May, 2011 archive
Rapture Rapup 0
I thought I was done with this topic, but the title of this column by Clarence Page was just too good to pass up. So is the rest of the column.
In all the analysis and theorizing and fulminating about the once and future rapture crazes, no one I have read has pointed out the obvious.
I suspect that is because, in this country, once you call your particular brand of foolishness a “religion,” and particularly if you label it “Christian,” it becomes forbidden to say this:
The people who bought this song and dance are nuts. Unconnected to reality. Loony-bin crazy. Whack jobs. Not ready for prime time.
And the persons who orchestrated the song and dance are pathological delusionists or sociopathic frauds and liars or both.
The sincerity of their beliefs is irrelevent.
Sincere foolishness is still foolishness.
Scary Movie 1.5 Litre: Return of the Quitter 0
Much fun is being had at the prospects of the new docu-adulation-mentary about Sarah Palin.
I don’t have anything to say about it, for it mocks itself. John Cole, though, has compiled a list of suggested titles from the commenters at Balloon Juice.
Follow the link to Balloon Juice. You will be glad you did.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
Not good.
Bloomberg:
(snip)
The Labor Department revised the prior week’s figure up to 414,000 from the 409,000 initially reported. There were no special factors behind last week’s increase, a Labor Department official said as the figures were released.
A Picture Is Worth Etc. 0
It’s a Republican thing.
One more time, pay attention to what they do, not to what they say.
Via TPM, which remarks:
Republican Health Care: “Don’t Get Sick. If You Do Get Sick, Die Quickly.” 0
Republicans bridled when Congressman Alan Grayson said that the Republican Health Care Plan was
Don’t get sick. If you do get sick, die quickly.
Well, now the same folks who campaigned with bogus claims that President Obama’s health care plan would destroy Medicare continue their crusade to (you guessed it) destroy Medicare. From TPM (details at the link):
The test vote failed by a vote of 57-40. But the roll call illustrates that Medicare privatization — along with deep cuts to Medicaid and other social services — remains the consensus position of the GOP despite the growing political backlash against them.
Just as a memory refresher, here’s an encore of Congressman Grayson:
Republicans: They got theirs. To hell with everybody else.
Break Time 0
Off to drink liberally.
Cantor’s Cant 0
Andy Borowitz gives Eric Cantor (R–Embarrassing Virginia) the raspberry. A nugget:
Within hours of the declaration, FEMA officials were dispatched to assess the damage to Mr. Cantor’s status as a human being capable of empathy.
Afterthought:
The Republican Party slogan pretty much appears to be, “I’ve got mine.”
Spin Cycles under the Regency 0
The email to the television station inadvertently included notes on how to spin the contents of said email. The good stuff starts about two minutes in.
(When I was testing this post yesterday, the video did not want to load. If it doesn’t load for you, go to the VBProgressives link at the bottom and watch it there.)
Via VBProgressives.
Driving While Brown 0
Her boyfriend beat her, so the cops arrested her.
After all, being brown is a crime in and of itself here in the land of “Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free”?
