One of the 50 most loathsome people in America: YOU

One of the 50 most loathsome people in America: YOU
by John Aravosis (DC)
· 12/28/2007 03:48:00 PM ET ·

Charges: You believe in freedom of speech, until someone says something that offends you. You suddenly give a damn about border integrity, because the automated voice system at your pharmacy asked you to press 9 for Spanish. You cling to every scrap of bullshit you can find to support your ludicrous belief system, and reject all empirical evidence to the contrary. You know the difference between patriotism and nationalism -- it's nationalism when foreigners do it. You hate anyone who seems smarter than you. You care more about zygotes than actual people. You love to blame people for their misfortunes, even if it means screwing yourself over. You still think Republicans favor limited government. Your knowledge of politics and government are dwarfed by your concern for Britney Spears' children. You think buying Chinese goods stimulates our economy. You think you're going to get universal health care. You tolerate the phrase "enhanced interrogation techniques." You think the government is actually trying to improve education. You think watching CNN makes you smarter. You think two parties is enough. You can't spell. You think $9 trillion in debt is manageable. You believe in an afterlife for the sole reason that you don't want to die. You think lowering taxes raises revenue. You think the economy's doing well. You're an idiot.

Exhibit A: You couldn't get enough Anna Nicole Smith coverage.

Sentence: A gradual decline into abject poverty as you continue to vote against your own self-interest. Death by an easily treated disorder that your health insurance doesn't cover. You deserve it, chump.

Strange... this post very much describes the majority of posters at the Bully Pulpit forum at Delphiforums. They become apopletic with insane rage if you suggest they follow the Golden Rule... you know, if you wouldn't like it if someone hijacked your own threads because they politically disagreed with you and if you didn't like it when people launched personal attacks against you, then you probably should not do that to others.

In fact, the frothing-at-the-mouth extremists at the Bully Pulpit will even insist that anyone who dares to suggest the Golden Rule ought to be a guideline for forum behavior absolutely must be banned from that forum.

They really, really hate you for posting the real facts. Truth is anathema to extremists because it is not bendable to extremist talking points.

Pity.

Quotes from the Right Wing of American Politics

David Barton (Wallbuilders): "There should be absolutely no 'Separation of Church and State' in America."

Star Parker (Coalition on Urban Renewal & Education): "Anybody that believes in separation of church and state needs to leave right now."

George Bush Sr. (President of the United States): "I don't know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God."

Gary North (Institute for Christian Economics): "The long-term goal of Christians in politics should be to gain exclusive control over the franchise. Those who refuse to submit publicly to the eternal sanctions of God by submitting to His Church's public marks of the covenant–baptism and holy communion–must be denied citizenship."

Robert T. Lee (Society for the Practical Establishment of the Ten Commandments): "Democracy originated in the mind of a rational being who has the deepest hatred for God."

Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin: “George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States, he was appointed by God.”

Randall Terry (Operation Rescue): "I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good...Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a biblical duty, we are called by God to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism."

Keith A. Fournier (Catholic Way): "We need a legal strategy which protects the rights of those of us who hold Christian convictions which will afford us the opportunity to contend once again for the mind of this culture."

Gary Bauer (American Values): "We are engaged in a social, political, and cultural war. There's a lot of talk in America about pluralism. But the bottom line is somebody's values will prevail. And the winner gets the right to teach our children what to believe."

James Dobson (Focus on the Family): "Those who control the access to the minds of children will set the agenda for the future of the nation and the future of the western world."

James Kennedy (Center for Reclaiming America): "The Christian community has a golden opportunity to train an army of dedicated teachers who can invade the public school classrooms and use them to influence the nation for Christ."

Robert Simonds (Citizens for Excellence in Education): "We'll take away their power and their money. Money comes from students. We'll break their backs by taking 24 million kids out of the public schools."

Gary Potter (Catholics for Christian Political Action): "When the Christian majority takes over this country, there will be no satanic churches, no more free distribution of pornography, no more talk of rights for homosexuals. After the Christian majority takes control, pluralism will be seen as immoral and evil and the state will not permit anybody the right to practice evil."

Fob James (Governor of Alabama): "Behind this judicial wall of separation there is a tyranny of lies that will fall... I say to you, my friends, let it fall!"

John Whitehead (Rutherford Institute): "The [Supreme] Court, by seeking to equate Christianity with other religions, merely assaults the one faith. The Court in essence is assailing the true God by democratizing the Christian religion."

Beverly LaHaye (Concerned Women for America): "Yes, religion and politics do mix. America is a nation based on biblical principles. Christian values dominate our government. The test of those values is the Bible. Politicians who do not use the bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in office."

Joseph Scheidler (Pro-Life Action League): "I would like to outlaw contraception...contraception is disgusting – people using each other for pleasure."

Kay O'Connor (Kansas Senate Republican): "I'm an old-fashioned woman. Men should take care of women, and if men were taking care of women today, we wouldn't have to vote."

ANN COULTER: "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war."

Pat Buchanan (Presidential Candidate): "Our culture is superior. Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free."

Jay Grimstead (Coalition on Revival): "We are to make Bible-obeying disciples of anybody that gets in our way."

Joseph Morecraft (Chalcedon Presbyterian Church): "Nobody has the right to worship on this planet any other God than J******. And therefore the state does not have the responsibility to defend anybody's pseudo-right to worship an idol."

Bailey Smith: "With all due respect to those dear people, my friend, God Almighty does not hear the prayer of a Jew."

Pat Robertson (Christian Coalition): "You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense, I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist."

Jerry Falwell (1933 - 2007): "If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being."

Rush Limbaugh: "There is only one way to get rid of nuclear weapons... use them"

Now, a question... if you are an American reading this, is this the philosophy that's been good for our country or do you think we need a change? Think about it.

G-d bless America.

Hypocrisy on Parade: The Brothers Paulk

Another Sex Scandal for the Brothers Paulk

Bishop Earl Paulk founded the Chapel Hill Harvester Church outside Atlanta in 1972. In the decades since, at least nine members of his flock have confessed to extramarital affairs with the religious leader or his sibling, Reverend Don Paulk. Several Sundays ago, the brothers stood at the pulpit and added a new name to the list.

The 80-year-old bishop admitted to fathering a child with his brother's wife. That offspring, D.E. Paulk, is now head pastor of the church. The disclosure so bowled over the Associated Press that the news agency called it "a sex scandal of biblical dimensions."

The buzz is certainly of Old Testament proportions. Over the past week, we've been flooded with queries for "earl paulk," "archbishop earl paulk," and "bishop paulk." Interest surged for the bishop's brother and the newly revealed son. Demand flashed upwards for the church itself.

But the search that reaps the most attention is perhaps the most damning of all: "bishop earl paulk scandal." The query soared on Monday and doubled its numbers yesterday. In the age of the Internet, Bishop Paulk and his brother may find it all the harder to go about their usual ways.

» Read full article on[Yahoo! Buzz Index: Buzz Log]

The Religious Right vs. The Religious Right

Ha ha ha... you just know it's not going to be pretty for the radical right-wing haters when all the little bots have lost their way and they scurry about looking for someone to program them but the Programmers-in-Chief (that would be Dick Cheney and his Dubya sock puppet) are a bit preoccupied with other matters like trying to squirm out of culpability for their crimes against the American people and humanity.

It seems the religious right wing is not going to break in a solid voting bloc for any of the Republican candidates. They're each going their own way as what passes for leadership of what used to be a powerful force in American politics has run out of juice. It is no more. The dark days are coming to an end. Hallelujah.

Pat Robertson and Rudy "I Swear I Didn't Know My Partner Was in Bed with the Mafia" Guiliani make strange bedfellows indeed.

So here's an article on the theme of "Religious Right vs. Religious Right" for you to peruse: New concerns crack unity of religious right - a story of the *gasp!* diversity of opinion to be found at Liberty University.

Are the students at Jerry Falwell's "university" not swallowing their talking-point-daily-vitamins? Who let them know they had their own minds and a right to exercise them? This is NOT ALLOWED in Right-Wing Extremist World.

Oh my... 2008 is not going to be a good year for the haters and the greedy ones.

The Current Nancy Pelosi Hysteria

It's been obvious that the extreme uber-right-wing has been gunning for Nancy Pelosi even before last November 2006's elections. In fact, much of the shrieking hysteria I saw from the fanatical end of the right wing was that Republican power and the status quo must be preserved or else we will have *GASP!* Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House!

Ever since the Republicans' crushing defeat last November and the American public's repudiation of Bush war policy, the fanatics have had Pelosi in their gun sights and now they are in an orgasmic frenzy of masturbatory wish-fulfillment fantasy that their Number One target has committed some sort of transgression by taking seriously her obligation to represent the people of the United States.

I refer, of course, to Ms. Pelosi's U.S. Embassy arranged and supervised trip to Syria. Oh, you didn't know it was all handled by Bush administration representatives therefore, it couldn't possibly any infraction of the rules? Well. Now you know.

Sorry, Uber-Fanatics. Your balloon's been popped.

Here is my review of a related article I mischieviously placed on one of those uber-right-wing messageboards to be found in cyberspace:

I was impressed with this article for two reasons: The first being that, as a writer, I appreciate concise and effective writing skills in other writers so, entirely separate from any politics involved, I appreciate the logical and non-hysterical manner in which this article was put together. It is highly effective writing. I suspect that there are people who would actually shriek with rage against such a writing style if it was not also used to promote their personal brand of political zealotry but, like I said, the actual writing skill involved is separate from the politics. This article is pure reading pleasure simply for the technical writing skills of its author. As for the politics, the article's approach is minus all the huffing and puffing and shrieking and pontificating I've seen far too much of here at BP and elsewhere on the internet and so it comes across as a breath of fresh air. When I reference the lack of hysteria in this article, I also intend to refer to the hysteria to be found on both ends of the political spectrum. This writer is no zealot or at least, there is no trace of it in this particular piece. Some points made in the article: Republican congressman Jim Kolbe travelled to Iraq in the Summer of 2003 because he felt, as chairman of the House subcommittee that manages America’s foreign assistance programs, it was his solemn responsibility to be "on the ground" to assess the need for the billions of dollars he knew Bush would be asking for in spite of Bush and Rice's assurances the budget would not be that high. The Bush administration refused him entrance to Iraq at the Kuwaiti border. The reason given was that there was no means of providing for the security of non-military personnel. This, in spite of the numerous "embedded" reporters already travelling all over Iraq as well as numerous civilian contractors and their laborers who were also already inside Iraq. Kolbe "snuck in" by posing as a contract laborer and was able to accomplish his fact-finding mission. Kolbe's decision to oversee the spending in Iraq provides an excellent context for Nancy Pelosi's trip to Syria. A major difference between the two trips is that Pelosi's itinerary in Syria was arranged by the American embassy and every contact she had with Syrian officials was supervised by Bush administration officials. This article reminds us that Congress is charged with some very heavy responsibilities that can't always be fulfilled by sitting behind a desk in Washington. As the author of this article puts it, "They need to get out and kick the tires." The article does give an example of how a member of Congress can and did cross the line into unacceptable usurpation of Executive branch powers. Pelosi’s predecessor, J. Dennis Hastert, conducted his own foreign policy apart from the Executive branch when it came to Colombia. He met with Columbian government representatives and sent his staff to Colombia to conduct business there. Unlike Pelosi, Hastert refused to allow United States government officials to oversee his contacts with the Columbian government even as he presented himself as a spokeperson for the United States government. Congress would conduct billions of dollars in arms negotiations with Colombia based on Hastert's foreign policy, not on White House foreign policy. Hastert insisted the funds be inserted into appropriations bills and it would be his staff that would secure transfer of the actual weapons to the government of Colombia. The Clinton administration did not seek any criminal or other investigation of Hastert's misconduct because Clinton's legislative priorities necessitated a working relationship with Congress and so they "looked the other way." This example of Hastert's aggregious behavior most definitely highlights the hypocrisy of political zealots who would skewer Pelosi for her U.S. embassy arranged visit to Syria. The article concludes that it is inappropriate for the White House or anyone else to interfere with the right of Congress to travel, ask questions, and be informed as to the serious decision making that our representatives must do. The article states, "After all, our nation’s actions in the Middle East carry a very big price tag that Congress, ultimately, must approve. Pelosi needs to know the facts on the ground." YOU CAN READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE.