better job of demonstrating the moral incompetence of this lying bitch than she has done herself.
Russ Belville does a commendable job of taking apart the “Christian Nation” nonsense so prevalent in the wingnutosphere…
The Pledge of Allegiance with “under God” and “In God We Trust” on our money didn’t exist until the 1950’s, when babbling Biblical literalists insisted we add those phrases to distinguish ourselves from the godless atheist Communist menace. Furthermore, our founding documents — the Declaration and the Constitution — nowhere do they mention “God”, “Jesus”, or “Bible”. There are references to “Creator” and “Nature’s God”. This was not an accident. There were those among the delegates to the Constitutional convention that wanted it to very clearly mention Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father, and Jefferson, Madison and the others shot that down. Jefferson himself didn’t believe in the deity of Christ; he created the Jefferson Bible, where he keeps the words of Jesus but redacts all the mumbo-jumbo miracles and cruel God stuff. Thomas Paine was a flaming atheist, most of the Founding Fathers were Deists (God exists, but is so big we needn’t bother worshipping Him) and Freemasons. Historians tell us that by 1800, only 10 percent of Americans attended any sort of church.
Good stuff. Read the rest.
Hoo boy. Another craven, terrified wingnut sings the praises of torture... this time, it’s a slackjawed peabrain that calls herself “Hoosier Army Mom”...
So now we have the liberal moonbats whining that our CIA should not use “torture” on terror suspects because it’s cruel and just plain MEAN.
This is a lazy and dishonest representation of the arguments against torture, AKA the straw man tactic, with a little ad hominem thrown in for good measure. Nothing like a big ol’ steaming bowl of fallacy soup, is there, Mom?
Here’s a challenge for you, Mom: Can you find the actual arguments that have been made against torture — some by high-ranking military officers serving this country — and represent them honestly? Can you then provide rational counter-arguments?
No, I didn’t think you could.
Read the rest of this entry »The intellectual dishonesty of baby wingnut Justin Higgins never fails to amaze. I recently pointed out his misuse of a word — “convicted” — in one of his recent posts. Read the entire exchange here.
You have to view the mirror I captured, because Justin has deleted the discussion. Why? It exposed his ignorance and dishonesty, that’s why. I didn’t really care whether Justin misused the word, but I strongly suspected going in that he’d pull a boneheaded stunt if I challenged him. Never one to disappoint, Justin pulled several boneheaded stunts: Read the rest of this entry »
