The Rant & Vent about the Right Wing thread

[Gazoo]

"put the presidency and the process on a higher plain"

George W, the High Plains Drifter.

As the Testy Copy Editors message board holds as canon, hundreds of newspapers use AP copy unedited.  And shouldn't.  Same goes for Reuters.  Can't wait to see how many places run this as above.

Meanwhile, that fucker who's nominated now for the Supes is W's attempt to force the moment to its crisis.  Or, in a metaphor he'd more likely get, High Noon.  Here's where we find out if America genuinely wants a theocracy or not.  When my lease here runs out, my options look like this (not in order, I emphasize) : New York; Pittsburgh; Boston; San Francisco; or Montreal.

I don't want to have to move Montreal to the front of the list.

[ggould]

"put the presidency and the process on a higher plain"

George W, the High Plains Drifter.

As the Testy Copy Editors message board holds as canon, hundreds of newspapers use AP copy unedited.  And shouldn't.  Same goes for Reuters.  Can't wait to see how many places run this as above.

Meanwhile, that fucker who's nominated now for the Supes is W's attempt to force the moment to its crisis.  Or, in a metaphor he'd more likely get, High Noon.  Here's where we find out if America genuinely wants a theocracy or not.  When my lease here runs out, my options look like this (not in order, I emphasize) : New York; Pittsburgh; Boston; San Francisco; or Montreal.

I don't want to have to move Montreal to the front of the list.

High Noon indeed, with much longer-lasting consequences!  Montreal is cool; I prefer Toronto, but I like SF, and don't want to move!

[mshray]

Best news from last night's elections results across the US:

In Dover, Pennsylvania, where a court battle is raging over the teaching of an "intelligent design" alternative to evolution, voters ousted eight of the nine incumbents on the local school board.

Replacing them will be a slate of board members who call for removing intelligent design, which they say is a version of creationism and brings religion into the teaching of science, from the curriculum.

[RGMike]

Best news from last night's elections results across the US:

In Dover, Pennsylvania, where a court battle is raging over the teaching of an "intelligent design" alternative to evolution, voters ousted eight of the nine incumbents on the local school board.

Replacing them will be a slate of board members who call for removing intelligent design, which they say is a version of creationism and brings religion into the teaching of science, from the curriculum.

On the other hand, ID won in Kansas.  Win one, lose one.

[Gazoo]

Best news from last night's elections results across the US:

In Dover, Pennsylvania, where a court battle is raging over the teaching of an "intelligent design" alternative to evolution, voters ousted eight of the nine incumbents on the local school board.

Replacing them will be a slate of board members who call for removing intelligent design, which they say is a version of creationism and brings religion into the teaching of science, from the curriculum.

On the other hand, ID won in Kansas.  Win one, lose one.

I wrote Kansas off a long time ago, so no loss in my scorebook.

[urth]

Best news from last night's elections results across the US:

In Dover, Pennsylvania, where a court battle is raging over the teaching of an "intelligent design" alternative to evolution, voters ousted eight of the nine incumbents on the local school board.

Replacing them will be a slate of board members who call for removing intelligent design, which they say is a version of creationism and brings religion into the teaching of science, from the curriculum.

On the other hand, ID won in Kansas.  Win one, lose one.

I wrote Kansas off a long time ago, so no loss in my scorebook.

Agreed. This is something like the third time in the past 5 years (or less?) that Kansas has modified their curriculum to the whims of the religious right. They're a lost cause.

[ggould]

Best news from last night's elections results across the US:

In Dover, Pennsylvania, where a court battle is raging over the teaching of an "intelligent design" alternative to evolution, voters ousted eight of the nine incumbents on the local school board.

Replacing them will be a slate of board members who call for removing intelligent design, which they say is a version of creationism and brings religion into the teaching of science, from the curriculum.

On the other hand, ID won in Kansas.  Win one, lose one.

I wrote Kansas off a long time ago, so no loss in my scorebook.

Agreed. This is something like the third time in the past 5 years (or less?) that Kansas has modified their curriculum to the whims of the religious right. They're a lost cause.

I think the interesting thing is that the Dover populace basically got woken up to what sort of coup had taken place, and threw the bums out.  Hopefully the same thing will happen in Kansas.  These stealth coups are happening everywhere.  In the United Methodist Church, the Judicial Board (analagous to supreme court) upheld a minister who refused membership to church because the person is gay.  The UMW Bishops however, were totally taken by surprise, and have unanimously condemned the verdict.  The fundies need to be stopped at the local level, before it goes too far.

[RGMike]

Do any of y'all have Showtime on cable? because this episode of their series "Masters of Horror", the Joe Dante-directed "Homecoming", sounds incredible:

http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0548,lim,70455,20.html

an anti-Bush zombie movie! sounds like my kinda flick.

[princessofcairo]

oh where, oh where has my country gone? the one with the little brown tail?

[Gazoo]

oh where, oh where has my country gone? the one with the little brown tail?

"Our country" never existed.  Like Prince said while no one was paying attention: "In this life - you're on your own!" I truly do believe that America will never live up to its promise until evangelical Christianity (as well as the evangelical strains of all the other transnational religions) goes the way of the dodo.

And I don't pretend to claim full American citizenship, not while America gives me insufficient rights.  I'm a citizen of the world, presently placed in America, believing in the American dream while not pretending that America wants that dream to come true for anyone.

[RGMike]

Jon Carroll's brilliant rejoinder to all this absurd "war on Christmas" crap the fundies have been spewing:

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/12/16/DDGQIF5ORB1.DTL

And while I'm at it... how can Bill O'Reilly even get up in  the morning anymore, now that Stephen Colbert effectively neuters him every night on the "Cohl-bare Reh-pohr"?  That show is genius.

[ggould]

Jon Carroll's brilliant rejoinder to all this absurd "war on Christmas" crap the fundies have been spewing:

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/12/16/DDGQIF5ORB1.DTL

And while I'm at it... how can Bill O'Reilly even get up in  the morning anymore, now that Stephen Colbert effectively neuters him every night on the "Cohl-bare Reh-pohr"?  That show is genius.

We wish you a merry Christmas, we wish you a merry Christmas, we wish you a merry Christmas, and please buy our beer.

Old line from a Stan Freeburg bit.  I'd love to get my hands on an MP3 of that, but nothing on iTunes.

[RGMike]

We wish you a merry Christmas, we wish you a merry Christmas, we wish you a merry Christmas, and please buy our beer.

Old line from a Stan Freeburg bit.  I'd love to get my hands on an MP3 of that, but nothing on iTunes.

I have it on the Dr Demento Xmas CD, which also includes Freberg's equally brilliant "Xmas Dragnet".

[ggould]

We wish you a merry Christmas, we wish you a merry Christmas, we wish you a merry Christmas, and please buy our beer.

Old line from a Stan Freeburg bit.  I'd love to get my hands on an MP3 of that, but nothing on iTunes.

I have it on the Dr Demento Xmas CD, which also includes Freberg's equally brilliant "Xmas Dragnet".

So, I guess I need to come over sometime to make an MP3 of this and the Byrds tune you have, eh?

[RGMike]

We wish you a merry Christmas, we wish you a merry Christmas, we wish you a merry Christmas, and please buy our beer.

Old line from a Stan Freeburg bit.  I'd love to get my hands on an MP3 of that, but nothing on iTunes.

I have it on the Dr Demento Xmas CD, which also includes Freberg's equally brilliant "Xmas Dragnet".

So, I guess I need to come over sometime to make an MP3 of this and the Byrds tune you have, eh?

You're always welcome.  Or I can bring both to the next Club gathering.