Obama/Biden Road Rager Pleads Out in Bumper Sticker Road Rage Incident

This guy has all the makings of a Probable Teabagger:

A Nashville man who gained national attention by allegedly ramming the car in front of him because it had a bumper sticker supporting Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign pleaded guilty yesterday to criminal charges.

Harry Weisiger, 70, of Elmington Ave., a former vice president with Hardaway Realty in Nashville, entered guilty pleas on one charge each of misdemeanor reckless endangerment and driving under the influence. Other charges against him, including leaving the scene of an accident, were dismissed.

On the afternoon of March 25, 2010, Belmont-area resident Mark Duren was driving home with his 10-year-old daughter in the car when, according to police reports, Weisiger pulled up in his SUV behind Duren’s Toyota Camry at a stop sign.

"He blew his horn at Duren to get his attention," the arresting officer reported. "He then began to point at Duren’s OBAMA/BIDEN bumper sticker. He then began to stick up the middle finger of both of his hands to Duren. When Duren left the stop sign, Weisiger rushed up to him and began to bump his vehicle into Duren’s Camry. Weisiger then used his vehicle to push Duren’s Camry into a driveway located at 2539 Blair Blvd."

This probable (but unconfirmed) Teabagger plead guilty to reckless endangerment and driving under the influence. Under the influence of what, I’d like to know.

This all happened a few days after historic Health Care Reform Passes. And in the afternoon? Right about the time of Rush Limbaugh’s radio program? Coincidence?

Sounds like this probable teabagger may have been under the influence of a right wing radio rabble rouser. Seems more than a coincidence to me.

Sarah Speaks - Bless her Heart, Anyway

She’ll endorse some guy name Todd in the Kansas GOP Senate Primary:

“Todd is a protector of our Constitution, a pro-family, pro-Second Amendment commonsense conservative who has never voted for a tax increase and has fought to end the wasteful spending coming out of Washington. … He didn't just stand on the sidelines complacently, but instead actually battled against the bailouts, the debt-ridden stimulus spending, the cap-and-tax energy schemes, and Obamacare."

By battling against bailouts, she means that Todd Tiahrt he battled against Sarah Palin.

Everyone remembers that Side Show Sarah was a hardcore supporter of the Bail Out, Right? Of course, who could forget this spirited defense of the Bail Out:

That's why I say I, like every American I'm speaking with, we're ill about this position that we have been put in where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy. Helping the—it's got to be all about job creation too, shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americans and trade—we've got to see trade as opportunity, not as competitive, scary thing, but one in five jobs being created in the trade sector today—we've got to look at that as more opportunity.

Simply Awesome

Quote of the Day via RedState Blog

Erick Erickson adding to his enemies List:

Tea Party activists and others should pay attention here: Eric Cantor and John Boehner are implementing a strategy that makes it look like they are on your side, but are in fact stabbing you in the back.

Cantor and Boehner are spinning this as a good thing. But it is not. It muddies the water and gives Democrats an escape from being forced to take action.

Any Republican who signs on to the Herger discharge petition should be driven from office for betraying the “repeal” cause. This does nothing but provide cover to people who don’t really want to repeal Obamacare, just nibble at the edges.

That list is getting pretty long.

The Herger discharge petition is a petition requiring the signature of 218 house members in order to force a vote to Repeal Health Care Reform and replace the Affordable Care Act with a GOP alternative (i.e, the status quo). There is little to induce Democrats to support the GOP alternative on Health Care (i.e, the status quo) and thus an excuse not to support the Herger discharge petition. Erickson is upset that the Herger Discharge Petition gives Democrats a reason not to vote for it, i.e., the GOP Alternative (i.e, the status quo). It would be best for a wingers perspective to remove the GOP health care alternative (i.e, the status quo) from the petition and have a straight petition on repeal.

Erickson feels betrayed, yet again.

You hear that Tea Baggers? A vote for anyone who signs that petition is a vote for Socialism. Don’t be fooled by Boehner and Cantor and by all means don’t ever vote for either of them ever again, because a vote for Boehner or Cantor in November is a vote for Socialism. And if you vote for Socialism, you have no one to blame but yourself.

You have been warned.

Goldberg Waives White Flag on Day 8 of the Great Wingnut Beat Down of June 2010

That is what it took. 8 days.

It was 8 days until Goldberg offered a feeble response, yesterday, to Neo-conservative Mathew Continetti’s Blasphemous Broadside titled: The Two Faces of the Tea Party. So feeble, in fact, is Goldberg's response, that I deem it a white flag of surrender advancing in a different direction in the Great Wingnut Beat Down of June 2010.

In his blasphemous broadside, Continetti takes direct aim at the loony conspiracy theories promoted by Glenn Beck and writers at the NRO Blog called, The Corner which attack the early 20th century political ideology called Progressivism. According to the loonies, Hitler’s family tree branched out from Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Movement. To make this connection Beck promotes a hypothesis*** hatched by fellow traveler Jonah Goldberg at the NRO. Goldberg calls his hypothesis “Liberal Fascism.” If a winger follow this logic and it won’t be too long before these people start imagining Hitler as a tree-hugging-sandal-wearing-organic-granola-eating-peace-loving-war-hating lesbian studies major at UC-Santa Cruz.

Yeah I know it sounds too stupid to be true, but it is not! Here is Continetti’s take on the theory:

Beck is creating, in Amity Shlaes’s words, “a competing canon” of texts and authorities. This competing canon is not content to assault contemporary liberalism, but rather deconstructs the very foundations of the New Deal and the Progressive Era. Among the books Beck regularly cites on his programs are Shlaes’s Forgotten Man, Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism, Larry Schweickart and Michael Allen’s Patriot’s History of the United States, and Burt Folsom Jr.’s New Deal or Raw Deal? And books like Matthew Spalding’s We Still Hold These Truths, Seth Lipsky’s Citizen’s Constitution, and William J. Bennett and John Cribb’s American Patriot’s Almanac all belong on the list as well.

[…]

By attacking progressivism, Beck is taking on a big idea. He is forcing people to question their assumptions. He is introducing new thinkers to the reading public. But he is also engaging in a line of inquiry that—interesting though it may sometimes be—is tangential to the political realities of our day. And his intellectual inquiries have a purpose: to foster the perception that a benighted American public is being preyed upon by an internationalist conspiracy.

So, the difference between communism and progressivism, Beck argued at CPAC, is “revolution” or “evolution.” In other words, the difference between communism and progressivism is one of means not ends. “There is no difference,” he said, “except one requires a gun and the other does it slowly.”

“Socialism and fascism,” the author writes in Glenn Beck’s Common Sense, “have been on the rise for two administrations now.” Beck’s book Arguing with Idiots contains a list of the “Top Ten Bastards of All Time,” on which Pol Pot (No. 10), Adolf Hitler (No. 6), and Pontius Pilate (No. 4) all rank lower than FDR (No. 3) and Woodrow Wilson (No. 1). In Glenn Beck’s Common Sense Beck writes, “With a few notable exceptions, our political leaders have become nothing more than parasites who feed off our sweat and blood.”

This is nonsense. Whatever you think of Theodore Roosevelt, he was not Lenin. Woodrow Wilson was not Stalin. The philosophical foundations of progressivism may be wrong. The policies that progressivism generates may be counterproductive. Its view of the Constitution may betray the Founders’. Nevertheless, progressivism is a distinctly American tradition that partly came into being as a way to prevent ideologies like communism and fascism from taking root in the United States. And not even the stupidest American liberal shares the morality of the totalitarian monsters whom Beck analogizes to American politics so flippantly. [em-mine]

How to respond to this smack down? With facts? With Historical text? With a summary of the reasons why he dislikes the progressivism of TR and Woodrow? Nope.

Again, Matt is free to dispute Beck’s “disturbing conclusions” all he likes. But at times he seems to be trying -- and trying very hard -- to use Beck to discredit the entire conservative argument against the progressive revolution in politics. That’s an odd thing for a conservative writer, particularly one at the Standard, to do, given that so many of its contributors and editors have shown sympathy or support for that project in the past. I don’t have time to look up each one, but I suspect that nearly all of these books were well reviewed by the Weekly Standard (if they were reviewed at all) -- including my book, which is arguably the most “radical” of the bunch and yet doesn’t endorse anything like the conspiratorial politics Continetti describes.

That is it. Besides some routine dismissal stating the Continetti really does not understand who Teabaggers are or what they want and thus mistaken, Goldberg whines that Continetti is not being a team player by dismissing the so-called conservative argument on the progressive period.

One would think that after being called out for promoting cockamamie revisionism by a member of the Conservagentsia, Goldberg would offer a more forceful response. Perhaps a denunciation of Continetti as a COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY is in order. That is what I want.

***EDITORIAL NOTE: The Hypothesis of Liberal Fascism is "Only a Hypothesis." There is not sufficient evidence for liberals to mock “Liberal Fascism” as “Only a Theory” or “Just a Theory” like you know Heliocentricism and Gravity or even Evolution.

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More Deep Thoughts From Smokey Joe Barton (R-TX)

Question: Hey Smokey Joe what causes global warming?

Answer:

“Well, the short answer would be God…….. It is a, we are in a natural cycle and it appears that the Earth is in a slight cooling period for the next thirty to fifty years and the dominant cause of that are the oceans. The Atlantic and the Pacific are in a little cooling period….But the Co2 concentrations going up don’t seem to be doing what the IPCC model says it should...” [em-mine]

~ Congressman Barton’s (R-TX)

Global Cooling Baby!

Here is another question: If the world is undergoing a global cooling period albeit a slight one, isn’t there someway to scam wingers on get rich quick schemes involving Investment in Ski Resorts, Snow Mobile Manufacturing and the like?

I do not believe the there are any ski resorts in the southern end of the Appalachian chain in Alabama. Maybe is it about high time that one be built.

First on all the Bad Lists and Last on all the Good Lists (Again)

Under Governor Haley Barbour’s (R-MS) leadership (aka the Boss Hogg of the GOP), Mississippi Retains the Top Ranking on one of the bad lists. Once again Mississippi reigns as America’s fattest State in the 2010 ranking of Obesity Rates. This is 6 years and counting for Mississippi at pole position.

Clearly this is not all Boss Barbour's fault. And unfortunately, I don’t think Barbour has what it takes to improve public health in Mississippi. Under Banana Republican thinking the Magic of Market will determine adult obesity rates. If the free market almighty decides that 33.8% of the adult population is the sweet spot for adult obesity, what can Boss do really? Answer Nothing – the market knows best. Besides, any other answer would sound all pinko commie and such. Couldn't have that.

So should Boss Barbour just give up and be resigned to first place on the list again next year, since the Market really decides such things?

HELL NO! All is not lost. Mississippi can still remove itself from the top of the list.

All Barbour has to do is to figure out a way to move the second place state, Alabama, ahead of Mississippi on next year's list. This is a tried and true method of success in the Southern States. Is your state last in adult literacy or cases of rickets or education spending per student or other such thing? No problem. All you have to do is to is just wait until next year when the yokels in the next state over screw things up in their State and move one place ahead/below (depending upon the list) your state. Q.E.D!

Back to Mississippi's conundrum. Perhaps Boss Barbour could arrange for some of Mississippi’s larger folks to be visiting Alabama at next year’s weigh in or something sneaky like that. I’ll leave the planning and the tactics of how to move out of first place to him. He’s a clever fellow and I wouldn’t count him out.

On this Day in History

On June 30th 1863, General John Buford's Calvary Division entered Gettysburg, PA ahead of an invasion force of the Confederate Army into the Free States. By his early arrival ahead of the Confederates, General Buford was able to claim the high ground around Gettysburg that Union would occupy later during the battle. The high ground would prove decisive to the Union Victory.

The Confederate Army, the Army of Northern Virginia was commanded by General Robert E Lee. Lee had divided his Army during his invasion into the Free States plundering the countryside and sowing terror in the electorate. Upon hearing news of approaching Federal Troops, Lee intended to use the cross roads at Gettysburg to draw his spread out forces together and offer battle against the approaching Union Army. Lee hoped to advance the confederate cause with a decisive victory on Northern Soil but first he need to gather his divided Army.

The thinking of the day was that a significant victory in the Free States could bring support from Great Britain and/or France to the Confederacy in the best case scenario. At the very least, a Victory in the North would aid anti-war sentiments in the Free States and possibly bring a Peace Democrat to the White House after the 1864 elections and end the war on Confederate terms.

But John Buford got to Gettysburg and the high ground first on June 30th and the Union Calvary was ready for the Confederate advance.

With the Union Army, the Army of the Potomac, Marching with all due haste to Gettysburg, Buford and his calvary dismounted and fought a delaying action against a much larger enemy infantry force on the morning of July 1st. This Decision by Buford, allowed the time that was necessary for the Army of the Potomac to reach the high ground and prepare for battle. With the High Ground, Union Forces would inflict severe damage on the Army of Northern Virginia over the 3 days of battle. This was damage that the Confederacy really could not afford in the long term.

Along with the surrender of the Confederate Army at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to General Ulysses Grant on the Fourth of July, 1863, the battle at Gettysburg proved a decisive blow toward ending the so-called Confederate States of America.

General Buford, like many others, would not survive the war. He was promoted to the Rank of Major General by Abraham Lincoln while on his death bed.

Maxed Out Today

Light Posting Due to Work Load.

Check Back Later for more Wingnut Beatdowns and other such nonsense.

Those Liberal Scientists are up to no good, AGAIN!

All Good Right Wingers know that Global Warming is a Hoax. Right? Right. This certainty in the greatest hoax known to mankind can be a difficult burden to bear in light of the new evidence we see every day showing rising global temperature. Heck, Smokey Joe Barton is so sure that global warming is a hoax that he has openly declared that we are entering a period of global cooling. After all it did snow in Washington, D.C. in the winter time last year. What more evidence do you need to prove that Global Warming is a hoax other than snow in the winter time? It is tough being a winger.

And it just got a little tougher yet with reports that Global Temperature in May is the Highest on Record:

The combined global land and ocean surface temperature was the warmest on record for May, March-May (Northern Hemisphere spring-Southern Hemisphere autumn), and the period January-May according to NOAA. Worldwide average land surface temperature for May and March-May was the warmest on record while the global ocean surface temperatures for both May and March-May were second warmest on record, behind 1998.

The monthly analysis from NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center, which is based on records going back to 1880, is part of the suite of climate services NOAA provides government, business and community leaders so they can make informed decisions. […]

Scientists, researchers, and leaders in government and industry use NOAA’s monthly reports to help track trends and other changes in the world's climate. This climate service has a wide range of practical uses, from helping farmers know what and when to plant, to guiding resource managers with critical decisions about water, energy and other vital assets.

Man, the vast Global Warming Conspiracy just keeps getting bigger and bigger. It won’t be too long before just about everyone is in on the conspiracy (except wingers of course).

Neocon Derangement Syndrome? It is not what you think.

I was reading the NRO a while ago and came across a complaint over the use of the word "Neoconservative" to describe the Neoconservative Daniel Pipes. Apparently, they no longer like it.

As a final aside, Fareed [Zakaria] calls Daniel Pipes a neoconservative. While Pipes is certainly a hawk, he is a realist hawk, much like Dick Cheney or John Bolton. The flippant use of neoconservative might be something the Huffington Post engages in, but its misuse should embarrass both Fareed and the Washington Post. [em-mine]

~ Michael Rubin - NRO

According to the NRO guy, labeling someone a neoconservative is now a slur? This didn't seem right since neoconservatives having been calling themselves neoconservatives for about 35 years. Surely it is not politically incorrect to call Delicate Daniel Pipes a neoconservative.

Confused about whether it is appropriate to call a neoconservative a neoconservative, I turned to an impeccable source on all things Conservative, Conservapedia.org. According to the experts at Conservapedia Daniel Pipes is indeed a Neo-conservative:

Irving Kristol and Leo Strauss were the major founders of the movement.

Some prominent spokesmen include Bill Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, Lewis Libby, Norman Podhoretz, Daniel Pipes, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Perle, Robert Kagan, Christopher Hitchens, Stephen Schwartz, Elliott Abrams, Ben Wattenberg and Carl Gershman.

If the good folks that run conservapedia say it is OK to call a neoconservative a neoconservative then it is OK to label a neocon a neocon.

Case Closed. Our NRO guy is just suffering from alittle Neocon derangement syndrome. Daniel Pipes is a Neoconservative and it is A-OK to say it. You can even use the term Flippantly, if you like, as in:

That gawdammed neoconservative talking head helped lie our way into the Iraq war. That neocon is a lying sonuvabitch.

Feel free to use Neoconservative in a sentence like the one above any time.

If It Feels Good – DO IT ! ! !

For years we have been told that the role of a Judge is similar to that of an Umpire. All a judge has to do is to call balls and strikes. This means simply applying the law to the facts. A good judge is not interested in what the law ought to be. No, this would be low down Judicial Activism. A judge should never create a law. Doing this earns a judge the title of "Judicial Activist." This is the greatest dishonor imaginable, I have been told.

With that being said, it looks like the right wing majority on the Supreme Court went all Judicial Activist again.

By a 5-4 vote the Court is legislating mandating its 5-4 vote in Heller on the States. Heller, as you know, re-interpreted the second amendment finding a new right (perhaps in the penumbra of the Constitution) where none had existed before. Despite the lack of evidence, this new right apparently had existed since 1787. Of course, no one has been aware of this right, not even the founding fathers, until the Roberts Court created it out of thin air found it.

So much for the Strict Constructionist set and the Originalist set. Who needs to rely upon the Original Intent of the Founders, anymore? With today’s court we know, if something feels good (like rewriting the guns laws of the states), they’ll be likely to do it.

Sarah Speaks or Emotes or Rambles on or Strings Random Phrases together or whatever it is she does to Communicate to the Media

You know why it is? We have got to -- those of us who are just common sense conservative, we have got to have that ability to speak with the American voter, with the public, minus the filter of the "lamestream media" that does not like our message. And in the case where we are presently, they want to protect President Obama's big government agenda. So whatever it is that we say or do or want to translate via print or television, they filter it and they misconstrue things and they misreport. So hey, we're going right to the people via Twitter, via Facebook, whatever we can to get the truth out there to the American public about what's going on in this country.

~ PALIN

Poor, Poor Side Show Sarah. The MEANstream Media is out to get her, because they are so, so very MEAN. They report what Sarah says and she appears foolish. Shame on you MEANstream Media.

Do you know what the definition of Common Sense Conservative means? It is something like this:

I Know what I Feel is True and I Feel what I Know is True, but just don’t ask me to explain it to you. Suck on it Lamestream Media!

On this Day History:

In 1914 on this day Arch Duke Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife were assassinated in Bosnia by a Serbian Nationalist, named Gavrilo Princip. This event would start a chain reaction that would lead to the start of The Great War.

The Great War would see the collapse of three Empires and the beginning of the end of a Fourth. It would usher in a Communist Regime in Russia and plant the seeds of Fascism elsewhere in Europe.

The Texas State GOP Platform can be Baffling at Times

There is plenty of goofy stuff and lots of gay bashing, this is of course to be expected, but some the planks are bewildering:

Livestock and Pet Locations – We oppose a mandatory national animal identification system requiring registration of all animals, of animal owners and their properties, including GPS coordinates and the use of RFID technology.

Tinfoil Hat Stuff.

Jury Reform – We support the right to privacy and security of prospective jurors during jury selection. Courts must show relevance of questions asked of jurors and perform a balancing test between the prospective juror’s right to privacy and lawyers’ need to know. Either party in a criminal trial should have a right to inform jurors of their right to determine facts and render a verdict.

Don't have a clue what they are concerned about or what possible remedy would be.

Repeal of Fee Award Act – We support repeal of the Civil Rights Attorneys’ Fee Awards Act, which allows for payment of attorneys’ fees to sue the government and to suppress freedom of religion.

Maybe this is related to Prayer in the public schools? I don't know. Most folks have excepted the fact that Civil Rights have been extended to all.

Americans with Disabilities Act – We support amendment of the Americans with Disabilities Act to exclude from its definition those persons with infectious diseases, substance addiction, learning disabilities, behavior disorders, homosexual practices and mental stress, thereby reducing abuse of the Act.

More gay bashing. I didn't know there was a backlog of claims from people trying to skip out on work by claiming that being Gay is a disability. Learn something new everday, I guess.

Odd Case of Sanity Breaks out TEMPORARILY in Idaho

Today the GOP said no to forming a Militia:

Cost concerns were at the heart of Idaho State Republican Party delegates' rejection on Saturday of a proposal to form an all-volunteer state militia that's free from federal control.

The notion had been floated during the three-day convention in Idaho

Falls, an extension of the anti-Washington, D.C. sentiment here that bubbled over.

When asked why local republicans had gone loony, GOP leaders blame:

their shift right this weekend has its roots not just in the homegrown GOP ranks, but in the man many in Idaho's dominant party see as their arch political enemy: President Barack Obama.

This is how State Rep. Marv Hagedorn, an Ada County delegate, described it: "It's not a change in our party, it's a change in the White House."

Not their fault people make fun of them? It is their Arch Enemy.

These people could end up looking like real fools someday leaving Idaho's Northern Border Wide Open to a United Nations Invasion force.

The Texas State GOP Platform is a Gift that keeps on Giving

On Science:

Controversial Theories – Realizing that conflict and debate is a proven learning tool in classrooms, we support objective teaching and equal treatment of all sides of scientific theories, including evolution, Intelligent Design, global warming, political philosophies, and others. We believe theories of life origins and environmental theories should be taught as challengeable scientific theory subject to change as new data is produced, not scientific law. Teachers and students should be able to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of these theories openly and without fear of retribution or discrimination of any kind.

This is unsurprising but - they forgot to include heliocentricism. They can fix this next time.

I didn't expect this from the GOP – Opposition to Kindergarten

The Texas GOP Platform has been published recently. And always it is full of some strange ideas. For instance Opposition to Mandatory Kindergarten:

Early Childhood Development – We believe that parents are best suited to train their children in their early development and oppose mandatory pre-school and Kindergarten. We urge Congress to repeal government sponsored programs that deal with early childhood development.

And a birther requirement too.

Educational Entitlement – Given that education is reserved to the states under the 10th Amendment to the Constitution, we encourage legislation that prohibits enrollment in free public schools of non-citizens unlawfully present in the United States. We encourage the Texas Attorney General to challenge the Federal provision of residency verification.

I’m sure this one will go over well with the locals in Texas. Requiring Latino Kids to carry identity papers to school sounds a real winner to me. You don’t think they are concerned about renegade Canadian Kids sneaking into Texas to take advantage of their fine schools, do you?

Call Out the Militia! The Blue Helmets are Pooring Over the Border ! ! ! ! !

An Idaho State GOP Committee has just voted in favor of forming a State Militia.

That is the bad news.

The good news is that the vote was only 21-18 in favor, meaning that there are at least 18 Republicans in Idaho who are not crazy. This number is much higher than I expected. I have been to Idaho.

In other news the Idaho GOP has voted in favor of recommending repeal the 17th Amendment to the Constitution which give folks the right to vote for their Senators.

But they didn't stop there:

A panel of GOP delegates at the state party’s convention passed a measure Friday to define marriage as a bond between a “naturally born” man and woman, effectively barring transgenders.

These State GOP Operations are kind of zany. Tune in tomorrow as these measures go before the full GOP convention for approval.

Marsha Blackburn Acolyte Running on Anti-Mosque Platform

Is Tennessee big enough for Two Marsha Blackburns?

When we last left Lou Ann Zelenik, candidate in the GOP primary for TN-06, she was sucking up to Joe the Plumber to earn Joe’s seal of approval. She received his endorsement and is one of seven candidates to earn this distinction.

Impressive, huh? Joe says he’s received hundreds of endorsement requests from politicians but only a select few earn their way onto Joe’s List. This must mean Lou Ann is impressive - or rather impressively wacko.

Not surprisingly, Zelenik's campaign has taken an unfortunate but familiar turn. She is running on an Anti-Mosque Platform while invoking Martin Luther King, Jr. Here is a released statement:

Let there be no mistake, Lou Ann stands with everyone who is opposed to the idea of an Islamic training center being built in our community. This “Islamic Center” is not part of a religious movement; it is a political movement designed to fracture the moral and political foundation of Middle Tennessee.

We Americans pride ourselves on being a tolerant people, but tolerance does not require naïveté. Our nation is at war with Islamic extremists. Radical Muslims are killing our servicemen and servicewomen everyday. They say want to kill us, and time and again they have backed up their words with action.

Yes, we are tolerant, but our nation was founded on the tenets of the Judeo-Christian tradition; we have a right to defend that tradition. Until the American Muslim community find it in their hearts to separate themselves from their evil, radical counterparts, to condemn those who want to destroy our civilization and will fight against them, we are not obligated to open our society to any of them.

There are those in our society who bow before the throne of political correctness, as if it itself were the god that would save our country. Those people live in a fantasy world that never was and never will be. Those who cower in silence are equally wrong. The People of Rutherford County all need to stand together and say, “enough is enough.”

As Martin Luther King said, “in the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends,” so let us not be silent. Stand strong for our God, our families, and our country. God bless you all.

I can’t speak for Dr. King, but I hardly think he would have been in favor of teabagging it up against a religious minority group in the south. Just a hunch.

Biblical Based Foreign Policy Hits the GOP Big Time

From the Texas State GOP Platform:

Israel – We believe that the United States and Israel share a special long-standing relationship based on shared values, a mutual commitment to a republican form of government, and a strategic alliance that benefits both nations. Our foreign policy with Israel should reflect the special nature of this relationship through continued military and economic assistance and recognition that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and should remain an undivided city accessible to people of all faiths. We believe that the US Embassy should be located in Jerusalem. In our diplomatic dealings with Israel, we encourage the continuation of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, but oppose pressuring Israel to make concessions it believes would jeopardize its security, including the trading of land for the recognition of its right to exist. We call on the U.S. to cease strong arming Israel through prior agreements with the understanding of delivering equipment to them to defend themselves in exchange for future diplomatic concessions, such as giving up land to the Palestinians on the West Bank. We support the continuation of non-recognition of terrorist nations and organizations. Our policy is based on God’s biblical promise to bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse Israel and we further invite other nations and organizations to enjoy the benefits of that promise.

Ouch.

There may be lots of reasons to support peace efforts in the middle east and to support Israel, but God told me to ain’t one of the them.

Ya I know that this is shameless NUTPICKING, but what the hell

Check out this dispatch on the Gulf Oil Spill from greater wingnuttia via wingnut blogger site Gatewaypundit:

June 24th, 2010 | 11:11 am | #5

It’s time to impeach and arrest this man. He has destroyed human lives as he and his honey and his thug buddies live it up on OUR $$$. HE KNEW in Feb. about this oil rig. And now, the nation, it’s people and animal life are all in danger. Him and his thug buddies and greedy puppet master George Soros – it’s time for them to be thrown in prison.

The definition of nutpicking by the way is:

Trolling obscure internet comments to prove that an opinion is widely held, thus proving the reverse. See Kevin’s Law.

For clarification, I do not think this comment represents a widely held view amongst the public at large. It is just the wingnut-O-sphere that is being made fun of tonight.

That is all.

This Post is Brought to You, in part, by Anadarko Petroleum, Continued

Word on the internets has it that Anadarko Petroleum, Joe Barton's biggest donor, may be on the hook for 25% of the cost of the Gulf Oil Spill Clean Up.

Holy Smoking Smokey Joe!

I guess we know who Joe Barton represents in Congress. Hint: it ain't the ordinary Joe living in his district.

Who woulda thunk it.

Original post here.

Teabagger Boycott of Dawn --- Another Tactical Failure?

I don’t know why anyone has not brought this up yet about the tea party boycott of Dawn. Of all the products to boycott, tea party groups picked a brand of soap.

Soap?

Couldn’t they have picked another product, say, more representative of their groups? When I saw the unwashed masses of Teabaggers assemble to call the president names and to protest an imaginary tax increase that they didn’t receive last year, the last thing I thought of was SOAP. I am sure I am not alone here.

And just what are the odds that Tea Party agitators are large consumers of soap, anyway? The odds are not good, I am thinking. And just what are the odds that the makers of Dawn have thought of this simple fact? Pretty good, I’d say.

I know it is still early, but I am going to call this one now: The Teabagger Boycott of Dawn is another Tea Party Failure.

Go pick up another bottle of Dawn next time you are out. $1 of the purchase price goes to help the poor sea creatures affected by Gulf Oil Spill.

Another point: why do teabaggers hate wildlife?

Smokey Joe Stays Put For Now

It looks like the GOP has settled in behind Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX).

Despite his embarrassing apology to the British Oil Giant for the way Americans have responded to the BP-caused Gulf Disaster, Barton will remain the top dog on matters of Science within the GOP. Reports have it the Smokey Joe will likely retain his post as the top Republican on the Energy and Commerce Committee.

If the GOP regains control of the house, Smokey Joe can issue an official apology to BP and then start sending out subpoenas to them dab blamed so-called climate scientists and blow the lid of the Vast Global Global Warming Hoax.

More Deep Thoughts from Smoky Joe Barton (R-TX)

Question: Hey Smoky Joe why can’t you convince any of the thousands of actual Climate Scientists that Global Warming is a Hoax?

Smoky Joe Answers:

“…….When you talk about thousands of scientist most of those are not original creator (sic) thinkers. They are implementers. They are facilitators. There are [pause…..] only fifty to one hundred in the world that are in that are in the top tier and more and more it is appearing that they have engaged in either a conscious, uh, effort to withhold the truth from the world [pause…] uh or maybe or maybe, maybe [pause…..] they’ve decided, uh, without realizing it that they have become so [pause.…] ideology committed that they lost sight, lost track of the true scientific method. I don’t know, but its something that really does need to be investigated and I don’t make any apologies for trying to get that investigation started.”

According to Smoky Joe, Climate Change is a Conspiracy being perpetrated by 50 to100 Top Climate Scientists. These Top Tier Scientists have fooled all the lesser scientists who in turn have fooled the politicians and everyone else outside the wingnut-O-sphere, of course.

Good one Smoky Joe!

Deep Thoughts from Powerline Blog

Many have likened Obama to JImmy Carter, a comparison that Glenn Reynolds insists is a best-case scenario. Whatever Obama decides to do with General McChrystal -- Glenn Thrush suggests that this might be McChrystal's "MacArthur moment" -- Harry Truman he is not. Indeed, he is the un-Truman.

Now Jeb Bush has got me thinking. In Matt Bai's New York Times article on him, Jeb characterizes Obama as "Hubert Humphrey on steroids." I see what he means, but I think that LBJ on estrogen might be more like it.

You should take these folks evaluation of Presidents with a gain of salt because these are the same folks who labeled President Bush an underappreciated Genius. Really.

And we can’t forget that it was Powerline Blog that ranked our presidents in term of leadership in the following order: (1) George Washington, (2) Abraham Lincoln and (3) George W Bush and then Roosevelt or vice versa.

I has got to be tough to be a wingnut.