refudiation

I wrote this just before our last election, then decided not to blog it because it depressed me and I wanted not to put more negative energy out over the airwaves, especially since the Tea-Party and Republicans are so full of it.

But then the election results depressed me even more, so I’m posting it now in hopes the truth will set me free. I mean, if I remain silent in the face of evil, I am complicit in evil, as the Germans discovered after they silently watched the Nazis haul the Jews and Gypsies away.

Besides, the two new used t-shirts I bought today at Unique Thrift for $1 each will make perfect graphics for this blog. I shuddered when I saw both t-shirts, picked them up and put them back three times because of their extremist right-wing fundamentalist Christian messages — messages I don’t really want seen on my chest as I walk around in public. But I finally figured maybe their being seen on me would undercut their function and emphasis their irony — so bought them anyway.

I believe the third line on the second t-shirt below which says HOSTAGE INIALATORS should read “HOSTAGE ANNIHILATORS. Grammar and correct spelling and such things as education and scientific fact often don’t appear to be major concerns of the far right. And I would think that by LAZARITH, they probably mean LAZARUS as well.

By their misspellings shall ye know them.

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I’m really scared about this upcoming mid-term election. I’m very much afraid we’ll be returning to the totalitarian mindset of the Cheney-Bush regime where the religious right Christian fundamentalists, the war-mongering neocon killers of non-white civilians, and the flat-earthers think they can tell the rest of us what to think and what we can and cannot do. These people violate the Constitution and deny the very basic beliefs of the Christ they claim to worship. (I admire and respect Christ as a social activist, but I am not a Christian – if anything, I’m somewhere between a Buddhist and an animist).

America is about freedom of expression, freedom of goals, freedom from religion, freedom of speech (as long as the corporations get their daily kickbacks that is), and these folks are trying very hard to take this from us, to destroy independent thinking and herd us into the corporate consumer sheep pens where their one-sized narrow minds fit all and they no longer feel threatened by our superiority.

How can Christian and Republican and Tea Party bigots who judge folk by the color of their skin and the thickness of their wallets and who claim to worship Christ but deny his call to help those less fortunate than they claim to have the *right* way for us all to live, that theirs is the moral path? These are the same people who reward the hate speech of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin with millions of daily dollars.

I mean we outnumber these rabble rousing morons, we’re better educated, we’re nicer, more moral and way more generous, so how did they get all this power? Simple – they vote on feelings and fear while we don’t vote at all.

“Anosognosic” is the medical term for people who are too stupid to know they are stupid. I suspect most of these folks above sincerely believe they are morally superior to progressives and liberals, even though it is we and not they who practice what Christ preached; however I do not include the hate mongers like Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh and Christine O’Donnell and Sharron Angle and Joe Miller and Bill O’Reilly and Rand Paul in this category because I believe they are neither sincere nor honest — they are smart people who have voluntarily sunk to lies and hate simply to steal power and make money. They are essentially evil, doing the devil’s work

Anyway, here are some of the more egregious scarier slime headlines from these folk which have tarnished our current political process and made a mockery of our nation in the rest of the world’s eyes. We’ll start with the Queen of the Mean. Read and weep.

“anywhere you peel back the skin of Sarah Palin’s life, a sad and moldering strangeness lies beneath”

Vanity Fair Profiler BLASTS Palin: I Wanted To Like Her… ‘She Lies About Everything’

Palin as bullshit artist.

Sarah Palin: ‘Corrupt’

Palin “WORST GOVERNOR EVER”.

Palin: I’m a redneck

Journalists trash Palin speech – “Now I know the dumbness doesn’t come just from sound bites,” one says into an open mic

Shameless Schemers Like Sarah Palin, the Tea Partiers and Right-Wing Christians Trying to Start a New Religious War Against Muslims

John McCain – “it could come down to lying or losing. I chose lying.”

McCain’s Favorite Animal is “the rat, because it is cunning and eats well”

McCain: “I’ve always done whatever’s necessary to win.”

Liz Cheney to Obama: Why isn’t the president thrilled that an American citizen and 8 others were killed in a botched Israeli raid?

The End of Dick Cheney’s Kill Squads

Sharron Angle: Rape, Incest Part of God’s Plan — Opposes Abortion No Matter What

‘Screw with Their Faith and They Will Kill You’: The Strange, Obsessively Anti-Government Sovereign Citizen Movement Makes a Comeback

Tea Party Gop O’Donnell: I Wouldn’t Lie To Hitler Even If There Was A Jewish Person Hiding In The House

O’Donnell In ’07: Scientists Have Created Mice With Human Brains!

Christine O’Donnell Uses Campaign Cash To Pay Her Rent

JOE MILLER’S ETHICS BREACH: ‘I Lied’ About Accessing Computers For Political Purposes

Rand Paul supporter stomps on woman’s head

Rand Paul Headstomper Just the Latest Violent Right-Winger: 17 More Instances of Recent Violence by Conservatives

Bill O’Reilly Compares Gay People To Al Qaeda

O’Reilly Sad We Can’t Make Fun Of Arabs Anymore: ‘What Has Changed In America?’

Rachel Maddow: Bill O’Reilly A ‘Race-Baiting Fuck’

Beck: I Cannot Tell A Lie, Except Sometimes When It Suits My Political Agenda

The Glenn Beck Effect: When Stupid People Don’t Know They Are Stupid

Glenn Beck Outdoes David Duke With Shameless Racebating

Glenn Beck’s Favorite Smear Tactic: Call What He Doesn’t Like ‘Nazi’

Glenn Beck promotes a “racist and anti-Semitic tract” by Nazi author Elizabeth Dilling

I’ve hundreds more of these harvested headlines, many much worse, but these are more than enough to give you a bad taste of their morals, goals, racism and hate speech. So I’ll leave you with one I made up myself:

Refudiation – is Sarah Palin Dick Cheney’s afterbirth?