mighty forces

Reap the whirlwind

The cold-blooded assassination of abortion doctor George Tiller yesterday (as he stood in the lobby of his church) is an act of domestic terrorism, pure and simple.

Reading the gloating and celebration on crapweasel gathering places like FreeRepublic is literally sickening. Some are even celebrating the shooter, hoping he eludes police (too late), or offering to contribute to his defense fund.

Personally I think it’s time to expand our use of waterboarding and extra-Constitutional surveillance to the growing problem of domestic terrorism. A starting point might be waterboarding the Tiller suspect and all his close associates to see what they know about other planned terror acts in the “homeland.” Then maybe a massive investigation into every single “pro-life” group in the country – wiretaps, IRS audits, travel restrictions, FBI detainment. That’s a start, anyway.

Let’s see how they like it when these techniques are used on them and their families, instead of faceless brown people in secret prisons.

Loathing

I feel revulsion toward all different kinds of crapweasel right-wingers. But I’ve come to realize that I have a special loathing for those, like “comic” Dennis Miller, who considered themselves liberals until the “wake-up call” of 9/11. This isn’t even about Miller in particular. It’s about all those weak-willed, weak-minded souls who decided on 9/11 that it was OK (not only OK, but productive and correct) to hate Muslims and the poor and union members and anyone else who might threaten the already fake version of their lives they had built in their heads.

Millions of bullies were created on 9/11. And the fact that they had to live through the same harrowing events and images as the rest of us doesn’t excuse them.

An amazing day

Using a sledgehammer to pound in a nail

Bush dead-enders like Dean Esmay are glowing about the just-for-another-month-or-so President’s “victory tour” of his great “success,” Iraq. Which is sort of like throwing a party for the exterminator you called to get rid of your termites who proceeded to burn down your house.

Termite problem? Fixed. Yay!

Oh, and you didn’t really call him. He just showed up, in the middle of the night, while you were sleeping, and poured kerosene on your house’s foundation and lit a match. Still, those termite bastards are dead, right? (Oh, and he’s not exactly an exterminator. He just loves looking at pictures of bugs, and imagining how they will die.)

Also, Dean – using “Mission Accomplished” as the post title – really? Really?

Common sense on Prop. 8

In all the brouhaha over the passage of Proposition 8 in California, which enshrines discrimination in the state’s Constitution by denying gay people the ability to marry, it’s easy to forget that the liberal hero Barack Obama has been able to quietly assert that he’s against gay marriage because of his Christian faith.

Hmmm. As the Church Lady would say, “conveeeeenient.” And ironic to boot.

But the fact remains that even liberal stalwarts can’t seem to find the words to defend something that for their “base” seems so easy to defend. So I’m going to repeat something I wrote for Hillary Clinton in 2003, when she was having some problems explaining exactly why she didn’t support gay people getting married. If anything it’s more relevant today, now that Californians haven’t let the futures of thousands of happily-married gay people stop them from voting discrimination into their state’s founding document.

Why can’t Democratic politicians just say:

I think what’s important here is to understand the difference between civil and religious marriage. Religious marriage is a sacrament, and I don’t believe the government has any business telling any religion who they can and cannot marry. If the government ever made any kind of move to force any church to marry anyone they did not want to, I would be on the front lines protesting that.

But civil marriage is not a sacrament. It is simply a legal contract that’s enforced by the state that confers rights on the citizens who enter into that contract. I believe Americans are a fundamentally fair people. And this is about fairness – allowing people who want to enter into committed relationships, relationships that strengthen the society, to get the rights conferred by civil marriage.

There’s a lot of talk about civil unions these days – trying to create a system alongside civil marriage that would involve the same rights. But why create a new system, a new bureaucracy, to try to simulate something already in place? Is that fair? I don’t think it is. “Separate but equal” didn’t work in the civil rights era, and it doesn’t work here. I know there are a lot of Americans who are uncomfortable with homosexuality. But that unease shouldn’t be enough reason to deny basic rights to citizens of the United States of America.

See? That wasn’t so hard.

What the movies can teach us

George W. Bush was (is?) Chance Gardiner of “Being There.” And Sarah Palin is Lonesome Rhodes of “A Face in the Crowd.”

I think I prefer Chance.

The next generation…

…of xenophobic, grasping, snide selfish bastards:

So, last weekend, in a beautiful town in rural Vermont, my 10 year old, Sarah, looked at a purple painted house festooned with peace signs, and said — “Look. Obama voters.” We had seen plenty of Obama lawn signs — and an equal number of McCain ones as it happens — but this house didn’t have one. “How do you know they’re Obama voters,” I asked. (Not that I doubted it. I just wanted to understand how she made the connection.) She rolled her baby blues at me and said, “Mom. A peace sign. What do you think?” So I asked, “What sign would tell you that people are McCain voters?” Sarah and her 9 year old sister simultaneously and without hesitating said, “An American flag.”

-Lisa Schiffren on National Review’s “The Corner” blog

God, I loathe these people.

Quote of the Week

“Here’s the beauty of going up against the Democrats – you may not need to deliver a knockout blow to them, as they have proven adept, over the years, at landing that punch on themselves. Who can forget Al Gore and John Kerry repeatedly smashing themselves in the face until electoral defeat. Or in Al Gore’s case, electoral victory, then electoral defeat. He even lost an election he won. Do you know how terrible you have to be at running campaigns to do that in a democracy?”

-The Daily Show’s John Oliver, on his podcast “The Bugle”

Crushed

After weeks and months of the worst and most unrepentantly evil culture war fucktardery I have ever seen (Muslim, terrorist, Communist, homo agenda, godless, traitor, nigger, Sammy Davis Jr., watermelon and fried chicken, voter fraud, baby killer, turban, white flag of surrender, small town values, gay weddings, Osama-Obama, Hussein, kill whitey, halfrican-american, sex ed for kindergarteners, community organizer, you betcha, elitist, that one, lipstick on a pig, Joe Not The Plumber, birth certificate, Wright, Ayers, ACORN), I admit that I’ve had fucking enough.

I don’t want them to lose. I want them to be crushed. I want them to be humiliated. I want them to be dragged through the streets. I want them to be thrown in jail. I want them to be required by law to attend gay weddings of two hermaphrodite late-term abortion doctors. I want the idea of them winning an election in the remainder of their sad, sick lives to be a distant fantasy.

Personally, I don’t think I’m asking too much.

Stupid Part Deux

At a Palin/McCain rally in Ohio: