2007

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.

Go read the whole thing.

(hat tip: Mike the Mad Biologist)

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.

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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.

Hey, moron:

If your child’s beliefs can be shattered by a CGI polar bear on a movie screen, you’ve got bigger problems than this one film.

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 »