Hirsi Ali, the Right's New Hero

There are no Christians who want the bible to replace the constitution in any Western society? Is she blind!?

"Democracy is evil and contrary to God's law."
-Kent Hovind, anti-evolution propagandist

"I think democracy is the greatest system on earth, but that's it, it's just on earth and ultimately designed to destroy itself, because we have to give everyone equal freedom and ultimately that's going to destroy us. A perfect world is not going to be perfect until Jesus is truly lord."
-Becky Fischer, the chick who runs the Jesus Camp

She says that Islam calls for the murder of gays and adulterers and that "all this is in the Qur'an." Horseshit. None of it is in the Qur'an. The death penalty for adulterers was added later by Umar ibn al-Khattāb, one of Muhammed's followers. According to Reza Aslan, "the stoning to death of adulterers, a punishment which has absolutely no foundation whatsoever in the Quran but which Umar justified by claiming it had originally been part of the Revelation and had somehow been left out of the authorized text." [emphasis mine]

Umar was a notorious misogynist who was even forbidden to marry the sister of one of Muhammed's wives, because of how he was known to treat women. People who believe that adultery is punishable by death according to the Quran, be they Muslims themselves or some ignorant Westerners who want to make Islam look evil, have been lied to.

For someone who was raised a Muslim, she doesn't seem to know much about Islam. It's scary to think how many Muslims have the same perception of Islam as she does.

America Only

Conservatives scoff whenever someone points out that if the US doesn't abide by the Geneva Conventions or some other international agreement, then nobody else will, then they get all pissy when that's exactly what happens.

Several months ago, the US pulled out of an arms limitation agreement that was standing in their way of building their star wars missile defense program. Yesterday Russia said fine, if the US going to take the arms limitation agreement seriously, then we won't either. They were subject to an agreement that said they could only deploy so many tanks, ships, troops, etcetera, but that agreement has officially gone out the window.

According to the New York Times, "White House officials expressed immediate disappointment after the announcement from Moscow, but pledged to continue to meet with their Russian counterparts to resolve the dispute." Yes, they must have been so disappointed that the arms limitation treaties that they shit all over are no longer being taken seriously.

Christians Are Wonderful People

Leave Little Gore Alone

If you haven't heard, Al Gore's son, Al Gore III has been charged with the possession of marijuana and the fingers are wagging at him and the former Vice President. He's been in trouble for weed before, but hasn't given it up, apparently. This is the first I've heard of the kid, and although he's kinda weird looking, I feel sorry for him.

I'd have a lot more respect for the guy, however, if instead of "getting treatment" for his marijuana use (did he ever suck dick for marijuana?) he had said, "Yeah, I smoke weed. It's none of your business and it shouldn't be illegal, so fuck off."

Then he'd be my hero.

Holy Shit, I Agree with Ann Coulter

She was on Bill O'Reilly a while back and she said, "Hey, if you want to stop illegal immigration, allow them to sue for minimum wage benefits." Wow. This would really put a dent in the exploitation. Even if it didn't stop illegal immigration (it probably wouldn't stop it altogether) it would reduce the worst effects of it.

Vast Consensus Is Biased

I just saw this thing Jack Black did on The Daily Show about this website Conservapedia, this website that says Wikipedia is, as a whole, biased against Christians.

Now Wikipedia isn't perfect. If an article doesn't get a lot of traffic, errors and even blatant vandalism can go for days, sometimes weeks, before someone corrects them. That's not why these people are saying it's biased, though. They are saying that it's biased because of things like the fact that Wikipedia allows articles to use either the AD, BC dating system or the CE, BCE dating system.

That's right, they believe that failing to force people to use Christian dating notation is bias against Christianity.

Conservapedia claims not to be neutral where Wikipedia is not. Here are the first sentences from the Conservapedia and Wikipedia article for "Palestine." You tell me which one sounds more neutral:

Wikipedia:
Palestine (from Latin: Palaestina; Hebrew: ארץ־ישראל Eretz-Yisra'el, formerly also פלשתינה Palestina; Arabic: فلسطين Filasṭīn, Falasṭīn) is one of several names for the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River and various adjoining lands.

Conservapedia:
Palestine is the name given to the land of Israel by the Romans and others.

Dick Cheney Thinks We're All Retarded

This is a guy with such horrendously dark and disturbing secrets that he doesn't even want historians to discover them decades after his death. So in order to avoid obeying an order that says everyone in the Executive Branch has to give their records to the National Archives, he is now making the astonishingly, insultingly ludicrous claim that the Vice President, part of the White House staff and someone to gets into office by running in an executive election, is not a member of the Executive Branch.

This is an especially mind boggling claim considering that Cheney has previously claimed executive privilege in Cheney v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Either this guy is schizophrenic enough to be capable of a remarkable level of double-think that allows him to believe that he is entitled to executive privilege, but not a member of the Executive Branch, or he thinks everyone in the entire world is feces-throwingly retarded.