Aug 312009
 

Why the hell are we listening to anything this criminal has to say.

Dick Cheney’s office pressed to ignore U.S. law.
Dick Cheney’s office pressed to ignore international law.
Now Dick Cheney is trying to make the case that his flagrant breaking of those laws was effective and therefore O.K.
I don’t think so. The United States is a nation of laws and those who crashed the planes into the World Trade Center are no more above the law than the former Vice President of the United States.
Man up Dick, face the music, you broke the law, deal with it.
Aug 312009
 

Glenn Beck with the latest and greatest in WTF!

“If I could just — if we could just be like Cuba. Let me give you the last piece of evidence that there is a revolution going on, and it is coming. It is — there is a revolution, and they think they can get away with it quietly.

They think they — and they — they — you know what? At this point, gang, I’m not sure, they may be able to because they are so far ahead of us. They know what they’re dealing against; most of America does not yet. Most of America doesn’t have a clue as to what’s going on. There is a coup going on. There is a stealing of America, and the way it is done, it has been done through the — the guise of an election, but they lied to us the entire time.

Some of us knew! Some of us we’re shouting out, you were: “this guy’s a Marxist!” “No, no, no, no, no, no.” And they’re gonna say, “we did it democratically,” and they are going to grab power every way they can. And God help us in an emergency.”
The patriot act was a grab for power.
The Iraq war was a grab for power.
Warrantless wiretapping was a grab for power.
The politization of the Justice Department was a grab for power.
The theft of the Presidency by a ruling of the Supreme Court as opposed to the electorate was a grab for power.
How exactly has this president grabbed anything other than the office to which he was legally elected by a majority of the electorate?
Glenn Beck is a liar. Glenn Beck is a hysterical liar. Glenn Beck is frightened, hysterical liar.
It does not surprise me that people of a certain political persuasion listen to his guy, but how the hell do they justify believing that what he is saying is true?

Aug 312009
 

Arizona pastor doubles down on hate, hopes “God strikes Obama with brain cancer so he can die like Ted Kennedy”

After 9/11 there are very few people in the United States that think that using religion to justify and incite terror and violence is either good or just or even honest to the teachings of the religion (Islam in this example). We decry and denounce when Muslim clerics or mullahs incite their followers to hate the America, but where are the voices of reason within our own spiritual communities when a Baptist pastor prays for the death of the President of the United States and preaches about how much he hates him?

Terrorists justify killing by citing religious fatwas that they think sanction their actions as “the will of God”.

So what makes Steven Anderson’s speech any less of a call to terrorism in the name of religion? Nothing, it is a call to terrorism. Pastor Anderson claims to be a Christian but everything in his behavior or language are an affront to the teachings of Christ.

There have been previous Presidents that supported a woman’s right to choose that did not receive this level of hate, particularly from the right. Could it have something to do with the color of his skin? The Southern Baptists didn’t apologize for their support of slavery until 1995, I think the concept that a person of color could be the President of the United States is really at the heart of the issue. This is a white guy angry because he feels threatened and he is distorting the Christian faith to spread hate and fear.

How unchristian.

The full story is at examiner.com
Aug 302009
 

“Military necessity does not admit of cruelty nor of torture to procure confessions” – Abraham Lincoln

We are a nation of laws and a nation of values, Dick Cheney respects neither.
Andrew Sullivan has it here
Aug 302009
 

“An outrageous precedent to set”, that is what Dick Cheney says about the investigation into the ILLEGAL torturing of detainees in the custody of the United States.

WTF! What about the precedent of violating the Geneva Conventions you stupid shortsighted windbag!!
What about the precedent of warrantless wiretaps not just for foreign nationals but for citizens of the United States you power hungry slimy sack of crap!!
Now you claim that the investigation into the laws that you broke is a outrageous precedent? What an arrogant ass. If you walk all over OUR Constitution the American people will eventually demand that you are judged by the laws of OUR nation. You may feel that the government was your little plaything but it is not true. The government of the United State is of the people, by the people and for the people, not for you worthless, blowhard DICKHEAD!!
Politico has the story here
Aug 292009
 

Truth is a wonderful thing.

There is a chain email going around with 48 “claims” about H.R. 3200.
The email is obviously a tool of the right to lie, distort, misinform, scare and generally destroy the possibility of intelligent honest discourse with regard to health care reform.
FactCheck.org has evicerated it here bookmark it and keep it handy to fire off to those who will continue to spout the crap that it disproves.

Hypocrisy Now

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Aug 292009
 

I find the level of hypocrisy within the ranks of those who profess to be Christian to be reprehensible.

It seems that though the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has been lobbying for thirty years for the federal government to provide universal health insurance, especially for the poor, now that it is a priority of Barack Obama, a Christian the bishops are railing against the effort.
David Kirkpatrick has is at the New York Times
Of course this wouldn’t be the first time I’ve written about hypocrisy in religion, there are more examples here and here
Aug 292009
 

Turns out is is the Republicans that want to pull the plug on grandma, no wonder it is the thing they used to try to scare people.

The Republicans are great at accusing their opponents of their own misdeeds.
Jacob Weisberg has is at Newsweek
Aug 282009
 

Mike Huckabee is a real dickhead.

No, seriously, step back and take a look at him, his head looks like a dick!
OK, maybe not but when he chose today of all days to claim that Ted Kennedy would have died under the health care reforms that he fought four decades to secure, well Mike Huckabee proved his full bonafides as a true dickhead.
Congratulations Mike, we thought you were human now we realize you are just another right wing nut bag, like Palin, Gingrich, Beck, Hannity, Bachman, etc, etc.
Aug 282009
 

“But what we’re stuck with is “public option” who a crew of bamboozlers have warped into some sort of Logan’s Run government program in which your ten year old will need to make his case for his future contributions to society to ensure he can get his broken leg set rather than be euthanized and ground into Soylent Green to feed yet more illegal aliens on welfare.”

from the TPM Editors Blog