If McCain gets Americans to eschew the modelling of their national election campaigns after daytime soap-operas, he’ll have done his country a far better service than he ever did while in uniform.

Unfortunately for the GOP, its minions seem quite enamored of the whole “narrative” dog-&-pony show, long after most voters have come to see it for the snake-oil concession that it is … & it’s probably safe to say that some of their elite think-tank twits are eagerly crafting the storyline for their next bogus “narrative” even now, certain that if they just put the right flavor of sprinkles on their next turd, Americans will confuse it with a chocolate-sundae.

And anyone who tries to tell me Carribbean countries count gets a smack across the face. They are not thought of as North America.

I’ve talked to a lot of “heartland” voters since the election and every single person mentions Palin as a reason for their non-support of McCain. Epic fail.

Alec, yes the Darbyites have taken over a certain edge of the “popular Christian culture” and though my church actually condemns these views many Catholics don’t realize this. I do wish more went to the geeky classes offered at the church, almost all historical, none preachy in the least. Still, I thought I should at least leave a missive on what happened in every Catholic Church in this Archdiocese a mere 2 days prior to elections.

Alec, I have no idea what I was thinking to join ranks with those people at one point. I had always been a liberal and retained many of my liberal stances. I’m back to my old self again. I think many of us whose families came from Muslim countries bought into the fear though. The wingers have ceased to learn however, something I consider akin to death. So I learned and with learning came self-realization.

I know I left Church in a fury over this single-issue-thinking. I DID vote for life issues. Ending a war? Life issue. Health care for the impoverished here? Life issue. Environmentalism? Life issue. Yet again on the Catholic network last night (EWTN) on their news show who did they have on for their “election post-mortem” but Pat Buchanan. We put it on just to see if they’d go on and on about abortion and it was almost ALL they did. Meanwhile, the Pope doesn’t seem too upset, just vocal American Catholics. Buchanan even told the anchor that overturning Roe Vs. Wade wouldn’t outlaw abortion and that McCain couldn’t have done this regardless. All around annoyance though.

Part of the problem facing the American catholic church is (a) avoiding joining the tide of crass Darbyite ass-pickers who have no problem whatsoever fundamentally redefining their formative principles (or are we supposed to believe slavery was OK again?) and (b) avoiding at the same time cleaving to the in many ways even worse European Catholic tradition of doing the same thing as the evangelicals in (a) only with the traditional power to get people put in prison over doctrinal issues.

The Catholicism I was raised in exposure to was a Catholicism of neither the deacons nor the archbishops, and it’s in general keeping with what my parents and the rest of my family wound up falling into. The big difference is the emphasis on spirituality they still cleave to. The Holy Spirit was an embarassing complication when I was a theist and is just silly now I’m not, and the amount of woo they buy into does disappoint me a lot.

On the plus side, the Catholic Church can be relied on much more easily to condemn general ‘life’ issues than the evangelicals – and among actually pious (rather than evangelical-style devout) Catholics there generally isn’t a contest between the parties – one wants to condemn people to choose between depravity and wage slavery and the other only occasionally condemns people within the first and least important couple of months of their lives. And even escaping the latter isn’t a guaranteed in the first group!

‘Culture of life’ is tacky coming from Catholics. When I hear a schismatic use it, I reach for my revolver.

Indiana McOhio said,
November 9, 2008 at 0:53

boo hoo…my pit bull was confiscated when it tore the tendons in the arm of the next door six year old kid leading to permanent disability…boo hoo hoo…its my conspitoonshunal right to have dangerous animals not in cages…boo fucking hoo.

Species-ist. Seriously. A chihuahua could be a dangerous animal. Edumacate yourself.

The dangerous reputation of pit bulls is primarily a self-fulfilling prophecy. People treat them a lot rougher than other dogs, tend to rely on them more heavily as guard dogs, and it doesn’t help at all that they’ve got weird voiceboxes and a lot of them vocalize affectively in a pitch that sounds like snarling.

Your dog attacking someone generally means that either your dog is sick or you’ve been a bad owner – and let it be said that, in the ‘chihuahuas are deadly’ category, you will never find a pit bull puppy that gets away with the shit people come to expect out of smaller dogs.

Treat just about any large dog the way pit bulls are typically treated and you’re bound to get a confused, violent, impulsive creature.

But yeah, the hypoallergenic restriction is a pretty big deal. I’d almost suggest a poodle on the sheer hilarity value of every right-wing commentator spending a month calling an attractive, well-liked man a fag for buying his daughters a fuzzy dog – now they ain’t got the echo chamber backing them up, it’s just going to be as creepy and sad as the pink-baiting usually is.

It varies state to state, but it’s not uncommon for governors have the power to appoint, so where ever you read that was wrong on both counts.

As I detailed here, in all but three cases (AK, MA, AZ), the governor can and is expected to appoint a term-filler replacement by her or his own party.

Alaska is a special case – unlike AZ, there isn’t a strict prohibition on the governor making an appointment, but rather I think it’s just that that replacement only lasts 90 days or so.

“black thugs”, rioting Jews(?!?!), and “the Darkie” president. Gates of Vienna really should be read regularly, a habit I’ve been out of until recently again.

I prefer Lex’s distillate – she keeps good tabs on antigastarbite wingnuts, having been one of them herself at one point (and, admirably, making the realization that she had made a terrible mistake after it became obvious the Catholics were treated the same by wingnut evangelicals as the Muslims were by antigastarbites) and it’s been in-sane lately. Crazed, infuriated ranting about betrayal by America’s Jews and all.

Also, as your mention of Chicago thugs and anything even tangentially related to Michelle Malkin makes mandatory, I must – as she never fails to do whenever she thinks of darkies mangling her hilarious turn of phrase – link you to a Google search for “thug thizzle”. I don’t like it any more than you do, but it’s the law.

boo hoo…my pit bull was confiscated when it tore the tendons in the arm of the next door six year old kid leading to permanent disability…boo hoo hoo…its my conspitoonshunal right to have dangerous animals not in cages…boo fucking hoo.

Species-ist. Seriously. A chihuahua could be a dangerous animal. Edumacate yourself.

Definitely more embarrassing to post that than to get it.

A Siberian Forest Cat; that would be different. Cuddly, and sweet disposition.

Dogs and cats, living together!

” Jon Kyl, the second-ranking Republican in the U.S. Senate, warned president-elect Barack Obama that he would filibuster U.S. Supreme Court appointments if those nominees were too liberal.

Kyl, Arizona’s junior senator, expects Obama to appoint judges in the mold of U.S Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, David Souter and Stephen Breyer. Those justices take a liberal view on cases related to social, law and order and business issues, Kyl said.

“He believes in justices that have empathy,” said Kyl, speaking at a Federalist Society meeting in Phoenix. The attorneys group promotes conservative legal principles.

Kyl said if Obama goes with empathetic judges who do not base their decisions on the rule of law and legal precedents but instead the factors in each case, he would try to block those picks via filibuster.”

It begins…

Don’t think that was Real Gary b/c I’ve seen what was reliably determined to be Real Gary use the term “martial law” properly.

Even Real Gary’s not Sarah Palin stoopid…

The fact is, you still lost. You will raep the whilrwind when we regroup to take back our sacred nation, you cheated. This is the biggest scandal in history, it will come out. I hope the President declares marshall law and suspends the election results until America is in the hands of Patriots again.

As McCain says, I am Country Fist.

Can one of the SadlyNauts confirm for me that this was the real Gary Ruppert? Other than the election, I’m having a pretty crappy week, and the notion that the real Gary typed that would help make me feel better again.

Wow. Um, wow.

I somehow got the impression having a President-elect named “B. Hussein Obama” was going to get their silky undies in a wad, but it’s truly impressive just how high a cliff they’ve gone over already.

I wouldn’t read ‘em, personally, but please keep us updated on their insanity if you’re so inclined.