On my way home from Phoenix on Sunday, I decided to plunk down $2.00 for the Sunday edition of the Arizona Republic, when I discovered this gem of wingnuttery:
My answer to those expressing outrage
Has the United States evolved into a country of people who constantly “express outrage” about something?
With that in mind:
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Jarrett Maupin and Al Sharpton, you are miles away from the great Martin Luther King Jr. and his intelligence. Sit down and shut up.
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Cindy Sheehan and especially Rosie O’Donnell, if you cannot help matters, sit down and shut up.
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Those strange few who insist on using the opposite sex restrooms, illegal border crossers who feel mistreated here and Muslim clerics at airports who act suspicious knowingly - hey, sit down and shut up.
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The Sierra Club and other groups that insist on making all of the outdoors off limits except for the 2 percent of the population who are backpackers and hikers (never mind the majority who responsibly use federal lands daily), as well as the environmental study groups and special interest groups that make a stand against anything and everything for the sake of seeing their name in the newspaper or some eco-terrorist newsletter - sit down and shut up.
Many long for the day we finally can tell any group, organization, coalition, cause, study group or ad hoc committee that uses the term “We express outrage” to “Sit down and shut up.”
Richard <REDACTED>, Fort Mohave
Yeah. Great. Anyone who is not a straight, white, male conservative Christian needs to STFU! Just what we need in this country - another advocate of unity at the point of a gun.
And then there was this bit from Captain Obvious:
Here’s a simple solution for bridges
When hundreds of large trucks pound these bridges everyday, after a while small cracks in the concrete begin to appear.
In the winter after a rain or melting snow, there may be a hard freeze. Water gets in the cracks and freezes. Freezing water expands with great force, making the cracks larger, and larger, each time the rain-freeze cycle repeats. After enough winters and enough trucks the bridge will fail.
How can this be prevented?
Inspect the concrete for cracks. When a crack is found, blow the moisture out and fill the crack with epoxy crack filler.
This may be too simple for our government engineers, or maybe not expensive enough. But in case no one believes this cycle of destruction, it didn’t cost me much to write this letter.
John <REDACTED>, Phoenix
Note the open admission of the wingnut article of faith that every single government position is filled with incompetent boobs whose only purpose in life is to pick his pocket. Seems to describe the kind of governance we’ve gotten out of Rethuglican administrations of late…
But as the title implies, Arizona wasn’t the sole source of wingnut LTTEs that pissed me off. Here are a couple from the local fishwrap, both from the Monday edition.
First up is David from Lakeway, who writes:
The liberals’ plan
While it would be hard to defend many of President Bush’s actions as president, he has done nothing impeachable. Insofar as I can determine, he hasn’t even lied to the American people, and lying is not an impeachable offense.
Yeah, sure. Lying is not an impeachable offense, unless it’s a Democratic president lying about a matter that has NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH HIS JOB AS PRESIDENT!!!
Oh, and another thing. The Most Holy George W. Christ did lie about Iraqi WMDs. But, please. Continue.
The favorite line of the liberal Bush haters is that he claimed, in his prewar State of the Union address, that Saddam Hussein had tried to obtain nuclear material in Africa. Not true. He stated that British intelligence had reported this, which Tony Blair confirmed.
Your assertion is flat out false. I don’t care if God Himself corroborated it in one of President Bush’s drunken “visions,” all reliable evidence points to the fact that Iraq did not posess WMDs at the time of the 2003 invasion.
Bush’s predecessor, and most of Congress, believed that Saddam still had weapons of mass destruction and was trying to build more.
Yeah, Congress believed it because The Most Holy George W. Christ wouldn’t show them the CIA’s doubts and the evidence against it. And of course, you just had to resort to “Bu-bu-but Clinton!” Please. That dog won’t hunt no more.
Bush was reelected because of the liberals, who chose to run a miserable slate of Kerry/Edwards. They should think about that before they run a lightweight like Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., or a silly character like John Edwards in 2008.
Umm. Yeah. Bush was “reelected” because of Rethuglican voter suppression tactics like caging lists in Ohio and Florida and voter registration companies that promptly shredded the registration forms of Democrats in Nevada and Oregon. Granted, it didn’t help that our side nominated a shitty campaigner like Kerry, but that’s another story.
Oh, and by the way, getting campaign advice from a wingnut concern troll is like a chicken getting health advice from a fox. That’s how we wound up with Kerry as the nominee last time.
Finally, there’s this nutter:
Liberals and health care
Liberals are always saying that the government has totally botched the war in Iraq, and the response to Katrina was just awful, a real mess.
So, after the bridge collapse in Minnesota, we hear them bray that our nation’s infrastructere is a mess and all because of the government’s lack of attention. These same liberals now want this government, the one that can’t seem to get anything right, to take over the nation’s health care. The liberal mind is truly a wonder to behold.
Jim <REDACTED>, Austin
Umm. Yeah. It’s the cronyism and corruption, stupid! There’s a reason why the joke among liberals is “Conservatives complain that government doesn’t work. Then they get elected and prove it.” As a fellow blogger put it, “Don’t expect good government from a party that believes government is bad.” As if somehow Halliburton, Enron or Wal-Mart could do a better job of maintaining our infrastructure.
