For some, like me, the Age of Obama is a little underwhelming of late. Gitmo is still in operation, Cheney isn’t in prison, racists can run amok speaking hate on TV and gays are second class citizens. The world still hates us and we’re still spying on our own people.

That said, things are changing, and here’s a big one that comes from our pals Down Under. Thanks to stem cells – yeah, “evil” stem cells – scientists there have restored sight to the blind.

Yeah, stem cells can help cure blindness.

Science!

So let the Talibangelicals go full Luddite and move into the national parks armed to the teeth. Let their ilk get sterile and die off. They aren’t part of our genetic future. We can clone them and send the clones in to kill their Primes for all I care.

Thanks to our president, we can now jump back into the stem cell gene pool and see what else we can cure. Cancer? Diabetes? Alzheimers? Republicanism?

Olbermann closed his show with a commentary to “quarantine” FOX News.

That I have a commercial conflict of interest here is obvious, so I’ll make the first symbolic contribution to this quarantine. One of my pleasures, obviously, is constantly criticizing him in that Ted Baxter voice. It is the idea of laughter as a social sanction against inflexible behavior. But this is no time for laughter. This is serious. Serious as death. Serious as George Tiller’s death. So as of this show’s end I will retire the name, the photograph and the caricature. The words may still be quoted in the future as developments dictate, but the goal here is to get this blindly irresponsible man and his ilk off the air. We are only in the television news business, a profession that is at times about two inches up from carnival barking. We must again separate it, television, from terrorism! And we must again make the world safe for people condemned by the Fox News Channel.

I have a couple problems here. One is obvious. How can you be “pro-life” while resorting to assassination as an argument tactic? And yes, some folks are justifiably calling it fundamentalist terrorism. So, really, how do you reconcile the belief system to the behavior?

More important to me, even in my current “spiritual without particular religion” phase, is the concept of holy ground. Sanctuary. Gangs respect it (for the most part). The Families swear by it. Even the KGB respected the tradition. Why don’t Talibangelicals? Last year, that one asshat shot up a church in Tennessee to kill some token Democrats. Now, a doctor gets shot in church.

Not *near* the church. Not pacing outside the church deciding whether or not he could enter. He was *in* church. As an usher in said church. An active participant in the worship of God.

But these so-called “compassionate conservatives” think it is okay to enter a church with a gun and assassinate someone. And why not? They want you to have guns in national parks. They want you to pack heat in school. Why WOULDN’T they agree to execution by the pipe organ?

These twits do not respect any opinions that aren’t on par with their own narrow minded view. Zealots. Racists. Bigots. Assassins. Terrorists.

When will someone tell these fools that this is not religion. It is only hate. It sure won’t be FauxNews. Here’s their opinions on these matters:

More on this filthbucket O’Reilly and his friends here, and here.

Another doctor dares to call this terrorism.

And Rethug Goon Randall Terry says we shouldn’t over-react in placing the blame where it belongs. Namely, with people like him.

So yeah, I’ll be more on the lookout for places that air FauxNews and to avoid giving them any business. If you want to air hate, you don’t need my money. Probably racists anyway.