Another WTF moment, brought to you by Dave Neiwert, who covers the over-the-edge extremists on the right.
It seems like every week I come across some truly weird piece of militia organizing from the freshly revived Patriot movement.
This week's is pretty special: An online game at which you can actually earn money by defending America in the year 2011 against the evil forces of the fallen Obama administration. The game is called "2011: Obama Coup Fails". [Only go to the site if you don't mind giving them the hits. Otherwise, you can get the idea here.]
They've created a whole future history, written from the perspective of people in the year 2011. And as you can see, it's militia-movement material from the '90s updated for the Glenn Beck generation.
The backstory/history of this future United States of Earth is batsh*t crazy, of course, but you have to give them props for creativity. Here is a training video.
I went over and found some headlines in the news section:
- Maxine Waters: The Cong's Last Illiterate Caught
- The Federal Reserve Building Bombed
- Hi llary Clinton Finally Captured
- Sarah Palin The Patriot Leads Revolt Against Hamas
- Michelle Obama Captured By Militia, America Celebrates
- Oathkeepers in the Army Disobey Orders and Attack
- Michelle Malkin Stands Out Among The Leaders Who Saved America
And in what has to be the one of the most preposterous nuggets of BS is this one:
Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck Found Dead in Camp
March, 2011 - Clark County, VA - A FEMA camp was liberated today, one of two still controlled by the war criminals loyal to Obama. Rush Limbaugh was executed over a week earlier, we are told, and Glenn Beck was found in his cell and has died, incredibly of an 'aspirin overdose', the preferred way to send a message to the enemies of Obama. The NY Times came out with the typically disgusting headline, "Shots Fired in Virginiaginia; Rush and Beck Finally Shut Up", in their first admission that there is even a war going on. Their last half dozen readers were later surprised when their Queens, NY printing center and offices were firebombed by Patriots who simply had enough of that trash propaganda outlet. Thomas Jefferson said "Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle."
Crossposted to ProudLiberal.org
You know, when you read the Declaration of Independence put forth by the Founding Fathers, you have to notice one fact. There are no footnotes or asterisks that direct the reader to some subsection saying that “well, we didn’t mean it applies to this group or that”. The most famous line is, of course, this:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Yes boys and girls, that is exactly how it’s written. It’s not:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal (see note 1), that they are endowed by their Creator (see note 2) with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Note 1: This may not apply to those Catholics; we just don’t get their religion. Oh, and not the homos. No offense, but ewww… And not those Italians that come over here. You know, looking all swarthy and all. And don’t get us started on those crazy Indians! We’ve got some smallpox blankets to take care of them!
Note 2: When we say “Creator”, we mean the good, PROTESTANT God. We don’t mean a Catholic God, or some heathen race God like Ganesha or Mohammed or Zeus or Odin. Nope, the only Creator we mean is our good, Protestant God.
So what does this mean? ;nbsp; It means that A) we are ALL meant to be able to pursue Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness and B) every person has the right to their own beliefs about their Creator. It means that black people have the right to marry white people. It means that people should be allowed to be hermits in a cave, or be the life of a party in downtown Manhattan. It means that people are allowed to pursue Mormonism. It means that people are allowed to howl at the moon, if that is their want for worship. And it means that men should have the right to marry other men, and women should have the right to marry other women. You see, it all comes down to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. I have been with my partner for over seventeen years. But someone took away our rights of the pursuit of Happiness in a popularity contest back in 2004.
We should be granting rights, not taking them away. Because honestly, no one person is better than another. No one person’s rights should be granted when another person’s rights are taken away. We are all equal. We should all BE equal. That is the way that our Founding Fathers wanted.
As you all know, Keith Bardwell is still smarting for being called a racist for refusing to marry an interracial couple. He strenuously denied that he was racist, saying the fact he lets negroes use the bathroom in his house is proof positive of his open heart. And so he also refuses to step down, even after being called to do so by Governor Bobby Jindal and Sen. Mary Landrieu. Notably, Republican Senator David Vitter apparently didn't release a statement to USA Today.
Keith Bardwell's comments to reporters follows calls for his ouster by Louisiana Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal and Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu.
"Everybody hates me," he tells reporters. "Really. I don't know why. I treat people, I figure, equal. I have one problem with mixed marriages and that is the offspring."
Asked if he is "racist," Bardwell replies: "Absolutely not.
"My definition of a racist is to hate black people, or treat black people different that anybody else," he says.
Perhaps he has a different dictionary than we do.
Moving right along to another case of denial, this time anti-Semitism, we feature f amed Irish tenor Ronan Tynan, who is well-known for singing at Yankee games. He seems to have a very narrow view about what kind of "Jew humor" isn't offensive.
Tynan, famous for belting out "God Bless America" at Yankee games, ran into a friend of his, a real estate broker, while he was showing apartments in his building to a pediatrician named Gabrielle Gold-von Simson.
"Don't worry, they are not Red Sox fans," the broker reportedly said. "I don't care about that, as long as they are not Jewish," Tynan replied.
p>That line might - might - have been funny if delivered as schtick by the likes of Jackie Mason, Mel Brooks or Larry David. But Dr. Gold-von Simson, distinctly unamused, complained to her broker and reported the exchange to WNBC-TV.
The Yankees cancelled Tynan's scheduled Friday appearance at the American League playoffs.
"I'm not anti-Semitic and I have never been in my life," Tynan protested, calling the incident "something misfortunate, I was too stupid with my mouth."
Hmm. You mean the signals from his brain got scrambled on the way to his KKK tongue and mouth? How come that doesn't happen when he goes to sing "God Bless America"? He apologized, btw, and it was accepted by Dr. Gold-von Simson.
I guess we can put these two on the shelf with the teabagger who said he can't be racist because he helped out black Boy Scouts once or because they gave mouth-to-mouth to a black NBA player 20 years ago.
COMMUNITY VIGIL FOR COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM
VIGILIA COMUNITARIA PARA UNA REFORMA COMPRESIVA DE LAS LEYES DE INMIGRACIÃ"N
Friday, October 23, 2009
viernes 23 octubre de 2009
7:30 to 8:30 pm. St. Michael & All Angels Episcopal Church
1704 NE 43rd Ave., Portland
This bilingual community service will include songs, prayers, stories, and Scripture reflections, followed by a candlelight proceture reflections, followed by a candlelight procession to the Hollywood MAX station. Este servicio comunitario bilingüe incluirá cantos, oraciones, comentarios y reflexiones BÃblicas. Después iremos en procesion para la Estación de MAX para una vigilia con velas. For more information please contact:Deacon Marla McGarry-Lawrence
St. Michael & All Angels Episcopal Church
1704 NE 43rd Ave.
Portland, OR 97213-1402
503-284-7141 ext. 314 CAUSA (Oregon's Immigrant Rights Coalition), the largest Latin@ civil and human rights and advocacy organization in the Pacific Northwest
1 comment:
It seems to me that all the negative vibes this blowhard (Rush Hudson Limbaugh A.KA. Jeff Christie) has been spewing over these many years has come back to blow back on his face (A classic “Blow Back”). He always tries to give off the airs that he can have anything he wants but as we all witness those with more money and more influence tossed him aside like sack of potatoes and the ultimate insult was that it was done in public (money don’t buy you everything butterball).
Now of course he blames everyone else (Michael J. Fox, Perez Hilton, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Sonia Sotomayor, Hillary Clinton, Olympia Snowe, ESPN, NFL, the media, basically people of color, the handicapped, women and gays) when of course all you have to do is listen to his show and plainly hear his daily prejudices filled sermons. So NFL, I salute you decision, job well done. And to the whaling cry baby perched on his self made pedestal, quit your whining it was your own fault. He is reaping what he has sowed, KARMA, "palin and simple" like his followers. Don’t we all feel better?
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