Via Crooks & Liars, we have this:
The O’Reilly Factor Holiday Ornament - Product #:FOX21001200
Put your holiday tree in “The No Spin Zone” with this silver glass “O’Reilly Factor” ornament.
Ha, ha O’Reilly! You’ve been smeared by another far-left Internets site! Now, I DEMAND you post Sadly, No! on your enemies list!
UPDATE: I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention this awesome O’Reilly rant:
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Feed here.
“You’re going straight to Hell, Senator. Ha ha ha!”
[Google = broken, elsewise there would be a graphic of Lieberman sweating in Hell.]
Oho, the worm turns.
[Update: Bush GraphxXx tip from Johnny Bardine.]
What a fun day. It’s just all out there in the open, today, doing the Charleston in its underwear.
I don’t often agree with Rick Moran, author of the conservative blog Right Wing Nut House. Nevertheless, I am obligated in my duties as a Moonbat Jedi Knight to defend all semi-rational beings from attacks by Darth Dobson’s Wingnut Stormtroopers. And today Rick had the good sense to tick off the unwashed fundie masses (via Pharyngula):
This is not to say that the President shouldn?t have the right to name whomever he damn well pleases to any position he sees fit. It?s just that this appointment of Paul Bonicelli to be Deputy Director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which is in charge of all programs to promote democracy and good governance overseas is a true and total embarrassment:
Bonicelli is dean of academic affairs at Patrick Henry College (PHC) in Purcellville, Virginia, whose motto is: ?For Christ and Liberty?. This ultra-fundamentalist institution requires its students and faculty to sign a ?statement of faith? declaring that they believe ?Jesus Christ, born of a virgin, is God come in the flesh?, ?Jesus Christ literally rose bodily from the dead?, and Hell is a place where ?all who die outside of Christ shall be confined in conscious torment for eternity?.
That?s not all. Patrick Henry College also requires its ?science? professors to sign a statement saying they believe in the literal interpretation of the Bible that says the world was created in 6 days… I am at a total loss. Anyone who can say with a straight face that the theory of the world being created in 6 24-hour days is ?the best fit to observed data? is not only crazy but a living, walking insult to rational thought.
Welcome to the Order of the Shrill, Rick.
As you no doubt recall, we lovingly profiled Patrick Henry College in a classic post called “Satan’s School for Right-Wing Christians!” Here were some of the highlights:
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“Our basic strategy to win in Iraq is to defeat the bad guys and make
everything super-great there, like we’ve been doing.”
Satire just clutched its temples and keeled over with an aneurism. Are official policy documents supposed to look like they were written by smart undergraduate business majors, with whole sections built of nested bullet points, and headings like, “Failure is Not an Option”?
Bradrocket adds: We’re doomed, people. D to the iz-oomed. Take a look at some of the bullet points from G-Dub’s Iraq National “Strategy” Document (h/t: Sadly, No!):
-Failure is not an Option:
-Iraq would become a safe haven from which terrorists could plan attacks against America, American interests abroad, and our allies.
You mean it’s not already? Try telling that to the Jordanians.
But wait! Here’s the best one:
-Middle East reformers would never again fully trust American assurances of support for democracy and human rights in the region — a historic opportunity lost.
I agree that promoting human rights in the Middle East is a historic opportunity that we can’t afford to lose. But unfortunately, we’ve already lost it:
We always wonder about this traffic stat. And there it was again, just now.
Domain Name: senate.gov (United States Government)
ISP: U.S. Senate Sergeant at Arms
Continent: North America
Country: United States
State: District of Columbia
City: Washington
Lat/Long: 38.8933, -77.0146 (Map)
Bill Pickle, US Senate Sergeant at Arms
There must be another explanation for this. …Although truly, there may never be a better occasion to unship the fabled dancing pickle sent to us by the Political Humor guy — and kept in close reserve for fear of its mojo.
[crickets, the sound of wind through the sycamores]
Okay, yeah: That would just be another inside joke gone out of hand. Never mind.
From the always-educational Barking Moonbat Early Warning System:
If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theater of operations during the last 22 months, and a total of 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000. The rate in Washington D.C.(among others) is 80.6 per 100,000. That means that you are about 25% more likely to be shot and killed in our nation?s capitol, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation, than you are in Iraq.
Conclusion: We should immediately pull out of Washington, DC.
Luckily, we have a copy of this!
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Porter Goss does his own version of it’s hard, hard work:
Al Qaeda leaders bin Laden and al-Zarqawi haven’t been found “primarily because they don’t want us to find them and they’re going to great lengths to make sure we don’t find them,” Goss said in the interview broadcast Tuesday on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
If only they wanted to be found!
Looks like Powerline are his main boys now.
But they can’t take away the memories! No, we’ll always have the time we spent together…
First it was Ralph Nader. Then it was Jesse Jackson. Now Arlen Specter has come to T.O.’s defense.
Oh well, at least it’s not just kooky left-wingers anymore…
In the previous round of XTREME Wingnut Preach-Off, Jim Rutz pulled off the upset of the year and knocked Pastor Swank off his perch as the wingnuttiest preacher on the Internets. This week, Rutz will have to defend his crown against an old foe, the Rev. Mark H. Creech.
Let’s start with our defending champ, whose column this week is about (what else?) the eeeeeevils of political correctness:
PC is on the march, gobbling up every decent value and belief in its mindless path. It has no god, but it invents sacred cows by the thousands. It has no scriptures, but it controls and censors almost every newspaper.
It’s true. Political correctness is the #1 reason why the New York Times won’t print Pastor Swank’s thoughtful essays about the dangers of homo nups.
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Apparently, Limp Bizkit (remember them?) have recorded a cover of the Verve’s “Bittersweet Symphony” for their new Greatest Hitz album. *shudder* I’m stealing downloading it right now. I’ll let you know how it is.
UPDATE: Oh dear. It starts off with a coupla verses from Motley Crue’s “Home Sweet Home.” Durst’s voice sounds like how the bull frogs from the “Bud. Wise. Er.” commercials would sound if you loaded them up with a bunch of heavy sedatives and made them listen to Leonard Cohen’s late-’80s records. Also, the laptop-created backing music sounds like Dr. BLT doing a parody of MC Hawking making fun of Aphex Twin.
UPDATE 2: Holy crap. This is the most painful thing I’ve ever heard. If Richard Ashcroft ever decided to bludgeon Fred Durst with a tire iron, I’d strongly encourage law enforcement officials to look the other way.
With PePo on hiatus, Renew America has become our most reliable source for all things Marie Jon’:
Americans have been under a total misrepresentation of words from the far left, also known as the Democrat Party. It was once upon a time that the media and the American people understood and recognized the actions of treason.
Uh-huh. Marie, if you’re gonna accuse us of treason, please have the stones to call the FBI and tell them to throw us in jail.
The media behaved differently in the days of former administrations that prosecuted other wars. The newspapers would be critical of many things, but it never politicized a war and put troops in harms way. The newspapers of that era would never have thought to undermine a sitting war-time president. If any congressmen or senator ? well-known or otherwise ? would have uttered such despicable lies back then, the media would have dismissed the elected official. The word “un-American” would have been used to describe these people without much of a second thought.
Can we roll the tape of Republican quotes about Bill Clinton during his military intervention in the Balkans? Here are some of my personal favorites:
“You can support the troops but not the president.”
-Rep Tom Delay (R-TX)“Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up their life?”
-Sean Hannity, Fox News, 4/6/99“[The] President… is once again releasing American military might on a foreign country with an ill-defined objective and no exit strategy. He has yet to tell the Congress how much this operation will cost. And he has not informed our nation?s armed forces about how long they will be away from home. These strikes do not make for a sound foreign policy.”
-Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA)
OK, Marie, what do you think? Are these people all traitors?
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I’m busy today like a one-legged man in a butt-kicking contest, so here’s an exciting title card for upcoming attractions.* In lieu of, like, actually writing anything. Which is hard.
Also in the news, the imponderably underappreciated Retardo keeps busting out the jams, all the way down the page. The fact that he makes fun of us in passing is merely the pickle atop the sundae. Link to him already, y’all blog-swabbers! He’s the smartest guy we know, and since that includes me, that’s saying a mouthful of persimmons, or some such phony-archaic phrase.
…And as I write this, I notice that it’s exactly 4:20. Could there be a better time to visit the old Elementropy? There could not be.
* That’s Justin Darr in the pic, for those who haven’t yet had the pleasure of his acquaintance.
Another GOP crook bites the dust.
Looks like major indictments are becoming monthly events.
I’m reading Sy Hersh’s latest piece in the New Yorker. If what he’s saying is accurate, we’re pretty much fucked. Here’s a choice excerpt:
Bush’s closest advisors have long been aware of the religious nature of his policy commitments. In recent interviews, one former senior official, who served in Bush’s first term, spoke extensively about the connection between the President’s religious faith and his view of the war in Iraq. After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the former official said, he was told that Bush felt that “God put me here” to deal with the war on terror. The President’s belief was fortified by the Republican sweep in the 2002 congressional elections; Bush saw the victory as a purposeful message from God that “he’s the man,” the former official said. Publicly, Bush depicted his reelection as a referendum on the war; privately, he spoke of it as another manifestation of divine purpose.
Actually, I can see where Bush is coming from. To be such a crappy President and still get reelected does seem to indicate some higher (or Satanic) power at work.
