Wednesday, September 01, 2010

...by way of Wall of Voodoo’s inestimable Stan Ridgway.

There’s always a good reason for war. Or, conversely—Who needed a reason in The New American Century?

Posted by StrangeAppar8us on 09/01/10 at 11:23 AM
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During his speech last night, your preznit showed insufficient gratitude to Bush for his role in our Excellent Iraqi Adventure. Sensing that this would be the case even before the speech was delivered, prominent wingnuts preemptively dialed the Butt-Hurt Advisory Level up to Red.

However, the color-coded warning system reached unprecedented Throbbing Purple status once the last frame of the speech was viewed and the bunch who spent eight years polishing Bush’s knob realized that the Kenyan really, really, really wasn’t going admit the Sun Tzu of Crawford was Right About The Surge.

But fear not, wingnuts: Last night, Rachel Maddow gave Bush and his enablers the full measure of credit they deserve:

I’m left wondering how on earth Republicans haul their ginormous stones around without the assistance of extra-large wheelbarrows.

Posted by Betty Cracker on 09/01/10 at 10:38 AM
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Thursday, August 26, 2010

Heh. Under the headline “Taking Over the Streets?” Derbyshire at NRO publishes photos from an email fan which the writer avers are “an accurate picture of every Friday afternoon in several locations throughout New York City where there are mosques with a large number of Muslims that cannot fit into the mosque.” Rather than verify the images up-front, he milks their Wholly Speculative Outrage Content, then leaves it to his readers to do his journalism for him:

If this kind of obstruction of roads and sidewalks is really going on in Nurse Bloomberg’s city — where a restaurateur can get a four-digit fine for placing a chair on the sidewalk without the proper permit — it’s a disgrace. But give me the facts, someone, please.

Fortunately, co-Cornerite Yuval Levin hipped him to an online Snopes debunking that correctly identifies the images as scenes from NYC’s annual Muslim Day Parade. However, a quick Google search of Muslim+Prayer+New York would have led him to a June 23 rant by Arch Islamofreakoutista Pam Geller, without having to rely on a well-known source of Liberal Disinformation. 

Posted by StrangeAppar8us on 08/26/10 at 05:57 PM
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Friendly note to Time Magazine:

Those whom heaven helps we call the sons of heaven. They do not learn this by learning. They do not work it by working. They do not reason it by using reason. To let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment. Those who cannot do it will be broken on the lathe of heaven.

—Chuang Tzu

Friendly note to Phyllis Chesler:

I’ll bet you were something before electricity.

—Al Czervik

NOTE: This was originally going to be a meta-post on the “Journalism of the Imponderable.” Then I found Chesler’s article and realized the word I was looking for was “Insufferable.” Also, I want Congress to pass legislation outlawing provocative interrogatory headlines, just because.

Posted by StrangeAppar8us on 08/24/10 at 07:24 PM
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I get tired of hearing that the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution are rooted in Judeo-Christian law, and Betty’s post on Erick al-Amriki convinced me to finally publish my Quick-Scan Bible-America Concordance:

1 And God spoke all these words:

2 “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

3 “You shall have no other gods before [a] me.

4 “You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing love to a thousand {generations} of those who love me and keep my commandments.

7 “You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.

8 “Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. 11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

12 “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

13 “You shall not murder.

14 “You shall not commit adultery.

15 “You shall not steal.

16 “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

Yep, that’s it—America and God share prohibitions against Murder, Theft and Perjury, and all the rest is a) safety tips for stress-free nomadic living and b) God demanding Evian water, BLUE-ONLY M&Ms and 10% of T-shirt sales.

Suck it, Sarah. America isn’t based on Biblical Law; Biblical Law is based on cave paintings. Anyway, Hammurabi did it better—and way ahead of the Jews.

Thanks, Babylon. America is ever in your debt.

Posted by StrangeAppar8us on 08/24/10 at 12:20 PM
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Sunday, August 22, 2010

Non-Muslim man mistaken for a Muslim by hate-eating patriotic dickheads at today’s Patriotic Dickhead Rally in NYC.

NYTimes has late coverage. 

Mrs. Polly was on the scene and should have an eyewitness update down the line.

Stay classy, America.

UPDATE: Insane nobody Tammy Bruce has Park51 totally sussed-out:

I’m convinced this mosque was Obama’s idea. The notion of it and its location. I think he knows he’ll be a one-term president and wants as much destruction to the American psyche as possible. The legacy this man is now establishing is a continuation of the terrorism unleashed in the 90s and defined by 9/11.

Posted by StrangeAppar8us on 08/22/10 at 04:30 PM
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Just more proof that these people are freakin’ evil.

Iranian jet-propelled “Karrar” drone bomber—“Ambassador of Death”

Fully-evolved Klingon “Bird of Prey” (ca. Stardate 8210.3)

They like the same music, too. Just sayin’.

Posted by StrangeAppar8us on 08/22/10 at 12:39 PM
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

There was really no good reason to marry an image of the WTC collapse to a headline teasing rumors that Cordoba Center planners are considering an alternative site…except that pics like this are Forbidden Wingnut Porn, and Matt’s nursing a ten-year-old case of blue-balls.

Original splash below the fold.

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Posted by StrangeAppar8us on 08/17/10 at 08:42 PM
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On Tuesday’s Morning Joe, Load-Bearing Structural Wingnut Pat Buchanan accused Newt Gingrich of trying to out-loony Sarah Palin on the Right, and knocked him for invoking Nazi comparisons with the Cordoba Center.

This is, of course, the same Pat Buchanan who thinks there are too many Jews on the Supreme Court:

If Kagan is confirmed, Jews, who represent less than 2 percent of the U.S. population, will have 33 percent of the Supreme Court seats.

Is this the Democrats’ idea of diversity?

Question: Does Pat really think Newt’s out-of-line? Is he rankled that Newt’s doing his shtick? Or is he just peeved because Newt slammed Hitler?

Posted by StrangeAppar8us on 08/17/10 at 06:13 PM
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Well, she didn’t call out Sarah, specifically, since she wants to return from her tour of the Arctic with Gov. Halfterm alive. But challenging Beck to move his 8/28 rally away from the Lincoln Memorial is still grounds for being stranded on an ice-floe:

Just because you have the right to do something does not mean you should. My view? No mosque at ground zero and Glenn should move his event.

It does not help heal the country on so many fronts if we poke a stick in eyes.

UPDATE: Apparently, the half-life of Principled Courage is shorter than a stoolie’s memory:

I see a lot of bloggers leaving comments don’t agree on this.

I like Glenn Beck, he is not only a colleague of mine but he has been on our show many times.

I was just raising a question and I know there are no easy answers.

Never mind. Greta was just, you know, fuckin’ around, and she’d like her parka and boots back, please.

Posted by StrangeAppar8us on 08/17/10 at 01:52 PM
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Stock market responds to news that overnight rumors that the Cordoba Center developers had abandoned the project were bogus.

PS: I’m not a stock-market analyst, but none of today’s mixed economic developments really account for these gains, do they?

Posted by StrangeAppar8us on 08/17/10 at 12:33 PM
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Monday, August 16, 2010

From pig-in-a-poke to pig-on-a-stick: Fresh off her double-team SCOTUS smackdown by Justices Thomas and Alito, America’s Master of Malpractice has trained the sights of her whippet-fueled Justice Machine on the Cordoba Islamic Cultural Center.

Of course, if this is anything like her prior filings, she’ll forget to have the pig notarized.

Posted by StrangeAppar8us on 08/16/10 at 12:23 PM
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Sunday, August 15, 2010

Wow. If Bill Kristol were any more of a reptile, TBogg’s blistering takedown would qualify as an Extinction-Level Event.

Posted by StrangeAppar8us on 08/15/10 at 09:42 PM
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Saturday, August 14, 2010

These events are also an affirmation of who we are as Americans. Our Founders understood that the best way to honor the place of faith in the lives of our people was to protect their freedom to practice religion. In the Virginia Act for Establishing Religion Freedom, Thomas Jefferson wrote that “all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion.” The First Amendment of our Constitution established the freedom of religion as the law of the land. And that right has been upheld ever since.

For in the end, we remain “one nation, under God, indivisible.” And we can only achieve “liberty and justice for all” if we live by that one rule at the heart of every religion, including Islam—that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

Only on the wingnut-shaped, up-is-down Drudgeworld could citing the Constitution, Jefferson, Jesus and the Pledge of Allegiance in the defense of religious freedom translate into the bigoted, incendiary headline below the fold. Just another proof that Drudge shares more than a hat with Walter Winchell.

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Posted by StrangeAppar8us on 08/14/10 at 08:43 PM
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Well, this was inevitable. In her latest diurnal emission, Sarah shames the Framers with her trademark “It may be Constitutional, but it just ain’t right” re-imagining of America’s Founding Principles, as revised, amended, footnoted and circumscribed by T. Herman Zweibel, with a codicil by Glenn Beck—Legitimate Questions for the President:

Mr. President, should they or should they not build a mosque steps away from where radical Islamists killed 3000 people? Please tell us your position. We all know that they have the right to do it, but should they? And, no, this is not above your pay grade. If those who wish to build this Ground Zero mosque are sincerely interested in encouraging positive “cross-cultural engagement” and dialogue to show a moderate and tolerant face of Islam, then why haven’t they recognized that the decision to build a mosque at this particular location is doing just the opposite? Mr. President, why aren’t you encouraging the mosque developers to accept Governor Paterson’s generous offer of assistance in finding a new location for the mosque on state land if they move it away from Ground Zero? Why haven’t they jumped at this offer? Why are they apparently so set on building a mosque steps from what you have described, in agreement with me, as “hallowed ground”? I believe these are legitimate questions to ask.

Two can play that game, my little Nudnik of the North. So let’s consider some Legitimate Questions for Sarah Palin:

♦ Do you have a Plan for America, or are you content to snipe from the shadows with no responsibility for your actions?
♦ Since you believe tolerance, reconciliation and healing are Bad for America, are you embracing divisive, polarizing fear-mongering as an acceptable substitute?
♦ Do you intend to run for President in 2012, or simply continue to milk your supporters’ hopes that you’ll run in order to leverage lucrative Celebrity Speaking Gigs, Book Deals, TV Contracts and donations to your PAC?
♦ Should you decide to run for President, will Todd cancel his snow-machine team’s financial sponsorship by Venezuela’s Citgo petroleum group?
♦ Do you believe that running America would be a) more or b) less challenging than running your mouth?

Feel free to add your own Legitimate Questions in comments.

Posted by StrangeAppar8us on 08/14/10 at 06:32 PM
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