cc_rider wrote: 
Someone could hire a ninja to take them all out at once and everyone would think that the rapture had legitimately come and left everyone else behind. Imagine the panic.

 Proclivities wrote: 
The Phelps' really do not have any shame, do they? Incredible.

It's people like that who make me wish the Rapture would hurry up and get here.

 Proclivities wrote: 
According to its Web site, the church is scheduled to protest at several locations in Virginia and West Virginia, Thursday through Sunday, including at the West Virginia state capitol and the Hillel (a Jewish org) on the Virginia Tech campus.

I guess the mine accident had nothing to do with the more than 1,000 violations that Massey received.

btw, Don Blankenship, owner of the mine, is a Tea Party financier and proud of his union busting credentials.

Protesters From Kansas Take Aim at Miners

MONTCOAL W.V. — Protesters from Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., headed to the Upper Big Branch mine Thursday morning to convey the message that the explosion there that left 25 miners dead was a result of e-mail messages allegedly sent from West Virginia threatening the Church and its publisher...
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 hippiechick wrote: 

 musik_knut wrote: 
Yes, one would not have to be an authority on mental health to deduce that the assaulting-driver guy in Tennessee is pretty clearly a bona fide lunatic.  Whether or not he or his attorneys will allege that he was goaded into his crimes by inflammatory rhetoric from broadcast pundits remains to be seen - but anyone who can do something that psychotic probably doesn't require much goading from anyone. 

 Inamorato wrote: 

The man in Tenn is a bona fide nutcase. As for the 'spitting incident', the Congressman who first made that claim then thought on reflection that his heckler *yes, it's legal to heckle* was yelling so forcefully that spittle was flying *almost every news report did not mention that...I wonder why?* In other words, the 'offended' Congressman did not believe the yelling protester purposely spit at him. There are idiots attracted to any large gathering for political purposes. And it's recent history where side by side photos of Mr. Bush and Hitler were paraded about...by protesters from the other side of the spectrum.

Gee, Harry, you'd be in less trouble if you just joined the Tea Party and shouted that Obama is a socialist or a Nazi and maybe spit on a congressman or two.

 

Sticker rage: Tenn. man charged with ramming his SUV into car with Obama/Biden sticker

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A 70-year-old Nashville man was accused of ramming his sport utility vehicle several times into the back of a vehicle that had a Obama/Biden bumper sticker. Harry K. Weisiger, a retiree, made obscene gestures and pointed at the campaign sticker for President Barack Obama and running mate Joe Biden before he smashed into schoolteacher Mark Duren's car, police said. Weisiger has been charged with reckless endangerment, leaving the scene of the accident and refusing to take a field sobriety test.

The incident appears to be among the overheated partisan political atmosphere, including death threats sent to members of Congress and their families who supported health care reform.

Duren had picked up his 10-year-old daughter from school Thursday when he stopped near the Belmont University campus. An SUV pulled up behind his Toyota Camry and the driver began honking and gesturing angrily toward the bumper sticker, The Tennessean reported.

"I raised my hands palms up and shrugged. He then eased up behind my car so I could only see the grille of his SUV and blew his car horn, nonstop," Duren told the newspaper.

As Duren drove home, the SUV's driver continued making gestures and pointing at the sticker, according to a police report.

The driver, identified by Nashville police as Weisiger, accelerated and crashed into the bumper, directly over the sticker.

Duren tried to calm his frightened daughter as he stopped and Weisiger rammed it again, trying to push it off the road, police said. After a few more pushes, the SUV sped away and Duren called 911.

A neighbor followed the SUV to a grocery store, where police said they found Weisiger trying to pop a breath mint and insisting that he had "not much" to drink.

Weisiger's acquaintances described him as a responsible businessman and a father of four with no history of violent behavior.

"He was just a loyal employee, with no previous incidents of any sort like the one being described," said Patrick Parker, spokesman for Hardaway Construction Corp., where Weisiger worked for 25 years before retiring in 2008. "You never know, I guess."

Calls to his home by The Associated Press went unreturned Sunday.

Duren hasn't decided whether to replace the sticker.

"The anger is bleeding from political discussions into other aspects of society," he said. "I'd like to tell people, look, we can discuss things we disagree about. You don't have to bash someone's car because you disagree with what's on a bumper sticker."

They don't get much nuttier than this fat fuck.

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I tune in to BigGovernment sometimes to see what's up. Mostly hateful, bullying, frustrated rhetoric. Still, it's a small, loud segment of the population that you have to watch. Just you have to watch your toddlers. They're aren't much, but they can make a mess.

Here's something in response to Michelle "Loonball" Bachman's insistence to repeal the health care act:

cowboy logic wrote:
 

 Zep wrote: 
(Was worried folks might not get it)

 dmax wrote: 
"Harcourt Fenton MUDD!"
 

 Mugro wrote: 
What?  WHAT!?

Are you saying that people supporting Democratic causes are something less than spontaneous and genuine!?

HOW DARE YOU!

 dmax wrote: 

Ladies, look at your man. Now look back at me.

 Lazy8 wrote: 

I watched television coverage tonight of today's Immigration Reform "march" on the National Mall, and I was surprised at what I DIDN'T see.

My family and I were headed to the Smithsonian Museum of American History today so that I could show my five year old son the Star Spangled Banner and a few of the trains that he holds dear. As soon as we got on the metro out in suburban VA, we knew that something was up. Lots of people of Latin American descent were on the train with American flag teeshirts and with American flags in their hands.

When we got to the Smithsonian stop on the Metro, the station was absoluted jammed. We knew then that there was some sort of march or protest scheduled, and then looked around to see what it was all about. As we got to the escalators we saw organizers from the SEIU herding people this way and that. They all had purple tee shirts on and were telling people where to go and what to do. As one of them tried to tell me not to use the use the one remaining working escalator (this is the Metro, afterall, the falling apart public transit system), I asked him how much SEIU was paying him to "volunteer" for this Sunday afternoon event. "$50 bucks!" he replied, showing me a toothy grin. "Isn't that great?"

I had seen plenty of these "volunteers" manning the polls and intimidating voters back in the good ole Commonwealth of Massachusetts, so I knew how they operated. The SEIU pays their members to attend rallies and to hold protests outside their opponents' events. The SEIU preys on their members by directing their union dues towards attack ads that slander candidates that SEIU doesn't like (a/k/a Republicans).

When we got to the top of the staircase and out onto the mall, there were Purple Shirts everywhere telling people what to do and where to go. The stacks of speakers all had SEIU signs on them and it was impossible to miss who had sponsored and organized the event.

Yet, on television tonight, all the media showed was hopeful, idealistic people looking for "immigration reform." No mention of SEIU, and not shots of the Purple Shirts or any of their ubiquitous signage. I wondered how it was that the news crew was able to put together a sixty second story without showing ANY SEIU influence.

PAY NO MIND TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN!

 dmax wrote: 
are you on a horse?

 oldslabsides wrote: 
So...if I say that I'm a politician...and I call you a liar...then...I'm telling the truth....and if I'm telling the truth then I....can't be a politician because politicians lie so then I'm NOT a politician and therefore...I'm a liar...so then...you're not lying...

 

 dmax wrote: 
Why single out Obama?  Politicians are liars by definition.

At least the extreme right wing, who contend that Obama is a liar, are getting their message heard. They could use another head of state to align themselves with, and this guy thinks like they do.