JABbering Stooge

What’s a paranoid demagogue who only managed to get ~70K teabaggers to show up at a Klan rally Two Minutes Hate (that he himself couldn’t be bothered to attend) to do when bloggers laugh at his small dick lack of organizing prowess? Why, get his buddies to artificially inflate his manhood the crowd size, of course!

Just watch. By this time next week, Beck, Malkin, Limbaugh and the rest will be saying that there were 6.02 x 10²³ teabaggers there. Because that’s how they roll.

I’ve made comments to this effect a couple of times over at JJ’s place, but between this video and all the unhinged bullshit coming from the right lately, I’m just about ready to look for employment north of the 49th parallel.

Has ANY country with a “socialized” health care system gone back to the not-so-tender mercies of the private sector?

First Drudgico, now Jake Tapper Mr. Garrison*.

The next person to claim that the media is biased in favor of liberals gets slapped.

* Cf.

Brownback Will Vote Against Sotomayor

• Borking: OK for me, never for thee!

“Shorter” concept created by Daniel Davies, perfected by Elton Beard and given a beneficial mutation by the fine folks at Sadly, No!
I am aware of all Internet tradtions.™

Is Khamenei nuts?

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s supreme leader said Friday that Iran’s disputed presidential vote had not been rigged, sternly warning protesters to halt massive demonstrations or be held responsible for creating chaos.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei sided with hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and offered no concessions to the opposition. He effectively closed any chance for a new vote by calling the June 12 election a “definitive victory.”

The speech created a stark choice for opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi and his supporters: drop their demands for a new vote or take to the streets again in blatant defiance of the man endowed with virtually limitless powers under Iran’s constitution.

Play him off, Keyboard Cat!

I do not think it means what you think it means.

The outgoing and incoming Archbishops of Westminster took a prodigious amount of time slagging atheists as the Gravest Evil EV4R™, yet curiously were too busy to find the time to comment on the festering evil within their own walls.

You just know that Theocracy U. is already chomping at the bit to invite them to speak at their commencement ceremonies next year.

…that Bill Donohue is going to be rather busy the next few days trying to pretend that the Catholic church isn’t an institution rotten to the core because of pedophile priests and their enablers. Damn those homosexuals and their agenda of being treated like human beings!

AFTERSNARK: JJ’s final thoughts in the post linked above bear repeating:

If only all those abused kids hadn’t had the bad luck to have already made it out of the birth canal, maybe we might see some outrage from the church rank and file.

I couldn’t have said it better if I were the late, great George Carlin.

The Columbine Massacre turned 10 today. You know, the school shooting that Tom DeLay rushed to blame on the teaching of evolution, abortion birth control and women who dare to work outside the kitchen. Yeah. That one. The one that established the trend of conservatives blaming every single subsequent school shooting on this or that liberal policy. Expect such trends to continue into the future.