Today's events call to mind my
foray into cartooning. 2006, bitches. I don't want to hear any shit from sub-literate wingnuts about dhimmitude today.
It's out of context but, as this whole blog continually shows, context means nothing to psychos anyway.
This on the same day some cracker bombs the NAACP headquarters in Colorado Springs.
ReplyDeleteDon't read the comments over there. Just...don't.
ReplyDeletegoing back to bed now
ReplyDeleteI'm sure Wayne LaPierre will stand in front of his mirror this morning, and while he shaves he will softly sing:
ReplyDelete"What the world needs now
Is guns. MOAR GUN!
That's the only thing
That makes my scam run."
You can't fool me. Allah sux? I'm a stupid jerk? Fart? That's Jonah Goldberg.
ReplyDeleteAnd from the ever useful WSJ Opinions section: "Science Increasingly Makes The Case For God"
ReplyDeleteThanks, guys. Always SO helpful.
That particular radwaste mango swamp is best stayed away from on the best of days.
ReplyDeleteI hope France doesn't decide to invade Kashmir.
ReplyDeleteIf their leaders are like ours, they'll invade Paraguay. But they will have a chorus of halfwits in the background making noises about how REAL men want to invade Ecuador.
ReplyDeleteI'm really not looking forward to the advice that conservatives are going to offer on how to respond to this incident. I offer the families of the victims my sincerest condolences, and fervent hope that this incident will not be used to justify some brutal excess in the name of revenge.
ReplyDeleteAnd from the media? A report on CNN 16 hours later, in a vast sea of fuck-all. Granted, no one was killed in the Colorado terrorist attack, but it happened on US soil, so why the low profile? Why?
ReplyDelete[FBI spokeswoman Amy Sanders] told the AP investigators were looking for a balding white man in his 40sWhoa, break out the "Fucking Surprised" crayon and color me with it.
"Science Increasingly Makes The Case For God"Pssst, Eric! You misspelled "Allah."
ReplyDelete(Theocratic fuckknobs like Eric Metaxas never actually consider that the "God" they're supposedly proving with their hilariously misnamed Intelligent Design might be the other guy's god. Yet there are plenty of Darwin-banning creationists in fundamentalist Islam, too.)
Here's a good response to that particular opinion: https://richarddawkins.net/2014/12/letter-to-the-editor/
ReplyDeleteThe anthropic principle doesn't prove a thing. Neither wishful thinking nor the cherry picking of recent developments in astronomy constitute 'proof'. That article did just what it was supposed to, annoy a whole bunch of people and encourage creationists, while drawing a shitload of pageviews.
And from the media? A report on CNN 16 hours later, in a vast sea of fuck-all.
ReplyDeleteLet's see: Violent, racist rightwing extremist detonates bomb outside Black people's organization. Not too big a deal.
NYC mayor points out that Black people might get treated differently by police. A racist attack on the very foundations of society and more galling than anything since 9/11.
Science Increasingly Makes The Case For God.
ReplyDeleteIndeed it does. Except for paleontology. And archeology. And chemistry. And physics. And astrophysics. And biology. But all the REST of science makes the case for God. Well, maybe not anthropology. Or molecular biology. But everything else certainly does. Except maybe astronomy. And microbiology. And virology. But, really, science is making the case for God every day! Except those nuclear scientists. And the environmental sciences guys. And the climate scientists. . . .
The response will probably have something to do with Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Christmas.
ReplyDelete"This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today. I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty, and stupidity."
ReplyDelete--Salman Rushdie
"Word!"
--Vast swathes of those who shriek nonstop about how persecuted US Christians are
I'm sure legions of white people will stand up and denounce it. Any minute now...
ReplyDeleteI'm SO FUCKING SORRY I'm not watching FAUX right now, for extremely non-existent measures of "sorry". I'm somehow envisioning a roundtable of John McCain, John Bolton, Pama Gellar and Frank Gaffney giving us their educated opinions on how we should react to this and where the nukes need to be dropped right fucking now.
ReplyDeleteIn keeping with the latest protest craze, they'll turn their backs on the whole thing.
ReplyDeleteI'd bring over mangoes, but the fuckers have it behind their paywall, and good fucking riddance.
ReplyDelete... Okay, your version is better.
ReplyDeleteTime to re-colonize Algeria?
ReplyDeleteDon't forget - satirizing any given Christian is equivalent to nailing a million Jesiii back up on the cross.
ReplyDeleteThough they've been less willing to go the Kalishnikov rifle route in dealing with it, mostly.
I did it on twitter last night and I'll do it again right now. As a 40 something balding white American, I condemn the senseless act of terrorism against the NAACP and repudiate the racism that inspired it.
ReplyDeleteJust more proof of the violent, corrosive nature of white culture. Where are the white leaders to guide their people? Your average white youth these days has no moral compass at all. Make no mistake, in another twenty years these "superpredators" will be the norm and not the exception.
ReplyDelete...And yet as absurd as it is, if I flipped "white" into "black" I could get a guest slot on FNC.
And not that that description narrows the search a whole goddam lot.
ReplyDelete...care to start working in a Planned Parenthood clinic?
ReplyDeleteI did say "mostly".
ReplyDeleteYeah, I think people tend to think of anti-abortion violence in America as an 80s and 90s problem, but it's only been five and a half years since Dr. Tiller was murdered. Certainly not an act of terrorism, oh no!
ReplyDeleteSo glad to be back...
ReplyDeleteYeesh. Religious nuts and racist white guys. Can I move off-planet now?
Praise Xenu for incompetent terrorists!
ReplyDeleteThe comment that sent me fleeing from the WSJ site was one that sarcastically congratulated the terrorist that paused to execute a wounded policeman during the gunfight (I did not watch any of the video to see if that's what actually happened.) and speculated that this action would undoubtedly lead the French police to create "piles of dead Muslim bodies" by the end of the week. Which leads to a couple observations...
ReplyDelete1) Even the NYPD manages to do better than that.
2) The French police, while they still have problems, manage to do a lot better than the NYPD.
3) Apparently what this well-educated dolt wants isn't even the Jackson County, MS sheriff's department circa 1964 but just a plain old lynch mob. That's the way to run a civilization.
Are they still recruiting for that one-way trip to Mars? I hear the Chryse Plantia is beautiful this time of year.
ReplyDeleteYou don't even need to watch Fox. Roger Cohen at the NYT is calling for "ruthlessness".
ReplyDeleteI'm calling for someone to stick a pineapple up his ass.
I shortened it for the sake of my particular point, but if you insist:a balding white man in his 40s who may be driving a dirty pickup truck.which brings it down to a mere handful of Colorado Springs residents.
ReplyDeleteI'd rather use a durian.
ReplyDeleteYes, and please don't take my bile personally. Just a bit fed up with humanity today.
ReplyDeleteThe most notable feature is that our violent fundamentalists have all been lone wolves, and haven't cooperated. I don't know if that's due to our dispersed population or the knowledge that it's very very hard to get away with this sort of crime.
https://twitter.com/davpope/status/552844593046097920/photo/1
ReplyDeletei agree; very bad show for us in the bald community.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2ce-zC_n8E
ReplyDeleteNo offense. It's times like this that I just want to take all fundimentalisms of all types and shove them up the ass of the nearest adherent of any of them.
ReplyDeleteForgotten where the quote originates (might have been Neil
ReplyDeleteTyson), but I do recall someone musing about "Full Spectrum Dominance" and our galactic neighbors coming for a visit, and then deciding against it when they saw all those weapons in space pointing down instead of out.
Phrenology will make a comeback, too.
ReplyDeleteBut he just told us the other day Obama doesn't run anything!
ReplyDeletebut but but violence! Terrorism! Circumstantial evidence is good enough to start wars these days!
ReplyDeleteI'm all for a revival of geomancy, gematria or even oinomancy if it's going to give us something to distract these yahoos.
ReplyDeleteI could've sworn that Science had some fairly strict rules about rejecting attempts to insert the supernatural into explanations/conclusions. I always thought that was kindof the point of science. But I'm no scientist...
ReplyDeleteUp Fundamentalist fundaments?
ReplyDeleteSince when is logical consistency Der Pantload's strong suit? Remember, he's free (apparently of all rhetorical rules and obligations to make sense).
ReplyDeleteGosh, I wonder how long it would have taken President Romney to decide to cruise-missile the Gaza Strip and Tehran over this?
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, he probably would have already cruise-missiled the offices of Charlie Hebdo a couple years ago for making fun of Mormons.
. . . my fervent hope that this incident will not be used to justify some brutal excess in the name of revenge.
ReplyDeleteOf course, it all depends on which incident we're talking about. Massacre in Paris by Muslim nuts? Kill 'em all and let Allah sort 'em out!
Bombing of NAACP building in the US? Why should we even bother reporting on this, much less think it's in any way racist or connected to the last seven years of racist wanking by the right?
Mayor of NYC giving his son "the talk" about police and Blacks? He needs to be taken out and shot, and the NYPD needs complete immunity of ever having anything they do to anyone [non-White] questioned in any way.
Shooting at federal employees 'cause you don't want to pay your taxes or grazing fees? Nominate that man for the Presidential Medal of Freedom!
Yeah, he called “cowardly and evil terrorists” but why won't he call them ISLAMIC terrorists? What's he hiding?
ReplyDeleteTypical LibTard paying attention in class. I'll bet you even passed a few tests using that fancy reading and writing of yours.[/wingnut]
ReplyDeleteActually, doesn't that only eliminate a mere handful of Colorado Springs residents?
ReplyDelete"And as they traveled the world, Prince Arjunah saw people praying in many tongues to many gods.
ReplyDelete"And he asked Vishnu, 'How can you allow these people to pray to false gods? Why do you not strike them?'
"And Vishnu said, 'They are all praying to me. They know me by different names, but I am the one they all pray to.'"
Musical Cartoon Accompaniment.
ReplyDeleteRight now the temperature in Minneapolis would be a beautiful summer's day on Mars...
ReplyDeleteAnd that's why we gotta bomb more countries for corporate profits and Israel.
ReplyDeleteAlso, because hats.
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Not that tough to make him move quickly; Ailes just has someone put out a trail of Cheetohs.
ReplyDeleteThrow in some insulting comments about gay people and Hillary Clinton and you could be looking at a presidential nomination.
ReplyDeleteThe guy who shot Tiller did have unindicted coconspirators, some of whom were known anti-abortion terrorists, Operation Rescue people. And he got wound up by Bill O'Reilly.
ReplyDeleteWhen I hear the phrase "false flag," I take the safety off my Browning.
ReplyDeleteYeah, remember when Reagan, Thatcher, and the National Review had no compunction about calling IRA bombings "Catholic terrorism"? To fearless conservative giants, the "Catholic" label was always much more important than the "terrorism" part.
ReplyDeleteYeah, but Vishnu, Brahma, and Shiva were supposedly all aspects of the same god ... and that's just kooky.
ReplyDeleteWe should the non-crazies move? Let's tell them it's a free trip to Heaven.
ReplyDeletePhrenology will make a comeback, too.[Dusts off steel mallet]
ReplyDeleteMy god, he got three names
ReplyDeleteYou're god he got none...
Vishnu, Brahma, Shiva
ReplyDeleteFather, Son, Holy Ghost
Moe, Larry, Curly
Comedy and Tragedy writ large upon the human pageant.
Or they'd be talking about how these people had NOTHING to do with rightwing politics. They were just lone nuts acting together, and how can anyone hold rightwing eliminationist rhetoric responsible?
ReplyDeleteVia BDR:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4fwecSVzeY0
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The resemblance is uncanny....
ReplyDeleteTHIS IS FARTA!
ReplyDelete~
Seems fartacus is taken on the twitters. Although I don't see a #fartacus hash tag.
ReplyDeleteYet.
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I've seen phrenology charts.
ReplyDeleteThey were really making headlines.
The popularity of retrophrenolgy will lag that of phrenology by at least a few weeks.
ReplyDeleteBring back brontoscopy!
ReplyDeleteI thought that was corduroy pillows
ReplyDeleteYeah, I'm trying to recycle an old joke...
ReplyDeleteYeah, can't wait for them to denounce Al Sharpton Pat Robertson for not denouncing this loud enough to suit them.
ReplyDeleteDo you think Wayne shaves his legs?
ReplyDeleteI'm betting he has Ted Nooogent come over and they shave each other's before painting their toenails.
ReplyDeleteIs it just me, or are the words "false flag" becoming the new paranoiac's code words for "I don't have a shred of proof that the Bad Guys are doing what I say they are doing, so I'll just come up with a convenient phrase to explain the lack of proof"?
ReplyDeleteFortune telling by shoving a camera up an Apatosaur's ass?
ReplyDeleteLet's get it right, guys.
ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/TTkNxr7z7ao
Yeah. And business class.
ReplyDeleteChrist, the mind reels at the thought of Frank knowing that was preceded by a fucking Lumosity ad.
ReplyDeleteBring back brontoscopy!
ReplyDeleteIs that the science of studying Emily Bronte novels using a fiber-optic scope?
Phrenology was definitely on the way to a comeback, but it ran into a few bumps.
ReplyDeleteAnd then you'll find hipsters lying unconscious on the sidewalks of Brooklyn after smacking themselves with ballpeen hammers in an effort to improve the phrenological cred.
ReplyDeleteReflexive kowtowing to blue-uniformed authority. (Imagine President Obama wearing a police chief's uniform.)
ReplyDeleteNot enough blood. One might call it a "failed" terrorist attack, even.
ReplyDeleteI actually don't have too much of a problem with intelligent design as a concept. I think it was Einstein who said something like "My sense of God is the order I see in the universe."
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, Intelligent Design has become encrusted with the Bible-banging yahoos, who use it to try to get Creationism (or, as a friend of mine typos it, "Cretinism") into the schools. The Bible bangers then take all the intelligence out of Intelligent Design by insisting on a literal reading of the Bible and completely ignoring (or suppressing) all that science has discovered.
I have a friend who can get you a line on those.
ReplyDeleteThey haven't really been 'lone wolves', they have an active (and malice filled) support network. But their PR says 'lone wolf' and the conservative-corporate-media slurp it up and regurgitate it loudly and repeatedly. "Nothing to see here! No one here but us chickens! (lone wolves)"
ReplyDeleteThat would be an excellent way to make repugs hate and fear police.
ReplyDeleteNon-whites not allowed, even as slaves!
ReplyDeleteBasically, with the Taliban, then ISIS, and now this, I've gotten to the point where I think we should take anyone who publicly proclaims themselves a jihadist/islamist, or who teaches radical islam out into the street and shoot them.
ReplyDeletePandora's Planet.
ReplyDeleteScience increasingly shows us the Universe is even more wondrous and bizarre than we could ever have imagined or may ever understand: that proves God!
ReplyDeleteExcept it isn't all that intelligent, more a case of 'trial & error'. Not that that argues against a sentient creative force or whatever god is supposed to be. Just not all that smart.
ReplyDeleteJuan Cole, whose opinions I have a lot of respect for, makes the case that that's exactly what we shouldn't do:
ReplyDeleteAl-Qaeda wants to mentally colonize French Muslims, but faces a wall of
disinterest. But if it can get non-Muslim French to be beastly to
ethnic Muslims on the grounds that they are Muslims, it can start
creating a common political identity around grievance against
discrimination.
[snip]
The only effective response to this manipulative strategy (as Grand
Ayatollah Ali Sistani tried to tell the Iraqi Shiites a decade ago) is
to resist the impulse to blame an entire group for the actions of a few
and to refuse to carry out identity-politics reprisals.
If we ship them all together, we just tell each group they'll get to watch God punish the others, they'll love that idea.
ReplyDeleteA lead sandwich is a cheaper way to get them to their make believe heaven.
ReplyDeleteOnly if you shoot anti-choice, anti-gay christians too.
ReplyDeleteBut ROCKETS!
ReplyDeleteNo offense taken but I'd rather just haul them out in front of them nearest mosque/church etc and shoot them and leave their corpses to rot a few days
ReplyDeleteWell why not Paraguay full of old nazis and their kids - they'll fit right in
ReplyDeleteDefinitely a disturbed lone wolf - nope no terrorism here - look over there
ReplyDeleteThat's a given
ReplyDeleteOh I get that but I'm just really fucking pissed off right now. These assholes regardless of the religion whose name they are doing it in get away with so much.
ReplyDeleteAnd don't forget bear hunters.
ReplyDeleteI'm spinnin' out - I'm pocket-sized.
ReplyDeleteI'm gonna catch that flyer
I'm gonna see it shine.
Yeah, you're wakin' up my one desire,
but I can't get a line
I think it was the Subgeniuses who came up with the Corrective Phrenology concept - if bumps on your head determine your philosophy, maybe some NEW BUMPS (hefts mallet) will change things, eh?
ReplyDeleteIf John does something bad, John is blamed. If Ahmed does something bad, Islam is blamed. Double standards. Blame the people, not religion.
ReplyDeleteI'd rather put thumbscrews to the assholes who own the countries they come from.
ReplyDeleteThat's way too easy. If John, Ahmed, Qiáng, or Mahesh commits an atrocity in the name of his god, I'll tend to blame his stupid beliefs just a little bit.
ReplyDeleteObligatory:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKyhTX9LQEA
Uh uh not going to watch that shite. We'll hear all the talking points from the usual spigots eventually.
ReplyDeleteAll part of the Kenyan usurper's hopelessness and super criminal mind game.
ReplyDeleteNo. False flag means "Dont blame my side for the obvious results of our paranoia and violent rhetoric."
ReplyDeleteBut do they? In what sense? Killing people is done all the time. Any induvidual murdeeer , if caught, doesnt get away with more than that. These guys are basically the guy who shot his girlfriend and then the two policemen. Angry young men who briefly attach themselves to an imagined cause to valoruze their lust for violence.
ReplyDeleteIt's worse than that. The Tiller murder was inspired by rightwing TV and radio hosts, and was an attempt to secure by violence what could not be achieved through legitimate political means. It was the very definition of terrorism. Yet, it has been portrayed and accepted as the act of one lone nut and nobody else on the right is even slightly responsible or even tangentially involved.
ReplyDeleteFor comparison, one anonymous person posts an ad to an open contest at MoveOn that compares Bush to Hitler. This person is instantly the officially sanctioned spokesperson for ALL liberals, and each and every one of us is responsible for that person's expression.
We're not just subjected to the rightwing Wurlitzer. We're not just subjected to false equivalency. We're held to utterly impossible standards with judgment being passed based on funhouse mirror views of what Liberalism is and stands for.
The ultimate irrefutable argument from authority: My god said so.
ReplyDeleteI think durians come from there.
ReplyDeleteOh, it get so cold up dere d'stuff in yer nose freeze right up! /scandahoovian
ReplyDeleteDurians come from Hell.
ReplyDeleteJonah is Farticus!
ReplyDeleteThat does seem to be the way Alex Jones uses the phrase.
ReplyDeleteHe far too gutless to come out and say it. My guess is he thinks this gives him some kind of plausible deniability if anyone in the media ever grows a backbone and calls him out on it.
ReplyDeleteFalse flag! False flag!
ReplyDeleteWe're gonna hear some serious fatwah envy from the righties.
ReplyDeleteBut when you step away from religion as the excuse, it isn't unusual to see hate crimes carried out by two or more people.
ReplyDeletehey now. Uncle Pat is not a racist. Look at how he supported that Converse basketball shoe guy in Liberia
ReplyDeleteMost hate crime seems to be impulsive: the perpetrator finally sees one too many homosexuals or Latinos or Jews or whatever they've got a hardon for and it's time to start bashing, and the psychology of crowds (or even just your best bud) plays right into that, both by providing a moral backstop for the instigator and also by being someone the instigator doesn't want to let down--they've been hating on gays all evening; time to make action match the words.
ReplyDeleteBut those are small-scale personal terrorism. Recruiting a team, training, choosing a target, and planning an attack require a couple orders of magnitude more effort. I don't know exactly why our domestic extremists haven't wound themselves up for it, except (a) the FBI hardly cares whether they entrap Muslim teenagers or pasty-white militia members and (b) our right-wing fanatics have always been more about the garment-rending and histrionics than about seriously oppressing their enemies. (Race excepted from that last, of course.)
Conspiracy charges are notoriously difficult to prove. I can buy some ammunition (or anything else) and give it to you 100% legally...unless I know you're going to commit a crime with the resources I provide. And it's very, very hard to prove that in court.
ReplyDeleteEric Rudolph famously skipped about in the mountains of North Carolina for years before being captured, and I'm sure there were lots of people there who very carefully never asked him what his full name was.
Jesus Fucking Christ?
ReplyDeleteWait, she's not their lead singer?
ReplyDeleteI think it comes out 50/50. You do have people who are all talk and suddenly decide to act. But you also have people who commit murder and part of the evidence that it was a hate crime is they have a history of lesser crimes against a particular group. So the two guys out west who drove around shooting African-Americans people were apparently less organized than the kids in Florida who had a history of assaulting African-Americans.
ReplyDeleteBut in terms of coordinated attacks meant to kill by a group of people united by the same motive, I guess not since the Klan could no longer rely on a pass from prosecutors. Maybe U.S. freaks are just more paranoid?
Yes, he's a very good example of the not a 'lone wolfe' syndrome.
ReplyDeleteBut behind the 'impulsiveness' of a loner are years of indoctrination and openly urging violence against The Other.
ReplyDeleteI still have a full head of hair, but I support your condemnation. Je suis chauve!
ReplyDeleteI think we already heard some. From Bill Donahue.
ReplyDeleteI just went back and read the original cartoon post and laughed out loud at "Give my love to the Danes, especially Claire!"
ReplyDeleteAnaheim, Azuza, and Cucamonga ...
ReplyDeleteIncontrovertible. Literally.
ReplyDelete"a word means just what I want it to mean and nothing else", sniffed Pantly-Loadly.
ReplyDeleteOh no no no bo bo bo. Has Krugman nuked him yet?
ReplyDeleteSo true re: Frank ... my mom tried to get me into Lumosity; I demurred politely. Frank didn't need it, and neither do I, and I am pissed that the ads keep insisting that I do need it.
ReplyDeleteI need more physical exercise, yes. But for many of us, the Lumosity training would be a step down from what we already do with our minds. I don't feel like an elitist dick for pointing that out. If you're leading a full and active mental life of any type, why take time out for little mind-exercises, whether vetted by docs or not?
What I loathe about Goldberg is that not only does he not actually believe this shit, he doesn't even bother to pretend to take it seriously. Everything he says makes it abundantly clear that the only thing he cares about is scoring points.
ReplyDeleteWe have akways been at war with EastAsia...
ReplyDelete...
One of these days we are gonna nail a pithy way to descibe a person who is part Blofeld part Gomer Pyle.
ReplyDelete...
To the fucking SUN!
ReplyDelete...
Judge, jury, and poopsicutioner.
ReplyDelete...
Anger inspires thoughts of.. Lynching? Moving quickly into othering territory here...
ReplyDelete....
Heya. You've reminded me that FUN is a good reason to werk da brane. So if people are having fun with Lumosity, that's great.
ReplyDeleteIt is a useful strategy for the conservatives, no question.
ReplyDeleteThe Paris shooting is what, 0.4 Sandy Hook shootings? Funny that no one blamed Sandy Hook on the fact that the shooter went to Catholic school.
ReplyDeleteBetter Libya. It has France's oil under its sand.
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