
Observations and inanities by a second-shift assistant supervisor in the Puppy-Grinding division of the Evil Atheist Conspiracy® (our motto: "Sure it's cruel, but think of the jobs!"), your host, Brent Rasmussen.
Who is Jerome Armstrong, anyway?
Submitted without comment: Ron Brynaert at Why Are We Back In Iraq? has a long post providing some evidence that Jerome Armstrong is the same person as a Freeper named Vis Numar.
[Link] What are the odds that a frequent poster at Free Republic shares the same strange made-up nickname as a well-known Democratic blogger almost certainly appears to use? (for the reasons why I write "almost certainly" see near the bottom of this post)
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What are the odds that a frequent Free Republic poster would gloat about how well two politicians, including Dean, have made use of meet-ups which a well-known Democratic blogger pretty much pioneered:
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2. The following comment left at a posting on this page: "Sally, did you see Jerome Armstrong on C-Span yesterday morning? He was representing MYDD, of course, and I couldn't help but think I was looking at Vis Numar. But what do I know? hay hay - He was very impressive!!"
These and the other pieces of evidence offered are not really slam dunks, but I think they're worth investigating. My operative assumption about the liberal/Democratic divide is that the Democrats are interested primarily with Democratic victories as the only way to advance the liberal agenda. But Ron's post suggests that at least for Armstrong, what matters is power and victory, rather than an agenda or even partisanship.
















Anti-science is anti-science
As commissar points out, astrological predictions turns out to have the same value as coin flips. I've seen Republicans attack liberals for being anti-science, and I think that they're right to the extent that we ignore such silliness.
Look at this DU post
made by Vis Numar