This will be a quick post today mostly because the subject matter so thoroughly speaks for itself. You will need to watch this video, it’s only 40 seconds, to get a glimpse of the vast wasteland that is the mind of Sarah Palin. Need I remind anyone, this was a candidate for the office of vice president of the United States. Ok, go ahead and unpack this clusterfuck, and enjoy a serving of bullshit souffle.
Greetings Slickster fans, all four of you, it’s been a while. I’ve been away doing a little mental house cleaning and shirking my writing duties, because well, I’m lazy like that, it certainly isn’t because of any lack of material.
So, where are we going today you ask? Well, let’s dip our toes in the soothing and gentle waters of evangelical Christianity and a few of it’s practitioners in the news recently. Before we start, spoiler alert, I will mention that I unencumbered myself of all religious beliefs a number of years ago and since then have no qualms pointing out the cruelties, absurdities, and breathtaking hypocrisies paraded before me by those claiming to represent the best interests of our “eternal souls” (for fun and profit).
Today we have a three-pack of human carcinomas coming at us with a brand of Christian compassion that would make the Christ they worship do a full face palm while asking WTF!
Up first, Mr. Byran Fisher. Fisher is a long time performer on the right wing pay-to-pray circuit and it seems he has taken exception to the president’s decision to prevent genocide from being visited upon the practitioners of one iron age cult, by the practitioners of a different iron age cult. Lets see what Mr. Fisher has to say.
From The Raw Story,
“President Obama [is] bringing the full weight of the American military into Iraq now, after months and months and months of begging from the Iraqi government,” Fischer complained. “Now he’s going in there because devil worshipers are under attack.”
“As you do unto the least of them so you do unto me.” I’m not sure he’s read that part recently.
Coming up next, Mr. Rick Wiles Christian radio grifter host. In an example of getting lemons and making lemonade, Mr. Wiles has some interesting ideas concerning the current Ebola outbreak. Lets explore the bright side, as he sees it, in that putrid cesspool of a mind.
From The Raw Story,
A Christian radio host who enthusiastically looks for signs the world will end welcomed the Ebola virus as a cleansing force.
“This Ebola epidemic could become a global pandemic and that’s another name for plague,” said broadcaster Rick Wiles on his “Trunews” program.
“It may be the great attitude adjustment that I believe is coming,” Wiles continued. “Ebola could solve America’s problems with atheism, homosexuality, sexual promiscuity, pornography, and abortion.”
Just how liberals, in general, and the Democratic party, in particular, failed to make his list shows that he hasn’t thought this out completely, maybe that’s a later broadcast.
Finally, and just to show I’m not picking on radio hosts, here is one Mr. Victor Sadet, apparently an otherwise average Joe with “religious principles” and no fear of using them to spread the word. Lets dig into this shitpile and check those principles.
Once again from The Raw Story,
A video recorded by a gay man in Delta Township, Mich., shows one man’s violent, anti-gay rant, and reveals the kind of religiously motivated harassment many LGBT people face every day of their lives.
WILX.com reported that on Tuesday evening, Isaiah Tweedie and his friends were leaving a restaurant when fellow patron Victor Sadet followed them outside and launched a fusillade of taunts and verbal abuse at the group and at Tweedie in particular.
The New Civil Rights Movement blog transcribed Sadet’s remarks, in which he said that Tweedie should be murdered for his orientation as per the Christian Bible.
“You’re a fucking faggot,” Sadet said. “God’s law — Leviticus, Leviticus — you should be put to death!”
WILX contacted Sadet, who said his “religious principles” compelled him to confront Tweedie and his friends.
That’s a nice set of principles you’ve got there asshole, I’m sure Jesus would be proud.
So ends this round up of Christian compassion and love for their fellow man. The losers presented here represent the dregs of humanity, by wrapping themselves in the cloak of religion, and claiming to minister to their fellow man. They present souls so dark that if they didn’t exist could scarcely be imagined.
It’s time for another snark filled dispatch from beyond the edge of sanity, in that realm of stupidity currently occupied by the monkey house that is the GOP.
It was my intention to have some fun at the expense of human shitstain Ted Nugent because, well, why not, there’s no shortage of material where the right wing’s favorite gun humping, draft dodger is concerned, even though Slappy accused me of going for the low hanging fruit. I couldn’t really argue because some days you just don’t want to work that hard.
Anyway, imagine my surprise when I came across someone clearly playing at a higher level of batshit crazy than even old jailbait Ted.
With thanks to The Raw Story, and Right Wing Watch, let me introduce Michael Peroutla, Maryland Republican nominee for the Anne Arundel County council, and noted bible thumping, god-bothering secessionist.
From the Raw Story,
“You need to secede and then you need to have the biblical understanding of law and government, and make the applications,” Peroutka told the League of the South in 2012. “So we need to take the biblical understand of law and government into account no matter what the outcome is with respect to the crumbling of the current regime.”
Doesn’t he seem nice?
I’ve noted in the past the kind of mischief caused by low voter turnout, and here is a perfect example folks. This bit of unreconstructed human flotsam emerged from a Republican primary that included four other candidates, I haven’t the courage to research the losers. On a further distressing note, the area of Maryland he’s seeking to represent isn’t some hick outpost in the sticks, Anne Arundel county, has more than 500,000 residents, and includes Annapolis which is the county seat.
Before I close, let’s crack the asylum door for another peek at his style of governance, and note that he’s a practicing lawyer.
Once again from Right Wing Watch:
He recently presented his theory that the Maryland General Assembly is “no longer a valid legislative body” because it passed laws that he deems to be violations of “God’s law,” including a marriage equality bill and a stormwater tax. Last year, he said that state and local prosecutors should just ignore Roe v. Wade and prosecute women who have abortions or their providers for murder.
Peroutka’s spokesman told the Capital Gazette yesterday that the candidate “would evaluate each piece of legislation to be sure it was authorized by God in the Bible, the U.S. Constitution and the Anne Arundel County Charter” and would look into privatizing road repairs and the fire department.
There may not be all that much we can do, about the fact, that folks like this are free to walk among us. But when our fellow citizens start electing them to public office we are all one step closer to awakening one morning and finding ourselves citizens of the Christian Republic of Dumbfuckistan.
Oh, and by the way, that 2012 League of the South meeting? His closing remarks were a request for the audience to join him in singing the national anthem, wherein they rose and sang Dixie.
I shit you not.
[Snark off]
Recently at Esquire’s Politics blog, frequent guest contributor, Lt. Col. Robert Bateman posted a story of the name behind a star in the CIA headquarters.
For clarification, the stars, which adorn a wall inside the lobby, represent a fallen individual, in the service of the organization. Normally, I would read this story without comment, however, having a great deal of knowledge about the man this star represents, Maj. Douglas A. Zembiec, USMC (KIA), and having watched former V.P. Dick Cheney be interviewed three times in the past three weeks, on TV, I am, by my temperment, bound to comment.
Lt. Col. Bateman provides an anecdote from an enlisted combat veteran who served under Maj. Zembiec. It is as poignant as it is telling of Zembiec’s leadership.
“He was the sort of guy who, when a Marine met his father sometime after the battle (and after that Marine had been posted to another unit) asked, him if he was (then) Capt. Zembiec’s father. When told that he was, the Marine responded, “I was with him in Fallujah, and if we had to go back in there, I’d follow him in with a spoon.”
Major Zembiec’s actions during the Battle of Fallujah, in 2004, earned him the moniker, “The Lion of Fallujah”, as well as the Silver Star, Bronze Star w/ Combat V and two Purple Hearts. His actions are detailed in Bing West’s book, No True Glory: A Front-Line Account of the Battle of Fallujah, as well as a Wall Street Journal article following Maj. Zembiec’s death.
Major Zemiec was one to the highest caliber citizen-soldiers this country can produce and a tragic example of the price our country paid, in blood, for having been lied into an illegal war.
It is here at the confluence of lies, dead warriors, and the continuing parade of unindicted war criminals, put forward by the media, that compel me to comment, or, if you like, vent.
To start, I will give what limited credit, where such credit is due, and note that former President G.W. Bush has remained silent on matters of foreign wars during his post-presidential years, (I would like to think, under the advise of legal counsel). However, former VP Dick Cheney and former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld have chosen a different course.
Cheney has been provided a venue, afforded by the major media outlets, to regale the viewing public with his total lack of irony, and self-reflection as he blames the current president for the state of affairs in Iraq. All the while deflecting any attempts to hold him accountable for his roll in the folly and tragedy that became the Iraq War. That he is not in shackles making these statements from a cell in the Hague, is a question that I would like to see addressed in his lifetime.
Rumsfeld, featured in Errol Morris’ 2013 documentary, “Uncovered: The War in Iraq,” continues to display such towering arrogance and unrepentant smugness as to beggar the imagination.
With the blood of more than 4,000 U.S. troops killed and 100,000 plus Iraqis dead on his hands, how Rumsfeld remains free to move among us, in open society, is a question well deserving an answer.
As Charles P. Pierce, at Esquire.com is wont to muse ”…at the very least, he should spend the rest of his days cleaning the bed pans of the permanently disabled veterans in Walter Reed.”
Were it only so. There are, of course, others whom I have not addressed, whose culpability is no less egregious. I’m looking at you Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, Marc Thiessen, et al., ad nauseam.
That the misadventure in Iraq was predicated on a bed of lies and misinformation is widely accepted by most objective consumers of information as fact.
The perpetrators of the misadventure have not, and in all likelihood, will never be held accountable for the damage done to our military forces, international reputation, and treasury, is fairly well accepted.
Our national media, whose role should have been to find the truth and drag it kicking and screaming to light, chose to be cheerleaders for the plan to boost Haliburtions profit/loss ratios, as well as, generating a sharp decline in available plots in Arlington National Cemetery and others across the country, stands as their crowning disgrace.
In all, a sad tale, one not worthy of the sacrifice endured by Maj. Zembiec’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Don Zembiec, his brother, and his wife and daughter, Pamela and Fallyn.
Maj. Zembiec would likely disagree on the grounds that the mission and the welfare of his men overrode all other considerations, that anything else was “noise on the net.”
By all accounts, especially those of his men, Maj. Zembiec was a warrior in the spirit of which all Marines are trained to perform, and so few excel beyond their time and place, as he did.
I am unsure we, as a country, deserve such people.
As th
e sun rose in Texas Tuesday morning, the racists uh, members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans awoke to bask in the glory of their victory over the tyranny of the freedom hating Texas DMV.
It seems, with no sense of irony whatsoever, the SCV petitioned the federal courts to force Texas to issue license plates with the Confederate battle flag, because a bumper sticker of the flag of a racist, treasonous army simply wasn’t good enough.
From the Dallas Morning News:
The judges ruled that license plates are a form of “private speech,” and thus protected by the First Amendment. The court also ruled that the Board’s rejection of the plate “favored one speaker over another.”
As always, in cases such as this, one must remember, it’s about heritage, not hate. Of course, if your expressed heritage is symbolized by the banner of a defeated on the battlefield, pro-slavery, breakaway confederacy, well then since beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I know I’ll be beholding a racist douchebag piece of shit.
Thank you for self-identifying to the rest of us.
“I won’t get into the debate about climate change,” said Sen. Brandon Smith, a Hazard Republican. “But I’ll simply point out that I think in academia we all agree that the temperature on Mars is exactly as it is here. Nobody will dispute that. Yet there are no coal mines on Mars. Ther
e’s no factories on Mars that I’m aware of.”
This gem of word salad was produced, as noted above, by Kentucky State Sen. Brandon Smith, R-(of course) Hazard (Moral), during discussions by state lawmakers on the EPA’s new carbon emission regulations on Kentucky. Wherein, the collective membership of the Acadamy of Sciences on both planets said, “What the fuck? When did they legalize pot in the Bluegrass State?”
Sen. Smith was not alone is his quest to publicly display complete scientific ignorance. State Rep. Kevin Sinnette D-(really?) Ashland, added the following:
“The dinosaurs died, and we don’t know why, but the world adjusted. And to say that this is what’s going to cause detriment to people, I just don’t think it’s out there.”
I present this bipartisan example of stupid not to discuss the merits of the EPA’s new carbon emission standards, or enter the debate on climate change (there is no debate, so shut up), rather my point is (I love making fun of idiots!) that politicians of this caliber (small bore), aren’t elected in a vacuum, rather they are allowed to show up and govern due, in large part, to the apathy of the electorate on election day.