It would be easy for me to fill an entire blog with the bottomless, willful ignorance of the religious right. Don’t worry, I won’t bore you with the repetitive tedium. But I cannot resist just two more current examples, oh please, oh please – and just remember – “those folks cancel our votes!”
1. According to Olive Tree Ministries, prayer protection is urgently needed for the Mayo Clinic, because (O-MY-GAWD) the unholy Dalai Lama is going to be visiting those poor people with his special brand of heresy. Of course, a recent Duke University-led study shows prayer doesn’t help a bit. In fact, patients who were prayed for got worse. Maybe that’s what is up with the president, who continually asks for people to pray for him.
2. Bill Nye the Science Guy got soundly dissed last Thursday. Apparently, the idea that the moon reflects light instead of actually emitting it was simply too much for a few flat-earthers in Waco, who angrily stalked out after screaming at him that THEY BELIEVE IN GOD!
By the way: The latest poll numbers for President Chucklenuts. It’s all good.
[Ed. 8/12/2012. This has been transferred from the old LBQ blog, and most of the links that were included in the original post are now broken.]
Comments:
Serena said…
{Now that I’ve figured this out, I can’t tear myself away. It’s quarter to 11!}
Prayer. You and me could’ve told ’em it doesn’t work a long time ago. Let’s face it, since certain people quit praying for me, I’ve been so much healthier and happier!
President Chucklenuts – I love it. Here’s what worries me. The poll numbers look good to me. But I think he did not win his last election entirely honestly. And I worry what we’ll get stuck with for four years when the fine, upstanding, knowledgeable, intellgent citizens of our country, who, of course, have done their homework and are impossible to trick, vote in the next presidential election.
7:52 PM
Michael said…
> can’t tear myself away….
That’s the allure of the internet.
Seriously, the one thing I love about this forum is that I can cite my sources. Think my ideas are nutty> Here’s where I got ‘em! [link] [link] [link].
> since certain people quit praying for me, I’ve been so much healthier and happier!
Amen, sister.
> The poll numbers look good to me.
OK. Put down the crack pipe. At 38%, he’s lower than Nixon was at the height of Watergate.
> did not win his last election entirely honestly.
Yes, both elections were rigged. With help from Katherine Harris and Ken Blackwell.
As far as the results of 2008, that is why some people I know are watching cautiously to decide when it might be a good idea to leave the US entirely.
9:52 AM
Serena said…
Crack pipe? I wouldn’t even know what one looks like. Seriously, when I said that the polls look good to me, I meant, the lower, the better. I have this silly, optimistic hope that people will wise up and see Our Great Leader for what he is…the lowest form of humanity on the caste system.
4:05 PM
Michael said…
Of course, I was being facetious. And on top of it, I misunderstood you.
The problem with having a mass revelation occur to the population is the lack of clear choice – the entire political system is corrupted by big money, and the only way to address that is with real campaign finance reform. That really cannot happen – I mean, who will be the first to step away from the trough? I think that if I was a Senator, all of my noble pontifications would wind up being abandoned in the face of the reality that if you want to play, you have to play by the rules established before you came on board. I don’t think that everyone who enters politics is bent on craven malfeasance. I just think the process turns most people into that sort of player.
Dumbya is a diversion – a figurehead who gives the lightning a place to strike while the real power brokers go on unimpeded with their raping and pillaging of the American Treasury. The recent calls for the dismissal of Rummy are the closest we have come to actually targeting one of the architects of the current Republican crime spree.
1:27 PM