JABbering Stooge

Now many of our Christians have what I call the goo-goo syndrome — good government. They want everybody to vote. I don’t want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people, they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.

— Paul Weyrich, Dallas, Fall 1980

The stench of flop sweat is sinking in heavily on the right. Even after their heinous, un-American, hypocritical smears of Obama’s character, the dog-whistle stirring up of lynch mobs in Clearwater, Florida, Albuquerque, New Mexico and Jacksonville, Florida, and the obsessive-compulsive lying about Obama’s associations by a nationally-syndicated propagandist, Obama still maintains a nearly insurmountable lead in both the national and state-by-state polls. If these trends continue, Obama will be the next Commander-in-Chief come November 4.

Here’s the race as it stands now:

Hence, the concerted effort by wingnuts in recent days to whip up ACORN Derangement Syndrome among their hate-filled lemmings. it’s depressing and disgusting, but sadly, hardly surprising.

Fortunately for the reality-based community, dday ably calls bullshit on the whole sordid mess.

I don’t know. Something about this chart from Buttmissile over at Swingline Powerline doesn’t seem right. What could it be?

Oh, I know!

Having a GDP growth curve that’s O(e^x) doesn’t mean a thing when you’ve got Gordon Gekko conservatives creating debt on a Ω(n!) growth curve*, doofus!

* Cf.

The ever-unflappable Sir Charles refuses to be baited by the eternally-constipated Wolf Blitzer on whether or not noblesse oblige is a commie plot to fluoridate our water supplies.

Yeah, this gives me high hope for the future of our country.

God vs. doctor: 1 in 2 say prayer saves the dying
20 percent of docs also say God can reverse terminal prognosis, study finds

CHICAGO - When it comes to saving lives, God trumps doctors for many Americans.

An eye-opening survey reveals widespread belief that divine intervention can revive dying patients. And, researchers said, doctors "need to be prepared to deal with families who are waiting for a miracle."

More than half of randomly surveyed adults — 57 percent — said God’s intervention could save a family member even if physicians declared treatment would be futile. And nearly three-quarters said patients have a right to demand such treatment.

I’m sure Rick Warren just filled the cup*. In the meantime, I’ll be in the corner…weeping for America.

* Cf.

If the troops are so hated by the Democrats, as you constantly claim, why the hell are they donating to Obama over McBush by a factor of 6:1?

Why does President Bush hate the troops?

The best response: Do nothing

• Watch us blame Canada’s liberals for the very thing wingnut bloggers do every time someone goes on a headline-making murderous rampage!

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* Also known as Canada’s Shittiest Newspaper™ (© 2008 Sadly, No!).

This is what we call “confirmation bias“…

A new study in the journal Science suggests that when it comes to math and science, anything boys can do, girls can do just as well (if not better, in some cases). This should come as common sense to sane people. Sadly, some will look at this report and say “That’s unpossible!” (Especially a certain presidential candidate…)

Americans Believe in God, Heaven, Hell

• Did you know that 90% of Americans believe as I do that Jesus is the One True God™ and that he hates homosexuals, liberals, women and Muslims? It’s true! Just look at this study by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life!

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This bit of polling data does not look good for McCain and his base:

Obama leads McCain among registered voters, 47 to 41 percent, which is outside the poll’s margin of error.

But wait, there’s more! Digging into the numbers a bit more, one finds that Obama beats McBush in several key demographics.

• Independents:

  Obama: 41%
  McBush: 36%

• Catholics:

  Obama: 47%
  McBush: 40%

• “Blue-collar” workers:

  Obama: 47%
  McBush: 42%

• Women:

  Obama: 52%
  McBush: 33%

• Hispanics:

  Obama: 62%
  McBush: 28%

Note that Obama wins two of those five demographic groups by what could be considered “landslide” margins (conservatively speaking). Also, not that these are all demographic groups that the “librul” media has already written off as permanently lost to Obama. And finally, note that this poll was conducted by the Wall Street Journal (jointly with NBC), whose editorial slant lists notably to starboard.

It sounds to me like the wounds are already starting to heal.