White Christofascists Crawl Out of the Woodwork In North Carolina..

...And Right Along With Pat Robertson!

First, on Saturday,

(From Think Progress.org)

Representatives Patrick McHenry and Robin Hayes warmed up the crowd at a rally for Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). McHenry called the event the “biggest crowd John McCain has gotten in North Carolina” and said that voters had a critical choice between McCain and Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) this election. Someone in the audience yelled out, “It’s like black and white” to loud laughter. McHenry let the remark pass.

Representative Robin Hayes, who prefaced his comments by saying it was important to “make sure we don’t say something stupid, make sure we don’t say something we don’t mean.” Republicans, he reminded the crowd, were kind people. Plus, he added, the liberal media had shown itself eager to distort such remarks. With the crowd duly chastened and put on best behavior, he accused Obama of “inciting class warfare” and said that “liberals hate real Americans that work and achieve and believe in God.”

Then on Sunday:

On Sunday, the Washington Times’s Christina Bellantoni stopped by a polling place in North Carolina, where she reported that a “group of loud and angry protestors” — almost all of whom were white — were shouting and mocking voters — nearly all of whom were black. Bellatoni noted that people “were shouting about Obama’s acknowledged cocaine use as a young man, abortion and one man used the word ‘terrorist.’ They also were complaining that Sundays are for church, not voting.”

Today, on C(hristian) B(roadcasting)N(etwork):

Palin also reaffirmed her view that Obama had been "palling around with terrorists" because of his association with Bill Ayers, a 1960s-era radical who helped found the violent Weather Underground group to protest the Vietnam war. The group was responsible for bombings of several government buildings.

"I would say it again," she said.

Sorry about all of those quotes, but it was a long time in researching them and I think they should be quoted in full.

We live in a democracy where every citizen is allowed to vote. Unfortunately, some of them vote against people instead of for people. Palin knows that. And she knows that she can get away with all sorts of lies on Pat Robertson's CBN simply because she's a "person of faith." She knows that she has fanned the flames of racism and bigotry, but she's too ambitious to care.

Palin also claimed religion and God had been "mocked" during the campaign, although she offered no evidence to support that.

Pat Robertson ate it up. He couldn't care less that Palin's rally crowds have shouted things like "kill him!" because, after all, Pat called for the assassination of Hugo Chavez.

Sarah's a gal after ole Pat's heart!

Here's her statement for CBN's "The Brody File."

"From the information we have" - what calls? what emails? Give specifics!

I really hate to say it, but this ugly campaign will get uglier. Whether or not Barack Obama wins, he will have to have more security surrounding him than B**h. Mrs. Mooseburger: are assassination attempts on Barack Obama worth all of this rhetoric loose rhetoric?

Michele (one "l") Bachmann: A Ditzy but Cheap Imitation of Joe McCarthy?

And to think she still actually says the words B**h and Repub****n

When A Christofascist Lies, It Isn't Even "Pretty In Pink"

Who in Congress would you assign to another McCarthy -era HUAC witchhunt? Is anyone dumb enough to do it? Michele Bachmann, you say? BINGO! Calling someone a "commie pinko!" seems to suit her ever vicious, ever ungrammatical style.

CHRIS MATTHEWS: So you believe that Barack Obama may have anti-American views?

BACHMANN: Absolutely. I’m very concerned he may have anti-American views.*

Yesterday - Same idiot, different venue, different tune:

HOST: You do feel his [Obama’s] views are anti-American?

BACHMANN: I feel his views are concerning. (note bad grammar - should be "are of concern" - then again, it's the new Republicanspeak) I’m calling on the media to investigate them. I’m not saying that his views are anti-American. That was a misreading of what I said. And so I don’t believe that’s my position. (Again, bad grammar - like a child who is covering something up with a grown-up style she's not comfortable with.) I’m calling on the media to take a look at what his views are. (Hmmm...can't she research it herself? Is she saying that the media may have missed something these last two years?)

Alright. So Bachmann is in the news, asking newsmen to investigate Barack Obama and other members of Congress who might not have worn flag lapel pins in the last several weeks. Or bringing to light congressmen who have funny first, middle or last names. They could be suspected of being anti-American!

And what's Bachmann's standard for being anti-American? Not a member of The Assemblies of God Church? Not white? SAT scores a little too high?

No matter what Bachmann's ideas of being anti-American, rest assured she'll tell us someday. And it will, of course, be bad timing.

Please vote for her opponent, Elwyn Tinklenberg.

*Her comment was denounced by Colin Powell as "nonsense" in an October 19, 2008 interview. Powell said: “This business of... a congressman (sic) from Minnesota who’s going around saying, ‘Let’s examine all congressmen to see who’s pro-America and who’s not pro-America. We have got to stop this kind of nonsense and pull ourselves together and remember that our great strength is in our unity and our diversity.”

A Gay Can Be President - Just Don't Let The President Get Married!

A Gallup poll conducted in December of last year indicates that a majority of America's plebiscite would be O.K. with a gay President. But according to polls on same-sex marriage, the country would not allow that President to be married to his own sex. Make sense? No. But then the Christian Right who spearheads hate in this country is not about to make sense where (their) morals are concerned.

The same Gallup poll also tells us more than just who would vote for who. It also gives us a glimpse of dyed-in-the-wool haters:

4% hate Catholics (John Hagee alone is large enough to account for that figure)
5% are racist (that's an awful lot of single-wides!)
6% are anti-Semitic (excluding, of course, Mel Gibson)
12% are sexist (but only "The Good Ole Boys")
12% are anti-Hispanic (unless you know B**h - he speaks Spanish!)
17% are anti-Mormon (Mitt Romney thought it was higher)
41% are homophobic (but they can't all look like Rod Parsley)
48% are anti-atheist (there goes Christopher Hitchens' bid for the White House!)


O.K., so "haters" may have a margin of error since some might simply think that a person of a particular race or religion could not be qualified. But think again: there are people who hate ALL or most of the above. Is it possible that up to 4% of Americans are neo-Nazis, skinheads or Grand Wizards of some sort? Or are they people who hate everyone except white American Christian heterosexual males?

It's possible. It's scary. The portrait painted by this figure would mean that up to 12 million Americans are very dangerous people. And since hate breeds stupidity, they are also extremely stupid. The poll also gives us an indication of how many self-described Christians are anti-Mormon, anti-gay and anti-atheist (the last is a dead giveaway). And when you think of Fundamentalists, try to think of the person they WOULD vote for. Southern Baptists? Reconstructionists? Assemblies of God? Nope, I didn't think so.

Another significant demographic: 24% of Americans believe that their religion is the "one true faith" (Pew Research). How many of those "Christians" look with contempt (if not outright hatred) on other religions or sects? How many have morphed into neo-Nazis?

It's too bad Gallup can't give us a more accurate picture of religious intolerance. The figures we have now will have to do. It's a puzzle; but one worth solving.

Just a thought.

The Last Obama Smear?

Or Will Palin and McCain Strike Again?

They have nothing to lose. Unless you count their integrity. McCain, maybe. Palin, naaaah! I saw her last night on Saturday Night Live. SNL did well, considering they were, in essence, hosting Governor Palin. I really don't think she knew exactly what was going on. The Alec Baldwin bit was one of the best indirect digs I've seen lately. And his reaction to finding out who she really was was priceless because it was the same as the heads of state she was introduced to ("she's gorgeous!"). The Update's caricature of Todd Palin was something that must have caught her off guard.

Of course, she has other things to think about - like ACORN. Watch her work it into an Obama smear right up there with "pals around with terrorists."

ACORN officials have repeatedly claimed that their own quality control workers were the first to discover problematic ballots. In every state investigating bad registrations, ACORN tipped off local officials to bogus or incomplete cards, spokesman Kettenring said.

Just how many Obama smears have there been?

1. Barack HUSSEIN Obama "He's an A-rab"
2. Rev. Wright and Liberation Theology
3. "Pals around with terrorists"
4. Massive voter fraud (ACORN)

O.K., those are only the top 4. The other two hundred are just a bit too hard to swallow. Does Sarah Palin herself count as a smear? She uses smear tactics - enough to cover most of Washington, but I think she's comes in second to Ann Coulter(geist). If Obama is elected, Coulter will have a field day along with enough half-truths and lies to set her up for the rest of her life. But she would never retire: she has too many people to "perfect."

One Washington Post comment on Sarah Palin's smear campaign:

The problem is not unvarnished truth, but thinly varnished hatred.

As she proved in her speeches accepting John McCain's and her party's nominations, Governor Palin is a person with acute skills of self-expression. She knows exactly what response - and what bigotry - she will elicit when she denigrates the concept of a "community organizer."

The next two weeks will still be as the public wishes them to be: entertaining.

"There are certainly problems and I don't think anyone disagrees on that," said Wang of Common Cause. "But it doesn't get reported that ACORN finds these registrations errors themselves. They flag them as being no good, but they have to turn them in anyway."

"They don't get processed," she said. "And Mickey Mouse is not going to vote."

True, but Mickey Mouse might GET votes...along with Bullwinkle. Such is today's mentality of the Right.

Religious Persecution Just Ain't What It Used To Be!

But Don't Worry, Torture of Gays May Yet Become Legal

Hypatia of Alexandria (pronounced /haɪˈpeɪʃə/) (Greek: Ὑπατία; born between AD 350 and 370 – 415) was a Greek scholar from Alexandria in Egypt, considered the first notable woman in mathematics, who also taught philosophy and astronomy. She lived in Roman Egypt, and was killed by a Coptic Christian mob who blamed her for religious turmoil. She has been hailed as a "valiant defender of science against religion."

And according to Gibbon:

She was stripped naked and dragged through the streets to the newly christianised Caesareum church and killed. Some reports suggest she was flayed with ostrakois (literally, "oyster shells", though also used to refer to roof tiles or broken pottery) and set ablaze while still alive, though other accounts suggest those actions happened after her death:

A new angle by one reader:

This Prop. 8 is nothing less than religious persecution against those who have different beliefs. And if straight unmarried people think they are safe from these "conservatives"- think again. In Arkansas, there is a push by these religious groups to ban unmarried people from fostering children.

Once gays and lesbians have been persecuted with a change to the state Constitution, there is no telling who these people will set their sights on next. Vote No on Prop. 8 - it is religious persecution, pure and simple.

I agree, but making the Elmer Gantrys and Elmer Fudds of the world see that point of view is totally frustrating. They, like their religious ancestors, need to hate people. To them, life isn't worth living unless you have "heathens" "pagans" "Jews" "outcasts" "lepers" "sodomites" to go up against. They are, after all, devils in disguise.

There's a Christian Crimeline somewhere in my research. From ca. 200 CE (yes, even before the New Testament was solidified/sanctioned, there were Christians killing other Christians as "heretics") through events like the concentration camp for pagans (a Catholic Auschwitz) at Skythopolis (in Syria) and through the Crusades (great excuse for killing Jews as well as Muslims!) and through the "civilization" of the Americas and the "heathen" Native Americans, up till the present day, over 140 MILLION people have been killed "In the Name of God!"


In Europe, most of the 782 wars in the last 800 years have been sanctioned (on both sides) by Christianity. To this day, Christianity has not been able to come up with satisfactory apologies for anti-Semitism, slavery and just about every kind of bigotry known to man. Hitler was not original: even popes thought about the possibility of eugenics (Pacelli - Pius XII - would have experimented with anything to destroy Communist Russia).


Crazy, nitpicking "doctrines" have given rise to about 30,000 denominations, while the "non-denominational" churches still have "statements of belief" which are scary in the extreme. Televangelists and megachurch preachers don't even bother to hide their hatred for others. And while some proselytizing churchgoers preach "love the sinner, hate the sin," they more than not get their slogan backwards when "at war" in the sinful secular world handling subjects like homosexuality.

Do I actually think that gas ovens are in our future if they succeed in legislating hate and bans like Proposition 8?

Let's put it this way: once they feel any sort of power, they know that such power is not an end.

It's a beginning.

Just a thought.

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The one that gets me is "Capable of logical reason" because most Christofasicst sheeple are told not to reason because it is sinful to question the Word of God. They can use reasoning in any other endeavor but not when it comes to their religion, not on your life! (or soul). They actually have signs that read; "Don't think...believe" (Creation Museum, of course). And when a good, thinking Christian asks questions his/her minister can't answer, the reply is "take it as a matter of faith." That may be the coward's way out of a situation, but to the clergy, it works every time.

Try this little conundrum in your Bible Study class: The Bible says that the Ark was made out of "gopher wood." Fine. So what does gopher wood look like? Where is it indigenous? Is it soft, hard, porous, what? Answer: gopher wood has never been identified. If the Ark was so large, then there must have been plenty of gopher wood around. Mesopotamia? No. Lebanon? No. Syria? Jordan? Sudan? Ethiopia? Egypt? No. No. No. No. And...no. No gopher wood. Period.

Well, we just have to take its existence on faith. Right?

Right.

Mormons Send Money Across State Lines for Immoral Purposes

It's Not Proposition 8
It's Proposition Hate!

Mormons really do want to be accepted by the rest of the "Christian" Community. In fact, they're willing to shell out money for that acceptance.

Lots of money.

Actually, it's "hate money." That's where the questionable morality of donating to California's Proposition 8 comes in. It's not a "protect the children" Proposition. It's not a "government legislating morals" Proposition. It's not even a "it will cost the taxpayers money" Proposition. No, though all of these things have been cited in the "we're not hatemongers" ads, it's still a Proposition of Hate.

Several segments of "Letters to the Editor" of the San Francisco Chronicle have well-founded reasons to say "No" to Proposition 8:

Since Mormons have donated in excess of $9 million, accounting for at least 40 percent of Prop. 8's donors, we Californians need to scrupulously guard against a secretive religious sect from Utah controlling and subverting civil rights law in our state.

And this one raises the rather unique angle of religious persecution:

This Prop. 8 is nothing less than religious persecution against those who have different beliefs. And if straight unmarried people think they are safe from these "conservatives"- think again. In Arkansas, there is a push by these religious groups to ban unmarried people from fostering children.

Once gays and lesbians have been persecuted with a change to the state Constitution, there is no telling who these people will set their sights on next. Vote No on Prop. 8 - it is religious persecution, pure and simple.

Mormons have given money and MANPOWER for Proposition 8, according to CBS News:

Mormons have been active participants in the campaign both as volunteers and financial contributors, giving an estimated 43 percent—some $8.4 million—to the Proposition 8 campaign, according to the Web site mormonsfor8.com. There are about 770,000 Mormon church members in California, but Mormons from outside the state have been encouraged to give money and time to help pass the measure.

We could also look at the infusion of Mormon money into California as Big Business: while getting in good with Christians who think that Mormonism is a cult, they can promote the temples already in California.

Gotta protect the franchises.

Just a thought.