Let this be a lesson to other dictators around the world, from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran to Kim Jong-il in North Korea, that the United States is a very patient country and if it takes us 50 years to get them out of power, we will not waver. In fact, as John McCain as made it clear to the insurgents in Iraq, we don’t mind sticking around there for a 100 years if it takes that long.
Read the whole thing.
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard.
UPDATE: Ed’s readers are providing us with the comedic jewels we’ve come to expect from Greater Wingnuttia:
No, Obama doesn’t plan to single out one group for mass extermination the way Hitler did the Jews. But he does have to have a scapegoat – as well as a means of financing his programs. Thus, he plans to further demonize, regulate, punish and tax both the most successful of American businesses as well as the most successful individuals, the high income taxpayers.
No, Obama doesn’t plan to launch a war against neighboring countries. But this apparent pacifism is only a superficial difference versus the militancy of the Nazis. Obama doesn’t have to launch a war against other countries – he has the world’s largest economy to loot to pay for his socialistic schemes. So Obama’s war will be an internal war – a war against America’s most productive individuals.
So other than the whole mass-extermination and country-invading stuff, Barack Obama IS TOO the second coming of Adolf Hitler!
How did these people hold onto power for as long as they did?
Also:
Those little Nazi groups make a lot of noise and wield little power. The Democrats make a lot of noise and wield a lot of power.
Which group do I fear the most? Answer: The Democrats.
As a registered Democrat, I officially scare this person more than Nazi skinheads do.
That’s pretty damn awesome on my part.
UPDATE II: OK, this is THE ABSOLUTE BEST:
The flaw is in your thinking that violent white supremacists groups are fascist in ideology.
You don’t say.
Evan Thomas in Newsweek:
She [Mandy Grunwald] may be reflecting her boss’s [Hillary] view that the press is fundamentally not serious about reporting the substance of policy.
Evan Thomas in the same Newsweek article, two paragraphs later:
Digging through the personal record, searching for human flaws, is what reporters do when they cover presidential campaigns[.]
Bingo.
Fixed the parenthetical reference.
COPING WITH BETRAYAL
J. Grant Swank, Jr.[…]
I have had fellow parsonage couples say to me, “The very ones I gave my blood for have turned on me.”
“I thought I was doing what they wanted done; now they tell me I’m not doing anything right.”
“The ones I had in for evening meals are the ones who have set up the coalitions to get rid of me.”
“The ones I had thought to be trusted are the ones who have been the most vicious.”
Because we fear being considered inferior to the task, the wounds of the job are whispered only in private with the very select; and even they are held in guarded suspicion.
After all, political snares are here and there, who knows where? After a while, we wonder if anyone, especially within the ecclesiastical machine, can be truly trusted with the inner questions of the occupation.
Apparently, our wingnut pal Pastor Swank has been kicked out of another congregation. This is the worst news since he was caught smuggling dope into a prison! …Except for the time his church was infested with demons!
Somehow there has to be a solution, at least a partial one, if we want to conclude that it is too soon to die inside.
I’m sorry, but this totally makes me feel bad for mocking him regularly, year in and year out, through thick and thin, in every season and with unrelenting perspicuity, until he was driven mad. Wouldn’t you feel bad as well? Clif, what about you? I swear to God that we feel bad for him now.
We must develop meaningful friendships outside the congregation. It is so easy to become so hounsebound with our parishioners that we put aside to a future date the making of companionships “on the outside.” Yet when betrayals surface, where will we go? To whom will we turn?
[extending a laurel and hearty handshake]
Then again, friendship or no, Swank might have trouble finding himself a new pulpit, seeing as how Teh Ghey Conspiracy has been forcing its proverbial agenda down the proverbial throats of so many Christian denominations:
HOMOSEXUALS SPREAD ‘UNSTOPPABLE’ BACTERIA
J. Grant Swank, Jr.“A drug-resistant strain of potentially deadly bacteria has moved beyond the borders of U.S. hospitals and is being transmitted among gay men during sex, researchers said on Monday.
“They said methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, is beginning to appear outside hospitals in San Francisco, Boston, New York and Los Angeles.”
“‘Once this reaches the general population, it will be truly unstoppable,’ said Binh Diep, a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco who led the study” per Reuters.
Yet who encourages homosexual recreational sex?
Included in that hurrah is the Episcopal Church of America, United Church of Christ (Congregational), and the Universalist Society, as well as segments within the Roman Catholic Church, United Methodist Church, American Baptist Church, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America.
He forgot Teh Quakers, my own denomination of choice. But perhaps he can share a shrinking iceberg with these folks:
Above: Don’t puzzle our Muppets!
…Alas, I have no Photoshop on this computer, so I can’t do the standard one-pixel border around that image as it so needfully demands (halp!), but let it here be said that among Swank’s few abiding Christian virtues, when it all comes down to cases, is that he stands up for ‘the blacks.’
And, you know, mighty oaks from little acorns, as they so often say. Perhaps we’ll see a better Pastor Swank when this all shakes out.
CONSERVATIVE SITES SLOWING DOWN
J. Grant Swank, Jr.Some conservative sites are slowing down. Some down to nill.
It’s amazing. I wonder if the various webmasters realize this of other webmasters. But it is a new phenomenon.
I’m not about to psych out why this is going on. But the sites themselves show a barren field whereas before there were journalistic crops growing—large and healthy.
We’ll leave the light on for ya!
Day by Day strip, Feb. 21, 2008
Above: Muir
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard.
[Hanx! javafascist]
Minor league wingnut Cliff (with two “f”s) Kincaid knows he’s a minor leaguer and, like the kid in the back of the school bus ripping armpit farts and laughing at his own jokes, Cliff is always pulling stunts to get the attention of the cool kids. Lately all the cool kids have been after Obama and saying that he’s a terrorist,1 a Muslim,2 a Satan worshipper,3 the spiritual heir of Mayor Daley,4 and the most liberal person alive.5 So Cliff digs deep into his butt bag of tricks and pulls out his own shiny new smear: Obama is a commie! Cliff wildly applauds himself and looks around to see if anyone is paying any attention.
According to Kincaid, Obama is a commie because when he was in high school in Hawaii he hung around with a black poet that he called simply “Frank” in his autobiography, and there was a black poet in Hawaii named Frank Marshall Davis who briefly and years before joined the Communist Party. I. Shit. You. Not. No, seriously, that’s Cliff’s, er, argument.
Now even making the wingnuterrific assumption that there could only be one black poet named Frank in Hawaii, and even assuming that a brief stint in the Communist Party makes one a Communist forever (just like Reagan’s stint in the Democratic Party made him a Democrat forever), how on earth does hanging out with this guy in the tenth-fucking-grade make Obama a Communist? I had mentors in the tenth grade that were Republicans and that, obviously, didn’t rub off on me.
1 He once sat on the board of a community charity with a former member of the Weather Underground.
2 Barack Obama.
3He once stayed at a Holiday Inn Express.
4He’s a politician from Chicago. Duh!
5I thought that was John Kerry. Has he died or something?
Tom Maguire is trying to come up with some lines of attack on Barack Obama. This one is particularly rich:
This guy is ready to command the US military in wartime? Please. Kennedy wasn’t ready – ask the folks who survived the Bay of Pigs debacle. Let’s add that Bill Clinton was not ready to be President, since not all the whackos at Waco were inside the Davidian compound but neither Reno nor Bill seemed to be in charge. Or ask about Mogadishu that fall.
Funny story: when George W. Bush came into office, he appointed a crew of cabinet members widely described as “the GOP’s best and brightest on national security,” as a “foreign policy dream team – a mix of experience and charisma” and as “people who have proven track records as managers and, most notably, people who have stature in their respective fields.”
Here are some of the things that have happened while they’ve been in charge.
Not being a Communist, I’m not a fan of Fidel Castro.
But I will note how interesting it is that people who praise Castro are considered beyond-the-pale crazy and fit to be banished from the realm of rational discourse, while people who praise Pinochet are given jobs at the LA Times and are paid to write books that accuse liberals (!!!) of being fascists.
Why is support for one nasty dictator considered the Worst Sin Evar and a Sure Sign of Super-Duper Mega Unseriousness, while praise for another nasty dictator gets you speaking gigs on the wingnut welfare college lecture circuit?
Yippee! David “D-Ho” Horowitz has a new zany campaign designed to make all Muslims look like deranged killers! Stalkin’ Malkin has the details:
The David Horowitz Freedom Center announced that it will distribute a Declaration Against Genocide and ask individuals and groups, particularly those on American college campuses, to sign it. The Declaration notes that the Sudanese and other Africans have been victims of a slow motion genocide, and that Islamo fascists in the Middle East are preparing a new genocide against the Jews and can be found here.
In describing the objectives of this new initiative, David Horowitz, President of the Freedom Center, said: “We are asking all campus groups to repudiate the genocidal passage in the Islamic Hadith which reads: “The prophet, prayer and peace be upon him, said: ‘The time [of judgment] will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews and kill them; until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him!’”
This is such a fun little game. I can only hope that Mr. Ho will consider penning a similar petition for Christian students that asks them to repudiate:
And so on. And so forth.
Incidentally, I’m still waiting for Barack Obama to repudiate Cuba Gooding Jr.’s decision to make Snow Dogs.
Gavin adds: The quote above seems to come from the Sahih al-Bukhari, a Sunni commentary on the Koran. Not very shockingly, when you try to track down the actual text, no such literal translation of any such phrase seems to exist, except at right-wing blogs and websites, where it’s always cited without a book or verse number.
It’s stuff like this:
Unlike the Perfesser, we are less inclined to find delicious ironies in the death of innocents…
Heh. Indeed. Read the whole thing.
