Nuggets of Wisdom

That’s really the only way to describe this:

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…

Obama responds to controversy stirred up by McCain campaign…

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I agree wholeheartedly… Enough is enough…

Dennis Kucinich’s Speech at the DNC…

I’m surprised if anyone can top this from the convention floor…

I do like him when he is less… jumpy… but that was still an excellent speech.

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.

What’s so Civil about War Anyway?

I’ve recently been watching Ken Burn’s epic documentary on the Civil War. As I’m nearing the end, I consider the following two impressions to be the biggest lessons that I have learned so far:

1. The Union’s leaders were not the visionary geniuses we sometimes consider them to have been. Lincoln was a great president, but at the time he was mired in a constant state of doubt and insecurity. The public received his Gettysburg Address with confusion and disinterest, and he was convinced that it had been a failed speech. The Emancipation Proclamation nearly backfired on him as well, when thousands of northern civilians rioted in response. He was unpopular towards the end of his first term, and he did not expect to return for a second. Union generals such as Ambrose Burnside and George McClellan made innumerable tactical blunders and provided despairingly poor leadership. Their cowardice and inept battle plans often resulted in thousands of deaths with no gain and no explanation save misjudgment. The Union’s eventual victory is quite astounding, and in some ways seems almost accidental. The people who lived through the conflict certainly did not anticipate or even expect the eventual outcome.

2. Aside from the whole “we-believe-black-people-are-property” component of their ethos, it’s pretty difficult not to fall in love with the Confederate cause. There is something incredibly romantic and compelling about the way in which secessionists spoke about their culture and their land. In a way, they sound almost like a band of Robin Hoods defending their Sherwood Forest against President Nottingham Lincoln. Colorful characters like Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Nathan Bedford Forrest seem almost as if they had sprung from the pages of an ancient Homeric epic poem. The common rebel soldier possessed a roguish wisecracking demeanor that made him considerably more likeable than his stoic but bland Union counterpart. Confederates also had an extensive spy network, which included Southern Belles who would ferry arms under their hoop skirts. There was even one woman, a debutante living in D.C., who regularly extracted secrets from the Union’s secretary of war via seductive methods!

Reverend Wright…

Here is a 10 minute sermon… I have to admit that everything I have seen of this man (even the things the media are saying are “controversial”) I’ve agreed with… This video was made to show how some of the media (read: FOXNEWS and others) take statements out of context to up the controversy…

I love this little leprechaun…

A new video I found after the jump…

Iraq Strategy…

From the two Australian (one is actually from New Zealand, but I digress) comedians who did the “The Front Fell Off” sketch that Drac posted previously elsewhere… This video is from late in 2006 …