Not too parodic:

The Liberal Rules
By Dave in Suncook on Thu, 07/30/2009 – 17:40

Come on folks add a few of your own, they show us more every day!

My reply:

Black, liberal, tax, and governor are not proper nouns
By Chimp Refuge on Thu, 07/30/2009 – 18:47

——–
“The mother of morons is always pregnant.” — source unknown

Not to be content with the mere nuttiness of the workaday birther “movement,” Gribbit has again gone a step further into outright crazyland by proposing that Barack Obama may not be eligible for the presidency because, he claims, Obama renounced his U.S. citizenship when he enrolled in a private school in Indonesia as a youngster under the name Barry Soetoro:

Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama had to be a citizen of Indonesia in order to be registered in the first place. And as such no longer a citizen (natural born or otherwise) of the United States. Duel citizenship did not exist at that time.

There’s one very simple, not-so-tiny problem with this. If Obama was in fact adopted by Lolo Soetoro and became an Indonesian citizen in the process, yes, he would have no longer been recognized as a U.S. citizen under Indonesian law because there was no dual (or “duel,” as Gribbit puts it) citizenship at the time. Under American law, however, Obama would have retained his U.S. citizenship throughout his stay in Indonesia. A child that young cannot himself renounce his American citizenship and no one can do it for him. Case closed; Obama did not need to reclaim his U.S. citizenship at anytime, and he remains to this day a natural-born American citizen, just as he was on the day in 1961 he was born in Hawaii. So Gribbit’s entire shitburst rests on a lack of understanding of U.S. law.

Notice also how many times Gribbit uses the phrase “it is rumored” and others like it to support his frazzled conspiracy theories. Gribbit can’t read facts that are right under his nose; how is he supposed to be trusted to magically ascertain that whackjob rumors are true?

An earlier post is even more ludicrous. Gribbit claims that the country is being run by former acid-heads:

The people who now run this nation, teach in our institutions of higher learning and train those who teach our children in the 1960s routinely took mind altering drugs that have some serious adverse after-effects if used long-term. LSD has been proven to cause permanent delusions in long-term users. It has been proven to cause psychotic behavior in its long-term users to the point that many can be classified as clinically insane.

Have you ever had occasion to walk down a city street and see some 1960s hippy hold-over who has the thousand yard stare? Don’t fool yourself into believing that it is because of Vietnam. Chances are it’s from drugs. Or how about someone of that age group yelling at a sign post, tree, or utility poll? Same answer.

Our current Speaker of the House is of this generation. It is true that she didn’t even live in San Francisco until 1969 – but the 60s counterculture was nationwide by 1965. I wonder how many psychedelic substances she’s ingested over the decades?

So there you go. Because Nancy Pelosi lived in San Francisco at one time, she (along with all of her present-day Democratic comrades) must have dropped lots of LSD, rendering her crazy. That’s his entire argument, although he mixes in some bullshit about street people also being former tripheads.

I wonder why Gribbit seems to have no problem with the cocaine use and alcohol abuse of G.W. Bush back in the day. I don’t suppose hypocrisy, lunacy, and far-flung fucktardation have anything to do with it.

The guy desperately needs new material. I would say he needs a complete brain replacement, but that would take the fun out of wasting time blogging here.

From Friday’s American Spectator:

[American voters] ignored [Obama's] anti-white writings in his books. They ignored his quiet acceptance of hysterical anti-American diatribes by his minister, Jeremiah Wright.

They ignored his refusal to explain years at a time of his life as a student. They ignored his ultra-left record as a “community organizer,” Illinois state legislator, and Senator.

The American people ignored his total zero of an academic record as a student and teacher, his complete lack of scholarship when he was being touted as a scholar.

Now, the American people are starting to wake up to the truth. Barack Obama is a super likeable super leftist, not a fan of this country, way, way too cozy with the terrorist leaders in the Middle East, way beyond naïveté, all the way into active destruction of our interests and our allies and our future.

Maybe the ignored all of these things because they’re fabrications, distortions, and undiluted garbage. For example, Obama had long since cut ties with Wright by the time the election rolled around. And I notice that Stein is link-phobic–where, for example, are these anti-white writings? And what sort of over-the-top dingbat suggests that Obama actually wants to wrek the country? Just because people don’t like some of his policies doesn’t imply that Obama doesn’t believe in their efficacy, for better or for worse. Of course, Stein himself very much is into wrecking things through lies and various forms of bullshit (a great example was his comment that science, broadly speaking, was responsible for the Holocast).

This is interesting, but not surprising:

After a couple of weeks of self-doubt and questioning brought on by those on the left whose goal it is to silence those who seek out and discuss the truth regarding the agenda of the left, I have spent the day devouring the writings of others like me who doubt that the current administration has anything but contempt for us – the lowly governed class. What I can’t understand is the insistence of these same reprehensible people that they are thinking human beings when they do nothing but parrot the Democrat Party elitists and attack anyone who dare challenge the words of the President, Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid. It seems to me that they are nothing but the lowly foot-soldiers – the stormtroopers as it were – of the same elitists they parrot.

So a fellow who has spent years complaining about moonbats, libtards, and leftards; cannot bring himself to refer to the president of the United States using non-pejorative language; and has a blog featuring, among other examples of wit and fair-mindedness wit, a graphic that reads “Save a seal. Club a liberal” is now complaining that Democrats have just been too damned mean, and wish only to silence conservatives.

Of course, Gribbit retains his unintentionally humorous side:

I’m done with going toe to toe with the insane and have come to the decision that they, like most people, only ridicule that which they are incapable of understanding. In this case, logic and truth.

Yes, that bastion of logic and reason who rejects the scientific consensus on climate change and evolution and displays both the math prowess and the temperament of a coked-up mongoose, even threatening other bloggers with physical violence.

Got that? When Gribbit becomes unglued and cranks the whackjob us-vs-them factor into the red, he’s just being reasonably critical. When people call him on his countless mistakes, they’re elitist, even “stormtroopers.”

It’s hard to keep track of even a small fraction of the lies right-wingers are busy crafting and propagating at any given time; after all, this is pretty much all they do these days. One favorite is condemning President Obama’s “science czar,” John Holdren, for allegedly supporting eugenics. One of the co-morons behind Granite Grok, a stereotypical wingnut shitblog boasting an unlikely number of lies, errors, and misspellings, recently seized upon this myth in the course of yammering about his and his comrades’ upcoming radio program (which also boasted an appearance by perhaps the most egregious fuckup in the U.S. Senate, Jim DeMint):

Discussing national healthcare. (From the bill they probably won’t read) Page 16: Outlawing private health insurers. Page 425 (1:27mins): Every 5 years– “counseling” on how to end your life sooner. Couple that with a “science czar” that believes in eugenics, much like, apparently, Ruth Bader Gingsburg and, ahem, “prominent” famous scoundrels from history, and what have you got? Brave New World meets Logan’s Run?

The “outlawing private health insurers” bit is also bullshit, but again, wingnuts do nothing but lie and I can only deal in any depth with one whopper at a time.

Here’s the truth about Holdren’s association with “eugenics”:

In 1977, more than thirty years ago, Holdren was the third author (with Paul and Anne Ehrlich) of a textbook entitled Ecoscience: Population, Resources, and Environment. It was a gigantic tome, fully 1,051 pages in length. In one vast 66 page chapter devoted to “Population Policies,” the authors surveyed a gamut of measures that had been undertaken or considered to control human population growth—including the most extreme. Those included coercive or “involuntary fertility control” measures, such as forced abortions and sterilizations.

However, to describe these measures is different from advocating them. And in fact, the Ehrlichs and Holdren concluded by arguing that noncoercive measures were what they supported: “A far better choice, in our view, is to expand the use of milder methods of influencing family size preferences”—such as birth control and access to abortions. In fairness, their text does read as dated today, ripe for quote mining. They were writing in very different times thirty years ago; but even if they were defending these positions then (and they weren’t), that hardly means that they do today.

The whole piece is worth a read–not hat most people need more examples of how wingnuts distort, exaggerate, and prevaricate, but this is a particularly good one.

So admits this guy, but without taking this to its logical and necessary conclusion: The kind of faith he’s talking about is foolish. When literally billions of people praying to the same God have received absolutely nothing in return but dead silence for thousands of years, it’s time to re-evaulate your belief in that God–or so it would seem to those not brainwashed into thinking believing in fantastic entities entirely in the absence of evidence is somehow virtuous.

I’m reminded here of the plaintive question so often asked by casual but firm believers: “Well, if there is no God, what would be the purpose of life?” Exactly, homes! There is no cosmic “purpose,” and you have just underscored the entirety of why believers believe in the first place. Religion is nothing more than a highly predictable outcropping of human psychology. At whatever point in time early humankind recognized its own mortality was the point in which the early human mind began subconsciously assembling to notion of what Christians now call “Heaven.” All of the really raucous moral bullshit came later, but a hominid glancing at his dead friend Og in a ditch could only be struck by terrified wonder while thinking the equivalent of, “Fuck; that’s gonna be me someday!”

I’m used to people being less than rational, but Pastor Mark here introduces an ugly corollary to his ramshackle stance on theism: God uses fools to shame those of us who merely think we are wise. And to demonstrate just what a proud fool he is, Pastor Mark concludes hs post with this:

[T]he results speak for themselves. Noah was saved from the flood. David defeated Goliath. Benaiah killed a lion in a pit on a snowy day. The Wise Men found the Messiah. Peter walked on water. And Jesus was raised from the dead.

Never mind that these are nothing more than obvious legends and allegories culled from apocalyptic literature representative of the collective mindset of the time frame in which it was assembled. Pastor Mark here is foolish enough to recognize these unwitnessed and over-the-top events as historical facts, and shame on those who are too damned wise to catch on.

This blogger should change his name to “Nosrettab Kram.”

-

Many of you have probably been following the increasingly tense and raucous exchanges between PZ Myers of Pharyngula and Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum of The Intersection (like the Chimp Refuge formerly part of the ScienceBlogs.com network but now part of the Discovery group). To summarize, Chris and Sheril have just co-authored a book called Unscientific America that purports to examine, and offer solutions for lessening, the divide between the general U.S. public–not the most scientifically literate of societies–and those responsible for reaching out to that public.

Sheril was kind enough to send me a copy gratis, but I don’t have it yet, so I can’t comment on it. But I wanted to write a few of my thoughts down in advance so that the review itself can stand on its own and not be conjoined to the toxic elements I am introducing now. Read the rest of this entry »

I hadn’t looked at the output of these snapperheads in a while, but they’re always good for some inane Democrat-bashing, so I wasn’t surprised to see that Skip and Doug are eagerly supporting health-care “tea parties” despite the non-impact and inanity of the last round of such efforts. I’ve started to think that anyone who takes an honest look at the state of things in this country and agitates uniformly and categorically against the concept of universal health care is just a fucking asshole who deserves to be hit by some kind of catastrophic medical problem so he can watch his insurer (if any) stall and perform a mad and practiced shuck-and-jive in order to dismiss the issue as a pre-existing condition, or claim that care (however urgent) was provided out of network, or otherwise throw its dirty hands in the air and say, “not our problem!” Of course, we’re talking about a couple of wildly unintelligent men who hate Obama so much that were he opposed to revamping the health-care system, they would skewer him in their usual bumblefuck language for this as well.

Almost as good as the topical chatter is this post in which the Groksters thank their “loyal readers” for pushing them over the 1,000,000-visitor mark recently. Funny thing, though: If you click on their Sitemeter counter and click through to the list of the site’s last 4,000 referral sources, you’ll find that well over 90 percent of Granite Grok’s traffic originates from either Google image searches in various countries or Google’s basic search engine. It is probably even in excess of 95 percent. Then there are internal referrals and visits from a site called Gilford Grok, run by the same two clowns. In other words, all but a token sprinkling of the site’s hits originate from visitors who have never heard of Granite Grok and have no interest in visiting. I count 70 hits from Facebook, 15 from blognetnews.com, 10 from blogs.unionleader.com, 8 from campaignspot.nationalreview.com, and no more than 5 from any other site not affiliated with a search engine. Now that’s loyalty!

I quit scrolling when I got to this, where Doug misspelled “Sotomayor” despite posting a cartoon that includes the correct spelling and slips in the usual “it’s” as a possessive. Why do people with no brains in their heads at all expect to be taken seriously? I know, I know, they don’t know that they’re mindless, despite being repeatedly presented with evidence of having the cognitive candlepower of banana slugs. Regardless, since reasoning with them is futile, it’s straight to bashing with these douche-rockets. And in closing I have to note that it’s always non-natives of a given state (Skip is from Massachusetts, Doug from Rhode Island) who take special pride in hoping to see it fucked it up to their liking.

I just had a Firefox crash, and when I restarted the browser I was inexplicably presented with a window open to a site called thedailyheralds.com. Here’s what I saw (click the image for a readable version):

“What I coincidence,” I thought. “I live in Dover, too!” Actually, I didn’t think it was a coincidence at all. I loaded up a random proxy connection, one that happened to connect me to the Web via a server in Illinois. Here’s what I then saw:

Amazing how this Mary Steadman chick gets around! She just happens to live wherever a given visitor’s server does.

I left a comment at the bottom of the page (beneath all of the planted “this worked for me too!!!” ones) stating the things I’ve written here along with the fact that I would be informing Google of this scam because I doubt its execs want their company’s name associated with it. That comment will not be approved, of course, but I do plan to tell Google, with the clinching insult being continued pop-ups from these scurrilous assholes.

Think Progress is one of numerous outlets reporting on details of Bush’s surveillance efforts, which appear to have been (gasp) much more petetrating and extensive than previously revealed:

Bush’s Secret Spy Programs

When Congress passed the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 last year, it mandated that the inspectors general of the different branches of the intelligence community that participated in President Bush’s surveillance operations, known as the President’s Surveillance Program, conduct a comprehensive review of the program. On Friday, the inspectors general released their report, confirming that the Bush administration carried out “unprecedented,” massive surveillance activities that stretched beyond the warrantless wiretapping program that had previously been revealed. Soon after the New York Times reported on the existence of a warrantless wiretapping program in 2005, Bush described the effort as his “Terrorist Surveillance Program.” But the IG report makes clear that the term describes only one aspect of the overall surveillance program. In 2007, former deputy attorney general James Comey’s testimony before Congress implied that “other programs exist for domestic spying” outside warrantless wiretapping, the existence of which then-attorney general Alberto Gonzales acknowledged in 2007. In constructing the legal rationale for the “Other Intelligence Activities,” Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) lawyer John Yoo “did not accurately describe the scope” of the activities, which led former attorney general John Ashcroft to give “his legal authorization to the program for the first two and a half years based on a ‘misimpression‘ of what activities the N.S.A. was actually conducting.” The report found that the administration’s “extraordinary and inappropriate” secrecy around the program not only allowed it to be built upon flawed legal arguments, but also “undermined its effectiveness as a terrorism-fighting tool.”

‘MISLEADING’ CONGRESS: Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), a former ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, told the Associated Press that “she was shocked to learn of the existence of other classified programs beyond the warrantless wiretapping.” Harman said that when she asked Gonzales two years ago if the government was conducting any other undisclosed intelligence activities, he denied it. “He looked me in the eye and said ‘no,’” said Harman. Indeed, the report found that Gonzales walked right up to the line of lying to Congress by providing “confusing, inaccurate” statements about the National Security Agency’s surveillance activities to lawmakers in 2007. The Justice Department Inspector General concluded that while Gonzales “did not intend to mislead Congress,” his testimony “had the effect of misleading those who were not knowledgeable about the program.” In an interview with the AP, however, former CIA director Michael Hayden insisted that “that top members of Congress were kept well-informed all along the way.” “One of the points I had in every one of the briefings was to make sure they understood the scope of our activity ‘They’ve got to know this is bigger than a bread box,’ I said,” said Hayden.

DETRIMENTAL SECRECY: As the New York Times’ Eric Lichtblau and James Risen note, “the report found that the secrecy surrounding the program may have limited its effectiveness.” At the CIA, “so few working-level officers were allowed to know about the program that the agency often did not make full use of the leads the wiretapping generated.” The FBI found that “the exceptionally compartmented nature of the program” frustrated agents who were assigned to follow-up on its tips. Knowledge of the program was so closely held, according to the report, that a top aide to Vice President Cheney, David Addington, could personally decide who in the administration was “read into” the classified program. For the early years of the program, Yoo was the only OLC lawyer “read into” the program, which meant that he was the sole lawyer in the department analyzing the legality of the program. According to the report, senior Justice Department officials “criticized the assignment of a single OLC attorney to draft the legal rationale for the program. These officials noted that OLC traditionally adheres to a rigorous peer review process for all legal memoranda it issues.” Yoo’s boss at the time, Jay Bybee, told the DOJ IG that he was “surprised” and “a little disappointed” to learn that Yoo worked on the program without his knowledge. Neither Bybee nor Gonzales could explain how Yoo became responsible for analyzing the legality of the program. Because the inspectors general “lacked the authority to compel testimony,” five former Bush administration officials — Ashcroft, Yoo, George Tenet, Andrew Card, and Addington — refused to be questioned.

CHENEY’S ‘DIRECT ORDERS’: One day after the IG report was released, the New York Times revealed another example of the Bush administration’s efforts to keep Congress in the dark about the intelligence communities activities. Last week, seven House Democrats on the Intelligence Committee released a letter revealing that CIA Director Leon Panetta had “recently testified to Congress that the agency concealed information and misled lawmakers repeatedly since 2001″ about an unidentified CIA operation that was an “on-again, off-again” effort until Panetta stopped it in June. The Times reported on Saturday that Cheney gave “direct orders” for the program to be concealed from Congress. Yesterday, an intelligence official hinted to the Washington Times that the program “involved assassinations overseas but declined to provide further details.” The Wall Street Journal reports this morning that the now-terminated initiative “was an attempt to carry out a 2001 presidential authorization to capture or kill al Qaeda operatives.” The WSJ also reports that in 2001, the CIA “examined the subject of targeted assassinations of al Qaeda leaders,” but “it appears that those discussions tapered off within six months” and it “isn’t clear whether they were an early part of the CIA initiative that Mr. Panetta stopped.” Congressional Democrats are now calling for the program and the lack of congressional notification to be investigated. “The executive branch of government cannot create programs like these programs and keep Congress in the dark,” said Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL). Though some Republicans acknowledge that it’s “wrong if somebody told the CIA not to inform the appropriate members of Congress,” several GOP lawmakers have sought to defend Cheney and resist an investigation.

Karma is a bitch.

Hopefully he won’t be allowed to do any apocalyptically stupid things before drawing his last foul, crazed breath.

Here’s another dose of verbal vomit from OneNewsNow.com, that lovably corrupt arm of the American Family Association that makes me want to go out and gently set fire to as many churches as possible.

Maine citizens are taking a stand against the state legislature over homosexual “marriage.”

I love it when these “people” use scare quotes in an effort to deny the reality of something. If their “brains” worked right, they’d know that the “strategy” the use in their “news” releases is transparently stupid.

Although the legislature passed it and Governor John Baldacci approved the same-sex marriage bill in May, the law is on hold. Maine considers the people to be a branch of the government, and they can exercise a People’s Veto. Mary Conroy of Stand for Marriage tells OneNewsNow that means gathering enough signatures to put the issue before voters.

“So we have done a People’s Veto referendum signature-gathering campaign,” she explains, “and in just four weeks we’ve gathered more than 55,000 signatures from Mainers, which is a clear indication that the people of Maine really want to restore traditional marriage.”

Emphasis mine at the end there. Tell me, you worthless proto-hominid, has heterosexual marriage been put on hold since the passage of the same-sex marriage bill? No? Then please, I implore you with all of the dignity at my command, shut the fuck up about the need to “restore” anything.

That is a sufficient number of signatures needed to call the election in just a few weeks, but Conroy says the effort will continue to obtain as many signatures as possible.

“The outpouring of support has been incredible and, given the weather conditions here in Maine…we’ve had continuous rain and it has put a huge damper on our volunteer effort,” she laments.

That’s obviously God trying to tell you something, asshole. And I wouldn’t call the support you have received “incredible” if volunteers are afraid of getting wet, like a bunch of wicked witches.

At the end of the month, the signatures will be submitted to the state. If enough are deemed valid, the issue will go on the November 2009 ballot.

This will amount to a fart in a noisemaker. Maine has over 1.3 million people. I’m not sure how many people of voting age this amounts to, but 55,000 signatures is diddlyshit. Bunch of fuckin’ dubbahs. It’s amazing to me that people can obsess so profoundly over other things that don’t affect them, but since they do, good–I hope nasty and disturbing thoughts chase them into nightmares every time they lay their soft and misshapen heads on their pillows at night. Their angst is my tonic for a jaunty demeanor, a huge grin, and a series of “jack-off” hand-pumping motions aimed hither and yon, lawn-sprinkler-style.