Let's Bring Back the USSR!

It seems the Right Wingnuts really need a boogey man and when they lost the USSR as the US version of the "Great Satan", they set about finding a new one. In their desperation, they chose Muslims and the Islamic religion. It doesn't matter that the vast majority of Muslims are peace loving types who simply want to work hard, put food on the table and live a blessed life. That makes no difference to the Culture of Hate that needs something, anything to feed on.

Cal Thomas recently wrote "

From the rapid construction of mosques and Islamic schools across the country -- many of which are financed by Saudi Arabia -- to the use of front organizations as conduits to channel money to terrorist groups abroad, a "fifth column" has been opened in the United States.
For those unfamiliar with the term "fifth column," it usually refers to a group of people who are assumed to have loyalties to countries other than their own, or who support some other nation in war efforts against the country they live in.

So, now those who practice Islam are "fifth columnists" (Cal had to define the term to his readers. I guess it's not enough that they know how to read?)

So, to Cal Thomas, every Muslin is a potential traitor to the US! Why does this remind me of WWII and the movement to place Japanese living in the US in "internment camps"? The assumption then was that because they were of Japanese ancestry, they must be in league with the Japanese government. Likewise, just because some Muslim extremists are acting out politically, they must all be terrorists. Gosh, this means that all Christians are religious fundamentalists intent on overthrowing the US government for their version of Old Testament "sharia"!

I wish we had the USSR back again. At least the wingnuts had an enemy that was identifiable and quantifiable. I don't like their recent choices at all!

-devon

U.S. quietly declares war on Iran.

This will be short and to the point. I have no love for Joe Lieberman. He is was a DINO when he claimed to be a democrat, now he's a IINO. The man, like a 3 year old trying to reach a candy bar, has been BEGGING for us to make war on Iran.
Well, he's snuck in the amendment in recent legislation, which now has authorized us to take "Armed intervention to the regime of Iran, using tools of the military."

You know why he's doing this patheticness. Because he KNOWS he's not getting re-elected. Still, the damage has been done.
It's off to war we go! Again! Can I kill myself yet?

-Matt

Bushism of the Month: "Childrens do learn"

Childrens do learn, but Bush do not. From Reuters:

"Childrens do learn," Bush tells school kids

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Offering a grammar lesson guaranteed to make any English teacher cringe, President George W. Bush told a group of New York school kids on Wednesday: "Childrens do learn."

Bush made his latest grammatical slip-up at a made-for-TV event where he urged Congress to reauthorize the No Child Left Behind Act, the centerpiece of his education policy, as he touted a new national report card on improved test scores.

The event drew New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings plus teachers and about 20 fourth and fifth graders from P.S. 76.

During his first presidential campaign, Bush -- who promised to be the "education president" -- once asked: "Is our children learning?"

On Wednesday, Bush seemed to answer his own question with the same kind of grammatical twist.

"As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured," he said.

The White House opted to clean up Bush's diction in the official transcript.

Bush is no stranger to verbal gaffes. He often acknowledges he was no more than an average student in school and jokes about his habit of mangling the English language.

Just a day earlier, the White House inadvertently showed how it tries to prevent Bush from making even more slips of the tongue than he already does.

As Bush addressed the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, a marked-up draft of his speech briefly popped up on the U.N. Web site, complete with a phonetic pronunciation guide to get him past troublesome names of countries and world leaders.""

-Matt

Sen Ted Stevens (R-AK) caught in FBI sting

The Republican Senator from Alaska, Ted Stevens has been caught in FBI sting. No further details at the moment.

-Matt

Iran Assault Plans

I think the words "Here we go again" are most appropriate.

The question I have to ask is, what are we gonna do to STOP it this time?
When will protests not be enough for us to stop the crimes of this Bush regime?

I don't have the answer, but it's worth asking....

-MAtt

Ron Paul Make Sense?

I came across this...

http://www.care2.com/news/member/544256115/461413

It's a great message! I was all set to say "I made a mistake" when I called him a "crackpot" but then the fantasy wore off and common sense came into play.

See. Ron speaks a great line... "Let's make it all real simple..." (like it was in 1850). There was no "big gobment". There were no foreign wars. There were few constitutional questions. There was a gold standard and we only printed as much money as we had in gold. There was no federal income tax and no IRS. There was no "welfare" (even to corporations)! The states generally did what they wanted and the federal government just stood around looking pissed.

Here's the problem, Ron. This is 2007 and slavery is no longer legal. The globe is so small that an astronaut circled it in a matter of minute. Commerce is world-wide and global now. We chat via the internet with people who don't even live in the same hemisphere with us! The Civil War decided that it was not a question of "State's Rights" anymore. We have been the United States of America --- a Federal Republic --- for over 150 years! There are Constitutional issues that are still being debated as times move forward (aka "Progress") and there will always be issues that must be decided by the Supreme Court. It's hardly time to shut it down.

Ron would like us to remain stuck in the past but, trust me, the past ain't all it's cracked up to be! I'm just over a half century old and even I recall separate drinking fountains, bathrooms, and waiting rooms for white and "colored". I recall white sheriffs who ruled entire counties like fifedoms. I recall state governors who barred the door of black students trying to attend schools and state govenments blocking free elections (worse than Florida and Ohio!). I recall the Federal Government having to post National Guardsmen to protect the rights of citizens against state despotism. I recall people being denied jobs and education because of race and sex!

Sure, I'd like to go back to some point in the past. I'd be younger, healthier and a lot smarter. Perhaps I'd meet Ron Paul and convince him that America is not such a bad place that we have to put out the chonological anchor to some other century.

He's well meaning. He's a doctor and surely would like to cure all our ills. But putting our head in the proverbial sand won't accomplish much. After all, Ron, like many other Repugnicans is running on the platform that we should get rid of the Federal Government. I question the sense of electing someone to lead the Federal Republic who wants to destroy the Federal Republic!

So, as much as Ron almost seems sensible, he's hardly that. He's contrarian and anachronistic. As President, he'd be almost as bad as Bush! Naive and demented! I guess I was right then after all in my initial assessment. He's a "crackpot".

Repugicans Find a Way Out for 2008!

From MSNBC.com and Associated Press:

ORLANDO, Fla. - A Republican political consultant and two other men were found dead in a home in an apparent double-murder and suicide, authorities and relatives said.
Authorities have not determined a motive for the deaths of Ralph Gonzalez, 39, his roommate, David Abrami, 36, and a friend, Robert Drake, 30.

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Maybe more Repugnican "consultants" will take this way out to avoid the 2008 debacle!?

Perhaps a "lover's triangle"? It's imaginable. After all, the most notorious "closet queens" in history are Repugnicans!

Next it'll be Rudy and Mitt having a tiff and bitch slapping each other to death?

-Devon

Fox "News" and Giuliani

Remember the good ole days when the news programs had integrity? Remember when they would carefully step over the tricky issues of personal preference when it came to candidates? When there was a "fairness doctrine" that forced them to carefully walk a tightrope when it came to giving one candidate more exposure over another? Well, the Repugicans did away with most of that and the result is that we're blessed with their idea of "fair trade" versus "fairness".

For example, Fox "news", in a study by MediaMatters.com has given Giuliani more airtime than any other candidate, Repug or Democrat. And when you look behind the curtain, here's a interesting tidbit from MSNBC.com that might explain it...

“Roger [Alies] explained that every time a candidate is given a microphone, he’s getting $100,000 worth of publicity,” Mr. Giuliani wrote in his book. After he became mayor, Mr. Giuliani spoke at a reception in 1994 when Mr. Ailes was introduced as the new president of the new CNBC business news network. The mayor listed for the crowd gathered in the Rainbow Room Mr. Ailes’s many accomplishments as a producer of television comedy specials and documentaries, including the Emmy Award-winning “Television and the Presidency.”
“I am personally gratified to see that Roger has reached a new pinnacle in a remarkable career, because Roger has played an important role in my own career,” Mr. Giuliani said, according to a draft of his speech.

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Should Roger and Fox "news" account for a political donation of $100,000 for each appearance by Rudy on their "network"? It would seem that they've already placed that value on the act. They should have to "own up" to you, dontcha think?

But alas, the Justice Department and Election Commission are under the political control of the Bush Regime and they are too busy prosecuting Liberal churches for political organizing and Democrat candidates for election law violations to look at real crimes! It's a shame and, yet another fact, that history will record in this decade of shameless, political plundering masterminded by Rove and Cheney and recorded as the "Bush Presidency".

If Congress is in session, our rights are in danger!

This weekend as we all slept in and relaxed, our Congress was "hard at work" undermining our Constitutional Rights and Civil Liberties.

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The 227 to 183 House vote capped a high-pressure campaign by the White House to change the nation's wiretap law, in which the administration capitalized on Democrats' fears of being branded as weak on terrorism and on a general congressional desire to proceed with an August recess. ...

Privacy and civil liberties advocates, and many Democratic lawmakers, complained that the Bush administration's revisions to the law could breach constitutional protections against government intrusion. But the administration, aided by Republican congressional leaders, suggested that a failure to approve what intelligence officials sought could expose the country to a greater risk of terrorist attack. ...

"There are a lot of people who felt we had to pass something," said one angry Democratic lawmaker who requested anonymity, citing the sensitivity of caucus discussions. "It was tantamount to being railroaded."

In a sole substantial concession to Democrats, the administration agreed to a provision allowing the legislation to be reconsidered in six months. ...

Tonight, several Democrats said the bill would "eviscerate" the Fourth Amendment. Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) said that lawmakers were being "stampeded by fearmongering and deception" into voting for the bill. Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) warned the bill would lead to "potential unprecedented abuse of innocent Americans' privacy."

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Tragically, even when the Demcratic Party is in control, they can be bullied and railroaded into doing something they know is NOT in the best interests of the American People. THAT'S how dangerous this White House Regime can be! Perhaps we need a law that prohibits Congress from voting on the weekends when we're not paying attention. Or perhaps we need a law that the American people have to pay attention? Or perhaps we need a party with the courage to say, "NO!" to the White House!

- Devon

Impeachment for Incompetence?

It's become apparent to even the most dull-witted citizen that incompetence seems to prevail in the government. The Attorney General is clearly way in over his head. His latest attempts to lie or claim ignorance before the House and Senate investigating committees is shamefull and embarrassing. The Secretary of State was hardly competent as the National Security Advisor and "overlooked" the warning about BinLaden's plans to attack the US. Then she was "promoted" to another level and is in over her head once again. The only thing that's saved her is that she's not done much to bring dishonor to her office, like the Attorney General. The Vice President has pressed his political agenda into areas of the government where he shouldn't and the result a general breakdown in the credibility of governmental review and reporting. Likewise Carl Rove's hand has been found in governmental and legislative "cookie jars" where no adviser to the President has gone before. Even the President has left his fingerprints on various disasters such as the infamous occupation of Iraq and the generally terrible reputation of the US in international affairs and the continued fall of the once mighty US dollar as the "gold standard" of internation currency to second behind that of the Canadian Dollar!

The question is: Does incompetence stand as reason enough to Impeach? Do we have to find their incompetence was also linked to illegal acts? In the case of the AG, it sure looks like he intentionally ignored the Civil Service Laws even against the best advice of those few underlings who warned him against that. That should be enough to impeach but the dilemna is that the AG is so incompetent that the question becomes blurred. Was he too incompetent to know he was doing something wrong? Or, did he do something wrong because he was incompetent? Or, did he do something illegal and is now hiding behind the defence of "ignorance" and "poor recall"?

Is ignorance an excuse? If you or I were hauled in front of a judge and asked about something we did that was illegal, could we simply respond with, "I don't recall" or "That's a matter of priviledge"? I don't think so. After a few of those responses, we'd be hauled off to jail, I'm sure. But for Presidential Advisors, members of the Cabinet, and members of the Justice Department, these excuses seem to be the perfect defense.

As much as I'd like the President to have "Executive Priviledge", it simply is a courtesy granted by the Congress, a "priviledge", because there is no Constitutional basis for it. It was given to George Washington and others because Congress wanted to give the President some room within his office to side-step their questions. However, since Richard Nixon, "Executive Priviledge" has become a "Get out of Jail Free" card to be played as much as often as the President and his staff deemed necessary. In this administration it's been expanded to include private citizens called to testify under subpeona by Congress, a step beyond any previously taken.

So, must we wait until the evidence falls on us like a Minneapolis highway bridge before we impeach the President, Vice President, Attorney General, Secretary of State, etc., etc.? Or can we dispense with the formalities and impeach for imcompetence? Because, if these people can't seem to provide concrete, believeable answers to even the most simple questions, they should be impeached. And if they use Executive Privledge, to evade answering the simplest questions, they should be impeached. If they are impeached perhaps then their memories will sharpen and we'll get the answers to our questions. It seems to be the only way we'll get answers.

IMPEACH!

Free Religion!

From Slate.com and an article about Why Germany hates Secientology... http://www.slate.com/id/2171218/nav/ais/ <--- click to read

"Some German officials believe Scientology's ideology is rooted in a kind of political extremism—a bit of a sensitive area for Germany since World War II. They also argue that Scientology is not a religion but a business, since local churches operate like franchises of the main organization. "

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My two cents...

I truely believe all religions should have the right to practice their belief, even Scientology. After all, who is to say they aren't totally correct and we're all wrong? But arguing that Scientology is a "business" and not a "religion" totally misses the mark for excuses not to call it a "religion"!

Come on, crowd! Look at any religion and, in spite of all the ritual and faith and belief structure, they are ALL businesses! The Baptists send money to the HQ like any other franchise and, although they claim the individual churches are "independent", if they screw up enough, they are ostracized by the leadship of the HQ. Same with Methodists, Lutherans, Episcopal, etc.

But, of course, it's the Catholic Church that is a best example of a franchising operation. All decisions come down from Headquarters (the Pope and the Vatican) and that includes every nook and cranny of the Catholics' world. Even the professors at Catholic Universities are under the HQ's thumb. Teach or write outside the dictates of the Central Office and boom... no job.

So, if you're going to pick on Scientology for being a business, you must go after ALL the other religions. They are ALL businesses and at their core, their interest is money, money and more money, like like McDonalds, KFC, Pizza Hut, etc.!

Saudi Problems!

From the NY Times... http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/27/world/middleeast/27saudi.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin

Basically, the stuff is hitting the fan with George the Witless' robed buddies. Someone's figuring out that his former playmates are really just terrorists of another ilk. Rather than fight us directly and risk losing the revenue from their oil, they support the Islamic extremists and play both end against the middle so they don't offend anyone!

George is caught in the middle because he's handholding buddies with the Saudi prince Bandar and because his Daddy and other family members are in business (deeply) with the Saudi's and King Abdullah. So, he has to tread lightly when it comes to representing US interests to these former goat herders.

But now and then some truth comes to light and... well, this is one of those moments.

The solution? Get as far away from middle east oil as we can through alternative fuels (make that our National Priority!) and get out of the middle east and let them kill each other if they must.

-Devon

The New White House Cat!

From Charlotte.com, an intriguing article about a cat who can sense the next to die in a nursing home. (Click here to read it). It seems the cat curls up with the patient and within a couple hours, they pass away.

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I think this cat needs to visit the next Presidential Cabinet meeting. I suspect it'll head right for Attorney General Gonzales!

-Devon

Cornyn's Day's are Numbered!

An atricle from Rio Grande Guardian...
(click here to read it) carries news of the entry of two Democrats into the race to take the Senate seat of John Cornyn, R-Texas, in the 2008 election.

One of the candidates is State Rep. Rick Noriega from Houston. Noriega is a five-term member of the Texas House. A lieutenant colonel in the National Guard, he served one year in combat in Afghanistan. His connections to Laredo and the Valley are strong thanks to his service in the National Guard. In Laredo, he was sector commander for Operation Jump Start for five months. He has been in the operational cell for three Operation Lone Star projects. And, he has worked closely over the years with the 3rd Battalion, 141st Infantry at Weslaco.

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and, of course, my two cents...

If this is the sort of candidate we're going to field in 2008, then it sure looks like Texas is turning BLUE as the people realize their current representation has been nothing more bagman and bagwoman for the Bush Regime.

As Noriega put it, his intention was to “speak truth to power” over the coming months on behalf of millions of Texans who have not had proper representation in the U.S. Senate for the past six years. “This senator (Cornyn) decided early on to represent one Texan – the President of the United States. He has carried George Bush’s brief case. He has not represented the 22 million people that live in the state of Texas,” Noriega said.

I can't wait until Texans can scream, "FREE at LAST! Free at Last!"

-Devon

Worse than Nixon?

from MSNBC.com

WASHINGTON - President Bush is a competitive guy. But this is one contest he would rather lose. With 18 months left in office, he is in the running for most unpopular president in the history of modern polling.

The latest Washington Post-ABC News survey shows that 65 percent of Americans disapprove of Bush's job performance, matching his all-time low. In polls conducted by The Post or Gallup going back to 1938, only once has a president exceeded that level of public animosity -- and that was Richard M. Nixon, who hit 66 percent four days before he resigned.

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My two cents? Jesus! What can I say that this doesn't already say?

-Devon

The Perfect Analogy

from MSNBC.com article regarding US troops picking up garbage in Baghdad...

The rotting waste presented enormous dangers not just for Iraqi trash collectors and for local residents exposed to the risk of disease, but for U.S. troops. Corbin said many of his unit’s civil affairs missions in Baghdad were connected in some way to the city’s garbage problem.
“If we didn’t pick up the garbage, then al-Qaida would put explosives in the garbage to kill us,” he said. “And if the streets are full of trash, the Iraqi people are going to be upset and blame us. … Everything is linked.”

I think that's the perfect analogy to the situation our Troops are in. It's a shame. If they don't do what the Iraqi's should be doing, they either get complaints or blown up! It's a total no-win situation and that's why we have to pull back to the fringes and let the Iraqi's do what needs to be done within their own country.

We shouldn't be risking our troops lives to pick up someone else's garbage. George, if you think it's necessary for us to be there, hire Halliburton to do it with your own money. The Republican National Committee should be able to loan you some money!

-Devon

Congress needs to grow some "Big Ones"

There's a excellent article at Slate.com about "Executive Priviledge" and how Congress should respond to the White House in this matter. Click here to read it.

The author offers a idea involving the formation of yet another layer of technology to combat the abuse of executive power but that's adding another layer to the problem rather than peeling away a layer to solve the current problem. As a technician, I'm always wary of "adding another layer" because it tends to complicate matters more often than solve them.

The solution to the abuse of Executive Priviledge is for Congress to grow some "Big Ones" and assert it's oversight authority. After all Congress has the powers granted to it by the Constitution which include oversight and, yes, the I-word, Impeachment. Congress has the authority and responsibility for oversight. For five years, they dropped the ball and let it bounce around while the White House cast a blind eye to its actions which included getting the US involved in the Iraqi Civil War and Occupation. Subsequent to the 2006 elections, the hearings have begun but many are too late to hope for any good to come of their efforts. Meanwhile, the core of the problem lies within the offices of the Vice President, the Senior Adviser, Karl Rove and the Justice Department's head, Alberto Gonzales. And the biggest problem has been the reluctantance of Congress to move forward with some action of disapproval. There are many possible actions but it's time to consider the big one: Impeachment!

Ever since the Clinton Impeachment, I believe the Democrats, especially, have been uncomfortable bring this up because they don't want to look like they are abusing it as the Republicans did against Clinton. They see it as a very serious alternative and wish to reserve it for the most appropriate moment. However, there is a tool available to Congress that could come before Impeachment and will trump the flaccid argument of Executive Privledge. It is called Inherent Comtempt. Congress can compell the testimony of anyone it wants and hold court within its chambers to prosecute anyone it wants, including those mentioned above, to force them to testify of be jailed for comptempt... impeachment to follow, I am sure. It's currently considering Contempt charges against Harriet Myers for not complying with the subpoena to appear. But this is BB-shot compared to what it really MUST do.

If there is any basis for Impeachment in the US Constitution, the actions of the Bush Regime have certainly warranted such action. They've been bold in their resistance to the requirements to report to Congress when requested and lied when they did. They have subverted law and law and skated on the edge of laws, flauting their spirit, if not their letter. Nothing in US history can compare to their absolute disrespect for the Congress, Laws, Traditions, Sanctity, and People of the United States as this adminstration! Nothing! If Congress does not move to Impeachment against Bush, Cheney and Gonzales then they should just "whiteout" the references to it in the Constitution and wait until January 2009 for the nightmare to be over.

Republicans are not happy...

The latest Associated Press-Ipsos poll found that nearly a quarter of Republicans are unwilling to back top-tier hopefuls Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, John McCain or Mitt Romney, and no one candidate has emerged as the clear front-runner among Christian evangelicals. Such dissatisfaction underscores the volatility of the 2008 GOP nomination fight.

I said the other day that Republicans are not happy with the field of candidates running for their party's nomination and now the AP Poll seems to bear that out. I'm not suprised. Look at the field. The choices are nut-cake Christian fundamentalists and morally bankrupt has-beens who have little more claim to fame than they were alive on September 11, 2001! There's even a nut-case from Surfside Texas (population about 25 rundown trailers and more oil storage tanks than street signs who thinks the federal government shouldn't have no more authority than a PTA --- like the Civil War never happened!

Anyway... with the slew of losers funded by so many counter-democracy self-interests, what would you expect. The Republican party has a hole in it and it's leaking interest and support. Good!

-Devon

Oops.... wrong Al-Qaida!

from MSNBC.com

President Bush acknowledged that al-Qaida is strong today, but he said it's not nearly as strong as it was prior to Sept. 11, 2001 because the United States has kept the pressure on — worked to "defeat them where we find them" — so they won't attack America.

"Al-Qaida would have been a heck of a lot stronger today had we not stayed on the offensive," Bush said in the Oval Office after meeting with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. "And it's in the interest of the United States to not only defeat them overseas so we don't have to face them here, but also to spread an ideology that will defeat their ideology every time — and that's the ideology based upon liberty."

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George "I wonder how you get so confused" Bush,

Lemme sit you down once again and explain things in the simplest way so maybe you can understand geopolitics, terrorism, and Al-Qaida. See... there's a several Al-Qaida groups. On 9/11/01, the Al-Aqaida group led by a Saudi Arabian named Osama bin Laden in Afganistan attacked the WTC because of US presence on Saudi Arabian soil. You went after the Taliban for hiding and aiding him, remember. Then you abrubtly dropped the hunt for Osama and invaded Iraq to get at Sadam who had nothing to do with international terrorism or Al-Aqaida. Because of the US occupation of Iraq, a group calling itself Al-Aqaida in Iraq was formed and they are now causing trouble there to protest our presence.

So, it's not so much a matter of you "finding" Al-Qaida. They seem to find us and we can't seem to find them in spite of our best efforts. The form because we are occupying Arab land. They are proof of the proverb, "The enemy of my brother is my enemy, too."

Will "they" attack America? Not the Al-Aqaida in Iraq! They are mostly concerned with US occupation of their country and lack the resources to go outside Iraq. However, the original Al-Aqaida led by Osama? Yes, they will probably attack again. Why? Because we are still occupying Arab soil AND, more imporantly, they've had several years to regroup and reorganize because you haven't been persuing them! While we've been spending 12 Billion dolllars per month in Iraq and all our available military power there, Osama's been regaining strengh and planning.

So, don't fool yourself, George. While you've been lining your defense contractors' pockets, the enemy's been building their offense and sooner or later, they'll unleash it and we won't be ready, thousands will perish, and it'll be just like 9/11/01 again. Who's to blame? You, George and no one else.

Also, W, you have a very twisted sense of "Liberty". But, I'll get into that another time. Your poor lil brain can only take so much as at one time.

-Devon

Scarboro and the Crazy Christian Right!

From RightwingWatch.com...

Recently we noted the blatant double standard exhibited by religious-right groups in the case of Albemarle County, Virginia schools’ “backpack mail” program: Last year, Liberty Counsel told the school that if it distributed secular materials by giving them to students to take home, it had to allow religious materials as well. The school complied. But when a summer camp for “atheists, freethinkers, [and] humanists” used the “backpack mail” program, Rick Scarborough’s Vision America pounced, directing its supporters to flood the school superintendent’s e-mail account and eventually causing the school to drop “backpack mail” altogether.

Scarborough declared a “major victory” for Vision America, but lamented that the victory was only partial: He would prefer that the school reject material from atheists while continuing to distribute material from Christian programs. Scarborough explained:

"People for the American Way says we’re hypocrites who want to establish a different standard for Christians and atheists.

Hypocrites, no. Different standards? Yes. Again, the court said the district didn’t have unbridled discretion, not that it shouldn’t exercise any discretion.

Why should a fringe minority have the same status as Christians? This country was not established by secular humanists. The Declaration of Independence appeals to the "Creator" and the "Supreme Judge of the World" -- not to Buddha or Mohammad or Madalyn Murray O’Hair.

Christians constitute 90% of the American people. The people whose taxes pay for the Albemarle County School System are overwhelmingly Christian."

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My two cents...

So Joey feels that he's justfied in silencing any minority because... well, they're a minority. I believe that's called Mob Rule. And because they are a "fringe minority" (whatever that means) they don't have the same rights as the "fringe majority"? I could go on and on and on but simply, Joe fell off the end of the diving board on this one and did a tragic belly flop.

And just the other day, I will feeling sorry for him. He lost his show on MSNBC (but they still have that idiot Tucker Carlson) and I was feeling like perhaps that wasn't fair. "I mean, he was not as bad as Tucker", I thought. But after reading this drivel, I confess I was totally wrong. Joe Scarboro is WAY out of the loop. Anyone who can hold these beliefs is unfit for public consumption. He is logically brain-dead. None of this makes a bit of sense and is counter to everything on which America was founded. There's a right to free speech but when you are just plain stupid and fundamentally flawed in your logic, you lose that right. To justify overriding the rights of a minority because you are in the majority? That's WRONG, Joey! That's ABUSE of your rights. You abuse them, you lose them!