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.
Wack. Job.
John L. Doiron is a new opinion columnist at The Conservative Voice. In keeping with CV's, ahem, oh-so-reasonable demeanor, Doiron comes out with guns blazing in his piece called "The American Party".
He advocates a "three-pronged attack" that is nothing less than a strident call for a Christian theocratic revolution. In his third prong, which is, he writes, to "take away power from the Federal Government", he lays out a laundry list of things he wishes to see happen.
One of them is to install a theocracy.
[link] 7. We shall dismiss any litigious act that undermines our Judeo/Christian heritage. We shall tolerate other religions to freely worship as they wish, but none shall be equal to or take away from our Judeo/Christian foundations. Atheist and Agnostics are responsible to our laws.
Implying, of course, a Christian rule, and that right now, us evil atheists and agnostics aren't responsible to our laws.
You know, because we control the government and all.
Then his paranoia shines brightly through the rhetoric.
[link] 23. Our Government will not quash free speech in a house of worship!
When was the last time you heard of government goon squads marching into churches and forcibly silencing the parishoners? This is pure persecution fantasy. Doiron obviously equates not having his own particular flavor of religious wingnuttery treated with preference to "quashing free speech." What complete and utter bullshit.
Later, he contradicts himself about his "Christians are more equal than everyone else" stance by invoking the "we're all just 'Mercans!" crap.
[link] “WE are ONE,” no matter your RACE or Creed. This realization will cause our Government to fear US!
We will either move our leaders to do our collective will, or WE will move them into obscurity!
Wow. Doiron mentions a website at the end of his insane diatribe called "http://www.iamdone.us/". Right now it is a "Coming Soon" sort of thing, but I will be interested in seeing what comes up there.
More insanity? What do you think?
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I don't know about the rest
I don't know about the rest of you but I found some of his comments to be... insightful.
Someone actually noticed! Give the man a cookie.
Well ya, Bush is worse than Hitler (from an economic perspective), Hitler at least took his country out of it's portion of the Great Depression, Bush on the other hand is making a bid to start a new Depression. Both are guilty of invading other countries for selfish reasons, Both have prisoner camps that they'd have liked to remain secret from their people. So far of the two only Hitler is guilty of genocide (Hitler is worse than Bush from a humanitarian perspective, which is more important). Back to the media, I'd love to see where he finds the liberal media talking about murderers as great people.
Ah, a rich man. Personally I like an income tax better than a sales tax, because it doesn't deprive the poor of money that they may need in order to buy essentials.
Ah, trial by mob. Don't you just love a fair legal system?
Haha, "monies". So, wait, does that mean that if I'm a poor but briliant student the government isn't allowed to help me through college? I guess that's fine if the government will get to work lowering the tuition. I can understand making it so the government can't be funded by companies (so that the government doesn't feel compelled to aid these companies specifically).
With the thing about each state being responsable for what it learns in it's schools, does that mean that a college in a scientific state could deny students from a "creationist" state admition on the basis that they have not had a proper high-school education?
You know, I've never seen
You know, I've never seen any media ever say that Bush is worse than Hitler, except on the opinion pages of newspapers (who takes those seriously anyway?). I have, however, seen it on blogs for those who as just a paranoid as Doiron, but left leaning instead of right. Reminder to all that would make this same mistake: dailykos is not in "the media".
Nah, I think it's more of a "Might makes right!" Just as many on the left take the position that all actions taken by the powerful are, by definition wrong, many on the right take the position that all actions by the powerful are, by defintion, right. Both are delusional as they try to wedge a huge range of grey shades into black and white terms.
Didn't you hear? Science is Dead! So, these "scientific states" could not possibly exist!
Don't try to reason with the unreasonable.
Annan Should Do Trojan Commercials He's So Well Protected
I have a high regard for most of what you are saying in this thread.
One issue with your "might makes right" statement... Personally I don't think might makes right but it does prove viability. From what I've read Genghis Khan is the direct ancestor of 12% of all human being on the planet. He didn't win the gene pool competition through seduction.
This doesn't make the whole point I am interesting in conveying. Might does not make right but it often proves viability. How does a person, family, tribe or nation survive in a hostile environment if they are weak? Gandhi was asked about what the Jews should do in the Nazi Empire, as relates to Gandhi's non-violent form of civil disobedience. His response was that the Jews should not fight and also not follow the German orders even until the whole population is wiped out. To me that solution is insane. (an aside, Gandhi was just lucky he was dealing with a liberal-democratic Empire in Britain as opposed to the facist Nazi Empire. Hitler would have handled the Indians far differently then the Brits did and Hitler Cafe would be a franchise already).
Looking at the situation in Iraq, which is the main taint on Bush as regards his foreign policy (we can count Bush's errors in his domestic policy only if we get one of those Cray-5 supercomputers off trying to find the end of pi), the international legal system spent 10 years being ignored by Saddam simply because he thought he had the might to maintain his position. He miscalculated on the US' willingness to hold him to the agreement he signed at the end of the first Iraqi War. What he had right was that the rest of the world wasn't so interested in holding him to these agreements because many of them (Russia, France and Kofi Annan) were making loads of cash in their illicit activities based on the corruption of the Oil for Food system. So, until US might tried to make it right, graft made right (for Russia, France and Annan. Does it bother no one, btw, that the international community hasn't indicted Annan in his involvement in the Oil for Food scandal?).
As you said, there is no point in reasoning with the unreasonable. There is also little point waiting for reason from those getting paid to protect the unreasonable.
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Oh, that's just pure fascism
I have yet to read Kingdom Coming, but from the articles I've read in the past about both general fascism and American Dominionism, it's going to give people like this one as a prime example. The faux populism, the hatred of democratic institutions, etc. are more Hitlerian than Bushist.
What motivates people like him?
I don't understand why people are this way....Is it some sort of mental illnes?
Those who ask the most questions, have the most answers. - ARB (1991)
One word: projection
Whenever you hear the lunatic extreme religious right wallowing in their paranoia and persecution fantasies, you need to realize that they are projecting on to everyone else, what they are itching to carry out once they have achieved their wet dream of a dominionist theocracy.
- No More Mr. Nice Guy!