From Comtemptuous to Desperate: Lies in the Prop 8 Campaign Will Be Uncovered Sooner Or Later

But For The Sake Of Equality,
The Discovery Must Be NOW!

The supporters of California's Proposition 8 have used lies and even extortion to get what they want: discrimination.

Discrimination (especially focused discrimination such as Prop 8) is the start of Fascism. Lies are the foundation of discrimination. Here is a good video answering the lies put forth by ProtectMarriage.com, the organization that wrote the blackmail letter to thirty businesses demanding money.

Republican Christofascists: Like Sarah Palin, Just as Venal

"The verdict shines a light though on the corrupting influence of the big oil service company”

Sarah was, of course talking about VECO, the oil services company she herself took campaign donations from.

(From Think Progress)

Last month, Palin donated to charity “more than $1,000 in campaign contributions from two Alaska politicians implicated” in the federal corruption probe surrounding Veco.

Palin had accepted the donations from the state legislators, John Cowdery and Bruce Weyhrauch, after their offices were searched by the FBI in 2006. Palin made the charitable donations only after the AP had reported that she accepted the money in 2006.

From Wonkette:

So in four years, John McCain will be way too old to run for President again, Palin will be the obvious front-runner, and she will be free to run the campaign she wants to run: a campaign about black preachers and socialism. ... The 2012 election cycle will make this one look serious and thoughtful.

So, on the local and national scene, Republican Christofascists have:

• Tried to blackmail supporters of No on Prop 8 (ProtectMarriage.com)
  
• "Crazy-pastored" their way into the hearts of millions of American voters. (John Hagee, Rod Parsley, Thomas Muthee)
  
• Predicted that Israel will do a pre-emptive strike against Iran, thus ushering in Armeggedon. (Pat Robertson)
  
• Been investigated for money-laundering (Frank Vennes, campaign contributer to Michele Bachmann)
• Called for a McCarthy-like investigation into the "un-Americanness" of members of Congress (Bachmann)
• Back-stabbed each other (Sarah "Rogue" Palin - whose blind ambition will always be a quality praised by her Christofascist base of "Values Voters").
• Endorsed corrupt politicians (FRC hanging on to Ted Stevens until the last sentence/minute)
• Covered up campaign contributions from a convicted felon by laundering it to the felon's charity (Bachmann)
  

The list goes on and on. From televangelists to the highest positions in government, people labeling themselves as "concerned" Americans have shown themselves to be vicious, destructive, and corrupt.

We should all beware of them, but, like wolves in sheep's clothing, the masses will never suspect them. They keep on telling the same lies until people think the lies are the truth and even the wolves themselves will begin to believe their own lies. They are like "Bad Seeds" who seem to be born without consciences.

It all sounds so very melodramatic, doesn't it?

It is. Just wait.

Mark Twain vs Ann Coulter? No Contest!

Against The Assault of Laughter, Nothing Can Stand!

AP

McCain getting hammered on late-night TV
Tuesday October 28, 9:22 am ET
By David Bauder, AP Television Writer

McCain, Palin overwhelmingly the butt of late-night jokes

NEW YORK (AP) -- As if sinking poll numbers and political attacks weren't enough, the McCain-Palin ticket has been taking it on the chin from late-night comics.

They've provided a rich vein of material -- lipstick on pigs, bridges to nowhere, expensive wardrobes, seeing Russia over the horizon and simply McCain's white hair. Yet the degree to which the Republicans have been the butt of jokes this fall, compared to Barack Obama, is astonishing.

We need Mark Twain now more than ever. Think of what a great political pundit he would be! He would probably tell us that amidst all of the jokes at the expense of McCain, Palin, Bachmann and all Republicans, there simply must be a grain of truth. Comedians are not taking aim just to shoot. They are taking aim to assault incompetence and ignorance. Biden may be gaff-prone, but people still respect him too much to really dig. Obama laughs at himself first and people respect him for that as well.

Here's Mark Twain on Republicans:

No one has ever seen a Republican mass meeting that was devoid of the perception of the ludicrous.

On religion (for today):

What a man wants with religion in these breadless times, surpasses my comprehension.

On God (of the Southern Baptist Convention):

Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive the dead, but God does not.

On (same-sex or traditional)Marriage:

If it were to do over again I would marry in infancy instead of wasting time cutting teeth and breaking crockery.

On Senators (Stevens)

People who make laws in Washington when not doing time.

On Popularity (Sarah Palin)

The best of us would rather be popular than right.

And, finally, Mark Twain on Ann Coulter:

That cat will write her autograph all over your leg, if you let her.

Sorry, Congresswoman Bachmann, Your Political Career Will NOT Rise From The Dead!

October 31st - When Spirits Rise From Their Graves!
November 4 - When Political Careers Are Pronounced Dead!

Michele Bachmann will believe just about anyone who says "I've been saved and born again! Glory hallelujah!"; that, along with large donations to her political career will insure her loyalty. Think of it: here is a congresswoman who calls for the investigation of Congress (by the media) in determining how many are "anti-American" while she requests a pardon from the President for a reformed ex-con who is definitely not reformed.

Frank Vennes, Jr. is a man of many schemes, all of them nefarious and all of them illegal: fraud, money laundering, firearm and drug offenses. The latest raid on Vennes' house looked like a scene from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves :

Last week, agents with the FBI, IRS criminal investigative division and U.S. Postal Inspection Service seized scores of documents, computers and records from Vennes' home -- including checkbooks from one of the charities he had sponsored.

Also:

"...boxes and buckets of silver and gold coins, trays of jewelry, five stacks of $100 bills, boxes of gem stones, silver plates and Rolex watches. Agents also seized diamond rings and numerous paintings, including dozens with religious themes, such as the raising of Lazarus from the dead." Vennes and his brother donated over $35,000 to Bachmann's campaigns over a period of only 3 years. They were her largest individual contributers.

Yesterday, it was disclosed that Bachmann removed her request from the president when it was learned that Vennes was still under investigation. She gave the money, ostensibly, to "charity":

(From the Minnesota Independent):

Last week, Bachmann said that her campaign had given a contribution from Frank Vennes Jr., an ex-con under federal investigation, to charity. FEC records indicate the charity was Minnesota Teen Challenge, “a faith-based evangelical recovery program on whose board of directors Vennes served as recently as February 2008.”

“Vennes’ contribution to Bachmann, in other words, seems essentially to have gone from the pocket of one Vennes pal to the pocket of another.”

Another reason why we should look askance at "faith-based evangelical recovery programs?" Nah, but it IS a reason to kick Bachmann out of Congress for (at best) being a gullible fool or (at worst) being an uber-hypocrite and corrupt.

Is Bachmann anti-American?


Just a thought.

Legislating Hate: The Family Research Council On The Attack!

TRUE BLUE Americans Get Married,
Have Tons of Christian Babies
...and Bash Fags!

New York Times 10/27

About Proposition 8:

Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian lobby based in Washington, said in an interview, “It’s more important than the presidential election.”

“We’ve picked bad presidents before, and we’ve survived as a nation,” said Mr. Perkins, who has made two trips to California in the last six weeks. “But we will not survive if we lose the institution of marriage.”

Tony Perkins is beginning to sound like a bad Sarah Palin imitation. He rallies his troops with threats to freedom, democracy, the American Dream, (hockey) motherhood and apple pie. He knows he's hate-mongering whenever he writes or speaks, but no longer cares. He's even blamed John McCain for the nation's lax morals:

“He’s not helping, and he’s not being helped by the support for the marriage amendment,” Mr. Perkins said, in contrast to the campaigns of President Bush.

Perkins sees himself as a General in the culture wars (although James Dobson is definitely the commander-in-chief). His rhetoric is not quite as militaristic as Rod Parsley's, but he's definitely trying to fire up an infantry of angry mobs ready to lynch anyone they deem "un-American."

The chief problem with all this: Perkins' meaning of a "Christian Soldier" is a redneck from a Sarah Palin mob .

Remember: Proposition 8 is really "Proposition Hate."

Just a thought.

But Rick, What About Solomon's 500 Wives?

This Is A Moral Issue, Not A Political One - Huh?

Pastor Rick Warren thinks that traditional marriage - one man, one woman - has been around for 5000 years. And that all the countries of the world observed traditional marriage for 5000 years. This kind of leaves King Solomon out of the picture. And Mormons. And, well, a LOT of people.

There is a resource on societies past and present: the Ethnographic Atlas Codebook. It notes 1231 societies. Of them, only 186 were monogamous, 453 had occasional polygyny (polygamy) 588 had more frequent polygyny, and 4 had polyandry (multiple husbands). There were also group marriages.

From where does Warren get his history, ethnography and demographics? Disneyland? "Only 2 percent" of America is gay, is so bogus that only Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would believe it! Warren covers his ass with one statement: that Proposition 8 is a moral issue and not a political one. That way he can support Proposition 8 and still keep his tax-exempt status.


What he fails to mention is that civil rights are always both moral AND political. Equality is both moral and political. And if only one person is discriminated against, it is simply - wrong in both senses. Warren fails miserably as "The Good Shepard."

In his supportive commercial below, notice that Warren still tries to look cool to his flock.

He isn't.

Fall Of An Empire: McCain, Palin & Rovian Treachery

Fall Of An Empire: McCain, Palin & Rovian Treachery
Originally uploaded by MrBurlesk

Yes, it's a bit silly, but somehow there's a ring of truth to this photo from Flikr.com: the treachery of Sarah Palin is so obvious that even a child sees it. And as McCain tries to pick out a talking point (at random, it seems), Palin feather's her own vulture's nest and continues to speak to the angry, unwashed (and illiterate) masses.