I heard this awhile back and just was thinking on it. From the age of Reagan to that of Bush the Lesser Sikhs were not allowed religious expression in the US military.
The all (Hate) Jesus all the time party endorsed religious persecution of a non-Christian faith all while saying words like “freedom” without allowing it for persons who did not look and believe as they did.
Nothing surprising there, just another example of conservative hypocrisy.
I heard this awhile back and just was thinking on it. From the age of Reagan to that of Bush the Lesser Sikhs were not allowed religious expression in the US military.
The all (Hate) Jesus all the time party endorsed religious persecution of a non-Christian faith all while saying words like “freedom” without allowing it for persons who did not look and believe as they did.
Nothing surprising there, just another example of conservative hypocrisy.
The danger of validating violent racist traitors is that eventually they take over a part of our national discourse. This is the problem with the right wing these days. They have ceded their discourse to those who hate, fear, and would destroy all of us in the quest for some mythical America that never existed. And hell, given our history, forcing it to exist would destroy everything America is.
It isn’t enough for moderates and liberals to try to fix this through laws, law enforcement, or just common decency. Conservatives need to clean up their damn mess. And quickly.
Here is the report if you are interested at all.
Everywhere you turn, the story is about how Democrats are going to lose seats this fall. I don’t know why other than the whole “we are letting idiots are liars be seen as credible” problem. Juan Cole points out why voting out the folks saving our bacon is ridiculous.
When the President was elected and this congress took office, we were losing over half a million jobs a month. Now, we are gaining jobs.
In the past year and a half, they’ve stabilized the banks, the economy, and the major car companies, they passed health care reform that adds thirty million people and cuts the deficit long term while getting rid of the worst abuses of the insurance companies, extended the solvency of Medicare for a decade, we’re drawing down troops in Iraq, we are making progress with green energy, there has not been one successful terrorist attack on American soil, we’ve just signed a nuclear arms reduction treaty and re-examined our use of nuclear weapons and we are making great progress on the global stage. Hell, the DOW is up over 3,000 since we got rid of the bums. Personally, we’re getting a road paved near me that was a disaster, and it is being paid for with stimulus money. We’re gonna put some people to work and have a nice paved road! And Obama and company did it all without getting blowjobs from interns.
And we’re going to reward them by kicking a lot of them out of office. We’re a really stupid country.
Bob Cesca covered this in a similar post this weekend.
Josh, my boss, likes to send me links from the conservative Review Journal just to piss me off. Yeah, it’s news, but from a wingnut point of view.
The paper and it’s owner are bad enough. However, it’s the regular commenters that really, really blow your mind.
Here’s a story from today on a rash of home invasions in the area. Check out some of the comments if you wish, but here’s one that – six hours after it’s posting – has not yet been deleted:
The story here links to the article I posted from the motorcycle forum last night.
This shouldn’t surprise you. Conservatives lie, misrepresent the truth, try to cover it up and an organization that helps people has to shut down over the slander.
There’s a special place in hell for people like this. I hope they get their proper punishment, apparently in the next life because they are getting away with everything here.
On “Confederate Heritage Month” or whatever the hell the Virginia plan to honor treason, sedition, and racism is all about.
This is who they are–the proud and ignorant. If you believe that if we still had segregation we wouldn’t “have had all these problems,” this is the movement for you. If you believe that your president is a Muslim sleeper agent, this is the movement for you. If you honor a flag raised explicitly to destroy this country then this is the movement for you. If you flirt with secession, even now, then this movement is for you. If you are a “Real American” with no demonstrable interest in “Real America” then, by God, this movement of alchemists and creationists, of anti-science and hair tonic, is for you.
When even the Klan thinks you are out of line:
Welcome to a country where conservative doctors refuse to treat folks who vote for Obama and others brag about firing employees who also voted for the President.
On the flip side, our bikers know exactly what this is all about: racism. More than that though, it’s about who you are better than in your eyes. Read some plain and simple genius analysis of the traitorous racists screaming all over the airwaves.
And now the way the cards were dealt 18 months ago has upset a huge segment of the population. They no longer know who they are better than. They are lashing out. And there is fuck-all for a safety valve and it does run 24/7 in a perpetual echo chamber.
They say it is about “freedoms”…but they can point to no freedoms that have been lost over the last 14 months.
They say the Constitution is being destroyed, but when you ask them what parts of The General Welfare Clause or Congresses’ power to regulate Interstate Commerce are being violated…they stand mute with rage
They say it is about taxes…but they can find no drastic tax increases in the last 14 months.
Come to think of it, I don’t really remember anyone getting speared with an assegai thirty years ago either. But that didn’t stop people screaming about the danger.
And they say they want their Country Back.
Well, Bing-fucking-O.
Now we have it. They want to return to a time and place where they at least knew who they were better than.
And the fact that most of this spittle is flying from the mouths of the poor, the semi-educated, the low information voter, and from By-God Dixie…well, that is only because it is your turn. A lot of the rest of the Country has already gone through this exercise 20-30 years ago. And the same spittle flew from the same confused lips when it was our turn.
So we don’t look on Tea-hadists with scorn because they are alien and unfathomable. We do so because we recognize these very traits as ours and those of our neighbors.”All in the Family” wasn’t the most popular show in the Northeast because Archie Bunker was despised. It was popular because he was comfortably familiar. But at least he was a character. Nobody tried to run him for President.
And it ain’t just President Obama. It is a lot else: If your job can be done on the Indian sub-continent, who are you better than? If China can launch a spaceship, who are you better than? If the world looks at the mighty Dollar as little better than an American Peso, who are you better than? If an immigrant can work your ass into the ground, and do it smiling for a lot less money, who are you better than?
A whole lot of life has been shaken and stirred the last couple of decades.
This whole Tea-Party nonsense will eventually pass. Because there is no “going back”. OK, you can move to Idaho, or Montana, and it will feel like you have found what was missing. And you might even be happy. As long as you never watch the POTUS on the national news while you are trying to answer the question: “Who am I better than?”