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…

Vote.

That is all…

Vote.

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…

Barack Obama Goes Reggae

“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…