May 14, 2005
Show Me Who To Smite, And They Shall Be Smoten!
A few points:
(1) There is no way that certain public interest groups (ACLU, Americans United) will not take hard-line approaches on 1st Amendment issues.
(2) There is no way that the shitty, sensation-seeking media will not blow up these groups' lawsuits to at least 1,000 times their actual importance...
(2a) ... in order to cater/pander to the sizable minority of people in this country who are waiting for the End Times to be triggered by stopping a graduation prayer in Duck Fart, Iowa...
(2b) ... and these people would rather throw their firstborn into a river than vote for a Democrat.
(3) Meaning that if the GOP can succesfully convince swing voters (religious moderates) that the entire Democratic Party as anti-God because of the actions of a few non-partisan political groups, while the GOP is not continually painted as a refuge for millenialist nutcases by the DNC, then the DNC is comprised of a bunch of fucking incompetent bedwetters.
(4) And spineless turds like Kevin Drum or Matthew Yglesias who would rather blame a few atheists or Establishment Clause absolutists (converted magically into the dreaded "liberals" in both their posts) than the incompetent bedwettergenstia inside the Beltway prove their readiness for the next several deacdes of useless, jello-like punditry.
(4a) And Matt's idiot, universe-is-me concluding sentence: "I don't even really care about the school prayer question, but speaking from experience I was forced to engage in sectarian Christian prayer in my (non-public) school and it was fine" really speaks to the kind of angel-food-cake quality that will lose elections for years to come. I guess that prayer is fine for that little Muslim kid, too! In fact, why not drive home the point about the divine nature of the Christ by flushing a few pages from the Koran down the toilet?
(4b) By the way, terrific timing on the stereophonic bladder-loosening, given the recent scandal at the Air Force Academy and a U.S. Circuit Court ruling that allowed a city to limit its invocations to Judeo-Christian representatives only. Wiccans, begone! The government's no place for you!
(5) Oh, and by the way, there is no way that anyone other that a Christian or Jew gets elected to federal office. If you know of a self-proclaimed Buddhist, agnostic, Muslim, atheist, Hindu or Zoroasterian in Congress, feel free to drop that knowledge in the comments.
That smotening is going to leave a mark.
Ezra Klein gave props to Drum about this, and should be included in the smelly invertebrate class. Funny that all three are 'professional bloggers'. See what your money can buy!
Posted by: Dick Durata at May 14, 2005 03:00 PMI think the non-voting representative of Guam worships the yen. Other than that, I think you're right.
Posted by: roxanne at May 14, 2005 03:09 PMWell, I've got plenty of innuendo and hearsay about certain congress critters. And those are kinds of evidence, right?
Posted by: Grotesqueticle at May 14, 2005 05:42 PMnorbizness, if i was physically able to receive your seed, i would be standing in line to.
i am a hindu(born and raised, beeyotch!) and i dont care about prayer either but you dont see me getting a cushy writing job. but then i am a darkie, and they don't give people like me jobs unless i bash the godless librulz on the corner... or something. obviously i have yet to figure out how to game the system.
and Mr Durata, i agree that young Klein has been corrupted by the dark side. ever since he left pandagon, he has lost a certain spark that i thought he had.
Point 5 is especially painful, since no person running for office can do so without at least pretending to be judeo-christian. I am immediately disqualified because of my position on religion.
persecuted minority? whatever... I have NO representation for my religious position.
Posted by: bruce at May 14, 2005 09:07 PMHey, but there's Bobby Jindal, R-Louisiana!
Oh wait, he converted to Catholicism.
Posted by: Ali at May 14, 2005 09:48 PMDo you go through as many shirts as David Banner when that Hulk attitude kicks in like that?
Posted by: QuakerinaBasement at May 15, 2005 01:47 AMDo some research Norbizness! How on earth can you claim that only Jews and Christians can be president when the current president is a Satanist? Wake up and smell the brimstone!
Posted by: at May 15, 2005 08:51 AMSpeak it! Kids in schools that have strict parents or strict religious beliefs that are contrary to the prevailing ones are stuck in a really bad situation when they have to ask the teacher to be let out of daily prayer/pledge/whatever. This is not negotiable. What other "compromises" should we consider? Re-segregation would woo the racist voters, you know.
Posted by: Amanda Marcotte at May 15, 2005 03:45 PMWe've been told by that student of Christianity, Falwell, that the anti-Christ will be a Jewish male.
Yglesias, I'm callin' you out. Get three certified male bloggers(if you don't want Hindassrocket, that's fine) to examine your body for 666. If you pass, then you can be promoted to witless hack as per your original contract with Satan.
Otherwise, I would advise all your fellow workers to arm themselves with crucifixes and little spray bottles of Holy Water, just in case.
Posted by: The Dark Avenger at May 17, 2005 02:21 AMSorry to break the news, but the number of the Beast has been changed. If they find a 666, they'll be crowning the wrong antiChrist.
Posted by: (: Tom :) at May 17, 2005 04:35 AMformer liberal colleague in chicago backed dan hynes over obama in the senate primaries because of his name, thought that the democrats risked losing a likely seat because of it. and, turns out, he's not just any guy, obama. nor was ______ wrong. I watched the democratic convention with my dad, who defaults to fox, and heard the magnificent brit call him osama after his speech. predictable and enraging at the same time. that's what makes me hate all these tuck fexan redneck bush electing oklahoma ragging wetback fearing we stole it so it's ours panhandlers (excepting the one and only [this catblog guy] and his funblog bucking the trend). not your fault, [man], probably, bush and gonzales, and the fact that the STROKES were finally discovered in America at SXSW! keep it up. they'll need you for ideas, or warmth, once the revolution begins.