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GlennBeckapalooza – Showing America They’re Not Crackpots

September 5, 2010September 2, 2010 John crazy, D.C., Glenn Beck, Tea Baggers, Washington

Earlier this week I was sent one of those emails where you check the stuff you’ve done, then send it to a bunch of friends. One of the questions was, “Have you ever seen something so beautiful it took your breath away?” I answered yes. I’ve seen it a couple of times, but in this case, I have to say it is absolute frightening idiocy that takes away my breath. People who have no discernible contact with any version of reality known to most of us, believe they have the answers to what ails America. People who are told what to think by the corporate astro-turfers, and believe a crackpot Mormon convert is the second coming. And they want to take America back…back to where…a happier time. What does that mean?

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Focus on Your Family Wants to Maintain Right to Beat Up Gay Kids

September 2, 2010September 2, 2010 John Anderson Cooper, focus on the family

That’s right folks. The good christian people at Focus on the Family don’t want schools to have effective anti-bullying campaigns because they want to be sure their kids can continue to beat up kids who are or are perceived to be gay. Oh they try to dress it up in nice words saying they want safe schools for everyone, but if you go around and tell kids it’s not OK to beat up the gay kids, then you’re teaching them that being gay is OK.

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BP Off the Hook for Oil Spill-WorldNet Daily Says it was God

June 27, 2010June 25, 2010 John David Vitter, Diapers, God, Israel, Obama, Tea Bagger Party

Yes, that’s right folks. I knew it would be just a matter of time, but the tea bagger crazies are now claiming the oil spill in the Gulf was caused by God. So why would you say God would blow up an oil drilling platform off the Louisiana coast? Well, Katrina was because of those devil worshiping, gays down in New Orleans, so you might think this was because the people down there keep electing prostitution supporter, diaper wearing David Vitter, but you would be wrong. Turns out, it’s all Obama’s fault.

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A Good Friend Who Doesn’t Know He’s a Good Friend

November 24, 2009November 24, 2009 John Carl Kasell, Carl Kassel, Friends, life, national public radio, news, NPR

Carl Kasell is retiring from NPR as the Morning Edition news anchor after holding the job for 30 years since the inception of the program. I have never had the pleasure of meeting Carl Kasell, and I don’t think I’d ever seen a picture of him until his retirement was announced this week, but I knew that voice as well as that of my best friends.

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It Would Be Funny If It Weren’t So Scary

September 15, 2009September 15, 2009 John Communists, facism, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Socialism, Tea Baggers, Tea Bagging

These are interviews with the 60,00 to 70,000 people who turned out for the big Tea Bagger March in Washington. Apparently, you don’t have to really know anything about what you’re protesting. It’s all just bad because it is Obama, and some industry or media flak like Glenn Beck told you to be mad and scared.