Small Victories February 29, 2012
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Very cool video: Cal Quarterback Breaks World Record…For Paper Airplane Toss
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Speaking Of Rick Santorum, Here’s His Perfect Running Mate February 29, 2012
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Ok, fine, so to be exact, he’s not the candidate, but a candidate to be the candidate, yet the batshit crazy just keeps on comin’.
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The Only Thing More Terrifying Than A Rick Santorum Presidency February 29, 2012
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Asteroid 2011 AG5 May Strike Earth In 2040
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The Product Of Overeducation Produces Moral Idiots February 29, 2012
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The Most Important Thing You Will Read Today February 29, 2012
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The GOP Litmus Test/Another Day, Another Primary February 28, 2012
Posted by Benjamin Wendell in Politics, religion.Tags: christian, constitution, gop, litmus test, muslim, religious test, Santorum
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I’ve written a great deal in the last months about the GOP’s swing into religious fanatacism, and the push for a new American theocracy. I think I was personally on this story as early as anyone in the blogosphere, and now the rest of the world is catching up. Today from Michael Smerconish on Huffington Post: The Unfaithful Candidate in which he chastises Mitt Romney for failing to take the opportunity to challenge his opponents on a faith based litmus test. The op-ed pieces on this topic are all over the place. But I modestly proclaim that no one has said it any better than I did on February 21 in “The New Republican Litmus Test“: It’s not enough to be Christian…You have to be Christian enough. When Santorum and Gingrich and Limbaugh and Hannity whisper code words and oblique references about Obama being a closet Muslim, they are again preaching to their choir of evangelical wingnuts, but it makes you wonder if a single one of them has ever actually read the Constitution they claim to honor. From Article VI of the US Constitution:
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.
That’s all well and good in theory. In practice, John F. Kennedy is the only Catholic ever to hold the office of the presidency, and there’s never been a Jew. There’s never even been a Jewish vice president. Joe Lieberman was the first to even be a candidate for VP, and you can see how well that went. I’ve said before that the chances of an atheist being elected president in this country are less than hitting the lottery with your kid’s birthday. So much for enlightenment.
So we move on to Michigan and Arizona and the polls have Romney and Santorum neck and neck. One can’t but hope for Santorum, on the theory that there’s no way in a universe governed by physical laws for him to actually be elected president. But as I’ve said before, be careful what you wish for:
Robert Reich: As Romney And Santorum Battle For The Loony Right, The Rest Of Us Should Not Gloat
Even if the Republican Party really does take leave of its collective senses and nominates Santorum, and even if he spirals into a Dukkakian defeat, these guys aren’t going away, and they’ve already shown what kind of havoc they could reak even with the White House and both branches of Congress held by Democrats. And worst case scenario…he could win. It’s almost enough to make me find god and start praying.
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Whitney Houston, Hollywood, And The Enquirer February 28, 2012
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One of Whitney’s biggest songs had her belting out, “No matter what they do to me, they can’t take away my dignity.”
Wrong, Whitney.
They can.
And they did.
I Can’t Help Thinking About Richard Nixon February 28, 2012
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If the old SOB was around now, he’d be sidling in to this race for the GOP nomination. Remember he’s tan, rested, and ready.
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Hilary’s Partisan Remarks February 27, 2012
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You’re the Secretary of State. You’re not supposed to do this.
Preaching To The Choir February 27, 2012
Posted by Benjamin Wendell in Politics, religion, World Events.Tags: apologize, bible, burn Koran, Hamid Karzai, hillary clinton, jfk, koran, Newt Gingrich, rick santorum, secular left, separation of church and state, throw up
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Seems to be all the last clowns standing over there in GOPville are capable of doing. Rick Santorum says that JFK’s speech in 1960 in which he said he was committed to the separation of church and state, “made him want to throw up“. When Santorum was challenged on this point, in typical fashion he retreated not one inch but again doubled down, stating that “the idea of the church not having involvement in the matters of state is antithetical to the vision of our country.” Newt Gingrich, literally preaching to the choir in a Georgia church yesterday, warned that “the secular left” is trying to undermine the principles of the Founding Fathers…never mind that by any reasonable standard, the likes of Jefferson and Franklin would be prominent members of the “secular left”, and would have the same chance of being nominated president by this bunch of bible-banging teabaggers as I have. Today’s latest insane Santorum proclamation is that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are not in favor of religious freedom. Can anyone seriously doubt that the Republican Party is either hard at work trying to turn our democracy into a theocracy or has completely taken leave of its collective senses…with the second option being the more optimistic one?
And let’s for a moment review one of my blogmates “here” posts, in which Andrew McCarthy in NRO rails against Obama for his Koran burning apology to Hamid Karzai. In another of those right wing code words, McCarthy refers to Obama as “Islamophilic”, which I take to mean “anyone who doesn’t appropriately despise Muslims as much as any red-blooded American ought to”. Let’s for a moment ignore the fact that the Koran and Bible are both elaborate fairy-tales concocted by ignorant desert dwellers five thousand years ago in the days when the earth was flat and diseases were caused by demons, and that we should be no more or less shocked by the burning of one of them than we would be by the burning of “Huckleberry Finn” or “Fahrenheit 451″. Turn it around and ask what would happen if Afghan troops, even if inadvertently, burned several New Testaments. You think Newt and Rick and the rest wouldn’t demand an apology? And Karzai would almost certain offer one…becasue it’s the courteous and diplomatic thing a world leader (or a decent grade schooler) would do under the circumstances. It is inconceivable that under the same circumstances George Bush or Ronald Reagan or Bill Clinton would not have done exactly the same thing. But it’s 2012 and it’s all about whose god can piss further than some other group’s god.
I don’t know who the Republicans think their they’re (sheesh…) winning over with this religious campaign of “take sides and lock ‘n load”, but I suspect they’re going to find out it’s not nearly enough to win the White House and even less likely to win any respect.
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