Imbecile…

From the March 25, 2009 hearing of the U.S. House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment. Gather round one and all… Watch Rep. John Shimkus turn into an imbecile right before your eyes ladies and gentlemen!

That just makes me sad… The bible as the infallible word of god? Has he ever really read the fucking thing? I wonder his thoughts on revelation… but I digress; he misses the verse right before he starts quoting, which gives the reasoning for god’s decision… (closest translation I could find was NIV…)

Genesis 8:20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. 21 The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though [a] every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.

22 “As long as the earth endures,
seedtime and harvest,
cold and heat,
summer and winter,
day and night
will never cease.”

He’s using Noah’s animal sacrifice to the lord to get the lord to not kill every living thing again, and god agrees. His selective quotation from the passage (cutting out “The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart”) makes me think he doesn’t actually believe the story, and therefore just likes the phrases involved with this pointless fable. Also, the statement “every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood” is one of my main problems with religions, and he reads that without removing it… Why is it, do you suppose, that that is quoted in the context of arguing against global warming… I’ll let you all figure that one out for yourselves… Back to my point about religion though, the blanket comment “you are evil in your heart” comment which comes from religions and cults is an easy way to (once convinced) get a large group of people to follow those few who claim to know how to get back into the “good” territory.

Anyway, just to pass along something that really made me laugh hard. These are quotes read from text taken directly from online christian fundamentalist forums. Enjoy…

Some of this is Poe’s Law in action I think…

Sarah Palin… put to music…

I liked Big Jar’s last post so much that I just had to post a musical follow up… This is a wonderful tribute to Gov. Palin…

“He knows what the right decision is…”

A mother who was an atheist is nothing to be afraid of. A father who was a muslim is nothing to be afraid of. This woman is afraid of anything without a cross apparently, and even those with crosses aren’t off her radar if they don’t hold those crosses at just the same angle as she does…

It’s a shame that McCain has decided that, instead of fighting the scare tactics used against him in 2000, he’s going to fully embrace them for all the electoral votes they’re worth…

Here’s the consequence of this meme of McCarthy-esque scare tactics…

I don’t have words so fill in your own… or use Katrina’s…

….I think I know what the right decision is…

Sean Hannity… . . . Antisemitic?

She will only give interviews to Fox Newz for the last 3 weeks of the campaign?! If Joe Biden said he would only give interviews to Mr. Olbermann and Ms. Maddow for the last 3 weeks of the campaign, what do you think Hannity or any other windbag on that station would say?

I’m pretty certain that neither Democratic candidate will be going for an interview on Fox News, but their campaign certainly wouldn’t announce a Fox News interview black out… Besides, this isn’t a MSNBC blackout… it’s EVERY OTHER NEWS STATION THAT ISN’T FOX BLACKOUT… sorry, my caps-lock got stuck down there…

This is why some Christians terrify me…

That smile is absolutely evil… I mean, how can you sing the lyrics he is singing and be so smiley and happy?…

Lyrics:

Please excuse me sir do you belong here
Cause if not, we’re gonna make you leave
This place is only for the holy
This place is only for the free

We’ll rule the land with love and fury
We’ll baptize everything we see
So if you pledge allegiance to the holy
You can play a role in victory

But if you don’t you’re sure to be defeated
Just like every other enemy
So either give your heart to the cause before you
Or spend a thousand years down on your knees

I pledge allegiance to the Bible
I pledge allegiance to the church
I pledge my life to the cause of justice
And with a gun I’ll show you what I’m worth

All I have is what the Lord has given me
So this hate inside must be divine
Besides we have a moral obligation
To purge the world of all whom he denies

So let the war to end all wars begin now
Let the kingdom come on earth today
And when the streets run red and the dust has settled
With what’s left we’ll start again and again and again

I will one day march in the infantry, ride in the cavalry, shoot the artillery. I will one day fly o’er the enemy, cuz I’m in the Lord’s army.
(Repeat)

I’m in the Lord’s army (3x)

I know these guys are just some douche-bag Christian alt-rock band, but those lyrics are appalling… I’ve been trying to let this go for the past hour or so, and I just can’t… It’s the whole “You can’t have Jesus without the apocalypse”…

So let the war to end all wars begin now
Let the kingdom come on earth today
And when the streets run red and the dust has settled
With what’s left we’ll start again and again and again

You want the world to come to an end? Then rebuild a theocracy? Wow, that sounds like a great idea… Where do I sign up?

And with a gun I’ll show you what I’m worth

Now that just sounds like a psychopath… In fact, that sounds like something the Columbine shooters would have said… Fucking asshats…

Nixon W. Bush

Who is the worst President in the history of the United States?

OK, obviously. Let me revise the question: Who is the worst President in the history of the United States (active Presidents excluded)?

There are a few names you might be tossing around in your head. Hoover. Buchanan. Harding. But, chances are that there is one especially demonic, psychotic, megalomaniacal gargoyle that immediately leaped forward and started doing somersaults as soon as you finished reading the question.

NIXON

For years, I feel like our generation has lived in Nixon’s shadow. He was always the nadir of American politics. No one ever had anything nice to say about the former President, and he was the constant subject of ridicule for comedians and cartoonists. His physical appearance was ghastly-the demented eyes, the sagging jowls, the profuse sweating, the constant fidgeting, as if he were trying to slip out of his suit without unbuttoning anything. He spoke in a horrible guttural growl that made him sound like a gorgon with laryngitis.

Who’s Embarrassing Themselves on the Internet Today?

This is weird.

You are a trophy wife. Your husband, who is a major Broadway theater operator and a quarter century older than you, decides to divorce you. Since you signed a pre-nuptial agreement before you got married, you have no means for supporting yourself, and your future looks pretty bleak.

So, how do you make the best of a very bad situation? Post a video of yourself on YouTube, where you tearfully recount all of the abuses you’ve endured, slander your former spouses’ sexual prowess, and then call up his office and start screaming at the person on the other line!

The 10 Things You Should Know About John McCain

MoveOn.org just released a top ten list about John McCain that covers a few facts and connections unlikely to receive much coverage from the mainstream media. Each assertion is backed up with a hyperlink embedded within the text, so please feel free to research something if it sounds unfounded to you.

I know it’s unlikely that Hillary will receive the Dem’s nomination, but if she does, I strongly urge anyone out there who is considering a vote for McCain over Hillary to take a look at this: